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Ideophones in Xiangxi Miao
No full text[[abstract]]Miao-Yao languages constitute one of the primary language families of Southern China and Southeast Asia. They manifest a profound, prolonged contact relationship with Chinese, and occupy an unusually important place among the language groups of the region. The target language of this thesis, West-Hunan Miao, is none other than the eastern dialect of the Miao language (Miao branch, Miao-Yao family). The language has long been described as possessing abundant zhuang-ci (imitative or expressive words) in the Chinese descriptive works, an ill-defined term of unclear meanings. To refer to a subpart of what used to be called vaguely zhuang-ci, this thesis proposes the term ‘ideophones’, which has become standard in typological linguistics after its introduction in the 1970s from the investigation of African languages. A good many ideophones in West-Hunan Miao are assembled and analyzed in this thesis, and their unique morphological and syntactic properties are presented as evidence that they form a distinct lexical class in the target language.
The syntactic functions of West-Hunan Miao ideophones, unlike adverbials, include both adverbial modification and predication. Even more diagnostic evidence comes from morphology: ideophones in this language uniquely display as many as six morphological patterns operating on monosyllabic ideophone roots, shown as follows (where R= root, R’=rule-governed phonological variant of root):
I R-R states and movements [±dynamic] [+durable]
II t?44-R sudden semelfactive actions [+dynamic]
[-durable]
III V-R’-V-R states or qualities less vigorous than in
the R-R pattern
[-dynamic] [+durable] [-vigor]
IV (R’-R)’’-R’-R continuous states or movements
[±dynamic] [+durable]
V R’-R’-R-R states or movements; images more holistic
than the R-R pattern
[±dynamic] [±durable] [+holistic]
VI R’-R-R’-R rhythmic movements [+rhythmic] [+dynamic]
Of the above, R-R appears to be the basic pattern for West-Hunan Miao ideophones, from which the other variant morphological patterns are derived to express various Aktionsart meanings. These morphological patterns set ideophones clearly apart from the two semantically related word types, adverbials and onomatopoeic words.
Having established ideophones as a distinct word class on the basis of morphosyntactic criteria, the thesis proceeds to illustrate the semantic characteristics of ideophones---vividness of imagery and fine-tuned meaning differentiation---with a set of ideophones related to facial features and expressions, followed by a classification of ideophones into six semantic classes, and a systematic account of the semantic traits and usages of each class.
A Comparative Study on Popular Science between China and the United States
No full textThe general understanding of popular science is the popularization and dissemination of scientific knowledge. From the view of literature and related policy, this study analyzes multiple aspects between China and United States, such as different concepts (public understanding of science and popular science), development stage, content, method and characteristics. We think that considerable perspective of Popular Science is education and learning. Popular Science does not only pay attention to the dissemination of scientific knowledge, also need to the public scientific spirit. Moreover, the goal of popular science will not only popularize scientific knowledge, scientific methods, scientific ideas and scientific spirit, but also people will be aware that science is a very important part of human life.CPCI-S(ISTP)[email protected]; [email protected]
Constructions for rotational near resolvable block designs
No full textA (v,k,k-1) near resolvable block design (NRBD) is r-rotational over a group G if it admits G as an automorphism group of order (v-1)/r fixing exactly one point and acting semiregularly on the others. We give direct and recursive constructions for rotational NRBDs with particular attention to 1-rotational ones
Rineceras multituberculatum Korn & Miao & Bockwinkel 2022, sp. nov.
