bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
THE MAKE-UP AND PERFORMANCES OF TURKISH-GERMAN HOMOSEXUALITY: A READING OF KUTLUÄž ATAMANâ€™S LOLA UND BILIDIKID (1999)
Authors: Petersen Kendall
Published: January 2018

In 1999, Lola und Bilidikid emerged as the creative product of Turkish-born director, KutluÄŸ Ataman, and provided a rare example and highly nuanced exploration of homosexuality in a Turkish-German context. This article explores the filmâ€™s representation of a group of characters marginalised not only on the level of their cultural background, but also on the level of sexual identity. Through a close analysis of the film, various demonstrations of and responses to homosexuality as a sub-culture within a patriarchal, migrant (and therefore already marginalised) group will also be explored, including particularly the notions of drag and performance. These responses will be analysed from the perspective of the protagonists, who are themselves not only both gay and of Turkish origin, but also demonstrate almost fundamentally conflicting approaches to homosexuality. This is particularly evident in the varying degrees to which they either accept or reject their own homosexuality. The article will also explore the consequences of the acceptance and rejection of their respective homosexualities and the extent to which this informs the construction and/or perpetuation of a particular performance of masculinity.
CASE STUDY NARRATIVE ACCOUNTS OF GENDER AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION IN YOUNG BLACK WOMEN FROM AN EASTERN CAPE TOWNSHIP IN SOUTH AFRICA
Authors: Nduna Mzikazi
Published: January 2018

In South Africa, the experiences of gender non-conforming young women, as a population separate from adults, are understudied. This article explores what distresses young gender non-conforming females from a South African township. The challenges facing such women growing up in a township in the Eastern Cape province in South Africa are discussed and illuminated through case studies of participantsâ€™ personal accounts. The sample was obtained through snowballing. One-on-one in-depth interviews were held and subjected to domain analysis. Domains discovered were: pressure to conform to a female gender identity to be like a lady; being misunderstood in their communities; and disapproval from peers, family and other members of society. The challenges young, black, gender non-conforming girls faced in growing up were based on familial, personal and social factors. Familial and social environments, such as the school, seemed to have a policing effect. Concerns about being isolated, ousted and alienated from society resulted in perceptions that their homes and schools were unsafe and insecure environments. Education and culturally competent support services are needed to educate families about the importance of offering protective support to adolescents, and for schools to create a comfortable environment for gender non-conforming female learners.
NEW MYTHS, NEW SCRIPTS: REVISIONIST MYTHOPOESIS IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICAN WOMENâ€™S POETRY
Authors: Byrne Deirdre
Published: January 2018

Considerable theoretical and critical work has been done on the way British and American women poets re-vision (Rich 1976) male-centred myth. Some South African women poets have also used similar strategies. My article identifies a gap in the academyâ€™s reading of a significant, but somewhat neglected, body of poetry and begins to address this lack of scholarship. I argue that South African women poets use their art to re-vision some of the central constructs of patriarchal mythology, including the association of women with the body and the irrational, and men with the mind and logic. These poems function on two levels: They demonstrate that the constructs they subvert are artificial; and they create new and empowering narratives for women in order to contribute to the reimagining of gender relations.
THE QUEENâ€™S QUEENDOM: NEGOTIATING THE RHETORIC OF THE ELIZABETHâ€“ANJOU COURTSHIP (1572â€“1584)
Authors: Singh Amritesh
Published: January 2018

This article juxtaposes the letters written by Elizabeth I to her last suitor, Francis, Duke of Anjou, with John Stubbsâ€™ virulent tract The discoverie of a gaping gulf (1578) that opposed the match to propose that Elizabeth I challenged her belligerent male subjects in a game of semiotic control. I suggest that Elizabeth I fashioned her own â€˜queendomâ€™ â€“ a discursive realm that complemented her political kingdom â€“ where she attempted to formulate a code of masculinity that would celebrate gynaecocracy and facilitate a consummation of her sexuality. I show how, in her correspondence with Anjou, Elizabeth I sought to create a model husband for herself who would be sympathetic and subordinate to her political authority. I tease out the playful intercourse between the amorous and the political in Elizabeth Iâ€™s language to argue that she insisted on a unique union of her two bodies (the male body politic and the female body natural) which has largely gone unnoticed in current scholarship. Through a close engagement with Elizabethan rhetorical practices, this article aims to inspire a more nuanced reading of gendered identities in early modern England.
Epistemic Ruptures in South African Standpoint Knowledge-Making: Academic Feminism and the #FeesMustFall Movement
Authors: Lewis Desiree , Hendricks Cheryl Margaret
Published: January 2018

