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In order to address the changes and reflect on processes taking place within the fields and areas related to professional foreign language teaching and learning we shall examine and identify potential improvement in the learning techniques by exploiting texts through language awareness tasks or activities. The students need to be engaged in a variety of life-like tasks by using and producing different text types, covering a range of real life topics in order to acquire and master the linguistic knowledge they need. By activating their interest in the topic, we enable students to produce a lot of meaningful language. The texts from various sources, including the Internet, should be authentic, relevant, and up-to-date. Efficient management of learning depends on providing a sense of purpose in classroom activities: this is achieved through the setting, monitoring and checking of different communicative, realistic and purposeful tasks, preparing students for real life situations. Successful communicative teaching requires a high level of language awareness in a teacher. A lack of awareness of language leads to problems at classroom level when the teacher is unable to identify and compensate for shortcomings in teaching materials or in responding to students? requests. The paper will address the issue by presenting some sets of language awareness activities designed for use in a foreign language classroom.

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Two experiments were conducted to investigate the impact of collinearity of inside-dotted-line and outside-dotted-line and binocular disparity on Water Color Illusion(WCI). The stimuli was the modification of figure used by Pinna, Brelstaff and Spillmann(2001); the figure was four- diamond shape and was constructed of dotted line, the outside-dotted-line color was purple and the inside-dotted-line was yellow. In the experiment 1, the effect of collinearity was tested in the outside-dotted-line and inside-dotted-line. In the experiment 2, the impact of dotted lines that were put in different depth were tested. The result showed that illusion was persisted when collinearity of outside-dotted-line and inside-dotted line was changed. Despite change of collinearity, results was convinced WCI and color assimilation like Neon Color Spreading appeared through by different mechanism. And illusion was persisted when components of stimuli were placed on the different plane. This result was supported the study of Pinna, Brelstaff and Spillmann(2001). With this, could confirmed that the WCI was affected by high-levels information processing stages were after combination of binocular information.

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The aim of this paper is to elaborate on the place which foreign language courses, especially those designed for specific purposes, currently occupy in the tertiary level curricula in Serbia, by investigating the weekly number of these classes and the diversity of languages on offer. The curricula in question have been devised relatively recently in accordance with the Bologna system of education, first introduced in Serbian state universities in 2006. According to the 2010-2011 academic year data, the value of foreign language teaching (both general and for specific purposes) is underestimated in undergraduate studies, as precedence is given to core courses. The central part of the paper will provide insights regarding Business German courses and their relevance in the field of European and international business communication. Furthermore, a detailed analysis of Business German curricula will determine not only which competences and skills are to be developed in students and which teaching methods are commonly used, but also which language skills are emphasized in the teaching process.

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The authors present insights from having led over a dozen international business study trips for MBA students of three different U.S. universities. They make the case for the value of short-term study trips as an experiential learning tool for international business students, suggesting strategies to assure that the pedagogical potential of the travel is realized. This session includes discussion of the development, implementation, and evaluation of international business study trips, and it provides examples from several trips to countries in Asia and Europe.

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To date there is limited research on the mental health of young people in Ireland. Specifically there is a lack of studies investigating adaptive or resilient development in disadvantaged youth groups. Thus, the main aim of this study is to further our understanding of youth mental health by profiling the mental health of 4 specific groups of young people: early school leavers, Travelers, young people from designated disadvantaged areas and deaf young people. A quantitative survey of 200 young people was carried out using the My World Questionnaire (MWQ) developed by Headstrong following a review of positive and negative functioning in youth mental health. These domains include both positive and negative aspects of functioning and contain a number of screening instruments which have each been used internationally for a normative population. However, there are no data in terms of a collective use of the domains in disadvantaged youth groups. Thus, a primary aim of the research is to (a) determine the psychometric properties of the MWQ for use on disadvantaged groups (b) profile youth mental functioning across age, gender and a number of other variables using the instrument and (c) to build a model of resilience specific to young people in disadvantaged and minority groups. Results are hoped to aid current information systems of adolescent mental health and provide a vehicle which will help facilitate the monitoring of the mental health needs of vulnerable populations so as to better inform both informal supports (e.g., families) and formal community supports. Please note: Results will be completed by August.

