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Journal articles on the topic "Systemic contrastive analysis"
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Mikolic Juznic, Tamara. "A contrastive study of nominalization in the systemic functional framework." Languages in Contrast 12, no. 2 (October 29, 2012): 251–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lic.12.2.08mik.
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This paper presents a contrastive analysis of nominalization in Italian and Slovene within the framework of systemic functional grammar as described by M.A.K. Halliday and his colleagues. Nominalization is viewed as a type of grammatical metaphor whereby processes which are congruently realized by verbs are metaphorically realized by nouns expressing the same process as those verbs. The frequency of nominalization varies greatly among languages as well as among genres within a language, and may cause problems when two languages interact, e.g. in translation, especially when one of the two languages seems less prone to use this kind of grammatical metaphor than the other. In the present study, an analysis is carried out of a 2.5 million-token parallel corpus of Italian source texts and their Slovene translations, particularly with regard to the different translation equivalents that may appear in the translated texts, which is partly dependent of the type of process involved.
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Fattah, Ashraf, and Rashid Yahiaoui. "Contrastive Analysis of Concessive Conjunctions in Translated and Non-translated Arabic Texts: An Exploratory Study." Advances in Language and Literary Studies 10, no. 4 (October 1, 2019): 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.10n.4p.28.
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This study seeks to contribute to addressing a gap in theory-driven corpus-based research focused on the so-called translation specific features (TSF) in Arabic translated texts. It provides a contrastive Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL)-informed analysis of concessive/contrastive connective markers in a selected comparable corpus made up of translated and non-translated Arabic texts. This area of corpus-based research has been mainly driven by an interest in the linguistic features distinguishing translated from non-translated texts. The characteristic feature of the present study is the fact that it is based on a comparable corpus of translated and non-translated texts written by the same authors in more or less the same genre. Based on a comparison of concordance data, the study will highlight some interesting patterns of difference in the types and frequencies of concessive conjunctions used, as well as ‘explicitating’ and ‘upgrading’ tendencies between the two components of the corpus. Viewed from an SFL perspective, some such differences do not seem to be triggered by the English source texts involved or dictated by contrastive linguistic requirements but rather by the translation process itself.
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Hu, Xiaoying. "Experimental Metafunction Study of Ode to the West Wind and Its Chinese Translations." English Language and Literature Studies 7, no. 2 (May 30, 2017): 151. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ells.v7n2p151.
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Guided by Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics, this paper attempts to apply functional approach to translation studies by making a contrastive analysis of Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind and its two Chinese versions from the perspective of Experimental Metafunction. It aims to exemplify how a literary text, especially for poetry, can be interpreted properly and systematically with the assistance of linguistic theories, and also testify the applicability of Systemic Functional Linguistics to translation studies, both in English and Chinese.
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Yang, LIU. "The Methodology of Discourse Research from a Sociolinguistic Perspective." IRA International Journal of Education and Multidisciplinary Studies 14, no. 2 (March 5, 2019): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jems.v14.n2.p1.
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<p>Systemic Function Linguistics is a mainstream thought of sociolinguistic research and can be a theoretical model and the research methodology of linguistic research. Based on a combination of Systemic Function Linguistics and Sociological Discourse Analysis, this study adopts the thematic progression, ideational function, and interpersonal function to analyze discourses which come from daily used information, to dissect the information to see the discourse structure, in order to advantage the discourse contrastive research for further studies.</p>
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Carretero, Marta, and Asunción Villamil-Touriño. "A contrastive study of verbs of remembering and forgetting in English and Spanish." Languages in Contrast 11, no. 1 (March 22, 2011): 40–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lic.11.1.05car.
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This article presents a contrastive study of the verbs REMEMBER, FORGET and REMIND and their Spanish equivalents RECORDAR, ACORDARSE and OLVIDAR(SE), from a broad systemic-functional perspective. Through a database built with occurrences obtained from authentic corpora, a quantitative analysis was carried out on these verbs in terms of spoken and written mode and a number of clausal factors: mood, syntax and semantics of the Phenomenon, voice, polarity, person and modality. These factors were considered both individually and in relation to one another. The analysis uncovered similarities in the use of the English and Spanish verbs and, more significantly, a number of differences, due to a diversity of factors such as mode, lexical distribution, grammatical features and type of discourse, as well as politeness and other pragmatic reasons.
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Liping, Chen. "Analyzing Interpersonal Metafunction through Personal Pronouns in Song Ci Jiang Cheng Zi. Ji Meng." Studies in English Language Teaching 5, no. 1 (February 20, 2017): 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/selt.v5n1p71.
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<p><em>Interpersonal metafunction has been studied in the four translated versions of Song Ci Jiang Cheng Zi. Ji Meng through </em><em>contrastive analysis</em><em> with the focus on personal pronouns. It aims to find out that the use of different personal pronouns connotes different interpersonal meaning and test the</em><em> feasibility and applicability of Systemic Functional Grammar to discourse analysis.</em><em> It also helps people who love Song Ci better appreciate this Ci-poem from a different angle.</em></p>
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Nikulicheva, Dina. "Chekalina E.M. Semantic Aspects of Swedish Grammar: A Systemic-functional and Contrastive-typological Analysis. Moscow. МАКS Press, 2017. 196 p." Stephanos. Peer reviewed multilanguage scientific journal 23, no. 3 (May 31, 2017): 240–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.24249/2309-9917-2017-23-3-240-242.
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Butiurca, Doina. "Language of the Hand in Indo-European Idioms." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica 9, no. 3 (December 1, 2017): 63–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2017-0029.
