A New Concept for Tuning Design Weights in Survey Sampling: Jackknifing in Theory and Practice introduces the new concept of tuning design weights in survey sampling by presenting three concepts: calibration, jackknifing, and imputing where needed. This new methodology allows survey statisticians to develop statistical software for analyzing data in a more precisely and friendly way than with existing techniques. - Explains how to calibrate design weights in survey sampling - Discusses how Jackknifing is needed in design weights in survey sampling - Describes how design weights are imputed in survey sampling
Diccionario Bilingüe de Metáforas y Metonimias Científico-Técnicas presents the extensive range of metaphoric and metonymic terms and expressions that are commonly used within the fields of science, engineering, architecture and sports science. Compiled by a team of linguists working across a range of technical schools within the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, this practical dictionary fills a gap in the field of technical language and will be an indispensable reference for students within the fields of science, engineering or sports science seeking to work internationally and for translators and interpreters working in these specialist fields.
This unique critical sociolinguistic ethnography explores alternative migrant-regulated institutions of resistance and subversive communication technology: the locutorios or ethnic call shops. These migrant-owned businesses act as a window into their multimodal and hybrid linguistic and communicative practices, and into their own linguistic hierarchies and non-mainstream sociolinguistic orders. Here, socially displaced but technologically empowered transnational migrant populations actively find subversive ways to access information and communication technologies. As such they mobilise their own resources to successfully inhabit Catalonia, at the margins of powerful institutions. The book also focuses on the (internal) social organisation dynamics, as well as on the simultaneous fight against, and re-production of, practices and processes of social difference and social inequality among migrants themselves.
María Jesús Barrera es una escritora experimentada que sabe utilizar los recursos de la narrativa moderna sin confundir al lector. Con Vetas de pasiones ofrece su obra más madura y nos introduce a un pasado de México, lleno de magia y colorido. Wolfgang Vogt Con Vetas de pasiones, de María Jesús Barreta, Real de Catorce conmemora su abandono con buena literatura Miguel García Ascencio -Todos fueron cómplices del crimen -murmura Lorenzo. Se sostiene en el bastón de alma de hierro con cabeza de oro. Necesita reconstruir la historia de Catorce. En él están las voces de cada uno de los personajes que lo han habitado. Los hechos pasados cobran sentido a través de su tono. El Real es una caja sonora. Lorenzo evoca la sonoridad tersa y cadenciosa de su abuela Pascuala, que fue medio adivina y comadrona. Atendió el parto en el que él llegó al mundo. Auguró -Naciste de pies, Lorenzo; tendrás buena suerte -Lo dijo un cuatro de octubre, día de San Francisco de Asís, durante el festejo de un aniversario más de la fundación de Catorce. A sus seis años las palabras de su abuela produjeron en Lorenzo enorme placer. Feliz vio el chisporrotear de la fogata rodeada de hombres. Ese día Ramón, historiador aficionado, contó como fue el inicio de Catorce...
Cinema for Spanish Conversation, Fourth Edition, engages students in Spanish-language study through the use of feature films from across the Spanish-speaking world. Sixteen films, four new to this edition, motivates students in conversation, writing, and listening skills in addition to providing them with a broad and real-world experience with the culture of the Spanish-speaking world. New to the Fourth Edition: Four new critically-acclaimed films, including the groundbreaking documentary Presunto culpable (2008) about the Mexican criminal justice system and the Oscar-nominated No (2012) about the 1988 Chilean national referendum on Pinochet’s presidency Updated information about each film, its actors, and directors Color screen shots of the characters in the film to help students remember who’s who and to help them discuss the actions and qualities of the characters A new section of questions (Opiniones) at the end of each chapter that ask students for their opinions on themes related to the film, sometimes on controversial ones, in order to facilitate active conversation A filmography appendix, which provides a list of additional films for each chapter that have similar themes or are from the same region
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