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CONSIDERAZIONI SULL’ACQUISIZIONE DEI TEMPI VERBALI DELL’ITALIANO DA PARTE DI APPRENDENTI SINOFONI
Creators: name: Crippa, Francesco
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2014

description: L’articolo riflette brevemente sul percorso di acquisizione di modi e tempi verbali della lingua italiana da parte di apprendenti sinofoni. Molte ricerche hanno messo in evidenza un ordine ricorrente nelle sequenze di acquisizione del sistema verbale che costituisce, come è noto, una delle maggiori difficoltà per gli apprendenti stranieri che studiano l’italiano. In questo elaborato saranno presi come campione alcuni studenti universitari cinesi che hanno frequentato un corso intensivo di italiano presso l’Università degli studi di Milano, e si verificherà se e in che misura le competenze mostrate dagli apprendenti siano in linea con l’ordine ricorrente messo in luce dalla linguistica acquisizionale. Nella prima parte si analizzeranno alcuni esercizi tratti dai test somministrati agli studenti di livello B1 del QCER a conclusione del loro corso, concentrando l’attenzione sull’acquisizione del tempo imperfetto e del suo uso in alternanza con il passato prossimo. Si procederà poi, nella seconda parte, con lo studio delle produzioni libere svolte nell’ambito della stessa prova d’esame, grazie alle quali si potranno fare anche alcune osservazioni sull’uso di altri tempi verbali normalmente impiegati da studenti di livello più avanzato, come ad esempio il condizionale e il congiuntivo. Nell’interpretazione conclusiva dei dati raccolti verranno fatte alcune considerazioni sull’influenza della L1 nell’evoluzione dell’interlingua degli apprendenti.

