A Puzzling Problem

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shane M. Graber
Keyword(s):  
Puzzling Problem

Evaluativity of degree achievements and verbal prefixes: Evidence from Czech morphology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mojmír Dočekal ◽  
Lucia Vlášková
Keyword(s):  
Standard Theory ◽  
Scalar Theory ◽  
Verbal Prefixes ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Puzzling Problem ◽  
The Given

Abstract The telicity behavior of degree achievements has been a puzzling problem to many linguists. The most successful and currently standard theory (Kennedy & Levin 2008) treats them as degree expressions lexicalizing different types of scales, which in turn influence the resulting evaluative or non-evaluative interpretation. While it may account for English, this theory does not hold up cross-linguistically. We challenge the scalar theory with new Slavic data and show that verbal prefixes influence the (non-)evaluative interpretation of degree achievements more than their underlying scales do. This proposal is formalised as an addition of two type shifters, morphosyntactically realised as prefixes, which, in result, have an evaluative/non-evaluative effect on the given degree achievement.

The Complex Issue of Measuring KM Performance

2011 ◽  
pp. 208-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrico Scarso ◽  
Ettore Bolisani ◽  
Antonella Padova
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Performance Measurement ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
Daily Experience ◽  
Business Context ◽  
Evaluation Approaches ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Puzzling Problem

Most companies that are deeply investing in Knowledge Management (KM) initiatives encounter substantial difficulties in assessing the effectiveness of these programmes. Actually, measuring the impact of KM projects is still a puzzling problem both at the conceptual and operative level. However, measuring their performance is necessary for monitoring their progress and for successfully managing and allocating resources, as well as to maintain the support and commitment by the top management. Although several KM performance evaluation approaches have been proposed in literature, they are still far from becoming an established practice. The chapter aims at discussing this issue by placing it in a business context. First, the literature on KM performance evaluation is briefly reviewed, and the main methods currently used are classified. Then, the practical experience of a multinational company is discussed, with the purpose to describe the problems that practitioners face in their daily experience, and provide insights into the possible improvements of KM performance measurement.

Ciceronian and Heraclean Professiones

1918 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jefferson Elmore
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Good Case ◽  
Interesting Article ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Puzzling Problem ◽  
Difficult Part ◽  
New System ◽  
Opening Section ◽  
As If

Perhaps the most difficult part of the famous inscription from Heraclea (around which so many controversies have raged) is the opening section of the extant text, where from a given form of procedure it is required to determine the subject matter. A solution of this puzzling problem, which I proposed some months ago, has recently been made the subject of an interesting article in this journal by Dr. E. G. Hardy. Mr. Hardy has long been engaged in this field, and has rendered much useful service. In this article, however, he seems to be interested in my views chiefly in their relation to his own theory. This is apparent in his agreements with me. For example, one aim of my study was to identify the professiones of Cicero's letters ad Att. xiii. 33, 1, and ad Fam. xvi. 23, 1, with those provided for in the first section of the inscription. It appeared that the returns mentioned by Cicero were registrations of property, that they were to be made yearly, and that they had their prototype in the annual property census of Egypt. It also seemed clear that Caesar's recensus populi of 46 was modelled on the Egyptian kατ' oίkíαm άπoγραφήiKíαν. With these preliminary conclusions (by no means unimportant in themselves) Mr. Hardy is not unwilling to agree. He even goes so far as to say that I have made a good case for ‘a new system of professiones somehow relating to property and introduced in 46.’ He thinks too that the settlement of the frumentations as a part of a more comprehensive legislative scheme (as my view implies) would be most appropriate. So far so good, but when it comes to the vital point of admitting a connection between these matters and vv. 1–19 of the Tablet he draws back as if from some fatal step.

