scholarly journals Second-generation Persians’ Participation in the Oklahoma Dialect

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shima Dokhtzeynal
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Speech Styles ◽  
Local Dialect ◽  
Social Affiliations ◽  
Demographic Traits ◽  
The Us ◽  
Vowel Systems ◽  
Acoustic Variation ◽  
Linguistic Influences

Vowel systems are a rich source of information about speakers’ social affiliations and linguistic influences. With the purpose of contributing to recent dialect investigations of immigrant communities inside the US, this study examined the acoustics of bilingual Persian-Oklahomans and their participation in Oklahoma dialect features. Twenty Oklahoma-born second-generation Persian-Americans were compared to ten monolingual European-Oklahomans with respect to their production of local dialect features. Results showed similar vowel spaces between the groups indicating that second-generation Persian-Oklahomans participated in the local mix of Southern and Midland features, with one notable exception: they did not display the pin/pen merger, a feature of Southern dialects. Similar studies on European-Oklahoman speakers suggested a uniform presence of pin/pen merger among Research on the Dialects of English in Oklahoma (RODEO) project respondents. However, Persian-Oklahomans’ productions of these vowels were consistently unmerged across the continuum of speech styles. Accordingly, this study argues for a connection between this acoustic variation and speakers’ demographic traits, make-up of social network, and heritage Farsi despite their frequent contact with the merger and their rich social network with middle-class European-Oklahoman speakers of the Oklahoma dialect.

scholarly journals Hypersensitivity Reaction in the US Food and Drug Administration–Approved Second-Generation Drug-Eluting Stents

Circulation ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 131 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fumiyuki Otsuka ◽  
Kazuyuki Yahagi ◽  
Elena Ladich ◽  
Robert Kutys ◽  
Russell Alexander ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hypersensitivity Reaction ◽  
Drug Administration ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Food And Drug Administration ◽  
Drug Eluting Stents ◽  
The Us ◽  
Drug Eluting

Building the World War II Memorials, 1945–1960

2018 ◽  
pp. 183-221
Author(s):  
Thomas H. Conner
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Special Treatment ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Us Government ◽  
The Creation

This chapter looks at the longer aftermath of WWII and traces the creation of the second generation of ABMC sites. Focusing on the process of securing grounds overseas, allowing family members to decide where their loved ones would be buried, and obtaining US government clearance on designs, the account is reminiscent of the start of the ABMC and its first project. By 1960, fourteen cemetery memorials had been dedicated. This chapter also highlights the leadership of the agency’s second chairman, General George C. Marshall, and his direction of the building of memorials in eight countries to remember the 400,000 Americans who had died and the 16 million who had served in WWII. Marshall’s high standing in the US government and in the public esteem, just as was true of Pershing, greatly helped the agency to fulfill its renewed mission. The special treatment shown the grave of General George S. Patton in the Luxembourg American Cemetery is also detailed.

Oral Antipsychotic Update: A Brief Review of New and Investigational Agents for the Treatment of Schizophrenia

CNS Spectrums ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (s1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Citrome
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Dopamine D2 Receptor ◽  
D2 Receptor ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Potential Association ◽  
Second Generation Antipsychotics ◽  
The Us ◽  
Glycine Transport ◽  
Oral Antipsychotic ◽  
Investigational Agents

This narrative review provides an overview of the three new oral second-generation antipsychotics that have become available in the US: iloperidone, asenapine and lurasidone. Although they are associated with less weight gain and fewer metabolic abnormalities than some of the older second-generation antipsychotics, iloperidone, asenapine and lurasidone have differences that make them unique from each other. Examples of these differences include dosing frequency, specific instructions on dosing with food, titration requirements, and potential association with sedation, extrapyramidal side effects, akathisia, and prolongation of the ECG QT interval. Additional information is provided regarding agents in late stage clinical development for the treatment of schizophrenia: cariprazine and brexpiprazole (both are dopamine D2 receptor partial agonists) and bitopertin (a glycine transport inhibitor that may have antipsychotic effects).

scholarly journals Subterranean Acoustic Activity Patterns of Vitacea polistiformis (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) in Relation to Abiotic and Biotic Factors

Insects ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edidiong I. Inyang ◽  
Raymond L. Hix ◽  
Violeta Tsolova ◽  
Barukh B. Rohde ◽  
Omotola Dosunmu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Activity Patterns ◽  
Small Region ◽  
Larval Feeding ◽  
Restricted Area ◽  
Acoustic Activity ◽  
Chemical Treatments ◽  
The Us ◽  
Acoustic Surveys ◽  
Abiotic And Biotic Factors ◽  
Acoustic Variation

Grape root borer (GRB), Vitacea polistiformis, is a root-feeding pest of grapevines in the US southeast that causes underground damage well before vines show visible symptoms. A 269-d study was conducted at 31 sites in a Florida vineyard to record short bursts of insect movement and feeding vibrations in grapevine root systems and provide information that can improve timing and targeting of GRB management efforts. Characteristic spectral and temporal patterns in the subterranean vibrations facilitated discrimination of GRB from background noise and non-targeted arthropods. Infestation likelihood of GRB at each site was estimated from previous studies relating infestation to burst rate. In all, 39% of recordings indicated low infestation likelihood. Sites with medium or high infestation likelihood were confined to a small region of the vineyard where a vine with larval feeding damage was confirmed. The restricted area suggests that the biological control or chemical treatments could be reduced elsewhere. Acoustic activity was significantly greater in fall and winter than in spring, and greater in evening than afternoon; fall evenings seemed best for GRB acoustic surveys. The GRB seasonal and circadian acoustic variation reflected phenological variation in grape root growth and nutrients and was not significantly correlated with temperature.

Segregated vowels: Language variation and dialect features among Gothenburg youth

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Gross
Keyword(s):  
Social Factors ◽  
Language Variation ◽  
Local Dialect ◽  
Housing Segregation ◽  
Vowel Systems

AbstractThis paper examines the effects of housing segregation on variation in the vowel systems of young speakers of Swedish who have grown up in different neighborhoods of Gothenburg. Significant differences are found for variants of the variables /i:/ and /y:/, which are strongly associated with the local dialect; these two vowels also exhibit coherence. Another vowel pair, /ε:/ and /ø:/, are involved in a coherent leveling process affecting many of the central Swedish dialects but differing in degree of openness in different neighborhoods of Gothenburg. The results show that the variation is not simply a reflection of foreign background, nor of groups of youth adopting single variants; rather, a number of social factors conflate in housing segregation, which interferes with the transmission of more abstract aspects of the local dialect's vowel system to young speakers in certain neighborhoods.

New Missions with a New Generation: The Experiences of Korean American Churches and Missions

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-182
Author(s):  
Dae Sung Kim
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Korean American ◽  
Korean Immigrants ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
Generation Immigrant ◽  
Immigrant Churches ◽  
The Us ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
New Generation ◽  
American Churches

Korean immigrants have continued to form Protestant churches in the US and to contribute to overseas missions. As the American-born second generation grows, however, ethnic congregations of Koreans are experiencing generational struggles. These new challenges represent the potential for Korean American churches to broaden their missionary perspective and empower their missionary practices. Through gathering and witnessing with the second generation, immigrant churches can transform their churches into missionary communities that evangelize and cooperate with other Asian Americans. Second-generation Christians can also lead the immigrant churches to reach other ethnic groups in the US beyond their Korean enclaves.

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