scholarly journals Interaction of Lithuanian and Belarusian Dialects in the Surroundings of Radun

2021 ◽  
pp. 48-60
Author(s):  
Nijolė Tuomienė
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Short Vowels ◽  
Middle Generation ◽  
Over Time

The research focuses on the interaction of the Lithuanian and Belarusian languages in thesurroundings of Radun (Belarus, Voranava district, Lith. Rodūnia). Employing the language changemethodology, the paper presents a detailed analysis of the most prominent cases of phonetic interference oftwo – old and middle – generations of residents in both languages spoken by them.The data show that the oldest residents are expressing both languages using the Lithuanian articulatory base. Over time, the characteristic Lithuanian features begin to level: varies the pronunciation of a; in open endings, the long tense vowels i, ы are usually pronounced as é; unstressed vowels are reduced inconsistently, etc.As Lithuanian is for the middle-generation speakers, it already demonstrates essential changes, whichoccurred because they started expressing their Lithuanian using the Belarusian articulatory base. First of all, they usually lengthen stressed short vowels; they do no longer pronounce unstressed long vowels; they donot distinguish between acute – or circumflex-accented mixed i, u + R type diphthongs; the distinction between the falling and rising diphthongs ai, au, is made based on phonetic, not accentual, factors; the palatalised dental consonants t, d are replaced by the palatalised velar consonants k, g.

Negotiation between modernity and local culture in moviegoing practice: A case study of a traditional movie theater in Guangzhou Metropolis

2021 ◽  
pp. 136787792199381
Author(s):  
Geng Lin ◽  
Hao Wu ◽  
Xiaoru Xie ◽  
Fiona Fan Yang ◽  
Zuyi Lv
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Movie Theaters ◽  
Movie Theater ◽  
Over Time

As a medium for delivering modernity, movie theaters have faithfully recorded the dialogue between modernity and local daily lives. In contrast to modern movie theaters, traditional cinemas are distinguished by their long history, through which they reflect the changing connotations and social construction of modernity over time. Based on detailed analysis of the historical and social characteristics of Nanguan cinema, a 100-year-old movie theater in Guangzhou, China, we reach the following two conclusions: first, shaped by local traditional culture, the practice of moviegoing localizes modernity with a distinctive grassroots feature that enlivens everyday lives; second, moviegoing at traditional theaters in modern metropolitan areas has further enriched the connotations of modernity by providing a nostalgic experience for audiences.

On the State of Genre/Form Vocabulary: A Quantitative Analysis of LCGFT Data in WorldCat

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Colin Bitter ◽  
Yuji Tosaka
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
The State ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Moderate Increase ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
Bibliographic Data ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Over Time

The purpose of this paper is to report on a quantitative analysis of the LCGFT vocabulary within a large set of MARC bibliographic data retrieved from the OCLC WorldCat database. The study aimed to provide a detailed analysis of the outcomes of the LCGFT project, which was launched by the Library of Congress (LC) in 2007. Findings point to a moderate increase in LCGFT use over time; however, the vocabulary has not been applied to the fullest extent possible in WorldCat. Further, adoption has been inconsistent between the various LCGFT disciplines. These and other findings discussed here suggest that retrospective application of the vocabulary using automated means should be investigated by catalogers and other technical services librarians. Indeed, as the data used for the analysis show somewhat uneven application of LCGFT, and with nearly half a billion records in WorldCat, it remains a certainty that much of LCGFT’s full potentials for genre/form access and retrieval will remain untapped until innovative solutions are introduced to further increase overall vocabulary usage in bibliographic databases.

Folk-Inspired Neoclassical vs Folk-Inspired Compositions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kendra Klages
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
The Other ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The World ◽  
Applied Lessons ◽  
Over Time

My research project focuses on folk inspired music of Poland, England, China, and Ireland. In my applied lessons on clarinet, I studied two neoclassical Polish folk pieces, so the question answered in the research is how the two neoclassical Polish pieces compare to folk inspired pieces from other countries. The pieces chosen for this study are mainly pieces that I have heard before. Therefore, I chose the pieces based upon my familiarity with them. Folk music expresses the sounds and rhythms that represent countries all over the world. Over time these sounds and rhythms evolve to reflect the country at that moment. This study will reflect how folk music was implemented into different pieces with a focus on Polish neoclassical folk pieces versus English, Chinese, and Irish folk pieces. There is a detailed analysis focused on two Polish compositions. While the focus of the other global pieces is to allow one to understand how folk music was being used in compositions specific to the country being studied. The purpose of this study is to understand how folk tunes and characteristics can be expressed through larger compositions, and how the different countries and genres approached that. Furthermore, the study compares Polish folk music to the folk music of other countries and where Polish folk composers stand in originality and experimentalism with the composers of England, China, and Ireland.

