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| CONTACT |
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Canada |
| Address |
5661 Victoria Rd.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada B3H 1M9
(I also spend one month each year in Austria.) |
| E-mail |
[email protected]
or: [email protected] |
| Home page |
www.dbis.ns.ca/~stirling/
or: http://language3.topcities.com/english.html |
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| LANGUAGES |
Translations from German into English
Other languages: French, Mandarin Chinese |
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| EDUCATION |
Bachelor of Science (Honours, Biology), Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. 1970-74.
Master of Library Science, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. 1974-75. |
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| SPECIALIZATION |
Scientific, technical and general translations, specializing in Biology, IT and Tourism. Translations into British, American or Canadian English. Native speaker of English. |
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| EXPERIENCE |
Translations. My translations have been published in The Journal of Experimental Biology (Great Britain) and the Journal of Insect Behavior (USA):
J. exp. Biol. 201, 1483-1491 (1998)
J. Insect Behav. Vol. 12 No. 6, 737-752 (1999)
J. exp. Biol. 203, 2117-2123 (2000)
I have also translated a book in the field of chronobiology.
Some of my translations can be viewed on the Internet:
1) An article in The Journal of Experimental Biology
http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/abstract/201/9/1483
http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/201/9/1483.pdf
2) IT press releases
http://www.betasystems.com/e_beta.nsf/(Docs)/0300000108
http://www.dbis.ns.ca/~stirling/novell.html
3) The home page of Carstens Marzipan
http://www.carstens-marzipan.de/en/wir/index.html
4) A short story by the Austrian author Reimmichl
http://www.dbis.ns.ca/~stirling/reim.html
Other language-related activities. I am the author of:
1) English Grammar: Explanations and Exercises, 452 pp., published in China, 1992
2) Beginning English for Somali Speakers: Barashada Bilowga Ingiriska
3) An analysis of simplified Chinese characters
Computer experience: Computer specialist and Automated Bibliographic Control laboratory co-ordinator, School of Library and Information Science, University of Western Ontario, Canada, 1975-1980. Author of in-house publication: BASIC Programming for Library School Students. |
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| EQUIPMENT |
Software: Windows 95, Word 97/2000, PowerPoint, WordPerfect, FTP programs, and editors for ASCII, HTML and WML files. Can view CorelDraw files and files in standard graphics formats.
Translation software: Custom-designed machine-readable dictionaries.
Hardware: PC, IBM scanner, HP 6L printer. |
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