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Collaboration in Language Testing and Assessment - Bok - Inbunden

Collaboration in Language Testing and Assessment

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Household Food Consumption, Women?s Asset and Food Policy in Indonesia - Bok av Evita Hanie Pangaribowo - Inbunden

This study addresses the issue of household food consumption, its relation to gender and to food policy in Indonesia. Using econometric analyses of the Indonesian Family Life Survey, the study reveals that food expenditure patterns, particularly those of the poor households, warrant food policy attention.

SEK 740.00

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Places of Food Production - Origin, Identity, Imagination - Bok - Häftad

This book analyses the interaction between food, self-conceptions and region using three thematic streams: Food and Region, Food and the Imagination, and Alienation and the Handling of Food. It reflects on important questions concerning the impact on our lives of places of food production in an increasingly industrialised and globalised world.

SEK 886.00

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Social perspectives on language testing - Papers in honour of Tim McNamara - Bok - Inbunden

This Festschrift for Tim McNamara brings together papers on the social impact of language tests, such as fairness and justice of test use, testing of interaction, and teachers' and students' views of language tests. It also discusses the future of language testing with regard to validity, the rise of social media, and lingua franca language use.

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Food and Language / Sprache und Essen - Bok - Häftad

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International Experiences in Language Testing and Assessment - Selected Papers in Memory of Pavlos Pavlou - Bok - Inbunden

This volume, written by distinguished scholars, researchers and practitioners in the field of language testing and assessment, includes selected papers presented at the 1st International Conference of Language Testing and Assessment (ICLTA). It is dedicated to the memory of Pavlos Pavlou, esteemed faculty member at the University of Cyprus.

SEK 827.00

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The Rise of High-Stakes Educational Testing in Denmark (1920-1970) - Bok av Christian Ydesen - Häftad

An attempt to determine why and how tests rose to prominence in an educational system that used to rely on qualitative tests and teacher evaluations. It addresses the important issues of how testing interacts with and influences an educational system, and which common factors are involved in order to implement testing in an educational system.

SEK 740.00

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Tasks and Criteria in Performance Assessment - Proceedings of the 28th Language Testing Research Colloquium - Bok av Rüdiger Grotjahn & Gunther Sigot

SEK 720.00

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Food and the Internet - Proceedings of the 20 th International Ethnological Food Research Conference, Department of Folklore and Ethnology, Institute

This volume contains a selection of 25 ethnological essays as conference proceedings. They explore the effects of the Internet on post-modern food culture. They present synchronic and diachronic research approaches to the phenomenon of food in the era of globalization and the spread of computer technology.

SEK 960.00

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The Local Health Impact of Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Testing - Cancer Epidemiology in Areas Adjacent to the Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakhstan - Bo

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Economy-Wide Policy Modeling of the Food-Energy-Water Nexus - Identifying Synergies and Tradeoffs on Food, Energy, and Water Security in Malawi - Bok

Food, energy, and water are intrinsically connected through economic and ecological linkages and dependent on limited resources that are particularly threatened in developing countries by climate change, economic and population growth. A nexus perspective that simultaneously encompasses food, energy, and water has thus become crucial to avoid inefficient resource use. This volume contributes to the research on the food-energy-water nexus by first developing three integrated modeling frameworks for..

SEK 780.00

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Fostering Subsistence Agriculture, Food Supplies and Health in Sub-saharan Africa - Bok - Häftad

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Agriculture and Food in the 21 st Century - Economic, Environmental and Social Challenges- Festschrift on the Occasion of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. P. Michae

The book includes theoretical and empirical works on economic, environmental and social challenges for food and agricultural sectors. Topics covered are moral, markets and policies, animal welfare, fat taxes, agricultural derivatives markets, food value chains, free trade agreements, food security, food waste and climate change.

SEK 686.00

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Language Testing in Austria: Taking Stock / Sprachtesten in Oesterreich: Eine Bestandsaufnahme - Bok - Inbunden

This book describes language test development and language testing research in Austria. It documents large-scale test development for German as a first language, the foreign languages English, French, Italian and Spanish, as well as Latin and Ancient Greek. The accompanying validation research is accommodated in a framework of test validation.

