Indian TV Anchors on Twitter: Technological Practice and Textual Form

2017 ◽  
pp. 263-289
Author(s):  
Vibodh Parthasarathi ◽  
Ananda Mitra
Keyword(s):  
Technological Practice ◽  
Textual Form

Thanato-Laboratorien. Theorien von Tod und Sterben und Elias Canettis Buch gegen den Tod

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-86
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Heyne
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Elias Canetti ◽  
History Of ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
First Time ◽  
Textual Form ◽  
Or History

AbstractAlthough visual culture of the 21th century increasingly focuses on representation of death and dying, contemporary discourses still lack a language of death adequate to the event shown by pictures and visual images from an outside point of view. Following this observation, this article suggests a re-reading of 20th century author Elias Canetti. His lifelong notes have been edited and published posthumously for the first time in 2014. Thanks to this edition Canetti's short texts and aphorisms can be focused as a textual laboratory in which he tries to model a language of death on experimental practices of natural sciences. The miniature series of experiments address the problem of death, not representable in discourses of cultural studies, system theory or history of knowledge, and in doing so, Canetti creates liminal texts at the margins of western concepts of (human) life, science and established textual form.

Malaysian Technological Elite: Specifics of a Knowledge Society in a Developing Country

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Epistemic Communities ◽  
Vision 2020 ◽  
Epistemic Practices ◽  
Technological Practice ◽  
Specialist Knowledge ◽  
Localized Knowledge ◽  
New Industry ◽  
Technology Industries ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

AbstractThere is a lack of understanding of the forms of knowledge and expertise in so-called developing societies such as Malaysia. This paper addresses this issue by suggesting a framework—based on Schutz and Luckmann's (1973) concept of social distribution of knowledge and Knorr Cetina's (1999) notion of epistemic communities—for examining the Malaysian automotive and information technology industries. These industries are central to Malaysia's agenda of becoming a knowledge society in the context of Vision 2020. Vital to these industries is a group of Malaysian professionals who possess knowledge and expertise: the “technological elite.” is group, the technological elite, includes, but is not limited to, engineers working for Proton, as well as professionals working in the Multimedia Super Corridor. Using professional biographies and narratives, this paper illuminates the context and culture of knowledge in Malaysia. Similarities in the principles that inform epistemic practices and relations within an “old” industry (i.e., automotive) and a “new” industry (i.e., ICT) call for the recognition of epistemic work characterized by the mixing of specialist knowledge with other forms of knowledge, and of localized knowledge in nascent epistemic communities with knowledge developed from an established tradition of technological practice.

Exergy Analysis of Combined Cycles: Part 2—Analysis and Optimization of Two-Pressure Steam Bottoming Cycles

1987 ◽  
Vol 109 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. W. Chin ◽  
M. A. El-Masri
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Exergy Analysis ◽  
Exhaust Gas ◽  
Exhaust Temperature ◽  
Optimum Parameters ◽  
Technological Practice ◽  
Combined Cycles ◽  
Exit Temperature ◽  
Gas Turbine Exhaust ◽  
Turbine Exhaust

Results of a study for selecting the optimum parameters of a dual-pressure bottoming cycle as a function of the gas turbine exhaust temperature are presented. Realistic constraints reflecting current technological practice are assumed. Exergy analysis is applied to quantify all loss sources in each cycle. Compared to a single pressure at typical exhaust gas temperatures the optimized dual-pressure configuration is found to increase steam cycle work output on the order of 3 percent, principally through the reduction of the heat transfer irreversibility from about 15 to 8 percent of the exhaust gas energy. Measures to further reduce the heat transfer irreversibility such as three-pressure systems or use of multicomponent mixtures can therefore only result in modest additional gains. The results for the efficiency of optimized dual-pressure bottoming cycles are correlated against turbine exit temperature by simple polynomial fits. Sensitivity of the results to variations in the constraint envelope are presented.

scholarly journals DIDACTIC SUPPORT FOR THE FORMATION OF SELF-CONTROL SKILLS IN FOREIGN TEXTBOOKS: ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga D. Fedotova
Keyword(s):  
Motor Skills ◽  
Original System ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Fine Motor ◽  
Logical Thinking ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Self Test ◽  
Textual Form ◽  
Selection Of

The paper studies didactic approaches used to create self-test units in textbooks. The system of self-control skills formation is considered on the example of textbooks on reading. The authors define the approaches of textbooks published in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, the Netherlands, Germany, France and Greece in Cyrillic, Latin and Greek alphabets to the organization of self-control based on the content and structure. The didactic features of these publications are described from the viewpoint of realizing the possibility of self-test of the tasks and exercises. German and Greek textbooks with an original system of self-test in illustrative and textual form are singled out and analyzed in detail. The types of tasks for the thinking development in schoolchildren are distinguished with the use of cluster analysis. The content analysis helped the authors in identifying the five groups of multiple or single selection of objects and things tasks and exercises, reproduction of previously studied letters, sequencing, correlation, and design. The paper shows the similarities and differences in the implementation of self-control skills formation in various editions of textbooks. The separate unit of exercises for the development of fine motor skills are considered as a means of developing graphic accuracy and a prerequisite for the transition to the stage of logical thinking.