No full textRineceras multituberculatum sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: B0489DAA-C8AB-4809-92D3-6F3120899BBD Fig. 8; Table 4 Etymology After the Latin ‘ multi ’, meaning ‘many’, and ‘ tuberculum ’, meaning ‘tubercle’ and referring to the shell ornament. Type material Holotype ALGERIA • Gourara, Sebkha de Timimoun 14.5 km west-southwest of Timimoun; “ Dalle à Merocanites ” (Tournaisian-Viséan boundary interval); illustrated in Fig. 8; MB.C.30381. Diagnosis Species of Rineceras with weakly depressed, rounded-trapezoidal whorl profile (ww/wh ~ 1.45), venter slightly flattened, ventrolateral shoulder broadly rounded. Whorls slightly embracing. Ornament with about 25 spiral lines on the flank and the venter. Description Holotype MB.C.30381 has a conch diameter of 21 mm (Fig. 8), with a depressed, rounded-trapezoidal whorl profile (ww/wh = 1.44) with a flattened venter and a broadly rounded ventrolateral shoulder. The whorl embraces the preceding only a very little. The well-preserved ornament consists of about 20 (from umbilicus to midventer) coarse spiral lines with a coarse granulation at the points of intersection with the growth lines. The spiral lines are equally coarse on the flanks and the venter. Remarks With its rounded trapezoidal whorl profile, Rineceras multituberculatum sp. nov. differs from species such as R. propinquum (de Koninck, 1880), R. carinatum (von Eichwald, 1857), R. alapaevskense and R. ohioense, which are loosely coiled and have either a rounded triangular, or an oval whorl profile (Koninck 1880; Miller & Garner 1953; Shimansky 1967). In this respect, R. multituberculatum sp. nov. and R. meekianum (Winchell, 1862) are similar (Winchell 1862), but have only weak spiral lines on the venter. Rineceras canaliculatum (von Eichwald, 1857) has a whorl profile similar to R. multituberculatum sp. nov., but much coarser spiral lines on the flank (Shimansky 1967).Published as part of Korn, Dieter, Miao, Luyi & Bockwinkel, Jürgen, 2022, The nautiloids from the Early Carboniferous Dalle à Merocanites of Timimoun, western Algeria, pp. 104-129 in European Journal of Taxonomy 789 on pages 117-118, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.789.1635, http://zenodo.org/record/596535
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Research of Learning Strategies in Flipped Classroom a Case of Extra-Curricular English Study
No full textIn recent years, flipped classroom has been more and more popular in education field. Since the second half of 2013, the learning process of students in an extra-curricular English teaching institution has been studying, where the teaching model of flipped classroom is used. With qualitative research method, research objects are four students and a teacher in one class. After data analysis, the article gets three conclusions: Firstly, learners prefer taking notes online to doing that in face-to-face class. Secondly, in the flipped classroom, it is very important for teachers to build knowledge construction and summarizing. Thirdly, from the perspective of theory, flipped classroom provides the chances of repeating learning for students. However, in practice, to fulfill repeating learning, learns also need intrinsic learning motivation.EICPCI-S(ISTP)CPCI-SSH(ISSHP)[email protected]; [email protected]
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Temporally Consistent Referring Video Object Segmentation with Hybrid Memory
No full textReferring Video Object Segmentation (R-VOS) methods face challenges in maintaining consistent object segmentation due to temporal context variability and the presence of other visually similar objects. We propose an end-to-end R-VOS paradigm that explicitly models temporal instance consistency alongside the referring segmentation. Specifically, we introduce a novel hybrid memory that facilitates inter-frame collaboration for robust spatio-temporal matching and propagation. Features of frames with automatically generated high-quality reference masks are propagated to segment the remaining frames based on multi-granularity association to achieve temporally consistent R-VOS. Furthermore, we propose a new Mask Consistency Score (MCS) metric to evaluate the temporal consistency of video segmentation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach enhances temporal consistency by a significant margin, leading to top-ranked performance on popular R-VOS benchmarks, i.e ., Ref-YouTube-VOS (67.1%) and Ref-DAVIS17 (65.6%). The code is available at https://github.com/bo-miao/HTR.Full Tex
Letter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer, Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, October 2, 1942
No full textLetter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer at The Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, regarding property owned by Dave Tatsuno. Zellick mentions a dispute between current tenants and Tatsuno, and that Tatsuno has asked Goodman to help locate trustworthy tenants.Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
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