The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature

Corpora ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarle Ebeling
Keyword(s):  
Large Body ◽  
Automatic Processing ◽  
Electronic Text ◽  
Text Corpus ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

With invaluable help from and in close co-operation with colleagues from around the world, the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature project at the University of Oxford has compiled, lemmatised and made publicly available a large body of Sumerian literature. Building a corpus of literary compositions originally written on clay tablets in the cuneiform script, and dating back nearly four thousand years, poses special challenges, not least with regard to mark-up and automatic processing of data. Some of these challenges are discussed in this paper together with issues relating to the fact that Sumerian is a language isolate and lacks resources we take for granted when working with other languages, modern or extinct, such as a standardised sign list and a comprehensive dictionary.

The Press and the Wider University

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Goldman
Keyword(s):  
Educational Institution ◽  
Academic Culture ◽  
State Funding ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The Press ◽  
The World ◽  
Successful Business ◽  
The University ◽  
Unique Relationship

Oxford University Press operates as a department of the University of Oxford and, along with its Board of Delegates, draws many of its staff, authors, editors, and advisers from the graduates and scholars of that institution. Financial contributions from a successful and expanding Press have sustained the University during an era of decreasing state funding. The publications of the Press have enhanced and extended the scholarly reputation of the University and advertised Oxford University as a leader in education and research around the world. The Press relies upon the University for governance and a home in an academic culture that lends authority to all its publications. As a successful business located within an educational institution, the legal and fiscal status of the Press has sometimes been challenged, but the unique relationship has persisted. This chapter surveys the academic, financial, and administrative links between the two institutions.

Book Reviews

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 701-703
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Dead Sea ◽  
Growth Patterns ◽  
Global Inequality ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Economic Association ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

Valpy FitzGerald of the University of Oxford reviews “Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy. Volume II. Regions and Regularities,” edited by Kaushik Basu and Joseph E. Stiglitz. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Eight papers and eight responses, based on a roundtable convened by the International Economic Association and the World Bank on 'Shared Prosperity and Growth' and held at Dead Sea, Jordan, in June 2014, examine the state of global inequality and inequality in different regions, and analyzes other kinds of inequality and discrimination.”

scholarly journals Overview of COVID-19 Disease: Virology, Epidemiology, Prevention Diagnosis, Treatment, and Vaccines

Biologics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-40
Author(s):  
Iman Salahshoori ◽  
Noushin Mobaraki-Asl ◽  
Ahmad Seyfaee ◽  
Nasrin Mirzaei Nasirabad ◽  
Zahra Dehghan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
World Health ◽  
Person Identification ◽  
Health Organizations ◽  
The Public ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The University

Coronaviruses belong to the “Coronaviridae family”, which causes various diseases, from the common cold to SARS and MERS. The coronavirus is naturally prevalent in mammals and birds. So far, six human-transmitted coronaviruses have been discovered. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was first reported in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. Common symptoms include fever, dry cough, and fatigue, but in acute cases, the disease can lead to severe shortness of breath, hypoxia, and death. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the three main transmission routes, such as droplet and contact routes, airborne transmission and fecal and oral for COVID-19, have been identified. So far, no definitive curative treatment has been discovered for COVID-19, and the available treatments are only to reduce the complications of the disease. According to the World Health Organization, preventive measures at the public health level such as quarantine of the infected person, identification and monitoring of contacts, disinfection of the environment, and personal protective equipment can significantly prevent the outbreak COVID-19. Currently, based on the urgent needs of the community to control this pandemic, the BNT162b2 (Pfizer), mRNA-1273 (Moderna), CoronaVac (Sinovac), Sputnik V (Gamaleya Research Institute, Acellena Contract Drug Research, and Development), BBIBP-CorV (Sinofarm), and AZD1222 (The University of Oxford; AstraZeneca) vaccines have received emergency vaccination licenses from health organizations in vaccine-producing countries. Vasso Apostolopoulos, Majid Hassanzadeganroudsari

scholarly journals Harry Hemley Plaskett, 5 July 1893 - 26 January 1980

1981 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 444-478 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
The Body ◽  
Atomic Theory ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The World ◽  
Large Telescopes ◽  
The University ◽  
Solar Astronomy

H. H. Plaskett, Savilian Professor of Astronomy in the University of Oxford, 1932-60, was a world pioneer in modern rigorous observational astrophysics in a golden age when modern instruments were providing tremendously improved astronomical spectra, and modern atomic theory was making it possible to extract vastly richer information from them. Of course, ‘modern’ here means starting more than 60 years ago. During his long career Plaskett contributed notably and lastingly to astronomy— especially British astronomy— in three important respects: he made his own classical contributions to stellar and solar astronomy; he stimulated early moves for the body of British astronomers to have great large telescopes of its own; he trained and inspired a long succession of young astronomers who went on to hold important positions in astronomy all over the world.

