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A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACTS OF THE MAIN CHARACTER IN RYAN FLECK’S HALF NELSON
No full textThis research aims at (1) identifying and describing the types of speech
acts in terms of the locutionary acts, the illocutionary acts and the perlocutionary
acts delivered by the main character in Ryan Fleck’s Half Nelson outside and
inside the school and (2) describing the way the main character copes with the life
outside and inside the school.
This research employed a descriptive qualitative method. The existence of
number was used to reveal the frequencies of the types of speech act. The object
of this research was the main character’s utterances in Ryan Fleck’s Half Nelson.
The data were in the form of scenes that were analyzed based on Austin’s
classification of types of speech act and Searle’s classification of illocutionary
acts, and Holmes’s theory of context. The researcher was the primary instrument
in this research. The secondary instrument was the data sheet. The data analyses
of this research were based on the types of speech acts outside and inside the
school.
The results show that: first, related to the types of speech act, in terms of
locutionary acts, there are three kinds of form, i.e. declarative, interrogative, and
imperative. Declarative is the most dominant form used outside and inside the
school. It is used in almost all functions of illocutionary act types. Regarding with
the illocutionary acts, the main character, Dan, employs four types of act outside
the school, i.e. assertive, directive, expressive, and commissive. Assertive holds
the highest frequency. In the daily life, he feels that the condition around him is
not in line with his opinion. Therefore, he uses his utterances to assert what he
believes to be the case. Declaration is not performed by him outside the school
since he is as a common person, who has no institutional position. On the other
hand, inside the school, directive, assertive, expressive, commissive, and
declaration are found. Directive is in the highest frequency because he is a teacher
and a basketball coach who performs questioning, requesting, commanding,
encouraging, suggesting, etc. Concerning the perlocutionary acts, there are four
types of act found outside the school, i.e. get h to know, get h to do something, to
express feeling, and get h to expect something. The most-dominant act is get h to
know. He often expresses what he believes to others, so that they recognize it.
Further, there are five kinds of perlocutionary act found inside the school, i.e. to
get h to do something, get h to know, express feeling, praise, and get h to expect
something. As a teacher, he employs the acts aimed to get h to do something most,
such as questioning, requesting, commanding, etc. Second, he cannot completely
split between both lives, outside and inside the school because of the effects of
cocaine on his brain. However, he can be honest to tell what he thinks and feels
about his life to people he likes or considers them as his ‘friends’ everywhere
Supplemental Material, TReg_and_Rapamycin_Supplemental_Table_1 - Rapamycin Corrects T Regulatory Cell Depletion and Improves Embryo Implantation and Live Birth Rates in a Murine Model
No full textSupplemental Material, TReg_and_Rapamycin_Supplemental_Table_1 for Rapamycin Corrects T Regulatory Cell Depletion and Improves Embryo Implantation and Live Birth Rates in a Murine Model by Greene Donald Royster, Justine C. Harris, Amanda Nelson, Yessenia Castro, R. Patrick Weitzel, John Tisdale, Ryan J. Heitmann, Alan H. DeCherney, and Erin F. Wolff in Reproductive Sciences</p
Supplemental Material - Use of Framework Matrix and Thematic Coding Methods in Qualitative Analysis for mHealth: The FluidCalc app
No full textSupplemental Material for Use of Framework Matrix and Thematic Coding Methods in Qualitative Analysis for mHealth: NIRUDAK Study Data Rochelle K. Rosen, Monique Gainey, Sabiha Nasrin, Stephanie C. Garbern, Ryan Lantini, Nour Elshabassi, Sufia Sultana, Tahmida Hasnin, Nur H. Alam, Eric J. Nelson, and Adam C. Levine in International Journal of Qualitative Methods</p
Supplemental Material, TReg_and_Rapamycin_Supplemental_Table_2 - Rapamycin Corrects T Regulatory Cell Depletion and Improves Embryo Implantation and Live Birth Rates in a Murine Model
No full textSupplemental Material, TReg_and_Rapamycin_Supplemental_Table_2 for Rapamycin Corrects T Regulatory Cell Depletion and Improves Embryo Implantation and Live Birth Rates in a Murine Model by Greene Donald Royster, Justine C. Harris, Amanda Nelson, Yessenia Castro, R. Patrick Weitzel, John Tisdale, Ryan J. Heitmann, Alan H. DeCherney, and Erin F. Wolff in Reproductive Sciences</p
Equilibrium transition study for a hybrid MAV
No full textWind tunnel testing was performed on a VTOL aircraft in order to characterize longitudinal flight behavior during an equilibrium transition between vertical and horizontal flight modes. Trim values for airspeed, pitch, motor speed and elevator position were determined. Data was collected by independently varying the trim parameters, and stability and control derivatives were identified as functions of the trim pitch angle. A linear fractional representation model was then proposed, along with several methods to improve longitudinal control of the aircraft
Effectiveness of teacher-child interaction training (TCIT): a multiple probe design across classrooms in a day-treatment preschool
