622 research outputs found
A conversation with Isca Wittenberg
No full textThis paper, based on a conversation with Isca Wittenberg, summarises the dialogue between her and the author and highlights the main points of their discussion, including the observational method, the role of the observer and the influence on clinical practice
The degradation of mechanical properties in polymer nano-composites exposed to liquid media - a review
No full textThe advancement of polymer nano-composites has been motivated by the need for materials with a specific combination of mechanical properties beyond those achieved from only one material. Integration of reinforcement into polymers at nanoscale can provide a significant increase in numerous physical and mechanical properties of polymer nano-composites. However, in applications where contact with chemically reactive liquid media is unavoidable, the mechanical properties of polymer nano-composites suffer degradation and environmental stress cracking (ESC) which is a commonly observed phenomenon. Moderate and severe aggressive liquid can cause ESC while non aggressive liquid are also capable of lowering the mechanical properties of polymer nano-composites by acting as plasticizer. To date, only few studies are reported discussing the ability of nano-fillers to resist ESC in polymer nano-composites when exposed to chemically reactive liquid media. In this review, various factors responsible for ESC in polymer nano-composites and their remedies are studied
Temporal sequence and event structure across tenses
No full textThe current project investigates how event structure encoding interacts with tense meaning when inferring temporal structure from temporally underspecified linguistic descriptions. Following a previous line of research that tested people's temporal intuitions with relative clause constructions in the past tense using both a video-sentence-matching task (Marx & Wittenberg, 2022, under review) and an act-out task (Marx, Iwan & Wittenberg, in prep), in this study we will (a) replicate our findings in a forced-choice temporal judgment paradigm and (b) extend it to the future tense, to investigate the effects of event structure across grammatical tenses. The future tense is an excellent test case because it allows us to disentangle two event-structural predictions: tense-mediated temporal anchoring (cf. Carroll & Stutterheim, 2010; Klein, 1994, 2000, 2008) and a general figure-ground bias to order states as temporal backgrounds (Clewett, Gasser, & Davachi, 2020; Kurby & Zacks, 2008, see also Talmy, 1975; Gleitman, Gleitman, Miller, & Ostrin, 1996)
[...] Hoc est, Dissertatio De Marginalibus Notis S. Codicis Ebraei Masoreticis in genere
No full textQuam ... In Celeberrima ad Albim Academia, Praeside ... Dn. M. Joh: Reinhardo, Hilperhusa Franco ... Placido Philologuntōn examini sistit Author-Respondens, Christianus Adam Scoppius, Vratisl. Silesius. Ad d. XI. Febr. Anno M.DC.LXXIV. H. Lq[ue] consuetisHebr. Text nicht transliteriert. - Nicht identisch mit VD17 12:142991W: diese ohne "Author-Respondens" und ohne Widmungsempfänger; auch nicht identisch mit VD17 12:174439K: diese ohne WidmungsempfängerDruckort ermittelt in: Benzing (Drucker
Event structure in language production (control)
No full textIn this research project, questions regarding the temporal relations between events and their linguistic encoding will be addressed. So far, formal theories of embedded tense have argued that temporal relations arise from the structural properties of a complex sentence (Ogihara 1995; Enc 1987; Stowell 2007, 2012; Abusch 1994), modelling temporal interpretations of the embedded event in a past-under-past relative clause as only past relative to the utterance time. However, a previous series of studies has shown that, contrary to these assumptions in the formal literature, temporal interpretations are driven by event structural properties (see partial results in Marx & Wittenberg, 2022): When people watched videos of event sequences where a stative predicate happened either prior or after an eventive predicate, they subsequently judged past-under-past relative clause descriptions of the video more acceptable when the state happened first. This was the case regardless of the syntactic encoding of the stative predicate, supporting theories of linguistic event comprehension that takes the internal structure of events and saliency differences as a starting point (Carroll & von Stutterheim, 2010; Klein, 1994, 2000; von Stutterheim, Carroll, & Klein, 2003).
