Philippe, künic hêre: Concerning the politicization of the councelor's role in the Sprüchen L 16,36 and 17,11 of Walther von der Vogelweide Philippe, künic hêre: Zur Politisierung der Ratgeberrolle bei Walther von der Vogelweide in den Sprüchen L 16,36 und 17,11

Recent research challenges the interpretation of Walther's political Sprüchen as admonishing or rebuking verses directed at Philip of Swabia. Examination of the first two Sprüche of the second Philipps-Ton, the 'Alexander admonition' (L 16,36) and the 'spit roast' Spruch (L 17,11), shows Walther's intent to offer current political advice. The thematic context affords new insights into Wolfram's Walther quotations in 'Willehalm'. Jüngste Forschungsergebnisse stellen die Interpretation von Walthers politischen Sprüchen an Philipp von Schwaben als "Mahn- oder Scheltestrophen" in Frage. Die Untersuchung der beiden ersten Sprüche des Zweiten Philippstons, die sog. Alexandermahnung (L 16,36) und der sog. Spießbratenspruch (L 17,11), soll zeigen, dass Walther eine politisch aktuelle Beratung intendiert. Im thematischen Kontext ergeben sich auch neue Einsichten zu Wolframs Walther-Zitat im 'Willehalm'.

Information Sciences

The information sciences provide tools for deductive reasoning to supplement the classifications made by the data sciences and the explanations made by explanatory models. Formal ontologies provide a unifying framework for organizing definitions, research findings, and theories. One of the primary purposes of a formal ontology is to use deductive reasoning to answer questions submitted to computer. A general or upper oncology is required to integrate more specialized domain ontologies. The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology is particularly helpful because it consists of 20,000 concepts with connections to both WordNet and FrameNet. WordNet is an electronic dictionary while FrameNet captures co-occurrences of words to provide a thematic context in which words occur. Together, WordNet, FrameNet, and the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology provide an integration of three major information science tools.

Thematic Context Derivator Algorithm for Enhanced Context Vector Machine: eCVM

Natural Language Processing uses word embeddings to map words into vectors. Context vector is one of the techniques to map words into vectors. The context vector gives importance of terms in the document corpus. The derivation of context vector is done using various methods such as neural networks, latent semantic analysis, knowledge base methods etc. This paper proposes a novel system to devise an enhanced context vector machine called eCVM. eCVM is able to determine the context phrases and its importance. eCVM uses latent semantic analysis, existing context vector machine, dependency parsing, named entities, topics from latent dirichlet allocation and various forms of words like nouns, adjectives and verbs for building the context. eCVM uses context vector and Pagerank algorithm to find the importance of the term in document and is tested on BBC news dataset. Results of eCVM are compared with compared with the state of the art for context detrivation. The proposed system shows improved performance over existing systems for standard evaluation parameters.

Are Experts (News)Worthy? Balance, Conflict, and Mass Media Coverage of Expert Consensus

Overlooked in analyses of why the public often rejects expert consensus is the role of the news media. News coverage of expert consensus on general matters of policy is likely limited as a result of journalists’ emphasis in news production on novelty and drama at the expense of thematic context. News content is also biased towards balance and conflict, which may dilute the persuasiveness of expert consensus. This study presents an automated and manual analysis of over 280,000 news stories on ten issues where there are important elements of agreement among scientists or economists. The analyses show that news content typically emphasizes arguments aligned with positions of expert consensus, rather than providing balance, and only occasionally cites contrarian experts. More troubling is that expert messages related to important areas of agreement are infrequent in news content, and cues signaling the existence of consensus are rarer still.

“THEY ALL KNOW WHAT I AM”: LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN AND ALCOHOL

Drink literature is something which has been drawing critical attention for a few decades. This is most transparent in the number of studies concerning various attempts to literarise alcohol, in whatever form or genre. What is immediately striking, though, is that most literary works fitting this thematic context are written by male writers, to mention Malcolm Lowry or Charles Jackson, and they usually feature male protagonists. Women seem to be inconspicuous here, both as authors and as literary characters, the latter usually limited to marginal figures who are victims of male drunkenness. This article targets the ‘neglected’ gender in the fictional representations of alcohol by briefly surveying the motif in the literature written on the British Isles and then focusing on two women writers, Jean Rhys and A.L. Kennedy.