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From Potentials to Reality: Transforming Africa's Food Production - Investment and policy priorities for sufficient, nutritious and sustainable food s

Boosting food production in Africa requires investments in vocational training, agricultural research, digitization, mechanization, sustainable land use and small-scale irrigation. Access to capital and markets must be improved, political stability ensured, farmers' associations supported and development assistance expanded.

SEK 836.00

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A Healthy Mix? - Health-Food Retail and Mixed-Use Development- Mobility-related Analysis of Grocery-Shopping Behavior in Irvine, California - Bok av B

This study investigates the spatial behavior of the customers of a health-food store that is located at the mixed-use development \Park Place\ in Irvine, CA. Using a POS-intercept survey and GIS, the author found that regular health-food shoppers indeed travel significantly farther distances than occasional health-food shoppers.

SEK 560.00

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Festschrift in Honour of Guenther Sigott: Advanced Methods in Language Testing - Bok - Inbunden

This Festschrift has been compiled to honour Günther Sigott for his notable contributions to academia in general and to the field of language testing in particular. The contributors to this volume come from all over the world, spanning regions from Austria and its neighbouring countries Slovenia and Germany, to the UK, USA, all the way to Japan and Iran. They work as test developers, teacher educators, psychometricians and researchers, taking up a variety of subjects such as washback of standardized..

SEK 706.00

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Consumption Choices - The effects of food production, markets and preferences on diets in India - Bok av Till Ludwig - Inbunden

In India, the diets of rural populations are often monotonous and unhealthy. The author analyzes how agricultural diversity and market access can combat undernutrition and offers a novel examination of how economic preferences such as risk and altruism are shaping consumption choices and nutrition security, even in environments of food scarcity.

SEK 770.00

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Foodscapes of Chinese America - The Transformation of Chinese Culinary Culture in the U.S. since 1965 - Bok av Xiaohui Liu - Inbunden

This book explores the transformation of Chinese food in the U.S. after 1965. It considers the symbolic meanings and cultural functions of Chinese food in America - how Chinese food reflected the racial relation between the Chinese community and the mainstream white society, and how Chinese food shaped the cultural lives of Americans.

SEK 766.00

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Diagnostic Writing Assessment - The Development and Validation of a Rating Scale - Bok av Ute Knoch - Inbunden

The diagnostic assessment of writing is an important aspect of language testing which has often been neclected in the literature. However, it is an area which poses special challenges to practioners both in the classroom and in large-scale testing situations. This book presents a study which set out to develop and validate a rating scale specifically designed for the diagnostic assessment of writing in an academic English setting. The scale was developed by analysing a large number of writing performances..

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The Myth of Cokaygne in Children?s Literature - The Consuming and the Consumed Child - Bok av Franziska Burstyn - Häftad

In the English-speaking world, the medieval concept of Cokaygne as a paradisiac landscape made of food is merely preserved as a part of American folklore, the \Big Rock Candy Mountain\. This book links the notion of cannibalism to the imagined cornucopia of food in children's literature.

SEK 420.00

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Linkages in South African Economic Development - Industrialisation without Diversification? - Bok av Oliver Schwank - Inbunden

Focuses on the structure of South Africa's economy, its industrial sector and inter-sectoral linkages by simulating an economic geography model of the vertical linkages type, by testing linkage strength econometrically and by analysing industrial policy's role in shaping its development path.

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Marketing Luxury Goods Online - Bok av Philipp Nikolaus Kluge - Inbunden

The objectives of this book are threefold: First, conceptually examining the specific marketing-mix for luxury goods. Second, applying this marketing-mix to the online world. Third, empirically testing the effects of the online accessibility of luxury goods on consumer perceptions of scarcity and desirability.

SEK 986.00

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Productive Foreign Language Skills for an Intercultural World - A Guide (not only) for Teachers - Bok - Inbunden

The volume offers a fresh perspective on 21st century language instruction. It discusses approaches to teaching, contexts of instruction, testing and assessment, curriculum development and using technology in the classroom, and focuses on developing speaking and writing skills, intercultural communicative competence, and cultural knowledge.