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Reliability in the identification of metaphors in (filmic) multimodal communication
Research on multimodal communication is complex because multimodal analyses require methods and procedures that offer the possibility of disentangling the layers of meaning conveyed through different channels. We hereby propose an empirical evaluation of the Filmic Metaphor Identification Procedure (FILMIP, Bort-Mir, L. (2019). Developing, applying and testing FILMIP: the filmic metaphor identification procedure, Ph.D. dissertation. Universitat Jaume I, Castellón.), a structural method for the identification of metaphorical elements in (filmic) multimodal materials. The paper comprises two studies: (i) A content analysis conducted by independent coders, in which the reliability of FILMIP is assessed. Here, two TV commercials were shown to 21 Spanish participants for later analysis with the use of FILMIP under two questionnaires. (ii) A qualitative analysis based on a percentage agreement index to check agreement among the 21 participants about the metaphorically marked filmic components identified on the basis of FILMIP’s seven steps. The results of the two studies show that FILMIP is a valid and reliable tool for the identification of metaphorical elements in (filmic) multimodal materials. The empirical findings are discussed in relation to multimodal communication open challenges
Current Clinical Applications of Testicular Cancer Biomarkers
Current use of testicular biomarkers for screening, diagnosis, and follow-up is reviewed in the context of potential clinical utility of these tests. This information will be of value to clinicians to determine patient suitability for certain treatments and will also assist in reviewing current literature regarding potential biomarkers that may be used for testicular cancer
Scale-free equilibria of self-gravitating gaseous disks with flat rotation curves
We introduce exact analytical solutions of the steady-state hydrodynamic
equations of scale-free, self-gravitating gaseous disks with flat rotation
curves. We express the velocity field in terms of a stream function and obtain
a third-order ordinary differential equation (ODE) for the angular part of the
stream function. We present the closed-form solutions of the obtained ODE and
construct hydrodynamical counterparts of the power-law and elliptic disks, for
which self-consistent stellar dynamical models are known. We show that the
kinematics of the Large Magellanic Cloud can well be explained by our findings
for scale-free elliptic disks.Comment: AAS preprint format, 21 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in
The Astrophysical Journa
Measuring measurement--disturbance relationships with weak values
Using formal definitions for measurement precision {\epsilon} and disturbance
(measurement backaction) {\eta}, Ozawa [Phys. Rev. A 67, 042105 (2003)] has
shown that Heisenberg's claimed relation between these quantities is false in
general. Here we show that the quantities introduced by Ozawa can be determined
experimentally, using no prior knowledge of the measurement under investigation
--- both quantities correspond to the root-mean-squared difference given by a
weak-valued probability distribution. We propose a simple three-qubit
experiment which would illustrate the failure of Heisenberg's
measurement--disturbance relation, and the validity of an alternative relation
proposed by Ozawa
From tls point cloud data to geometrical genesis determination of ribbed masonry vaults
The contribution aims to explore the possibility of tracing the geometry of ribbed vaults from two different Mediterranean regions to a single matrix, verifying the presence of possible local variations of the same rules. In particular, the analyses are being carried out in parallel on some case studies of the regions of Sardinia in Italy and Aragon in Spain. The two case studies include the Iglesia Parroquial del Salvador la Seo in Zaragoza and the Church of Santa Lucia in Cagliari. Both constructions can be traced back to the style known as Late Mediterranean Gothic, which characterised the architecture of the countries bordering the Mediterranean basin between the 14th and 17th centuries. The two case studies chosen were almost at the extreme ends of the Late Gothic period, to determine whether some invariants sought could persist even in relatively distant periods. The analysis focused on cross vaults covering the two naves, which included a laser scanner survey in order to obtain a cloud of points of sufficient precision to carry out studies on the geometry of the vaulted systems, the identification of the intrados profiles of the ribs and therefore the definition of the curvatures and centres of all the arches making up the vaults. Finally, the results are presented by means of summary diagrams and comparison tables. © 2021 International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives. All Rights Reserved
From TLS point cloud data to geometrical genesis determination of ribbed masonry vaults
The contribution aims to explore the possibility of tracing the geometry of ribbed vaults from two different Mediterranean regions to
a single matrix, verifying the presence of possible local variations of the same rules. In particular, the analyses are being carried out
in parallel on some case studies of the regions of Sardinia in Italy and Aragon in Spain. The two case studies include the Iglesia
Parroquial del Salvador la Seo in Zaragoza and the Church of Santa Lucia in Cagliari. Both constructions can be traced back to the
style known as Late Mediterranean Gothic, which characterised the architecture of the countries bordering the Mediterranean basin
between the 14th and 17th centuries. The two case studies chosen were almost at the extreme ends of the Late Gothic period, to
determine whether some invariants sought could persist even in relatively distant periods. The analysis focused on cross vaults
covering the two naves, which included a laser scanner survey in order to obtain a cloud of points of sufficient precision to carry out
studies on the geometry of the vaulted systems, the identification of the intrados profiles of the ribs and therefore the definition of the
curvatures and centres of all the arches making up the vaults. Finally, the results are presented by means of summary diagrams and
comparison tables
A double-slit `which-way' experiment on the complementarity--uncertainty debate
A which-way measurement in Young's double-slit will destroy the interference
pattern. Bohr claimed this complementarity between wave- and particle behaviour
is enforced by Heisenberg's uncertainty principle: distinguishing two positions
a distance s apart transfers a random momentum q \sim \hbar/s to the particle.
This claim has been subject to debate: Scully et al. asserted that in some
situations interference can be destroyed with no momentum transfer, while
Storey et al. asserted that Bohr's stance is always valid. We address this
issue using the experimental technique of weak measurement. We measure a
distribution for q that spreads well beyond [-\hbar/s, \hbar/s], but
nevertheless has a variance consistent with zero. This weakvalued
momentum-transfer distribution P_{wv}(q) thus reflects both sides of the
debate.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figure
Knowledge Rich Natural Language Queries over Structured Biological Databases
Increasingly, keyword, natural language and NoSQL queries are being used for
information retrieval from traditional as well as non-traditional databases
such as web, document, image, GIS, legal, and health databases. While their
popularity are undeniable for obvious reasons, their engineering is far from
simple. In most part, semantics and intent preserving mapping of a well
understood natural language query expressed over a structured database schema
to a structured query language is still a difficult task, and research to tame
the complexity is intense. In this paper, we propose a multi-level
knowledge-based middleware to facilitate such mappings that separate the
conceptual level from the physical level. We augment these multi-level
abstractions with a concept reasoner and a query strategy engine to dynamically
link arbitrary natural language querying to well defined structured queries. We
demonstrate the feasibility of our approach by presenting a Datalog based
prototype system, called BioSmart, that can compute responses to arbitrary
natural language queries over arbitrary databases once a syntactic
classification of the natural language query is made
Dynamics in a noncommutative phase space
Dynamics has been generalized to a noncommutative phase space. The
noncommuting phase space is taken to be invariant under the quantum group
. The -deformed differential calculus on the phase space is
formulated and using this, both the Hamiltonian and Lagrangian forms of
dynamics have been constructed. In contrast to earlier forms of -dynamics,
our formalism has the advantage of preserving the conventional symmetries such
as rotational or Lorentz invariance.Comment: LaTeX-twice, 16 page
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