244 research outputs found
Optical fiber with improved moisture resistance, U.S. Patent 5,214,734
No full textAn optical fiber which is enclosed within a polymeric jacket. At least a portion of the jacket material comprises a particulate material which is at least partially soluble in water, such that a solution can be formed which has reduced reactivity toward the optical fiber, relative to pure water. An amount of such material is incorporated in the jacket, sufficient to delay the expected onset of accelerated fiber fatigue in a standard fatigue test by at least a factor of 2 relative to an otherwise similar fiber enclosed within a jacket which is free of the particulate material
Constraining primordial non-Gaussianity using two galaxy surveys and CMB lensing
No full textNext-generation galaxy surveys will be able to measure perturbations on scales beyond the equality scale. On these ultra-large scales, primordial non-Gaussianity leaves signatures that can shed light on themechanism by which perturbations in the early Universe are generated.We perform a forecast analysis for constraining local type non-Gaussianity and its two-parameter extension with a simple scale-dependence. We combine different clustering measurements from future galaxy surveys - a 21cm intensity mapping survey and two photometric galaxy surveys - via the multitracer approach. Furthermore we then include cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing from a CMB Stage 4 experiment in the multitracer, which can improve the constraints on bias parameters. We forecast σ(fNL) ≃ 0.9 (1.4) by combining SKA1, a Euclid-like (LSST-like) survey, and CMB Stage 4 lensing. With CMB lensing, the precision on fNL improves by up to a factor of 2, showing that a joint analysis is important. In the case with running of fNL, our results show that the combination of upcoming cosmological surveys could achieve σ(nNL) ≃ 0.12 (0.22) on the running index
Isaac Peirce letter to Jeffery Mathewson
No full textLetter written by Isaac Peirce, a settler in Belpre, Ohio, to W. Jeffery Matthewson. The letter discusses Peirce's efforts to find good tenants for Matthewson's land. It discusses attacks on the settlement by American Indians, troop strength, and general living conditions in the area. The city of Belpre was the second permanent settlement in the Northwest Territory. Established along the Ohio River in 1789 by members of the Ohio Company, the location was surveyed the previous year as Belle-Prairie, French for "beautiful meadow.
Making laplap (MelaTAMP storyboards)
No full textA storyboard for fieldwork semantics eliciting various functions of perfect aspect and counterfactual conditional sentences. This storyboard has cultural references to Vanuatu and it was used to elicit linguistic data of the language of South Efate (Nafsan) [erk].
Each storyboard has two versions: one with the text in English and Bislama and the other only with pictures. The storyboard should be told to the consultant in a contact language, who should then repeat the story in the targeted language using the version without text (see also Strang Burton and Lisa Matthewson. Targeted construction storyboards in semantic fieldwork. In Ryan Bochnak and Lisa Matthewson, editors, Methodologies in Semantic Fieldwork, pages 135–156. Oxford University Press, 2015).
The storyboard is also archived in PARADISEC: Ana Krajinovic (collector), Ana Krajinovic (author), 2018; Storyboards, PDF, 2018-09-18. http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/AK1/items/166Funded by DFG (project number 273640553
Força e evidência: uma análise teórico experimental da semântica de 'pode', 'deve' e 'tem que'
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística, Florianópolis, 2015.Esta tese descreve um estudo teórico-experimental sobre o significado dos verbos  pode ,  deve e  tem que . A análise foi feita a partir dos resultados de três questionários online com os quais foi coletado o julgamento intuitivo de falantes nativos do Português Brasileiro sobre sentenças com esses verbos. A análise teórica foi fundamentada no modelo formal de Kratzer (1981, 1991, 2012), onde os vários significados expressos pelos modais (epistêmico, deôntico, teleológico, bulético e quantos mais houver) são determinados por duas funções de contexto - base modal e fonte de ordenação - as quais mapeiam o mundo de avaliação a conjuntos de mundos, determinando o tipo de modalidade expressa e um parâmetro ideal estereotípico, deôntico, teleológico ou bulético que pode inclusive contribuir para a derivação da força modal (possibilidade ou necessidade) em algumas línguas. Assumimos, que  pode é um quantificador existencial sobre