Alongside the many structural and political processes generated by the #FeesMustFall student protests between 2015 and 2016 were narratives and discourses about revitalising the transformation of universities throughout South Africa. It was the very notion of â€œtransformation,â€ diluted by neo-liberal macro-economic restructuring from the late 1990s, that students jettisoned as they increasingly embraced the importance of â€œdecolonisation.â€ By exploring some of the key debates and interventions driven by the #FeesMustFall movement, we consider how earlier trajectories of feminist knowledge-making resonate with these. The article also reflects on how aspects of intellectual activism within the student protests can deepen and push back the frontiers of contemporary South African academic feminism. In so doing, it explores how radical knowledge-making at, and about, universities, has contributed to radical political thought in South Africa.
MIND YOUR P(EDERAST)S AND Q(UEER)S: THE SCHOOL AS PHALLIC PARENT IN MARK BEHRâ€™S EMBRACE
Authors: Reef Anne M.
Published: January 2018

This study examines the role of the school in Mark Behrâ€™s Embrace , and situates the institutionâ€™s location at the nexus of gender studies, childrenâ€™s literature scholarship and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. The article argues that in the novel, the school is a phallic parent in locoÂ  and an agent of the apartheid state, eager to enforce white male and heterosexual hegemony in psychologically and physically violent ways. Behr focuses on the vicious abuse of queer boys particularly. The article applies contemporary scholarship in childrenâ€™s literature to what is unquestionably a novel for and by an adult, precisely so because of the bookâ€™s bold grappling with the questions of what is a child, what constitutes sex, who or what is the phallus, and what constitutes violence; it also situates Behrâ€™s thinly veiled autobiography in a (queer) school story tradition. Specific thinkers on whose work the article draws include Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault; gender theorists Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan; and childrenâ€™s literature scholars Karen Coats, Kenneth Kidd and others.
GENDER ISSUES AND THE NIGERIAN CONSTITUTION: A RAY OF LIGHT, OR TWILIGHT ON THE HORIZON?
Authors: Ogunniran Iyabode
Published: January 2018

The consensus in modern democracies is that constitutions should be based on inclusivity. However, the Nigerian constitution is replete with provisions which are interpreted to either deny the realities of women or outright discriminate against them. This article examines the intersections of gender, law and the Nigerian constitution. It argues that women have played a minimal role in the history of constitution making. The inclusion and interpretation of equality; non-discrimination; negative vs. positive rights and gender quotas are biased. The article posits that a conscious effort to give women presence in the polity started in the Nigerian Fourth Republic. The National Gender Policy mainstreamed gender to increase the participation of women in politics and hoisted favourable economic strategies. In addition, in 2014, President Goodluck Jonathan inaugurated a national conference, where far-reaching resolutions were made on gender issues. Consequently, some of the socio-economic rights have been made justiciable and imputed in the latest Constitutional Amendments Bill. An impasse between the president and the National Assembly led to his refusal to assent. The tenure of the government has ended and the resolutions of the conference may not be revisited for some time to come. In contrast to the earlier position, the Nigerian Supreme Court, in two notable decisions, strongly condemned discriminatory inheritance customary practices. The authorâ€™s finding is that constitutional amendments and a continuous active stance by the courts, amongst others, offer leeways for womenâ€™s development.
A Systems Orientation to Research Capacity Development: A South African Perspective
Authors: Van Rensburg Gisela Hildegard , Armstrong Sue J , Geyer Nelouise
Published: January 2018

Research capacity development is essential for quality and cost-effective healthcare, and well-prepared healthcare professionals. This case study used an exploratory design to gain insight into the contributions that a novice researcher programme makes towards research capacity development. Data were collected from reports to the board of a professional organisation acting as custodian of the project and three reflection workshops. The case was deductively analysed using the literature on research capacity development as the point of departure. The Cooke integrated framework for research capacity building in healthcare was used to evaluate the development that took place. The findings of the analysis are described and discussed according to the eight dimensions of the Cooke integrated framework indicating that this novice programme fulfilled all the dimensions of the framework.Â
The Impact of an HIV Community Engagement Programme among Men Who Have Sex with Men in a Rural Community in South Africa
Authors: Mampane Johannes Ntshilagane
Published: January 2018

Men who have sex with men (MSM) are regarded as a high-risk group for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection worldwide. In South Africa, which is home to the largest number of people living with HIV, research has revealed that HIV prevalence and incidence rates among MSM have reached crisis proportions. African MSM in particular are more susceptible to the risk of HIV infection due to increasing homophobia on the African continent coupled with poor socio-economic backgrounds such as poverty, unemployment and low educational levels. In this regard, there is a need to develop appropriate and relevant interventions such as community engagement approaches which have shown to be effective in improving the health and wellbeing of marginalised and minority populations in disadvantaged and underprivileged communities. In the context of this study, the latter refers to Black MSM who live in rural areas. The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the experiences of MSM and health care providers (HCPs) regarding the impact of community engagement on HIV testing, prevention, treatment, care and support among MSM in rural villages in North West province, South Africa. Individual in-depth interviews were conducted with 4 MSM and 4 HCPs who have been involved in a community engagement programme in these rural villages. In a nutshell, the findings of the study revealed that community engagement has encouraged MSM to access and utilise HIV testing, prevention, treatment, care and support than they used to previously. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
ADAT PERNIKAHAN DI KOTA PEKALONGAN
Authors: Maknun Moch. Lukluil
Published: January 2018