Considerations on the acquisition of italian verb tenses by chinese learners

Francesco Crippa

The article reflects on the acquisition of Italian verb moods and tenses by Chinese students. Many studies have highlighted the recurring order in the sequence of acquisition of the verb system, which is, as is well known, one of the major difficulties for foreign learners who study Italian. This paper focuses on a sample of Chinese college students who attended an intensive Italian course at the University of Milan, to verify if and to what extent the skills shown by the learners are in line with the recurring order in light of the acquisitional linguistics. In the first part we will analyze some exercises taken from tests administered to students at the B1 level of the CEFR at the end of the course, focusing on the acquisition of the imperfect tense and its use in alternation with the simple past. This will be followed, in the second part, with the study of unstructured production written during the same exam, thanks to which we will make some comments on the use of other tenses normally used by students at more advanced level, such as the conditional and subjunctive. The final interpretation of the data collected led to some observations on the influence of the L1 on the evolution of the learners' inter-language.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 6, No 1 (2014)
Pre-main-sequence stars in the young open cluster NGC 1893: II. Evidence for triggered massive star formation
Creators: name: Negueruela, Ignacio
name: Marco, Amparo
name: Israel, GianLuca
name: Bernabeu, Guillem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Abridged) The open cluster NGC 1893, illuminating the HII region IC410, contains a moderately large population of O-type stars and is one of the youngest clusters observable in the optical range. We have probed the stellar population of NGC 1893 in an attempt to determine its size and extent. We classify a large sample of cluster members with new intermediate resolution spectroscopy. We use H-alpha slitless spectroscopy of the field to search for emission line objects, identifying 18 emission-line PMS stars. We then combine existing optical photometry with 2MASS JHKs photometry to detect stars with infrared excesses, finding close to 20 more PMS candidates. While almost all stars earlier than B2 indicate standard reddening, all later cluster members show strong deviations from a standard reddening law, which we interpret in terms of infrared excess emission. Emission-line stars and IR-excess objects show the same spatial distribution, concentrating around two localised areas, the immediate vicinity of the pennant nebulae Sim 129 and Sim 130 and the area close to the cluster core where the rim of the molecular cloud associated with IC 410 is illuminated by the nearby O-type stars. In and around the emission nebula Sim 130 we find three Herbig Be stars with spectral types in the B1-4 range and several other fainter emission-line stars. We obtain a complete census of B-type stars by combining Stroemgren, Johnson and 2MASS photometry and find a deficit of intermediate mass stars compared to massive stars. We observe a relatively extended halo of massive stars surrounding the cluster without an accompanying population of intermediate-mass stars. The overall picture of star formation in NGC 1893 suggests a very complex process.
description: Acepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 11 figures, uses new aa macro. For a version with full resolution figures (Fig. 7 and 8 in colour) use http://www.dfists.ua.es/~ignacio/download/aa6654.pdf
Star formation history and evolution of gas-rich dwarf galaxies in the Centaurus A group
Creators: name: Grossi, M.
name: Disney, M. J.
name: Pritzl, B. J .
name: Knezek, P. M.
name: Gallagher, J. S.
name: Minchin, R. F.
name: Freeman, K. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse the properties of three unusual dwarf galaxies in the Centaurus A group discovered with the HIPASS survey. From their optical morphology they appear to be low surface brightness dwarf spheroidals, yet they are gas-rich (M_{HI}/L_{B} > 1) with gas-mass-to-stellar light ratios larger than typical dwarf irregular galaxies. Therefore these systems appear different from any dwarfs of the Local Group. They should be favoured hosts for starburst, whereas we find a faint star formation region in only one object. We have obtained 21-cm data and Hubble Space Telescope photometry in V and I bands, and have constructed Colour Magnitude Diagrams (CMDs) to investigate their stellar populations and to set a constraint on their age. From the comparison of the observed and model CMDs we infer that all three galaxies are at least older than 2 Gyr (possibly even as old as 10 Gyr) and remain gas-rich because their star formation rates (SFRs) have been very low (< 10^{-3} M_{sun}/yr) throughout. In such systems, star formation (SF) appears to have been sporadic and local, though one object (HIPASS J1321--31) has a peculiar red plume in its CMD suggesting that many of its stars were formed in a "miniburst" 300 - 500 Myr ago. The question of why there are no similar dwarf galaxies in the Local Group remains open.
description: 27 pages, 27 figures. MNRAS, in press
Spatial associative memory in pigeons
Creators: name: Willson, Robert James
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: A series of six experiments was conducted examining spatial memory in pigeons. Spatial memory in this species has traditionally been characterized as poor in relation to other avian species, and this has led to speculations about adaptive specializations in spatial memory systems. The results from the experiments conducted in the present thesis in which novel procedures were used to study pigeons’ spatial memory suggest that this characterization has been a result of the experimental procedures used to assess spatial memory, rather than an inherent lack of ability. The procedures that were employed in the current research are also novel in that they are consistent with a theoretical memory distinction proposed by Gaffan (1974) between recognition and associative memory. Recognition memory tasks are procedures in which only the to-be-remembered stimulus is presented during the study phase of a trial. The subject must subsequently discriminate between that stimulus and novel or unfamiliar stimuli during the retention test. Associative memory tasks are procedures in which all stimuli to be presented during the retention test are also presented during the study phase of the trial. In these tasks the subject must identify the target from among the presented set of stimuli and remember its identity when subsequently reexposed to the same stimulus set during the retention test. In the current research, pigeons performed well with extended retention intervals when tested on an associative memory task but not when tested on a recognition memory task. The birds exposed to four spatial locations and given a brief interval to ascertain which one of the four locations was rewarded showed excellent retention for the rewarded location, for periods of up to 72 hr. This level of retention is far greater than that observed in previous spatial memory tasks with this species. The procedures that were employed here are somewhat similar to procedures that have been used to study spatial memory in food-storing birds (Brodbeck, Burack & Shettleworth, in press). Although comparisons across experiments and procedures must be viewed with caution, the present results suggest that under some conditions, pigeons apparently perform better than food-storers on this type of task. As such the findings from the current research program have important implications in relation to the issue of adaptive specializations in memory systems and for the comparative study of spatial memory.
Alternative approach to all-angle negative refraction in two-dimensional photonic crystals
Creators: name: Huang, Y. J.
name: Lu, W. T.
name: Sridhar, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that with an appropriate surface modification, a slab of photonic crystal can be made to allow wave transmission within the band gap. Furthermore, negative refraction and all-angle-negative-refraction (AANR) can be achieved by this surface modification in frequency windows that were not realized before in two-dimensional photonic crystals [C. Luo et al, Phys. Rev. B 65, 201104 (2002)]. This approach to AANR leads to new applications in flat lens imaging. Previous flat lens using photonic crystals requires object-image distance u+v less than or equal to the lens thickness d, u+v d. Our approach can be used to design flat lens with u+v=sd with s>>1, thus being able to image large and/or far away objects. Our results are confirmed by FDTD simulations.
description: 5 pages, 9 eps figs in RevTex format
Droplet size controllable fabrication of Pickering emulsion stabilized by soy protein isolate-carbon nanotubes/carboxymethyl cellulose sodium
Creators: name: Li, Xiang
name: Wang, Fantian
name: Ma, Jiaxin
name: Zhu, Haibiao
name: Yang, Rui
name: Tanaka, Hirofumi
name: Ma, Xiaoming
name: Hong, Liu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Pickering emulsion plays an important role in various industrial fields including food, catalysis, and bioscience. Soy protein isolate (SPI) has been proved feasible for stabilizing Pickering emulsion after modification, though such methods were either difficult to proceed or application restrictive. Herein, we report a simple fabrication of oil-in-water Pickering emulsion using a complex of SPI and carbon nanotubes (CNTs)/carboxymethyl cellulose sodium (CMC-Na). The stability of our emulsion could be kept at a wide range of CNTs diameter, oil fraction, and pH, while the emulsion droplet size might be controlled through the tuning of pH and dispersed phase solvent as well. A strong interaction between SPI and CNTs/CMC-Na is a key factor for the homogeneous distribution of CNTs at the aqueous–organic interface, which benefits the Pickering emulsion formation. Our work will offer some useful thoughts for improving the stability of protein-integrated emulsion.
Performance in male and female elite tennis across season of birth
Creators: name: Blanch, Angel
name: Solé, Silvia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: In the field of sports, there is an overrepresentation of athletes born in the initial months of the selection year, and an underrepresentation of athletes born in the latter months of the selection year. This season of birth effect appears to lead to a disadvantage in performance, even though with a considerable variability regarding age, sex, and skill. This study addressed season of birth effects on performance with the best one hundred male and female tennis players in the world. Specifically, we examined whether season of birth moderates the association of body height and ranking position with tennis performance. The main findings indicated that body height and rank associated in the expected direction with first service wins, break points saved, and a success rate describing the ratio of match wins to match defeats. For females born later in the selection year, however, height was unrelated to the percentage of first service wins or break points saved, and occupying higher positions in the ranking did not contribute to improve the ratio of wins to defeats. These findings suggest that season of birth effects on performance might operate for women but not for men when comparing highly selected populations such as the best tennis players in the world.
LA COMUNICAZIONE POLITICA SUI SOCIAL NETWORK: UN’ANALISI LINGUISTICA
Creators: name: Spoladore, Daniele
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2014

