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The biocultural heritage and changing role of indigenous yams in the Republic of Guinea, West Africa
Global yam production is centred on West Africa, but there are significant knowledge gaps about farm‐level diversity across much of the region, and especially in Guinea. Although yam production is increasing in Guinea, in the longer term, varietal diversity and the sustainability of agri‐systems are at risk.
Nagnouma Condé+8 more
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High-Performance Deterministic Concurrency using Lingua Franca [PDF]
Actor frameworks and similar reactive programming techniques are widely used for building concurrent systems. They promise to be efficient and scale well to a large number of cores or nodes in a distributed system. However, they also expose programmers to nondeterminism, which often makes implementations hard to understand, debug, and test.
arxiv
English as a lingua franca [PDF]
In recent years, the term ‘English as a lingua franca’ (ELF) has emerged as a way of referring to communication in English between speakers with different first languages. Since roughly only one out of every four users of English in the world is a native speaker of the language (Crystal 2003), most ELF interactions take place among ‘non-native ...
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LEXICAL AND SEMANTIC STRUCTURE OF THE CONCEPT LINGUA FRANCA IN MODERN ENGLISH [PDF]
Визначено поняття «концепт», представлено його основні характеристики у сучасній когнітивній науці, описано значимість англійської мови у сучасному світі та визначено важливість її функціонування у ролі мови lingua franca.
Anisimova, А.І.
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Racism in China's English Language Teaching Industry: English as a Race‐Making Technology
Abstract This article argues that racism is pervasive in China's English language teaching (ELT) industry, yet it is often ignored. It presents that English language education in China should be understood historically in a way that recognizes English as a racializing technology.
Shuling Wang
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ALIST: Associative Logic for Inference, Storage and Transfer. A Lingua Franca for Inference on the Web [PDF]
Recent developments in support for constructing knowledge graphs have led to a rapid rise in their creation both on the Web and within organisations. Added to existing sources of data, including relational databases, APIs, etc., there is a strong demand for techniques to query these diverse sources of knowledge.
arxiv
Learnable Programming: Blocks and Beyond [PDF]
Blocks-based programming has become the lingua franca for introductory coding. Studies have found that experience with blocks-based programming can help beginners learn more traditional text-based languages. We explore how blocks environments improve learnability for novices by 1) favoring recognition over recall, 2) reducing cognitive load, and 3 ...
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Abstract The increasing trend of early English education has promoted the rapid growth of English private tutoring (EPT) for children, which garners attention in research as a global educational phenomenon. In China, EPT for children experienced a fervent expansion under neoliberalism.
Chun Zeng, Kevin Wai‐Ho Yung
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Review of Current Perspectives on Pedagogy for English as a Lingua Franca.
Valeria Franceschi
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Conceptual Spaces for Cognitive Architectures: A Lingua Franca for Different Levels of Representation [PDF]
During the last decades, many cognitive architectures (CAs) have been realized adopting different assumptions about the organization and the representation of their knowledge level. Some of them (e.g. SOAR [Laird (2012)]) adopt a classical symbolic approach, some (e.g.
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