scholarly journals The most Powerful Thing You’d Say Is Nothing at all: The Power of Silence in Conversation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bashir Ibrahim ◽  
Usman Ambu Muhammad
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Background ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Phd Theses

After a long period of neglect, silence is currently receiving an increased amount of attention in the literature of sociolinguistics and pragmatics. Since the publication of Tannen and Saville-Troike and Jaworski, many international conferences, books, monographs, articles, PhD theses and book chapters continue to emerge. Many of those publications recognized silence as a powerful tool of communication; and that it is not peripheral to speech because any form of analysis that is applied to speech could also be applied to the analysis of silence. Silence has been broadly classified as communicative and non-communicative, and it serves both positive and negative functions. As silence performs two opposite functions, its interpretation depends on some factors such as the socio-cultural background of the actors involved in the use and the interpretation of the silence act, and the context of its use. This chapter starts with an introduction which covers review of related literature, and then proceeds with the classification of silence. It continues with discussing some functions of silence, and then talks about interpretation of silence in social contexts. Finally, the chapter examines some instances of the power of silence in conversation.

Classification of Cloud Systems Cyber-security Threats and Solutions Directives

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Hanane Bennasar ◽  
Mohammad Essaaidi ◽  
Ahmed Bendahmane ◽  
Jalel Benothmane
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Data Security ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Huge Number ◽  
Open Problems ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Near Future

Cloud computing cyber security is a subject that has been in top flight for a long period and even in near future. However, cloud computing permit to stock up a huge number of data in the cloud stockage, and allow the user to pay per utilization from anywhere via any terminal equipment. Among the major issues related to Cloud Computing security, we can mention data security, denial of service attacks, confidentiality, availability, and data integrity. This paper is dedicated to a taxonomic classification study of cloud computing cyber-security. With the main objective to identify the main challenges and issues in this field, the different approaches and solutions proposed to address them and the open problems that need to be addressed.

scholarly journals OPTIMIZATION OF DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT FOR PERIPROSTHETIC KNEE INFECTION

2017 ◽  
pp. 14-19
Author(s):  
S. P. Shpinyak ◽  
A. P. Barabash ◽  
Yu. A. Barabash
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Periprosthetic Infection ◽  
Public Health System ◽  
Diagnosis And Treatment ◽  
Surgical Interventions ◽  
Knee Infection ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Periprosthetic Knee Infection

Purpose of study: to analyze the modern approaches to classification of large joints periprosthetic infection (PPI) and evaluate the results of revision surgical interventions in patients with deep PPI of the knee. Patients and methods. One hundred fifty three patients, 51 men and 102 women (mean age 57.3±12.4 years), with deep PPI were operated on. Treatment tactics was determined by the term after primary operation. In early PPI (n=31) sanitation interventions with implant preservation and in late PPI (n=122) – two step interventions with long period between the operations (over 4 weeks) were performed. Results. Follow up made up from 2 to 5 years. Sanitation interventions with implant preservation were successful in71% of patients. In group of patients with late PPI satisfactory results were achieved in 89.6% of cases. On the basis of the obtained data the variants of diagnosis and treatment tactics optimization as well as its adaptation to domestic public health system were proposed.

scholarly journals Comparison of Mean Light Curve Parameters of M, S and C Mira and Semi-Regular Variable Stars Using 75 Years of AAVSO Data

2000 ◽  
Vol 177 ◽  
pp. 165-170
Author(s):  
Marie-Odile Mennessier ◽  
Hichame Boughaleb ◽  
Janet A. Mattei
Keyword(s):  
Light Curve ◽  
Variable Stars ◽  
Light Curves ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Regular Variable

Using 75 years of AAVSO data, mean light curve parameters of a sample of 350 long-period M, S and C Mira and semi-regular variable stars have been investigated. We compare M, S and C Mira and semi-regular stars, present a classification of the light curves of LPVs and give discriminant parameters.

Human beings and other people: Classification of human groups and categories among the Nage of Flores (eastern Indonesia)

2009 ◽  
Vol 165 (4) ◽  
pp. 493-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Forth
Keyword(s):  
Social Contexts ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Eastern Indonesia ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Polynesian Languages ◽  
The Way

Speakers of a Central-Malayo-Polynesian language, the Nage of central Flores possess three terms for ‘person, people’ and ‘human being’: ata, hoga, and kita ata. The paper explores various semantic and social contexts in which the terms are differentially employed. Further discussed are lexical connections and semantic parallels with terms in other Malayo-Polynesian languages and the way these bear on the referents of Austronesian protoforms. Particular attention is given to Blust’s reconstruction of *qa(R)(CtT)a (reflected by Nage ata) as a word hypothetically specifying ‘outsiders, alien people’. With reference to Nage and other languages of Flores, it is shown how, rather than a simple contrast of outsiders and own group, ata and hoga are employed to express a variety of kinds and degrees of association or disassociation between speaker and referent. In this connection further attention is given to: (1) the question of whether Nage terms for humans and compounds formed from these compose a taxonomy comparable to the taxonomic ordering of plants and animals commonly found in folk biological classifications, and (2) the relation between the terms denoting human beings and Nage categories translatable as ‘(non-human) animal’ and ‘spiritual being’.

