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Explication and implication in the English translation of Mohamed Choukri\u27s “For Bread Alone”: Linguistic and pragmatic losses
No full textTranslators vacillate between original dressing and target redressing in the act of translating a text from one language into another. The questions posed in this study are: to what extent is the act of translating an act of rewriting discovered or chosen or adequate per se? Should a translator have a style of his/her own while translating? Or should a translator adapt to the author\u27s style while reproducing another\u27s text? To what extent is creativity left for the translator if the essential creative impulse is preceded by that of the author? In other words, how far is the translator able to reproduce the message of the author faithfully but also to make his or her contribution to the finished product? These questions are basic to the principle of translation equivalence. The claim here is that there should be variations between translated texts because translators use different translation strategies. Examples of such strategies come from one Arabic text and its English translation: Mohamed Choukri\u27s Al-Khbuz Al Hafi (1982) translated by Paul Bowles as For Bread Alone (1973). Bowles translated with the indirect help of Choukri. Any translation from one language into another results in losses and gains. This dissertation seeks to identify the losses in Bowles\u27 translation of Choukri\u27s text. A comparative matching of some of the extracts from the two texts with particular focus on literal and figurative translations leads to a number of linguistic and pragmatic losses. Any assessment of translation must be constantly updated and signposted. Insofar as we consider discourse in translation as a relationship between speaker and receiver, I maintain, translating becomes as natural as speech—oral and written
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
Suffix Trees as Language Models
No full textKennington C, Kay M, Friedrich A. Suffix Trees as Language Models. In: Calzolari (Conference Chair) N, Choukri K, Declerck T, et al., eds. Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12). Istanbul, Turkey: European Language Resources Association (ELRA); 2012
Sustainability of Text-Technological Resources
No full textStührenberg M, Kühnberger K-U, Lüngen H, Mehler A, Metzing D, Mönnich U. Sustainability of Text-Technological Resources. In: Witt A, Rehm G, Schmidt T, Choukri K, Burnard L, eds. Proceedings of the LREC 2008 Workshop "Sustainability of Language Resources and Tools for Natural Language Processing". 2008: 33-40
Consequences of Cold Drawing and Hot Rolling Processes on Microstructure, Microhardness and Electrochemical Corrosion of Structural Steels in 0.1 M Na2SO4, 0.1 M NaCl and Simulated Concrete Pore Solutions
No full textIn this work, the electrochemical corrosion of four structural steels, in the form of round bars coming from two thermo-mechanical treatments (cold drawing or hot rolling), was investigated separately in 0.1 M Na2SO4, 0.1 M NaCl, simulated concrete pore solution (SCPS) made of saturated 0.1 M Ca(OH)2, 0.1 M NaOH and 0.2 M KOH, and SCP solution with 0.1 M NaCl. Specimens were labeled as follows: TRA S235, LAM S275, LAM S355, and TRA S355, where TRA and LAM stand for cold-drawn and hot-rolled, respectively. An evaluation of the electrochemical corrosion properties was carried out through open circuit potential (OCP), electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and anodic cyclic polarization (ACP) techniques. Furthermore, the surface or cross-section hardening and softening effects caused by cold drawing and hot rolling processes were monitored by Vicker's microhardness testing. Moreover, the structural and microstructural changes in steels due to thermo-mechanical treatments were characterized by means of XRD, OM and SEM-EDX analyses. Results obtained allowed to confirm the significant correlations between structural, microstructural, electrochemical, and microhardness changes with respect to the nature of the plastic deformation manufacturing process
Simulation of thermal plant optimization and hydraulic aspects of thermal distribution loops for large campuses
No full textFollowing an introduction, the author describes Texas A&M University and its utilities system. After that, the author presents how to construct simulation models for chilled water and heating hot water distribution systems. The simulation model was used in a $2.3 million Ross Street chilled water pipe replacement project at Texas A&M University. A second project conducted at the University of Texas at San Antonio was used as an example to demonstrate how to identify and design an optimal distribution system by using a simulation model. The author found that the minor losses of these closed loop thermal distribution systems are significantly higher than potable water distribution systems. In the second part of the report, the author presents the latest development of software called the Plant Optimization Program, which can simulate cogeneration plant operation, estimate its operation cost and provide optimized operation suggestions. The author also developed detailed simulation models for a gas turbine and heat recovery steam generator and identified significant potential savings. Finally, the author also used a steam turbine as an example to present a multi-regression method on constructing simulation models by using basic statistics and optimization algorithms. This report presents a survey of the author??s working experience at the Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL) at Texas A&M University during the period of January 2002 through March 2004. The purpose of the above work was to allow the author to become familiar with the practice of engineering. The result is that the author knows how to complete a project from start to finish and understands how both technical and nontechnical aspects of a project need to be considered in order to ensure a quality deliverable and bring a project to successful completion. This report concludes that the objectives of the internship were successfully accomplished and that the requirements for the degree of Degree of Engineering have been satisfied
Improved imputation methods in survey sampling
No full textA well-known problem in the field of survey sampling is the problem of missing data due to a number of kinds of non-responses. In this thesis, I reviewed existing imputation methods and proposed new improved imputation methods to when the data is missing completely at random responses (MCAR). In general, MCAR happens when an interviewer fails to meet an interviewee on a random attempt either through personal visit at home, telephone or a mail survey. In this thesis, I compared the proposed imputation methods with its competitors analytically as well as through simulation studies
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