scholarly journals The problem of the degree of uniqueness of the name of the settlement in the linguo-ecological aspect

2019 ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
Elena Genad’evna Sidorova
Keyword(s):  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Ecological Aspect ◽  
Single Root ◽  
Historical Continuity ◽  
Volgograd Region ◽  
Low Degree ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
High Degree

The definition of linguo-ecology as an interdisciplinary science that studies language phenomena as part of the system, as well as through the prism of the communicative needs of native speakers, is taken as the starting point. The object of the research is the geographical names proper, nominating settlements, – oikonyms. The concept of the oikonymic space of a region is introduced, which is a set of fixed nominations of settlements located in a certain territory. The main problems that violate the criteria for the ecology of the names of settlements are characterized. A scale of oikonyms was developed and presented in accordance with the degree of their uniqueness within the region, including four degrees of uniqueness: the unique degree itself has the maximum degree; high degree-single-root morphemic close names; medium degree-complex or compound oikonyms; completely identical, doublet oikonyms are characterized by a low degree. The zones of linguo-ecological risk in the oikonymic space of the Volgograd region are indicated, which are connected with the arising contradictions between the desire for accuracy in nomination and the tendency to save speech. Defectiveness of symbolic names of settlements, which do not reflect their possible relationship with specific geographic objects, as well as the unjustified nature of certain renames, leading to a violation of the principle of historical continuity, was demonstrated.

scholarly journals Ecological analyses of the area along the highway through Belgrade: Section Dobanovci-Bubanj Potok

2006 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 221-230
Author(s):  
Dejan Filipovic ◽  
Bogdan Lukic
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Integral Approach ◽  
Impact Study ◽  
Ecological Aspect ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Environmental Impact Study ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact

In compatibility with actual recommendations and policy which leads to improvement and preservation of integral environment and especially its natural values, it is necessary to implement active and integral approach to all variety of planning documents. In order to visualize the impact of highway through Belgrade on its surroundings, the solutions of the traffic artery were analyzed from the aspect of the protection of the environment in the sense of definition of harmful impacts and proposals of measures for their prevention or removal. The basic starting point was to get the answer whether and which, from ecological aspect, protection measures should be taken. The paper will show specific details of making the Belgrade highway environmental impact study.

scholarly journals Transmedia Storytelling Systems in Publishing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip Jacob
Keyword(s):  
Harry Potter ◽  
Lord Of The Rings ◽  
Transmedia Storytelling ◽  
Low Degree ◽  
Master Thesis ◽  
Media Types ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Degree Of Participation ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Potential Customers

This master thesis provides an extensive definition of transmedia storytelling systems and the fantasy genre, besides a short overview of publishing management, technology, and marketing. The focus of this master thesis is the practical relevance of transmedia storytelling systems for fantasy franchises, such as Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, or The Lord of the Rings. This thesis results in the perceptions that potential customers indeed consume storylines across different media types. Most of them only through media types with a low degree of participation. A smaller but significant amount of the customer consumes media types with a high degree of participation. These results are findings from a survey of more than 600 consumers surveyed of selected fantasy franchises.

scholarly journals Detecting communities by suspecting the maximum degree nodes

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (13) ◽  
pp. 1950133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mei Chen ◽  
Mei Zhang ◽  
Ming Li ◽  
Mingwei Leng ◽  
Zhichong Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Maximum Degree ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Underlying Structure ◽  
Community Structures ◽  
Large Size ◽  
Low Degree ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Art Methods ◽  
High Degree

Detecting the natural communities in a real-world network can uncover its underlying structure and potential function. In this paper, a novel community algorithm SUM is introduced. The fundamental idea of SUM is that a node with relatively low degree stays faithful to its community, because it only has links with nodes in one community, while a node with relatively high degree not only has links with nodes within but also outside its community, and this may cause confusion when detecting communities. Based on this idea, SUM detects communities by suspecting the links of the maximum degree nodes to their neighbors within a community, and relying mainly on the nodes with relatively low degree simultaneously. SUM elegantly defines a similarity which takes into account both the commonality and the rejective degree of two adjacent nodes. After putting similar nodes into one community, SUM generates initial communities by reassigning the maximum degree nodes. Next, SUM assigns nodes without labels to the initial communities, and adjusts the border node to its most linked community. To evaluate the effectiveness of SUM, SUM is compared with seven baselines, including four classical and three state-of-the-art methods on a wide range of complex networks. On the small size networks with ground-truth community structures, results are visually demonstrated, as well as quantitatively measured with ARI, NMI and Modularity. On the relatively large size networks without ground-truth community structures, the performances of these algorithms are evaluated according to Modularity. Experimental results indicate that SUM can effectively determine community structures on small or relatively large size networks with high quality, and also outperforms the compared state-of-the-art methods.

