Historically Speaking,—: Arithmetic problems 175 years ago

1961 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 361-363
Author(s):  
Cecil B. Read
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
New Developments ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Class Room

A commonly encountered criticism of present-day mathematics teaching is that we fail to take account of new developments; it is sometimes said that a mathematician of the seventeenth or eighteenth century could step into the modern class-room and be competent to teach any of the subject matter.

scholarly journals #MeToo or "Me Too"?: Defining Our Terms

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlin L. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Women's Narratives ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject

How we talk about misogyny and sexual violence in literary texts matters—to our students, to our colleagues, and to the future of the humanities and of higher education—and the “Me Too” movement has revived with new urgency debates about how to do that. In this essay, I explore the ethical implications of invoking the “Me Too” movement in the classroom, and I offer a model for designing a course that does not simply present women’s narratives as objects of study but rather uses those narratives to give students opportunities and tools to participate in the “Me Too” movement themselves. To re-think eighteenth-century women’s writing in light of “Me Too,” I contend, is to participate in the movement, and so in our teaching we must engage with the ethics of the movement as well as the subject matter.

scholarly journals La extracción de conocimiento y terminología a partir de corpus ad hoc: el uso de documentos digitales de la web pública

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pilar Sánchez-Gijón
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Electronic Communication ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Specialized Knowledge ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Technical Writers ◽  
Standard Terminology ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Conceptual Relations ◽  
State Of Affairs

Electronic communication accelerates the exchange of knowledge and information in areas of specialized knowledge. This state of affairs forces anyone involved in such communication (e.g. technical writers, technical translators) to remain up to date with new developments. Not only do professionals belonging to this group of people have to master the standard terminology of each specialized domain, they must also assimilate and understand the subject matter within which they are working. This article proposes a method for assembling and using specific corpora with a view to extracting from them systematic and bilingual knowledge relating to terminology, the conceptual relations between terms, and the knowledge that they represent. Special attention is devoted to the strategies that will enable professionals to use such corpora in English and in Spanish.

scholarly journals … til Rusin-Strutar och Tortebotnar: Översättningars nytta enligt förord till svenska översättningar av antik litteratur under 1700-talets första hälft

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Akujärvi
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Roman Literature ◽  
The Subject

<p>For candy cones and layer cakes: The use of translations according to Swedish translators of classical literature from the first fifty years of the 18th century.</p><p>This is a study of prefaces and dedications to Swedish translations of Greek and Roman literature from the first fifty years of the eighteenth century. The introductory paratexts of this period are highly homogenous. Most cover the following five topoi: the importance of the chosen text is specified; the text and author are introduced; the usefulness of the translation is discussed; the principles of translation are touched upon; and, in conclusion, translators anticipate and try to deflect criticism of their work. Not only are the same topoi found in most translatory prefaces and dedications, but are moreover often filled with very similar arguments. The focus of this study is on the most central topos, that of the usefulness of the translation. As a rule, during this period translators tended toward utilitarian arguments to justify their translations. The use could be argued (1) to be the moral value of the text, (2) to help students to learn Latin and, to a lesser extent, Greek, (3) to make the subject-matter of the texts available to readers with no Greek or Latin, or (4) to further the development of the Swedish language and poetry. These utilitarian arguments are illustrated with quotations from the translatory paratexts and discussed with reference to contemporary debates.</p>

scholarly journals LITIGATION, THE ANGLO-SCOTTISH UNION, AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS AS THE HIGH COURT, 1660–1875

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 943-967 ◽  
Author(s):  
PHILIP LOFT
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
High Court ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Revolution

AbstractThis article examines the role of the House of Lords as the high court from the Restoration of 1660 to the passage of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act in 1876. Throughout this period, lay peers and bishops judged appeals on civil law from the central courts of England and Wales, Ireland (aside from between 1783 and 1800), and Scotland after the Union of 1707. It has long been known that the revolution of 1688–9 transformed the ability of parliament to pass legislation, but the increased length and predictability of parliamentary sessions was of equal significance to the judicial functions performed by peers. Unlike the English-dominated profile of eighteenth-century legislation, Scots constituted the largest proportion of appellants between 1740 and 1875. The lack of interaction between Westminster and Scotland is often seen as essential to ensuring the longevity of the Union, but through comparing the subject matter of appeals and mapping the distribution of cases within Scotland, this article demonstrates the extent of Scottish engagement. Echoing the tendency of Scottish interests to pursue local, private, and specific legislation in order to insulate Scottish institutions from English intervention, Scottish litigants primarily sought to maintain and challenge local privileges, legal particularisms, and the power of dominant landowners.

Fiction in the Magazines

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Formed Part

This chapter focuses on magazine fiction. Magazine fiction before 1820 has been viewed as irredeemably derivative and ephemeral. Notions of the canon, however, are now wider than they were and there is more interest in the typical as well as in the best fiction of the period. Novelists themselves read magazine fiction, which formed part of the cultural context from which their work developed and in which it may be understood: specific strands of eighteenth-century magazine fiction share ground with the writings of Jane Austen, for instance, or anticipate the subject matter of the Brontës. Indeed, the emergence of the professionally written tale in the 1820s can be seen as meeting a growing desire for more sophisticated magazine fiction and as providing for the needs of those who were attempting to produce it.