description: Questo lavoro si propone di analizzare le scelte linguistiche dei soggetti politici che utilizzano Facebook e Twitter per rivolgersi al sempre più frammentato panorama dei potenziali elettori. In particolare, analizza le tendenze linguistiche comuni che questi social network hanno fatto emergere nel rapporto tra politica, web e lettori. Cominciando dall’analisi della presenza di parlamentari e senatori su Facebook e Twitter, si cerca di riassumere le principali caratteristiche delle due piattaforme, per giungere ad una classificazione dei testi prodotti attraverso di esse; si analizza la scrittura di post e tweet, sottolineando la presenza di espedienti tipici del mezzo e valutando il loro effetto sui lettori, e si studiano le scelte sintattiche e morfosintattiche in relazione alla struttura e alle possibilità dei due social network. In ultima analisi si osservano le scelte lessicali dei soggetti politici, studiandone i campi semantici e la quantità di tecnicismi. Infine, si cerca di compiere una valutazione delle due differenti tipologie di trasmesso scritto rinvenute nei campioni, osservando come ognuna di esse abbia uno scopo ben preciso nell’economia della comunicazione politica sui social network.

Political communication policy in social networks: a language analysis

Daniele Spoladore

This paper aims to analyze the linguistic choices of politicians who use Facebook and Twitter to address the increasingly fragmented landscape of potential voters. In particular, it analyzes the common language trends that these social networks have revealed in the relationship between politics, the web and readers. Starting from the analysis of the presence of MPs and senators on Facebook and Twitter, we try to summarize the key features of the two platforms, in order to arrive at a classification of the texts produced using them.  We analyzed posts and tweets, emphasizing the  typical characteristics of these means and evaluating their effect on readers, and we studied the syntactic and morpho-syntactic choices in relation to the structure and the possibilities offered by the two social networks. In the final analysis, we observed the lexical choices of politicians, studying the semantic fields and the amount of technicalities. Finally, we tried to make an assessment of two different types of writing found in the samples submitted, noting that each has a specific purpose in the economy of political communication on social networks.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 6, No 1 (2014)
Population variation in North American Menziesia (Ericaceae)
Creators: name: Wells, Thomas Cameron
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: Menziesip, a widespread genus of shrubs, occurs in temperate montane regions of North Zmerica (2 species) and Japan (8 species). Although this disjunct distribution is shared by numerous vascular plant genera, few have been examined biosystematically within and among the floristic regions. In western North rnerica, N. ferrupinea is a highly variable species and apparently is related closely to Appalachian N. pilosa, based on flavonoid analyses. In this study, univariate and multivariate analyses of 22 morphological descriptors revealed discontinuous and clinal variation along west-east and north-south gradients in N. ferrupinea, allowing recognition of two phases. Using the same procedures, N. pilosa proved to be comparatively uniform. Variation was partitioned largely within rather than among populations, with morphological patterns spatially correlated on a regional scale. Past and present migrational events and, to a lesser degree, ecological variables have contributed to clinal development. Analyses also were made using starch gel electrophoresis with 13 enzyme systems coding for 19 loci. Isozyme variation resided predominantly within rather than among populations, with lower than expected total genetic diversity. Levels of allozyme variation within populations were comparable to other xenogamous, entomophilous species.[more abstract]
L’ITALIANO DELLE GUIDE TURISTICHE: UNO STUDIO DELLA LINGUA ORALE DEL TURISMO
Creators: name: Mauri, Elena
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2014