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AbstractThe research starts from the assertion that there is an interdependent rapport between cultural forms and the experiential field, necessary for the dynamics of cultural development. The general objective of our approach is the development of a system of relations ordered by human experience for linguistic vitality (of a language/group of [kindred] languages) in the mental and cultural fields. Particular/experiential takes on the concepts of “right”/“left”, the systemic extension of significances in linguistics, religion, moral mentality, and culture of peoples of the world stand as secondary objectives of the research. Application is made to pan-Latin languages, Hungarian, and English. Synchronic and diachronic analysis, contrastive method, and cognitive approach are but a few of the research methods. The first of the conclusions to be drawn is that the diachronic dynamics of a culture is ensured by the systemic relations between human experience, language, mentality, and others.
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Wang, Donghui. "A Study of Trump’s Inaugural Speech and Its Chinese Version from the Perspective of Transitivity." International Journal of English Linguistics 9, no. 1 (December 31, 2018): 185. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v9n1p185.
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In linguistics, Systemic Functional Linguistic School represented by Halliday has been having a great impact in the field of discourse analysis in the past 30 years and has become one of the important discourse analysis schools. As a significant part, transitivity reflects the ideational function in the systemic functional grammar and boasts a wide application in discourse analysis, such as in speeches. This paper has selected Trump’s inaugural speech and its Chinese version as a case study for sample and quantitative analysis of underlying textual features of political speeches from the perspective of Halliday’s transitivity, attempting to help readers get a better understanding of transitivity theory and features of political speeches, as well as consequently master the method of applying transitivity to political speeches. Furthermore, by way of a contrastive analysis of transitivity between Trump’s inaugural speech and its Chinese translation, it tries to delve into the translation strategies of political speeches, to guide practice translation of political speeches, to prove the applicability of transitivity in translation studies and to offer a creative angle for further researches.
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Yanko, Tatiana. "The system of the Russian prosody." Przegląd Wschodnioeuropejski 11, no. 1 (June 30, 2020): 317–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.31648/pw.5992.
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This paper is aimed at illustrating the phenomenon of compositionality in the system of the communicative meanings and their prosodic means of expression. The regularity in combining the communicative meanings is illustrated by the compositions of 1) the illocutionary meanings, 2) the meaning of discourse incompleteness, and 3) the meaning of communicative contrast. It is demonstrated that discourse incompleteness functions not only within the row of statements which constitute a connected text, but also within sequences of questions, including the contrastive contexts. The systemic method of analysis has been applied therefore to the description of a fragment of linguistic pragmatics. The material for the analysis is a minor working corpus of the sound speech specifically set up for this investigation on the basis the Russian National corpus.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Systemic contrastive analysis"
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Pham, Thi Hoa, and n/a. "Interrogative mood in English and Vietnamese : a systemic contrastive analysis." University of Canberra. Information Sciences, 1985. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060725.105609.
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The purpose of this study is to present a contrastive
analysis of the different types of interrogative
sentences in English and Vietnamese including their
structures and meanings. It is also hoped that the result
of this study will be of some use to English teachers in
Vietnam in their classroom teaching and in their preparation
of teaching materials. It may also be useful to Vietnamese
students who are learning English, especially when
learning the English interrogative mood.
Hitherto, there have been different models of
description of language, but the systemic model is considered
to be one of the most comprehensive, since it is
able to bring out the functional uses of language and can
be used to describe any language. For this reason, the
systemic model is adopted in this paper to describe the
two systems of the English and Vietnamese interrogative
mood.
The varieties of the two languages, English and
Vietnamese, from which examples are taken for analysis
in this paper, are Southern British Standard and Standard
Vietnamese ranging from colloquial to literary.
Throughout each chapter, the examples are numbered
in consecutive order. Examples in Vietnamese are
presented with a slash mark ( / ) placed between lexical
items to facilitate the matching of Vietnamese with the
literal English translation which follows. The literal
translation is followed by a freer English translation
enclosed in quotation marks.
The study consists of five chapters. In the
first chapter, the author begins by summarizing different
views on the nature of language and their applications
in language teaching and learning, and then presents
a short introduction to systemic linguistics and a brief
sketch of systemic grammar.
The second chapter is about the English interrogative
mood. This description of the English interrogative
mood is largely based on the ideas on Mood presented by
D. J. Young, lecturer in English in the University of
Wales Institute of Science and Technology in Britain.
In the third chapter, an attempt is made to provide
a detailed description of the different types of
interrogative sentences in Vietnamese.
Chapter four moves to a contrastive analysis
which consists of a textual and then a systemic comparison
and contrast of the two interrogative mood systems in
English and Vietnamese.
A recapitulation of what has been done in the
previous chapters and some suggestions for the preparation
of teaching material and the teaching of English interrogative
sentences to Vietnamese students are presented in
chapter five, which is the last chapter of the study.
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Tåqvist, Marie. ""Another thing" : Discourse-organising nouns in advanced learner English." Doctoral thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-41085.