This study is naturalistic research that aims to explore the marriage tradition in Pekalongan City, that has some difference’s with marriage tradition in Java. From this study, it can be revealed that the wedding stage in the city of Pekalongan in general is; nakokke, sangsangan, nentokke dino, pasrahan tukon, malem midodaren, walimah, aqad nikah, resepsi, and balik kloso. The wedding customs that distinguish Pekalongan with custom Java in general are: (1) the permissibility of dating after fiance, (2) a series of ceremonies seem quick, (3) The word 'walimah' is defined as a reading of 'mawlid al-barzanji’ before marriage contract (4) the bride and groom do not sit biting at the contract, (5) there is a term ‘bedhol gelung’, (6) there is a term ‘balik kloso sisan tilik’, (7) there is a term ‘nunggak seme’; (8) invitations related to weddings there are several kinds.
SISTEM PENGUPAHAN DAN PEMBAGIAN KERJA PEREMPUAN BURUH BATIK BERBASIS PUTTING OUT SYSTEM DI KOTA PEKALONGAN (Proses dan Implikasi Marginalisasi Terhadap Perempuan Buruh Batik)
Authors: Rahmawati Rita , Rismawati Shinta Dewi , Zaduqisti Esti
Published: January 2018

This research was motivated by the rampant of batik female workers who worked with the Putting Out System (POS) and were marginalized in Pekalongan City. This study was aimed to answer the research questions: what was the marginalization form of women workers through the wage system and division of labor in the production chain based on POS was; the actors who were involved in the process; what factors caused it; and what was implications for women workers, their family and bosses inside production process as well as outside the production process. In-depth interview and observation were used to investigate data. Triangulation of data source and investigating method were also used to validate the investigated data. In addition, Interactive model was used to analyze. The results were: (1) the actors who played a role in the process of marginalization of women workers in Pekalongan batik is the boss, makloon, religious elite (Kyai / Ustazd - ah), and the state; (2) the cause root of that marginalization was manipulated by patriarchal and capitalism ideology; and (3) the implication of that marginalization for woman workers inside production process was that they were positioned as a production machine to make a profit. While the implications outside the production process, they still lived in poverty.
PSIKOLOGI SANTRI USIA DINI
Authors: Muniroh Siti Mumun
Published: January 2018

This study describes the psychological dynamics of Pesantren Salafiyah Syafiiyah Pekalongan early childhood students, which focused on their parenting, cognitive development, emotional and social behavior. Qualitative research data was obtained by interview, observation and documentation. The results of this study reveal: (1) caregivers parenting style were both on authoritarian and democratic. (2) types of parenting and child motivation on boarding school contribute to cognitive and psychosocial development of the child. Students who split up his guardian, and cared for on semi-authoritarian way will be less reasoning person, slow psychomotor skills, and less socialize. In contrast to students whom their parents support them and want their children to be good at lessons will master general science, able to memorize the Koran, and be better person.
HAJI DAN KEGAIRAHAN EKONOMI:Menguak Makna Ibadah Haji Bagi Pedagang Muslim di Yogyakarta
Authors: Sulthoni M. , Muhlisin Muhlisin , Mutho'in Mutho'in
Published: January 2018

Haji adalah ibadah eksklusif dan unik. Sekarang eksklusif karena tidak semua umat Islam tidak perlu itu. Ini ritual hanya dilakukan oleh mereka yang memiliki kemampuan fisik, persyaratan psikologis, dan keuangan untuk menjalankannya. Haji ritual adalah unik karena sering melampaui normatif batas. Fenomena ziarah draper di Pasar Beringharjo yang merupakan subjek penelitian ini jelas menunjukkan hal ini. Para pedagang menyisihkan sebagian dari hati keuntungan perdagangan berrela diperoleh setiap hari, mengumpulkan sedikit demi sedikit dalam waktu yang lama, dan setelah dikumpulkan relatif besar adalah tidak digunakan untuk memperluas bisnis seperti biasa oleh pedagang, namun "menghabiskan" untuk melakukan haji. Studi ini menemukan dasar pedagang rasionalisasi di Pasar Beringharjo yang dapat ditelusuri dari tiga aspek, yaitu makna dari ibadah haji, penggunaan peziarah simbol, dan penggunaan simbol-simbol ini di kegiatan perdagangan mereka. Pertama, makna haji memiliki setidaknya empat arti yang berbeda, yaitu: (a) makna normatif, (b) haji adalah jaminan untuk doa yang dijawab, (c) Haji adalah simbol status sosial dan budaya yang tinggi, (d) simbol Haji adalah jaminan kepercayaan kepada pembeli. Kedua, penciptaan aspek simbolis dari peziarah di Pasar Beringharjo pedagang termotivasi oleh tiga hal, yaitu budaya, sosial, dan latar belakang ekonomi. Ketiga, pelebaran, dan pergeseran memperluas makna haji yang dipengaruhi oleh latar belakang agama, pandangan dunia sebagai orang Jawa, dan yang posisi sebagai pedagang.
PUDARNYA KONSEP DIRI: Jeritan Psikologis Siswa Anak TKI SMPN 04 Bandar Batang
Authors: * Maskhur , Untung Moh. Slamet , * Maemonah
Published: January 2018