scholarly journals The specified in work to environmental impact assessment study for city road

2004 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-156
Author(s):  
Dejan Filipovic ◽  
Danijela Obradovic
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Integral Approach ◽  
Preliminary Design ◽  
Impact Study ◽  
Ecological Aspect ◽  
Ring Road ◽  
Assessment Study ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact

In compatibility with actual recommendations and policy, which leads to improvement and preservation of integral environment and especially its natural values, it is necessary to implementation active and integral approach to all variety of planning documents. For the needs of the preparation of the Preliminary Design of the traffic artery the inner ring road (IRR) in Belgrade the issue of the protection of the environment has been analyzed within the framework of the special study. In order to visualize the impact of "the IRR" to its surroundings, the solutions of the traffic artery were analyzed from the aspect of the protection of the environment in the sense of definition of harmful impacts and proposals of measures for their prevention or removal. The basic starting point was to get an answer whether Belgrade, from ecological aspect, can withstand the new traffic artery. In this paper will show specified in work in the environmental impact study for City ring road.

Holism, Chinese Medicine and Systems Ideologies: Rewriting the Past to Imagine the Future

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volker Scheid
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Past ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Us ◽  
Shared Objective ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter explores the articulations that have emerged over the last half century between various types of holism, Chinese medicine and systems biology. Given the discipline’s historical attachments to a definition of ‘medicine’ that rather narrowly refers to biomedicine as developed in Europe and the US from the eighteenth century onwards, the medical humanities are not the most obvious starting point for such an inquiry. At the same time, they do offer one advantage over neighbouring disciplines like medical history, anthropology or science and technology studies for someone like myself, a clinician as well as a historian and anthropologist: their strong commitment to the objective of facilitating better medical practice. This promise furthermore links to the wider project of critique, which, in Max Horkheimer’s definition of the term, aims at change and emancipation in order ‘to liberate human beings from the circumstances that enslave them’. If we take the critical medical humanities as explicitly affirming this shared objective and responsibility, extending the discipline’s traditional gaze is not a burden but becomes, in fact, an obligation.

scholarly journals Identification of effective spreaders in contact networks using dynamical influence

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruaridh A. Clark ◽  
Malcolm Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
Disease Transmission ◽  
Average Rate ◽  
Laplacian Matrix ◽  
Disease Spread ◽  
Eigenvector Centrality ◽  
Contact Networks ◽  
Human Contact ◽  
Spread Dynamics ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
High Degree

AbstractContact networks provide insights on disease spread due to the duration of close proximity interactions. For systems governed by consensus dynamics, network structure is key to optimising the spread of information. For disease spread over contact networks, the structure would be expected to be similarly influential. However, metrics that are essentially agnostic to the network’s structure, such as weighted degree (strength) centrality and its variants, perform near-optimally in selecting effective spreaders. These degree-based metrics outperform eigenvector centrality, despite disease spread over a network being a random walk process. This paper improves eigenvector-based spreader selection by introducing the non-linear relationship between contact time and the probability of disease transmission into the assessment of network dynamics. This approximation of disease spread dynamics is achieved by altering the Laplacian matrix, which in turn highlights why nodes with a high degree are such influential disease spreaders. From this approach, a trichotomy emerges on the definition of an effective spreader where, for susceptible-infected simulations, eigenvector-based selections can either optimise the initial rate of infection, the average rate of infection, or produce the fastest time to full infection of the network. Simulated and real-world human contact networks are examined, with insights also drawn on the effective adaptation of ant colony contact networks to reduce pathogen spread and protect the queen ant.

scholarly journals Genomic Tackling of Human Satellite DNA: Breaking Barriers through Time

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (9) ◽  
pp. 4707
Author(s):  
Mariana Lopes ◽  
Sandra Louzada ◽  
Margarida Gama-Carvalho ◽  
Raquel Chaves
Keyword(s):  
Human Genome ◽  
Satellite Dna ◽  
Repetitive Sequences ◽  
Nucleotide Composition ◽  
Genomic Component ◽  
Genomic Studies ◽  
Human Genomic ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
High Degree

