scholarly journals Spanglish in Piña-Rosales' Modern-day “Don Quijote en Manhattan”

10.29007/1bvf ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricard Morant ◽  
Debra Westall
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Small Time ◽  
Don Quijote ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Expressive Modality ◽  
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This research aims to contribute to our understanding of Spanglish, namely by examining Gerardo Piña Rosales’ short story “Don Quijote en Manhattan” (2006). Through a close analysis of this expressive modality, particularly the use of Spanglish by the character of Sancho in his encounters with the city’s other inhabitants, including tourists, homeless, small-time criminals and police, we are able to gain insight into the reality of modern-day language contact in a truly contemporary setting. The paper is organized as follows. First a brief review of the most recent Spanglish research is offered, then we describe the materials and method used for this study, and finally we propose a classification of Sancho’s Spanglish.

Classification of Infant Vocalizations by Untrained Listeners

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (9) ◽  
pp. 3265-3275
Author(s):  
Heather L. Ramsdell-Hudock ◽  
Anne S. Warlaumont ◽  
Lindsey E. Foss ◽  
Candice Perry
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
Additional Insight ◽  
Listener Responses ◽  
Infant Vocalization ◽  
Early Infant ◽  
Infant Vocalizations ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
Speech And Language Development ◽  
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Purpose To better enable communication among researchers, clinicians, and caregivers, we aimed to assess how untrained listeners classify early infant vocalization types in comparison to terms currently used by researchers and clinicians. Method Listeners were caregivers with no prior formal education in speech and language development. A 1st group of listeners reported on clinician/researcher-classified vowel, squeal, growl, raspberry, whisper, laugh, and cry vocalizations obtained from archived video/audio recordings of 10 infants from 4 through 12 months of age. A list of commonly used terms was generated based on listener responses and the standard research terminology. A 2nd group of listeners was presented with the same vocalizations and asked to select terms from the list that they thought best described the sounds. Results Classifications of the vocalizations by listeners largely overlapped with published categorical descriptors and yielded additional insight into alternate terms commonly used. The biggest discrepancies were found for the vowel category. Conclusion Prior research has shown that caregivers are accurate in identifying canonical babbling, a major prelinguistic vocalization milestone occurring at about 6–7 months of age. This indicates that caregivers are also well attuned to even earlier emerging vocalization types. This supports the value of continuing basic and clinical research on the vocal types infants produce in the 1st months of life and on their potential diagnostic utility, and may also help improve communication between speech-language pathologists and families.

scholarly journals Ecotoxicological Assessment of Microplastics in Freshwater Sources—A Review

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Martina Miloloža ◽  
Dajana Kučić Grgić ◽  
Tomislav Bolanča ◽  
Šime Ukić ◽  
Matija Cvetnić ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Complex Problem ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Inorganic Pollutants ◽  
Ecotoxicological Assessment ◽  
Characterization Methods ◽  
Special Concern ◽  
Micro Organisms ◽  
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High living standards and a comfortable modern way of life are related to an increased usage of various plastic products, yielding eventually the generation of an increased amount of plastic debris in the environment. A special concern is on microplastics (MPs), recently classified as contaminants of emerging concern (CECs). This review focuses on MPs’ adverse effects on the environment based on their bioactivity. Hence, the main topic covered is MPs’ ecotoxicity on various aquatic (micro)organisms such as bacteria, algae, daphnids, and fish. The cumulative toxic effects caused by MPs and adsorbed organic/inorganic pollutants are presented and critically discussed. Since MPs’ bioactivity, including ecotoxicity, is strongly influenced by their properties (e.g., types, size, shapes), the most common classification of MPs types present in freshwater are provided, along with their main characteristics. The review includes also the sources of MPs discharge in the environment and the currently available characterization methods for monitoring MPs, including identification and quantification, to obtain a broader insight into the complex problem caused by the presence of MPs in the environment.

scholarly journals Geometrically rational real conic bundles and very transitive actions

2010 ◽  
Vol 147 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jérémy Blanc ◽  
Frédéric Mangolte
Keyword(s):  
Automorphism Groups ◽  
Algebraic Surfaces ◽  
Algebraic Models ◽  
Transitive Automorphism ◽  
Real Locus ◽  
Real Algebraic Surfaces ◽  
Conic Bundles ◽  
Transitive Actions ◽  
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AbstractIn this article we study the transitivity of the group of automorphisms of real algebraic surfaces. We characterize real algebraic surfaces with very transitive automorphism groups. We give applications to the classification of real algebraic models of compact surfaces: these applications yield new insight into the geometry of the real locus, proving several surprising facts on this geometry. This geometry can be thought of as a half-way point between the biregular and birational geometries.

