Convegno-scuola su mario farina su Materiali polimerici : struttura e processabilità: 4-9 Giugno 1995,Villa Feltrinelli; Gargnano (BS) / organizzato dall'Associazione italiana di scienza e tecnologia delle macromolecole ; in collaborazione con l'Università di Milano

• Record Nr.: UNISA990001229920203316
• Autore: Associazione italiana di scienza e tecnologia delle macromolecole
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: S.l. : s.n., 1995
• Descrizione fisica: 386 p : ill ; 24 cm
• Disciplina: 620.192
• Collocazione: 620.192 CON
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Adversative and concessive conjunctions in EFL writing : corpus-based description and rhetorical structure analysis / / Yan Zhang

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910484761303321
• Autore: Zhang Yan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore : , : Springer, , [2021]; ©2021
• ISBN: 981-15-7837-0
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2021.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XVI, 234 p. 42 illus., 18 illus. in color.)
• Disciplina: 410
• Soggetti: Linguistics; Comparative linguistics; Language and languages - Study and teaching
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 1 Complexity of adversative and concessive conjunctions -- 2 A ; combined method of corpus-based and text-based analysis of adversative and concessive conjunctions -- 3 Adversative and concessive conjunctions: Comparing frequency distribution across two corpora -- 4 Analyzing structural conjunction but by investigating its co-occurrence patterns -- 5 Analyzing cohesive conjunction however by investigating its syntactic positions and agnation structures -- 6 Text-based analysis of adversative and concessive conjunctions -- 7 Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores the usage patterns of a group of adversative and concessive conjunctions in English texts written by Chinese EFL learners and their native speaker counterparts. Focusing on probability profiles and systemic potentials, the study encompasses three stages and combines the strengths of two research methods – the corpus-based approach and text-based analysis – to examine the conjunctions under the theoretical framework of systemic functional linguistics and rhetorical structure theory. Starting with an overview of seventeen conjunctions across two corpora in terms of overall frequency, positional distribution and distribution of semantic categories, the book then offers a more detailed discussion of three individual conjunctions, highlighting the interconnections between 1) syntactic positions and co-occurrence patterns and 2) semantic relations encoded by these conjunctions. Lastly, it presents a case study of one full-length text taken from the learner corpus, applying rhetorical structure theory to provide new insights into the relevance of adversative and concessive relations to text structure. This comprehensive, in-depth analysis is both diagnostic and pedagogically informative.

Spontaneous venturing : an entrepreneurial approach to alleviating suffering in the aftermath of a disaster / / Dean A. Shepherd and Trenton A. Williams

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910557301803321
• Autore: Shepherd Dean A.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, : The MIT Press, 2018; Cambridge : , : MIT Press, , 2018
• ISBN: 9780262349604; 0262349604; 9780262349598; 0262349590
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 pages)
• Collana: The MIT Press
• Disciplina: 363.34/8
• Soggetti: Disaster relief; Social entrepreneurship
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Disaster and suffering -- Limitations of command-and-control disaster response -- Spontaneous venturing to organize compassion in the aftermath of a disaster -- Spontaneous ventures brokering to alleviate suffering -- Self-help by spontaneously venturing to help others -- A focus on building better resilience rather than providing sustenance: venturing to alleviate suffering in a least developed country.
• Sommario/riassunto: Identifying a new approach to disaster response: spontaneous, compassionate, and impromptu actions to alleviate suffering. In Spontaneous Venturing , Dean Shepherd and Trenton Williams identify and describe a new approach for responding to disaster and suffering: the local organizing of spontaneous, compassionate, and impromptu actions -- the rapid emergence of a compassionate venture. This approach, termed by the authors "spontaneous venturing," can be more effective than the traditional "command-and-control" methods of large disaster relief organizations. It can customize and target resources and deliver them quickly, helping victims almost immediately. For example, ; during the catastrophic 2009 bushfires in Victoria, Australia -- the focal disaster for the book -- residents organized an impromptu relief center that collected and distributed urgently needed goods without red tape. Special bonds and friendships formed among the volunteers and victims; some were both volunteer and victim. Many victims were able to mobilize resources despite considerable personal losses. Shepherd and Williams describe the lasting impact of disaster and tell the stories of Victoria residents who organized in the aftermath of the bushfires. They consider the limitations of traditional disaster relief efforts and explain that when victims take action to help others, they develop behavioral, emotional, and assumptive resilience; venturing leads to social interaction, community connections, and other positive outcomes. Finally, they explore spontaneous venturing in a less-developed country, investigating the activities of Haitians after the devastating 2010 earthquake. The lesson for communities hit by disaster: find opportunities for compassionate action.