scholarly journals The framing effect in a monetary gambling task is robust in minimally verbal language switching contexts

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph W Korn ◽  
Hauke R Heekeren ◽  
Yulia Oganian
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Framing Effect ◽  
Switching Effect ◽  
Gambling Task ◽  
Language Switching ◽  
Verbal Language ◽  
Verbal Content ◽  
Textual Form ◽  
Decision Making Biases

Decision-making biases, in particular the framing effect, can be altered in foreign language settings (foreign language effect) and following switching between languages (the language switching effect on framing). Recently, it has been suggested that the framing effect is only affected by foreign language use if the task is presented in a rich textual form. Here, we assess whether an elaborate verbal task is also a prerequisite for the language switching effect on framing. We employed a financial gambling task that induces a robust framing effect but is less verbal than the classical framing paradigms (e.g., the Asian disease problem). We conducted an online experiment ( n = 485), where we orthogonally manipulated language use and language switching between trials. The results showed no effects of foreign language use or language switching throughout the experiment. This online result was confirmed in a laboratory experiment ( n = 27). Overall, we find that language switching does not reduce the framing effect in a paradigm with little verbal content and thus that language switching effects seem contingent on the amount of verbal processing required.

scholarly journals Keeping Up Textual Appearances: The Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-106
Author(s):  
Thomas Giddens
Keyword(s):  
Legal Discourse ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Sovereign Power ◽  
Road Vehicles ◽  
Underlying Assumption ◽  
Visual Appearance ◽  
The Road ◽  
Intellectual Content ◽  
Practical Operation ◽  
Textual Form

In legal discourse and practice, concerns regarding the appearance of text focus almost exclusively on questions of legibility. There is little analysis of law’s textual form beyond matters of practical readability, indicating an underlying assumption that printed words are merely a vehicle for the transmission of law’s intellectual content. However, the UK’s Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001 (SI No 561) (the ‘2001 Regulations’) prescribe the detailed regulation of the visual appearance of registration marks (or number plates) beyond that required for their practical operation. Through analysis of these regulations, this paper overturns the assumption that the significance of textual appearance is purely pragmatic by demonstrating the widespread importance of the visual form of writing within the regulatory praxis of the modern state—of which registration marks are a part. When we read the law, when we encounter a regulatory text, we are not just decoding intellectual content but are witnessing the appearance and repetition of sovereign power.

scholarly journals <i>dh2loop</i> 1.0: an open-source Python library for automated processing and classification of geological logs

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 6711-6740
Author(s):  
Ranee Joshi ◽  
Kavitha Madaiah ◽  
Mark Jessell ◽  
Mark Lindsay ◽  
Guillaume Pirot
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Mineral Exploration ◽  
String Matching ◽  
Drill Hole ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Database Structure ◽  
Automated Processing ◽  
Study Case ◽  
Textual Form

Abstract. A huge amount of legacy drilling data is available in geological survey but cannot be used directly as they are compiled and recorded in an unstructured textual form and using different formats depending on the database structure, company, logging geologist, investigation method, investigated materials and/or drilling campaign. They are subjective and plagued by uncertainty as they are likely to have been conducted by tens to hundreds of geologists, all of whom would have their own personal biases. dh2loop (https://github.com/Loop3D/dh2loop, last access: 30 September 2021​​​​​​​) is an open-source Python library for extracting and standardizing geologic drill hole data and exporting them into readily importable interval tables (collar, survey, lithology). In this contribution, we extract, process and classify lithological logs from the Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA) Mineral Exploration Reports (WAMEX) database in the Yalgoo–Singleton greenstone belt (YSGB) region. The contribution also addresses the subjective nature and variability of the nomenclature of lithological descriptions within and across different drilling campaigns by using thesauri and fuzzy string matching. For this study case, 86 % of the extracted lithology data is successfully matched to lithologies in the thesauri. Since this process can be tedious, we attempted to test the string matching with the comments, which resulted in a matching rate of 16 % (7870 successfully matched records out of 47 823 records). The standardized lithological data are then classified into multi-level groupings that can be used to systematically upscale and downscale drill hole data inputs for multiscale 3D geological modelling. dh2loop formats legacy data bridging the gap between utilization and maximization of legacy drill hole data and drill hole analysis functionalities available in existing Python libraries (lasio, welly, striplog).

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