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It. viceregina
No full textItalian speakers are divided over how to refer to men and women who are deputies to an office-holder of the opposite sex. For example, if a female mayor is la sindaca (the.f mayor.f), is her male deputy il vicesindaca (the.m vice-mayor.f) or il vicesindaco (the.m vice-mayor.m)? While scholars maintain that the first option is possible, speakers seem to opt for the second, adopting a usage in which the gender of nouns preceded by vice- (vice-, deputy) agrees with the sex of their referent, and not with the sex of the person whom the deputy represents. This paper addresses the case of viceregina (vice-queen), which could mean both 'woman acting as viceroy' and 'viceroy's wife'. It is shown that the first meaning, although listed by dictionaries, is not attested before the 21st century - all previous usages of viceregina refer to wives of viceroys. Andrea Camilleri (1925-2019) preferred viceré (viceroy) as a hybrid noun when referring to a woman holding the position
Evaluation of a technique to measure latency jitter in event-related potentials
No full textAuditory selective attention results in larger event-related potentials (ERPs) than those recorded to unattended stimuli. Larger ERPs arise from either a greater number of neurons being stimulated or the same number of neurons with better synchrony. The synchrony aspect was studied in an attention experiment recording the N1 response and showed that the latency jitter was significantly less (p = 0.002) for the responses to attended stimuli compared with those to unattended stimuli. Here the improved technique to measure latency jitter is the focus of study. Simulated responses were used to evaluate the technique's performance at different signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) and compare it to the standard technique. Checks that the technique had performed satisfactorily in each case were achieved and a measure of reliability for each result was developed. The parameters defining the technique were varied and the optimum values chosen. This new technique opens the way for researchers to investigate the latency properties of lower SNR ERPs and gives a new insight into auditory selective attention
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Thornton (A. P.). Doctrines of Imperialism
No full textShepperson G. Thornton (A. P.). Doctrines of Imperialism. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 47, fasc. 1, 1969. Antiquité — Oudheid. pp. 158-161
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