135 research outputs found
Oral history interview with Robert W. Topping, 2008 May 8
No full textRobert Topping was born in West Lafayette, Indiana. His father was on the faculty in the School of Electrical Engineering from 1903 to 1949. Topping talks about growing up in West Lafayette and graduating from Purdue in 1950 with a BS in Science. During the Korean War, he served as an Information Specialist in the US Air Force at Castle Air Force Base in Merced, California. After serving a stint on a newspaper in Michigan, he came to Purdue in 1962 as Assistant Director of the Bureau of Information. He served as Director of the University News Service until 1976. He then became Assistant to the Vice President for Advancement. Topping talks about the Office of Publications and its role in the university communication chain. Topping is the author of several publications about Purdue: The Hovde Years and A Century and Beyond: The History of Purdue University
The yield of corn grain and forage tops as influenced by time of topping
No full textThe purpose of this study was to determine the effect of three different topping dates on grain and top yields of corn. The facts brought out in this study aret (1) grain yield as influenced by removing the "tops", (2) yield of "tops" as Influenced by different topping dates, (3) the effect of "topping" on lodging, and (4) the comparison of the value of "tops" with the grain lost due to "topping". Results indicated that! (1) topping corn twenty-one days after silking significantly decreased the yield of grain; (2) the grain yield tends to increase accordingly as the topping date is delayed; (3) "topping" had little effect on lodging in this particular study; (4) yield of "tops" by weight decreased with the delay of topping dates; (5) the value of grain lost due to "topping" exceeded the value of "tops" gained as forage; (6) It is not economical to top corn; and (7) If "topping" Is to be done, the "tops" should not be cut earlier than twenty-eight days after silking. It is believed that additional study of the effect of "topping" on lodging should be done.Agriculture, Department o
“Words That Open Your Heart”—Overcoming Social Barriers to Heritage Language Reclamation in Ishigaki City
No full textIshigaki Yaeyaman, a heavily minoritized Southern Ryukyuan language, is not a language of commerce, education, media, or government validated by the socioeconomic center. Nevertheless, it holds a certain value for a group of people in Ishigaki City that is intangible and deeply personal. In keeping with the goal of this special issue—to step out of the established dichotomies that impede the vision and practice of Ryukyuan language learning—this work sheds light on the ideologies and practices of new speakers of Ishigaki Yaeyaman, who traverse a ‘third space’ in their use of the language between public-and-private, polite-and-rude, spoken-and-written, and Japanese-and-Ryukyuan. It builds on the author’s findings, including field observations made during doctoral research at University of the Ryukyus. A participatory action research methodology is employed, drawing upon qualitative data from semi-structured personal interviews and the in-person observation of Master–Apprentice language learning sessions within a local grassroots initiative begun in December 2019. The analysis suggests a need to break away from the dichotomies dictating the environment and situations in which new speakers may interact with traditional speakers and among themselves. This is recommended to take the form of Master–Apprentice training in a context that encourages the transformation of language attitudes and awareness, creating a ‘safe space’ that is dialogic, collaborative, and transdisciplinary
Health insurance reform in four Latin American countries : theory and practice
No full textThe author examines public economics rationales for public intervention in health insurance markets, draws on the literature of organizational design to examine alternative intervention strategies, and considers health insurance reforms in four Latin American countries -- Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia -- in light of the theoretical literature. Equity has been the main reason for large-scale public intervention in the health insurance sector, despite the well-known failures of insurance and health care markets associated with imperfect information. Recent reforms have sought less to make private markets more efficient than to make public provision more efficient, sometimes by altering the focus and function of existing institutions (such as the obras sociales in Argentina) or by encouraging the growth of new ones (such as Chile's ISAPREs). Generally, these four Latin American countries have reformed the ways insurance and care are organized and delivered, have tried to extend formal coverage to previously marginalized groups, and have tried to finance this extension fairly. Colombia instituted an implicit two-tiered voucher