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Despite the unquestionable academic interest on corpus-based approaches to language education, the use of corpora by teachers in their everyday practice is still not very widespread. One way to promote usage of corpora in language teaching is by making pedagogically appropriate corpora, labelled with different types of problems (for instance, sensitive content, offensive language, structural problems), so that teachers can select authentic examples according to their needs. Because manually labelling corpora is extremely time-consuming, we propose to use crowdsourcing for this task. After a first exploratory phase, we are currently developing a multimode, multilanguage game in which players first identify problematic sentences and then classify them. [For the complete volume, "CALL and Professionalisation: Short Papers from EUROCALL 2021 (29th, Online, August 26-27, 2021)," see ED616972.]

We present a political analysis of criminal trials from a sociology of law perspective as a model for examining power, law, and the state. Our analysis includes suggestions for a non-reductionist theory of power. We focuses upon the discursive formations upon which modern society is based and dependent; how power functions within this form of society, how it is reproduced, why certain social formations occur while others disappear, and how change is possible; and a nascent political theory of law. The modern form of law is hierarchical, individualistic, and highly competitive. The ostensible rule of law varies according to this form via a political analysis of the state and the role of law in globalization. The dominant paradigm of Western thought in Eurocentric justice systems has been punishment, the basis for criminal law. The expansion of criminal law and punitive sanctions stems primarily from the growth of international and centralized state control. We have created a condensed version below for presentation at the ASA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nuclear forensics of special nuclear materials is a highly specialized field because there are few analytical laboratories in the world that can safely handle nuclear materials, perform high accuracy and precision analysis using validated analytical methods. The goal of nuclear forensics is to establish an unambiguous link between illicitly trafficked nuclear material and its origin. The Los Alamos National Laboratory Nuclear Materials Signatures Program has implemented a graded "conduct of operations" type approach for determining the unique nuclear, chemical, and physical signatures needed to identify the manufacturing process, intended use, and origin of interdicted nuclear material. In our approach an analysis flow path was developed for determining key signatures necessary for attributing unknown materials to a source. This analysis flow path included both destructive (i.e., alpha spectrometry, ICP-MS, ICP-AES, TIMS, particle size distribution, density and particle fractionation) and non-destructive (i.e., gamma-ray spectrometry, optical microscopy, SEM, XRD, and x-ray fluorescence) characterization techniques. Analytical techniques and results from three recent cases characterized by this analysis flow path along with an evaluation of the usefulness of this approach will be discussed in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Los Alamos National Laboratory's (LANL) Actinide Analytical Chemistry (AAC) group has been in existence since the Manhattan Project. It maintains a complete set of analytical capabilities for performing complete characterization (elemental assay, isotopic, metallic and non metallic trace impurities) of uranium and plutonium samples in different forms. For a majority of the customers there are strong quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) objectives including highest accuracy and precision with well defined uncertainties associated with the analytical results. Los Alamos participates in various international and national programs such as the Plutonium Metal Exchange Program, New Brunswick Laboratory's (NBL's) Safeguards Measurement Evaluation Program (SME) and several other inter-laboratory round robin exercises to monitor and evaluate the data quality generated by AAC. These programs also provide independent verification of analytical measurement capabilities, and allow any technical problems with analytical measurements to be identified and corrected. This presentation will focus on key analytical capabilities for destructive analysis in AAC and also comparative data between LANL and peer groups for Pu assay and isotopic analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cooperative border security design relies on technology to assist in the prevention of transnational trafficking of illicit goods, including nuclear and radiological materials. Design and deployment of foreign border security systems must address unique challenges, including poor infrastructure, unique environmental conditions, limited terrain knowledge, incomplete threat knowledge, insider threats, and occasional cultural resistance. In addition, potential deployment nations are often considered high-risk destinations. Therefore, it is advantageous to minimize the time required for in-country deployment and integration efforts. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is developing a border security performance test bed. The goal of this test bed is to test, validate, integrate, develop, and eventually help specify commercial and lab-developed border security components that are robust, reliable, and effective while offering a level of "plug and play" integration. Additional goals include the development of a hierarchical command and control software application and adaptable high-bandwidth wireless communication systems. The information gathered from this test bed will be used to design and validate future cooperative border security systems. The test bed will also provide a proving ground for novel sensor types and serve as a venue for conducting border security technology training classes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed an activated Ultra-wideband (UWB) tagging system for tracking high-value assets that addresses some of the factors limiting use of commercially available UWB tags in secure environments. UWB tags have several performance advantages when compared with other radio frequency inventory systems. Advantages include improved read range, wide bandwidth, and good performance in proximity to metal. However, commercially available UWB tags have been avoided in secure environments because they are one-way tags that transmit at a set rate. In many situations this mode of operation is unacceptable from an operations security standpoint. The tag developed at ORNL is designed to be activated by a low-frequency signal sent by a reader. Once activated, the tag responds using a UWB transmitter. The tag addresses the operations security issues by allowing it to be activated only in desired areas and includes several additional features, including the ability to interface simple sensors. This paper reports on both the technical aspects of the ORNL-developed tag as well as the advantages of the tag for secure environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Learning about probability is a challenge for students in math lessons because it requires both new concepts and new approaches, namely experimentation and modelling. To support this kind of mathematical experience in the classroom we have developed learning activities that engage students in computational modelling using simulation tools. Our collaborative modelling environment offers a toolbox to set up and simulate diverse experiments as e.g. throwing dice or drawing balls, playing lottery games, and to facilitate validation. We see its potential to expand traditional math instruction assisting students to develop a sustainable conceptual basis of probability principles offering them a higher degree of responsibility of their learning. This is confirmed by our evaluation of experiences made in a German secondary school. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Call centers are a fast growing segment of the telecommunications industry. Research of call centers has explored issues including the work practices (Pentland, 1992), organizational structure (Kinnie, Hutchinson, & Purcell, 2000) and surveillance methods of this industry (Bain & Taylor, 2000); yet most studies have overlooked an examination of how interaction with technologies create call center work as a complex task. This study looks at the ways in which an information technology call center within a large Western University operates as a complex workspace. Using communities of practice theory (Wenger, 1998), the study illustrates the ways in which workers make sense of workspace, rules, interaction, task and technology. In contrast to the common view that call center work is autonomous and individual, we argue there are possibilities for viewing the call center as a collaborative learning environment. Communities of practice, as a social learning theory, allows us to see the ways in which call center employees not only make sense of the work processes through the workspace, rules, interaction, task and technology, but they also continue to learn about their jobs and each other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates the identification process of the modern telecommunications professional as a reflexive process of adaptation to the prototypical characteristics of the modern economy. The data for this study focuses upon the accounts of telecommunications professionals concerning their experiences in the new economy, within multiple telecommunications organizations, and within an educational program. This study then, first contributes to previous understandings of the technical professional identity. A second contribution to theory emerges as these accounts reveal an interdependence of the rules, resources, and routines of professional identity structure. The routines participants described in their work processes and in continuing their education are meaningful for individuals in terms of their ontological security; routines are the means through which professionals prepare for and secure their future role as a professional. This work extends understandings of both identity as a structure (Scott, Corman, and Cheney, 1998) and how knowledge directly connects to the identity structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]