Popular Opera in Eighteenth-Century France

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Charlton
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Spoken Dialogue ◽  
Performance Practices ◽  
News Stories ◽  
French Opera ◽  
Musical Comedy ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Private Homes

This is the first book for a century to explore the development of French opera with spoken dialogue from its beginnings. Musical comedy in this form came in different styles and formed a distinct genre of opera, whose history has been obscured by neglect. Its songs were performed in private homes, where operas themselves were also given. The subject-matter was far wider in scope than is normally thought, with news stories and political themes finding their way onto the popular stage. In this book, David Charlton describes the comedic and musical nature of eighteenth-century popular French opera, considering topics such as Gherardi's theatre, Fair Theatre and the 'musico-dramatic art' created in the mid-eighteenth century. Performance practices, singers, audience experiences and theatre staging are included, as well as a pioneering account of the formation of a core of 'canonical' popular works.

Teachers’ reflections on mathematics teaching practices in a vulnerable context

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
David Alfonso Páez ◽  
Daniel Eudave Muñoz ◽  
Teresa De Jesús Cañedo Ortiz ◽  
Ana Cecilia Macías Esparza
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Pedagogical Knowledge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Higher Secondary Education ◽  
Mathematics Teaching Practices

The objective of this research is to show the difficulties and the challenges identified by teachers in their mathematics teaching practices. The research is based on the concept of reflection-action, thus a workshop-course centered on collaborative work and on reflections about teaching practices was designed in order to achieve the objective. Ten mathematics teachers the Telebachillerato (Higher Secondary Education Subsystem, Mexico) participated in this research. The results show that teachers have a variety of challenges, but also difficulties, particularly involving getting students to construct knowledge autonomously, as well as teachers selecting and using resources in accordance to the subject matter to be taught. In addition, there is also lack of mathematical and pedagogical knowledge in the participants. Collaborative work is required, leading teachers towards building the necessary knowledge for Higher Secondary Education in order to avoid student obstacles.

Authorities and Subject Matter Areas Emphasized in the Annual Review of Psychology, 1950–1974

1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1255-1262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert R. Gilgen ◽  
Stevan K. Hultman
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
World War ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
Important Resource ◽  
Factor Analytic ◽  
American Psychology ◽  
The Subject

The Annual Review of Psychology provides an important resource for the historian concerned with post-World War II American psychology. Published since 1950, the series offers summaries and evaluations by knowledgeable psychologists of developments within major areas of the discipline. The present study, based on author indices and tables of contents, indicates that the most frequently cited individuals were R. B. Cattell and British psychologist H. J. Eysenck, both prominent and prolific factor-analytic personality theorists and psychometricians; along with Hullian learning theorists; and a variety of individuals who made notable theoretical or empirical contributions, e.g., Harlow, J. J. Gibson, Festinger, Olds, Simon, Hebb, Rogers, and Skinner. Understandably, psychologists whose work was relevant for many years to a variety of consistently reviewed subject-matter areas tended to have the highest cumulative citation frequencies. Interestingly, the subject-matter area most extensively reviewed across the 25-year period examined was sensation-perception followed by areas within which factor-analytic or Hullian research had some relevance. The study also provides a breakdown of individuals frequently cited during the 1950–55, 1956–65, and 1966–74 subperiods, and an index of new developments as represented by changes in the tables of contents of the 25 volumes analyzed.

II. Some new developments in specimen preparation techniques. Introductory remarks

1971 ◽  
Vol 261 (837) ◽  
pp. 119-119 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Specimen Preparation ◽  
Chemical Processing ◽  
Preparation Technique ◽  
Native State ◽  
New Developments ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Restricted Use ◽  
Preparation Techniques

The purpose of any specimen preparation technique is to prepare a sample of material ‘fixed’ in some way as near as possible to its native state, so that its structure has not changed significantly by the time the specimen is examined in the electron microscope, stained if necessary so that it gives adequate contrast, and, in some cases, additionally stained or labelled so that some chemically distinct part of the structure can be identified. Now, these techniques cover an enormous field of work, and at a relatively short meeting like this, one has to select some particular aspects of it. The subject-matter of section II is especially concerned with techniques which involve physical rather than chemical processing of the specimen, and in particular ones which are still only in rather restricted use.

Words

PMLA ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1320-1327
Author(s):  
Colbert Searles
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
The Subject

THE germ of that which follows came into being many years ago in the days of my youth as a university instructor and assistant professor. It was generated by the then quite outspoken attitude of colleagues in the “exact sciences”; the sciences of which the subject-matter can be exactly weighed and measured and the force of its movements mathematically demonstrated. They assured us that the study of languages and literature had little or nothing scientific about it because: “It had no domain of concrete fact in which to work.” Ergo, the scientific spirit was theirs by a stroke of “efficacious grace” as it were. Ours was at best only a kind of “sufficient grace,” pleasant and even necessary to have, but which could, by no means ensure a reception among the elected.

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