scholarly journals Top Ten Web Sites for the Legal English Teacher

2004 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Mª Victoria Fernández Carballo-Calero

<p>When we approach the task of teaching EFL it becomes quite easy to find very useful Internet resources, as there is plenty of specific material on this subject on the web. The problem, however, with Legal English (LE) resources is knowing where to start selecting the most suitable sites, as language-focused web sites for non-native speakers (NNSs) of LE do not abound, if they exist at all.* Thinking of the difficulty of finding useful sites for teaching LE to NNSs, I decided to spend some time on searching the web, looking for good web resources that teachers could use when teaching English for Law. </p><p>I would like to clearly state however that there is an enormous range of legal material available on the web, but I have tried to restrict myself to a number of sites I consider specially suitable for my own specific purposes as a NNSs' LE teacher. The selection of web pages described below is intended to help LE teachers find a place to start their own choice of materials on the web to support language teaching and learning.</p>

2006 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 264-268
Author(s):  
Charles R. Fikar ◽  
Brigitte Delinois

An updated selection of high-quality Internet resources related to wound and ulcer care is presented. Of potential use to the podiatric medical practitioner, educator, resident, and student, some Web sites that cover hyperbaric medicine, antibiotic use, and wound and ulcer prevention are also included. These Web sites have been evaluated on the basis of their potential to enhance the practice of podiatric medicine, in addition to contributing to the educational process. Readers who require a quick reference source to wound and ulcer care may find this report useful. (J Am Podiatr Med Assoc 96(3): 264–268, 2006)


2020 ◽  
pp. 143-158
Author(s):  
Chris Bleakley

Chapter 8 explores the arrival of the World Wide Web, Amazon, and Google. The web allows users to display “pages” of information retrieved from remote computers by means of the Internet. Inventor Tim Berners-Lee released the first web software for free, setting in motion an explosion in Internet usage. Seeing the opportunity of a lifetime, Jeff Bezos set-up Amazon as an online bookstore. Amazon’s success was accelerated by a product recommender algorithm that selectively targets advertising at users. By the mid-1990s there were so many web sites that users often couldn’t find what they were looking for. Stanford PhD student Larry Page invented an algorithm for ranking search results based on the importance and relevance of web pages. Page and fellow student, Sergey Brin, established a company to bring their search algorithm to the world. Page and Brin - the founders of Google - are now worth US$35-40 billion, each.


Author(s):  
Ravi P. Kumar ◽  
Ashutosh K. Singh ◽  
Anand Mohan

In this era of Web computing, Cyber Security is very important as more and more data is moving into the Web. Some data are confidential and important. There are many threats for the data in the Web. Some of the basic threats can be addressed by designing the Web sites properly using Search Engine Optimization techniques. One such threat is the hanging page which gives room for link spamming. This chapter addresses the issues caused by hanging pages in Web computing. This Chapter has four important objectives. They are 1) Compare and review the different types of link structure based ranking algorithms in ranking Web pages. PageRank is used as the base algorithm throughout this Chapter. 2) Study on hanging pages, explore the effects of hanging pages in Web security and compare the existing methods to handle hanging pages. 3) Study on Link spam and explore the effect of hanging pages in link spam contribution and 4) Study on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) / Web Site Optimization (WSO) and explore the effect of hanging pages in Search Engine Optimization (SEO).


Author(s):  
June Tolsby

How can three linguistical methods be used to identify the Web displays of an organization’s knowledge values and knowledge-sharing requirements? This chapter approaches this question by using three linguistical methods to analyse a company’s Web sites; (a) elements from the community of practice theory (CoP), (b) concepts from communication theory, such as modality and transitivity, and (c) elements from discourse analysis. The investigation demonstrates how a company’s use of the Web can promote a work attitude that actually can be considered as an endorsement of a particular organizational behaviour. The Web pages display a particular organizational identity that will be a magnet for some parties and deject others. In this way, a company’s Web pages represent a window to the world that need to be handled with care, since this can be interpreted as a projection of the company’s identity.


First Monday ◽  
1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven M. Friedman

The power of the World Wide Web, it is commonly believed, lies in the vast information it makes available; "Content is king," the mantra runs. This image creates the conception of the Internet as most of us envision it: a vast, horizontal labyrinth of pages which connect almost arbitrarily to each other, creating a system believed to be "democratic" in which anyone can publish Web pages. I am proposing a new, vertical and hierarchical conception of the Web, observing the fact that almost everyone searching for information on the Web has to go through filter Web sites of some sort, such as search engines, to find it. The Albert Einstein Online Web site provides a paradigm for this re-conceptualization of the Web, based on a distinction between the wealth of information and that which organizes it and frames the viewers' conceptions of the information. This emphasis on organization implies that we need a new metaphor for the Internet; the hierarchical "Tree" would be more appropriate organizationally than a chaotic "Web." This metaphor needs to be changed because the current one implies an anarchic and random nature to the Web, and this implication may turn off potential Netizens, who can be scared off by such overwhelming anarchy and the difficulty of finding information.


