Piotrowski-Altmann law: State of the art

Glottotheory ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamil Stachowski

AbstractThe term Piotrowski-Altmann law refers to a wide range of linguistic phenomena which proceed in the “slow-fast-slow” fashion, i.e. drawing a sigmoid on a graph. They include the replacement of an old morphological form with a new one, lexical borrowing between languages, the growth of a child’s vocabulary, and many others. The paper briefly discusses the history of the law, its current variants and their applications, and lastly science theoretical problems connected with it. It concludes that our law is in fact a group of psycho- and sociological models, whose application to linguistics requires further deliberation.

This volume vividly demonstrates the importance and increasing breadth of quantitative methods in the earth sciences. With contributions from an international cast of leading practitioners, chapters cover a wide range of state-of-the-art methods and applications, including computer modeling and mapping techniques. Many chapters also contain reviews and extensive bibliographies which serve to make this an invaluable introduction to the entire field. In addition to its detailed presentations, the book includes chapters on the history of geomathematics and on R.G.V. Eigen, the "father" of mathematical geology. Written to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the International Association for Mathematical Geology, the book will be sought after by both practitioners and researchers in all branches of geology.


2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (11) ◽  
pp. 2604-2619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elodie Laine ◽  
Yasaman Karami ◽  
Alessandra Carbone

Abstract The systematic and accurate description of protein mutational landscapes is a question of utmost importance in biology, bioengineering, and medicine. Recent progress has been achieved by leveraging on the increasing wealth of genomic data and by modeling intersite dependencies within biological sequences. However, state-of-the-art methods remain time consuming. Here, we present Global Epistatic Model for predicting Mutational Effects (GEMME) (www.lcqb.upmc.fr/GEMME), an original and fast method that predicts mutational outcomes by explicitly modeling the evolutionary history of natural sequences. This allows accounting for all positions in a sequence when estimating the effect of a given mutation. GEMME uses only a few biologically meaningful and interpretable parameters. Assessed against 50 high- and low-throughput mutational experiments, it overall performs similarly or better than existing methods. It accurately predicts the mutational landscapes of a wide range of protein families, including viral ones and, more generally, of much conserved families. Given an input alignment, it generates the full mutational landscape of a protein in a matter of minutes. It is freely available as a package and a webserver at www.lcqb.upmc.fr/GEMME/.


2012 ◽  
Vol 465 ◽  
pp. 23-27
Author(s):  
Qing Shan Li ◽  
Chun Yan Zuo ◽  
Ai Li Pang ◽  
Jun Li ◽  
Hai Long Li

Leno enhanced the leno's contents of scientific and cultural,displayed the infinite charm This paper briefly introduces the history of leno, focus on the cooperation of Yanshan University and Suzhou Sacred Dragon Silk researched Reducing state multifunctional leno. reducing state multifunctional leno has excellent performance and a wide range of uses. It analyzed the waving process, applications of Reducing state multifunctional leno, and prospected its long term development. reducing state multifunctional of Chinese textile.


Author(s):  
Halyna Labinska

Changes in Ukrainian society due to the active influence of political factors and objective changes actualize toponymic analysis of geographical names of Ukraine. In April 2015 Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the Law “On conviction of Communist and National Socialist (Nazi) totalitarian regimes in Ukraine and promote their prohibition symbols”. This law significantly stimulated the local authorities of regions, towns and villages rename those objects of place names, which are of Soviet and imperial names within six months since the date of entry into force of the law. Nowadays there are about 1,000 Soviet names of settlements in Ukraine. The greatest number of them preserved in Kharkiv (112) and Dnipropetrovsk (89) regions, but they are completely absent in Transcarpathia, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Rivne regions. In the section of administrative districts of Ukraine, the largest number of Soviet place names happen in Krynychky and Piatykhatky districts of Dnipropetrovsk region (12) and Snihurivka district of Mykolaiv region (11). Manipulations of organising of public debates and public voting on possible options on changes of names on the places (in Dnipropetrovsk, Illichivsk, Kirovograd, Shchors) prove the significant inertia of colonial attitudes sentiment in Eastern Ukraine. One of the ways of these manipulations levelling is the toponymic policy implemented in the country, which is led by the Institute of National Remembrance. In the process of the renaming of oikonyms primarily and ahoronyms, hodonyms, urbanonyms subsequently, researchers recommend focusing mainly on historical roots. Therefore, they criticise the Russian imperial historical myths created in Muscovy in the XVI century that were based on the appropriation of the history of Kyivan Rus and Ukrainian historical name “Rus”. Bringing this information to a wide range of Ukrainians has extremely important educational and educative value. Key words: ahoronyms, hodonyms, oikonyms, place names, urbanonyms, historical myths, decommunization, decolonization, Country Moksel, Muscovy, Russian Empire