I Erechtheis

2018 ◽  
pp. 813-846
Author(s):  
S. C. Humphreys
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Individual Character ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Over Time

This section of the volume examines deme documents, archaeological evidence, and prosographical data, tribe by tribe and deme by deme. It is possible by detailed analysis to recover something of the significance of kinship in the local community from which the individual character of each deme emerged, and which contributed to changes in that character over time. This chapter covers the following: City trittys: Euonymon, Pergase?, Kedoi? Pambotadai? Inland trittys: Kephisia. Coastal trittys: Anagyrous, Lamptrai.

scholarly journals Postwar statebuilding in Burundi: ruling party elites and illiberal peace

2021 ◽  
Vol 97 (4) ◽  
pp. 1221-1238
Author(s):  
Ntagahoraho Z Burihabwa ◽  
Devon E A Curtis
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
Peace Agreements ◽  
Internal Politics ◽  
Party Elites ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ruling Party ◽  
Over Time

Abstract The widespread enthusiasm for internationally-supported liberal statebuilding since the 1990s has become much more tempered, due in part to the mixed record of postwar liberal statebuilding. Over time, many postwar countries have adopted more authoritarian statebuilding trajectories, despite the fact that negotiated peace agreements tend to reflect liberal principles. This is often attributed to ‘liberal’ international actors encountering resistant ‘illiberal’ domestic elites. The postwar statebuilding trajectory in Burundi appears to fit this dominant narrative, with the ruling party, the Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie-Forces pour la Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD-FDD), deviating from some of the liberal principles that underpinned the Burundian peace agreement. Drawing on a detailed analysis of the internal politics of Burundi's ruling party, we show that this account is flawed. We question overly simplified accounts of ‘illiberal’ ruling party elites and we argue that tensions, competition and fragmentation within the ruling party were decisive in Burundi's statebuilding path. Rather than seeing Burundi as an inevitable failure of liberal statebuilding, we highlight how there was some commitment to liberal principles even within the ruling party. Internal struggles within the ruling CNDD-FDD led to current outcomes in Burundi, which should not be interpreted as predestined or definitive. We show that understanding the complexities, diversities and contingencies within ruling parties opens new spaces for thinking about the creation and recreation of political orders after war.

scholarly journals The decade construction rivalry in Russian

Diachronica ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tore Nesset ◽  
Anastasia Makarova
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Corpus Data ◽  
Semantic Differentiation ◽  
Diachronic Development ◽  
Locative Case ◽  
Over Time

Abstract This article addresses the diachronic development of so-called rival forms, i.e., words or grammatical constructions that appear to be synonyms, based on a detailed empirical analysis of two seemingly synonymous constructions in Russian. Corresponding to the English ‘decade construction’ in the twenties, Russian has two rival constructions, viz. v dvadcatye gody [lit. “in the twentieth years”] (with the numeral and noun in the accusative) and v dvadcatyx godax (with the numeral and noun in the locative case). Three hypotheses about rival forms are considered: leveling (whereby one form ousts its rival), sociolinguistic differentiation (whereby the two rivals survive in different varieties of a language) and semantic differentiation (whereby the two rivals develop different meanings over time). Contrary to what has been suggested in the literature, we find little evidence for semantic and sociolinguistic differentiation. Instead, we demonstrate that leveling is taking place, since the accusative construction is in the process of ousting its rival. While our study shows that corpus data facilitate detailed analysis of the interaction between leveling, sociolinguistic differentiation and semantic differentiation, our analysis also points to limitations, especially when it comes to corpus-based analysis of sociolinguistic and semantic factors.

scholarly journals Genomic Changes Arising in Long-Term Stab Cultures of Escherichia coli

2004 ◽  
Vol 186 (19) ◽  
pp. 6437-6442 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Faure ◽  
R. Frederick ◽  
D. Włoch ◽  
P. Portier ◽  
M. Blot ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Escherichia Coli ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Selective Advantage ◽  
Target Sequence ◽  
Genomic Changes ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Genomic Scans ◽  
Over Time

ABSTRACT Genomic scans of clones isolated from long-term stab cultures of Escherichia coli K-12 showed the loss of two large segments of the genome, with each lost segment being approximately 20 kb long. A detailed analysis of one of the deletions, located between 5.4 and 5.9 min, revealed that similar deletions had arisen in several other stab cultures. All deletions of this type exhibited a right terminus ending precisely at an IS5A element and a left terminus that varied over an ∼5-kb range but was bordered in all but two cases by sequences belonging to the preferred consensus target sequence for IS5, YTAR. The ubiquity of such deletions in independent stab cultures and the increase in their frequency over time argue that they have a selective advantage. It is speculated that the loss of the crl locus is responsible for the selective advantage of the deletions.