CLINICAL CONFERENCE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 802-811
Author(s):  
Emilia Sedlis ◽  
Philip Prose
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Features ◽  
Clinical Picture ◽  
Skin Disease ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Puerto Ricans ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
The University ◽  
Special Studies ◽  
Puzzling Problem ◽  
Clinic Population

Dr. Sedlis: A brief review of the clinical features of a group of patients with eczema will be followed by a report of special studies of the pathology of the skin. Eczema is a frequent, important skin disease in early life. It has been a puzzling problem for the physician and an exasperating one for parents and patients alike. We began our study of eczema about 1 year ago. During this year, we have accumulated and organized the study material, and we have tried to learn about the clinical picture of eczema and to evaluate certain concepts of its etiology, pathogenesis and therapy. Our study is far from complete, and I will therefore try to avoid drawing definite conclusions from the data presented. Our material to date consists of a clinic population of 169 patients, 91 males and 78 females, who made a total of 646 clinic visits. Fifty-four of these patients required hospitalization in the University Hospital. Thirty of the hospitalized patients were males, 24 were females. I do not know whether the prevalence of boys in our census is significant. The distribution of the patients by race is: Puerto Ricans, 102; Negro, 40; White, 25; Others, 2. The distribution by age shows that the majority of patients were under 1 year of age on their first visit to the clinic: 91 patients were 1 year or less; 36 patients were between 1 and 2 years, making a total of 127 patients under 2 years; 42 patients were over 2 years, the oldest child being 6½ years.

The tektite problem

1937 ◽  
Vol 24 (156) ◽  
pp. 503-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. J. Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
West Africa ◽  
South China ◽  
Ivory Coast ◽  
Volcanic Glass ◽  
Similar Material ◽  
Alluvial Deposits ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Dutch East Indies ◽  
Puzzling Problem

The natural glasses, found as small corroded pieces scattered on the earth's surface and in alluvial deposits in a few limited areas, have long presented a puzzling problem; and many theories have been propounded to explain their origin. They have been known in southern Bohemia and western Moravia since before 1787; and similar material has since been found in the Dutch East Indies, Malay States, Australia, Tasmania, French Indo-China, south China, Philippine Islands, and quite recently in the Ivory Coast in West Africa [M.A. 6-106]. These glasses are distinct in chemical composition from volcanic glass (obsidian), and there are no volcanoes in the districts where they are found. They have been given the names m oldavites, billitonites, austral ites, Darwin glass, indoch inites, rizalitcs [M.A. 4-422; 6-403], &c.

The Puzzling Problem of Unfilled Prescriptions

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 31-31
Author(s):  
G. H. Haischer-Rollo
Keyword(s):  
Puzzling Problem

The Partition of the Neutral Zone

1966 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 735-749
Author(s):  
Sayed M. Hosni
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Neutral Zone ◽  
External Influence ◽  
Arab States ◽  
Puzzling Problem ◽  
Domestic Law

The conclusion on July 7, 1965, of an Agreement between the independent sovereign states of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia in relation to the so-called Neutral Zone, of which exchange of instruments of ratification was effected on July 25 of this year, is a striking illustration of the ability of the Arab States to settle by free decision, unclouded by external influence, a unique and puzzling problem involving interests of great importance. It is an encouraging expression of the policy of common sense and good neighborliness, and raises interesting questions of international and domestic law.

scholarly journals The source of magnetic fields in (neutron-) stars

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (S259) ◽  
pp. 61-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendrik C. Spruit
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
Neutron Stars ◽  
Core Collapse ◽  
Magnetorotational Instability ◽  
Dynamo Action ◽  
Field Amplification ◽  
Equilibrium Configurations ◽  
Puzzling Problem ◽  
Collapse Process

AbstractSome arguments, none entirely conclusive, are reviewed about the origin of magnetic fields in neutron stars, with emphasis of processes during and following core collapse in supernovae. Possible origins of the magnetic fields of neutron stars include inheritance from the main sequence progenitor and dynamo action at some stage of evolution of progenitor. Inheritance is not sufficient to explain the fields of magnetars. Energetic considerations point to differential rotation in the final stages of core collapse process as the most likely source of field generation, at least for magnetars. A runaway phase of exponential growth is needed to achieve sufficient field amplification during relevant phase of core collapse; it can probably be provided by a some form of magnetorotational instability. Once formed in core collapse, the field is in danger of decaying again by magnetic instabilities. The evolution of a magnetic field in a newly formed neutron star is discussed, with emphasis on the existence of stable equilibrium configurations as end products of this evolution, and the role of magnetic helicity in their existence. A particularly puzzling problem is the large range of field strengths observed in neutron stars (as well as in A stars and white dwarfs). It implies that a single, deterministic process is insufficient to explain the origin of the magnetic fields in these stars.

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