Inductive reasoning differs between taxonomic and thematic contexts: Electrophysiological evidence

Inductive reasoning can be performed in different contexts, but it is unclear whether the neural mechanism of inductive reasoning performed in a thematic context (e.g., panda has x, so bamboo has x) is the same as that performed in a taxonomic context (e.g., panda has x, so bear has x). In the present study, participants were required to judge whether a conclusion was acceptable or not based on its premise, for which the taxonomic or thematic distances between premise and conclusion objects were either far or near. The ERP results indicated that the effect of reasoning context (taxonomic vs. thematic) was initially observed in the P2 component; while the distance effect (far vs. near) was observed in N400 and late components. Moreover, the distance effect on thematic-based inductive reasoning was found in the frontal and frontal-central brain regions, while the distance effect in taxonomic-based inductive reasoning conditions was found in the central-parietal and parietal regions. These results support the view that inductive reasoning is performed differently under different semantic contexts.

Proving God's Existence? A Reassessment of al-Rāzī’s Arguments for the Existence of the Creator

Arguments for God's existence, it has often been argued in the secondary academic literature, form an essential part of classical Islamic theology (ʿilm al-kalām) and philosophy (falsafa). In the past decades, numerous scholars have dealt with what could be termed the Islamic discourse on arguments for God's existence, and have commonly analysed these arguments making recourse to Immanuel Kant's (1724–1804) categorisation of such arguments as cosmological, teleological, or ontological. The great Ashʿarī theologian Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606/1210) is, unsurprisingly, seen as no exception to this: he, too, has been regarded as a participant in the aforementioned discourse, and in several of his major kalām works he introduces four methods to ‘prove the existence of the creator’. In this article, I will, however, argue that al-Rāzī had no concern for proving God's existence; the arguments in his kalām works, which, in the secondary academic literature, have been described as seeking to prove that God exists, it shall be suggested, serve a different purpose. This shall become clear when al-Rāzī’s commentary on the Qur'an, al-Tafsīr al-kabīr, is taken into account. Previous studies of al-Rāzī’s (alleged) arguments for God's existence have only focused on his kalām works proper, however, in the Tafsīr al-Rāzī not only presents the very same four kalām methods to ‘prove the existence of the creator’ and stresses that they originate in Qur'anic forms of argumentation, but he also places them in a thematic context which, in his theological works, is oftentimes lacking. This article therefore clarifies the objective underlying al-Rāzī’s arguments for the existence of the creator and explains their significance in his broader theological thought.

Responding to Change and Looking to the Future in Temporal Turn

This review covers the five themes of Temporal Turn: Art and Speculation in Contemporary Asia, and suggests the greatest achievement of the exhibition, while also offering suggestions to improve its impact. The paper also delves into the rapid changes in Asia over the past 50 years, including political, cultural, and population transformation, tying them to specific works in the exhibition. The article selects artworks in Temporal Turn emphasizing these large, rapid changes made by contemporary Asian artists. Research into the economic, political, and cultural facets of East Asian culture is used to back claims made in the paper. Furthermore, the paper proposes how the viewer should respond to the exhibition with thematic context, suggesting it disorients its audience in time and reality.

Formalization of informally acquired competences as part of academic certificate programs in healthcare – “prototype” of a model / Formalisierung informell erworbener Kompetenzen im Rahmen akademischer Zertifikatsprogramme im Gesundheitsbereich – „Prototyp“ eines Modells

The health care sector is facing many aspects of transformation. One aspect amongst others herein is an alteration of qualification profiles. Universities have to focus on both aspects determining future qualification profiles and increasing permeability between educational systems in a sense of optimally intermeshing competences that have been acquired at universities and those that have been acquired outside of them. This leads to the question how to create university certificate programs that offers two aspects: academic qualification on the one hand and on the other hand a possibility to identify, evaluate and certify non-formally and informally acquired competences of participating students. The ultimate goal is to identify and evaluate a person´s overall competence in a clearly defined thematic context, whereat competences that have been acquired outside universities will play an important role. Competences that have been certified by these academic programs may be used later for crediting purposes. In this report an initial prototype is being presented. It defines itself mainly as additional novel way of discussing crediting concepts.