The Diversification of the Amniotes

1994 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 129-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques A. Gauthier
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Egg Laying ◽  
Phylogenetic Systematics ◽  
Darwinian Revolution ◽  
Systematic Theory ◽  
Language Version ◽  
The Core ◽  
History Of

Publication of the English-language version of Hennig's (1966)Phylogenetic Systematicsmarked a turning point in the history of inquiry into the genealogy of life. Hennig catalyzed a long overdue reevaluation of systematic theory and method that should have followed immediately upon publication of Darwin's revolutionary ideas (de Queiroz, 1988). Hennig revitalized the field by taking the Theory of Descent to the core ofsystematics(de Queiroz, 1988, 1992)—the methods for investigating life's genealogy—andtaxonomy—the methods for communicating the results of those investigations (de Queiroz and Gauthier, 1992). Unfortunately, the Darwinian revolution has yet to sweep aside all vestiges of nonevolutionary thinking in this field. To further that goal, and to provide an update of Gauthier et al. (1989), this contribution summarizes current progress in the phylogeny and taxonomy of the major clades of land-egg-laying, or amniote, vertebrates.

Buffon, German Biology, and the Historical Interpretation of Biological Species

1979 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip R. Sloan
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Biological Systems ◽  
Biological Species ◽  
Natural System ◽  
Phylogenetic Systematics ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
Significant Development ◽  
History Of ◽  
Biological Systematics ◽  
Modern Era

The entry of time and history into biological systems of classification is perhaps the single most significant development in the history of biological systematics in the modern era. Darwin's claiming that descent is ‘… the hidden bond of connexion which naturalists have been seeking under the term of the natural system’, rather than seeing the answer in the multitude of previous attempts to resolve the problem in terms of morphological affinities, analogies, and complex relations of resemblance, marked the turning point in a long search into the meaning of biological taxonomy, and allowed the development of Darwin's insights by Haeckel, Plate and others into modern phylogenetic systematics.

scholarly journals Roman Darowski. Philosophical Anthropology

1970 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-254
Author(s):  
Piotr S. Mazur
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
English Language ◽  
Philosophical Anthropology ◽  
Language Version ◽  
History Of

Last year marked the appearance of an English-language book entitled Philosophical Anthropology: Outline of Fundamental Problems. It is, in actuality, an English translation of the most frequently reprinted work of the distinguished philosopher and expert on the history of Jesuit philosophy in Poland, Father Professor Roman Darowski. Although Philosophical Anthropology: Outline of Fundamental Problems is, excluding some of its parts, a translation rather than a new book, the fact of its appearance in English deserves to be noted and discussed, as the new English-language version will allow it to reach a significantly wider range of readers than before.

The Stigma of Meter

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith Martin
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
English Language ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Gerard Manley Hopkins ◽  
Max Müller ◽  
History Of ◽  
Comparative Philology ◽  
Critical Turning Point ◽  
Successes And Failures

This chapter resituates Gerard Manley Hopkins, whose name has become synonymous with metrical experiment, within the prosodic, philological, and theological debates of his time. His commitment to defining accent and stress in English was a critical turning point in his thinking about his identity as a Catholic and as an Englishman. It argues that his attempt to create a new English meter was a particularly Victorian engagement with poetic form, national identity, and the English language. Broader movements in comparative philology (particularly those associated with scholars such as Max Müller and Richard Chevenix Trench) influenced Hopkins's attempts to reconcile the history of English and the materiality of meter with his Catholic beliefs. Hopkins is used to prove that even the most obscure and alienated-seeming poet must be read as part of the broader debate about what meter can do for the quickly changing nation. Hopkins's successes and failures, anticipate later attempts to examine the constituent parts of meter and the English language.

scholarly journals Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Ambrosiani
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Main Text ◽  
Language Version ◽  
Publication History ◽  
Annotated Edition ◽  
History Of ◽  
Bilingual Text ◽  
The Relationship

This article addresses the relationship between text and paratext in the publication history of Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita. Such paratexts include Nabokov’s own afterword to the 1958 American edition and his postscript (published in 1967) to his own translation of Lolita into Russian, as well as various introductions and afterwords, both in English-language editions and in translations of Lolita into Russian and other languages. A particularly interesting type of paratext is constituted by annotations to the main text, and the analysis focuses on parallel examples published in annotated editions of Lolita in English, Russian, Polish, German, Ukrainian, and French. The analysis shows that the most detailed annotations concerning the totality of the English and Russian Lolita text and paratexts can be found in editions published in languages other than English and Russian, whereas most English or Russian editions seem to focus on the respective language version. There is still no complete, annotated edition of the bilingual text containing all the authorial paratexts.