Living with Mortality: Longevity Bonds and Other Mortality-Linked Securities

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Blake ◽  
A. J. G. Cairns ◽  
K. Dowd
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Pension Plans ◽  
Longevity Risk ◽  
Over The Counter ◽  
New Class ◽  
Credit Risks ◽  
Longevity Bonds ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTThis paper addresses the problem of longevity risk — the risk of uncertain aggregate mortality — and discusses the ways in which life assurers, annuity providers and pension plans can manage their exposure to this risk. In particular, it focuses on how they can use mortality-linked securities and over-the-counter contracts — some existing and others still hypothetical — to manage their longevity risk exposures. It provides a detailed analysis of two such securities — the Swiss Re mortality bond issued in December 2003 and the EIB/BNP longevity bond announced in November 2004. It then looks at the universe of hypothetical mortality-linked securities — other forms of longevity bonds, swaps, futures and options — and investigates their potential uses. It also addresses implementation issues, and draws lessons from the experiences of other derivative contracts. Particular attention is paid to the issues involved with the construction and use of mortality indices, the management of the associated credit risks, and possible barriers to the development of markets for these securities. It suggests that these implementation difficulties are essentially teething problems that will be resolved over time, and so leave the way open to the development of flourishing markets in a brand new class of securities.

A Clinical Analysis of Dupuytren’s Disease of the Thumb

2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 272-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. FIGUS ◽  
J. A. BRITTO ◽  
R. H. RAGOOWANSI ◽  
D. ELLIOT
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Disease Severity ◽  
Clinical Studies ◽  
Clinical Analysis ◽  
Dupuytren’S Disease ◽  
Dupuytren's Disease ◽  
Over Time

Although Dupuytren’s disease of the thumb was first described in 1833, the literature on this subject is limited to a few anatomical and clinical studies. This study examined the pattern of cords of Dupuytren’s disease in 260 thumbs in 181 consecutive patients with evidence of disease relating to the thumb attending an out-patient clinic over a period of 36 months. Discrepancies in the literature are discussed in the light of the findings of this more detailed analysis and a simple but practical pictorial system for recording disease severity and detailing progression over time is presented.

scholarly journals Обработка холодом в технологии стабилизации вин и пути оптимизации энергозатрат

2019 ◽  
pp. 174-179
Author(s):  
Anton Silvestrov ◽  
Natalya Chaplygina ◽  
Tatyana Vedernikova ◽  
Valentin Ryzhkov ◽  
Konstantin Feodosidi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Thermal Insulation ◽  
Electricity Consumption ◽  
Cooling Systems ◽  
Processing Scheme ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
Production Conditions ◽  
Over Time

Проведен развернутый анализ существующих аппаратарно-технологических схем обработки виноматериалов холодом. Выделены проблемные места технологии обработки холодом, обоснованы пути оптимизации этого процесса. Выявлено преимущество систем непосредственного охлаждения виноматериалов. Изучены теплотехнические характеристики материалов изоляционных конструкций изотермических резервуаров. Установлены значимые показатели, определяющие эффективность изоляционных конструкций. Проведен детальный анализ теплоизоляционных свойств различных материалов, применяемых для термоизоляции резервуаров, а также стабильности этих свойств во времени в условиях реального производства. Даны рекомендации по выбору оптимальной изоляционной конструкции изотермических резервуаров. Приводятся сопоставительные данные по затратам электроэнергии в традиционной схеме обработки виноматериалов холодом и рекомендуемой. Делаются выводы о возможности сокращения и оптимизации энергозатрат на процесс обработки виноматериалов холодом.A detailed analysis of the existing machine and technological schemes for base wine cold processing was conducted. Problem areas of cold processing technology were identified; ways to optimize this process were established. The advantages of base wine direct cooling systems were revealed. Thermo-technical characteristics of insulating structure materials used in isothermal tanks were studied. Significant indicators that determine the effectiveness of the insulating structures were established. The thermal insulation properties of various materials used for thermal insulation of the tanks undergone in-depth analysis, along with stability of these properties over time under actual production conditions. Recommendations are given as to the choice of the optimal insulating design of the isothermal tanks. Comparative data on electricity consumption using the traditional base wine cold processing scheme and the recommended one is given. Conclusions are drawn about the ways to reduce and optimize energy consumption during base wine cold processing.

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