scholarly journals Ida Caroline Ward

1950 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 542-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. N. Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Major Work ◽  
African Languages ◽  
The North ◽  
European Languages ◽  
University College ◽  
University College London ◽  
Speech Defects ◽  
The University

In the death of Professor Ida Ward in the Guildford Hospital on 10th October 1949, just after her sixty-ninth birthday, African studies lost one of their greatest exponents, and Africa one of its best friends.Ida Caroline Ward was born in Bradford on the 4th October 1880, the eighth child of a Yorkshire wool merchant. Prom a school in Bradford she went to the Darlington Training College and later to Durham University, where she graduated B.Litt. with distinction. The North Country background of her early years remained with her always and gave a delightful “ common-sense ” colour to her character.After sixteen years of teaching in secondary schools, she joined the Phonetics Department under Professor Daniel Jones in University College, London, in 1919, and soon established herself as an authority in the phonetics of the main European languages and in the study of speech defects. Noteworthy works of this period are A Handbook of English Intonation (written in collaboration with the late Lilian E. Armstrong), The Phonetics of English, and Speech Defects, Their Nature and Cure. Her interest in her mother tongue persisted, and she was actually working on another edition of the book on English Intonation when she died.It was while lecturing at University College to missionaries that her interests turned towards West African languages—Kanuri, Igbo and Efik were her first fields of African research—and her first major work, The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Efik (for which the University of London awarded her the D.Lit. in 1933), threw a new light on the study of these languages, and showed that intonation, that element hitherto so elusive, was one that could and should be studied if justice was to be done to African languages.

Alfred William Porter, 1863 - 1939

1940 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 87-88
Keyword(s):  
Academic Career ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Partial Recovery ◽  
University College ◽  
University College London ◽  
Physics Department ◽  
Oliver Lodge ◽  
The University ◽  
Serious Injuries

Alfred William Porter died on 11 January 1939 at West Kirby, Cheshire, to which place he had removed after partial recovery from serious injuries sustained about a year earlier in a street accident in London, where he had spent most of his life. He was born on 12 November 1863, and in his early years lived in Liverpool. He began training as an architect, but, his interest in physics having been stimulated by association with Oliver Lodge, he began to study this subject seriously and entered upon an academic career at the age of twenty-seven. He was a student first at Liverpool University College and later at University College, London, graduating there in 1890. In the same year he became a demonstrator in the Physics Department, and thus began an association with University College, London, which was uninterrupted until his retirement in 1928 with the title of Emeritus Professor of Physics in the University of London. During this long association he served under four Professors— Carey Foster, H. L. Callendar, F. T. Trouton and W. H. Bragg —as Assistant Professor. He was elected a Fellow of University College in 1897, and was appointed University Reader in Thermodynamics in 1912. It was not until 1923 that he himself became Professor in the Department to which he had devoted so much of his energy.

scholarly journals A Needs Assessment for Indigenous African Language-Based Programming Languages

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Ezekiel K. Olatunji ◽  
John B. Oladosu ◽  
Odetunji A. Odejobi ◽  
Stephen O. Olabiyisi
Keyword(s):  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Programming Languages ◽  
Programming Language ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
African Languages ◽  
European Languages ◽  
To Come ◽  
High Degree

AbstractThe development of an African native language-based programming language, using Yoruba as a case study, is envisioned. Programming languages based on the lexicons of indigenous African languages are rare to come by unlike those based on Asian and / or European languages. Availability of programming languages based on lexicons of African indigenous language would facilitate comprehension of problem-solving processes using computer by indigenous learners and teachers as confirmed by research results. In order to further assess the relevance, usefulness and needfulness of such a programming language, a preliminary needs assessment survey was carried out. The needs assessment was carried out through design of a structured questionnaire which was administered to 130 stakeholders in computer profession and computer education; including some staffers and learners of some primary, secondary and tertiary educational institutions in Oyo and Osun states of Nigeria, Africa. The responses to the questionnaire were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The analysis of the responses to the questionnaire shows that 89% of the respondents to the questionnaire expressed excitement and willingness to program or learn programming in their mother tongue-based programming language, if such a programming language is developed. This result shows the high degree of relevance, usefulness and needfulness of a native language-based programming language as well as the worthwhileness of embarking on development of such a programming language.