The Glory and the Sorrow

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Tackett
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Small Time ◽  
Old Regime ◽  
Ordinary Citizen ◽  
Best Friend ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Intermediary ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The French Revolution ◽  
The Revolution

The book describes the life and the world of a small-time lawyer, Adrien-Joseph Colson, who lived in central Paris from the end of the Old Regime through the first eight years of the French Revolution. It is based on over a thousand letters written by Colson about twice a week to his best friend living in the French province of Berry. By means of this correspondence, and of a variety of other sources, the book examines what it was like for an “ordinary citizen” to live through extraordinary times, and how Colson, in his position as a “social and cultural intermediary,” can provide insight into the life of a whole neighborhood on the central Right Bank, both before and during the Revolution. It explores the day-to-day experience of the Revolution: not only the thrill, the joy, and the enthusiasm, but also the uncertainty, the confusion, the anxiety, the disappointments—often all mixed together. It also throws light on some of the questions long debated by historians concerning the origins, the radicalization, the growth of violence, and the end of that Revolution.

Permutation Min-Entropy and Statistical Complexity Analysis of Electricity Spot Price

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (04) ◽  
pp. 1550040 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingju Fan ◽  
Dan Li
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Complexity Analysis ◽  
Spot Price ◽  
Temporal Correlations ◽  
Price Series ◽  
Statistical Complexity ◽  
Electricity Spot Price ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Refined Classification

In this study, we investigate the subtle temporal dynamics of California 1999–2000 spot price series based on permutation min-entropy (PME) and complexity-entropy causality plane. The dynamical transitions of price series are captured and the temporal correlations of price series are also discriminated by the recently introduced PME. Moreover, utilizing the CECP, we provide a refined classification of the monthly price dynamics and obtain an insight into the stochastic nature of price series. The results uncover that the spot price signal presents diverse temporal correlations and exhibits a higher stochastic behavior during the periods of crisis.

scholarly journals تخصيص العام بالأدلة المنفصلة " دراسـة تطبيقية "

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-64
Author(s):  
الهادي جار النبي أحمد
Keyword(s):  
Applied Study ◽  
The One ◽  
Insight Into

The study entitled specifying prevalent utterance by separate evidence as applied study upon disagreement of fundamentalists in specifying prevalent utterance by separate evidence which might appear to be an obvious problem for the one who made aware of this disagreement particularly if he is not one of the specialists in jurisprudence. Accordingly, the main objective of this research is to identify this disagreement and to have by then insight into it through induction, analysis, and classification to find out whether it is influential disagreement when it runs into application on branches of jurisprudence or it is an only non-influential disagreement of utterance on the purpose of causing controversy along with overcoming in debate as in the case of much disagreements of fundamentalists. It is obviously that self-contained determinants in terms of numbers have been tackled so that a part of fundamentalists indicated them as nine in number, some others divided them into two sections, while others accounted them as four in number, namely mind, sense, text, and custom and by then considering remnants as branches affiliated to each other. In so far as the matter gets to this point, the researcher did not think that it should be indicated determinants as four in number and by then branches them out, but it was thought better to take trace of ancient fundamentalists in their classification. A number of results were reached by the study; some of the most important ones were: no consensus of opinion that achieved terms of being real consensus found relevant to these self-contained determinants, but all determinants have been tackled by disagreement despite the fact that some fundamentalists depicted the determinants as acquiescence in a part of their statements. Based on the results of the research, it was clearly found that it is a disagreement of utterance not disagreement of intangible content, as well as it has no influence on the classification of jurisprudence.