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah siswa SMPN 4 Batang Bandar Jawa Tengah. Ini berfokus pada sisi psikologis mereka berkaitan dengan konsep diri. Ini adalah kualitatif-fenomenologis reasearch. Untuk mengumpulkan data, menggunakan self-report, skala rating, observasi perilaku siswa, wawancara mendalam dan pengasuh. Berdasarkan data dan analisis, dapat disimpulkan bahwa mereka konsep diri telah berubah dari positif ke negatif (pudar) melalui tahap berturut-turut, apakah tahapan yang dialami oleh mereka dalam keseluruhan atau sebagian. Oleh karena itu, strategi untuk memulihkan mereka dibutuhkan.
Benchmarking: Green Aviation Transport System
Authors: Vahora Shaleha , Mishra Chandravadan B.
Published: January 2018

Aviation is presently become the quickest developing ventures and additionally transportation modes in the world has reduced space for flying with passage of time having an impact on pollution level. The paper enlightens the concept of Green Transport and sustainable aviation system and benefits of it. Secondly study about the present scenario of Green aviation technology in world as well as in INDIA. Further study about the Vadodara International Airport, a first Green International Airport of Gujarat, and country`s second Green airport after Chandigarh`s terminal.
Study of Self-Compacting Concrete for Economical Construction
Authors: Chandresha Parth , Chandresha Sandip
Published: January 2018

In India, infrastructure is given prior importance and it has been vision to make India fully developed up till 2020.But still at present the average compressive strength of concrete is in range 20.0–30.0 N/mm2. Thus, it is challenging to produce high strength concrete and the one of the major reason for this is presence of air voids. At present to reduce these voids many compacting machines like vibrators are used in filed. But, this leads to high noise pollution and irritation the person working on site. Thus, to eliminate this problem related to compaction, strength and noise, A new concrete called Self-Compacting Concrete [SCC] is used. It reduces the voids as it flows under its own weight. The strength and durability of SCC is much higher compared to conventional concrete. It also helps in achieving high quality of surface finishes and becomes sustainable as it saves the energy. The limitation with such concrete is that cement content is high and results in increase of cost. So, our research aims to produce a self-compacting concrete and compare conventional concrete and self-compacting concrete for economical.
Identity and the Indexicality of Code-switching in the Egyptian Society
Authors: Mohamed Rasha
Published: January 2018

This sociolinguistic paper analyzes the linguistic codes used in the Egyptian television series A Girl Called Zaat (Zaat), which was produced in 2013. This series is an adaptation of the novel Zaat or self by the leftist Egyptian novelist Son’a Allah Ibrahim. The series was chosen because it depicts the eras of several Egyptian presidents, and thus is abundant of important political and social events in Egypt, from the 1952 revolution to the 2011 revolution. These political and social incidents were very influential in the life of the heroine “Zaat”, who represents Egyptians. It would be useful to examine how language was used to express the changes that were taking place in the Egyptian society and hence in Egyptian people’s identities. This research attempts to answer these questions: What were the codes used in the series? What were the indexes of these codes? How was Code-switching (CS) related to identity? Language and identity have a strong relationship and a reciprocal influence. The Theory of indexicality was used in the analysis, particularly second and third order indexicality. The analysis revealed that there were three codes in the series: Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (ECA), English, and Standard Arabic (SA). Hopefully, by examining the indexes of these three codes, the analysis of this series would be of interest and benefit in highlighting the Egyptian social and linguistic situation.
'They are going tomorrow, isn't it?' On the Use of Tag Questions in Indian English and Hong Kong English
Authors: Criado Peña Miriam
Published: January 2018

Tag questions in standard British English (BrE) follow a standard pattern consisting of an operator and a subject. This operator generally coincides with the preceding statement while the auxiliary “do” is the choice when the operator is absent. More importantly, a negative tag is generally attached to a positive statement and vice versa (i.e. you know her, don’t you?) (Quirk et al. 1985: 810).

The Asian varieties of English are an exception insofar as apparently no standard rule is observed. The present paper investigates the use and distribution of regular and irregular tag questions in Indian English and Hong Kong English with the following objectives: a) to analyze the distribution of the construction of regular and irregular tag questions across these varieties; b) to assess their frequency across speech and writing, text types included; and c) to evaluate the sociolinguistic variation, if any. For the purpose, the Indian and Hong Kong components of the International Corpus of English (ICE-Ind and ICE-HK) will be used as sources of analysis.
Las Competencias de Comunicación Intercultural en la Empresa Global y su Desarrollo en el Aula de Español Para Fines Económicos y Comerciales.
Authors: García Luís , Silveira Paulo , Morgado Margarida
Published: January 2018

La presente investigación surge en el ámbito del proyecto financiado por la Unión Europea a través de la agencia Erasmus +, ICCAGE-Intercultural Communicative Competence: an advantage for global employability (http://iccageproject.wixsite.com/presentation), cuya finalidad es, mediante el incremento de la competencia comunicativa intercultural de los estudiantes de la educación superior de Portugal, España, Hungría y la República Checa, mejorar los índices de inserción laboral de los recién graduados de estos cuatro países especialmente damnificados por el desempleo juvenil.