scholarly journals Concept freiheit in German language chronicles of the XV–XVI centuries (on the material of town chronicles of Bern and Worms)

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 152-159
Author(s):  
A. E. Dunaev
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Written Language ◽  
German Language ◽  
Legal Entity ◽  
The Core ◽  
Research Material ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Town

In the history of the German written language, the XVXVI centuries became a turning point: in the sphere of both administrative writing and informative literature, new genres and types of texts are developing, and relations within the genre system are being rebuilt. Chronicle texts, including town chronicles, become one of the most popular textotypes. According to researchers, their primary function is legitimization of the respective town as a political and legal entity. This legitimation was based primarily on the rights and privileges granted to the town by its former or current lord. Accordingly, the semiotic space of chronicle texts is organized around the concept of freiheit meaning privilege, right, freedom. The purpose of the article is to analyze the nominative field of the concept freiheit and to conclude on the semantics and functioning of lexical units in the text that verbalize this concept. Over hundred text examples extracted from the chronicles of Bern (the first third of the XV century) and Worms (the second half of the XVI century) were used as the research material. The core of the concept freiheit, its nominate is built by the homonymic lexeme, whereby the lexeme recht also belongs to the nuclear part of the field. Based on the analysis of text examples, five components of meaning of freiheit were identified, which form the slots of the corresponding concept. The largest number of concept nominations is concentrated in the slot right, privilege: these are the lexemes gerechtigkeit the right to adjudicate, herrlichkeit with a similar meaning, obrigkeit the right of possession, indult temporary privilege, erlaubung permission. On the periphery of the concept freiheit lie the lexemes herkommen and gewohnheit in the meaning of legal customs. The analysis of material allows us to conclude that in the view of chroniclers, urban legal customs were as important for the legitimization of town as its privileges. It is worth saying that the lexeme freiheit is often used as a collective one, without specifying the content of a specific right or privilege. Obviously, for the chroniclers, the very existence of rights in their totality was of paramount importance, since this determined the status and power of their town.

The McDonaldization of Fencing. The Tauberbischofsheim Coaching Method as a Turning Point in the History of Fencing

STADION ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-114
Author(s):  
Udi Carmi
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Instruction ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Formal System ◽  
Training Model ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Revolution

In the early 1970s, the German fencing coach Emil Beck invented a new training model that deviated from the traditional French and Italian schools. Beck's model, named for the fencing club he established, Tauberbischofsheim, revolutionized the way fencing was taught. It was a rational, formal system based on McDonaldization - the economic consumption paradigm developed by sociologist George Ritzer. This article studies the Tauberbischofsheim training model as a turning point in the history of fencing. It analyzes the core principles of the system and the revolution it brought about. The McDonaldization paradigm applied to fencing undermined the basic tenets of fencing instruction, introducing a rational coaching plan and individualized lessons chosen from a pre-set menu. The coach became more of a guide than a trainer. For the first time, it was possible to teach fencing without being a consummate professional or an expert in the traditional instruction methods. The success of Beck's students has been unprecedented in the world of fencing.

scholarly journals Effects of Contributor Experience on the Quality of Health-Related Wikipedia Articles (Preprint)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Holtz ◽  
Besnik Fetahu ◽  
Joachim Kimmerle
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Full Model ◽  
Language Version ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Health Related ◽  
History Of ◽  
Widespread Phenomenon ◽  
Collaborative Knowledge

BACKGROUND Consulting the Internet for health-related information is a common and widespread phenomenon, and Wikipedia is arguably one of the most important resources for health-related information. Therefore, it is relevant to identify factors that have an impact on the quality of health-related Wikipedia articles. OBJECTIVE In our study we have hypothesized a positive effect of contributor experience on the quality of health-related Wikipedia articles. METHODS We mined the edit history of all (as of February 2017) 18,805 articles that were listed in the categories on the portal health & fitness in the English language version of Wikipedia. We identified tags within the articles’ edit histories, which indicated potential issues with regard to the respective article’s quality or neutrality. Of all of the sampled articles, 99 (99/18,805, 0.53%) articles had at some point received at least one such tag. In our analysis we only considered those articles with a minimum of 10 edits (10,265 articles in total; 96 tagged articles, 0.94%). Additionally, to test our hypothesis, we constructed contributor profiles, where a profile consisted of all the articles edited by a contributor and the corresponding number of edits contributed. We did not differentiate between rollbacks and edits with novel content. RESULTS Nonparametric Mann-Whitney U-tests indicated a higher number of previously edited articles for editors of the nontagged articles (mean rank tagged 2348.23, mean rank nontagged 5159.29; U=9.25, P<.001). However, we did not find a significant difference for the contributors’ total number of edits (mean rank tagged 4872.85, mean rank nontagged 5135.48; U=0.87, P=.39). Using logistic regression analysis with the respective article’s number of edits and number of editors as covariates, only the number of edited articles yielded a significant effect on the article’s status as tagged versus nontagged (dummy-coded; Nagelkerke R2 for the full model=.17; B [SE B]=-0.001 [0.00]; Wald c2 [1]=19.70; P<.001), whereas we again found no significant effect for the mere number of edits (Nagelkerke R2 for the full model=.15; B [SE B]=0.000 [0.01]; Wald c2 [1]=0.01; P=.94). CONCLUSIONS Our findings indicate an effect of contributor experience on the quality of health-related Wikipedia articles. However, only the number of previously edited articles was a predictor of the articles’ quality but not the mere volume of edits. More research is needed to disentangle the different aspects of contributor experience. We have discussed the implications of our findings with respect to ensuring the quality of health-related information in collaborative knowledge-building platforms.

