Search results for "laughter"

The effects of slaughter age and restricted feeding on growth, carcass and meat quality traits of dairy breed lambs

2015

This experiment aimed to investigate the possibility to raise the carcass weight of lambs of dairy breed and produce low-fat meat by increasing the slaughter age and applying strategies to reduce feeding level. At 35d of age, 70 weaned lambs of Valle del Belice breed were divided into 2 groups and adapted to housing in multiple boxes and experimental diets over a 10-d period. The groups received ad libitum pelleted alfalfa hay and concentrates differing in the 20% inclusion of durum wheat bran (0WB, 20WB) used to reduce cost and energy level. After 45d of experiment, both groups were divided into 3 subgroups; 2 of them with 15 lambs were slaughtered at 90d of age (90L), whereas the other 4 …

EFFECT OF SLAUGHTERING METHODS ON STRESS OF CAGED BLUEFIN TUNA (THUNNUS THYNNUS).

2007

Is It Really That Funny? Laughter, Emotional Contagion, and Heuristic Processing During Shared Media Use

2017

ABSTRACTWhen people use humorous media content, their behavior and assessments of the content may depend on the emotional expressions (e.g., laughter) of those around them. In a laboratory experiment in which 80 participants watched a movie clip with a confederate who either laughed or remained silent, we identified two parallel processes. The confederate’s laughter induced behavioral responses in our participants (laughing or smiling). Through those responses, a corresponding appraisal of the media content was generated: The content was rated funnier in comparison to situations in which the confederate did not laugh. This effect corresponds to emotional contagion processes and was especial…

“Editing Out the Narrator: George Roy Hill’s Adaptation of Slaughterhouse-Five”

1991

International audience

“Comic Irony and Contradiction in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five”

1992

International audience

Biogas production from meat and pulp and paper industry by-products

2014

Near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) characterization of European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) from different rearing systems

2009

The present study aimed to predict by NIRS the proximate chemical composition and some carcass traits of sea bass coming from 11 farms with different rearing systems (extensive, intensive in land-based basins, sea cages) and located in northern (Friuli, Veneto), central (Tuscany) and southern (Puglia and Sicily) Italy. NIRS analysis of freeze dried sea bass fillets gave fairly good predictions of slaughter weight and fillet yield (R2cv=0.48-0.55), while results for carcass yield were poor. NIRS analysis was highly predictive for the condition factor (R2cv=0.790, SECV=0.09) and for water, ether extract and gross energy showing high correlations (R2cv>0.90) with NIR spectral infor- mation and…

Teacher smiles as an interactional and pedagogical resource in the classroom

2020

In classroom settings, laughter and smiles are resources for action that are available to both teachers and students. Recent interactional studies have documented how students use these resources to deal with trouble of various kind, but less is known about the sequential and activity contexts of teachers’ laughter-relevant practices, as well as their pedagogical functions. We use multimodal conversation analysis (CA) to investigate the interactional unfolding and pedagogical orientations of teacher smiles during instructional IRE (initiation-response-evaluation) sequences in a corpus of 37 bilingual lessons collected in schools in Finland and Spain. In analysing the focal smiles, we pay at…

Gwarowe nazwy wyrobów ze świniobicia (na materiale śląskim)

2022

The subject of the article is the dialect names of products preparedafter pig slaughter shown against the background of the folk culture of Silesia. The aimof the article is to present a selected group of lexemes belonging to one of the subfieldsof dialectal culinary vocabulary, to draw attention to the meaning of names,their origin and motivation (partly also to the formal shape), as well as to discussthe nomination mechanisms. The research is based on field materials collected inthe area of Upper Silesia, older and newer ethnographic studies, as well as dictionariesof the Silesian dialect.

Risus abundat? Al confine tra libertà di espressione e violenza verbale

2022

The question that lies at the heart of this short essay concerns the effects of laughter on the relationship between the right to freedom of expression, on the one hand, and the potential exercise of verbal violence on the other. In short, the question we ask is whether the presence of laughter increases the spectrum of freedom of expression by reducing that of verbal violence, or, on the contrary, whether the very element of laughter does not laughter does not, on the contrary, determine a multiplication of violence in certain discursive situations.