Open and Closed Prefixes of Sturmian Words

A word is closed if it contains a proper factor that occurs both as a prefix and as a suffix but does not have internal occurrences, otherwise it is open. We deal with the sequence of open and closed prefixes of Sturmian words and prove that this sequence characterizes every finite or infinite Sturmian word up to isomorphisms of the alphabet. We then characterize the combinatorial structure of the sequence of open and closed prefixes of standard Sturmian words. We prove that every standard Sturmian word, after swapping its first letter, can be written as an infinite product of squares of reversed standard words.Comment: To appear in WORDS 2013 proceeding

Write from the Heart: An Interview with Brian Wrixon, a Poet from Canada

Brian Wrixon, a poet, was born in 1946 in Toronto, Canada. He graduated from Laurentian University in Canada with a degree in Classical Studies, and is a former faculty member, online curriculum design consultant and program coordinator at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario. His working career in the financial services business spanned forty years. He has contributed his poems to numerous collections of poetry. Apart from this, as a poet, he has written Poetry in Motion Volumes 1 & 2 (2011), Confessions of a Would-Be Poet (2011), Heartbeats, Footsteps & Musings (2012), Doors (2013), Down to the Sea in Words (2013), The Moving Finger Writes (2013), Sculptured Words (2013), A tisket, a tasket, poems in a Basket (2013), It’s a Sign of the Times (2013), Nightmares & Dreams (with Rollie Mukherjee) (2013),Shoot From the Hip: Memories of a Small Town (2013), A Return Ticket: Memories of Leaving a Small Town (2013), My Passage to India (2014), A Look at Yesterday (with Robert Vincent) (2014), Our Town Revisited (with Robert Vincent) (2014) and Desperate Freedom: a Play in Four Acts (2014). Apart from composing a good number of poems, he has edited many anthologies of poems and operates as a publisher as well. In addition to writing and publishing numerous poetry and prose works of his own, he has been instrumental in assisting hundreds of young and emerging authors from around the world get published, either personally or as contributors to group anthologies

Movement and Balance. A comment on Derek Attridge’s Moving Words

This paper discusses some central problems that occur within cognitive versification studies. Derek Attridge’s Moving Words (2013) comments on Richard Cureton’s concept of temporalities. Attridge understands poetic rhythm as movement. He draws the conclusion that movement and repetition are, in principle, contradictory because, in a way, repetition looks backwards and stops the movement. This turns out to be a complicated statement, as repetition seems to be the only poetic device that is common in poetry all over the world. However, it may be possible to understand the relationship between movement and repetition with the help of Reuven Tsur’s concept of back-structuring. This shows how verse rhythm is spatialised as well as has the ability to move in time. This is possible because of gestalt borders that close the sequences. Additionally, Cureton’s fourth thematic temporality is useful to solve the conflict. Temporality is a complex reality, and poetic rhythm also has the ability to stand still

Iratxe Jaio and Klaas van Gorkum. The speech as performative framework

[ES] En sus últimos trabajos los artistas Iratxe Jaio y Klaas van Gorkum (Markina-Xemein, 1976 y Delft, 1975) se han centrado en procesos creativos cercanos a investigaciones sociológicas. Sus propuestas evidencian hasta qué punto la alteración de determinados protocolos causa modificaciones de resultados imprevisibles. Son los puntos de partida desde los que abordan algunas de sus obras como Police Training (2011) y Últimas Palabras (2013). En ellos, los artistas visibilizan aspectos implícitos en los discursos de ciertos colectivos y se centran en el análisis de la cualidad performativa de estos.[EN] In their later works artists Iratxe Jaio and Klaas van Gorkum (Markina-Xemein, 1976 and Delft, 1975) have focused on near sociological research creative processes. Their proposals show how altering some protocols causes modifications with unpredictable results. These are the starting points for some of their projects such as Police Training (2011) and Last Words (2013). In them, the artists make visible aspects implicit in the speeches of certain groups and focus on the analysis of their performative quality

Nonprofit Public Service Motivation in Suburban Adult Services, Inc.

This research paper is a case study of nonprofit public service motivation (NPSM) in the nonprofit agency of Suburban Adult Services, Inc. (SASi) which is a located within the Buffalo region of New York State. Previous research has been conducted on public service motivation (PSM) within many public agencies but few have been conducted in a nonprofit agency. What this study’s intentions are is to assist with closing the research gap between NPSM and PSM as well as study whether differences between management and direct care staffs motivations were present. Based off of previous studies done in PSM, clear differences in motivations have been presented when managers and direct care staff were compared to each other. Findings suggest that direct care staff public service motivation levels are higher than managements. A survey that was based off Jessica Words 2013 study on this topic was distributed amongst the employees of SASi and 98 responses were analyzed. Conclusions included that nonprofit public service motivation (NPSM) was present within SASi, however, there was no difference in NPSM between management and direct care staff

Ten Conferences WORDS: Open Problems and Conjectures

In connection to the development of the field of Combinatorics on Words, we present a list of open problems and conjectures that were stated during the ten last meetings WORDS. We wish to continually update the present document by adding informations concerning advances in problems solving

Representations of Circular Words

In this article we give two different ways of representations of circular words. Representations with tuples are intended as a compact notation, while representations with trees give a way to easily process all conjugates of a word. The latter form can also be used as a graphical representation of periodic properties of finite (in some cases, infinite) words. We also define iterative representations which can be seen as an encoding utilizing the flexible properties of circular words. Every word over the two letter alphabet can be constructed starting from ab by applying the fractional power and the cyclic shift operators one after the other, iteratively.Comment: In Proceedings AFL 2014, arXiv:1405.527

Dever\u27s The lives of ordinary people in ancient Israel: Where archaeology and the Bible intersect (Book Review)

A review of Dever, W. G. (2012). The lives of ordinary people in ancient Israel: Where archaeology and the Bible intersect. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. 436 pp. $17.05. ISBN 978080286701

Crystal\u27s Making a point: The persnickety story of English punctuation (Book Review)

A review of Crystal, D. (2015). Making a point: The persnickety story of English punctuation. New York: St. Martin’s Press. 378 pp. $24.99. ISBN 978125006041

Healing With Words

Adam Braver and Molly Gessford ’11 reveal the power of words in a story that began, for them, with a Roger Williams University class advocating for imprisoned political dissidents