No full textThe current study assessed the effectiveness of Teacher-Child Interaction Training (TCIT), an adaptation of Eyeberg’s Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), on teacher and child behaviors in a day-treatment preschool setting. The sample included 5 day-treatment classrooms in an urban, socioeconomically disadvantaged, and culturally diverse setting. The study utilized a concurrent multiple probe design across classroom settings (3 training groups consisting of 5 classrooms) to evaluate the effects of didactic and in-vivo coaching on teacher and child behaviors in the training and classroom settings. Results indicated that all teachers’ use of positive behaviors increased and negative behaviors decreased during pull-out sessions; all 5 teachers attained CDI and TDI mastery criteria. Results also indicated some evidence of spontaneous generalization of teachers’ use of Labeled Praises to the classroom setting, while other teacher behaviors did not generalize. Results on child behavior were variable and failed to demonstrate consistent improvements in the classroom setting; this finding is understood given the lack of generalization of teachers’ behaviors to the classroom. These findings provide initial support for the use of TCIT to improve teachers’ behavior management skills, as well as support for the feasibility of implementing TCIT with fidelity to the PCIT manual. Additionally, the study offers insight into the possible need for additional adaptations to train teachers in how and when to implement the TCIT skills under high stress in-vivo classroom conditions.Psy. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Ryan John Madiga
The Wisdom Of Universal DNA Collection: A Reply To Professor Meghan J. Ryan
No full textProfessor Loewy replies to a commentary written by Professor Meghan J. Ryan in response to the universal collection of DNA. This article’s response addresses several concerns including; of the costs of a universal DNA collection system, the willingness of people to provide DNA, and other biases. The author concludes that a universal DNA database should still be implemented
Leslie, Ryan, Grace, and Bill Peyton Christmas card
No full textThis 1964 Christmas card photograph shows two children from the Peyton family and signed “Leslie, Ryan, Grace and Bill Peyton”. Founder and director of the Mountain Youth Jamboree, Hubert H. Hayes (1901-1964) auditioned and directed youth to perform in folk dance, music, and folk and ballad singing. The jamboree was held in the Asheville City Auditorium (now known as Thomas Wolfe Auditorium) from 1948 to 1973, and Hayes’ wife, Leona Trantham Hayes (1913-1989) continued to direct the program after his death in 1964. Hubert Hayes was an author, playwright, and alumni of Duke University
Reading and Writing with a Tree: Practising ‘Nature Writing’ as Enquiry
No full textThis thesis reframes, or reforms, ‘nature writing’ (‘Nature Writing Reformed’) through the practical and theoretical recombination of human, tree, and page. Understandings of ‘writing’, ‘nature’, and their phrasal relation in ‘nature writing’, are explored through a sustained enquiry into the reading and writing practices principally undertaken by the author (Camilla Nelson) in relation to one specific apple tree in the walled garden of University College Falmouth’s Tremough Campus, Cornwall. The central claim of this thesis is that composition is always environmentally constructive and constructed: how (the method with which) you read and write, and where (the environment in which) you read and write, i.e. the situation and materials you read and write with, affect not only the composition of the written text but the composition of the human, as well as the other-than-human, entities involved in this practice.
This thesis is explicitly structured as an interweave of variously material (word; page; room; box; walled garden; library; studio; tree) and conceptual (word; page; theory; footnote; hyperlink; field of research) framing devices (and / or environments). The structure of this thesis and that of the orchard and studio installations, which together constitute the final PhD research submission, play on the variety of framing and reframing that occurs in relation to the spatio-temporal specifics of material and conceptual composition (as evidenced in the Media Log). This ‘reform’ of nature writing, as an interweave of human and other-than-human environments (or frames), is developed in relation to Mark Johnson’s expanded theory of ‘mind’ by way of the conceptual and material practice of metaphor (Johnson, 2007). This thesis combines the theories and practices derived from the (prinicipal) field of ‘Nature Writing’ (as defined in the correspondingly titled chapter), with those suggested by contemporary developments in cognitive philosophy, neuroscience, microbiology, systems theory, and translation studies
Quasi-cyclic Generalized LDPC codes with low error floors
No full textIn this paper, a novel methodology for designing structured generalized LDPC (G-LDPC) codes is presented. The proposed design results in quasi-cyclic G-LDPC codes for which efficient encoding is feasible through shift-register-based circuits. The structure imposed on the bipartite graphs, together with the choice of simple component codes, leads to a class of codes suitable for fast iterative decoding. A pragmatic approach to the construction of G-LDPC codes is proposed. The approach is based on the substitution of check nodes in the protograph of a low-density parity-check code with stronger nodes based, for instance, on Hamming codes. Such a design approach, which we call LDPC code doping, leads to low-rate quasi-cyclic G-LDPC codes with excellent performance in both the error floor and waterfall regions on the additive white Gaussian noise channel
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