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Překladové právnické slovníky: budou brzy minulostí? [PDF]
Časopis pro Moderní FilologiiThe role of bilingual and multilingual legal dictionaries in translation and legal communication is changing as the availability of various online resources increases.
Tomáš Duběda
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Affirming a Role for Specialised Dictionaries in Indigenous African Languages
Lexikos, 2011 <p>ABSTRACT: One of the main problems facing speakers and language practitioners of indigenous African languages is the shortage of appropriate dictionaries for a variety of purposes.
Dion Nkomo
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Lexikos, 2021 The present article addresses the two contemporary Italian dictionaries of abbreviations Malossini (1999) and Righini (2001) and outlines the position of the Italian abbreviations in some other Italian dictionaries, namely the monolingual Zingarelli ...
Mojca Kompara Lukančič
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Five Principles for a New Economic Consensus
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper puts forward five principles for a new economic consensus, which could serve as a modern alternative to the Washington Consensus of 35 years ago. They are built on new ideas that have gained currency in economics over the past three decades. We also provide examples of the policies that could follow from these principles.
Timothy Besley, Andrés Velasco
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Scalable Computation of Topological Abstractions for Scalar Data
Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.Abstract Topological data analysis has become an important tool for large scale scalar data analysis and visualization, efficiently extracting the inherent structure and features of interest of the data. However, with growing dataset sizes and complexity, it is increasingly becoming infeasible to compute topological abstractions of interest in serial ...
M. Will +6 more
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How Well Can Words Capture Facial Appearance? A Cross‐Linguistic Exploration
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract When describing faces, people often struggle with verbalizing facial features. Free descriptions seem to focus predominantly on aspects of faces that are inferred, for example, psychological traits, age, attractiveness, and so on, whereas facial features themselves are often described in a limited and imprecise fashion.
Ewelina Wnuk, Jan Wodowski
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The Modern Language Journal, Volume 110, Issue 3, Page 738-752, Autumn (Fall) 2026.ABSTRACT It has been suggested that informing language learners about the original, literal meaning of idioms helps them to remember these expressions, but the empirical evidence is limited. A new study was conducted with three groups of learners of English (53 Chinese students at a university in Canada, 56 students at a university in China, and 77 ...
Xiaofei Wang +3 more
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On the disciplinary and functional status of economic lexicography [PDF]
Ibérica, 2015 Dictionaries of Economics in the broad sense of the word have existed in the European context for more than 300 years. The article shows how these dictionaries have been extremely flexible in their adaptation to the complex and ever changing needs of ...
Sven Tarp
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Balance and Baselines: An Impossibility Theorem and an Axiomatisation of Additive Aggregation
Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, Volume 33, Issue 2, August 2026.ABSTRACT A feature in many multicriteria problems is a preference for ‘balance’, understood as achieving a desired distribution (e.g., equality or target proportions) of resources across stakeholders or conceptual categories. This paper presents a normative exploration of the implications of balance preferences when baselines are uncertain or contested.
Alec Morton, Lars Peter Østerdal
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The Dictionary Writing System Lexit and Its Application in Bilingual Lexicography
Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2015 The Dictionary Writing System Lexit and Its Application in Bilingual Lexicography The paper presents LexIt – a web-based Dictionary Writing System designed for the creation and enlargement of dictionaries.
Svetla Koeva, Diana Blagoeva
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