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This study examines the use of discourse-organising nouns (DONs), such as fact, issue, and problem, in Swedish advanced students’ academic writing in second language (L2) English, and in what ways texts produced by the L2 students resemble or differ from those produced by advanced native-speaker (L1) students and from expert writing in this respect. The study uses corpus linguistic methodology and is set within the frameworks of Halliday’s systemic-functional linguistics and Granger’s Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis. Results show both similarities and differences across the writer groups. Noteworthy similarities include overall frequencies of DONs and their modifiers. Differences include variety of usage and register appropriacy. These differences were often the largest between the L2 student writing and the expert writing, though findings suggest that both student groups can usefully be thought of as learners of academic writing in English in this respect. Specifically, the students’ usage was found to be less varied than the expert writing, and to be characterised by more frequent use of semantically vague nouns (e.g., thing and fact) and nouns marking attitude and involvement (e.g., opinion and question). Other central findings include the tendency, on the part of the students, to use DONs less frequently in syntactic structures prototypical of formal academic prose, and to use them more frequently in structures with the potential to express stance, compared to the expert writing. The study also found more frequent use of evaluative modifiers of DONs in the student writing. In sum, the L2 student writing and, to a lesser extent, the L1 student writing, was found to approximate the corpus of expert writing in many respects, but with less variety, fewer markers of formality, and more frequent occurrences of interpersonal features in their use of DONs. The result is discourse that can in part be characterised as vague and subjective, as well as involved and informal.This study examines the use of discourse-organising nouns (DONs), such as fact, issue, and problem, in Swedish advanced students’ academic writing in second language (L2) English, and in what ways texts produced by the L2 students resemble or differ from those produced by advanced native-speaker students and from expert writing in this respect. Results show both similarities and differences across the writer groups. Noteworthy similarities include overall frequencies of DONs and their modifiers. Differences include variety of usage and register appropriacy. In short, the L2 student writing and, to a lesser extent, the L1 student writing, was found to approximate the corpus of expert writing in many respects, but with less variety, fewer markers of formality, and more frequent occurrences of interpersonal features in their use of DONs. The result is discourse that can in part be characterised as vague and subjective, as well as involved and informal. These differences were often the largest between the L2 student writing and the expert writing, though findings suggest that both student groups can usefully be thought of as learners of academic writing in English in this respect.
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Aleksandrova, Marharyta. "Factorisation de matrices et analyse de contraste pour la recommandation." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LORR0080/document.
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Dans de nombreux domaines, les données peuvent être de grande dimension. Ça pose le problème de la réduction de dimension. Les techniques de réduction de dimension peuvent être classées en fonction de leur but : techniques pour la représentation optimale et techniques pour la classification, ainsi qu'en fonction de leur stratégie : la sélection et l'extraction des caractéristiques. L'ensemble des caractéristiques résultant des méthodes d'extraction est non interprétable. Ainsi, la première problématique scientifique de la thèse est comment extraire des caractéristiques latentes interprétables? La réduction de dimension pour la classification vise à améliorer la puissance de classification du sous-ensemble sélectionné. Nous voyons le développement de la tâche de classification comme la tâche d'identification des facteurs déclencheurs, c'est-à-dire des facteurs qui peuvent influencer le transfert d'éléments de données d'une classe à l'autre. La deuxième problématique scientifique de cette thèse est comment identifier automatiquement ces facteurs déclencheurs? Nous visons à résoudre les deux problématiques scientifiques dans le domaine d'application des systèmes de recommandation. Nous proposons d'interpréter les caractéristiques latentes de systèmes de recommandation basés sur la factorisation de matrices comme des utilisateurs réels. Nous concevons un algorithme d'identification automatique des facteurs déclencheurs basé sur les concepts d'analyse par contraste. Au travers d'expérimentations, nous montrons que les motifs définis peuvent être considérés comme des facteurs déclencheursIn many application areas, data elements can be high-dimensional. This raises the problem of dimensionality reduction. The dimensionality reduction techniques can be classified based on their aim: dimensionality reduction for optimal data representation and dimensionality reduction for classification, as well as based on the adopted strategy: feature selection and feature extraction. The set of features resulting from feature extraction methods is usually uninterpretable. Thereby, the first scientific problematic of the thesis is how to extract interpretable latent features? The dimensionality reduction for classification aims to enhance the classification power of the selected subset of features. We see the development of the task of classification as the task of trigger factors identification that is identification of those factors that can influence the transfer of data elements from one class to another. The second scientific problematic of this thesis is how to automatically identify these trigger factors? We aim at solving both scientific problematics within the recommender systems application domain. We propose to interpret latent features for the matrix factorization-based recommender systems as real users. We design an algorithm for automatic identification of trigger factors based on the concepts of contrast analysis. Through experimental results, we show that the defined patterns indeed can be considered as trigger factors
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Beddar, Mohand. "Vers un prototype de traduction automatique contrôlée français/arabe appliquée aux domaines à sécurité critique." Thesis, Besançon, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013BESA1013/document.
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La présente recherche propose un modèle de traduction automatique français-arabe contrôlée appliquée aux domaines à sécurité critique. C’est une recherche transverse qui traite à la fois des langues contrôlées et de la traduction automatique français-arabe, deux concepts intimement liés. Dans une situation de crise où la communication doit jouer pleinement son rôle, et dans une mondialisation croissante où plusieurs langues cohabitent, notre recherche montre que l’association de ces deux concepts est plus que nécessaire. Nul ne peut contester aujourd’hui la place prépondérante qu’occupe la sécurité dans le quotidien des personnes et les enjeux qu’elle représente au sein des sociétés modernes. Ces sociétés davantage complexes et interconnectées manifestent une vulnérabilité flagrante qui les oblige à repenser leurs moyens d’organisation et de protection dont les systèmes de communication. La communication langagière à l’aide de systèmes informatisés est l’une des formes de communication la plus souvent utilisée pour le transfert des connaissances nécessaires à l’accomplissement des tâches et le déroulement des diverses actions. Toutefois, et contrairement à une idée bien ancrée qui tend à associer les risques d’une mauvaise communication à l’oral uniquement, l’usage de la langue écrite peut lui aussi comporter des risques. En effet des messages mal écrits peuvent conduire à de réelles catastrophes et à des conséquences irréversibles notamment dans des domaines jugés sensibles tels que les domaines à sécurité critique. C’est dans ce contexte que s’inscrit notre recherche. Cette thèse est une approche novatrice dans les domaines des langues contrôlées et de la traduction automatique. Elle