Bipolar Affective Disorder in Old Age

1980 ◽  
Vol 136 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Shulman ◽  
Felix Post
Keyword(s):  
Retrospective Study ◽  
Affective Disorder ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Bipolar Affective Disorder ◽  
Bipolar Disorders ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Bipolar Patients ◽  
Depressive Episodes ◽  
Recurrent Nature

SummaryIn a retrospective study of 67 elderly bipolar patients the first manic attack occurred at about age 60, often after a long period from the time of the first affective episode, after which further depressive episodes occurred. This calls into question Perris’ criteria for unipolar diagnosis. Among the men, a preponderance of cerebral-organic disorders was found. The evidence for sub-classification of bipolar disorders into secondary or symptomatic manias is discussed. The recurrent nature of the illness in old age stresses the need for further evaluation of lithium prophylaxis.

scholarly journals JUECES INDÍGENAS, CACIQUES CRIOLLOS: AUTONOMÍA Y ESTATALIDAD EN GUANACACHE, MENDOZA (SIGLO XIX)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Escolar
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
National Policy ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Siglo Xix ◽  
Xix Century

La narrativa de la composición blanca y culturalmente europea de la Argentina se articuló a través de una clasificación oposicional de las poblaciones.  Mientras la población y sociedad de las áreas pampeano-patagónica y chaqueña fueron cómodamente definidas como “indios”, aquellas que ocupaban o  circulaban por las áreas centrales de antiguo dominio colonial español fueron pensadas como “criollos”. Partiendo del análisis de documentos preservados por pobladores de la travesía o desierto de Guanacache, en el centro de la región de Cuyo (descendientes de los huarpes, considerados extintos en el siglo  XVII), este artículo aborda la existencia en la región, durante el largo período de conflagración civil del siglo XIX, de demandas y estrategias indígenas  producidas por poblaciones consideradas “gauchas” o “criollas”. El análisis revela no sólo la continuidad de reivindicaciones autoproclamadas como  indígenas por tierras, justicia y autonomía entre las décadas de 1810 y 1870 en un área de tradicional reclutamiento montonero, sino la decisiva articulación  de las mismas con la política local y nacional y la construcción de la estatalidad republicana. ABSTRACT The narrative of white and culturally european people of Argentina was articulated through across classification of the populations. While the pampeano- Patagonian and chaqueño people and society were comfortably are defined by themselves as “Indians”, those that were occupying or circulating along  the  central areas of former colonial Spanish domain were thought as “Criollos”. From the analysis of documents preserved by settlers of the voyage or  Guanacache’s desert, in the center of the Cuyo region (descendants from the Huarpes people, considered deceased in the 17th century), this article  approaches the demands and strategic from “gauchos” or “criollos” people, during the long period of civil conflagration in the XIX century. The analysis  reveals not only the continuity of self-proclaimed recognition indigenous peoples for lands, justice and autonomy between the decades of 1810 and 1870 in an area of traditional montonero recruitment, but the decisive joint of the same ones with the local and national (policy) and the construction of the  republican state.

scholarly journals Geomorphology in the works of Russian soil scientists-geographers XX c. From V.V. Dokuchaev to I.P. Gerasimov

2019 ◽  
pp. 102-112
Author(s):  
V. P. Chichagov
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Large Array ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Professional Interest ◽  
Methods And Techniques ◽  
Russian Soil ◽  
History Of ◽  
Weathering Crusts ◽  
Russian Researcher

Examples of relief studies by seven prominent Russian soil scientists, representatives of the Dokuchaev school, are presenterd. Geomorphological issues, ideas and concepts in the works of soil scientists of the XX century. showed their high professional interest in geomorphology. The beginning of the geomorphological research of Russian soil scientists was laid by the great Russian researcher V. V. Dokuchaev. Geomorphological views of V. V. Dokuchaev were ahead of the V. M. Davis' concept of the geographic cycle. Soil-geomorphological studies of S. S. Neustruev partially supplemented the concept of V. M. Davis. B. B. Polynov proved the necessity of attracting geomorphological methods and techniques when conducting soil studies, used geomorphological principles in the deduction of the three laws of the distribution of weathering crusts. I. P. Gerasimov created the theory of morphostructure and morphosculpture, introduced the idea of three macrocycles in the history of the formation of the Earth's landscapes. All the researchers cited in the article conducted detailed complex studies using geodesy methods. Scientists were able to identify a large array of new geomorphological data from the classification of microrelief to the adjustment of the main laws of geomorphology. The main feature of the scientific activity of Russian soil scientists-geomorphologists was the Dokuchaev school that gave rise to all them. It was from the Dokuchaev's principles and approaches that the mentioned scientists started and developed and passed to their students and followers. The well known Russian soil scientist and geomorphologist I. P. Gerasimov completed the century-long period of the geomorphological studies by soil scientists started by V. V. Dokuchaev.

scholarly journals Nieznośny ciężar przekazu czyli o przekładzie źródeł mówionych w badaniach oral history

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 5-35
Author(s):  
Wiktoria Kudela-Świątek
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Cultural Community ◽  
Research Technique ◽  
Genre Classification

This text has come to life from the belief that there is a need of reflection on the issue of translation of oral history accounts as a part of researcher’s technique. In spite of the importance of the quality of narrative sources translations, this subject is often disregarded by researchers dealing with oral history not only in Poland but also abroad. So far only the British oral history researchers have been interested in this subject. Therefore in my own observations I focused on the questions of genre classification of oral history narrations, existence of cultural community between the interviewee and the researcher, including the question of whether the researcher knows the language of the researched group or people, I also considered social and cultural background in translations of biographic narrations. I find these matters crucial for proper understanding and translation of biographic narrations content to the reader’s language. Issues raised by me are illustrated with examples of translations prepared for my recent research on national and religious repression in memory of the Poles in Kazakhstan. This choice was motivated by the intention to present my methodological remarks on the most challenging translation available. Most of the analyzed narrations were recorded in Russian, Ukrainian, Polish as well as their numerous dialect variations. Drawing researchers’ attention to language perspective of recorded and analyzed narrations makes one conscious that each time a narration is presented in an academic text, it has already been altered in many ways by the researcher. Therefore I present various methodological proposals, share my observations and indicate that it is necessary to continuously improve one’s research technique when translating and analyzing foreign oral sources. 

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