mundos possíveis (por isso expressa possibilidade), e focamos na análise das diferenças entre  deve e  tem que , ambos comumente associados à expressão da necessidade. Partimos da intuição de que uma sentença como  tem que-p (sendo p a sentença encaixada no modal), veicula que p é o único resultado possível no contexto, enquanto  deve-p veicula que p é o melhor resultado nocontexto, pressupondo uma comparação entre alternativas. O objetivo dos questionários foi verificar as seguintes hipóteses sobre essas diferenças: (i)  deve é preferido em contextos evidenciais (que definimos como contextos de fonte de ordenação estereotípica), enquanto  tem que é preferido em contextos não-evidenciais (contextos de ordenação deôntica, teleológica, bulética); (ii)  deve expressa uma força modal mais fraca do que  tem que . As hipóteses foram confirmadas pelos dados coletados, analisados estatisticamente no ambiente RStudio (R Core Team, 2014) usando modelos de regressão linear mista. Com base nos resultados obtidos, recorreu-se à teoria para traçarmos uma explicação para a semântica de  deve e  tem que , usando  pode como parâmetro de força: enquanto os modais  pode e  deve são o par dual possibilidade/necessidade, sendo respectivamente quantificadores existencial e universal sobre mundos possíveis,  deve é um modal gradual cujo significado pode ser derivado a partir da noção de possibilidade comparativa proposta em Kratzer (2012).Abstract : This dissertation describes a theoretical and experimental study on the meaning of the verbs  pode ,  deve , e  tem que . The analysis was based on results obtained via three questionnaires with which the intuitive judgments of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) native speakers were collected. The theoretical analysis was based on Kratzer s formal model (1981, 1991, 2012) in which the meanings expressed by modal verbs (epistemic, deontic, teleological, buletic, etc.) are determined by two functions of context  the modal base and the ordering source  which map the world of evaluation to a set of worlds, respectively determining the type of modality expressed and the ideal stereotypical, deontic, teleological or buletic parameter. This parameter can also contribute to the derivation of the modal force (possibility or necessity) in some languages. We assume that  pode is an existential quantifier over possible words (thus expressing possibility), and we turn to the analysis of the differences between  deve and  tem que , both commonly associated to expressing necessity. We depart from the intuition that a sentence such as  tem que-p (where p is the sentence embedded under the modal) conveys that p is the single result according to the context, whereas  deve-p expresses that p is the best result given the context, presupposing a comparison among alternatives. The objective of the questionnaires was to evaluate the following hypotheses: (i)  deve is preferred in evidential contexts (which we define as contexts of stereotypical ordering), whilst  tem que is favored in non-evidential contexts (deontic, teleological, and buletic ordering); (ii)  deve conveys a weaker modal force than  tem que . The hypotheses were confirmed with the collected data, which were statistically analyzed on RStudio (R Core Team, 2014) by using mixed linear regression models. We appealed to the theory to trace an explanation for the semantics of  deve e  tem que , while using  pode as a force parameter. We concluded that whereas the modals  pode and  deve represent the duality  possibility/necessity , being both existential and universal quantifiers on possible words,  deve is a gradual modal whose meaning can be derived from the notion of comparative possibility as described in Kratzer (2012). Moreover, the results showed a tendency of specialization of  deve for evidential contexts and of  tem que for non-evidential contexts
Haircuts (MelaTAMP storyboards)
No full textA storyboard for fieldwork semantics eliciting various functions of perfect aspect and effects of duality with negation. This storyboard has cultural references to Vanuatu and it was used to elicit linguistic data of the language of South Efate (Nafsan) [erk].
The storyboard has two versions: one with the text in English and Bislama and the other only with pictures. The storyboard should be told to the consultant in a contact language, who should then repeat the story in the targeted language using the version without text (see also Strang Burton and Lisa Matthewson. Targeted construction storyboards in semantic fieldwork. In Ryan Bochnak and Lisa Matthewson, editors, Methodologies in Semantic Fieldwork, pages 135–156. Oxford University Press, 2015).