Pretendemos con este estudio determinar qué competencias de comunicación intercultural empresarial son requeridas en la actualidad por los empleadores internacionales, y averiguar cuál es el modo más adecuado de activarlas e incorporarlas a los estudiantes de español para fines económicos y comerciales (ELEFEC) en la enseñanza superior.

El instrumento de recogida de datos destinado a averiguar cuál es el papel que juega en nuestros días la comunicación empresarial internacional, es un cuestionario/entrevista que fue creado por un conjunto de especialistas en comunicación intercultural empresarial de Hungría, España, Portugal y la República Checa. El cuestionario/entrevista se aplicó, entre noviembre de 2015 y enero de 2016, a un total de 28 empleadores que desarrollaban su actividad profesional en empresas de ámbito internacional.

Los datos obtenidos nos permiten identificar cuáles son las competencias en comunicación empresarial internacional imprescindibles para integrarse con éxito en los contextos multiculturales y multilingües que caracterizan a las empresas actuales, así como averiguar cuál es la metodología más adecuada para desarrollar estas destrezas, conocimientos, actitudes y conciencia crítica intercultural en el marco de la enseñanza y aprendizaje de ELEFEC en la educación superior.
Reasoning with Concept Diagrams about Antipatterns
Authors: Shams Zohreh , Jamnik Mateja , Stapleton Gem , Sato Yuri
Published: January 2018

Ontologies are notoriously hard to define, express and reason about. Many tools have been developed to ease the debugging and the reasoning process with ontologies, however they often lack accessibility and formalisation. A visual representation language, concept diagrams, was developed for expressing and reasoning about ontologies in an accessible way. Indeed, empirical studies show that concept diagrams are cognitively more accessible to users in ontology debugging tasks. In this paper we answer the question of “ How can concept diagrams be used to reason about inconsistencies and incoherence of ontologies?”. We do so by formalising a set of inference rules for concept diagrams that enables stepwise verification of the inconsistency and/or incoherence of a set of ontology axioms. The design of inference rules is driven by empirical evidence that concise (merged) diagrams are easier to comprehend for users than a set of lower level diagrams that offer a one-to-one translation of OWL ontology axioms into concept diagrams. We prove that our inference rules are sound, and exemplify how they can be used to reason about inconsistencies and incoherence. Finally, we indicate how our rules can serve as a foundation for new rules required when representing ontologies in diverse new domains.
Diagnosis of supervision patterns on bounded labeled Petri nets by Model Checking
Authors: Pencolé Yannick , Subias Audine
Published: January 2018

This paper investigates the problem of pattern diagnosis of systems modeled as bounded labeled Petri nets that extends the diagnosis problem on single fault events to more complex behaviors. An effective method to solve the diagnosis problem is proposed. It

relies on a matching relation between the system and the pattern that turns the pattern diagnosis problem into a model-checking problem.
Cognitive Operations in Tropes: The Case of Parameterisation
Authors: Herrero-Ruiz Javier
Published: January 2018

Over the last few years, the study of cognitive operations from both a pragmatic and a cognitive angle (cf. Ruiz de Mendoza & Galera, 2014) has gradually received more and more attention. According to Ruiz de Mendoza & Galera (2014), parameterisation is based on world knowledge and is cued by the linguistic expression, resulting in the fixation of a generic value which is otherwise undefined to a greater or lesser extent, as in John drinks standing for ‘John usually drinks alcohol’ or Something has happened meaning ‘something bad has happened.’

Following Herrero (2009), in this paper we attempt to analyse how parameterisation applies in some tropes (overstatement, understatement, euphemism, and dysphemism) by placing constraints on how far the operations that underlie them, strengthening and mitigation, can go.

The examples have been extracted from a multi-faced corpus compiled from The British National Corpus, The Corpus of American English, and Google searches.
The Long-term Effects of Instruction on EFL Learners' Use of Complaining Formulas
Authors: Martínez-Flor Alicia , Usó-Juan Esther
Published: January 2018

Studies analysing the positive role of pragmatic instruction in formal settings have increased over the last decades. Within this area of interventional pragmatics, some studies have particularly examined whether the effectiveness of the instruction implemented is sustained over time. In order to shed more light on the long-term effects of instruction, this research investigates English as a Foreign Language learners’ use of complaining formulas not only after immediately receiving instruction, but also two months later. Results show that learners keep using a variety of appropriate complaining formulas two months after having participated in the instructional period. These findings are discussed and directions for future research suggested.
Challenges in Task Design for Learners of Russian with a Low Level of Proficiency
Authors: Markina Elena
Published: January 2018