(Peri)centromeric repetitive sequences and, more specifically, satellite DNA (satDNA) sequences, constitute a major human genomic component. SatDNA sequences can vary on a large number of features, including nucleotide composition, complexity, and abundance. Several satDNA families have been identified and characterized in the human genome through time, albeit at different speeds. Human satDNA families present a high degree of sub-variability, leading to the definition of various subfamilies with different organization and clustered localization. Evolution of satDNA analysis has enabled the progressive characterization of satDNA features. Despite recent advances in the sequencing of centromeric arrays, comprehensive genomic studies to assess their variability are still required to provide accurate and proportional representation of satDNA (peri)centromeric/acrocentric short arm sequences. Approaches combining multiple techniques have been successfully applied and seem to be the path to follow for generating integrated knowledge in the promising field of human satDNA biology.

Stimulation of β-(l → 6)-glucanase production by oxidized pustulan

1972 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 1543-1550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert G. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Enzyme Activity ◽  
Isoelectric Focusing ◽  
Gel Filtration ◽  
Tween 80 ◽  
Sole Source ◽  
Cellulase Production ◽  
Low Degree ◽  
Degree Of Oxidation ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Stimulation Of

A strain of Penicillium lilacinum, isolated from soil, produced pustulanase, β-(1 → 3)-glucanase, (EC. 3.2.1.6) and cellulase (EC.3.2.1.4) when cultivated on a medium containing pustulan as the sole source of carbon. If pustulan was replaced by ketopustulan, the production of pustulanase was stimulated about 10-fold although the amount of stimulation was dependent on the degree of oxidation of pustulan. β-(1 → 3)-Glucanase production was stimulated slightly by ketopustulan; however, the degree of oxidation did not affect significantly the yield of this enzyme. Cellulase production was either unaffected by the oxidized polymer, or at higher degrees of oxidation, decreased. Tween 80 stimulated the production of the three enzymes in media containing ketopustulan with a low degree of oxidation but was inhibitory to pustulanase and cellulase production in media containing ketopustulan with a high degree of oxidation. A combination of gel filtration and isoelectric focusing revealed that each enzyme activity was attributable to at least two proteins.

The Use of Photogrammetry in Piping Design

1983 ◽  
Vol 197 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
P A Bracewell ◽  
U R Klement
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Mathematical Formulation ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Process Industry ◽  
Process Plant ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Positional Data

Piping design for ‘revamp’ projects in the process industry requires the retrieval of large amounts of ‘as-built’ data from existing process plant installations. Positional data with a high degree of accuracy are required. Photogrammetry, the science of measurement from photographs, was identified in Imperial Chemical Industries plc (ICI) as a suitable tool for information retrieval. The mathematical formulation enabling the definition of three-dimensional positions from photographic information is described. The process of using ICI's photogrammetric system for the definition of complete objects such as structures and pipes is illustrated. The need for specialized photogrammetric software for design purposes is explained. A case study describing how the photogrammetric system has been applied is described and graphical outputs from this exercise are shown. It is concluded that this particular photogrammetric system has proved to be a cost effective and accurate tool for the retrieval of ‘as-built’ information.

Digital competences of the workforce – a research topic?

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 721-734 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Murawski ◽  
Markus Bick
Keyword(s):  
Research Topic ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Digital Competence ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose Considering working in the digital age, questions on the consequences for the individual workers are, so far, often neglected. The purpose of this paper is to deal with the question of whether the digital competences of the workforce is a research topic. The authors argue for the thesis that it is indeed a research topic. Design/methodology/approach In addition to a literature analysis of the top IS, HR, and learning publications, non-scientific sources, as well as the opinions of the authors, are included. The authors’ thesis is challenged through a debate of corresponding pros and cons. Findings The definition of digital competences lacks scientific depth. Focussing on the workforce is valid, as a “lifelong” perspective is not mandatory for research. Digital competence research is a multidisciplinary task to which the IS field can make a valuable contribution. Research limitations/implications Although relevant references are included, some aspects are mainly driven by the opinions of the authors. The theoretical implications encompass a call for a scientific definition of digital competences. Furthermore, scholars should focus on the competences of the workforce, including occupations, roles, or industries. The authors conclude by providing a first proposal of a research agenda. Practical implications The practical implications include the alignment of multiple stakeholders for the design of “digital” curricula and the integration by HR departments of the construct of digital competences, e.g. for compensation matters and job requirements. Originality/value This paper is one of very few contributions in the area of the digital competences of the workforce, and it presents a starting point for future research activities.

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