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African migration to Europe will have in 2050 enough strength to double its negative effects for both continents. In that year, UN forecasts Africa to lead global population growth, doubling its current inhabitants, from 1,200 million to 2,400 million people. Models predict that this spectacular upward trend will also continue in the second half of the 21st century. Massive and uncontrolled migratory phenomena damage both shores of the Mediterranean Sea and only mafias making business with human dreams and hopes get to benefit of it. That is the reason for the term ‘damaging’ in our title: in its present form, the tens of thousands of displacements (materialized in almost 140.000 illegal...
The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals and engineering of high concentrator photovoltaic (HCPV) technology and to elucidate how this complex and emerging technology is applied in power plants. It is the first of its kind to focus exclusively on HCPV technology and offers a valuable reference volume to readers. This book is the result of an international collaboration among experts and each chapter is written by a specialist in the field. The conversion of solar energy to electricity plays an important role in power generation and HCPV is signalled by many researchers and professionals as one of the most promising sources of solar power. Therefore this book provides an important resource for companies, research institutes and universities to assist with the understanding of fundamentals, different applications and potential of such technology.
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El desarrollo de las destrezas comunicativas orales en niños se ha abordado, de manera habitual, desde planteamientos psicologistas que, evidentemente, han propiciado y difundido el uso de sus propias jergas, instrumentos de evaluación y metodologías de análisis. Esto ha dado lugar, como también es obvio, a una descripción sesgada de este objeto de estudio. Desde la perspectiva que se adopta en este libro, buscamos distanciarnos de esos modelos descriptivos en la medida de lo posible y ofrecer, desde la lingüística aplicada y la educación lingüística, respuestas a cómo se adquiere la lengua, y, en particular, a cómo se desarrollan la comprensión y la expresión orales en el ni...
This book offers new insights into the mechanisms of state control, systematic repression and mass violence focused on ethnic, political, class, and religious minorities in the recent past. The geographical and temporal scope of the volume breaks new ground as international scholars foreground how contemporary archaeology can be used to enhance the documentation and interpretation of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, to advance theoretical approaches to atrocities, and to broaden public understandings of how such regimes use violence and repression to hold on to power.
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English summary: This book is the third and final volume of a series on Aspergers syndrome by Francisco J. Rodriguez Munoz. The work, which includes 40 conversational transcriptions of typical patients, as well as the visual materials used in procuring such conversations, will be of use to those who wish to characterize and analyze the communicative style of Aspergers speakers. Spanish description: Corpus oral de hablantes con desarrollo tipico y sindrome de Asperger es el tercer libro que completa la serie iniciada con Sindrome de Asperger. Materiales y aproximacion pragmalinguistica (Valencia: Universidad de Valencia, 2009) y Evaluacion pragmatica de ninos con sindrome de Asperger (Munich:...
This edited volume showcases new work on discourse analysis by big names in the field and promising early-career researchers. Arising from the latest in the series of IWoDA workshops in Santiago de Compostela, it provides novel insights into both the explicit and the implicit characteristics of discourse as used in verbal interaction. Discourse markers, as their name indicates, are among the explicit signals of coherence, while discourse relations may be either explicit or implicit. Similarly, the discourse used for purposes of evaluation, stance-taking and interpersonal engagement is either overt or covert, as is also true of the expression of emotions and empathy. This, in general terms, is the challenging terrain into which the contributors to this volume have ventured. The book combines theoretical issues with a practical orientation, comparing languages, analysing different registers, studying the openings of Skype conversations, and much more besides; it will prove highly relevant for postgraduate and advanced practitioners of discourse analysis, interaction studies, semantics and pragmatics.