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Urals, the natural border between Europe and Asia, is stretching more than 2000 km in the meridional direction. It crosses a number of natural zones of typical tundra to steppe, which, combined with high-altitude zone in the region creates a unique variety of geographical environment conditions. This diversity results a high degree of species and ecosystem biodiversity on the Urals part of the biosphere. Recent biocenotic cover, which is dominated by forest communities, formed during the postglacial period, but retained in its composition relic and endemic elements of flora and fauna, which significantly increase the biodiversity of the biota. Development Urals anthroposphere has its own specific features. Until the XVII century the population of the region were few and mainly engaged in animal husbandry, hunting and fishing. These activities do not cause almost no damage to the nature of the region. The industrial development of the Urals begun in XVII century. The main development was received mining, metallurgical, chemical, timber industries. The largest scale of these industries have purchased in the Middle, in part of Southern and Northern Urals. Urals - one of the most industrialized regions of Russia, the bulk of whose population lives in industrial centers. Currently, industrial areas of the Ural region are characterized by a significant degree of disturbance of the biota, loss of a significant proportion of biodiversity, a high degree of environmental pollution. Many industrial conglomerates have reached a state of ecological crisis. Therefore the problem of biodiversity conservation in the Urals is more than topical in industrialized areas particularly. One of the main ways to solve the problem - the development of network of reserves, which is based in the Ural region on 15 nature reserves and national parks. Development and improvement of reserves network in order to maximize preservation of the individual components of the biota of the Urals and biodiversity of the region as a whole, as well as to optimize the relationship of his anthropo- and biospheres was reflected in the decision of UNES CO on the establishment of the two, the World Network of Biosphere, Reserves. One of them is located in the North, the second in the Middle Urals. The Middle Urals is the territory, where mountain-industrial complex have a most development. Therefore situated here Visimsky Biosphere Reserve can be a model for testing the mechanisms of building relationships anthropo- and biosphere to preserve biological diversity of the biota in terms of further development of existing socio-economic specialization anthroposphere. The territory of refuge - a single forest, which is situated in the middle part of the Ural Mountains, with elevations ranging from 400 to 699 m. Since the turn of XVII-XVIII, as the industrial development of the region, the forests were in a versatile heavy-duty use. They were cut down for various purposes in large scale, repeatedly burned. Therefore, in the industrial areas of the Middle Urals are now dominated derivatives and quasi-indigenous forests as well as non-forest areas. Indigenous forests have survived in small isolated areas and make up about 1 % of the area of the region. To preserve the biodiversity of the biota of these samples was formed Visimsky Biosphere Reserve. But even in its territory primary forest ecosystems occupy about 6 % of the area and are concentrated mainly in the protected area. Almost all the rest of the territory is occupied by the derivative forests, at different stages of restoration successions. One of the main objectives of the existence of the reserve - the restoration of the original ecosystem diversity, a source of which must be preserved areas of primeval forests and monitoring of recovery processes in areas of refuge with varying degree of human influence.

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The paper analyses the trends of climate variability together with spatial pattern and its driving forces in Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve (NDBR). The paper uses secondary sources of data regarding rainfall and topography. The rainfall data for two meteorological stations i.e. Joshimath (western NDBR) and Munsyari (NDBR) were collected from Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune. Instrumental observations pertaining to rainfall for all the six surface observations in NDBR viz. Mana, Badrinath, Joshimath, Tapovan, Ghangaria and Munsyari were collected from IMD Lucknow and IITM Pune. The first five observatories are located in the Garhwal Himalayan part of NDBR and the sixth in the Kumaon Himalayan part. Though, all the observatories suffer large data gaps and four observatories have been closed way back. Joshimath and Munsyari are the two observatories for which long term observations are available i.e. 1958-2005 and 1957-2005 respectively with some data gaps. The variability of rainfall was calculated using co-efficient of variation method, whereas the trends of the rainfall was analyzed using slope analysis. The characteristics of topographic features like orientations and elevations etc. were studied from topographical maps of Survey of India, Landsat satellite images and other published relevant research papers. The analysis of characteristics of rainfall shows that there are major differences in rainfall of both the meteorological stations. The normal rainfall in Munsyari (2636 mm) is more than that of Joshimath. The reserve has strong monsoon effect on rainfall pattern. About 80 per cent of annual rainfall occurs over a short period of two months (July and August) indicating a strong monsoon influence. It is a well established fact that the climate has changed over the period of time across the world. However, experiences have been different e.g. a few areas have experienced climate cooling and a few climate warming. NDBR is located in the high altitude Himalayan region NDBR has experienced the decreasing trend of rainfall. The deficit has mainly been contributed sharp decline of monsoon and post monsoon rainfall. The eastern part, on the other hand, has experienced increased rainfall except of winter seasons. The variability analysis of rainfall indicates that the rainfall in the western part is more stable over the years and within a year relative to the eastern part. The eastern part has highly erratic rainfall. The climate change influences the ecosystem and its components. The glaciers, vegetation and natural hazards are the first elements of earths ecosystem to face these changes. Also, these are the very first indicators to report the climate change. A little change in temperature and rainfall is clearly reflected in the shrinkages and advancement of glaciers, change of greenness of vegetation, the succession and loss of species and changing magnitude and frequency of the natural hazards.

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The tests reported at this paper show some of the results of an experimental and analytical investigation of prestressed concrete girders, taken from a decommissioned 4 0 year bridge, strengthened in flexure with various FRP systems and subjected to a static loading up to failure.

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This paper investigates the religious engagement of a group of African Pentecostal migrants in Denmark and the role this engagement plays in the way they navigate within a transnational context. It is based on a fieldwork in The Redeemed Christian Church of God in Copenhagen. The paper explores how the religious lives of the migrants take place within a transnational, religious field which is constituted by personal, nonpersonal, and institutional networks. The religious field is not demarcated by a specific institution, but by certain logics. Through the mastery of these logics, the migrants can accumulate religious capital, and thereby position themselves favourably within the religious field. The socialisation in the field makes it possible for the migrants to tap into different local manifestations, thereby creating a space of recognition for themselves in new geographical localities. The study also explores how the religious engagement is not recognised outside the religious field in Denmark, in which the migrants are positioned as strange. However, it is argued that the religious capital can be seen as a kind of empowerment which ensures the individuals that they are not destined to be limited by such structural barriers, but should continue manipulating them to their advantage.