Crucially, explaining how people mapped temporal structure on linguistic descriptions in the previous series of studies relied heavily on independent evidence from event perception research, showing that stable states bind less attentional resources than cognitively more salient events (Clewett et al., 2020; Kurby & Zacks, 2008; Zacks et al., 2007). The following experiment therefore serves as a control experiment in English and German, to examine whether such a state-event asymmetry also holds true for the visual materials used in our previous study (Marx & Wittenberg, 2022). The question is whether perceptual differences between states and events precipitate cross-linguistically in a language production task where people must shortly describe the visual stimuli
Japanese Culture Exists in English
No full textThis essay is going to talk about how original Japanese is translated into English and whether or not it does make some changes in the expression. The novle used for this essay is Botchan wirtten by Soseki Natsume, one of the most famous Japanese author in the Japanese Literature Hisotry
The industry of evangelism : printing for the Reformation in Martin Luther's Wittenberg
No full textWhen Martin Luther supposedly nailed his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517 to the Castle Church door in Wittenberg, the small town had only a single printing press. By the end of the century, Wittenberg had published more books than any other city in the Holy Roman Empire. Of the leading print centres in early modern Europe, Wittenberg was the only one that was not a major centre of trade, politics, or culture. This thesis examines the rise of the Wittenberg printing industry and analyses how it overtook the Empire’s leading print centres. Luther’s controversy—and the publications it produced—attracted printers to Wittenberg who would publish tract after tract. In only a few years, Luther became the most published author since the invention of the printing press. This thesis investigates the workshops of the four leading printers in Wittenberg during Luther’s lifetime: Nickel Schirlentz, Josef Klug, Hans Lufft, and Georg Rhau. Together, these printers conquered the German print world. They were helped with the assistance of the famous Renaissance artist, Lucas Cranach the Elder, who lived in Wittenberg as court painter to the Elector of Saxony. His woodcut title page borders decorated the covers of Luther’s books and were copied throughout the Empire. Capitalising off the demand for Wittenberg books, many printers falsely printed that their books were from Wittenberg. Such fraud played a major role in the Reformation book trade, as printers in every major print centre made counterfeits of Wittenberg books. However, Reformation pamphlets were not the sole reason for Wittenberg’s success. Such items played only a marginal role in the local industry. It was the great Luther Bibles, spurred by Luther’s emphasis on Bible reading, that allowed Wittenberg’s printers to overcome the odds and become the largest print centre in early modern Germany
Mirror Images: The (Lack of) Parallels Between Nogami Yaeko and Her Female Protagonists
No full textCertain characteristics of Japanese woman writer Nogami Yaeko\u27s career and personal life were significantly different from those of her peers. Reading Nogami\u27s works in context of her life story therefore provides an interesting platform on which to perform a literary analysis. This paper performs such an analysis on two of Nogami\u27s short stories, "Persimmon Sweets" (1908) and "A Story of a Missing Leg" (1931). In particular, I show how Nogami was able to make unobtrusive societal criticisms through her writing because the lives of her female protagonists did not closely mirror her own life. As a dedicated wife and mother, Nogami appeared to be a very traditional woman in the eyes of literary critics, who therefore considered her a mere amateur author who wrote without any particular agenda. Nogami used this misguided impression to publish subversive writings which were not recognized as such by critics. In "Persimmon Sweets" and "A Story of a Missing Leg", the protagonists reject the stereotypically female roles that society tries to force on them. However, because Nogami\u27s own life seemed to be in compliance with the rigid adherence to gender roles that her characters renounce, critics did not view her writing as revolutionary. Only by doing a careful reading and remembering that Nogami was not at all an amateur author--as I do in this paper--can readers appreciate the true depth of her social commentary
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Franz Hofmann (1922 – 2003) on his 100th birthday. Historical and general education
No full textAm 31. März 2022 jährte sich der 100. Geburtstag des international bekannten Comeniologen Franz Hofmann, in dessen breitgefächertem erziehungshistorischen und allgemeinpädagogischen Forschen und Lehren Jan Amos Comenius im Mittelpunkt steht. Angeregt durch Hans Ahrbeck und Robert Alt, durch seine Mitarbeit am Lehrbuch „Geschichte der Erziehung“ und wohl auch bestärkt durch seine Beherrschung der tschechischen Sprache hat Franz Hofmann das umfangreiche Oeuvre Jan Amos Komenskys in Übersetzungen, Kommentierungen und Publikationen für die weitere Forschung erschlossen und zugänglich gemacht. Begleitbroschüre zum Kolloquium am 31. März 2022 im Institut für Pädagogik der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. (DIPF/Orig.)31st March 2022 was the centenary celebration of the well-known Comeniologist Franz Hofmann, whose extensive educational background and broad pedagogical research and teachings centre around Jan Amos Comenius. Franz Hofmann collaborated with Hans Ahrbeck and Robert Alt on the textbook "History of Education", which likely inspired his mastery of Czech and subsequent translation, commentary, and publication of Jan Amos Comenius\u27 extensive oeuvre for further research. A brochure accompanying a colloquium held on 31 March 2022 at the Institute of Education at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg includes these findings. (Author
Cover art by Linda Wang, University of Maryland. Medium is Ink and Mineral Spirits.
No full textThe author gives the follow explanation about the piece:
This piece is the first in a series of monoprints inspired by the ambiance of Japanese nature and architecture. I had the privilege of studying abroad in Japan during the summer of 2015 and have since incorporated many aspects of Japanese culture into my work, especially with printmaking, an art form highly influenced by the Japanese. I specifically chose to make these monoprints in order to illustrate the transient nature of the images our eyes can perceive before they become memories. Unlike other forms of printmaking, with monoprints, only one copy can exist-similar to how at any given moment, there is a unique snapshot in one’s field of vision that can never be repeated
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