The goal of this paper is to analyze some of the issues related to task design in Russian on the basis of a pilot study carried out with 19 bilingual Catalan- and Spanish-speaking participants. They performed six form-focused tasks targeted at the use of case forms and verbs of movement in Russian. Although some problems in task design were detected, t-test showed that learners improved significantly in the use of the target forms.
A Generic Instrumentation Tool for Erlang
Authors: Cassar Ian , Francalanza Adrian , Attard Duncan Paul , Aceto Luca , Ingolfsdottir Anna
Published: January 2018

Aspect oriented programming (AOP) is an instrumentation mechanism that is generally employed by runtime monitoring frameworks to automatically extract system events and embed monitoring code within an existing system. Although several AOP tools exist for renowned languages such as Java and C#, little to no tools have been developed for actor oriented languages such as Erlang. We present eAOP, an AOP tool specifically designed to instrument actor-oriented constructs in Erlang such as message sends and receives, along with other traditional constructs such as function calls.
Effect Of Vertical Geometric And Mass Irregularities In Structure
Authors: Shah Kevin , Vyas Prutha
Published: January 2018

Earthquake design plays major role in designing of any structure. The base shear is developed during an earthquake in a structure. The base shear is calculated by using the codes IS 1893:2002 (Part–1). The study includes the calculations of storey shear, storey drift and storey displacement of G+14 building which is situated in zone-5 with different irregularities. Irregularities are crucial in studying the seismic behavior of building. The irregularities considered are mass irregularity and vertical geometric irregularity. The mass irregularity has first floor without masonry wall and rest of floor with infill masonry wall i.e. soft storey and vertical geometric irregularity has uneven geometry in vertical position & shape of building. In very severe earthquake zone, structure fail due to high lateral loads in this project lateral loads are considered in both direction (EQX & EQY). The modelling and calculations of building are done using ETABS.
Development of Shock Spectra for Different Pulse Shapes Using C Sharp
Authors: Patel Manav , Panchal Vijay R.
Published: January 2018

In this paper, study is carried out to develop the shock spectra for different impulse excitation. To evaluate the effect of damping on various shock spectra, SDOF Systems have been considered. Piece-wise differential equation method is used to evaluate the response of the systems. 0%, 5%, 10% and 20% damping ratios are considered for four different pulse excitation namely - First half triangular pulse, Second half triangular pulse, Full cycle sine wave pulse, Trapezoidal pulse. Software tool is developed to generate different shock spectra using C Sharp.
Methodological Considerations on the Design and Compilation of a Spanish Learner Corpus
Authors: Vande Casteele An , Collewaert Kim
Published: January 2018

As a corpus is a representation of the linguistic reality, it is important to have homogeneous, quantifiable and valid data. This article aims at discussing the issue of elaborating a corpus of oral data from language learners of Spanish. We hereby do not merely focus on the data collection, but also on the difficulties that arise regarding the experimental design, the selection of the participants, the elaboration of a transcription model and the analysis of the data. The discussion will be based upon our own research project, for which oral samples from Spanish language learners of different proficiency levels have been collected in order to be analysed cross-sectionally. Furthermore, this article focuses on the oral experiment specifically designed for this project, similar to those of previous studies on similar subjects. Next to this, we will also discuss the procedure used for the transcription of the data and finally, a codification system will be elaborated.
Human recognition from multi angular images
Authors: Naik Rohan , Lad Kalpesh
Published: January 2018

Face recognition is still complicated task because to envision human actions might not realizable in each incident. Intention of face recognition is to identify human based on face that is similar from available dataset face images. Human face has multidimensional structure so it requires efficient technique for face harmonization and verification.

Proposed work aim for developing efficient human face recognition method that deals with front as well as side view face in normal face expression. Using Viola–Jones face detection algorithm it accumulate only face region. Face features like eyes, nose and lip are extracted from whole face region using canny edge detection and harris corner detection method. To match individual face features, it compares position of edge boundary of features between images. Authors’ uses Euclidian distance method to retrieves maximum match value among all store face images. Based on threshold value it decides whether human face is recognized or not. Authors have evaluated performance of proposed method with DCT, DWD, PCA and LFL method on public free database like FEI, CVL and MIT-CBCL.
Effect of Bus Rapid Transit System on Urban Corridor
Authors: Patel Divyesh , Shukla Rena
Published: January 2018

This paper reviews traffic congestion problem and its solutions. BRTS become

attractive and effective solution which is adopted in many countries. The aim of the present paper is to describe effect of BRTS which is the sustainable solution for public transport services in urban area. Various study carried out to developed guidelines for

implementation of BRTS for different countries. Each country having different BRTS features as well as its impact also. The impact can be measure by micro-simulation before implementation of BRTS. Simulation gives realistic result under real world application.
Adjacency Matrix of Product of Graphs
Authors: Acharya Urvashi , Mehta Himali
Published: January 2018

In graph theory, different types of matrices associated with graph, e.g. Adjacency matrix, Incidence matrix, Laplacian matrix etc. Among all adjacency matrix play an important role in graph theory. Many products of two graphs as well as its generalized form had been studied, e.g., cartesian product, 2−cartesian product, tensor product, 2−tensor product etc. In this paper, we discuss the adjacency matrix of two new product of graphs G H, where = ⊗2, ×2. Also, we obtain the spectrum of these products of graphs.
A Viability Study for Implementing Monorail as a Transit System for Urban Arterial Road: A Case Study of Ahmedabad.
Authors: Marathe Rewati
Published: January 2018

The aim of this study is to investigate an novel mode of transportation from Sarkhej Circle Ahmedabad to Pathika Gandhinagar i.e. arterial road and how this system will be viable to four basic criteria: Technically, Economically, safety and Ecofriendly. This study gives modern concepts of a single rail serving as a track for passenger or freight vehicles, gives information about land use and public transportation planning, speed and movement. Monorail vehicles have

benefited from modern transit technology.

