Where do we stand?

FORUM ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-224
Author(s):  
Sei-inn Im ◽  
Hyang-Ok Lim
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Status ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Middle Point ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
First Semester ◽  
The Status ◽  
Korean Study ◽  
High Level ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Job Prospects

Abstract Within the last decade, an increasing number of studies have examined the status of translators and interpreters, providing valuable insight into how the status is perceived in the eyes of practitioners. However, less attention has been paid to studying the perceptions of future Translators, i.e. T&I students. This paper seeks to describe the occupational status of in-house Translators in Korea by comparing the perceptions of professionals and students. Inspired by Dam and Zethsen’s status parameters and a Korean study on teacher status, a survey was conducted among four populations: one Translator group and three student groups at different stages of their study. The findings indicate a negative correlation between the perceptions of occupational status and expertise progression, with first semester students giving a mean rating well above the middle point while practitioners rated their status as “just above average.” Overall, professional Translators and students regarded in-house Translation as an important occupation which required a high level of expertise and contributed to the organization, but also as one that involves a lower degree of work autonomy. At the same time, all four groups expressed their concern regarding job prospects.

scholarly journals A Study on English Collocation Errors of Thai EFL Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Thidakul Boonraksa ◽  
Suparvadee Naisena
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
First Language ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Business English ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
High Level

Collocation is an often-neglected language form that foreign language teachers and students should focus on to achieve competence in a target language. In this research, the researchers studied purposely to facilitate both second language teachers and students to produce correct and appropriate collocations. The purposes of this research were 1) to study the collocation error levels of Bachelor of Arts English and Business English students studying at Northern Rajabhat University, 2) to study the relationship between first language (L1) and second language (L2) transfer collocation errors in students’ writing, and 3) to compare the collocation errors between high-proficiency students, medium- proficiency students and low-proficiency students. The research sample included 285 Thai EFL students enrolled in second-year English and Business English programs at Northern Rajabhat University during the first semester of the academic year 2021. The research instrument was a collocation proficiency test with 54 questions, which was divided into 2 sections: 1) 36 questions with 4 multiple-choice tests, and 2) 18 Thai to English translation questions. The items were chosen from the Oxford 3000™, and were common vocabulary appearing in various contexts. Research data were analyzed using mean, standard deviation, t-test (Dependent), and Friedman test. The research found that 1) the level of Grammatical Collocation errors of high-proficiency EFL students was at a moderate level, medium-proficiency and low-proficiency EFL students were at a high level, and for Lexical Collocation errors, all three groups of students were at a high level; 2) the EFL students’collocation errors were caused by the language transfer from their first language (L1) to their second language (L2), synonyms, and lack of collocation competency; and 3) the most Lexical Collocation errors found in all student groups were Adverb + Adjective. For Grammatical Collocation, all groups could use Verb + Preposition better than Noun + Preposition, and the high proficiency and medium proficiency students could perform Adjective + Preposition the least, whilst the low proficiency students were better at Adjective + Preposition.  

scholarly journals The Status and Job Satisfaction of Computer Operators

2005 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-430
Author(s):  
Adrian Gluck ◽  
Martin G. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Occupational Status ◽  
Differential Impact ◽  
The Status ◽  
High Level

The results of this exploratory study suggest that computer operators experience a high level of inconsistency in their occupational status. Such inconsistency produces a differential impact upon the satisfaction of computer operators. When operators resolve the inconsistency by seeing their own status as low, they tend to be dissatisfied ; when they see their own status as high, they tend to be satisfied.

scholarly journals The Roman mining legislation of the Late Empire

Starinar ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 91-105
Author(s):  
Zeljka Sajin
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Private Landowners ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Mining Legislation ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Right ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Roman Mining

The tenth book of the Theodosian Code provides a valuable insight into the different aspects of mining exploitation during the Late Roman Empire. The main issue was a shortage of mining labour. According to Constantine?s fiscal policy, miners were permanently tied to their profession. They had the right to sell their property, loca metallica, but under difficult conditions. The forced mining labour was passed over from them to the potential buyers. Over time, miners became tied to the place of their origin and their children had to take on their fathers? professions. The continuous invasions of the barbarian tribes as well as the suffered losses encouraged miners, in spite of the prohibition, to escape their duties and leave their homes. The miners from Gaul were desperately trying to escape to Sardinia in order to find better working conditions. Those in the eastern part of the Empire tried to acquire the status of colons inhabiting private landowners? estates. The flow of escaping miners became a regular occurrence and the Roman emperors introduced laws which penalised anyone found harbouring miners. The unsatisfactory application of the imperial edicts resulted in a series of new edicts aimed at addressing the same problem. The warning given to the local judges by Emperor Gratian in his decree declared in 378. AD clearly shows that the imperial edicts were not regularly applied in practice. The following period would be marked with new invasions that would have serious consequences on the mining exploitation and make the control of different social categories and state officials even more difficult.

scholarly journals Blind maskine og gakket klovn

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 21-36
Author(s):  
Johanne Gormsen Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
The Status ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Insight Into

Blind Machine and Zany Clown – Comical Representations of the Worker in the Age of Taylorism and Today This article aims at historicizing the conception of the comical, arguing that theories and cultural representations of the comical character from different time periods offer valuable insight into the experience of work at given historical moments. The status of personality in the comical character turns out to be highly pertinent to the understanding of work in the transition to late modernity.

