scholarly journals A preliminary description of mood in Welsh

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-226
Author(s):  
Lise Fontaine ◽  
Lowri Williams
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Initial Position ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Functional Description ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistic ◽  
Discourse Functions ◽  
Preliminary Description ◽  
Linguistic Framework

Abstract In this paper we propose a functional account of the Welsh mood system, focussing on responsives in particular. The discourse functions of responsives are interpreted through the concept of negotiation within the systemic functional linguistic framework, which offers a rich model for accounting for both initiations and responses, including possible tracking and challenging moves. By examining the interaction of mood together with specific features of Welsh, e.g. a dominant VSO clause ordering, mood particles, Subject ellipsis and a complex system of negation, we are able to show that Welsh tends to highlight interpersonal meanings in clause initial position. As the first functional description of Welsh, we also set out important directions for future research, based on the findings presented in this paper.

scholarly journals Complex System Governance as a Framework for Asset Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8502
Author(s):  
Polinpapilinho F. Katina ◽  
James C. Pyne ◽  
Charles B. Keating ◽  
Dragan Komljenovic
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Performance Improvement ◽  
Asset Management ◽  
System Performance ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Complex Organizations ◽  
Potential Relationship ◽  
Structured Approach

Complex system governance (CSG) is an emerging field encompassing a framework for system performance improvement through the purposeful design, execution, and evolution of essential metasystem functions. The goal of this study was to understand how the domain of asset management (AsM) can leverage the capabilities of CSG. AsM emerged from engineering as a structured approach to organizing complex organizations to realize the value of assets while balancing performance, risks, costs, and other opportunities. However, there remains a scarcity of literature discussing the potential relationship between AsM and CSG. To initiate the closure of this gap, this research reviews the basics of AsM and the methods associated with realizing the value of assets. Then, the basics of CSG are provided along with how CSG might be leveraged to support AsM. We conclude the research with the implications for AsM and suggested future research.

scholarly journals A taxonomy of antonymy in Arabic: Egyptian and Saudi proverbs in comparison

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 200-222
Author(s):  
Hamada Hassanein ◽  
Mohammad Mahzari
Keyword(s):  
Main Clause ◽  
The Other ◽  
Subordinate Clause ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Case Marking ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
Discourse Functions ◽  
Syntactic Frames

Abstract This study has set out to identify, quantify, typify, and exemplify the discourse functions of canonical antonymy in Arabic paremiography by comparing two manually collected datasets from Egyptian and Saudi (Najdi) dialects. Building upon Jones’s (2002) most extensive and often-cited classification of the discourse functions of antonyms as they co-occur within syntactic frames in news discourse, the study has substantially revised this classification and developed a provisional and dynamic typology thereof. Two major textual functions are found to be quantitatively significant and qualitatively preponderant: ancillarity (wherein an A-pair of canonical antonyms project their antonymicity onto a more important B-pair) and coordination (wherein one antonym holds an inclusive or exhaustive relation to another antonym). Three new functions have been developed and added to the retrieved classification: subordination (wherein one antonym occurs in a subordinate clause while the other occurs in a main clause), case-marking (wherein two opposite cases are served by two antonyms), and replacement (wherein one antonym is substituted with another). Semicanonical and noncanonical guises of antonymy are left and recommended for future research.

Trajectory planning for coordinately operating robots

1990 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. P. Chien ◽  
Qing Xue
Keyword(s):  
Trajectory Planning ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Initial Position ◽  
Minimum Time ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Rigid Object ◽  
Redundant Robots ◽  
Planning Algorithm ◽  
The Common ◽  
Joint Velocity

An efficient locally minimum-time trajectory planning algorithm for coordinately operating multiple robots is introduced. The task of the robots is to carry a common rigid object from an initial position to a final position along a given path in three-dimensional workspace in minimum time. The number of robots in the system is arbitrary. In the proposed algorithm, the desired motion of the common object carried by the robots is used as the key to planning of the trajectories of all the non-redundant robots involved. The search method is used in the trajectory planning. The planned robot trajectories satisfy the joint velocity, acceleration and torque constraints as well as the path constraints. The other constraints such as collision-free constraints, can be easily incorporated into the trajectory planning in future research.

Cost-Effectiveness of Security Measures

2014 ◽  
pp. 139-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolter Pieters ◽  
Christian W. Probst ◽  
Zofia Lukszo ◽  
Lorena Montoya
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Security Context

Recently, cyber security has become an important topic on the agenda of many organisations. It is already widely acknowledged that attacks do happen, and decision makers face the problem of how to respond. As it is almost impossible to secure a complex system completely, it is important to have an adequate estimate of the effectiveness of security measures when making investment decisions. Risk concepts are known in principle, but estimating the effectiveness of countermeasure proves to be difficult and cannot be achieved by qualitative approaches only. In this chapter, the authors consider the question of how to guarantee cost-effectiveness of security measures. They investigate the possibility of using existing frameworks and tools, the challenges in a security context as opposed to a safety context, and directions for future research.