2006 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles R. Fikar

An updated selection of high-quality Internet resources of potential use to the podiatric medical practitioner, educator, resident, and student is presented. Internet search tools and general Internet reference sources are briefly covered, including methods of locating material residing on the “invisible” Web. General medical and podiatric medical resources are emphasized. These Web sites were judged on the basis of their potential to enhance the practice of podiatric medicine in addition to their contribution to education. Podiatric medical students, educators, residents, and practitioners who require a quick reference guide to the Internet may find this article useful. (J Am Podiatr Med Assoc 96(2): 162–166, 2006)


Author(s):  
Валерій Нечитайло

This article tells about and analyses the informational and scientific potential in the use of the Internet-resources during the process of the researches over the coin circulation of the insurgent Ukraine-Hetman State, they are: electronic auctions and forum «Violity», «New Auction» and «Unc.ua», the electronic encyclopedia «Wikipedia», scientific social web «Academia.edu», social web «Facebook», and also the private «Youtube» channels. Every of the pointed resources and services has its advantages and disadvantages. Using an Internet we could get a new data in the numismatics, by the way identify the new variants of the Muscovy tsar Peter the Great coins excavated on the territory of the Hetman State, put the light on the new finds of the coins evaluated as very rare in the previous Ukrainian science historiography. We assume that even with the disadvantages and features and some dangers in the use of the WEB-resources, the finally have a huge informational and science potential and abilities to help in the research of the history of the monetary circulation of the U У статті розглянуто та проаналізовано інформаційний і науковий потенціал використання Інтернет-ресурсів у дослідженні історії грошового обігу в Україні-Гетьманщині, до яких належать: аукціони та форуми «Violity», «New Auction» та «Unc.ua», електронна енциклопедія «Вікіпедія», соціальна мережа для науковців «Academia.edu», соціальна мережа «Facebook», а також приватні канали на «Youtube». Кожен із зазначених сервісів має як свої переваги, так і недоліки. Користуючись Інтернет-ресурсами, ми виявили дані, які є новими для нумізматичної науки, що, зокрема, дозволило визначити та зафіксувати раніше неопубліковані різновиди монет Петра І, що виявлені на території Гетьманщини, Це дало можливість ввести до наукового обігу нові факти про знахідки тих монет, що вважались рідкісними у вітчизняній нумізматичній історіографії. Зазначимо, що, попри наявні недоліки, специфічні риси та певні ризики у використанні, електронні WEB-ресурси все ж мають вагомий інформаційний та науковий потенціал у дослідженні особливостей грошового обігу Гетьманщини. Вивчення вказаних ресурсів зумовлює можливість введення до наукового обігу фактів та нових даних, що допоможуть виявити раніше невідомі сторінки цього періоду в історії України, а також конкретизувати вже частково висвітлені попередниками моменти. kraine-Hetman State, to put the light on the new facts and the data than will help to determinate the unknown pages of the history of Ukraine and also make certain the previous investigations.


2001 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 11-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cleborne D. Maddux

The Internet and the World Wide Web are growing at unprecedented rates. More and more teachers are authoring school or classroom web pages. Such pages have particular potential for use in rural areas by special educators, children with special needs, and the parents of children with special needs. The quality of many of these pages leaves much to be desired. All web pages, especially those authored by special educators should be accessible for people with disabilities. Many other problems complicate use of the web for all users, whether or not they have disabilities. By taking some simple steps, beginning webmasters can avoid these problems. This article discusses practical solutions to common accessibility problems and other problems seen commonly on the web.


Author(s):  
Kai-Hsiang Yang

This chapter will address the issues of Uniform Resource Locator (URL) correction techniques in proxy servers. The proxy servers are more and more important in the World Wide Web (WWW), and they provide Web page caches for browsing the Web pages quickly, and also reduce unnecessary network traffic. Traditional proxy servers use the URL to identify their cache, and it is a cache-miss when the request URL is non-existent in its caches. However, for general users, there must be some regularity and scope in browsing the Web. It would be very convenient for users when they do not need to enter the whole long URL, or if they still could see the Web content even though they forgot some part of the URL, especially for those personal favorite Web sites. We will introduce one URL correction mechanism into the personal proxy server to achieve this goal.


Author(s):  
Adolfo Lozano-Tello ◽  
Asunción Gomez-Perez

At present, the Web offers available information to people in diverse ways. With the initiative of Semantic Web, the aim is to make the content of Web pages available in a way that allows people and computers to “understand” this information following frameworks commonly agreed upon by means of ontologies. However, users currently looking for ontologies in order to incorporate them into their systems, just use their experience and intuition. To improve the selection of ontologies, this chapter describes the ONTOMETRIC method which allows the users to measure the suitability of existing ontologies, regarding the requirements of their necessities.


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