description: Oggetto di questo articolo è il linguaggio orale delle guide turistiche, una produzione linguistica «speciale», difficilmente reperibile e scarsamente analizzata, e si pone come obbiettivo quello di evidenziarne alcuni dei tratti più tipici in relazione ad una delle figure professionali tra le più rappresentative di una comunicazione orale turistica tra esperto e pubblico: la guida turistica. La prima parte dell’articolo è dedicata alla definizione del linguaggio del turismo e, in particolare, alle caratteristiche dal discorso orale delle guide turistiche, esito della mediazione tra linguaggio di specialità e lingua comune. Nella seconda parte viene introdotta e sviluppata l’analisi linguaggio orale delle guide turistiche a partire da un corpus costituito da diciotto file di trascrizione di registrazioni di visite guidate, in lingua italiana, svolte da guide turistiche straniere all’estero. Dallo studio effettuato è emerso come le scelte linguistiche dell’operatore professionale si declinino in funzione delle esigenze e delle caratteristiche del destinatario: ad un turista desideroso di «vedere», «conoscere» e «identificare» nello spazio ciò di cui si parla, la guida turistica risponde con un ampio impiego del verbo «chiamarsi» e di componenti grammaticali e lessicali (verbi, avverbi e preposizioni di luogo, aggettivi dimostrativi) con un forte valore locativo.

Tourist guide italian: a study of the oral language of tourism

Elena Mauri

The object of this article is the oral language of tourist guides, a “special”, hard to find and poorly analyzed type of language production. The objective is to highlight some of the most typical features in relation to one of the most representative professionals in oral tourist communication, between expert and public: tourist guides. The first part of the article is devoted to the definition of the language of tourism and, in particular, to the characteristics of the oral discourse of tour guides and the outcome of mediation between specialized and common language. In the second part of the analysis, the oral language used by tourist guides is introduced and developed from a corpus consisting of eighteen transcriptions of recordings of guided tours in Italian, conducted by foreign tourist guides abroad. The study carried out shows that the language choices of the professional depends on the needs and characteristics of recipients: with a tourist who wants to “see”, “know” and “identify” what in the space is being talked about, the guide responds with an extensive use of the verb “chiamarsi” (to be called) and components of grammar and vocabulary (verbs, adverbs and prepositions, demonstrative adjectives) with strong locative value.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 6, No 1 (2014)
title: Potential of renewable energies in an off-grid system in the high Arctic
title: case study: Ny-Ålesund
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Stautzebach, Elena
Publisher: name: FH Vorarlberg
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften

description: This study deals with the energy situation in Ny-Ålesund, an Arctic research station on the archipelago Svalbard, and aims at analysing the technical feasability of a transition to renewable energies by taking into consideration both the environmental and climatic impediments. The analysis is based on a 27 year long collection of authentic meteorological data with all its strong fluctuations, seasonal as well as yearly. Great emphasis was put on the discussion of tried-and-tested renewable technologies that were compared to a new wind-based energy device that has yet to be tested for its reliability in the harsh environment of notably the Arctic winter. Meticulous calculations lead to the result that bifacial solar modules are an efficient means even in months when the sun stands low and their combination with wind-based devices prove to generate a maximum output. Geothermal energy seems to be promising in the region, but could not be evaluated due to a crucial lack of relevant data. The study comes to the conclusion that the research station of Ny-Ålesund could well rely on a combination of renewable energy devices to cover its energy load, but needs to keep a back-up system of diesel run generators to bridge short periods of possible dysfunctions or standstills due to meteorological circumstances. Battery storage could only contribute to solve the problem of an unfortunate interruption of the energy supply, but it cannot serve as the entire back-up system since, at present, the need would go beyond all possible dimensions.
title: Luft-Clathrat Energiespeicher
title: ein thermodynamisches Modell
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Hartmann, Christian
Publisher: name: FH Vorarlberg
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften

