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Finite Iterative Method Based Algorithm To Estimate Latent Variables In Partial Least Squares Path Modelling For Mode A
No full textThe present paper introduces a new algorithm in partial least squares path modelling to compute the scores of latent variables when Mode A is considered for all blocks. The proposed algorithm estimates the so-called weight vectors by minimizing the distance between two correlation matrices by considering each outer model as being a recursive path analysis model. Numerical studies and empirical simulations illustrating the advantages of the proposed algorithm are given
Framing nature in seventeenth-century english pamphlets on Jamaica: A corpus-assisted discourse study
Get PDFIn my paper I shall analyse the English framing of Nature and its resources in a specialised corpus of 17th-century propaganda pamphlets on the occupation and colonization of Jamaica (PonJ), dating from 1655 to 1700 and amounting to 212,000 words. By drawing on Charteris-Black’s definition of frame as a socially shared perspective on something which generates ideologies through its repeated usage (2019, p. 16), I adopt a corpus-assisted methodology in order to identify the most frequent Nature-related words in the corpus and examine their semantic patterns of occurrence through concordance tabs. The quantitative approach is combined with the qualitative one so as to tackle the relationship existing between semantic patterns retrievable from the corpus and aspects of the wider historical and socio-cultural context, including the propaganda purpose of the author and the reception of the target readership. Results show that Nature-related words are principally encoded within a frame of “utility”, “bountifulness” and “domestication” which shape Nature as an ever-lasting resource to be quickly turned into subsistence and export commodities, in line with an anthropocentric worldview. The findings reflect the natural philosophical project of recovering the ‘empire’ of human beings over Nature through colonization. Nature in the Caribbean was represented as a storehouse of new and apparently unlimited natural resources to be studied, (over)used and cultivated. Some deviations from this conceptualization, however, occur and show that by the end of the century, regulations against uncontrolled hunting of local species were put in place with some sense of ‘conservation’ for future generations
Albania romanì, Albania egiziana: tracce di due minoranze nello spazio albanofono (XVII-XX sec.)
Get PDFThe Roma and Egyptian minorities in the Albanian-speaking area are sometimes mentioned, in short distorting passages, in notes by missionaries, travellers, scientists, diplomats between the 17th and early 20th centuries. The lexicography in 17th century presents the ethnic etym magjyp connected to ancient Egyptians and romanì minority; some photos with Roma and Egyptians from the documentary collection of Larissa Quaroni (1928-1931), from the travelogue of the ornithologist Hugo Adolf Bernatzik (1930), from the documentary collection of the soldier Sirio Galli (1940-1943) visualise their folkloristic aspect as it was understood and narrated at the time; the poetic work in romanì by Agim Saiti (Kosovar-Italian Rom) questions the Egyptian and Roma identity in contemporary Albanophony