The purpose of this Study is to investigate the viability of monorail as a new urban transit option along a corridor under study of section Sarkhej circle to Gandhinagar. The study is to determine that ―Monorail‖ a fixed guideway technology known ―Automated Guideway Transit‖ be a sustainable transport system which provide mobility and accessibility to all urban residents in a safe and environment friendly mode of transport. One alternative with the development of modern public transport system is monorail. A monorail as public transport very helpful for people in their daily activities also reduces the use of private vehicles and to reduce environmental pollution i.e. ecofriendly.
A Corpus-based Analysis of Non-Standard English Features in the Microblogging Platform Tumblr
Authors: Villares-Maldonado Rosana
Published: January 2018

Linguistic deviations from the standard use of English in computer-mediated communication have been described by the literature as distinctive Netspeak features. Using corpus linguistics and register theory, I examine those linguistic deviations in a corpus extracted from the microblogging platform Tumblr to describe how language use is shaped by the Internet medium. The sample of grammatical, discourse and style features analysed included the use of personal pronouns, idiomatic expressions, abbreviations, examples, quotations, repetitions, intensifiers, emotional and offensive language, as well as other features such as break and run-on-sentences, typography, punctuation, and multimodal elements. The corpus analysis reveals that these texts are characterised as being mainly short written messages combining typical features of the written mode of communication and features of extemporaneous, spoken discourse. Findings also show a non-standard use of punctuation and typography, the inclusion of multimedia elements that helps to overcome the lack of immediate feedback and the use of non-segmental phonology in the conversation. The results of the analysis suggest that Netspeak (non-standard) linguistic features are determined by context and are thus more likely to appear in digital spheres such as social networks, blogs and chats, among users who engage in one-to-one conversations or users who belong to the same in-group, and in communicative situations in which hobbies and personal experiences are the most frequently discussed topics.
Toward the Elaboration of a Spanish-Chinese Parallel Annotated Corpus
Authors: Cao Shuyuan , Da-Cunha Iria , Iruskieta Mikel
Published: January 2018

Spanish and Chinese are two very different languages in all language levels. Therefore, translation (both human and machine translation) from one to another and learning one of them as a foreign language are challenging tasks. Some automatic translation systems exist for this pair of languages, but there is enough room to improve the translation quality between Spanish and Chinese. In addition, the accessible sources, such as a parallel corpus for studying and understanding this language pair, are still few. In this paper, we present how we have created a Spanish-Chinese parallel corpus designed for language learning and translation tasks at the discourse level. This corpus has been enriched automatically with part-of-speech (POS) and several queries based on morpho-syntactic information can be realized. We have made available the parallel corpus to the academic community.
A Learning Algorithm for Episodes
Authors: Obry Tom
Published: January 2018

Sequences of events describing the behavior and actions of agents or systems can be collected in several domains. An episode is a collection of events that occur in a given partial order. By performing a recognition of recurrent episodes in several sequences and comparing them, it is pos- sible to determine a pattern common to all the se- quences. In this paper, we propose an approach to recognize episodes that are common in a set of event sequences. The method described is applied to the automotive domain for learning diagnostic procedures.
A Mathematical Model of Co-current Imbibition Phenomenon in Inclined Homogeneous Porous Medium
Authors: Patel Mahendra A. , Desai Narendrasinh
Published: January 2018

Spontaneous imbibition is the process in which the wetting phase is drawn into a porous medium by means of capillary force. Cocurrent and countercurrent spontaneous imbibitions are defined as wetting and non-wetting fluid flow in identical, and opposite directions respectively. The mathematical model is developed for cocurrent imbibition phenomenon in the inclined oil formatted homogeneous porous medium. An approximate analytical solution of the governing equation is derived by homotopy analysis method. The graphical and numerical solutions are discussed.
Academic writing for Spanish scholars: exploring the challenges with argumentation analysis
Authors: Allani Samira
Published: January 2018