THUR 037 Identification of biofluid markers of TDP-43 pathology

2018 ◽  
Vol 89 (10) ◽  
pp. A5.4-A6
Author(s):  
Shafei Rachelle ◽  
Foiani Martha ◽  
Heller Carolin ◽  
Heslegrave Amanda ◽  
Woollacott Ione ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Frontotemporal Dementia ◽  
Observational Studies ◽  
Healthy Controls ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Healthy Individuals ◽  
University College ◽  
University College London ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The University

IntroductionFrontotemporal dementia (FTD) is usually caused pathologically by either tau or TDP-43. Previous biofluid assays of TDP-43 have not so far proved to be sensitive or specific for identifying those cases with TDP-43 pathology.Material and methodsWe set out to investigate the novel TDP-43 Simoa assay (Quanterix) assay in both plasma and CSF in a cohort of patients recruited from the University College London FTD observational studies with known or likely TDP-43 pathology (17), non-TDP-43 pathology (13), and healthy controls (10).ResultsThe mean [standard deviation] plasma TDP-43 concentration was higher in those with likely TDP-43 pathology (155.1 [223.4] pg/ml) than those with non-TDP pathology (112.39 [252.9] pg/ml), and healthy controls (50.0 [23.1] pg/ml), but the differences between groups was non-significant, with substantial overlap in concentrations between all three groups. The mean CSF TDP-43 concentration was 2.9 [0.3] pg/ml in those with likely TDP-43 pathology, 2.8 [0.4] pg/ml in those with non-TDP pathology, and 3.1 [0.5] pg/ml in healthy controls. DiscussionThe assay tested in this study does not accurately distinguish between those with likely TDP-43 pathology and either disease controls or healthy individuals. There remains an urgent need to develop a better biofluid assay for pathological TDP-43.

Hotel-based ambulatory care for complex cancer patients: a review of the University College London Hospital experience

2012 ◽  
Vol 53 (12) ◽  
pp. 2397-2404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Sive ◽  
Kirit M. Ardeshna ◽  
Simon Cheesman ◽  
Franel le Grange ◽  
Stephen Morris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ambulatory Care ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
London Hospital ◽  
Hospital Experience ◽  
University College ◽  
University College London ◽  
The University

scholarly journals Funksionele meertaligheid in Suid-Afrika: 'n onbereikbare ideaal?

Literator ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Verhoef
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Final Report ◽  
North West ◽  
African Languages ◽  
The North ◽  
Mother Tongue Instruction ◽  
Education Act ◽  
Regional Languages

Functional multilingualism in South Africa: an unattainable ideal? Although much has been done on an official level to establish true multilingualism in South Africa, a tendency towards English monolingualism seems to exist in the country. The aim of this article is to describe the official stipulations in pursuit of multilingualism, as they appear in the Constitution (Act 108 of 1996), the School Act (Act 84 of 1996) and the final report of Langtag. In addition to the present demands, the article also responds to previous demands for multilingualism in the South African context, particularly as stated in the Bantu Education Act of 1953. It is argued that, because of the negative connotations associated with mother-tongue instruction in the past, contemporary mother-tongue instruction will also be contaminated. Apart from the theoretical investigation into multilingualism, the article reports on empirical research that has been done in this regard in the North West Province where the attitudes and perceptions of the school population towards the regional languages were measured. Although the subjects reacted positively to the official status granted to several South African languages, they expressed a preference for English as working language because of the access it gives to personal, economic and social development and empowerment. The article concludes with brief recommendations regarding language planning opportunities that derive from this situation.

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