définit avec précision, en s’appuyant sur une analyse microsystémique de la langue et un travail en intension sur le corpus, des normes pour la rédaction de protocoles de sécurité et d’alertes ainsi que leur traduction automatique vers l’arabe. Elle apporte en effet des notions nouvelles à travers plusieurs procédés normatifs intervenant non seulement dans le processus de contrôle mais également dans le processus de traduction. Le système de traduction automatique français-arabe TACCT (Traduction Automatique Contrôlée Centre Tesnière) mis au point dans cette thèse est un système à base de règles linguistiques qui repose sur un modèle syntaxico-sémantique isomorphique issu des analyses intra- et interlangues entre le français et l’arabe. Il introduit de nouveaux concepts notamment celui des macrostructures miroir contrôlées, où la syntaxe et la sémantique des langues source et cible sont représentées au même niveauThe result of our research is a proposal for a controlled French to Arabic machine translation model, applied to security critical domains. This cross-disciplinary research study covers controlled languages and French to Arabic machine translation, two intimately related concepts. In a situation of crisis where communication must play its full role, and in the context of increasing globalisation where many languages coexist, our research findings show that the combination of these two concepts is sorely needed. No one can deny today the predominant role played by security in people’s daily life and the significant challenges it presents in modern societies. These more and more complex and interconnected societies present evident vulnerabilities that force them to rethink their means of protection and in particular that of their communication systems. Language communication with computerised systems is one of the most widely used forms of communication for the transfer of knowledge required in carrying out and completing tasks and in the good conduct of various activities. However, and contrary to an entrenched idea that tends to associate the risk of poor communication only with oral transmission, the use of written language can also be subject to risk. Indeed, a protocol or an alert which is badly formulated can provoke serious accidents due to misunderstanding, in particular during a crisis and under stress. It is in this context that our research has been undertaken. Our thesis proposes an innovative approach in the fields of controlled language and machine translation in which, relying on a microsystemic analysis of the language and a study of the corpus in intension, precise standards are defined for writing and translating protocols and security alerts written in French automatically into Arabic. Indeed, new concepts are introduced by means of several normative methods involved not only in the controlling process but also in the machine translation process. The French to Arabic machine translation system TACCT (Traduction Automatique Contrôlée Centre Tesnière) developed during our research is a rule-based system based on an isomorphic syntactic and semantic model stemming from intra- and interlanguage analysis between French and Arabic. It introduces new concepts including controlled mirror macrostructures, where the syntax and semantics of the source and target languages are represented at the same level
Books on the topic "Systemic contrastive analysis"
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Polesel, John. Pre-Employment Skill Formation in Australia and Germany. Edited by John Buchanan, David Finegold, Ken Mayhew, and Chris Warhurst. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199655366.013.8.
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This chapter provides a critical analysis of the role that vocational education and training plays in preparing young people for the labour market in two contrasting systems – Australia and Germany. In Germany, this occurs mainly within the structure of the “dual system”. In Australia, it occurs within a system of comprehensive high schools, where vocational studies are located within the senior secondary certificates. In Australia, it also occurs to an extent in the adult sector VET institutions and in some specialist providers which focus on school-aged youth. The concepts of education logic and employment logic and the type of welfare state, whether neocorporatist or neoliberal, are used to analyse important differences between Australia and Germany. The chapter argues that the skills formation of young people requires both symbolic and financial support and an approach to upper secondary education which is not captive to the sorting and selection mechanisms of universities.
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Titmuss, Richard. The Gift Relationship. Policy Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447349570.001.0001.
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This book's author was a pioneer in the field of social administration (now social policy). In this reissued classic, listed by the New York Times as one of the 10 most important books of the year when it was first published in 1970, the author compares blood donation in the US and UK, contrasting the British system of reliance on voluntary donors to the American one in which the blood supply is in the hands of for-profit enterprises, concluding that a system based on altruism is both safer and more economically efficient. The argument about how altruism binds societies together has proved a powerful tool in the analysis of welfare provision. This analysis is even more topical now in an age of ever-changing health care policy and at a time when health and welfare systems are under sustained attack from many quarters.
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Peterson, Tyler. Alignment across Tsimshianic. Edited by Jessica Coon, Diane Massam, and Lisa Demena Travis. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198739371.013.41.
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The Tsimshianic languages are entirely morphologically ergative in the agreement system. While there is a split in Tsimshianic, conditioned by both clause type and a person hierarchy, the other side of the split is not the expected nominative-accusative alignment. Rather, other logical groupings of semantic roles are found that are still ergative. This chapter presents a description of the agreement patterns across Tsimshianic, with the aim of explaining these expansions of ergativity, by undertaking a comparative analysis of the individual languages in the Tsimshianic family. This is analysis is extended to the connectives, which are complex, determiner-like morphemes that appear to be sensitive to the semantic role of the NP. This leads to four distinct alignments (nominative, ergative, neutral, and contrastive). An understanding of the alignments in the agreement system can shed light on this complexity, and a comparative analysis eliminates the multiple alignments in the connective system, thus revealing a fairly standard set of determiners.
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Chelliah, Shobhana. Ergativity in Tibeto-Burman. Edited by Jessica Coon, Diane Massam, and Lisa Demena Travis. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198739371.013.38.
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A number of Tibeto-Burman languages exhibit morphological ergative alignment, while others clearly do not. In these languages, matters of information structure determine core argument marking. Specifically, both A and S marking may be used to indicate topic, contrastive topic, broad focus, and/or contrastive focus. It is most often A or S, not P, that is assigned such status and between A and S, it is most often A that takes marking. Preference for topic or focus marking on A creates the impression of ergative alignment, but an ergative alignment analysis is untenable as S may be marked under the same conditions and with the same morpheme as A. Considerations of discourse-level clause interpretation in Tibetan, Meitei, and Burmese show that information structure not transitivity determines A and S marking. The presence or absence of marking based on information structure is characterized as “unique differential marking”, distinguishing it from the differential marking observed in ergative and accusative alignment systems.
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Loporcaro, Michele. Gender from Latin to Romance. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199656547.001.0001.
