883 research outputs found
Representing silk design: Nicholas Joubert de L'Hiberderie and Le dessinateur pour les etoffes d'or, d'argent et de soie (Paris, 1765)
No full textLe Dessinateur pour les étoffes d'or, d'argent et de soie was published in Paris in 1765 depite the reservations of the silk-weaving guild of Lyons, receiving a good response in the Enlightenment press. As the first description on French of the trade of silk designer to appear in the public domain, it has become an important work on which much subsequent history has been based, often rather uncritically. This article delves into the representation of design offered by this text, evaluating it against the personal experience of its author, the literary and manufacturing heritage on which he drew, and the readership for women it was intended. The analysis is based on the form and content of the book, the structure, vocabulary and illustrations. Comparative data are drawn from two other important publications on silk manufacture, the relevant sections of Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie and Jean Paulet's L'Art du fabriquant
Marketing communications plan for L.E. Jones company Menominee, Michigan
No full textThe author researched the feasibility of improving marketing communications for L.E. Jones Company of Menominee, Michigan. Based on career experience and scholarship gained through the Cardinal Stritch Master of Business Administration program, the author was able to identify the problems facing the firm, analyze the marketing communications needs, recommend various alternatives, assist in the selection of alternatives, and create the actual advertising and sales support materials. These improvements in marketing communications will permit the firm to more confidently pursue new business in an increasingly competitive market
Non-native English Politeness in English E-mail Requests: Non-native Reader Evaluations of Non-native Writers.
No full textThe growth of multinational organisations has led to increased international business communication between non-native English (NNE) speakers. This has consequently raised questions about the interlocutors differing pragmatic competencies. Interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) research has found NNE speakers to deviate from the native English (NE) speaker norms, for example in their use of linguistic modification strategies. Little research has focused on the influence of the deviations on interpersonal evaluations of NNE writers made by NNE readers, even though it could be deemed highly important in the growing international communication contexts. Therefore, the present study investigated the impact of NNE politeness in professional e-mail requests on personal and message evaluations made by NNE speakers. Moreover, the knowledge of the e-mail writer’s foreign origin was manipulated to investigate its influence the personal and message evaluations. In an online experiment, 192 NNE speakers took part in a between subjects study in which they evaluated an e-mail message and its writer. The findings indicate that the levels of politeness and the knowledge of foreign origin influenced the evaluations of the messages and NNE writer to a certain extent. The NNE writer was found to be evaluated more positively on likeability when the level of politeness was moderate and the foreign origin was known. Furthermore, the findings suggest that NNE readers have a relatively positive perception of the NNE writers and their messages overall. This both supports and contradicts previous ILP studies on interpersonal evaluations concerning e-mail requests. The findings complement the knowledge on NNE-NNE e-mail communication and provide NNE speaking professionals insights on the consequences of their pragmalinquistic capabilities
On Sense, Tone, and Accompanying Thoughts
No full textThe paper deals with Frege's distinction between sense and colouring or tone as applied both to proper names and to compound sentences. It argues that Frege's way of drawing this distinction is unsatisfactory, much for the same reasons as Grice's theory of conventional implicature is a non starter. The author suggests that tone may contributes to assertoric content depending on contextually specified circumstances. The phenomenon of linguistic underdetermination is very widespread, and tone is only the tip of an iceberg that we need to explore more fully.
