The study aims at investigating the use of codes of ethics in teaching EFL to students enrolled in a first-level master course in Marketing Management in an Italian public university. Ethical codes are expected to reveal their potentiality in “sensitising and preparing students to meet the communicative demands of disciplinary communication”, in Bhatia’s (2002) words.
Nobel Prize lectures in Economic Sciences are examined in this contribution as an example of highly specialized discourse, reflecting all the features of a genre relevant to a discourse community (Flowerdew 2015). A corpus has been built, including all the 29 lectures delivered by the winners over a time span of fifteen years (2001-2015); the written version of the lectures has been considered in order to identify patterns of argumentation (Hyland 2013, van Eemeren 2019). An integrated methodology has been adopted, combining a corpus and a discourse perspective.
Electrostatic precipitation is a well-known technology to reduce public exposure to radon daughters. A custom electrostatic precipitator (ESP) prototype has been designed and built to study the effectiveness of such a removal technique in specific workplaces having low-to-zero air exchange rates with external environments. An appropriate mathematical model has been set up in order to simulate the behavior of environmental and nuclear data throughout the ESP operation, to optimize the design for the prototype to be built, to estimate its effectiveness in terms of effective dose reduction.
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