scheme financed through a proportional wage tax. Chile's financing mechanism is similar but the distribution of benefits is less progressive, so the net effect is less redistributive. Argentina's remodeled obras system went halfway: the financing base is similar and there is some implicit redistribution from richer to poorer obras, but the quality of insurance increases with income. On the face of it, Brazil's health insurance system is less redistributive than those of the other three countries, as no tax is earmarked for financing health insurance. But taxes paid by higher-income taxpayers are not reduced when they choose private insurance, highlighting the problem of examining the health sector independent of the general tax and transfer system.Health Economics&Finance,Environmental Economics&Policies,Insurance&Risk Mitigation,Insurance Law,Economic Theory&Research
Language universals without universal categories
No full textIn this article, the authors present their views on an article by author Sandra Chung related to lexical categories. According to them, Chung's article critiques an analysis of word classes in Chamorro by author Donald M. Topping. They discuss the restatements made by Chung on Topping's criteria for defining two word classes. According to them, Chung defined that the words from Class I form predicates of passive clauses with the infix in or the prefix ma but Class II words do not. The words from Class II serve as predicates of clauses whose subject is a weak pronoun but Class I words do not
Rapid shoot-to-root signalling regulates root hydraulic conductance via aquaporins
No full textArticle first published online: 8 SEP 2013We investigated how root hydraulic conductance (normalized to root dry weight, Lo) is regulated by the shoot. Shoot topping (about 30% reduction in leaf area) reduced Lo of grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.), soybean (Glycine max L.) and maize (Zea mays L.) by 50 to 60%. More detailed investigations with soybean and grapevine showed that the reduction in Lo was not correlated with the reduction in leaf area, and shading or cutting single leaves had a similar effect. Percentage reduction in Lo was largest when initial Lo was high in soybean. Inhibition of Lo by weak acid (low pH) was smaller after shoot damage or leaf shading. The half time of reduction in Lo was approximately 5 min after total shoot decapitation. These characteristics indicate involvement of aquaporins. We excluded phloem-borne signals and auxin-mediated signals. Xylem-mediated hydraulic signals are possible since turgor rapidly decreased within root cortex cells after shoot topping. There was a significant reduction in the expression of several aquaporins in the plasma membrane intrinsic protein (PIP) family of both grapevine and soybean. In soybean, there was a five- to 10-fold reduction in GmPIP1;6 expression over 0.5–1 h which was sustained over the period of reduced Lo.Rebecca K. Vandeleur, Wendy Sullivan, Asmini Athman, Charlotte Jordans, Matthew Gilliham, Brent N. Kaiser and Stephen D. Tyerma
VIBRATIONAL SPECTRUM AND STRUCTURE OF CYANAMIDE
No full text D. J. Millen, G. Topping, and D. R. Lide, Jr., J. Mol, Spectroscopy, 8, 153 (1962)Author Institution: Department of Chemistry, The University of TennesseeThe infrared and Raman spectra of and have been examined in the liquid state. Polarization data imply a planar configuration and seven fundamentals can be assigned as the planar vibrations of a molecule having symmetry. For wavelengths longer than , however, the spectra are too rich to be consistent with the planar configuration. The low frequency bands are best interpreted on the basis of a non-planar equilibrium configuration with a small barrier to inversion about the amino-nitrogen This small departure from planarity produces such a small effect on the ''planar'' fundamentals that the polarization data are indistinguishable from those expected from a truly planar molecule
Konkurs na kościół katolicki pw. św. Stanisława Kostki w Łodzi i związane z nim polemiki. „Swoi” kontra „obcy”
No full textThe competition in 1898 for the Stanisław Kostka Catholic Church in Łódź (today the Cathedral Basilica) was exceptional in many ways. It was the first international competition in this city and one of the biggest – in terms of the number of designs sent – on Polish lands since the start of World War I. For Łódź and its Catholic community it was very important, and the way it was conducted was precisely reported by the local press. The first prize went to the work submitted by the Łódź construction-architecture company “Wende & Zarske”, the second prize went to I.A. Rüppel “Franz Langenberg Nachfolger” from Bonn, and the third went to the company of Stanisław Jan Cichorski and Edgar Vinson from Paris. The winning paper was sharply attacked by the chief editor of the Łódź daily Rozwój – Wiktor Czajewski, who promoted the proposition by Cichorski and Vinson. One of the arguments against the winning