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Spatial Metaphors of Ambiguity in Roman Culture
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the Paideia Institute via the link in this recordThis chapter takes a somewhat different approach to the topic of ambiguity in Latin literature from
the others in this volume. Taking as a given that Latin speakers were mindful of the capacity of
some words, phrases, and even whole sentences to convey multiple different meanings, other
chapters examine a range of literary settings where lexical or syntactic ambiguities appear to be
exploited deliberately by Latin authors for imaginative aims. I equally assume an awareness of
ambiguity on the part of Latin speakers, but in this paper I interrogate how they conceived of this
and other types of multiplicity of meaning.1
In other words, I look at how Latin speakers went
about representing ambiguity to themselves and how they understood ambiguity as part of their
experience generally. I start by showing that Latin speakers’ conventional understanding of
ambiguity is delivered metaphorically via the image of PATHS DIVERGING. I also show, however,
that in certain technical contexts the image of CENTRALITY is used, permitting the delineation of
two different kinds of ambiguous meaning relations. I go on to argue that what provides the
motivation for, and thus makes sense of, these twin images is Latin’s regular conceptualization of
“meaning” itself in terms of a linear spatial metaphor. I conclude by suggesting that Latin’s spatial
metaphorics of ambiguity anticipate certain aspects of contemporary linguistic theory – but also
more than this: that it constituted a feature of Roman society’s signifying order, contributing to the
valuation of this phenomenon in the culture
Replication data and online supplement for: "Resilience in Free/Libre/Open Source Software: Do founder decisions impact development activity after crisis events?"
No full textReplication data and online supplement for the Master's thesis, "Resilience in Free/Libre/Open Source Software: Do founder decisions impact development activity after crisis events?" by Wm Salt Hale.
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Reversive constructions in Latin: the case of re- (and dis-)
No full textThis paper proposes a cognitive account on re- and dis- verbs based on the scrutiny of the Plautine corpus and Cato’s De agricultura. Re- and dis- exhibit significant differences as to the manner in which they come to a reversive function, and these differences can be traced back to the basic conceptual import of the two prefixes: while dis- is schematically connected with the idea of separation into two parts, re- basically refers to a rearward/reditive trajectory, connecting a point that has already been reached to the starting point. On the basis of this description, I analyze the semantic network of re- and dis- and the role of their conceptual structure in the spread from spatial to reversive values
Toward a Cognitive Classical Linguistics. Introduction
No full textThe article introduce a collective volume that gathers a series of papers bringing together the study of grammatical and syntactic constructions in Greek and Latin under the perspective of theories of embodied meaning developed in cognitive linguistics.
It presents an overview of the studies in this recent field and highlights various open-ended issues
Letter from Wm. H. Conser, June 25, 1943
No full textTyped correspondence from Wm. H. Conser, President of the Santa Maria Valley Chamber of Commerce, addressed to whom it may concern about Rev. A. A. Heist, Pastor of the Methodist Church. The correspondence discusses the resolutions passed by the Santa Maria Valley Chamber of Commerce.The Bishop James Chamberlain Baker Collection includes letters, documents, and articles about Japanese Americans during World War II. Subjects in the collection include Japanese Americans mass removal, Pearl Harbor and the aftermath, religion, and support from the non-Japanese American community. The collection was digitized and made accessible online by CSUDH Gerth Archives and Special Collections
A Proposal for WM Interprocess Communication
No full textThis report proposes and explores an interprocess synchronization and communication mechanism compatible with the proposed WM protection mechanism -- which is a "capability" based mechanism[Den66]. Despite the advantages of capabilities, early capability systems, including one by the author [Wul80], failed to have a major impact on practical security primarily because of the overhead of domain switching [Col88]. Thus, before committing to a capability mechanism for WM, we want to be sure that we don't make the same mistake again. Thus, this report explores the mechanism in just enough detail to answer whether or not it is practical. Although our main goal is a mechanism for synchronization and communication among protection domains, if possible we would also like a single mechanism that can be used in the place of conventional interrupts, traps, "supervisor calls", entries to protected subsystems, and simple user-to-user interprocess communication. The mechanism we will explore is much-simplified version of the Ada rendezvous [Ada83] in which the WM hardware performs all of the the necessary housekeeping, but software is still able to specify macroscopic policy decisions. At the outset, we stipulate that what we propose may be "too much to put into hardware". But it may not. Our purpose here is to define the mechanism is sufficient detail to be able to meaningfully ask and answer the question "is a hardware implementation practical and desirable"
Short range WM regions in top and left view.
No full text<p>Short range WM regions in top and left view.</p
Short-term memory as a working memory control process
No full textAben et al. (2012) take issue with the unthoughtful use of the terms “working memory” (WM) and “short-term memory” (STM) in the cognitive and neuroscientific literature. Whereas I agree that neuroscientists using the term WM to refer to sustained neural activation and cognitive psychologists using the terms interchangeably reflects that the field has lost control over its own dictionary, the recommendations to develop more tasks does not seem to get to the heart of the matter. Here, I argue in favor of a theoretical approach to the constructs of WM and STM, as the terms have become as impure as the tasks that purport to measure the constructs
Geometry, working memory and intelligence
No full textGeometry is a fundamental part of mathematical learning. Since ancient time the study of geometry was considered as one of the most important subjects in school. In the arcade of the famous school of Athens, where Plato taught, it was written that entry was not permitted to people who did not know geometry. In the Renaissance period, geometry was part of the 'quadrivium', which was considered a needed work preparatory for a serious study of philosophy. Nevertheless, despite geometry is one of the main areas of mathematical learning, the cognitive processes underlying geometry-related academic achievement have not been studied in detail.
