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Making Mathematics in an Oral Culture: Göttingen in the Era of Klein and Hilbert
2004
This essay takes a close look at specially selected features of the Göttingen mathematical culture during the period 1895–1920. Drawing heavily on personal accounts and archival resources, it describes the changing roles played by Felix Klein and David Hilbert, as Göttingen's two senior mathematicians, within a fast-growing community that attracted an impressive number of young talents. Within the course of these twenty-five years Göttingen exerted a profound impact on mathematics and physics throughout the world. Many factors contributed to the creation of a special atmosphere that served as a model for several other important centers for mathematical research. Göttingen exemplified a dyna…
Kotimaisen 2010-luvun lavarunouden kentillä ja laidoilla : havainnointeja lavarunouden teoriasta, arvoista ja keinoista
2014
Kotimainen lavarunous elää 2010-luvulla vahvimmin Poetry slam -kilpailuissa, Helsinki Poetry Connection -runoryhmittymän toiminnassa ja tapahtumissa sekä runoiltojen open mic -osuuksissa. Lavarunous on omien runojen esittämistä esiintymiskonteksti huomioon ottaen ja siihen panostaen, mikä erottaa lavarunouden oleellisesti runonlausunnasta ja -luennasta. Lavarunoudella on erittäin vahvat yhteydet musiikkiin, stand-up–komiikkaan ja rap-lyriikkaan. Tässä kirjallisuuden pro gradu -työssä tarkastelen suomalaisen tämänhetkisen lavarunouden historiaa, estetiikkaa ja poetiikkaa. Pyrin määrittelemään lavarunouden käsitettä Julia Novakin ja Susan B. A. Somers-Willettin teorioihin ja määritelmiin peil…
Candidate geolocation and voter choice in the 2013 English County Council elections
2014
The degree of ‘localness’ of candidates, including their residential location, has long been theorised to influence voters at election time. Individual-level tests of distance effects in the 2010 British general elections demonstrated that, controlling for standard explanations of vote, the distance from a voter’s home to that of the candidate was negatively associated with the likelihood of voting for that candidate. To test this theory in a sub-national electoral context more likely to produce distance effects than a national election, this paper builds upon previous analysis by using the 2013 English County Council elections. It improves upon the previous analysis in a number of ways, a…
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2019
Although French learners studying at BTS level at the National School of Dairy Industry and Biotechnologies (ENILBio) in Poligny have studied English as a second language for several years, they often have difficulty not only understanding it, but more importantly speaking it. As a teacher, it is a problem I am faced with daily and to which I haven’t been able to find explanations or solutions.The aim of this research is to explore the reasons that explain why students often feel embarrassed when they have to speak the language in and outside school, and to question their own practices and representations. This work aims at understanding why BTS students don’t speak English – or speak it li…
An RFID framework for multimodal service provision
2009
In recent years there has been a growing interest toward the development of pervasive and context-aware services, and RFID technology played a relevant role in the context sensing task. We propose the use of RFID technology together with a conversational agent in order to implement a multimodal information retrieval service we call SensorMesh. The information acquired from RFID tags about the nearest point of interest is processed by the conversational agent that carries a more natural interaction with the user, also exploiting a common sense ontology. The service is accessible using a multimodal browser on Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs); the browser allows the user to interact with the…
A Multimodal Guide for the Augmented Campus
2007
The use of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) with ad-hoc built-in information retrieval and auto-localization functionalities can help people navigating an environment in a more natural manner compared to traditional audio/visual pre-recorded guides. In this work we propose and discuss a user-friendly, multi-modal guide system for pervasive context-aware service provision within augmented environments. The proposed system is adaptable to the user needs of mobility within a given environment; it is usable on different mobile devices and in particular on PDAs, which are used as advanced adaptive HEI (human-environment interaction) interfaces. An information retrieval service is provided that…
Collective Reasoning over Shared Concepts for the Linguistic Atlas of Sicily
2013
In this chapter, collective intelligence principles are applied in the context of the Linguistic Atlas of Sicily (ALS - Atlante Linguistico Siciliano), an interdisciplinary research focusing on the study of the Italian language as it is spoken in Sicily, and its correlation with the Sicilian dialect and other regional varieties spoken in Sicily. The project has been developed over the past two decades and includes a complex information system supporting linguistic research; recently it has grown to allow research scientists to cooperate in an integrated environment to produce significant scientific advances in the field of ethnologic and sociolinguistic research. An interoperable infrastruc…
Investigating Proactive Search Support in Conversations
2018
Conversations among people involve solving disputes, building common ground, and reinforce mutual beliefs and assumptions. Conversations often require external information that can support these human activities. In this paper, we study how a spoken conversation can be supported by a proactive search agent that listens to the conversation, detects entities mentioned in the conversation, and proactively retrieves and presents information related to the conversation. A total of 24 participants (12 pairs) were involved in informal conversations, using either the proactive search agent or a control condition that did not support conversational analysis or proactive information retrieval. Data c…
L’USO DEL DIALETTO NELLA CANZONE. STUDI, TENDENZE, PROSPETTIVE DI RICERCA
2020
Gli ultimi decenni della storia linguistica del nostro Paese sono stati scanditi da una serie di rapidi e importanti mutamenti dell’assetto sociolinguistico: l’italiano, sempre più orientato sull’asse dell’oralità, è cambiato anche nella canzone che a poco a poco si è aperta ai tratti del parlato scrollandosi di dosso l’insieme di “for¬mule” ereditate dal passato. In questa cesura col passato, la tendenza alla ricerca di una lingua che riproponesse i tratti del parlato ha ovviamente favorito anche una significativa sporgenza verso il dialetto. Se nella percezione di un artista, la sua canzone “coincide” con il testo che egli ha scritto, non sempre, per chi voglia studiarne le caratteristich…
Determinant factors in the expression of the pronominal subject in spoken Spanish of Valencia
2021
En el presente artículo se estudian los factores determinantes de la presencia del sujeto pronominal en el área metropolitana de Valencia (España). Analizamos fragmentos de habla de un corpus de 72 entrevistas pertenecientes al corpus PRESEVAL, adscrito al grupo PRESEEA. Los resultados muestran la baja tendencia a utilizar la forma expresa (21,8 %). La aparición del sujeto pronominal se ve favorecida por la persona gramatical, muy especialmente la primera del singular, y la clase semántica de los verbos, sobre todo aquellos que indican estados mentales y actividades. Las variables sociales no son especialmente relevantes, si bien el nivel sociocultural y la lengua utilizada (es una comunida…