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Code choice and code-switching in Swiss-German internet relay chat rooms
No full textIn the German-speaking regions of Switzerland, dialect is spoken by all social groups in most communicative situations, Standard German being used only when prescribed. Swiss dialects rarely appeared in written form before the 1980s, apart from the genre of dialect literature. Due to the growing acceptance of informal writing styles in many European languages, dialect is increasingly employed for written personal communication, in particular in computer-mediated communication (CMC). In Swiss Internet Relay Chat (IRC) rooms, varieties of German are used side by side as all chatters have a command of both standard and dialectal varieties. Depending on the channel, the proportion of dialectal contributions can be as high as 90 percent. The choice of a particular variety depends on both individual preference and on the predominant variety used within a specific thread. In this paper I take a quantitative approach to language variation in IRC and demonstrate how such an approach can help embed qualitative research on code-switching in CMC
The role of beat gesture and pitch accent in semantic processing: An ERP study
No full textThe present study investigated whether and how beat gesture (small baton-like hand movements used to emphasize information in speech) influences semantic processing as well as its interaction with pitch accent during speech comprehension. Event-related potentials were recorded as participants watched videos of a person gesturing and speaking simultaneously. The critical words in the spoken sentences were accompanied by a beat gesture, a control hand movement, or no hand movement, and were expressed either with or without pitch accent. We found that both beat gesture and control hand movement induced smaller negativities in the N400 time window than when no hand movement was presented. The reduced N400s indicate that both beat gesture and control movement facilitated the semantic integration of the critical word into the sentence context. In addition, the words accompanied by beat gesture elicited smaller negativities in the N400 time window than those accompanied by control hand movement over right posterior electrodes, suggesting that beat gesture has a unique role for enhancing semantic processing during speech comprehension. Finally, no interaction was observed between beat gesture and pitch accent, indicating that they affect semantic processing independently. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
the beat report piece detailing author Sam Pfeifle\u27s wishes for local music fo
No full textthe beat report piece detailing author Sam Pfeifle\u27s wishes for local music for 2004, mentioning radio stations WCYY and WCLZ, local band 6gig, and the Musicians Resource League
The Devil's altar? : crime and the early modern public house
No full textWas the early modern public house really such a dangerous place, as Puritan preachers (and many historians) suggested? This article discusses offences by publicans and patrons. It argues that the evidence for crime needs to be carefully contextualised and that taverns could stabilise as well as threaten the social order
Designing a sustainability strategy for BEAT Cycling Clubs Professional Team
No full textThough cycling as a transportation method is widely seen as a sustainable method, professional cycling and racing are not. Though the first calls for sustainable action are made and the first efforts start to appear, not much has changed yet in the complex world of professional cycling.This report describes the design of a sustainability strategy and plan for BEAT Cycling Club, a continental cycling team. As an innovative organisation that was founded to break through the status quo in professional cycling the sustainability journey fits BEAT. As one of the first teams taking sustainability seriously, the strategy helps BEAT to increase the quality of their sustainability actions beyond the ‘low-hanging fruits’ they have been tackling already.The difficulty of starting a sustainability project is tackled by using the systemic design framework of the Design Council (2021) to guide innovation with a complex system like sustainability. The internal feeling of responsibility for sustainability of BEAT Cycling Club can be tackled by designing a strategy through a continuously diverging and converging process.To help understand the sustainability context for BEAT Cycling Club and to guide the direction of the strategy, a (fast-track) life-cycle analysis is conducted. The results of this analysis are a set of emission hotspots: the actions and areas where most of BEAT’s emissions and environmental impact occur. These hotspots are used to further shape a strategy to tackle them.This strategy is built through the design roadmapping methodology, resulting in a strategic and tactical roadmap. These are based on three horizons in which the role for BEAT in sustainability changes. These roadmaps are substantiated with a playbook that guides BEAT through the strategy and provides more detailed information about the steps that need to be taken. The playbook and roadmaps are not only strategic assets but are also important for BEAT to communicate their strategy with partners and other stakeholders.Strategic Product Desig
Cop beat piece on the police beat as a career field. With references to inc
No full textCop beat piece on the police beat as a career field. With references to incidents covered by the author during her career. Also with a summary of the Portland police blotter for the period May 5-11
Beat Generation a religia