The present dissertation has three important aims. First, to investigate the relationship between various aspects of geometry and visuospatial working memory (VSWM). Second, to investigate whether the children with nonverbal learning disabilities (NLD) symptoms present difficulties in various aspects of geometry. Third, to investigate the relationship between various aspect of geometry, working memory (WM) and intelligence (g).
In the second chapter, a general overview of the relationship between geometry, WM and g is provided. Since geometry concerns the study of the space, it requires a particular involvement of spatial abilities. Thus, WM, and in particular VSWM should be crucially involved. In addition, solving geometrical problems requires to reason and to find out a solution among various alternatives. Thus, g should be crucially involved in solving geometrical problems.
In the third chapter, the relationship between academic achievement in geometry, intuitive geometry (i.e., a part of geometry which seems to be independent from the culture), and VSWM will be examined. Two studies will be presented.
In the first study, the involvement of VSWM in intuitive geometry and in school performance in geometry at secondary school was tested. A total of 166 pupils were administered: (1) six VSWM tasks, comprising simple storage and complex span tasks; (2) the intuitive geometry task devised by Dehaene, Izard, Pica, and Spelke (2006), which distinguishes between core, presumably independent form the culture, and culturally-mediated principles of geometry; and (3) a task measuring academic achievement in geometry.
In the second study, VSWM and intuitive geometry were examined in two groups aged 1113; one with children displaying symptoms of NLD, and the other, a control group without learning disabilities. The two groups were matched for general verbal abilities, age, gender, and socioeconomic level. The children were presented with simple storage and complex-span tasks involving VSWM and with the intuitive geometry task devised by Dehaene and colleagues (Dehaene et al., 2006).
In the fourth chapter, we report a study on the relationship between geometry, WM, and intelligence aimed to find out the model of WM which provided the best fit to the data and to examine the strength of the relations between WM and intelligence (part I) and the relationship between geometry (intuitive geometry and geometrical achievement), WM and g testing several models (part II).
In the last chapter a general overview of the important theoretical and applied implications of the three studies will be discussed. The limits of the present dissertation and possible future researches will also be outline
Tools of using social media in business-to-business marketing and branding
No full textTässä opinnäytetyössä tarjotaan ohjeita yrityksille kuinka he voivat paremmin markkinoida ja brändätä tuotteitansa. Nämä ohjeet koostuvat erilaisten sosiaalisen median alustojen hyödyntämisestä, joista pääasiassa keskitytään Instagramin ja YouTuben hyödyntämiseen toimeksiantajan pyynnöstä.
Tämä opinnäytetyö on tehty WM-Plast Oy:n pyynnöstä ja heidän omistamaa Evermatic -tuotelinjaa ajatellen. WM-Plast Oy on suomalainen yritys, jonka päätoimipiste sijaitsee Suomessa Kankaanpäässä. Tämä työ tehtiin osana oppilasprojektia jossa yritykselle toteutettiin markkinatutkimus vuoden 2019 aikana. Yhtenä markkinatutkimuksen loppupäätelmistä todettiin yrityksen huono näkyvyys sosiaalisen median kanavissa ja yritys ilmaisi halunsa kehittää tätä opinnäytetyön avulla. Tämän työn tarkoitus on siis ohjata WM-Plast tuottamaan parempaa mainontaa tuotteilleen. Tutkimalla näitä markkinointimetodeja, pyritään tarjoamaan tietoa siitä minkälaisia mahdollisuuksia nämä alustat tarjoavat, mitä eri vaihtoehtoja WM-Plast voi hyödyntää harjoittaessaan online-markkinointia, ja mitä tämä voisi tuottaa yritykselle tulevaisuudessa.
Tämän tutkimuksen metodina käytettiin määrällistä tutkimusta. Työ on rakennettu niin että ensimmäiset kappaleet käyvät läpi markkinointi- ja brändäysmahdollisuuksia näiltä sivustoilta. Tämän lisäksi kirjoittaja käy läpi terminologiaa ja eri tavoitteita yrityksen näkökulmasta. Lopuksi tutkimuksen jälkeen kirjoittaja tarjoaa ehdotuksia, kuinka näitä asioita pystyttäisiin hyödyntämään yrityksen nykyisen markkinoinnin osana tai lisänä.In this bachelor thesis, the author will provide an outline for companies on how they can utilize different tools in their efforts when marketing and branding their products in social media. These tools consist of different kinds of social platforms, and the main focus will be set on Instagram and Youtube as requested by the commissioning Company.
The thesis is done based on the request of WM-Plast and their Evermatic line of products. WM-Plast oy is a Finnish company based in Kankaanpää, Finland. The author was part of a project where a group of students provided market research for the commissioning company during the year 2019, and as one of the results from the project noticed that there was a need for the company to improve appearance on social media to provide better promotion for their products. By researching these different marketing methods, the author aims to offer insight on what these kinds of channels are capable of, what different options the company has when applying online marketing, and what this could generate for the commissioning company.
The methodology of this thesis is to first inspect the marketing and branding capabilities of these sites. Explaining the terms in-depth and what the actual targets should be from a business perspective. This is done through quantitative research and will be concluded by giving suggestions on how this can be implemented in the current marketing strategy of WM-Plast Oy
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