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The book addresses grammatical gender in Romance, and its development from Latin. It works with the toolbox of current linguistic typology, and asks the fundamental question of how the Latin grammatical gender system gradually changed into those of the Romance languages. To answer this question, the book capitalizes on the pervasive dialect variation of which the better-known standard Romance languages only represent a fragment. Indeed, inspection of dialect variation across time and space forces one to dismiss the handbook account proclaiming that the neuter gender, contrasting with masculine and feminine in Latin, was eradicated from spoken Latin by late Empire times. Both Late Latin evidence and data from several modern dialects show that this never happened, and that the vulgate account proceeds from unwarranted back-projection of the data from modern languages like French and Italian. Rather, the neuter underwent transformations which are the main culprit for the differences in the gender system observed today between, say, Romanian, Sursilvan, Neapolitan, and Asturian, to cite just a few types of system which turn out to differ significantly. A precondition for establishing the database for diachronic investigation is a detailed description of many such systems, which reveals data whose interest transcends the diachronic issue under consideration: the book thus addresses systems where ‘husbands’ are feminine and others where ‘wives’ are masculine; discusses dialects where nouns overtly mark gender, but only in certain syntactic contexts; and proposes an analysis according to which one Romance language (Asturian) has split inherited grammatical gender into two concurrent systems.
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Hodgson, Jacqueline S. The Metamorphosis of Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199981427.001.0001.
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The focus of this book is the potentially radical and fundamental changes that are taking place within criminal justice in Britain and in France and the ways that these are driven by wider domestic, European, or international concerns. This metamorphosis away from established values and practices is eroding what were once regarded as core rights and freedoms in the name of efficiency, security, and justice to victims. Beginning with a comparative analysis of adversarial and inquisitorial procedural values and traditions, and an examination of broad trends in domestic and European criminal justice, the book then discusses how the roles of prosecution and defense have been reshaped in different ways in both jurisdictions—both in the text of the law and in their practices. The final part considers how systems within different procedural traditions adapt to address, or provide a remedy for, systemic flaws that produce wrongful convictions and, in particular, the role of the defense in these procedures. By adopting a comparative approach with France, the study explores the nature and reach of these trends, the ways that they challenge and disrupt criminal processes and values, and the contrasting responses that they provoke. It reveals how criminal justice traditions continue to be shaped in different ways by broader policy and political concerns; how different systems adapt, change, and distort when faced with (sometimes conflicting) pressures domestically and externally; and how different procedural values may serve to structure or limit reform, and so work to facilitate or resist change.
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van Onselen, Charles. The Night Trains. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197568651.001.0001.
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The full physical and social cost of South Africa’s twentieth-century mining revolution, based on the exploitation of cheap, commoditised, black, migrant labour, has yet to be fully understood. The success of the system, which contributed to the evolution of the policies of spatial segregation and apartheid, depended, in large measure, on the physical distance between the labourer’s home and places of work being successfully bridged by steam locomotives and a rail network. These night trains left deep scars in the urban and rural cultures of black communities, whether in the form of popular songs or in a belief in nocturnal witches’ trains that captured and conveyed zombie workers to the region’s most unpopular places of employment. Through careful analysis of the contrasting inward- and outward-bound legs of the migrants’ rail journey, van Onselen shows how black bodies (and minds) were ‘recruited’, transported and worked in the repressive compound system—sometimes to the point of insanity—and then returned broken, deranged, disabled or maimed to their country of origin, Mozambique. It offers a startling new analysis of the commodification of African labour in an inter-colonial setting.
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Drach, Alexis, and Youssef Cassis, eds. Financial Deregulation. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198856955.001.0001.
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A wave of liberalization swept the end of the twentieth century. From the 1970s and 1980s onwards, most developed countries have passed various measures to liberalize and ‘modernize’ the financial markets. Each country had its agenda, but most of them have experienced, to a different extent, a change in regulatory regime. This change, often labelled deregulation and associated with the advent of neoliberalism, was sharply contrasting with the previous era, the Bretton Woods system, which has sometimes been portrayed as an era of ‘financial repression’. On the other hand, a quick glance at financial regulation today, at the amount of paper it produces, at its complexity, at the number of people involved, and at the resources invested in it, is enough to say that, somehow, there is more regulation today than ever before. In the new system, financial regulation has taken unprecedented importance. As more archival material is becoming available, a better understanding of the fundamental changes in the regulatory environment towards the end of the twentieth century is now possible. What kind of change exactly was deregulation? Did competition between financial regulators lead to a ‘race to the bottom’ in regulation? Is deregulation responsible for the recurring financial crises which seem to have characterized the international financial system since the 1980s? The movement towards a more liberal regulatory regime was neither linear nor simple. This book—a collection of chapters studying deregulation in various countries and contexts—examines the national and international pathways of deregulation by providing an in-depth analysis of a short but crucial period in a few major countries.
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Fishman, Daniel B., Stanley B. Messer, David J. A. Edwards, and Frank M. Dattilio, eds. Case Studies Within Psychotherapy Trials. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med:psych/9780199344635.001.0001.
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The Cases Within Trials (CWT) model combines the randomized clinical trial (RCT) research design, based on quantitative group research, with richly and qualitatively detailed systematic case studies involving contrasting outcomes drawn from the experimental condition of the RCT. Chapter 1 of the book provides the broad historical and methodological context out of which the CWT method developed, including the recent dramatic growth of mixed-methods approaches in psychotherapy research generally, with an associated increase in their credibility and rigor. Chapter 2 presents the details of the CWT method and its application to Chapters 3–6, which present four specific projects that concretely illustrate the CWT method. The four projects vary across such dimensions as theoretical orientation and type of mental disorder. To facilitate comparison across projects, each is organized in three main sections, including results gained from the RCT, results gained from the case studies, and a synthesis of the two types of knowledge. Each project concludes with a commentary by an outside expert (or expert team) in the theoretical and disorder focus of the project. Chapter 7 presents an outside perspective on the four projects from a research team highly experienced in conducting and thinking about traditional RCTs. In view of the four projects as a whole, Chapter 8 presents the editors’ summary and analysis of themes and guidelines for the future embodied in the knowledge gained from the four projects.
