Memória de trabalho e produção oral da linguagem

In this paper, we examine the use of silent pauses made by high and low working memory span individuals, during the reading span test (the Brazilian Portuguese version), aiming at verifying possible strategies used by the subjects in order to accommodate the transient computational and storage demands that occur in the task. Our results are congruent with the idea that language production quality is also influenced by the subjects´ working memory capacity: high span subjects produced more sentences without pause, made shorter pauses, and therefore spent less time reading the test sentences than low span subjects

FRAMING NEGATIVAMENTE ORGANISMOS GENETICAMENTE MODIFICADOS

Os organismos geneticamente modificados (OGMs) já estão presentes nos alimentos que consumimos há mais de vinte anos, entretanto, a discussão sobre eles ainda é cheia de controvérsias e, muitas vezes, polarizada entre os que os defendem e os que são contra o seu consumo, mesmo na sociedade americana, a maior produtora de alimentos geneticamente modificados. Investigamos a estrutura linguística e os modelos cognitivos idealizados (MCI) utilizados em notícias veiculadas pela mídia americana, buscando identificar os recursos com impacto nessa polêmica. Utilizando a linguística de corpus como guia metodológico, criamos e tratamos um corpus com 61 notícias sobre OGMs publicadas em quatro portais jornalísticos americanos online, a partir do qual analisamos as ocorrências e naturezas dos termos relativos e associados aos OGMs, bem como os MCIs proposicionais, especificamente frames de caráter negativo, gerados pela linguagem utilizada nas notícias. Verificamos que os artigos, de modo geral, tratam a questão dos OGMs utilizando muitas estruturas linguísticas negativas e evocando principalmente frames de RISCO, mesmo quando o debate tem apreciação positiva sobre os OGMs. Isto pode gerar insegurança para a sociedade e levá-la a não aceitar plenamente o alimento geneticamente modificado

O QUE UM ANGU DE CAROÇO E A KETTLE OF FISH TÊM EM COMUM

Tendo como fundamentação teórica a Linguística Cognitiva e os estudos sobre Metáforas Conceituais, analisamos 18 expressões idiomáticas com nomes de alimento, em inglês e suas traduções em português, licenciadas pela metáfora primária dificuldade/facilidade é um alimento difícil/fácil de manusear/ingerir, objetivando identificar como esses alimentos são usados metaforicamente na construção dessas expressões e se há interferência cultural em suas realizações. As expressões foram coletadas em dicionários de expressões idiomáticas, nas duas línguas, e selecionadas conforme suas ocorrências e frequências de uso, obtidas com as ferramentas Webcorp e Google Books N-gram. Observamos que os alimentos que compõem as expressões idiomáticas evidenciam a experiência corpórea do domínio fonte, tais como a dificuldade de manipular um ‘abacaxi’ ou uma ‘batata quente’, e a facilidade de ingerir um pedaço de ‘bolo’ ou ‘mamão’. Verificamos que essa metáfora conceitual licencia expressões idiomáticas mesmo quando elas são originadas de fatos históricos ou associadas a fábulas (e.g. to pull the chestnuts out of/from the fire), e que há evidências de influência cultural também na realização das expressões idiomáticas correspondentes em ambas as línguas contendo alimentos diferentes (e.g. a piece of cake e mamão com mel/açúcar) ou o mesmo alimento (e.g. walk on eggs/eggshells e pisar em/sobre ovos). Nossos resultados mostram que a indagação sobre o papel que a cultura exerce na composição das expressões idiomáticas é relevante, pois embora a geração da metáfora primária em si não envolva aspectos culturais, o léxico gerado por ela contém aspectos culturais que devem ser levados em consideração, principalmente nos estudos que envolvem mais de uma língua

Emergência e natureza da metáfora primária desejar é ter fome

In this paper, the role of human bodily experience in the generation of metaphors in language and thought is investigated through empiric linguistic and psycholinguistic studies on the DESIRE IS HUNGER metaphor. Based on Grady’s hypothesis (1997), which suggests a direct link between the recurrence of universal particular bodily experiences and the generation of primitive conceptual metaphors, we investigated how American English and Brazilian Portuguese speakers metaphorically conceptualize desire in terms of hunger. Our results were congruent with Grady’s hypothesis, showing that what people know about their embodied experiences of hunger allows them both to predict which aspects of desire will, and will not, be thought of, and talked about, in terms of their embodied understandings of hunger, and to understand metaphorical expressions about human desires, such as politicians hunger for power or these children hunger for affection. Moreover, we analyzed the DESIRE IS HUNGER metaphor productivity, which was shown to be very high and was also shown to be employed in different discourse genres and in many areas of human knowledge, in both languages