The storyboard is also archived in PARADISEC: Ana Krajinovic (collector), Ana Krajinovic (author), 2018; Storyboards, PDF, 2018-09-18. http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/AK1/items/166Funded by DFG (project number 273640553
Building Literature from St’át’imcets Oral Narrative
No full textThis poster presents a collaboration between UBC (University of British Columbia) and USLCES (the Upper St’át’imc Language, Culture, and Education Society) involving the documentation, transcription, analysis, and dissemination of three comprehensive collections of modern and heritage recordings of personal narratives in St’át’imcets (a.k.a. Lillooet), a highly endangered Interior Salish language spoken in British Columbia, Canada, spoken by approximately 50 elderly fluent speakers. The overall goals in producing these collections are (a) to provide the language community with quality learning materials; (b) to provide the linguistic community with accurate data; and (c) to build a legacy of literature in the language. Subject matter of the narratives includes traditional legends, childhood memories, historical events, stories remembered from parents, work experiences, among others. We present one finished volume, Sqwéqwel’ múta7 sptakwlh (Stories and Legends): St’át’imcets Narratives by Qwa7yán’ak (Carl Alexander) (UBC Occasional Papers in Linguistics, 2016), consisting of contemporary recordings of a fluent speaker of the Bridge River band. We also present two volumes which are nearly complete, St’át’imcets Narratives recorded by Jan van Eijk, and St’át’imcets Narratives recorded by Randy Bouchard (titles tentative), which stem from heritage recordings made during the 1960’s and 1970’s. Volumes are published in both a low-cost hard copy format, and as a freely accessible electronic resource, including sound files, on the UBC Working Papers in Linguistics website. These projects approach stories about “everyday life” as valued contributions to a growing body of Interior Salish literature and linguistics (cf. Matthewson 2005, Matthewson et al, 2008). They include a wealth of linguistic material, including registers of speaking which are poorly represented in existing texts, and have also brought to light previously unattested lexical roots and derivations not found in dictionaries for the language (cf. van Eijk, 2013). The poster focuses on methodological issues surrounding transcription and translation techniques, typography and formatting, and the documentation and inclusion of place-name maps as part of the volumes. We discuss specific ways in which creating these materials involved the community (e.g. training community members in transcription/translation), and discuss ways in which these materials are being (and could be in the future) used in community-based language revitalization initiatives. This work has been made possible by a SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) Partnership Grant titled “First Nations Languages in the Twenty-First Century: Looking Back, Looking Forward” which supports language documentation and revitalization efforts across British Columbia. References Alexander, C., Author 1, Author 2, & Matthewson, L. (eds). (2016). Sqwéqwel’ múta7 sptakwlh: St’át’imcets Narratives by Qwa7y’án’ak (Carl Alexander). University of British Columbia Occasional Papers in Linguistics and USLCES, vol. 3. 457 pages. Author 1, Author 2, van Eijk, J. (forthcoming). St’át’imcets Narratives recorded by Jan van Eijk. University of British Columbia Occasional Papers in Linguistics and USLCES, vol. 4. 293 pages. Author 1, Author 2. (forthcoming). St’át’imcets Narratives recorded by Randy Bouchard. University of British Columbia Occasional Papers in Linguistics and USLCES, vol. 5. 300 pages. Matthewson, Lisa. (2005). When I Was Small - I Wan Kwikws: A Grammatical Analysis of St'át'imcets Oral Narratives. University of British Columbia Press: Vancouver. Matthewson, L., Christodolou, C., Author 1, & Oberg, M. (2008). Wenácw Iz’: Sqwéqwel’s sLaura: True Stories by Laura Thevarge. University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics, volume 22. Vancouver. van Eijk, Jan. (2013). Lillooet-English Dictionary. University of British Columbia Occasional Papers in Linguistics, vol. 2
Garden (MelaTAMP storyboards)
No full textA storyboard for fieldwork semantics eliciting present counterfactual conditional sentences. This storyboard has cultural references to Vanuatu and it was used to elicit linguistic data of the language of South Efate (Nafsan) [erk].
Each storyboard has two versions: one with the text in English and Bislama (Garden.pdf and Garden2.pdf) and the other only with pictures (Garden_notext.pdf and Garden2_notext.pdf). Other files consist of original pictures used in the storyboards and their tex files.
The storyboard should be told to the consultant in a contact language, who should then repeat the story in the targeted language using the version without text (see also Strang Burton and Lisa Matthewson. Targeted construction storyboards in semantic fieldwork. In Ryan Bochnak and Lisa Matthewson, editors, Methodologies in Semantic Fieldwork, pages 135–156. Oxford University Press, 2015).
The storyboard is also archived in PARADISEC: Ana Krajinovic (collector), Ana Krajinovic (author), 2018; Storyboards, PDF, 2018-09-18. http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/AK1/items/166.Funded by DFG (project number 273640553
Values-based politics and new structural social work: Theory for a post-neoliberal age?
No full textThe mission of social work includes implementing positive changes in the structures of society to enhance social justice, not simply assisting individuals and families to achieve personal growth and better adaptation to our existing society. This theoretical article explores a basis for social workers in Aotearoa to implement this mission in the current political context of our country. It aligns with the values-based politics promoted by author Max Harris in his recent book The New Zealand Project (2017), and draws on structural social work as a specific social work theory that can inform this mission. The election of a more progressive government may provide the social work profession with an alliance that can implement positive social change
Safe Spaces: Understanding and enhancing safety and inclusion for diverse women: Toolkits 1, 2, and 3
No full textThe Safe Spaces project was developed to build local council capability to better understand why some public places are viewed as ‘unsafe’ and to provide local councils and other community-focused organisations with engagement strategies to connect with women and ultimately improve women’s perceptions of safety in public places. The project involved collaborations with women from a range of ethnicities and cultural backgrounds and age groups and with a range of abilities living in the Melton, Monash and Wyndham local government areas (LGAs).Full Tex
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