140 research outputs found
Spontaneous eye movements during passive spoken language comprehension reflect grammatical processing
Language is tightly connected to sensory and motor systems. Recent research using eye- tracking typically relies on constrained visual contexts, viewing a small array of objects on a computer screen. Some critiques of embodiment ask if people simply match their simulations to the pictures being presented. This study compared the comprehension of verbs with two different grammatical forms: the past progressive form (e.g., was walking), which emphasizes the ongoing nature of actions, and the simple past (e.g., walked), which emphasizes the end-state of an action. The results showed that the distribution and timing of eye movements mirrors the underlying conceptual structure of this linguistic difference in the absence of any visual stimuli. Thus, eye movement data suggest that visual inputs are unnecessary to solicit perceptual simulations
Multidentate Sulfur-Containing Ligands
Novel sulfur-containing ligands for binding of heavy metals are disclosed.
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Improved Criteria for Acceptable Yield Point Elongation in Surface Critical Steels
Yield point elongation (YPE) is considered undesirable in surface critical applications where steel is formed since "strain lines" or Luders bands are created during forming. This project will examine in detail the formation of luders bands in industrially relevant strain states including the influence of substrate properties and coatings on Luders appearance. Mechanical testing and surface profilometry were the primary methods of investigation
Smashing New Results on Aspectual Framing: How People Talk About Car Accidents
How do people describe events they have witnessed? What role does linguistic aspect play in this process? To provide answers to these questions, we conducted an experiment on aspectual framing. In our task, people were asked to view videotaped vehicular accidents and to describe what happened (perfective framing) or what was happening (imperfective framing). Our analyses of speech and gesture in retellings show that the form of aspect used in the question differentially influenced the way people conceptualized and described actions. Questions framed with imperfective aspect resulted in more motion verbs (e.g., driving), more reckless language (e.g., speeding), and more iconic gestures (e.g., path gesture away from the body to show travel direction) than did questions framed with perfective aspect. Our research contributes novel insights on aspect and the construal of events, and on the semantic potency of aspect in leading questions. The findings are consistent with core assumptions in cognitive linguistics, including the proposal that linguistic meaning, including grammatical meaning, is dynamic and grounded in perceptual and cognitive experience
Austenite Formation and Manganese Partitioning during Double Soaking of an Ultralow Carbon Medium-Manganese Steel
Double soaking (DS) is a thermal processing route intended to produce austenite–martensite microstructures in steels containing austenite-stabilizing additions and consists of intercritical annealing (primary soaking), followed by heating and brief isothermal holding at an increased temperature (secondary soaking), and quenching. Herein, experimental dilatometry during DS of a medium-manganese (Mn) steel with nominally 7 wt% Mn and an ultralow residual carbon concentration, in combination with phase-field simulations of austenite formation during secondary soaking, is presented. The feasibility of maintaining heterogeneous Mn distributions during DS is demonstrated and insight is provided on the effects of the secondary soaking temperature and prior Mn distribution on the ferrite-to-austenite phase transformation during the secondary soaking portion of the DS treatment
Accelerating the timeline for climate action in California
The climate emergency increasingly threatens our communities, ecosystems,
food production, health, and economy. It disproportionately impacts lower
income communities, communities of color, and the elderly. Assessments since
the 2018 IPCC 1.5 Celsius report show that current national and sub-national
commitments and actions are insufficient. Fortunately, a suite of solutions
exists now to mitigate the climate crisis if we initiate and sustain actions
today. California, which has a strong set of current targets in place and is
home to clean energy and high technology innovation, has fallen behind in its
climate ambition compared to a number of major governments. California, a
catalyst for climate action globally, can and should ramp up its leadership by
aligning its climate goals with the most recent science, coordinating actions
to make 2030 a point of significant accomplishment. This entails dramatically
accelerating its carbon neutrality and net-negative emissions goal from 2045 to
2030, including advancing clean energy and clean transportation standards, and
accelerating nature-based solutions on natural and working lands. It also means
changing its current greenhouse gas reduction goals both in the percentage and
the timing: cutting emissions by 80 percent (instead of 40 percent) below 1990
levels much closer to 2030 than 2050. These actions will enable California to
save lives, benefit underserved and frontline communities, and save trillions
of dollars. This rededication takes heed of the latest science, accelerating
equitable, job-creating climate policies. While there are significant
