The New Testament Greek Manuscript Research Center at the James White Library

Since Desiderius Erasmus published his eclectic text of the New Testament in 1516, biblical scholars have attempted to come as close as possible to Scripture’s original wording by studying ancient biblical manuscripts. Through the work of Dr. W. Larry Richards, professor emeritus, the Seventh-day Adventist Seminary at Andrews University provides students with the opportunity to take part in the field of New Testament textual criticism. This poster introduces the Greek Manuscript Research Center. It recounts the center’s beginnings in 1994; shares what resources are currently available to students; and brainstorms on how the Center might serve the Seminary curriculum going forward

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A Graphemic Analysis of an Old English Text: The Parker Manuscript, the Laws of Alfred & Ine

This study may be considered an exercise in graphemic analysis. It proceeds from the point of view that writing is an independent manifestation of language. As such, the writing system of a language may be subject to a descriptive analysis based upon methods similar to those used in the analysis of spoken language systems. The purpose of such a description is to determine the distinctive and non -distinctive elements of the system. Chapter V of this study is a graphemic analysis of one section of the Parker Manuscript. This analysis is based upon the principles discussed in Chapter II and follows the specific criteria presented in Chapter IV. Since the writing system of the text is an alphabetic one, Chapter VI indicates, to a limited extent, the relationship or fit of the writing system with the Late West Saxon dialect of Old English, of which the Parker Manuscript is a specimen

The introduction, demonstration and evaluation of a new typeface identification system

Graphic communicators, including typographers, designers, and descriptive bibliographers, are often called upon to identify typefaces. Since there are thousands of typefaces available in the marketplace today, it is unlikely that any one designer, typographer or bibliographer can name them all at sight. Accordingly, there is a need tfor a typeface identification system. The purpose of this paper is to introduce, demonstrate and evaluate such a system. An identification system called TYPE-ID was developed and tested. Two principles -- the pass option and the null digit -- were introduced. A sequence of questions was written for a number of different characters. An index or database of 50 typefaces was created. The sequences and database were incorporated into a computer program. Subjects tested the systems 1000 times. Based on the results, it appears that the system works. For searches of the database based on one sequence, the system proved to be 97.8% accurate

German and Dutch in Contrast

Designed as a contribution to contrastive linguistics, the present volume brings up-to-date the comparison of German with its closest neighbour, Dutch, and other Germanic relatives like English, Afrikaans, and the Scandinavian languages. It takes its inspiration from the idea of a Germanic Sandwich, i.e. the hypothesis that sets of genetically related languages diverge in systematic ways in diverse domains of the linguistic system. Its contributions set out to test this approach against new phenomena or data from synchronic, diachronic and, for the first time in a Sandwich-related volume, psycholinguistic perspectives. With topics ranging from nickname formation to the IPP (aka 'Ersatzinfinitiv'), from the grammaticalisation of the definite article to /s/-retraction, and from the role of verb-second order in the acquisition of L2 English to the psycholinguistics of gender, the volume appeals to students and specialists in modern and historical linguistics, psycholinguistics, translation studies, language pedagogy and cognitive science, providing a wealth of fresh insights into the relationships of German with its closest relatives while highlighting the potential inherent in the integration of different methodological traditions

Bayesian multi-user detection based on a state-space model of the DS-CDMA system

In this paper, we propose a new multiuser detector based on a symbol rate state-space model of the CDMA system. This state-space model presents a non-Gaussian state noise characteristic. Therefore, the Kalman filtering approach looses its MMSE optimality. As a solution, we propose to apply the Weighted Sum of Gaussian (WSG) approximation. We demonstrate that the WSG is propagated during iterations through a NKF structure. At each iteration, we inject only one gaussian term having the mean and the covariance matrix of the last obtained MMSE estimate of the state vector. The proposed structure improves the performance compared to the linear structures such as: the MMSE, the Kalman filter and the feedback structure such as DFE.Dans cet article, nous proposons un détecteur multi-utilisateurs basé sur une représentation d'état au rythme symbole du système AMRC (Accès Multiple par Répartition de Codes). Le modèle d'état met en évidence un bruit de transition non Gaussien. Par conséquent, l'application du filtre de Kalman comme un détecteur multi-utilisateurs perd son optimalité au sens de l'erreur quadratique moyenne minimale (EQMM). Pour remédier à ce problème, nous proposons d'utiliser l'approximation par une somme pondérée de gaussiennes (SPG) de la densité de probabilité a posteriori des symboles à estimer sachant les observations. Nous montrons que la SPG se propage au cours des itérations à travers une structure de réseau de filtres de Kalman (RFK) fonctionnant en parallèle. À chaque itération, nous proposons de réinjecter une seule gaussienne ayant la moyenne et la matrice de covariance de l'estimée EQMM du vecteur d'état obtenue. La structure proposée présente des performances nettement meilleures que les structures linéaires (EQMM, décorrélateur, filtre de Kalman) et à retour de décision (DFE)