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Move the way you feel : effects of musical features, perceived emotions, and personality on music-induced movement
2013
Fear of falling and coexisting sensory difficulties as predictors of mobility decline in older women
2012
Background. Mobility decline, the coexistence of several sensory difficulties and fear of falling (FOF) are all common concerns in older people; however, knowledge about the combined effect of FOF and coexisting sensory difficulties on mobility is lacking. Methods. Data on self-reported FOF, difficulties in hearing, vision, balance, and walking 2 km were gathered with a structured questionnaire among 434 women aged 63–76 years at baseline and after a 3-year follow-up. Logistic regression models were used for analyses. Results. Every third participant reported difficulties in walking 2 km at baseline. In cross-sectional analysis, the odds ratio for difficulties in walking 2 km was higher amo…
Theory and Practice of Legislation Journal in Volume 2, Number 2, November 2014.
2014
This special issue of The Theory and Practice of Legislation presents one of the outcomes of the project launched at the Sir William Dale Centre by Prof. Helen Xanthaki and Dr. Giulia Adriana Pennisi in 2013 and entitled Legislative Drafting and Language. The projects investigates the crossroad between legislative drafting and language/linguistics with the aim to open a new agenda: the use of teachings from the discipline of linguistics in applications useful and relevant to legislative drafting. An example of the results gained thus far are the two workshops on “Legislative Drafting and Language” that took place at the IALS in June 2013 and June 2014 respectively, and witnessed the partici…
Žurnāla “Forbes” ziņu lingvistiskās iezīmes Facebook vietnē
2019
Lai gan internets un tehnoloģijas nav vienīgie faktori, kas mūsdienās sekmē izmaiņas valodā, tie noteikti ir snieguši savu ieguldījumu. Tā kā tīmekļa valodas un sociālo tīklu jēdzieni ir salīdzinoši jauni, nav daudz pētījumu veikti par tīmekļa lingvistiskajām iezīmēm. Tāpēc šī darba mērķis ir izpētīt valodas iezīmes Forbes ierakstos Facebook vietnē. Kā pētījuma metodes tiek izmantots literatūras apskats un kvantitatīva un kvalitatīva uz teksta krājuma balstīta lingvistiskā analīze kā arī tiek izmantota aptauja. Analīze atklāj, ka Forbes Facebook ierakstu nozīmīgākās valodas iezīmes ir trešās personas vietniekvārdi, modālie darbības vārdi, kas attiecas uz atļauju, iespēju vai spēju, vienkārš…
Antiutopiskie romāni pusaudžiem „Citādie”, „Delīrijs”, „Devējs”
2015
Šis pētījums ir veltīts antiutopiskās pusaudžu literatūras analīzei V. Rotas grāmatā „Citādie”, L. Oliveras romānā „Delīrijs” un L. Lorijas darbā „Devējs”. Darba teorētisko daļu veido informācija par pusaudžiem domāto literatūru utopiskās un antiutopiskās literatūras žanru attīstību. Praktiskā daļa veltīta antiutopijas pazīmju analīzei pusaudžiem paredzētajās grāmatās „Citādie”, „Delīrijs” un „Devējs”. Pētījumā izmantota kvalitatīvā pētījumu metode, kas sevī ietver saistīto teoriju izpēti un kontrastīvo analīzi, romānu „Citādie”, „Delīrijs” un „Devējs” tuvlasījumu metodi, satura analīzi, interpretāciju, kopsavilkumu un secinājumus. Iegūtā informācija ļauj veikt antiutopijas iezīmju analīzi …
Carbon dynamics in highly heterotrophic subarctic thaw ponds
2015
Abstract. Global warming has accelerated the formation of permafrost thaw ponds in several subarctic and arctic regions. These ponds are net heterotrophic as evidenced by their greenhouse gas (GHG) supersaturation levels (CO2 and CH4), and generally receive large terrestrial carbon inputs from the thawing and eroding permafrost. We measured seasonal and vertical variations in the concentration and type of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in five subarctic thaw (thermokarst) ponds in northern Quebec, and explored how environmental gradients influenced heterotrophic and phototrophic biomass and productivity. Late winter DOM had low aromaticity indicating reduced inputs of terrestrial carbon, wh…
Autochthonous organic matter promotes DNRA and suppresses N2O production in sediments of the coastal Baltic Sea
2021
Coastal environments are nitrogen (N) removal hot spots, which regulate the amount of land-derived N reaching the open sea. However, mixing between freshwater and seawater creates gradients of inorganic N and bioavailable organic matter, which affect N cycling. In this study, we compare nitrate reduction processes between estuary and offshore archipelago environments in the coastal Baltic Sea. Denitrification rates were similar in both environments, despite lower nitrate and carbon concentrations in the offshore archipelago. However, DNRA (dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium) rates were higher at the offshore archipelago stations, with a higher proportion of autochthonous carbon. Th…
Carbon Budget and Molecular Structure of Natural Organic Matter in Bank Infiltrated Groundwater
2021
Groundwater : : journal of the Association of Ground-Water Scientists and Engineers, a division of the National Ground Water Association (2021). doi:10.1111/gwat.13087
Low-rank approximation based non-negative multi-way array decomposition on event-related potentials
2014
Non-negative tensor factorization (NTF) has been successfully applied to analyze event-related potentials (ERPs), and shown superiority in terms of capturing multi-domain features. However, the time-frequency representation of ERPs by higher-order tensors are usually large-scale, which prevents the popularity of most tensor factorization algorithms. To overcome this issue, we introduce a non-negative canonical polyadic decomposition (NCPD) based on low-rank approximation (LRA) and hierarchical alternating least square (HALS) techniques. We applied NCPD (LRAHALS and benchmark HALS) and CPD to extract multi-domain features of a visual ERP. The features and components extracted by LRAHALS NCPD…
Kulturowe obrazy epidemii i wizje świata „od nowa”
2022
This article seeks to describe the social and cultural changes in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. The (post)pandemic landscape turned out to materialise the long-felt visions – dystopias. The metaphors of alienation and exile have proven dramatically real in the age of the general (self-)isolation. Particularly interesting are the social reactions to ‘new’ threats: from epidemic denialism and scepticism to epidemic panic. The biological cataclysm has triggered an avalanche of social antagonisms, contradicting the optimistic (and, it appears, naïve) thesis about the democratic nature of the disease/epidemic. In the context of the events observed since 2020, one may wonder why the wor…