Reading English-language haiku: An eye-movement study of the ‘cut effect’

The current study, set within the larger enterprise of Neuro-Cognitive Poetics, was designed to examine how readers deal with the ‘cut’ – a more or less sharp semantic-conceptual break – in normative, three-line English-language haiku poems (ELH). Readers were presented with three-line haiku that consisted of two (seemingly) disparate parts, a (two-line) ‘phrase’ image and a one-line ‘fragment’ image, in order to determine how they process the conceptual gap between these images when constructing the poem’s meaning – as reflected in their patterns of reading eye movements. In addition to replicating the basic ‘cut effect’, i.e., the extended fixation dwell time on the fragment line relative to the other lines, the present study examined (a) how this effect is influenced by whether the cut is purely implicit or explicitly marked by punctuation, and (b) whether the effect pattern could be delineated against a control condition of ‘uncut’, one-image haiku. For ‘cut’ vs. ‘uncut’ haiku, the results revealed the distribution of fixations across the poems to be modulated by the position of the cut (after line 1 vs. after line 2), the presence vs. absence of a cut marker, and the semantic-conceptual distance between the two images (context–action vs. juxtaposition haiku). These formal-structural and conceptual-semantic properties were associated with systematic changes in how individual poem lines were scanned at first reading and then (selectively) re-sampled in second- and third-pass reading to construct and check global meaning. No such effects were found for one-image (control) haiku. We attribute this pattern to the operation of different meaning resolution processes during the comprehension of two-image haiku, which are invoked by both form- and meaning-related features of the poems

Non-Motor Symptoms in Patients Suffering from Motor Neuron Diseases.

The recently postulated "disease spreading hypothesis" has gained much attention, especially for Parkinson's disease (PD). The various non-motor symptoms (NMS) in neurodegenerative diseases would be much better explained by this hypothesis than by the degeneration of disease-specific cell populations. Motor neuron disease (MND) is primarily known as a group of diseases with a selective loss of motor function. However, recent evidence suggests disease spreading into non-motor brain regions also in MND. The aim of this study was to comprehensively detect NMS in patients suffering from MND. We used a self-rating questionnaire including 30 different items of gastrointestinal, autonomic, neuropsychiatric, and sleep complaints [NMS questionnaire (NMSQuest)], which is an established tool in PD patients. 90 MND patients were included and compared to 96 controls. In total, MND patients reported significantly higher NMS scores (median: 7 points) in comparison to controls (median: 4 points). Dribbling, impaired taste/smelling, impaired swallowing, weight loss, loss of interest, sad/blues, falling, and insomnia were significantly more prevalent in MND patients compared to controls. Interestingly, excessive sweating was more reported in the MND group. Correlation analysis revealed an increase of total NMS score with disease progression. NMS in MND patients seemed to increase with disease progression, which would fit with the recently postulated "disease spreading hypothesis." The total NMS score in the MND group significantly exceeded the score for the control group, but only 8 of the 30 single complaints of the NMSQuest were significantly more often reported by MND patients. Dribbling, impaired swallowing, weight loss, and falling could primarily be connected to motor neuron degeneration and declared as motor symptoms in MND.S

Пигменты для окрашивания строительных материалов

Получены керамические пигменты с использованием техногенного кремнезёмсодержащего отхода - ванадиевого катализатора. В составе пигментов наряду с преобладающей фазой муллита идентифицируется корунд. По результатам рентгенофазового анализа установлено, что оксиды хрома и железа встраиваются в структуру вплоть до концентрации 10 мас. % и не выделяются в свободном виде. В кобальтсодержащих пигментах образуется шпинель CoAl2O4. Разработанные пигменты выдерживают температуру обжига 1200 ?С, их можно рекомендовать для получения керамических красок, цветных глазурей, для окрашивания строительных материалов

К определению поверхностного натяжения, объема и площади криволинейной поверхности по форме сидячих пузырьков или висячих капель

The multi-user facility EXPOSE-E was designed by the European Space Agency to enable astrobiology research in space (low-Earth orbit). On 7 February 2008, EXPOSE-E was carried to the International Space Station (ISS) on the European Technology Exposure Facility (EuTEF) platform in the cargo bay of Space Shuttle STS-122 Atlantis. The facility was installed at the starboard cone of the Columbus module by extravehicular activity, where it remained in space for 1.5 years. EXPOSE-E was returned to Earth with STS-128 Discovery on 12 September 2009 for subsequent sample analysis. EXPOSE-E provided accommodation in three exposure trays for a variety of astrobiological test samples that were exposed to selected space conditions: either to space vacuum, solar electromagnetic radiation at > 110nm and cosmic radiation (trays 1 and 3) or to simulated martian surface conditions (tray 2). Data on UV radiation, cosmic radiation, and temperature were measured every 10 s and downlinked by telemetry. A parallel mission ground reference (MGR) experiment was performed on ground with a parallel set of hardware and samples under simulated space conditions. EXPOSE-E performed a successful 1.5-year mission in space

Разработка эффективных деструкторов кольматантов призабойной зоны пласта на основе полмерных реагентов

В данной магистерской диссертации рассмотрен процесс формирования призабойной зоны пласта. Также рассмотрены основные факторы, приводящие к загрязнению продуктивного коллектора на всех стадиях строительства и эксплуатации скважины. Изучены известные методы борьбы с встречаемыми типами кольматантов призабойной зоны пласта. Описана методика проводимых исследований. Представлены результаты проведенных экспериментов по разрушению полимерных кольматантов.The formation of the bottomhole formation zone is considered in this master's thesis. The main factors (that lead to contamination of the productive reservoir at all stages of the construction and operation of the well) are considered. Well-known methods of combating the types of colmatants of the bottomhole formation zone are studied. The technique of conducted research is described. The results of the experiments on the destruction of polymer colmatants are presented