description: In dieser Arbeit wird ein Luft-Clathrat Energiespeicher entworfen, der die Speicherung von elektrischer Energie bei einer Speicherdauer von etwa einem Tag ermöglichen soll. Als Speichermedium dient Luft. Die Luft wird zuerst komprimiert (Einspeichern der elektrischen Energie) und anschließend bei Temperaturen oberhalb des Wasser-Gefrierpunkts (mindestens 274 K, Drücke ab etwa 170 bar) zu Luft-Clathrat synthetisiert. Gespeichert wird das Luft-Clathrat in einem offenen Tank, der aufgrund des Selbstkonservierungseffekts bei moderaten Bedingungen von 1 bar und bei einer Temperatur von 271 K gehalten werden kann. Durch das Hinzufügen von Promotern zum Luft-Clathrat, lässt sich das Luft-Clathrat bei niedrigeren Drücken (< 50 bar) und bei leicht höheren Temperaturen (ca. 280 K) synthetisieren. Bei den Druck- und Flüssigluftspeichern handelt es sich um ähnliche Speicher, da bei diesen Luft ebenfalls als Speichermedium dient. Vorteile des Luft-Clathrat Energiespeichers gegenüber den Druck- und Flüssigluftspeichern liegen darin, dass dieser bei milderen Bedingungen (Druck, Temperatur) die Luft speichert und für die Speicherung der Luft keine Kaverne benötigt, wie es bei den Druckluftspeichern der Fall ist. In der folgenden Masterarbeit werden drei Systeme des Luft-Clathrat Energiespeichers thermodynamisch modelliert. Das isotherme und isentrope System dienen als ideale Systeme, während das reale System an die Wirklichkeit angenähert wird. Für das reale System wird bei reinem Luft-Clathrat ein Zykluswirkungsgrad von ca. 17 %, eine gravimetrische Energiedichte von ca. 22 Wh/kg und eine volumetrische Energiedichte von ca. 21 kWh/m3 erreicht. Mit Promotern konnte der Zykluswirkungsgrad auf ca. 47 % bei einer gravimetrischen Energiedichte von ca. 11 Wh/kg und einer volumetrischen Energiedichte von ca. 10 kWh/m3 erhöht werden.
Pure Spinor Superstrings on Generic type IIA Supergravity Backgrounds
Creators: name: D'Auria, R.
name: Fre', P.
name: Grassi, P. A.
name: Trigiante, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the Free Differential Algebra for type IIA supergravity in 10 dimensions in the string frame. We provide all fermionic terms for all curvatures. We derive the Green-Schwarz sigma model for type IIA superstring based on the FDA construction and we check its invariance under kappa-symmetry. Finally, we derive the pure spinor sigma model and we check the BRST invariance. The present derivation has the advantage that the resulting sigma model is constructed in terms of the superfields appearing in the FDA and therefore one can directly relate a supergravity background with the corresponding sigma model. The complete explicit form of the BRST transformations is given and some new pure spinor constraints are obtained. Finally, the explicit form of the action is given.
description: 31 pp. no figures, latex, some modifications at pag 21, a missing term in 4.51 corrected. Discussion on BRST symmetry improved
Re-transcription of unpublished Whilkut texts
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Spence, Justin
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio files VP-180621-08 and VP-180621-09: Re-transcription and translation of Whilkut texts transcribed by P.E. Goddard, American Philosophical Society Na20j.1, notebook #2, pp. 61-62 (VP-180621-08) and pp. 62-67 (VP-180621-09). VP-180621-09 concludes with a summary, in English, of key points of Verdena's story of Coyote's Sons, which is similar to the text under discussion in this file.
PER LA DIDATTICA DI UNA SCRITTURA ESPOSITIVA: LA RELAZIONE
Creators: name: Prada, Massimo
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2014

description: In questo articolo si descrive – con una specifica attenzione alle ricadute didattiche – la relazione in quanto tipo testuale, discorsivo e linguistico e si forniscono indicazioni operative utili alla stesura di relazioni corrette, adeguate ed efficaci. Il testo delinea così un possibile percorso formativo per migliorare – in un ambito ben determinato dello “scrivibile” – le competenze scrittura degli studenti della scuola secondaria di secondo grado. La prima parte del documento sottolinea le caratteristiche generali della relazione in quanto classe di testi e individua i tratti distintivi di sue forme particolarmente utili e praticabili in ambito scolastico: il verbale, il rapporto e la relazione di ricerca, il saggio breve e la recensione. La seconda parte, invece, si focalizza sul processo cognitivo e operativo che rende possibile la scrittura di relazioni funzionali, individuando un possibile itinerario compositivo distinto in fasi: quella della lettura dei testi fonte e della loro manipolazione; quella della vera e propria stesura progettuale; quella della revisione.

Teaching expository writing: a report

Massimo Prada

With a specific focus on educational implications, this article describes the report as a textual, discursive and linguistic type and provides useful guidance useful for writing correct, appropriate and effective reports. In the well-defined area of “writablility”, the text outlines a possible way to improve teaching writing skills to secondary school students. The first part of the paper outlines the general characteristics of the report as a class of text and identifies the distinctive features of its form that are particularly useful and practicable in schools: memorandums, reports and research reports, short essays and reviews. The second part focuses on the cognitive and operational processes that makes it possible to write functional reports, identifying a possible distinct compositional stages: the reading of the source texts and their manipulation; writing the draft; and revision.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 6, No 1 (2014)
SEMPLIFICARE I TESTI DI STUDIO: QUANDO, COME
Creators: name: Zambelli, Maria Luisa
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2014

