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Phonation in Somali phonology
No full textThe author presents a phonological study on Somali language, in particular it focuses on the binary feature voiced/unvoiced stating its inadequacy.Qoraagu wuxuu halkan ku muujinayaa daraasaad ku saabsan codaynta Af-soomaaliga, wuxuuna si gaar ah diiradda u saarayaa labada qaab codlle/codlaawe oo aan is lahayn.L'autore presenta uno studio fonologico sulla lingua somala: in particolare definisce il tratto binario sonoro/sordo inadeguato ad un'esauriente descrizione della lingua.Mohamed Mohamed Abdi (a cura di
Hautverdächtig
Full text linkBook Title: Postcolonial Studies; Racial Profiling
Chapter Title: Hautverdächtig
Author(s): Mohamed Wa Baile, Ellen Höhne
Publisher: transcript Verlag
DOI: 10.14361/9783839441459-004
ISBN(s): 978-3-8376-4145-5, 978-3-8394-4145-9
ISSN(s): 2703-1233, 2703-124
Entretien avec Mohamed Miloud Gharrafi
Full text linkMohamed Miloud Gharrafi, auteur de plusieurs recueils de poèmes en arabe, a signé, en 2014, une anthologie bilingue de ses poèmes autotraduits, augmentée d’inédits, intitulée Échos lointains. Il a accepté de s’entretenir avec nous sur sa pratique d’écrivain et de traducteur, et de présenter sa vision de l’acte de traduction et de ses relations avec la création, aussi bien dans le cas de l’autotraduction que dans celui de la traduction d’autres poètes, dont il a fait l’expérience à plusieurs reprises. Cette réflexion l’amène à poser la question des liens complexes, dans la poésie et sa traduction, entre la forme et le sens. Elle l’amène également à décrire son rapport, à la fois de filiation et de rupture, avec la tradition poétique arabe, ainsi que ses appartenances multiples à divers univers culturels et littéraires.Mohamed Miloud Gharrafi, author of several collections of poems in Arabic, signed a bilingual anthology of his self-translated poems in 2014, supplemented by unpublished ones, entitled Échos lointains. He has agreed to talk with us about his practice as a writer and translator, and to present his vision of the act of translation and its relationship with creation, both in the case of self-translation and in the case of the translation of other poets, which he has experienced on several occasions. This reflection leads him to question the complex links, in poetry and its translation, between form and meaning. It also leads him to describe his relationship, both of filiation and rupture, with the Arab poetic tradition, as well as his multiple affiliations to various cultural and literary worlds
Mohamed Enver Surty’s In Pursuit of Dignity
Full text linkIn Pursuit of Dignity is the unusual autobiography of our erstwhile Deputy Minister of Basic Education, Mohamed Enver Surty. The author served in government for twenty five years with distinction, and can be justly proud of a distinguished career both as a lawyer and as a government minister
Tradurre la bande dessinée migrante. Il caso de Les Mohamed di Jérôme Ruillier
Full text linkThe comic book Les Mohamed (2011) by French author Jérôme Ruillier is situated in the landscape of migrant bande dessinée, with its own singular characteristics. In this work, the author traced a global portrait of Maghrebi immigrants in France, by adapting the documentary/book Mémoires d’immigrés (1997) by French-Algerian author Yamina Benguigui. As migrant storytellers in general, bande dessinée authors are often the first ‘translators’ of unknown or removed realities, making them accessible to a large public. But what happen when they are translated in their turn? In a first part, this article canvases the process of intersemiotic translation that brought from Mémoires d’immigrés to Les Mohamed. In a second part, it focuses on the verbal/visual aspects of Ruillier’s work and especially on the solutions I adopted in the Italian translation (Se ti chiami Mohamed 2015)
Orality as Aesthetic Device: Articulating Language, Religion, and Authority in Mohamed Akounad’s Tawargit d Imik
Full text linkThis article explores Mohamed Akounad\u27s novel Tawargit d imik, which focuses on protagonist Ssi Brahim who struggles to convey the essence of his religious sermons to an exclusively amazigh audience amidst societal opposition. By examining Ssi Brahim\u27s character as the author\u27s alter ego, the study aims to assess the novel\u27s portrayal of religious concerns and activism for Tamazight and identity, particularly in relation to orality. Employing a sociolinguistic approach drawing from Bourdieu\u27s Language and Symbolic Power, the analysis delves into the intersection of religion, authority, and language, placing orality at the heart of their role within the narrative. This study proposes a dual analytical approach, comprising textual and transtextual analyses, in order to unravel the protagonist\u27s journey and explore intertextual connections with sacred texts.
Keywords: orality, intertextuality, language, linguistic capital, symbolic capital, Tamazight, religion, powe
Estimation of monotone α-quantile of past lifetime function with application
No full textIn many physical situations, it is reasonable to assume that the α-quantile of past life functions is increasing. In this study, we propose a new estimator for an increasing α-quantile of the past life function for right-censored data. We investigate the asymptotic properties of the new estimator and explore its weak and strong convergence. The simulation results show that the new estimator is consistent and outperforms the usual estimator from the literature. As an illustrative example, a time event from a data set of the Mayo Clinic study on primary biliary cirrhosis was analyzed
EM Algorithm for Estimating the Parameters of Weibull Competing Risk Model
No full textOne of the most commonly used models in survival analysis is the additive Weibull model and its generalizations. They are well suited for modeling bathtub-shaped hazard rates that are a natural form of the hazard rate. Although they have some advantages, the maximum likelihood and the least square estimators are biased and have poor performance when the data set contains a large number of parameters. As an alternative, the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm was applied to estimate the parameters of the additive Weibull model. The accuracy of the parameter estimates and the simulation study confirmed the advantages of the EM algorithm
Further Results on the Proportional Vitalities Model
No full textIn contrast to many survival models such as proportional hazard rates and proportional mean residual lives, the proportional vitalities model has also been introduced in the literature. In this paper, further stochastic ordering properties of a dynamic version of the model with a random vitality growth parameter are investigated. Examples are presented to illustrate different established properties of the model. Potentials for inference about the parameters in proportional vitalities model with possibly time-varying effects are also argued and discussed
Multivariate quantile inactivity time with medical applications
No full textThe concept of α-quantile inactivity time was developed for situations with bivariate or multivariate random lifetimes. In this situation, each element has a specific history related to itself, indicating that the corresponding event occurred earlier. The behavior of the α-quantile inactivity time was specifically studied in relation to the corresponding multivariate hazard rate function. Applying the empirical bivariate distribution function, an estimator for the bivariate α-quantile inactivity time function is introduced. The asymptotic properties of the empirical distribution function and Taylor expansion are used to discuss its asymptotic behavior. Subsequently, the behavior of the proposed estimator was investigated in a simulation study. Finally, the applicability of the proposed concept and its estimator is illustrated by analyzing a dataset in the context of medical sciences
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