1,686 research outputs found
Modelling and assessing vocabulary knowledge
No full textThis book is published in The Cambridge Applied Linguistics Series, one of the world leading series in Applied Linguistics. It is based on contributions of leading researchers at a BAAL/ CUP seminar on vocabulary knowledge and testing held at UWE, Bristol in 2004. Daller brought together contributions from internationally renowned researchers in this field and took the initiative to publish this volume with CUP. The book contains 13 chapters of which two are based on the "learner language project" of UWE. More than 20% of the book is written by Daller as first author. He is first editor of the book as a whole, first author of the editor's introduction (31 pages) and first author of two chapters written together with emerging researchers at UWE; Chapter 8 (Daller and Xue): Lexical richness and the oral proficiency of Chinese EFL students (15 pages) and Chapter 13 (Daller and Phelan): What is in a teacher's mind? The relation between teacher ratings of EFL essays and different aspects of lexical richness (11 pages). As a whole the papers in this book throw valuable light on the issues in measuring vocabulary learning in a second or foreign language and illustrate ways in which vocabulary tests seek to capture the complex and multi-dimensional nature of lexical knowledge (Michael Long and Jack Richards: "Series Editor's Preface to the book")
Shaping Neighbourhoods: For Local health and Global Sustainability
No full textOriginator, principal author (60%), editor. Three year programme sponsored by WHO, financed by Southern Trust, M&S and UWE. Presentations include TCPSS 2000, HDA 2002, International Urban Planning and Environment Association 2002, RTPI/RIBA/RICS 2004, PIA 2005. In use across UK planning offices. Basis for successful 4-year EPSRC bid. Second edition pending
SAP - Song Archive Project Publication
Full text linkPLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NOT THE FULL BOOK TEXT - PUBLISHER POLICY ONLY ALLOWS ACCESS TO AN EXTRACT OF THIS BOOK IN THE UWE BRISTOL RESEARCH REPOSITORYThe publication brings together specialists from a wide range of disciplines and academic institutions whereby selected video work from Buchheim’s Song Archive Project facilitate a process of dialogue and exchange between the contributors and the editors. SAP looks at the act of singing and the role of amateur song in contemporary culture drawing together contributions from the fields of art, musical psychology, behavioral psychology, neurology, philosophy and fictional writing.Contributors:Dr Jens Asendorpf is a psychologist, professor and head of department for Psychology at the Humboldt University, Berlin.Sean Ashton is a writer of fiction and and criticism and a contributing editor of MAP Magazine.Dr Liam Devlin is a writer and visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths University of London and the University of Wales, Newport.Dr Alinka Greasley is senior lecturer in Psychology of Music in the School of Music, University of Leeds.Dr Oliver Sacks is a physician, author, and professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center in New York.Dr Iain Biggs is reader in Visual Art Practice in the Department of Art & Design, UWE, Bristol, and is a director of PLaCE.Yvonne Buchheim is an artist and senior lecturer at the University of the West of England
On the cost of delayed currency fixing announcements
Full text linkIn Foreign Exchange Markets vanilla and barrier options are traded frequently. The market standard is a cutoff time of 10:00 a.m. in New York for the strike of vanillas and a knock-out event based on a continuously observed barrier in the inter bank market. However, many clients, particularly from Italy, prefer the cutoff and knock-out event to be based on the fixing published by the European Central Bank on the Reuters Page ECB37. These barrier options are called discretely monitored barrier options. While these options can be priced in several models by various techniques, the ECB source of the fixing causes two problems. First of all, it is not tradable, and secondly it is published with a delay of about 10 - 20 minutes. We examine here the effect of these problems on the hedge of those options and consequently suggest a cost based on the additional uncertainty encountered. --exotic options,currency fixings
The presentation of authorship in the works of Uwe Timm
No full textDie vorliegende Dissertation befasst sich mit der Frage der Inszenierung der Autorschaft am Beispiel von Uwe Timm. Dieser Problematik geht sie nach, indem sie vier unterschiedliche „begleitende“ Genres untersucht: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen, Reiseberichte, Autobiographien und Poetikvorlesungen, welche unter dem Begriff „Medien der Autorschaft“ nach Urs Meyer zu verstehen sind. Das Erkenntnisinteresse dieser Arbeit richtet sich auf die medialen Erscheinungsformen einerseits und auf die Darstellungsweise der Autorschaft andererseits. Auf dieser Grundlage werden multiple Autorbilder von Uwe Timm vor dem Hintergrund des Konzepts des literarischen Felds und des Habitus von Pierre Bourdieu herausgearbeitet: der politisch engagierte Autor, der Autor als Ethnologe, der Autor als Erinnerungsarbeiter des kollektiven Gedächtnisses sowie der Autor als Geschichtenerzähler.This dissertation addresses the question of how authorship is presented in the works of Uwe Timm. To explore this issue, four different “accompanying” genres have been considered: journals and newspapers, travel writings, autobiographies and poetic lectures, all of which are to be understood as “Media of Authorship” according to Urs Meyer. The discussion revolves around two aspects, the forms of media on the one hand, and the representational techniques on the other. Through Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of literary field and habitus, Uwe Timm’s multiple author images have been highlighted: the politically engaged author, the author as an ethnologist, the author as a memory worker of the collective memory and the author as a storyteller
