New method of learning to read write and speak the spanish language; with an appendix : y M. Velazquez and T. Simonne

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Método práctico para aprender lenguas modernas inglés - español= A practical method for learning spanish

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Polyglot reader, and guide for traslation: consisting of a series of english extracts, with their traslation into French, German, Spanish, and Italian : the severeal parts designed to serve as mu tual keys

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SATIRE IN MODERN HINDI POETRY [1930-1960]

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Politische Satire im Unterricht am Beispiel der Simpsons

Kann es gelingen, anhand der Simpsons Satire im Politikunterricht zu vermitteln? Auf den ersten Blick scheinen die Simpsons eine bloße Zeichentrickserie zu sein, doch bei genauerem Hinsehen wird deutlich, dass die Serie einen Fundus an Satire und Parodie enthält, der im Unterricht behandelt werden kann. Die Simpsons sind politisch - nicht nur wegen einzelner Gastauftritte ehemaliger US-amerikanischer Präsidenten sondern auch wegen ihrer Vielzahl an satirischen Äußerungen und Anspielungen gegen die US-amerikanische Gesellschaft und deren Politik. Aufgabe dieser Arbeit soll es sein, zu untersuchen, inwieweit sich die Simpsons als Unterrichtsgegenstand eignen. Dabei soll ein erster Blick auf den Beliebtheitsgrad der Serie fallen. Es werden Gründe gesucht, warum die Serie bei Jugendlichen so erfolgreich ist und inwieweit sie sowohl junge Menschen als auch Erwachsene beeinflusst. Im Weiteren wird zum umfassenden Verständnis ein Überblick über die Serie und eine Vorstellung der Hauptcharaktere gegeben. In diesem Zusammenhang scheint auch der Bezug der Charaktere zur Gesellschaft einen wichtigen Stellenwert einzunehmen. Nachfolgend sollen politische Themen aufgezeigt werden, um zu untersuchen, ob eine Behandlung der Themen im Unterricht möglich ist. Dabei spielt auch die Satire eine wichtige Rolle. Unter Punkt 2.5 wird Satire in den Fokus gestellt. Dabei geht es neben Definitionen auch um die Frage, ob die Serie mit ihrer beinhaltenden Satire als Medium die politische Bildung beeinflusst. In einem letzten großen Schritt geht es um die Umsetzung der politisch, satirischen Themen in den Simpsons. Es soll praktisch gezeigt werden, dass es möglich ist, die Serie im Unterricht zu verwenden. Hierbei spielen sowohl Lernziele und Kompetenzen der SchülerInnen eine Rolle als auch methodische Überlegungen und Entscheidungen. Für die Behandlung der Satire in den Simpsons werden zwei Unterrichtsstunden entwickelt, wovon eine im Unterricht durchgeführt und beurteilt wurde.

European employment strategy and spanish labour market policies

The paper aim is to analyse the influence of the European Employment Strategy (EES)in the implementation of the Spanish labour market policies. The first part of the paper describes the evolution and content of the EES. In the second one, the definition of activation is also explained. In addition to that, the ways how the EES develops and promotes active labour market policies are examined. The evolution of labour market policies in Spain and the current configuration of both active and passive policies are studied in the next three chapters. In these parts, the paper investigates to which extent the provisions of the EES have been implemented in Spain. The paper shows that: i) activation has been rising in the European countries since the implementation of the EES; ii) this fact has also happened in relative terms (comparing the evolution of active to passive policies); iii) Spain has been one of the countries which has led these processes; iv) the EES seems to have been influencing

Innovation strategies in the presence of technology markets: evidence from spanish innovative firms

The development of markets for technology has eased the acquisition of technology and reshaped the innovation strategies of firms that we classify as producers of innovations or as imitators. Innovative activities of firms include research, acquisition of technology and downstream activities. Within an industry, firms producing innovations tend to conduct more research and downstream activities than those imitating innovations. Acquisition of technology is equally important for both. To implement innovation strategies, firms producing innovations require both the capability to scan the external environment for technology and the capability to integrate new technology. Firms producing innovations require both, while firms imitating innovations require scan capabilities only

Does it pay to be socially responsible? Evidence from spanish retail banking sector

This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of strategic competition in retail banking when some of the financial firms are non-profit organisations that invest in social activities. Banking literature about competition is fairly large, but the strategic interaction between profit maximizing and non profit maximizers has not been extensively analysed except for Purroy and Salas (1999). In this paper, a completely different approach is taken. An adaptation of Hotelling’s two stage model of spatial competition is developed to take into account consumer perceptions respect to the two different types of financial institutions. The empirical analysis confirms that consumers take into account other features different from the price, such as social contribution or closer service to make a deposit or mortgage decision. These conclusions are of interest in the debate about a firm’s social or ethical activities. It is shown that if consumers value social activities, firms can improv

Discovering similarities in the time use patterns of the Spanish Autonomous Communities by Fuzzy techniques

In 2000 the European Statistical Office published the guidelines for developing the Harmonized European Time Use Surveys system. Under such a unified framework, the first Time Use Survey of national scope was conducted in Spain during 2002– 03. The aim of these surveys is to understand human behavior and the lifestyle of people. Time allocation data are of compositional nature in origin, that is, they are subject to non-negativity and constant-sum constraints. Thus, standard multivariate techniques cannot be directly applied to analyze them. The goal of this work is to identify homogeneous Spanish Autonomous Communities with regard to the typical activity pattern of their respective populations. To this end, fuzzy clustering approach is followed. Rather than the hard partitioning of classical clustering, where objects are allocated to only a single group, fuzzy method identify overlapping groups of objects by allowing them to belong to more than one group. Concretely, the probabilistic fuzzy c-means algorithm is conveniently adapted to deal with the Spanish Time Use Survey microdata. As a result, a map distinguishing Autonomous Communities with similar activity pattern is drawn. Key words: Time use data, Fuzzy clustering; FCM; simplex space; Aitchison distance

Associations between parental educational-occupational levels and cognitive performance in Spanish adolescents : The AVENA study

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Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Collective Efficacy Questionnaire for Sports

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Experimentation and Stages of Acquisition for Tobacco Consumption in Spanish Adolescents

One area which has been largely neglected when studying the acquisition of addiction to smoking with the transtheoretical model is whether the individual had previously experimented with smoking. The importance of including the experimentation variable was supported by this research

Neurocognition in schizophrenia : A study of the productivity and visibility of Spanish authors

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Developmental pattern of digit span in Spanish population

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