The paper deals with Frege's notions of sense and tone within the framework of recent theories of contextualism, literalism and multi-dimensionalism. Dummett's account of Frege's account of sense is reviewed and extended. The author suggests that tone differs from sense only as regards a higher degree of undeterdeterminationa and occasion sensitivity. Tone contributes to assertoric content, and differs from conventional implicatures, as described by Paul Grice and his followers
Wiring the Binocular Visual Pathways
No full textAuthor Contributions: Conceptualization, V.M.-B. and L.E.; writing—original draft preparation, V.M.-B. and L.E.; writing—review and editing, V.M.-B. and L.E.; visualization, V.M.-B. Funding: V.M.-B. holds a postdoctoral contract from the Generalitat Valenciana (APOSTD/2016/017).Peer reviewe
Optimizing stakes in simultaneous bets
No full textWe want to find the convex combination S of iid Bernoulli random variables that maximizes P(S ≥ t) for a given threshold t. Endre Csóka conjectured that such an S is an average if t ≥ p, where p is the success probability of the Bernoulli random variables. We prove this conjecture for a range of p and tGreen Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Applied Probabilit
Met Markov ketens op zoek naar de Zero Variance Importance Sampling verdeling
No full textStandaard Monte Carlo is niet geschikt voor het analyseren van Rare Events. We laten zien dat we bij dit soort problemen Importance Sampling kunnen toepassen en hoe we de Zero Variance verdeling kunnen vinden. Deze verdeling hangt echter af van constanten waar we de waarde niet van weten, maar door deze constanten te benaderen krijgen we een benadering van de verdeling. We passen deze methode toe op een eenvoudig (bonimiaal) Credit Risk model. Door de Zero Variance verdeling beter te benaderen, kunnen we een grotere variantie reductie realiseren. We hebben daarom een nieuwe methode ontwikkeld die na elke iteratie een betere benadering van deze verdeling geeft. De variantie reductie bij het gebruik van deze methode is aanzienlijk maar de methode is niet eenvoudig te implementeren.Applied MathematicsDelft Institute of Applied MathematicsElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Maximally Adaptive Nonparametric Importance Sampling
No full textNowadays, Monte Carlo integration is a popular tool for estimating high-dimensional, complex integrals. Its scope of application can be widened if ways can be found to produce estimates with smaller variance at the same computational cost. Variance reduction techniques aim to accomplish this. In particular, using importance sampling with the so-called zero-variance distribution would result in a simulation procedure with variance zero. Unfortunately the zero-variance distribution cannot be constructed in practice, as it requires knowledge of the value to be estimated. In this thesis we look at how iterative approximation of the zero-variance distribution can be exploited to yield more efficient Monte Carlo simulations, a technique called adaptive importance sampling. We will explore the characteristics of existing methods for adaptive importance sampling, and prove some generic limit theorems for such methods. Based on the methods by Ping Zhang, which use kernel density estimation to approximate the zero-variance distribution, we then propose Maximally Adaptive Nonparametric Importance Sampling. This variation aims to make better use of the information available by updating its approximation to the zero-variance distribution after every generated sample. We will show that the method (when using n samples) yields an estimator with an asymptotic variance of O(ln(n)n^{-7/6}), faster than methods (eventually) based on i.i.d. replicates. We illustrate the empirical convergence of the method with a simulation experiment, and briefly discuss the issues and considerations related to application of the method in practice.ProbabilityApplied mathematicsElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Golfbreker Bantry Bay
No full textIn dit deelontwerp kunnen vier blokken onderscheiden worden. Het eerste blok bevat alle van belang zijnde randvoorwaarden, die wat uitgebreider in het vooronderzoek zijn weergegeven. Verder zijn in dit blok relevante conclusies uit het vooronderzoek en het hoofdontwerp met betrekking tot de plaatsbepaling opgenomen. Een algemene beschouwing van mogelijke alternatieven, een afweging en keuze vormen het onderwerp van het tweede blok. Het resultaat van dit blok is de aanzet tot verdere uitwerking van het gekozen alternatief, namelijk een stortstenen golfbreker. Het derde en vierde blok beschrijven de uitvoering en het ontwerp van de stortstenen golbreker. Beide blokken hebben, zoals in dit deelontwerp naar voren komt, een sterke onderlinge samenhang en wisselwerking. Dit is bij de meeste projecten het geval.KustwaterbouwkundeHydraulic EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Het nauwkeurig bepalen van de verlieskans van een portfolio van risicovolle leningen.
No full textKansrekening & StatistiekElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
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