Book chapters on the topic "Systemic contrastive analysis"
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Li, Chenming, Tianhao Wang, and Yuhong Shen. "The Contrastive Analysis of Three Models About Human Energy Expenditure." In Man-Machine-Environment System Engineering, 19–26. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2481-9_3.
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Marunevich, Oksana V., Iuliia Yu Kotliarenko, Elmira Sh Shefieva, Olga N. Bessarabova, and Tatyana O. Bobrova. "Cognitive-Contrastive Analysis of Somatism-Based Ethnophaulisms in English and Russian." In Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 501–9. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69415-9_57.
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Diekmann, Anya, and Scott McCabe. "Social tourism policies: critical reflections." In Social tourism: global challenges and approaches, 169–78. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789241211.0169.
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Abstract This chapter examines recent developments in social tourism initiatives by analysing the factors underpinning them from a historical perspective and by contrasting the expansion in social tourism policies alongside general tourism policies. It goes on to provide a critical analysis of the various types of policies, from the system of delivery of subsidies and support for the intermediaries providing social tourism programmes to the system, which favours aid given directly to the person, and how they are implemented throughout Europe.
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Diekmann, Anya, and Scott McCabe. "Social tourism policies: critical reflections." In Social tourism: global challenges and approaches, 169–78. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789241211.0014.
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Abstract This chapter examines recent developments in social tourism initiatives by analysing the factors underpinning them from a historical perspective and by contrasting the expansion in social tourism policies alongside general tourism policies. It goes on to provide a critical analysis of the various types of policies, from the system of delivery of subsidies and support for the intermediaries providing social tourism programmes to the system, which favours aid given directly to the person, and how they are implemented throughout Europe.
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Kloetzer, Laure, Jo Wells, Laura Seppänen, and Sarah Hean. "Mentoring in Practice: Rebuilding Dialogue with Mentees’ Stories." In Improving Interagency Collaboration, Innovation and Learning in Criminal Justice Systems, 165–92. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70661-6_7.
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AbstractThe voluntary and community sector (VCS) is a key player in the support of prisoners and ex-prisoners in the English and Welsh criminal justice system. Organisational learning and innovation is urgently required in this sector to adapt to the current political and economic environment. The chapter describes exploratory efforts to introduce participatory methods drawn from Change Laboratory Methods and Clinics of Activity within a local VCS organisation that would help (re)build dialogue between stakeholders with the aim of promoting organisational learning and innovation. The intervention comprised an ethnographic phase of observing the staff, interviews with 19 key stakeholders, and a final developmental workshop with the staff. The analysis of these data by the researcher (first author) provided insight into the experience of mentors working in the voluntary sector as well as providing a trigger for dialogue in a subsequent workshop that used these data to establish dialogue between staff. These served as dialogical artefacts, introducing micro-dramas in the form of selected user stories. These dialogical artefacts triggered diverse reactions and analyses by the various participants, highlighting different elements than those anticipated by the researcher. We discuss the different readings of our research data by the researcher and staff members, presenting these two contrasting perspectives, and the implications this has for workplace development methods.
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Díaz-Varela, Emilio, Guillermina Fernández-Villar, and Alvaro Diego-Fuentes. "Transformative Change in Peri-Urban SEPLS and Green Infrastructure Strategies: An Analysis from the Local to the Regional Scales in Galicia (NW Spain)." In Fostering Transformative Change for Sustainability in the Context of Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS), 133–53. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6761-6_8.
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AbstractTransformative change involves the integration of different social dimensions and the involvement of a multiplicity of actors resulting in high levels of complexity. Considering all this, our work addresses the development of green infrastructure (GI) to improve the conservation of biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services from two different approaches and scales: regional and local.From the regional level, a GI strategy was promoted by the regional government of Galicia (NW Spain) through institutional efforts following a multidisciplinary approach including public participation processes. On the other hand, a local, participative perspective is exemplified in the Neighbourhood Association of the Parish of Chapela (Redondela, Galicia), a peri-urban, coastal area where intensive forestry and urban expansion threatens the availability of accessible multifunctional ecosystems for the local communities.Both approaches are indicative of seeds for a transformative change yet to happen. Nevertheless, they differ in their visions, values and goals: the regional level is statutory-oriented and focused on the accomplishment of administrative objectives; the local level is based on the communities’ wellbeing aims and calls-for-action. Differences are also detected in the risks and barriers to transformative processes, from the inertia of administrative procedures to the limitations of local action to face environmental and developmental problems. Exploration of these contrasting perspectives leads to the identification of needs for institutional change, the emergence of new governance systems, and the development of new perspectives for strategic planning and management.
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Trillos, Juan Camilo Gomez, Dennis Wilken, Urte Brand, and Thomas Vogt. "Life Cycle Assessment of a Hydrogen and Fuel Cell RoPax Ferry Prototype." In Progress in Life Cycle Assessment 2019, 5–23. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50519-6_2.
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AbstractEstimates for the greenhouse gas emissions caused by maritime transportation account for approx. 870 million tonnes of CO2 tonnes in 2018, increasing the awareness of the public in general and requiring the development of alternative propulsion systems and fuels to reduce them. In this context, the project HySeas III is developing a hydrogen and fuel cell powered roll-on/roll off and passenger ferry intended for the crossing between Kirkwall and Shapinsay in the Orkney Islands in Scotland, a region which currently has an excess of wind and tidal power. In order to explore the environmental aspects of this alternative, a life cycle assessment from cradle to end-of-use using the ReCiPe 2016 method was conducted, contrasting the proposed prototype developed within the project against a conventional diesel ferry and a diesel hybrid ferry. The results show that the use of hydrogen derived from wind energy and fuel cells for ship propulsion allow the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions of up to 89% compared with a conventional diesel ferry. Additional benefits are lower stratospheric ozone depletion, ionizing radiation, ozone formation, particulate matter formation, terrestrial acidification and use of fossil resources. In turn, there is an increase in other impact categories when compared with diesel electric and diesel battery electric propulsion. Additionally, the analysis of endpoint categories shows less impact in terms of damage to human health, to the ecosystems and to resource availability for the hydrogen alternative compared to conventional power trains.