description: L’articolo si colloca all’interno della didattica inclusiva e propone una riflessione sulle difficoltà che i lettori poco esperti – italofoni e stranieri – incontrano nell’approccio al manuale di studio. La complessità del processo di comprensione, e la specificità della lingua dei manuale – uno degli aspetti della lingua dell’istruzione – giustificano le difficoltà. La scuola ha il compito di trovare soluzioni che permettano anche ai lettori dalle competenze non ancora consolidate – come gli alunni stranieri o gli alunni con disturbi specifici di comprensione – di accostarsi ai contenuti delle discipline contemporaneamente ai compagni di classe e nel frattempo consolidare competenze trasversali quali la lettura per lo studio. Fra gli strumenti possibili la semplificazione e la facilitazione del testo sono strumenti essenziali per raggiungere l’obiettivo, strumento-ponte il primo, da abbandonare non appena le competenze linguistiche dei lettori lo permettano, strumento di più ampio uso il secondo, utile a sostenere il consolidamento delle competenze di studio in tutti gli alunni del gruppo-classe.

Simplifying textbooks: when, how

Luisa Zambelli

The article falls in the field of inclusive education and offers a reflection on the difficulties that Italian and foreign readers with little experience meet when studying from a textbook. The complexity of the process of understanding and the specificity of textbook language – one of the aspects regarding the language of study – justify the difficulties. Schools have the task of finding solutions that allow readers whose skills are not yet consolidated ‒ like foreign students or students with specific learning disorders ‒ to approach the content of the disciplines together with their classmates, while strengthening transversal skills such as reading for study. Among the possible tools, the simplification and facilitation of the text are essential tools to achieve this goal, the former providing a temporary bridge until the language skills of the readers are adequate, the latter a widely used instrument, useful for supporting the consolidation of study skills for all students in the classroom.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 6, No 1 (2014)
Shear and Vorticity in Inflationary Brans-Dicke Cosmology with Lambda-Term
Creators: name: Berman, Marcelo Samuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find a solution for exponential inflation in Brans-Dicke cosmology endowed with a cosmological term, which includes time-varying shear and vorticity. We find that the scalar field and the scale factor increase exponentialy while shear, vorticity, energy density, cosmic pressure and the cosmological term decay exponentialy for beta < 0, where beta is defined in the text.
description: 8 pages including front one. Published by Astrophysics and Space Science
Unraveling the Flux-Averaged Neutrino-Nucleus Cross Section
Creators: name: Benhar, Omar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interpretation of the nuclear cross sections measured using accelerator neutrino beams involve severe difficulties, arising primarily from the average over the incoming neutrino flux. The broad energy distribution of the beam particles hampers the determination of the energy transfer to the nuclear target, the knowledge of which is needed to pin down the dominant reaction mechanism. Overcoming this problem requires the development of a theoretical approach suitable to describe neutrino interactions at energies ranging from hundreds of MeV to few GeV. In this paper, it is argued that the approach based on the factorisation of the nuclear cross section provides a consistent framework for the calculation of neutrino-nucleus interactions in both the quasi elastic and inelastic channels. The near-degeneracy between theoretical models based on different assumptions, and the use of electron scattering data to advance the understanding of neutrino-nucleus cross sections are also discussed.
description: Submittted to EPJ Special Topics. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1612.01473
Einführung - Grammatikalisierung in interdisziplinärer Perspektive
Creators: name: Eberl, Martin
name: Ingrosso, Sara
name: Narmandakh, Enkhmaa
name: Ortner, Sebastian
name: Scholtz, Katharina
name: Wiatr, Aleksander
Publisher: name: JournaLIPP
Year: 2017

description: Einführung
description: JournaLIPP, Nr. 5 (2017): Grammatikalisierung in interdisziplinärer Perspektive - Grammaticalization from an interdisciplinary perspective
Energy levels and their correlations in quasicrystals
Creators: name: Jagannathan, A.
name: Piechon, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quasicrystals can be considered, from the point of view of their electronic properties, as being intermediate between metals and insulators. For example, experiments show that quasicrystalline alloys such as AlCuFe or AlPdMn have conductivities far smaller than those of the metals that these alloys are composed from. Wave functions in a quasicrystal are typically intermediate in character between the extended states of a crystal and the exponentially localized states in the insulating phase, and this is also reflected in the energy spectrum and the density of states. In the theoretical studies we consider in this review, the quasicrystals are described by a pure hopping tight binding model on simple tilings. We focus on spectral properties, which we compare with those of other complex systems, in particular, the Anderson model of a disordered metal.
description: 15 pages including 19 figures. Review article, submitted to Phil. Mag
Особенности российского рынка государственных облигаций
Creators: name: Соколова И. В.
name: Шмыглин А. А.
Publisher: name: Colloquium-journal
Year: 2019
Subjects: облигации
инвестиции
финансовый рынок
активы
ценные бумаги.
bonds
investments
financial market
assets
securities.