Michael Chekhov and the Search for the ‘Ideal’ Theatre

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrei Kirillov
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
English Language ◽  
Keynote Address ◽  
Language Version ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
History And Theory

In a keynote address delivered at the Michael Chekhov symposium ‘Theatre of the Future?’, held at Dartington Hall in November 2005, Andrei Kirillov argued that Chekhov’s ideas have not yet been fully assimilated, pointing out that merely to follow his exercises without understanding their connection to the actor’s imagination and meditative as well as spiritual dimensions is to fail fully to understand him. Andrei Kirillov is a researcher and Assistant Chair at the Theatre Department of the Russian Institute of the History of the Arts. His numerous publications on the history and theory of Russian theatre include Michael Chekhov: the Path of the Actor, co-edited with Bella Merlin (2005), and Teatr Mikhaila Chekhova: Russkoye Akterskoye Iskusstvo XX veca (The Theatre of Michael Chekhov: the Art of Russian Acting in the Twentieth Century, 1993). Bella Merlin originally enhanced the English-language version of this lecture, and with the author’s approval it has been further edited by NTQ for publication.

scholarly journals A never-born Russian-language earth globe in the Virtual Globes Museum

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Dávid Gerzsenyi ◽  
Gábor Gercsák ◽  
Mátyás Márton
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
New Product ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Language Version ◽  
Russian Version ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
History Of ◽  
Virtual Globes ◽  
Made In

Abstract. It has been just for more than thirty years that the English-language version of the detachable structural-morphological globe of the Earth with 40 cm diameter produced by the Cartographia Enterprise won the prize of the best demonstration aid (Anson and Gutsell 1989) at the Budapest conference of the International Cartographic Association in August 1989. This success was the result of the cooperation between two education institutions (Kossuth Lajos University and Eötvös Loránd University /ELTE/) and two Hungarian firms (Cartographia Enterprise and School Equipment Producing and Marketing Company). This unique product has been the only thematic earth globe designed and published in Hungary and which was duplicated in a relatively large number. It is a rarity today. This is one of the reasons why this globe has been placed in the Virtual Globes Museum (VGM) (http://terkeptar.elte.hu/vgm). This paper gives an overview of the history of these thematic globes: the Hungarian versions made in 1986 (VGM ID 8, 9, 10) and the English versions published in 1988 (VGM ID 66, 67, 68). It introduces the immediate scientific antecedents of their birth and – being a demonstration aid – the process of publishing. The paper also presents the work with the Russian version of the globe carried out at the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics, ELTE (VGM ID 154, 155, 156). This will lead to the expansion of the number of globes in the VGM. The close relationship between the new product and the former two editions is also pointed out.

scholarly journals The Latest Tools for the Formation of Foreign Language Communicative Competence of Students of Non-language Specialties

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olha Turko ◽  
Tetiana Kravchuk ◽  
Oleksandra Kashuba ◽  
Halyna Navolska ◽  
Ivan Kutsyi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Electronic System ◽  
Interactive Technologies ◽  
Technology Project ◽  
The Core ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Given

This paper aims at demonstrating the effectiveness of modern methods of formation of English language communicative competence of those students who study at non-language specialties. The experimental work was carried out at the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, the Faculty of Physical Education and the Faculty of History of Ternopil National Pedagogical University named after Volodymyr Hnatyuk, Ukraine. The authors present their experience of conducting a three-year-long training using game technology, project-based technology, interactive technologies, tasks in the electronic system Moodle, etc. and discuss the benefits of using those means at university. The core question of the given study is whether these means are effective in the formation of students’ foreign language communicative competence. The authors demonstrate the benefits of studying with the help of modern lingua-didactic and technical means. The results of the survey indicate that these tools are effective in their integrated application for the formation of English language skills. To conclude, the findings of the study can be applied while teaching English to the students of non-language specialties.

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