English as the Lingua Franca and the Economic Value of Other Languages: the Case of the Language of Work of Immigrants and Non-immigrants in the Montreal Labour Market. [PDF]
With data from the 2006 Canadian census, we investigate the determinants and the economic values of different languages used at work in the Montreal metropolitan area.
Gilles Grenier, Serge Nadeau
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Ever Closer Union or Babylonian Discord? [PDF]
, 2007 Extensive multilingualism is one of the most important and fundamental principles of the European Union. However, a large number of official languages (currently 23) hinders communication and imposes substantial financial and legal costs.
Fidrmuc, Jan +2 more
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.The cancer problem is increasing globally with projections up to the year 2050 showing unfavourable outcomes in terms of incidence and cancer‐related deaths. The main challenges are prevention, improved therapeutics resulting in increased cure rates and enhanced health‐related quality of life.
Ulrik Ringborg +43 more
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Language law and language rights: perspectives on legal intervention and language diversity
Acta Academica, 2009 Language legislation aims to protect or promote the status and use of one or more specified languages. Official language legislation relates to the according of official status to a language or languages, while liberal language legislation pertains to ...
Joseph-G Turi
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The Language Effect in International Trade: A Meta-Analysis [PDF]
Gravity models of international trade have been frequently applied to estimate the impact of common (official or spoken) language on bilateral trade. This study provides a meta-analysis based on 701 language effects collected from 81 academic articles ...
Andrea Lassmann, Peter Egger
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Creating a Dutch testbed to evaluate the retrieval from textual databases [PDF]
, 2002 This paper describes the first large-scale evaluation of information retrieval systems using Dutch documents and queries. We describe in detail the characteristics of the Dutch test data, which is part of the official CLEF multilingual texttual database,
Hiemstra, Djoerd, Leeuwen, David A. van
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LDAcoop: Integrating non‐linear population dynamics into the analysis of clonogenic growth in vitro
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Limiting dilution assays (LDAs) quantify clonogenic growth by seeding serial dilutions of cells and scoring wells for colony formation. The fraction of negative wells is plotted against cells seeded and analyzed using the non‐linear modeling of LDAcoop.
Nikko Brix +13 more
wiley +1 more source
États du yiddish : les différents types de reconnaissance, gouvernementale ou non gouvernementale
Droit et Cultures, 2012 Treatments of language may be either positive, negative or neutral,whetherunder governmental or under non-governmental auspices. Positive governmental treatments («rewards») of language fall into a continuous rather than merely into a discontinuous or ...
Joshua A. Fishman
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Educating future physicians for francophone official language minority communities in Canada: a case study. [PDF]
Can Med Educ J, 2023 Schrewe B +3 more
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Justice (Vol. 10, Iss. 31) [PDF]
, 1928 Justice was the official publication of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union ILGWU from 1919 to 1995. Editions of Justice were published in English, Italian, Spanish, and Yiddish.
International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU)
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