Comparison of Preschooler Verbal and Graphic Symbol Production Across Different Syntactic Structures

The present study focuses on the impact of graphic symbols used in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) on clause construction. It is not yet well-understood to what extent communication produced via graphic symbols differs from verbal production. This study attempts shed light on the impact of the graphic symbol modality on message construction beyond individual differences, language knowledge, and language-specific patterns by providing a direct comparison between children’s verbal and graphic symbol production. Nineteen typically developing Hebrew-speaking children aged 4–5 years were presented with 16 short videos of actions and were asked to express what they saw verbally and by choosing among graphic symbols displayed on an iPad communication board. The 570 clauses produced by the children were coded and analyzed. A significant difference was found in favor of verbal speech across different syntactic structures in terms of utilization of the target lexicon, syntactic complexity, and expected target word order. These results are consistent with the existing literature for English. Implications for AAC practices are discussed, highlighting the notion that using graphic symbols to represent spoken language may not reflect actual linguistic knowledge and that adequate, explicit instruction is necessary for graphic representation of more complex linguistic structures.

Study the Simulation of Hybrid Solar Wind Charging Station

Electric vehicles play a vital role in energy saving and emission reduction of harmful greenhouse gases. electrical vehicles dispersion into the vehicles market has not been up to the mark because of less value effective and these vehicles have to be compelled to be compelled to recharge once in sixty five to seventy klick drive. The novel hybrid vehicle charging station carries with it fully totally different sources like PV systems, wind systems, the AC provide, batteries area unit used as a main energy storage system, kind DC little grid permanently energy delivery. Thus, grid offers decent quality of power to 3 totally different hundreds notably 110-volt AC single-phase output ,100 v DC output. The grid is at 230 V rms with fifty cps connected isolator in relation to the DC bus. The three-part output of the grid is regenerated to the rippled DC by utilization of DBR (Diode Bridge Rectifier). The regenerated DC voltage is fed to graphic symbol device that might be a DC-DC devices, making the rippled DC to constant DC with the use of a buck device, this paper justifies comparative performance hybrid charging station mistreatment buck and letter convertor to stabilize the DC voltage. planned system analysis in MATLAB Simulink.

A Jungian Analysis of the Chinese Kitchen God Image

This article studies the impact of Kitchen God beliefs and worship on Chinese mentality and behavior, both consciously and unconsciously. At the conscious level, the evolution of the Kitchen God beliefs has gone through four stages; Nature God, Animal God, Half-animal/Half human God, and finally Human God. The evolution of the Kitchen God in China displays the features of a couple, aging and secularization. The experience of “returning to the sacred origin” can be obtained through Kitchen God worship by burning an old paper image of the Kitchen God and pasting of a new one of him beside the kitchen stove year after year during the Kitchen God festival. The secret to continuity of life lies in repetition. The image of the Kitchen God as an important graphic symbol is formed by a constellation of images; good pot and evil pot, two dragons playing with a bead, rooster and dog, the psychological archetypes as yin and yang, unity of opposites, transformation and integration. This ritual serves as a bridge between Chinese people and their “ancestors,” “the other realm” (nirvana), and “the Self.” On an unconscious level, the psychological significance of Kitchen God beliefs is analyzed through “the family hexagram.” The collective unconscious for the Chinese can be revealed by a continuous pattern of concentric circles structure, that is, “heaven and earth—the Kitchen God—ancestors—parents—offspring.” Through a clinical case using Sandplay Therapy, this article will show that Kitchen God imagery unconsciously shows the constellation of “family.” Family is the place of belonging and home for Chinese people, helping the client return to his inner source and gain strength through acceptance and transformation. The implication of Kitchen God beliefs for today’s Chinese society is to return to the most primitive “Tao,” which presents a possible cure for many kinds of psychological problems we are facing. It suggests that researchers pay attention to the psychological phenomenon of clients’ using the Kitchen God image to express their cultural feelings toward family in psychological practice.

Family tamga as a sociocultural graphic symbol

This article explores the problems of the poorly studied sociocultural practices of spiritual-educational fund of ethnic cultures, among which of particular importance is the study of historical and aesthetic specificity of graphic symbolism. The author reviews the ideographic image of the family symbol of ownership “tamga” from the perspective of mutual influence of ethnocultural practices of different people that manifests through the system of symbols. Analysis is conducted on the interaction of ethnic graphic symbols in the evolutionary processes of sociocultural activity of the ethnoses. Symbolic ideographic images have always played a significant role in the evolutionary processes of sociocultural activity of the society. Symbols prompted the emergence of writing system, art, education and upbringing, and up to now are associated with the modern worldview. In the course of research, the author determines the characteristic artistic features socially meaningful forms of ethnic culture. Existing as a the visual forms of control over the processes of spiritual development, the symbolic forms infiltrate from one creative system into another, exerting a direct influence upon the artistic-aesthetic content and cultural meaning of the new image. These graphic codes, depending on the semantic generality, define cultural significance of the symbol in folk art. The relatively small number of publications dedicated to the research of graphic image of the social symbol (tamga) allows summarizing the results acquired by the Russian and foreign scholars in this field.

Female images and trauma visualization in the blockade text of Olga Bergholz

This work investigates the role of female images in the representation of trauma in the blockade narrative by O. F. Bergholz. Her poetic texts for propaganda posters “Okna TASS” and the poem “Conversation with a neighbor” portray realistic images of women. The poem “The February Diary” conveys the blockade trauma through the aesthetics of silence, filled with existential semantics. In “Leningrad Poem,” the poet emphasizes the loss of sacred traditions: the disconsolate mother cannot bury her child. In “Leningrad Autumn,” Bergholz reproduces real everyday life and religious-mystical being: the figure of a woman holding a board with nails visualizes a graphic symbol - a cross, manifesting the burden of people’s ordeal. In the novel “Day Stars,” the chapter “Smoke Break,” the author depicts the emotional and moral threshold crossed by two Leningrad women, sitting on a sled with a coffin and having a smoke break. In the passage “Banya” from the unfinished second part of “Day stars,” Bergholz breaks through to the “existentially uncomfortable writing” and visualizes the blockade trauma in the category of physicality traditionally tabooed in the literature of the Soviet period. The naked female body becomes exceptionally expressive and serves as a sign to reveal new meanings in the literary text. Skinny bodies being the norm, the appearance of a buxom beauty in the bathhouse caused anger: the blockade women identified her as an enemy. The author of the paper defines Leningrad women, considered in the framework of trauma studies, as a “community of loss” of female identity.

Development of Standards for Production of an Exit Sign Lighting to Minimize Human Reaction Time - Part II: Combination of Graphical Symbol Colours

In emergency situations, exit sign lightings play a role in reducing evacuation time for occupants by providing accurate and prompt information on the correct evacuation direction. In other words, it can be said that the better the recognition of exit sign lighting, the greater the probability of securing the safety of life because the evacuation route information is given to the occupants and eventually the time taken for route selection and movement is shortened. In this study, human reaction time was measured for 27 kinds of graphic symbol color combinations of exit sign lightings in the visible light region, and through this, a graphic symbol color combination that can minimize reaction time to exit sign lightings was derived. As a result, it was found that the color combination of green and white background color, which is currently mainly used in Korea, has the shortest reaction time.