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Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Social services for the elderly are becoming increasingly important in societies where the elderly population is growing and requires specific attention to ensure their well‐being. Within these services, nursing homes play a key role, and it is therefore vital to ensure efficient management with an assessment according to their characteristics,
Georgina Solaz‐Moreno +2 more
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The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Previous research has shown that prison officers often provide practical and emotional assistance to inmates. However, this has generally been depicted as a discretionary, conflicted and unrewarded task, sometimes met with hostility from their peers.
Cristina Güerri
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.Abstract This paper addresses linguistic and epistemic justice by exploring multilingual practices in tertiary contexts in an English‐dominant linguistic ecology. The paper argues that the university linguistic space (linguascene) governs language choices toward English monolingualism, and this has implications for epistemic justice in multilingual ...
Anikó Hatoss, Eliot Allport
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How can SMEs benefit from big data? Challenges and a path forward [PDF]
, 2016 Big data is big news, and large companies in all sectors are making significant advances in their customer relations, product selection and development and consequent profitability through using this valuable commodity. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
Ahlemeyer-Stubbe +28 more
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Toward a Conceptual Model of Academic Translation Competence
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Different cultures have distinct conceptions of knowledge and ways of defining, generating and communicating knowledge. Therefore, multilingualism in academia has been shown to be instrumental in preserving the various systems of knowledge, equality of opportunity in science and enhancing the international competitiveness of scholars whose ...
Krisztina Károly
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The "Rabassa Morta" in Catalan viticulture: the rise and decline of a long-term sharecropping contract, 1670s-1920s [PDF]
For long periods, and in line with recent theoretical literature, the rabassa morta sharecropping contract successfully reduced problems of moral hazard and opportunistic behavior, and provided incentives for sharecroppers to respond to market ...
James Simpson, Juan Carmona Pidal
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A first-class transversal and innovative tourist product [PDF]
, 2008 Innovative elements from the cross-over approach and the conception of a project aimed at serving different interests and needs of different ...
Torrent, Patrick
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E-lectra: A Bibliography for the Study and Practice of Legal, Court and Official Translation and Interpreting [PDF]
, 2010 Le développement scientifique oblige les chercheurs à communiquer efficacement les résultats de leurs travaux. L’augmentation du nombre de revues et de publications académiques dans le monde entier accable les spécialistes et les contraint à se maintenir
Monzó, Esther
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As a rapidly evolving sub‐field of computer‐assisted language learning, informal digital learning of English (IDLE) has become a significant catalyst for linguistic, affective, and pedagogical development among English as a second language (L2) learners.
Yue Zhang
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Bandits, banditry and royal power in Catalonia between the 16th and 17th centuries [PDF]
, 2015 This article is a synthesis of a phenomenon banditry in Catalonia which peaked in the century and a half between approximately 1500 and 1630. In this article, by banditry we mean the kind waged by both the upper classes and nobility and the lower ...
Belenguer i Cebrià, Ernest
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