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Chik, Sonya. "Towards a Systemic Functional Contrastive Analysis of Japanese and English Corporate Legal Discourse." In Perspectives from Systemic Functional Linguistics, 182–205. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315299877-10.
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Pham, Duc Huu. "The Rhetoric of Mass Communication and Media in the Contrastive Sociolinguistics." In Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Sustainability, and ICTs in the Post-COVID-19 Era, 76–95. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6776-0.ch004.
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In the field of mass communication and media, the use of language has become so versatile that it can help to improve relationship between peoples, but it can somehow have a negative effect on the mutual understanding. Rhetoric makes it clear and persuasive to communicate to make language work for their purposes. Sociolinguistics in the contrastive analysis deals with speech communities and the language use in particular contexts such as dialects or bilingualism in society and language variation and change over time, especially in the post-COVID-19 era. This chapter presents Kenneth Burke's rhetorical theory and William Labov's sociolinguistic method, analyzing genres and registers in the systemic functional linguistics perspective to derive a conceptual framework for the study of news report. The resulting framework provides for the identification of news writing style in mass media and other social networks and its performance in language use regarding the power of words to avoid the ambiguity in situational contexts and to better interpersonal and intercultural communication.
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Warren, Lorraine, and Ted Fuller. "Contrasting Approaches to Preparedness." In Advances in Business Information Systems and Analytics, 400–411. IGI Global, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-892-5.ch022.
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This chapter reflects on ongoing research in SMEs in the manufacturing and service sectors. It contrasts different approaches to the issue of preparedness from an organisational and social perspective, in two cases where new enterprise-wide business processes were implemented and integrated in different settings. In both cases, the emergence of new systems presented a huge challenge to companies hard-pressed to marshal the resources to mount effective change and implementation projects on this scale. The cases presented enable a comparison of different strategies used, one firm responding to organic growth, and the other to rapid industry-driven change. The chapter focuses not on the implementations per se, but instead on the issue of preparedness for change. The chapter concludes by drawing out general lessons concerning how to support and maintain organisational preparedness for enterprise wide change in different industry settings.
Conference papers on the topic "Systemic contrastive analysis"
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Yang, Jie, Gang Huang, Jun Ma, Sarah K. Howard, Matthew Ciao, and Junbin Gao. "Fuzzy contrastive learning for online behavior analysis." In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE). IEEE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/fuzz45933.2021.9494588.
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Bunchavalit, Patthida. "Contrastive Analysis in Phonetic Characteristics of Thai and Vietnamese Tones." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.7-1.
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This paper is a contrastive analysis of phonetic characteristics of Thai and Vietnamese tones using phonetic characteristics based on methodologies from the analyses of Arthur (1962), Hoàng Thị Châu (2009), Đoàn Thiện Thuật (2016) and Nguyễn Thị Hai (2017). This analysis finds that, aside from the difference of quantity of toneme, there are additional differences including fundamental frequency, length, tone shape, pitch, and voice quality. Tho in the Thai tonal system does not occur in the Vietnamese tonal system. Conversely, hỏi, ngã and nặng in the Vietnamese tonal system do not occur in the Thai tonal system.
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Hasnan, Khalid, and Terrence Perera. "Hybrid Simulation-Emulation Model: AGVS Example." In ASME 7th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis. ASMEDC, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/esda2004-58130.
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Simulation and emulation have several salient contrasting functions and features. They include different aims, levels of details, execution time and integration of models. In many cases, a project will require both a simulation model for initial analysis and development, as well as an emulation model for testing a control system. If this is the case, a copy of the simulation model can be used as a starting point for developing the emulation model. Hybrid simulation-emulation model, one that is used for both purposes should have a facility to switch off/on certain elements from the model as necessary. There is much published work in simulation and a dearth of work in emulation. To date there has been no work published in converting a simulation into emulation model. This paper describes a novel approach, which combines both attributes, and is illustrated using a case study based on an Automated Guided Vehicle System (AGVS).
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Li, Shan, Changsheng Chen, Lin Chen, Maocai Chen, Zhi Yang, Jiayu Zhang, and Pingxi Yang. "Contrastive Analysis of Multi-Scheme Design of Marine High-Speed Permanent Magnet Rectifier Power Generation Module." In 2019 22nd International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icems.2019.8922411.
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Botalb, Abdelaziz, M. Moinuddin, U. M. Al-Saggaf, and Syed S. A. Ali. "Contrasting Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) for Big Data Analysis." In 2018 International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced System (ICIAS). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icias.2018.8540626.
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Wang, Zhengyu, Yuan Li, Bin Zhou, Lingtao Yu, Jun Qian, and Daoming Wang. "Contrastive analysis of dynamics modelling and parameters identification for a flexible finger joint based on cable-driven series elastic actuator." In 2017 International Conference on Advanced Mechatronic Systems (ICAMechS). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icamechs.2017.8316513.
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Barkovskaya, Olessia, and Natalija Axak. "Contrastive Analysis of the Parallel Version of the Binary Image Skeletonization Algorithms on Basis of Binary Matrix and Structural Elements." In 2007 9th International Conference - The Experience of Designing and Applications of CAD Systems in Microelectronics. IEEE, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/cadsm.2007.4297609.
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Green, Alex E. S., and James P. Mullin. "Feedstock Blending Studies With Laboratory Indirectly Heated Gasifiers." In ASME 1998 International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exhibition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/98-gt-574.