Gender Fluidity in the Age of Technologically Mediated Environments

2017 ◽  
pp. 22-61
Author(s):  
Mary-Kate Hickman ◽  
Wilson Ozuem ◽  
Jummy Okoya
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Time Varying ◽  
Marketing Environment ◽  
Gender Fluidity ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Broad Complex

Gender is a concept that has evolved with time, varying its meaning and relevance regularly. Today, it manifests across many facets of life. Whilst theories of gender began as a device to categorise individuals and groups, these have evolved into a broad, complex system of identification to describe the uniqueness of the individual. Central to the discussion of gender is the question of how we can understand human conduct and experience in technologically laden marketing environments. Drawing on extant theories, the current chapter examines how the technologically mediated marketing environment (TMME) is increasingly challenging fashion and luxury marketers to reconsider their marketing communications strategies, particularly with the impact of evolving Internet technologies such as social media platforms. The concluding section offers further agenda for future research.

COMPARISON BETWEEN DIFFERENT METHODS OF LEVEL IDENTIFICATION

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (02) ◽  
pp. 1450007 ◽  
Author(s):  
OLIVER PFANTE ◽  
NILS BERTSCHINGER ◽  
ECKEHARD OLBRICH ◽  
NIHAT AY ◽  
JÜRGEN JOST
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Dynamical Systems ◽  
Coarse Graining ◽  
Discrete Dynamical Systems ◽  
Functional Description ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Level Identification

Levels of a complex system are characterized by the fact that they admit a closed functional description in terms of concepts and quantities intrinsic to that level. Several ideas have come up so far in order to make the notion of a closed description precise. In this paper, we present four of these approaches and investigate their mutual relationships. Our study is restricted to the case of discrete dynamical systems, where the different levels are linked by a coarse-graining of variables and states of the system.

C. R. Mackintosh: the symbolic geometry of The Hill House

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-63
Author(s):  
Eleanor Gregh
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Individual Work ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Aesthetic Principle ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
The Hill

The first part of this essay analyses in detail key aspects of The Hill House, in order to reveal the organising aesthetic principle that governs it. It would seem that a simple yet infinitely complex system of proportional measure binds a few natural and geometric symbols into a complex whole of profound poetic significance. The second part outlines the possible implications of this discovery for the interpretation and history of the house as an individual work of art, as well as of Mackintosh's oeuvre as a whole. These will be the subject of future research.

Discourse-structuring functions of initial adverbials in English and Norwegian news and fiction

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilde Hasselgård
Keyword(s):  
Information Management ◽  
Initial Position ◽  
The Other ◽  
Lower Degree ◽  
Corpus Study ◽  
Contrastive Focus ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
New Information ◽  
Initial Placement ◽  
Discourse Functions

This paper explores the discourse-structuring functions of initial adverbial adjuncts in English and Norwegian news and fiction. Such discourse functions have to do with discourse linking and information management. The corpus study reveals frequency differences in the use of initial adjuncts across the languages, which are to some extent connected with an overall greater frequency of adjuncts in Norwegian. While initial adjuncts in fiction often signal cohesive relations, those in news are more typically due to backgrounding of less important information or to framing/scene-setting for the clause message. Norwegian initial adjuncts are even less likely than English ones to convey new information; on the other hand, initial position is to a lesser extent associated with contrastive focus in Norwegian. This, together with the higher frequency of initial adjuncts in Norwegian, suggests that initial placement of adjuncts carries a lower degree of markedness in Norwegian than in English.

scholarly journals Curating Quality? How Twitter’s Timeline Algorithm Treats Different Types of News

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630512110416
Author(s):  
Jack Bandy ◽  
Nicholas Diakopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
New Media ◽  
Media Exposure ◽  
Future Research ◽  
External Link ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Testing Method ◽  
News Websites ◽  
Different Types

This article explores how Twitter’s algorithmic timeline influences exposure to different types of external media. We use an agent-based testing method to compare chronological timelines and algorithmic timelines for a group of Twitter agents that emulated real-world archetypal users. We first find that algorithmic timelines exposed agents to external links at roughly half the rate of chronological timelines. Despite the reduced exposure, the proportional makeup of external links remained fairly stable in terms of source categories (major news brands, local news, new media, etc.). Notably, however, algorithmic timelines slightly increased the proportion of “junk news” websites in the external link exposures. While our descriptive evidence does not fully exonerate Twitter’s algorithm, it does characterize the algorithm as playing a fairly minor, supporting role in shifting media exposure for end users, especially considering upstream factors that create the algorithm’s input—factors such as human behavior, platform incentives, and content moderation. We conclude by contextualizing the algorithm within a complex system consisting of many factors that deserve future research attention.

BEST PLAY IN FANORONA LEADS TO DRAW

2008 ◽  
Vol 04 (03) ◽  
pp. 369-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
MAARTEN P. D. SCHADD ◽  
MARK H. M. WINANDS ◽  
JOS W. H. M. UITERWIJK ◽  
H. JAAP VAN DEN HERIK ◽  
MAURICE H. J. BERGSMA
Keyword(s):  
Initial Position ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Board Game ◽  
National Board

Fanorona is the national board game of Madagascar. The game's complexity is approximately the same as that of checkers. In this article, we present a search-based approach for weakly solving this game. It is a well-chosen combination of Proof-Number search and endgame databases. Retrograde analysis is used to generate the endgame databases in which every position with 7 or fewer pieces on the board has been solved. Then, a Proof-Number search variant, PN2, exploits the databases to prove that the game-theoretical value of the initial position is a draw. Future research should develop techniques for strongly solving the game.

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