description: В статье проводится анализ рынка государственных облигаций. Приводятся статистические данные доходности российских государственных облигаций, определены основные держатели этих ценных бумаг, выявлена доходность гособлигаций развитых стран за 2018 год, раскрыта динамика неисполнения обязательства российских эмитентов за 2009−2018 гг. Описаны проблемы, возникающие на рынке государственных облигаций.
description: In article the analysis of the market of government bonds is carried out. Statistical data of yield on the Russian government bonds are provided, the main holders of these securities are defined, the yield on state bonds of the developed countries for 2018 is revealed, dynamics of non-execution of the obligation of the Russian issuers for 2009−2018 is disclosed. The problems arising in the market of government bonds are described.
Interacting holographic dark energy model in non-flat universe
Creators: name: Setare, M R
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We employ the holographic model of interacting dark energy to obtain the equation of state for the holographic energy density in non-flat (closed) universe enclosed by the event horizon measured from the sphere of horizon named $L$.
description: 8 pages, the address of author changed, some references added
Overview of charm production at RHIC
Creators: name: Xu, Zhangbu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this presentation, I discussed a) the charm total cross-section and its comparisons to measurements at other beam energies and pQCD calculations; b) the semileptonic decay of charmed hadrons and the sensitivity of non-photonic leptons to charm quark collective flow and freeze-out; c) semileptonic decayed electron spectrum at high transverse momentum, its comparison to FONLL in p+p and d+Au collisions, and heavy-quark energy loss in Au+Au collisions.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, overview talk at SQM2006: Strangeness in Quark Matter Los Angeles, CA, Mar. 26-31, 2006; minor text changes and references added
Search algorithms as a framework for the optimization of drug combinations
Creators: name: Calzolari, Diego
name: Bruschi, Stefania
name: Coquin, Laurence
name: Schofield, Jennifer
name: Feala, Jacob
name: Reed, John C.
name: McCulloch, Andrew D.
name: Paternostro, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Combination therapies are often needed for effective clinical outcomes in the management of complex diseases, but presently they are generally based on empirical clinical experience. Here we suggest a novel application of search algorithms, originally developed for digital communication, modified to optimize combinations of therapeutic interventions. In biological experiments measuring the restoration of the decline with age in heart function and exercise capacity in Drosophila melanogaster, we found that search algorithms correctly identified optimal combinations of four drugs with only one third of the tests performed in a fully factorial search. In experiments identifying combinations of three doses of up to six drugs for selective killing of human cancer cells, search algorithms resulted in a highly significant enrichment of selective combinations compared with random searches. In simulations using a network model of cell death, we found that the search algorithms identified the optimal combinations of 6-9 interventions in 80-90% of tests, compared with 15-30% for an equivalent random search. These findings suggest that modified search algorithms from information theory have the potential to enhance the discovery of novel therapeutic drug combinations. This report also helps to frame a biomedical problem that will benefit from an interdisciplinary effort and suggests a general strategy for its solution.
description: 36 pages, 10 figures, revised version
СРАВНИТЕЛЬНОЕ ИЗУЧЕНИЕ ВЛАГОСОРБЦИОННЫХ СВОЙСТВ И ТЕХНОЛОГИЧЕСКИХ ПОКАЗАТЕЛЕЙ СУХОГО ЭКСТРАКТА И КАПСУЛИРУЕМОЙ МАССЫ
Creators: name: Кариева, Ёқут
name: Садикова, Ранохон
name: Мирзакамалова, Дилдора
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: В данной статье приведены результаты сравнительного изучения влагосорбционной активности и технологических показателей сухого экстракта бессмертника самаркандского и капсулируемой массы на его основе. Для определения влагосорбционных свойств был применен модифицированный гравиметрический метод, предложенный С.А.Носовицкой. А изучение технологических показателей проводили в соответствии с методиками, приведенными в Государственной фармакопее Республики Узбекистан. Гигроскопичность капсулируемой массы находится в линейной зависимости от влажности окружающей среды. Однако, при сравнении с аналогичными показателями сухого экстракта выявлено, что данные свойства при капсулировании снизились в 1,39 раз (58% относительная влажность), 1,37 раз (79% относительная влажность), 1,40 раз (90% относительная влажность) и 1,44 раза (100% относительная влажность). Также наблюдалось значительное улучшение всех технологических показателей, что свидетельствует о научно-обоснованном подходе к выбору вида и количества вспомогательных веществ для получения капсулируемой массы.
Cold Dark Matter, Radiative Neutrino Mass, mu to e gamma, and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
Creators: name: Kubo, Jisuke
name: Ma, Ernest
name: Suematsu, Daijiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two of the most important and pressing questions in cosmology and particle physics are: (1) What is the nature of cold dark matter? and (2) Will near-future experiments on neutrinoless double beta decay be able to ascertain that the neutrino is a Majorana particle, i.e. its own antiparticle? We show that these two seemingly unrelated issues are intimately connected if neutrinos acquire mass only because of their interactions with dark matter.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
Paradigm change and language contact: A framework of analysis and some speculation about the underlying cognitive processes
Creators: name: Gast, Volker
Publisher: name: JournaLIPP
Year: 2017