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To support the further development of indirectly heated gasifiers, intended to provide fuels for advanced gas turbines, several laboratory indirectly heated gasifiers were constructed. During many comparative tests advantages and problems with each system were observed. The most useful systems make use of laboratory tube furnaces in conjunction with temperature, time and pressure or volume yield measuring systems and a gas chromatograph with a thermal conductivity detector. In this paper high temperature pyrolysis results obtained with the latest system are presented. Contrasting feedstocks suitable for commercial systems separately or in blends are used. Yield vs. time measurements are used to determine relevant rate constants and outputs. Since the rate constants are mainly reflective of heat transfer effects, cylindrical dowel sticks of varying radii were volatilized. The data set leads to an analytic heat transfer model that considers the hemicellulose, cellulose, and lignin components of the dowels. Also developed from the dowel experiments is an approximate procedure for estimating the proportionate releases of CO, CO2, CH4 and H2 for any type of biomass whose component proportions are known.
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Choi, Chiwoong, Cheol Huh, Dongeok Kim, and Moohwan Kim. "Wettability Effect on Flow Boiling in an MEMS-Based Single Glass Microchannel." In ASME 2008 6th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icnmm2008-62254.
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Many studies have investigated boiling heat transfer in microchannels; however, such phenomena are not yet fully understood, and conflicting results have been reported. There are many important parameters that govern behavior in microsystems, including channel shape, roughness, and choice of material. One potentially important parameter is hydrophobicity of the microchannel surface, as interfacial forces play an increasing role at microscales. We developed a new method of fabricating a single glass rectangular microchannel and microheater using the MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical System) fabrication technique. The glass was used as a hydrophilic surface, and a self-assembled monolayer was coated with OTS (Octadecyl-Trichloro-Silane) to obtain a hydrophobic surface. We conducted an experiment of boiling heat transfer in a microchannel using two surfaces of contrasting hydrophobicity. The resulting flow was observed using a long-distance microscope and a high-speed camera. This approach enables a qualitative analysis of the hydrophobicity effect on the flow regime.
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Fondevilla Aparicio, Juan José. "La Banda Gallega: vertebración defensiva de un espacio de frontera en el límite noroccidental del alfoz hispalense en la Baja Edad Media." In FORTMED2020 - Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean. Valencia: Universitat Politàcnica de València, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/fortmed2020.2020.11485.
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The Galician Band: defensive vertebration of a frontier space in the Northwestern limit of the domains of Seville in the Late Middle AgesThe northwestern limit of the Seville domains constituted a complex frontier space of high potencial tension throughout the Late Middle Ages. Once the conquest of this historical territory was over, the council of Seville promotes the definition of a castral system destined to guarantee the guard and defense of its extensive territory. The Galician Band constituted a large network of fortifications who knew how to incorporate the existing ones and build new castles, which responded to an adaptive logic based on the poliorcetic and geopolitical requirements. The geospacial analysis carried out in this research, implemented through GIS, allowed contrasting certain hypotheses sustained from historiography regarding the territorial implementation strategy of these passive defenses. The detailed analysis of the intervisibility relations between the fortifications of the Galician Band, allowed to define its spatial link. The analyzed castramental spaces are hierarchized, presenting a progressive stratification from the border spaces into the deep lands of the Council, following a spatial pattern that allows the strategic control of the main paths of territorial penetration.
Reports on the topic "Systemic contrastive analysis"
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Hall, Mark, and Neil Price. Medieval Scotland: A Future for its Past. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, September 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.9750/scarf.09.2012.165.
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The main recommendations of the panel report can be summarised under five key headings. Underpinning all five areas is the recognition that human narratives remain crucial for ensuring the widest access to our shared past. There is no wish to see political and economic narratives abandoned but the need is recognised for there to be an expansion to more social narratives to fully explore the potential of the diverse evidence base. The questions that can be asked are here framed in a national context but they need to be supported and improved a) by the development of regional research frameworks, and b) by an enhanced study of Scotland’s international context through time. 1. From North Britain to the Idea of Scotland: Understanding why, where and how ‘Scotland’ emerges provides a focal point of research. Investigating state formation requires work from Medieval Scotland: a future for its past ii a variety of sources, exploring the relationships between centres of consumption - royal, ecclesiastical and urban - and their hinterlands. Working from site-specific work to regional analysis, researchers can explore how what would become ‘Scotland’ came to be, and whence sprang its inspiration. 2. Lifestyles and Living Spaces: Holistic approaches to exploring medieval settlement should be promoted, combining landscape studies with artefactual, environmental, and documentary work. Understanding the role of individual sites within wider local, regional and national settlement systems should be promoted, and chronological frameworks developed to chart the changing nature of Medieval settlement. 3. Mentalities: The holistic understanding of medieval belief (particularly, but not exclusively, in its early medieval or early historic phase) needs to broaden its contextual understanding with reference to prehistoric or inherited belief systems and frames of reference. Collaborative approaches should draw on international parallels and analogues in pursuit of defining and contrasting local or regional belief systems through integrated studies of portable material culture, monumentality and landscape. 4. Empowerment: Revisiting museum collections and renewing the study of newly retrieved artefacts is vital to a broader understanding of the dynamics of writing within society. Text needs to be seen less as a metaphor and more as a technological and social innovation in material culture which will help the understanding of it as an experienced, imaginatively rich reality of life. In archaeological terms, the study of the relatively neglected cultural areas of sensory perception, memory, learning and play needs to be promoted to enrich the understanding of past social behaviours. 5. Parameters: Multi-disciplinary, collaborative, and cross-sector approaches should be encouraged in order to release the research potential of all sectors of archaeology. Creative solutions should be sought to the challenges of transmitting the importance of archaeological work and conserving the resource for current and future research.