challenges to achieving these goals, California can establish policy now that
will unleash innovation and channel market forces, as has happened with solar,
and catalyze positive upward-scaling tipping points for accelerated global
climate action.Comment: 13 pages, 2 figure
Concert recording 2014-04-27
[Track 01]. Introduction and dance / J.E. Barat -- [Track 02]. Three miniatures. Allegro / Anthony Plog -- [Track 03]. Three miniatures. Adagio / Anthony Plog -- [Track 04]. Three miniatures. Allegro / Anthony Plog -- [Track 05]. Concerto. Introduction-allegro / Corrado Maria Saglietti -- [Track 06]. Concerto. Adagio / Corrado Maria Saglietti -- [Track 07]. Suite for unaccompanied tuba. March / Walter Hartley -- [Track 08]. Suite for unaccompanied tuba. Valse / Walter Hartley -- [Track 09]. Suite for unaccompanied tuba. Sarabande / Walter Hartley -- [Track 10]. Suite for unaccompanied tuba. Galop / Walter Hartley -- [Track 11]. Sonata for euphonium and piano childs play / Barbara York -- [Track 12]. Apres un Reve / Gabriel Faure ; translated by Mead -- [Track 13]. Concerto in one movement / Alexei Lebedev -- [Track 14]. Tuba suite. Prelude / Gordon Jacob -- [Track 15]. Tuba suite. Hornpipe / Gordon Jacob -- [Track 16]. Tuba suite. Sarabande / Gordon Jacob -- [Track 17]. Tuba suite. Bouree / Gordon Jacob -- [Track 18]. Tuba suite. Intrada ; Mazurka / Gordon Jacob -- [Track 19]. Fantasia di concerto / Eduardo Boccalari
Fetishism and the social value of objects.
The idea of the fetish has a particular presence in the writings of both Marx and Freud. It implies for these two theorists of the social, a particular form of relation between human beings and objects. In the work of both the idea of the fetish involves attributing properties to objects that they do not 'really' have and that should correctly be recognised as human. While Marx's account of fetishism addresses the exchange-value of commodities at the level of the economic relations of production, it fails to deal in any detail with the use-value or consumption of commodities. In contrast Freud's concept of the fetish as a desired substitute for a suitable sex object explores how objects are desired and consumed. Drawing on both Marx and Freud, Baudrillard breaks with their analyses of fetishism as demonstrating a human relation with unreal objects. He explores the creation of value in objects through the social exchange of sign values, showing how objects are fetishised in ostentation. This paper argues that while Baudrillard breaks with the realism characteristic of Marx's and Freud's analyses of fetishism, he does not go far enough in describing the social and discursive practices in which objects are used and sometimes transformed into fetishes. It is proposed that the fetishisation of objects involves an overdetermination of their social value through a discursive negotiation of the capacities of objects that stimulates fantasy and desire for them
Use of Risk Models to Predict Death in the Next Year Among Individual Ambulatory Patients With Heart Failure
Importance: The clinical practice guidelines for heart failure recommend the use of validated risk models to estimate prognosis. Understanding how well models identify individuals who will die in the next year informs decision making for advanced treatments and hospice.
Objective: To quantify how risk models calculated in routine practice estimate more than 50% 1-year mortality among ambulatory patients with heart failure who die in the subsequent year.
Design, Setting, and Participants: Ambulatory adults with heart failure from 3 integrated health systems were enrolled between 2005 and 2008. The probability of death was estimated using the Seattle Heart Failure Model (SHFM) and the Meta-Analysis Global Group in Chronic Heart Failure (MAGGIC) risk calculator. Baseline covariates were collected from electronic health records. Missing covariates were imputed. Estimated mortality was compared with actual mortality at both population and individual levels.
Main Outcomes and Measures: One-year mortality.
Results: Among 10930 patients with heart failure, the median age was 77 years, and 48.0% of these patients were female. In the year after study enrollment, 1661 patients died (15.9% by life-table analysis). At the population level, 1-year predicted mortality among the cohort was 9.7% for the SHFM (C statistic of 0.66) and 17.5% for the MAGGIC risk calculator (C statistic of 0.69). At the individual level, the SHFM predicted a more than 50% probability of dying in the next year for 8 of the 1661 patients who died (sensitivity for 1-year death was 0.5%) and for 5 patients who lived at least a year (positive predictive value, 61.5%). The MAGGIC risk calculator predicted a more than 50% probability of dying in the next year for 52 of the 1661 patients who died (sensitivity, 3.1%) and for 63 patients who lived at least a year (positive predictive value, 45.2%). Conversely, the SHFM estimated that 8496 patients (77.8%) had a less than 15% probability of dying at 1 year, yet this lower-risk end of the score range captured nearly two-thirds of deaths (n = 997); similarly, the MAGGIC risk calculator estimated a probability of dying of less than 25% for the majority of patients who died at 1 year (n = 914).
Conclusions and Relevance: Although heart failure risk models perform reasonably well at the population level, they do not reliably predict which individual patients will die in the next year
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