We present a number of methodological recommendations concerning the online evaluation of avatars for text-to-sign translation, focusing on the structure, format and length of the questionnaire, as well as methods for eliciting and faithfully transcribing responses.

Summary A question that received considerable interest from language teachers and researchers alike is what corrective feedback (CF) should look like to be maximally beneficial to learners’ second language development. This chapter zooms in on two feedback types that have been distinguished in the CF …

Background & aims The Scored Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA©) is a validated nutritional screening, assessment, monitoring, and triage tool. When translated to other languages, the questions and answering items need to be conceptually, semantically, and operationally equivalent …

Among other things, learning to write entails learning how to use complex sentences effectively in discourse. Some research has therefore focused on relating measures of syntactic complexity to text quality. Apart from the fact that the existing research on this topic appears inconclusive, most of it …

The following report describes the issues that Medisol B.V. is currently facing regarding their maintenance practices. It shows to which extent may the company increase the total turnover received from the maintenance contracts, while at the same time, reducing the amount of time and money that they …

The goal of this research is to provide The Dow Chemical CO. with relevant information in order for the company to find solutions regarding the current invoicing procedures of multi-line invoices. Dow indicates to experience a loss in valuable time during the current invoicing process. It is of high …

In 2015, the Object Management Group published the Decision Model and Notation with the goal to structure and connect business processes, decisions and underlying business logic. Practice shows that several vendors adopted the DMN standard and (started to) integrate the standard with their tooling. However, …

During the graduation project for the HBO-ICT education, the student has worked on a projectcommissioned by Thales Group. Thales uses Apache Avro to specify the API they use. Basedon this specification, empty methods are generated and filled out by Thales developers.However, they want to specify more …

Purpose: This article summarizes the shared principles and evidence underpinning methods employed in the three sentence-level (syntactic) grammatical intervention approaches developed by the authors. We discuss associated clinical resources and map a way forward for clinically useful research in this …

This article discusses the rationale for using language diaries as a method to evaluate language use and language choice in multilingual contexts, as well as the benefits and limitations of this approach vis-à-vis other research methods. This is illustrated using examples from two contexts: Flemish Sign …