Authors:Guus Extra, Ludo Th. Verhoeven,
Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter
Keywords: acquisition, language, studies, migration, bilingualism
Number of Pages: 391
Published: 1998-10
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 3110163691
ISBN-13: 9783110163698

This text focuses on bilingualism in the context of migration and minorization processes. Its aim is to integrate recent research in this field of scientific and social interest into a single academic reference.

Authors:Guus Extra, Massimiliano Spotti, Piet Van Avermae
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: integration, regimes, advances, sociolinguistics, perspectives, national, testing, migration, citizenship, cross, language
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2009-08-23
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 1847063454
ISBN-13: 9781847063458

This is an in depth analysis of the linguistic issues surrounding civic integration and citizenship in nation states across the world. What is required to achieve civic integration and citizenship in nation states across the world? Should language testing be a part of it? This book addresses the urgent need to develop a fuller conceptual and theoretical basis for language testing than is currently available, to enable widespread discussion of this theme and the concomitant linguistic and cultural requirements. The policy proposals for civic integration have so far been conducted almost entirel

Authors:Guus Berkhout, Guus Berkhout, Patrick Van Der Duin, D
Publisher: JAI Press
Keywords: innovation, study, advances, entrepreneurship, economic, growth, volume, soft, connecting, nature, hard, sciences, cyclic, values
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-08-10
List price: $116.95
ISBN-10: 0762313366
ISBN-13: 9780762313365

This series aims to present the latest research on entrepreneurship and innovation and the impact on economic performance. Research topics covered include all aspects of entrepreneurial behavior - the determinants of research and development, intellectual property concerns, innovation within and across firms, the effect of government regulation and tax policies, patenting and other property rights issues, organizational factors, market structure effects, marketing strategies, entrepreneurship programs and other educational activities, and the relative performance of entrepreneurial firms. The

Author: Extra
Publisher: Mulitlingual Matters
Keywords: eur, languages, immigrant
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 1992-11-01
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 1853591793
ISBN-13: 9781853591792

The focus of this book is on immigrant groups and immigrant languages with a recent or earlier background of migration to industrialized countries in Western and Northern Europe. After presenting some basic concepts in the area of language and immigration, the book focuses on demographic statistics of immigrant groups in European Community countries and Scandinavia, and on research in the field of immigrant language varieties.

Author: Guus Balkema
Publisher: European Mathematical Society
Keywords: advanced, mathematics, lectures, zurich, scenarios, extremes, risk
Number of Pages: 388
Published: 2007-09-15
List price: $64.00
ISBN-10: 3037190353
ISBN-13: 9783037190357

Quantitative Risk Management (QRM) has become a field of research of considerable importance to numerous areas of application, including insurance, banking, energy, medicine, and reliability. Mainly motivated by examples from insurance and finance, the authors develop a theory for handling multivariate extremes. The approach borrows ideas from portfolio theory and aims at an intuitive approach in the spirit of the Peaks over Thresholds method. The point of view is geometric. It leads to a probabilistic description of what in QRM language may be referred to as a high risk scenario: the conditio

Author: Forum on Geology of Industrial Minerals 2000Extra
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Keywords: geology, industrial, minerals, industry, extractive, forum, conference, 36th, bath, papers, based, presented, combined
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2002-03-01
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 1862390991
ISBN-13: 9781862390997

Industrial Minerals, including construction raw materials, provides the bulk of the solid minerals required by most developed countries, both in tonnage and value. In other countries, the discovery and extraction of industrial minerals is an essential stage in economic development. This book contains a comprehensive coverage of the subjects that occupy professional geoscientists working in industrial minerals and the extractive industry. It includes descriptions of the geology of many deposits, country and regional reviews of industrial minerals, mineral economics, case histories of extraction

Authors:Guus Schreiber, Hans Akkermans, Anjo Anjewierden,
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: methodology, commonkads, management, engineering, knowledge
Number of Pages: 471
Published: 1999-12-17
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0262193000
ISBN-13: 9780262193009

The disciplines of knowledge engineering and knowledge management are closely tied. Knowledge engineering deals with the development of information systems in which knowledge and reasoning play pivotal roles. Knowledge management, a newly developed field at the intersection of computer science and management, deals with knowledge as a key resource in modern organizations. Managing knowledge within an organization is inconceivable without the use of advanced information systems; the design and implementation of such systems pose great organization as well as technical challenges. The book cover