design was the fact that the actual author was an architect from Berlin, Emil Zillmann. Despite that fact, the concept of the company “Wende and Zarske” was (with amendments) executed between 1901–1912 (with the topping of the tower according to a design by Józef Kaban, 1927).Konkurs z 1898 roku na kościół katolicki pod wezwaniem św. Stanisława Kostki w Łodzi (dziś bazylika archikatedralna) należał do wyjątkowych pod wieloma względami. Był to pierwszy międzynarodowy konkurs w tym mieście i jeden z największych – gdy idzie o liczbę nadesłanych projektów – na ziemiach polskich do wybuchu pierwszej wojny światowej. Dla Łodzi i jej katolickiej społeczności miał wielkie znaczenie, a jego przebieg dokładnie relacjonowała lokalna prasa. Pierwszą nagrodę otrzymała praca zgłoszona przez łódzkie biuro budowlano-architektoniczne „Wende i Zarske”, drugą projekt I.A. Rüppela z firmy „Franz Langenberg Nachfolger” z Bonn, a trzecią spółka Stanisław Jan Cichorski i Edgar Vinson z Paryża. Zwycięska praca była ostro atakowana przez redaktora naczelnego łódzkiej gazety „Rozwój” Wiktora Czajewskiego, który promował propozycję Cichorskiego i Vinsona. Jednym z argumentów przeciwko zwycięskiemu projektowi był fakt, że jego właściwym autorem był berliński architekt Emil Zillmann. Pomimo to koncepcja firmy „Wende i Zarske” została (ze zmianami) zrealizowana w latach 1901–1912 (zwieńczenie wieży według projektu Józefa Kabana, 1927)
The management of intelligence-assisted finite element analysis technology
No full textArtificial Intelligence (AI) approaches to Finite Element Analysis (FEA), have had tentative degrees of success over the last few years and some authors have argued that effective FEA can help in the manufacture reliability and safety aspects of engineered artefacts. The author of this paper reviews how such AI techniques have been applied and in this light, the author then uses a Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping (FCM), to develop a framework for the management of intelligence-assisted FEA
Introduction to the Special Issue The Social Impact of Metaphor: Cross-Cultural and Linguistic Perspectives (STUDIES IN COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS 4)
No full textJustyna Wawrzyniuk: [email protected] Wawrzyniuk, Ph.D., is a lecturer at the University of Białystok, Poland. Her research interests focus on the creativity of figurative language as a means of shaping identity. She is an author of several articles and currently serves as the Principal Investigator in a two-year National Science Centre (Poland) research project on constructing gender identity through metaphors.Daniel Karczewski, an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Linguistics at the University of Białystok, Poland, holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Linguistics. His research explores the generic overgeneralization effect and normativity in language. He received an award from the Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association for the best Ph.D. dissertation in cognitive linguistics in 2014 and authored Generyczność w języku i w myśleniu: Studium kognitywne (Genericity in Language and Thought: A Cognitive Study).Justyna Wawrzyniuk - University of Białystok, PolandDaniel Karczewski - University of Białystok, PolandDalpanagioti, T. 2023. Developing productive metaphoric competence through a frame-inspired task-based teaching model. Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies 43: 33–56.Gibbs, R. W. 2017. Metaphor Wars: Conceptual Metaphors in Human Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Järve, K. & Kerremans, K. 2023. Challenges and procedures in transferring fully metaphorical terms in the EU’s multilingual institutional setting. Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies 43: 11–32.Latané, B. 1981. The Psychology of Social Impact. American Psychologist 36(4): 343–356.Paliichuk, E. 2023. A spiderweb of human trafficking: An empirical linguistic study. Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies 43: 124–155.Reali, F., & Avellaneda, L. 2023. Feminists are warriors: Framing effects of war metaphors. Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies 43: 103–123.Semino, E. 2021, July 5. Fire, waves and warfare: The way we make sense of Covid. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/05/fire-waves-and-war-fare-the-way-we-make-sense-of-covidTurner, S., Littlemore, J., Taylor, J., Parr, E., & Topping, A. 2022. Metaphors that shape parents’ perceptions of effective communication with healthcare practitioners following child death: a qualitative UK study. BMJ open 12(1), Article e054991. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054991Yerznkyan, Y., & Movsisyan, D. 2023. Understanding and evaluation: A cross-linguistic study of the evaluative collocates of English and Armenian verbs of understanding. Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies 43: 156–180.202361
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