Drawing on a dream
Full text linkDRAWING OUT 2012Paper Title: Drawing on a Dream Author: Lynn Imperatore Affiliations:•PhD Researcher/University of the West of England/Department of Art & Design, ACE •Co-Chair, HATCH Research Project,PLaCE Research Centre, UWE•Research Student Member, PLaCE Research Centre, UWE AbstractThis paper considers possible entries into precincts of imagination and imaginative activity - through a consideration of drawing practice as method for thinking about and around alterations of and away from ordinary consciousness, particularly sleep. Drawing interrogates assumed beliefs - apparitions of unassailable reality - by distilling these into abstracted component parts. The observant draughtsman cultivates an ability to withhold aspects of cognition and recognition from perception, therefore purposely refusing to find conclusion in preconception. New views, re-presentations, accidental revelation (from the unconscious and the unintentional) lead to novel an expanded knowledges. Drawing and sleep engage commonality as practices or habits that provide opportunity to discern qualities of the mysterious embedded within the ordinary. Central to this study is a shared visual language and sleight-of-hand in drawing and dreaming - imaginative activities that can generate (impossible) imagery, and lead us to a richer apprehension of interior life. Drawing and dreaming are magical manifestations - with hints of broader imaginative territories just over the edge of the page or slipping off into slumber. Work of select contemporary artists - including William Kentridge, Antonio Lopez-Garcia, Louise Bourgeois - are located and viewed in their practice relationships to creative predecessors of the devotional heyday of the European Renaissance. Artists - particularly in acts of drawing - still strive to give visual depictions of that which we know - but can never actually see. Conference & Publication ThemeDrawing and Notation. Drawing as a sometimes intuitive other times driven by convention means of mapping appearance and movement . With special reference to innovative methods of notationDrawing: recording and discovery. Drawing as a speculative activity and means of transferring informatio
Author Correction: Kombucha electronics: electronic circuits on kombucha mats
Full text linkCorrection to: Scientific Reports, published online 09 June 2023 The original version of this Article contained an error in the spelling of the author Pasquale D’Angelo which was incorrectly given as Passquale D’Angelo. The original Article has been corrected
Motiv jídla a jeho význam pro dílo Uwe Timma
Full text linkThis thesis deals with the subject of food and its aspects in the work of Uwe Timm. The first part depicts different areas from everyday life which are in some way linked to food. German-speaking writers are mentioned for comparison since they address the subject of food in their literary works in some way as well. In the next section the biography of the author is presented, since he incorporates his autobiographical features and experiences in his work. Based on motive research, selected literary works by Uwe Timm are examined and different nuances of the aspect of food are presented. KEY WORDS food, motive of food, motive research, Uwe Timm, literatureTato práce se zabývá tématikou jídla a jeho aspekty v díle Uwe Timma. V první části jsou představeny různé oblasti každodenního života, které jsou spojeny s jídlem. Pro srovnání jsou uvedeni další německy píšící autoři, kteří ve svých literárních dílech určitým způsobem tematizují motiv jídla. V další části je uveden životopis autora, neboť do svého literárního díla promítá své autobiografické rysy a životní zkušenosti. Na základě zkoumání motivu jsou analyzována vybraná díla Uwe Timma a představeny rozdílné aspekty jídla v nich obsažené. KLÍČOVÁ SLOVA jídlo, motiv jídla, výzkum motivu, Uwe Timm, literaturaKatedra germanistikyFaculty of EducationPedagogická fakult
Genetic association study of QT interval highlights role for calcium signaling pathways in myocardial repolarization.
Full text linkThe QT interval, an electrocardiographic measure reflecting myocardial repolarization, is a heritable trait. QT prolongation is a risk factor for ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death (SCD) and could indicate the presence of the potentially lethal mendelian long-QT syndrome (LQTS). Using a genome-wide association and replication study in up to 100,000 individuals, we identified 35 common variant loci associated with QT interval that collectively explain ∼8-10% of QT-interval variation and highlight the importance of calcium regulation in myocardial repolarization. Rare variant analysis of 6 new QT interval-associated loci in 298 unrelated probands with LQTS identified coding variants not found in controls but of uncertain causality and therefore requiring validation. Several newly identified loci encode proteins that physically interact with other recognized repolarization proteins. Our integration of common variant association, expression and orthogonal protein-protein interaction screens provides new insights into cardiac electrophysiology and identifies new candidate genes for ventricular arrhythmias, LQTS and SCD
Motive of food and its significance for the work of Uwe Timm
No full textThis thesis deals with the subject of food and its aspects in the work of Uwe Timm. The first part depicts different areas from everyday life which are in some way linked to food. German-speaking writers are mentioned for comparison since they address the subject of food in their literary works in some way as well. In the next section the biography of the author is presented, since he incorporates his autobiographical features and experiences in his work. Based on motive research, selected literary works by Uwe Timm are examined and different nuances of the aspect of food are presented. KEY WORDS food, motive of food, motive research, Uwe Timm, literatur
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