description: This article contains some thoughts on the role of bilingual cognition in the diachronic change of morphological paradigms, with a focus on contact-induced change. In a first step, a general typology of paradigm change is proposed, based on a distinction between three levels of linguistic organization (the sign/Level 1, the category/Level 2, and the dimension/Level 3), and two types of change (neutralization and differentiation), thus distinguishing six types of paradigm change. Examples of these types (taken from the pertinent literature) are discussed, and two questions are addressed in each case: (i) To what extent does contact-induced paradigm change of a specific type differ from internal change? (ii) What are (potentially) the underlying cognitive processes motivating each type of change? The hypothesis is explored that there is a correlation between the three levels of analysis and three types of cognitive processes involved in paradigm change. It is suggested that change at Level 1 is typically based on analogy, change at Level 2 is often sensitive to frequency of use, and change at Level 3 may imply conceptual transfer, as discussed in recent work on weak relativity effects in the context of bilingual cognition.
description: JournaLIPP, Nr. 5 (2017): Grammatikalisierung in interdisziplinärer Perspektive - Grammaticalization from an interdisciplinary perspective
Ερμηνευτική και μεταφραστική προσέγγιση του έργου του Σιμόνε Πομάρντι “Viaggio nella Grecia fatto da Simone Pomardi negli anni 1804, 1805, e 1806” Τόμος ΙΙ – Κεφάλαια XΙΧ & ΧΧ
Creators: name: Σαμακίδης, Ευστράτιος Αντωνίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2019
Subjects: Σχολιασμένη μετάφραση
Πολιτισμικοί ενδείκτες
Περιηγητικά κείμενα
Σιμόνε Πομάρντι
Έντουαρντ Ντόντουελ
Annotated translation
Cultural specific items
Traveling contexts
Simone Pomardi
Edward Dodwell

description: Σκοπός της παρούσας διπλωματικής εργασίας είναι η ερμηνευτική και μεταφραστική προσέγγιση του 19ου και 20ού κεφαλαίου από το έργο του Ιταλού ζωγράφου Σιμόνε Πομάρντι Viaggio nella Grecia fatto da Simone Pomardi negli anni 1804, 1805, e 1806. Τα συγκεκριμένα αποσπάσματα αποτελούν σημειώσεις που κρατούσε στο προσωπικό του ημερολόγιο με τις εντυπώσεις από ένα μέρος του ταξιδιού του από τον Αλμυρό μέχρι την κοιλάδα των Τεμπών, που πραγματοποίησε συνοδεία του Έντουαρντ Ντόντουελ, το καλοκαίρι του 1806.
description: Aim of this dissertation is the interpretive and translation approach of the 19th and 20th capitals, taken from Simone Pomardi’s work Viaggio nella Grecia fatto da Simone Pomardi negli anni 1804, 1805, e 1806. These specific excerpts consist of notes written on his personal diary, describing his impressions during his journey from Almiros to the Valley of Tempi, conducted in the company of Edward Dodwell, in the summer of 1806.
Higher dimensional VSI spacetimes
Creators: name: Coley, A.
name: Fuster, A.
name: Hervik, S.
name: Pelavas, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the explicit metric forms for higher dimensional vanishing scalar invariant (VSI) Lorentzian spacetimes. We note that all of the VSI spacetimes belong to the higher dimensional Kundt class. We determine all of the VSI spacetimes which admit a covariantly constant null vector, and we note that in general in higher dimensions these spacetimes are of Ricci type III and Weyl type III. The Ricci type N subclass is related to the chiral null models and includes the relativistic gyratons and the higher dimensional pp-wave spacetimes. The spacetimes under investigation are of particular interest since they are solutions of supergravity or superstring theory.
description: 14 pages, changes in second paragraph of the discussion
Elicitation of verb paradigms from unpublished Goddard material
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Spence, Justin
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio file VP-180621-04: Verb paradigm elicitation based on unpublished material transcribed by P.E. Goddard (Bancroft Library CU-23.1 12.14.1, file 2184-12 (4).pdf).
Generation of Entangled Photon Holes using Quantum Interference
Creators: name: Pittman, T. B.
name: Franson, J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In addition to photon pairs entangled in polarization or other variables, quantum mechanics also allows optical beams that are entangled through the absence of the photons themselves. These correlated absences, or ``entangled photon holes'', can lead to counter-intuitive nonlocal effects analogous to those of the more familiar entangled photon pairs. Here we report an experimental observation of photon holes generated using quantum interference effects to suppress the probability that two photons in a weak laser pulse will separate at an optical beam splitter.
description: 4 pages, color figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. A