Laurence Jonathan Cohen 1923–2006

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Issac Levi
Keyword(s):  
Inductive Reasoning ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Orthodox Jews ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The World ◽  
Zionist Movement ◽  
The Law ◽  
The University

Laurence Jonathan Cohen (1923–2006), a Fellow of the British Academy, was one of two sons of Israel Cohen and Theresa Jacobs. His parents were orthodox Jews who were active in the World Zionist Movement. Although Cohen gradually became less strict in his observance, he remained committed to his Jewish origins both in his private and his public life. He was educated at St Paul's School in London, where he excelled at mathematics and classics. Cohen went up to Balliol College, Oxford, in 1939 planning to read Greats. He served as Chair of the British Academy's Philosophy Section from 1993 to 1996. For several years after his official retirement, Cohen served as placement officer for the philosophy faculty at the University of Oxford. He offered a compelling case, holding that both in the natural sciences and in the law, one should accept a proposition if its Baconian probability is sufficiently high rather than the Pascalian probability. Cohen's central and original contributions are to the philosophy of inductive reasoning.

From Studium Generale to Modern Research University: Eight Hundred Years of Oxford History

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Tyacke
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Research University ◽  
Undergraduate Curriculum ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
The World ◽  
High Middle Ages ◽  
The University

This chapter reviews the book The University of Oxford. A History (2016), by Laurence W. B. Brockliss. The book is divided into four parts: the ‘Catholic University’ (c.1100–1534), the ‘Anglican University’ (1534–1845), the ‘Imperial University’ (1845–1945), and the ‘World University’ (1945–2015). Brockliss’s account broadly endorses the idea that the 400 years or so between the high middle ages and the Victorian era of reform were a time of decline for Oxford, reaching the lowest point under the Hanoverians. Yet this interpretation has been seriously questioned by others, including Lucy Sutherland and Leslie Mitchell. The book tackles a range of topics related to Oxford, including its undergraduate curriculum, student population, research, funding, and institutional obstacles to reform.

scholarly journals Leveraging e-Science infrastructure for electrochemical research

2011 ◽  
Vol 369 (1949) ◽  
pp. 3336-3352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Peachey ◽  
Elena Mashkina ◽  
Chong-Yong Lee ◽  
Colin Enticott ◽  
David Abramson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Software Tools ◽  
Scientific Instruments ◽  
Laboratory Science ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Data Archives ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University

As in many scientific disciplines, modern chemistry involves a mix of experimentation and computer-supported theory. Historically, these skills have been provided by different groups, and range from traditional ‘wet’ laboratory science to advanced numerical simulation. Increasingly, progress is made by global collaborations, in which new theory may be developed in one part of the world and applied and tested in the laboratory elsewhere. e-Science, or cyber-infrastructure, underpins such collaborations by providing a unified platform for accessing scientific instruments, computers and data archives, and collaboration tools. In this paper we discuss the application of advanced e-Science software tools to electrochemistry research performed in three different laboratories – two at Monash University in Australia and one at the University of Oxford in the UK. We show that software tools that were originally developed for a range of application domains can be applied to electrochemical problems, in particular Fourier voltammetry. Moreover, we show that, by replacing ad-hoc manual processes with e-Science tools, we obtain more accurate solutions automatically.

The Oxford Handbook of the Oxford Movement

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Years ◽  
Oxford Movement ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Short Period ◽  
The World ◽  
The Times ◽  
The University ◽  
Renewal Movement

The Handbook provides a comprehensive exploration of a great renewal movement in Christian history, which has profoundly influenced not only the world Anglican Communion, but other Church traditions as well. Commencing with the Movement’s roots within both High Church and evangelical Anglicanism, and its genesis within the University of Oxford and notably Oriel College, the Handbook considers the relatively short period when the Movement could properly be called the Oxford Movement—including its publication outlets such as the Tracts for the Times, its vibrant personalities, its early years of expansion, its opposition and the backlash it inspired, culminating in the crisis of 1845–50, a crisis which for many marked its end, but which in truth brought renewed growth and diversification. The Handbook then examines the development of the Oxford Movement up to the present day, including the gradual adoption of the name Anglo-Catholicism, its adaptation to different national and cultural contexts, its growing commitment to liturgical and devotional reforms, its pastoral, missionary, and global outreach, its diverse influence on literature and the arts, and its wider ecumenical concerns.

scholarly journals COVID-19 & Quarantine Measures: A Comparison between India & Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-39
Author(s):  
Michail A. Osadchuk ◽  
Maxim Trushin ◽  
Alexey M. Osadchuk
Keyword(s):  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Testing Methods ◽  
Government Response ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Restrictive Measures ◽  
The University

The Governments of the different countries are taking a wide range of measures in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. For assessing the rigour of quarantine measures, the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford has launched the world`s first COVID-19 government response tracker—the Oxford Coronavirus Government Response Tracker – OxCGRT). This tool aims to track and compare policy responses of governments around the world, rigorously and consistently. According to the COVID-19 Government Response Stringency Index (GRSI) the strictest measures are in India (97.37 points) and less stringent ones are in the Russian Federation (63.89 points). The study compares restrictive measures in India and Russia, analyses their impact on the spread of COVID-19; and estimates mortality rates. Besides, the study also probes population coverage aimed at diagnosing through the use of testing methods and possible economic consequences of quarantine measures.

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