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The scholarly articles included in this volume represent significant contributions to the fields of formal and descriptive syntax, conversational analysis and speech act theory, as well as language development and bilingualism. Taken together, these studies adopt a variety of methodological techniques--ranging from grammaticality judgments to corpus-based analysis to experimental approaches--to offer rich insights into different…

Creative marketers today visualize the importance that computer networks, television, radio, and cable will bring to the marketing world of the 21st century. While many electronic marketing applications--such as broadcast fax, telemarketing, and EDI--are well developed and understood in the context of business-to-business marketing, there is a gap in knowledge regarding the application of electronic…

This paper marks the launch of a new IMF series, Fintech Notes. Building on years of IMF staff work, it will explore pressing topics in the digital economy and be issued periodically. The series will carry work by IMF staff and will seek to provide insight into the intersection of technology and the global economy.…

Part research manual, part study guide, and part introduction to the study of history, Essaying the Past is a complete resource for high school, college, and graduate level students. Jim Cullen guides the reader through the nuts and bolts of producing good historical prose, discussing key strategies such as framing questions, developing a strong introduction…

El objeto del presente estudio es tratar la cuestión de si la protección de datos personales y la innovación son compatibles o no, partiendo del artículo de Warren y Brandeis titulado «The Right to Privacy», en el que claramente se trataba ya la cuestión de la necesidad de proteger a la persona frente a intromisiones…

La solución de la Innovación ofrece un método muy bien investigado, lógico y holístico para comprender el proceso de innovación, dicho método, a sido enseñado durante muchos años en varias universidades y colegios. El siglo veintiuno requiere soluciones del siglo veintiuno. En su libro asombroso, Praveen Gupta provee una un poderoso marco de referencia para…

El método Lean Startup supone un nuevo enfoque que se está adoptando en todo el mundo para cambiar la forma en que las empresas crean y lanzan sus productos.Eric Ries define una startup como una organización dedicada a crear algo bajo condiciones de incertidumbre extrema. Esto se cumple tanto para aquellas personas que trabajan en…

“Detachment” has been the standard message of most addiction literature for the last twenty years. The conventional wisdom offered to an addict’s loved ones has been to let the addict “hit bottom” before intervening. Now intervention specialist Debra Jay challenges this belief and offers a bold new approach to treating addiction that provides a practical…

The streams of Greek history in the fourth century are highly controversial. Sandwiched between the Classical fifth century and the Hellenistic period, the era has invited various readings, most prominently the verdict of decrepitude and decline. Recent discoveries, however, indicate that the period was not simply illustrative of the political, social, and economic weaknesses of…