scholarly journals State-of-the-art on monolingual lexicography for Croatia (Croatian)

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-77
Author(s):  
Kristina Štrkalj Despot ◽  
Lana Hudeček ◽  
Tomislav Stojanov ◽  
Nikola Ljubešić
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Writing Systems ◽  
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In this minireview, the state of the art of the Croatian monolingual lexicography is presented. A brief overview and classification of all existing lexicographic resources is provided in the firts part of the minireview, followed by somewhat more detailed insight into the existing Croatian monolingual dictionaries and monolingual lexicographic projects, orthography dictionaries, and dictionary writing systems used.

scholarly journals Reality and Contemporary Economic Classification of Expenditures of Public Institutions in Romania

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Soroceanu
Keyword(s):  
Public Spending ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Public Institution ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Public Expenditures ◽  
Topical Issue ◽  
Large Space ◽  
Changing Economy ◽  
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In our daily existence, troubled and changing, economy occupies a large space. Increasingly, more economic concepts such as public budget and public expenditures enter within our daily language. Increasingly, we are assailed with data information about the sustainability of expenditure, about how and when budget allows us to make certain expenditures. Thus, an insight into the functional mechanism and a public institutional budget is always a topical issue. About the budget, as a financial and management tool of a public, we can not discuss without reference to economic classifiers public spending. Budget public institution acquires through economic classification of expenditure substance and reality.

Familial Eruptive Syringomas: Case Report and Review of the Literature

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Lau ◽  
Richard M. Haber
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Rare Clinical Entity ◽  
Benign Neoplasms ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Causative Gene ◽  
Unusual Condition ◽  
Clinical Variant ◽  
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Background: Syringomas are benign neoplasms of eccrine origin. A clinical variant is eruptive syringomas, which presents as firm, smooth, yellow to pigmented papules that appear as successive crops on the neck, axillae, chest, abdomen, and/or periumbilical region. To our knowledge, there are only 10 published reports of familial eruptive syringomas. Herein we describe the eleventh report of familial eruptive syringomas, review the literature on this unusual presentation, and suggest a novel classification of familial syringomas based on our literature review. Observations: We report two cases of eruptive syringoma within a family. Eruptive syringomas were widely distributed on the trunk of a healthy 16-year-old female and her 19-year-old brother. Both the 19-year-old man and his mother also had infraorbital syringomas. Conclusion: Familial eruptive syringomas are a rare clinical entity that is likely autosomal dominantly inherited. Future reports of this unusual condition may provide further insight into the etiology of familial syringomas, and genetic analysis of cases may enable the causative gene mutation to be determined.

Theoretical insight into the substituent effects on the antioxidant properties of 8-hydroxyquinoline derivatives in gas phase and in polar solvents

2018 ◽  
Vol 96 (5) ◽  
pp. 453-458
Author(s):  
Anes El-Hadj Saïd ◽  
Sidi Mohamed Mekelleche ◽  
Taki-Eddine Ahmed Ardjani
Keyword(s):  
Electron Transfer ◽  
Gas Phase ◽  
Antioxidant Properties ◽  
Substituent Effects ◽  
Hydrogen Atom Transfer ◽  
Polar Solvents ◽  
Antioxidant Power ◽  
Theoretical Insight ◽  
Insight Into

The objective of this work is to perform a theoretical analysis of the antioxidant properties of a series of 8-hydroxyquinolines (8-HQs) to rationalize the available experimental results and to design new potent 8-HQ derivatives. The study was carried out in gas phase and in methanol at the DFT/B3LYP/ 6-311++G(d,p) computational level. The formation of stable ArO• radicals is discussed on the basis of different mechanisms, namely, hydrogen atom transfer (HAT), single electron transfer followed by proton transfer (SET-PT), and single proton loss electron transfer (SPLET). The obtained results show that the HAT mechanism is, thermodynamically, more favoured in gas phase, whereas the SPLET pathway is more favoured in polar solvents. The calculated thermochemical descriptors allow classification of the antioxidant power of the studied compounds.

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