The present study focuses on the academic discourse shaped by Spanish scholars publishing in English. Writing and publishing in the academia are regarded as central not only to the construction of knowledge in individual disciplines but also to the construction of the identities of scholars and the negotiation of their positions and voices within academic communities (Hyland 2013). Drawing upon the theoretical stances of argumentation theory and more particularly on Pragma-dialectics (van Eemeren & Grootendorst, 2004), the aim of this study is to explore the discursive practices of the Spanish scholars who engage in the academic “debates” of their respective communities using English as a second language. While the need for participation in English is increasing around the world, the experience of publishing in a second language has been widely identified as challenging (Hanauer & Englander, 2010; Moreno et al., 2012). The study uses the systematic method of Pragma-dialectics to examine sixty research articles from scientific and engineering disciplines and to determine how their authors discursively construct their work and how they make a case for their contributions. The analysis focuses on the authors ́ strategic maneuvering, which is the efforts arguers make in argumentative discourse to reconcile aiming for rhetorical effectiveness with maintaining dialectical standards of reasonableness (van Eemeren, 2010). Argumentative strategies highly underlie the reasoning patterns of individuals (Mercier & Sperber, 2011) and the way they position themselves and their claims within a given communicative situation. The systematic analysis of argumentative strategies attempts to shed some light on the writing practices of Spanish scholars and the stances they maintain within more and more demanding academic environments.
An Algebraic Approach for Diagnosing Discrete-Time Hybrid Systems
Authors: Provan Gregory
Published: January 2018

A broad range of real-world systems can be defined using discrete-time hybrid systems,

e.g., chemical process plants and manufacturing systems. We characterize this application domain using a class of discrete-event systems, max-plus linear discrete-event systems, which captures synchronization without concurrency or selection. The model framework of these hybrid systems is non-linear in a conventional algebra, but linear in the max-plus algebra, thereby enabling linear-time inference. We use an observer-based framework for monitoring and diagnosing max-plus diagnostics models, and further improve computational efficiency by searching over only the most-likely space of behaviours. We illustrate our approach using a chemical process-control example.
Reducing Model-Based Diagnosis to Knowledge Base Debugging
Authors: Rodler Patrick , Schekotihin Konstantin
Published: January 2018

Model-Based Diagnosis (MBD) is a principled approach to fault localization in any type of system that can be described in a formal structured way. Knowledge Base Debugging (KBD) draws on concepts from MBD to find faults in a monotonic knowledge base. We show that KBD is a generalization of MBD in that any MBD problem can be reduced to a KBD problem and solutions of the former can be directly extracted from solutions of the latter. Moreover, we find that the sequential MBD problem is a special case of the sequential KBD problem in that the latter allows a user to provide more types of measurements. As a consequence of these results, KBD approaches can be applied to all systems amenable to MBD.
An Analysis of Multimodal Interaction in a Webinar: Defining the Genre
Authors: Ruiz-Madrid Noelia , Fortanet-Gómez Inmaculada
Published: January 2018

Abstract

From a Multimodal Discourse Analysis (MDA) perspective (Kress and Van Leuween, 2001; Kress, 2003; O’Halloran, 2004; Baldry&Thibault, 2006; Jewitt, 2009; Querol-Julián and Fortanet-Gómez, 2012) each semiotic resource (i.e., speech, image, writing, movement, gaze, sound, layout, among others) contributes to the meaning-making process. Linguistic and non-linguistic information is integrated in multimodal texts, and especially so in digital genres (Shepherd & Watters 1999; Crowston & Kwasnik 2004; Askehave & Nielsen 2005; Villanueva et al. 2008), where complex relationships are conveyed by the use of multiple resources.

One of these new digital genres is the webinar or web seminar. Webinars help to disseminate knowledge, facilitate collaboration and communication, and enhance performance among students and instructors, employers and employees and specialist in dispersed locations (Wolf, 2006; Forrester, 2009; Bandy, 2010; Kokoc, Ozlu, Cimer & Karal, 2011). Its main characteristic is that it is online and it often consists of a number of lectures streamlined and/or recorded to be watched off-line, and there are several participants located in several places, who can contribute online or offline through different communication modes (written or spoken with or without video). In this sense, it is clear that webinars include a wide array of multimodal resources, both verbal and non-verbal. But how do they work together? To what extent are they integrated? Are users responsive to these multimodal resources and to what extent?

In order to answer these and other questions, we analyse in this paper a dataset of several sessions of a research webinar organized by the Group for Research on Academic and Professional English in 2015 on the topic of Multimodal Discourse Analysis. Our interest is to study all the multimodal components in the discussion sessions in this seminar and the different strategies used by participants for online and face-to-face interaction.
Designing and Validating an Annotation Model of Dynamic Modality for English and Spanish: Issues and Problems
Authors: Lavid Julia , Carretero Marta , Zamorano Juan Rafael
Published: January 2018

In this paper we set forth an annotation model for dynamic modality in English and Spanish, given its relevance not only for contrastive linguistic purposes, but also for its impact on practical annotation tasks in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) community. An annotation scheme is proposed, which captures both the functional-semantic meanings and the language-specific realisations of dynamic meanings in both languages. The scheme is validated through a reliability study performed on a randomly selected set of one hundred and twenty sentences from the MULTINOT corpus, resulting in a high degree of inter-annotator agreement. We discuss our main findings and give attention to the difficult cases as they are currently being used to develop detailed guidelines for the large-scale annotation of dynamic modality in English and Spanish.