Mastering English Tenses and Clauses for Effective Communication

Present Simple (Egunerokoa ordutegia adierazteko)

Afirmative: I/you work, she/it works

Negative: I/you don’t work, he/she doesn’t work

Interrogative: Do you work? Does she work?

Present Continuous (Now, at the moment, this year)

Afirmative: You are singing, she is singing

Negative: You aren’t singing

Past Simple (Complete action in the past) (last year, two days ago…)

Afirmative: I, you, she finished; I went to Paris last year

Negative: I, you, she didn’t finish

Interrogative: Did you finish?

Past

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Smart Specialization: A Regional Innovation Strategy

Smart specialization is an innovative policy concept that emphasizes the principle of prioritization in a vertical logic. It defines a method to identify desirable areas for innovation policy intervention. Its rationale involves:

  • The fact that, even in the information age, the logic of specialization is intact.
  • The argument that the task of identification (of what should be prioritized) is very difficult and therefore needs a sophisticated policy design.

It seeks robust and transparent means for nominating

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Environmental Toxicants, Pollution, and Sustainable Development

Environmental Toxicants

Any toxic material or substance is termed as a toxicant. They are hazardous and poisonous. Toxicants are generally man-made and artificial products introduced into the environment due to human activity. They include bisphenol, insecticides and a number of industrial chemicals.

Types and Sources of Environmental Toxicants

Toxic agents can be chemical, physical, or biological in nature and produce toxic effects on the body. The different toxic agents include: chemical (cyanide)

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Effective Project Stakeholder Management: Identification and Engagement

Project Stakeholder Management

Project Stakeholder Management includes the processes required to identify the people, groups, or organizations that could impact or be impacted by the project, to analyze stakeholder expectations and their impact on the project, and to develop appropriate management strategies for effectively engaging stakeholders in project decisions and execution. Every project has stakeholders who are impacted by or can impact the project in a positive or negative way. Some of them

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Understanding Determiners, Pronouns, and Verb Conjugation

Determiners

  • Articles: the, a, an
  • Demonstrative: This, that, these, those, such
  • Possessive: my, your, his, her, its, our, their
  • Numbers: one, two, first, second, double
  • Undefined: no, some, much, little, different, several, other, every, either
  • Interrogative/Exclamatory: what, how much
  • Possessive: whose, which

Pronouns

Two types:

  • Deictic: Refers to an extralinguistic reality. (e.g., It’s for her)
  • Anaphoric/Cataphoric: Refers to a reality present earlier in the text. (e.g., Rent a movie and we saw it yesterday)
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Effective Leadership: Teamwork, Crisis, Diversity, and Change

Week 8: Leading Teams

  • Clarify goals and roles
  • Foster shared leadership
  • Get the team together physically
  • Virtual: monitor progress through tech
  • Recognize style of leadership may change
  • Keep lines of communication open

Week 9: Handling Crisis

  • 3 stages: pre, acute, post
  • Immediately take action
  • Do sufficient scenario planning
  • Implement crisis management strategies
  • Sustain organization’s credibility
  • RESILIENT: accept change, establish boundaries, seek feedback
  • Communicate frequently

Week 10: Leading a Diverse Workforce

  • Cognizance
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