No full textBeat Generation and religionThe author of the article describes a group of American writers known in the history of literature as the Beat Generation. At its centre we find the literary oeuvres of the three founders of the movement: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. They are complemented by works of authors like Gary Snyder.The first part of the article is a brief description of the beatniks, pointing to the origins of the movement as well as its cultural and historical background, and referring to the first works describing the phenomenon — by John Clellon Holmes and Norman Mailer.The main part of the article is an analysis of literary references to various religious concepts: Judaism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Hinduism as well as scientology, Indian beliefs or pantheism. The author’s interpretation is based on the most important works of the Beat literature: Kerouac’s On the Road, Ginsberg’s Howl and Kaddish and Burroughs’ Naked Lunch. The article is complemented by a reflection on the role of drugs, especially LSD, which, according to the Beat writers, had the power to trigger mystical states, and could deepen the subject’s perception.The author tries to point out the importance of religion and questions of the sacred to the Beat writers, demonstrating that the sacred is at the centre of the writers’ worldview, and to highlight the diversity of references and unique combination of contradictory concepts testifying to a constant spiritual quest expressed by means of literature.Beat Generation and religionThe author of the article describes a group of American writers known in the history of literature as the Beat Generation. At its centre we find the literary oeuvres of the three founders of the movement: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. They are complemented by works of authors like Gary Snyder.The first part of the article is a brief description of the beatniks, pointing to the origins of the movement as well as its cultural and historical background, and referring to the first works describing the phenomenon — by John Clellon Holmes and Norman Mailer.The main part of the article is an analysis of literary references to various religious concepts: Judaism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Hinduism as well as scientology, Indian beliefs or pantheism. The author’s interpretation is based on the most important works of the Beat literature: Kerouac’s On the Road, Ginsberg’s Howl and Kaddish and Burroughs’ Naked Lunch. The article is complemented by a reflection on the role of drugs, especially LSD, which, according to the Beat writers, had the power to trigger mystical states, and could deepen the subject’s perception.The author tries to point out the importance of religion and questions of the sacred to the Beat writers, demonstrating that the sacred is at the centre of the writers’ worldview, and to highlight the diversity of references and unique combination of contradictory concepts testifying to a constant spiritual quest expressed by means of literature
A Spirit Unbroken
No full textArticle and attached photographs are presented in black and white.The item contains 4 pages taken from The Beat, Volume 17, No.6 whereby the front cover, depicting an image of Sally Nyolo, is present with a scan of the contents page as well as the article referring to the "People's Poet", Mzwakhe Mbuli who had allegedly robbed a bank. The author includes contextual information relating to South Africa by focusing on the work of Mbuli who was believed to be framed for a crime he did not commit as a direct result of his outspoken criticism of the Mandela government
Not Afro-Beat: The Hegemonic Possession of a Musical Genre
No full textSynchronous movements for African independence and American civil rights emboldened each other, inspiring a global flourish of black popular music. F?la Kuti is celebrated in literature and media but his contemporaries are largely forgotten. According to Waterman (2002), “Afro-beat music was associated almost exclusively with one charismatic figure.” This is reinforced by Moore (1982), Olaniyan (2004) and others. Nigerian journalist Tam Fiofori and the multiple-author blog “afrobeat, afrofunk, afrojazz, afrorock, african-boogie...” tell a different story. In 1960s Lagos, a nascent musical movement formed fusing Highlife and African-American popular music, fortified by James Brown’s 1970 tour of West Africa (Emielu 2013). In the 1970s, the corruption and violence of Obasanjo’s regime was confronted by music, catapulting F?la to stardom and silencing ?égún Bucknor (Atane 2014). F?la bought press coverage to advance his political and cultural views (Olaniyan 2002) while other artists with similar musical styles presented a more benign pan-Africanism. ?égún Bucknor, Orlando Julius and Peter King contrast F?la’s narrative. All are still living. All fused Highlife and African-American music. F?la must be credited with raising the profile of African music, but this positive impact is diminished because Afro-beat became more of a brand than a genre. Two years of fieldwork in Lagos, including interviews with the artists, reveals an alternate history of 1960s-70s Lagosian music. Julius claims origination of Afro-beat; King focused on instrumental music and now nurtures young musicians; Bucknor was intimidated out of protest. Analysis of recordings shows the development of, and individual contributions to, post-Highlife music. Keywords: Afrobeat; Nigeria; African Musi
An Interference Mitigation Technique for FMCW Radar Using Beat-Frequencies Interpolation in the STFT Domain
No full textA frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar interference mitigation technique using the interpolation of beat frequencies in the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain, phase matching, and reconfigurable linear prediction coefficients estimation for Coherent Processing Interval processing is proposed. The technique is noniterative and does not rely on algorithm convergence. It allows the usage of the fast Fourier transform (FFT) as the radar's beat-frequency estimation tool, for reasons such as real-time implementation, noise linearity after the FFT, and compatibility with legacy receiver architectures. Verification is done in range and in range-Doppler using radar experimental data in two ways: first by removing interferences from interference-contaminated data and second by using interference-free data as the reference data, and processing it--as if it had interferences--using the proposed technique, inverse cosine windowing and zeroing for comparison. We found that processing with the proposed technique closely matches the reference-data and outperforms the inverse cosine windowing and zeroing techniques in 2-D cross correlation, amplitude, and phase average errors and phase root-mean-square error. It is expected that the proposed technique will be operationally deployed on the TU Delft simultaneous-polarimetric PARSAX radar.Green 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.Microwave Sensing, Signals & System
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