Heidegger’s Trakl-Marginalia

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-122
Author(s):  
Ian Alexander Moore
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
The Status ◽  
Georg Trakl ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Poetic Work ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract In this article, I analyze Heidegger’s marginalia in his personal copy of the 1946 Zurich edition of poems by Georg Trakl, which I discovered several years ago while conducting research in the castle of Heidegger’s hometown of Meßkirch. Although Heidegger’s marginalia in this volume are not extensive, they are significant for three reasons: they provide valuable insight into his reading of the spirit of Trakl’s poetic work and into the place in which Heidegger situates it; they frequently shed light on topics often left in the shadows by Heidegger and his expositors, topics such as (auto)biography, sexual difference, and Christianity; and they bear on Heidegger’s lifelong engagement with the status of being and even, at times, seem to call into question his published positions on it.

Study of the resistor material of an automotive spark plug by use of the charge-up effect along with elemental mapping in an electron microprobe

1991 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 742-743
Author(s):  
D. R. Liu ◽  
S. S. Shinozaki ◽  
J. S. Park ◽  
B. N. Juterbock
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microprobe ◽  
Present Report ◽  
Coated Sample ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Elemental Mapping ◽  
Spark Plug ◽  
Carbon Coated ◽  
Electron Image ◽  
Electron Imaging ◽  
Insight Into

The electric and thermal properties of the resistor material in an automotive spark plug should be stable during its service lifetime. Containing many elements and many phases, this material has a very complex microstructure. Elemental mapping with an electron microprobe can reveal the distribution of all relevant elements throughout the sample. In this work, it is demonstrated that the charge-up effect, which would distort an electron image and, therefore, is normally to be avoided in an electron imaging work, could be used to advantage to reveal conductive and resistive zones in a sample. Its combination with elemental mapping can provide valuable insight into the underlying conductivity mechanism of the resistor.This work was performed in a CAMECA SX-50 microprobe. The spark plug used in the present report was a commercial product taken from the shelf. It was sectioned to expose the cross section of the resistor. The resistor was known not to contain the precious metal Au as checked on the carbon coated sample. The sample was then stripped of carbon coating and re-coated with Au.

A famine in Surat in 1631 and Dodos on Mauritius: a long lost manuscript rediscovered

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Winters ◽  
J. P. Hume ◽  
M. Leenstra
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Secondary Source ◽  
Dutch East India Company ◽  
The Status ◽  
Insight Into

In 1887 Dutch archivist A. J. Servaas van Rooijen published a transcript of a hand-written copy of an anonymous missive or letter, dated 1631, about a horrific famine and epidemic in Surat, India, and also an important description of the fauna of Mauritius. The missive may have been written by a lawyer acting on behalf of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). It not only gives details about the famine, but also provides a unique insight into the status of endemic and introduced Mauritius species, at a time when the island was mostly uninhabited and used only as a replenishment station by visiting ships. Reports from this period are very rare. Unfortunately, Servaas van Rooijen failed to mention the location of the missive, so its whereabouts remained unknown; as a result, it has only been available as a secondary source. Our recent rediscovery of the original hand-written copy provides details about the events that took place in Surat and Mauritius in 1631–1632. A full English translation of the missive is appended.

Quantum Mechanical Interpretation of the Ultra-Low Energy Methyl-Rotation Dynamics in Porous Metal-Organic Frameworks Probed by Low-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy and ab initio Simulations

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Li ◽  
Adam J. Zaczek ◽  
Timothy M. Korter ◽  
J. Axel Zeitler ◽  
Michael T. Ruggiero
Keyword(s):  
Ab Initio ◽  
Metal Organic Frameworks ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Rotor Dynamics ◽  
Quantum Mechanical ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Void Space ◽  
Ab Initio Simulations ◽  
Metal Organic ◽  
Insight Into

<div>Understanding the nature of the interatomic interactions present within the pores of metal-organic frameworks</div><div>is critical in order to design and utilize advanced materials</div><div>with desirable applications. In ZIF-8 and its cobalt analogue</div><div>ZIF-67, the imidazolate methyl-groups, which point directly</div><div>into the void space, have been shown to freely rotate - even</div><div>down to cryogenic temperatures. Using a combination of ex-</div><div>perimental terahertz time-domain spectroscopy, low-frequency</div><div>Raman spectroscopy, and state-of-the-art ab initio simulations,</div><div>the methyl-rotor dynamics in ZIF-8 and ZIF-67 are fully charac-</div><div>terized within the context of a quantum-mechanical hindered-</div><div>rotor model. The results lend insight into the fundamental</div><div>origins of the experimentally observed methyl-rotor dynamics,</div><div>and provide valuable insight into the nature of the weak inter-</div><div>actions present within this important class of materials.</div>

Comparing Intensive English Program (IEP) and Directly-Admitted International Students’ Academic Achievement

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Students ◽  
Equivalence Testing ◽  
Intensive English ◽  
Intensive English Program ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Intensive English Programs ◽  
Statistical Equivalence ◽  
Direct Admission

Intensive English programs (IEPs) exist as an additional pathway into higher education for international students who need additional language support before full matriculation. Despite their long history in higher education, there is little research on the effectiveness of these programs. The current research examines the effectiveness of an IEP by comparing IEP students to directly-admitted international students. Results from regression models on first-semester and first-year GPA indicated no significant differences between these two student groups. Follow-up equivalence testing indicated statistical equivalence in several cases. The findings lead to the conclusion that the IEP is effective in helping students perform on par with directly-admitted international students. These findings imply further support for IEPs and alterative pathways to direct admission.

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