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Innovative Use (innovative + use)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Humanities and Social Sciences71%
Distribution within Humanities and Social Sciences
Applied Linguistics39%

Selected Abstracts

An Innovative Use of Technology: Spanish Instruction Takes Off at Ohio's Cassingham Elementary

FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS, Issue 1 2005
Article first published online: 31 DEC 200
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Innovative use of a Hawkins III breast localization hookwire in preoperative computed tomography-guided localization of renal bed tumour recurrence

BJU INTERNATIONAL, Issue 2 2007
Alistair G. Rogers
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Foreign Direct Investment, Services Trade Negotiations and Development: The Case of Tourism in the Caribbean

DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW, Issue 4 2006
Dirk Willem te Velde
This article examines whether and how developing countries can use services trade negotiations to increase the amount of inward FDI conducive to development. It reviews how services trade rules can affect inward FDI, and employs panel data analysis with innovative use of instrumental variables in the tourism sectors of 9 Caribbean countries during 1997,2003. It argues that Caribbean countries may want to signal openness to inward FDI in GATS, while maintaining a degree of flexibility in the use of policy measures; in the current negotiations with the EU on Economic Partnership Agreements, the focus could be on emphasising the development dimension. [source]

"I asked my parents why a wall was so important": Teaching about the GDR and Post-Reunification Germany

DIE UNTERRICHTSPRAXIS/TEACHING GERMAN, Issue 2 2008
Bernhard Streitwieser
Fifteen years after the ,peaceful revolutions' brought about the collapse of communism and the reunification of East and West Germany, a heated debate rages over the legacy of communism and the continuing impact of 1989. This paper describes a new course that explores the contentious issues in this debate through the innovative use of the course management system Blackboard. The paper describes how using Internet technology (video and audio links to archival and documentary footage, historic recordings, web linked academic articles, newspaper reports, internet sites, on-line quizzes and virtual discussions) has brought today's undergraduates into the current debate and engaged them technologically in ways that deviate from more traditional teaching models. Such a course is not as prevalent as one would expect, least of all in undergraduate curricula in Germany and the United States. [source]

Appreciating music: An active approach

NEW DIRECTIONS FOR TEACHING & LEARNING, Issue 101 2005
Andrew R. Levin
A particularly innovative use of laptops is to enhance the music appreciation experience. Group listening and discussion, in combination with a new Web-based application, lead to deeper understanding of classical music. [source]

The Application of Geographic Information Systems and Global Positioning Systems in Humanitarian Emergencies: Lessons Learned, Programme Implications and Future Research

DISASTERS, Issue 2 2003
Reinhard Kaiser
Geographic information systems (GIS), global positioning systems and remote sensing have been increasingly used in public health settings since the 1990s, but application of these methods in humanitarian emergencies has been less documented. Recent areas of application of GIS methods in humanitarian emergencies include hazard, vulnerability, and risk assessments; rapid assessment and survey methods; disease distribution and outbreak investigations; planning and implementation of health information systems; data and programme integration; and programme monitoring and evaluation. The main use of GIS in these areas is to provide maps for decision-making and advocacy, which allow overlaying types of information that may not normally be linked. GIS is also used to improve data collection in the field (for example, for rapid health assessments or mortality surveys). Development of GIS methods requires further research. Although GIS methods may save resources and reduce error, initial investment in equipment and capacity building may be substantial. Especially in humanitarian emergencies, equipment and methodologies must be practical and appropriate for field use. Add-on software to process GIS data needs to be developed and modified. As equipment becomes more user-friendly and costs decrease, GIS will become more of a routine tool for humanitarian aid organisations in humanitarian emergencies, and new and innovative uses will evolve. [source]

Linguistic Innovations and Interactional Features of Casual Online Communication in Japanese

JOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION, Issue 1 2003
Yukiko Nishimura
This study explores the linguistic and interactional properties of informal asynchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) in Japanese. Using Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) messages as the primary source of data, the study identifies innovative uses of kanji, other scripts and punctuation, and examines the incorporation of such informal spoken features as final particles. Young Japanese BBS users are found to employ colloquial language online as if conversing offline, and interact appropriately with their fellow participants in their Internet community. [source]