1968 ◽  
Vol 72 (688) ◽  
pp. 356-360
Author(s):  
I. N. Cartmell ◽  
R. W. Williams

The authors were requested to present short papers giving opposing views on the subject of Guided Weapon Simulators. Much of this subject is now a matter of fact and the authors found themselves in agreement on far too many points regarding the present situation to follow the requested approach, and instead have adopted the method of writing a joint paper briefly reviewing the past history of simulation and setting out the present state of the art as they see it, leaving the discussion of probable future trends to encourage controversy. It has still been difficult to be controversial, but if some of the statements made stimulate discussion then a useful purpose will have been served. It may turn out that what the authors have found difficult to produce between themselves has been created only too readily between themselves and their audience. It is not possible to discuss simulators without bringing in the concept of modelling, indeed an apt title for this paper could have been “From Simulation to Modelling”. The model technique has been defined as “a procedure in which a representation of a system is developed in some more convenient medium and checked to show that its behaviour agrees with that of the original system for a wide variety of conditions”.


2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (12) ◽  
pp. 4335-4350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth E. Tichenor ◽  
J. Scott Yaruss

Purpose This study explored group experiences and individual differences in the behaviors, thoughts, and feelings perceived by adults who stutter. Respondents' goals when speaking and prior participation in self-help/support groups were used to predict individual differences in reported behaviors, thoughts, and feelings. Method In this study, 502 adults who stutter completed a survey examining their behaviors, thoughts, and feelings in and around moments of stuttering. Data were analyzed to determine distributions of group and individual experiences. Results Speakers reported experiencing a wide range of both overt behaviors (e.g., repetitions) and covert behaviors (e.g., remaining silent, choosing not to speak). Having the goal of not stuttering when speaking was significantly associated with more covert behaviors and more negative cognitive and affective states, whereas a history of self-help/support group participation was significantly associated with a decreased probability of these behaviors and states. Conclusion Data from this survey suggest that participating in self-help/support groups and having a goal of communicating freely (as opposed to trying not to stutter) are associated with less negative life outcomes due to stuttering. Results further indicate that the behaviors, thoughts, and experiences most commonly reported by speakers may not be those that are most readily observed by listeners.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Sullivan ◽  
Marie Louise Herzfeld-Schild

This introduction surveys the rise of the history of emotions as a field and the role of the arts in such developments. Reflecting on the foundational role of the arts in the early emotion-oriented histories of Johan Huizinga and Jacob Burkhardt, as well as the concerns about methodological impressionism that have sometimes arisen in response to such studies, the introduction considers how intensive engagements with the arts can open up new insights into past emotions while still being historically and theoretically rigorous. Drawing on a wide range of emotionally charged art works from different times and places—including the novels of Carson McCullers and Harriet Beecher-Stowe, the private poetry of neo-Confucian Chinese civil servants, the photojournalism of twentieth-century war correspondents, and music from Igor Stravinsky to the Beatles—the introduction proposes five ways in which art in all its forms contributes to emotional life and consequently to emotional histories: first, by incubating deep emotional experiences that contribute to formations of identity; second, by acting as a place for the expression of private or deviant emotions; third, by functioning as a barometer of wider cultural and attitudinal change; fourth, by serving as an engine of momentous historical change; and fifth, by working as a tool for emotional connection across communities, both within specific time periods but also across them. The introduction finishes by outlining how the special issue's five articles and review section address each of these categories, while also illustrating new methodological possibilities for the field.


2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 13-26
Author(s):  
Brandon W. Hawk

Literature written in England between about 500 and 1100 CE attests to a wide range of traditions, although it is clear that Christian sources were the most influential. Biblical apocrypha feature prominently across this corpus of literature, as early English authors clearly relied on a range of extra-biblical texts and traditions related to works under the umbrella of what have been called “Old Testament Pseudepigrapha” and “New Testament/Christian Apocrypha." While scholars of pseudepigrapha and apocrypha have long trained their eyes upon literature from the first few centuries of early Judaism and early Christianity, the medieval period has much to offer. This article presents a survey of significant developments and key threads in the history of scholarship on apocrypha in early medieval England. My purpose is not to offer a comprehensive bibliography, but to highlight major studies that have focused on the transmission of specific apocrypha, contributed to knowledge about medieval uses of apocrypha, and shaped the field from the nineteenth century up to the present. Bringing together major publications on the subject presents a striking picture of the state of the field as well as future directions.


2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-54
Author(s):  
Dildora Alinazarova ◽  

In this article, based on an analysis of a wide range of sources, discusses the emergence and development of periodicals and printing house in Namangan. The activities of Ibrat- as the founder of the first printing house in Namangan are considered. In addition, it describes the functioning and development of "Matbaai Ishokia" in the past and present


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