Panel 1. The audio description process

Same film, different audio descriptions? On audience design and purpose of AD / Iwona Mazur (Adam Mickiewicz University) ; The impact of pre-recorded audio description on the description process for theatre / Nina Reviers (University of Antwerp) ; Analyzing translation process of professional and novice audiodescribers / Alexandra Frazão Seoane (State University of Ceará), Paula Lenz Costa Lima (State University of Ceará) ; Is audio describing writing or translating? / Anna Jankowska (University of Antwerp) ; The French-German TADS project: a multi method approach to the translation of AD scripts / Nathalie Mälzer (Stiftung Universität Hildesheim) ; Eva Schaeffer-Lacroix (Stiftung Universität Hildesheim ), Maria Wünsche (Stiftung Universität Hildesheim) ; Upcycling audio descriptions: towards a more sustainable model / Estel·la Oncins (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). Chair: Elisa Perego (University of Trieste

Optimasi Portofolio Resiko Menggunakan Model Markowitz MVO Dikaitkan dengan Keterbatasan Manusia dalam Memprediksi Masa Depan dalam Perspektif Al-Qur`an

Risk portfolio on modern finance has become increasingly technical, requiring the use of sophisticated mathematical tools in both research and practice. Since companies cannot insure themselves completely against risk, as human incompetence in predicting the future precisely that written in Al-Quran surah Luqman verse 34, they have to manage it to yield an optimal portfolio. The objective here is to minimize the variance among all portfolios, or alternatively, to maximize expected return among all portfolios that has at least a certain expected return. Furthermore, this study focuses on optimizing risk portfolio so called Markowitz MVO (Mean-Variance Optimization). Some theoretical frameworks for analysis are arithmetic mean, geometric mean, variance, covariance, linear programming, and quadratic programming. Moreover, finding a minimum variance portfolio produces a convex quadratic programming, that is minimizing the objective function ðð¥with constraintsð ð 𥠥 ðandð´ð¥ = ð. The outcome of this research is the solution of optimal risk portofolio in some investments that could be finished smoothly using MATLAB R2007b software together with its graphic analysis

Search for heavy resonances decaying to two Higgs bosons in final states containing four b quarks

A search is presented for narrow heavy resonances X decaying into pairs of Higgs bosons (H) in proton-proton collisions collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC at root s = 8 TeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb(-1). The search considers HH resonances with masses between 1 and 3 TeV, having final states of two b quark pairs. Each Higgs boson is produced with large momentum, and the hadronization products of the pair of b quarks can usually be reconstructed as single large jets. The background from multijet and t (t) over bar events is significantly reduced by applying requirements related to the flavor of the jet, its mass, and its substructure. The signal would be identified as a peak on top of the dijet invariant mass spectrum of the remaining background events. No evidence is observed for such a signal. Upper limits obtained at 95 confidence level for the product of the production cross section and branching fraction sigma(gg -> X) B(X -> HH -> b (b) over barb (b) over bar) range from 10 to 1.5 fb for the mass of X from 1.15 to 2.0 TeV, significantly extending previous searches. For a warped extra dimension theory with amass scale Lambda(R) = 1 TeV, the data exclude radion scalar masses between 1.15 and 1.55 TeV

Measurement of the top quark mass using charged particles in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV

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Search for supersymmetry in events with one lepton and multiple jets in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV

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Measurement of the Splitting Function in &ITpp &ITand Pb-Pb Collisions at root&ITsNN&IT=5.02 TeV

Data from heavy ion collisions suggest that the evolution of a parton shower is modified by interactions with the color charges in the dense partonic medium created in these collisions, but it is not known where in the shower evolution the modifications occur. The momentum ratio of the two leading partons, resolved as subjets, provides information about the parton shower evolution. This substructure observable, known as the splitting function, reflects the process of a parton splitting into two other partons and has been measured for jets with transverse momentum between 140 and 500 GeV, in pp and PbPb collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV per nucleon pair. In central PbPb collisions, the splitting function indicates a more unbalanced momentum ratio, compared to peripheral PbPb and pp collisions.. The measurements are compared to various predictions from event generators and analytical calculations.Peer reviewe