The role of binominals in the Pater Noster table of the Vernon MS, f. 231v

This paper examines the Middle English glosses contained in the Pater Noster table of the Vernon manuscript (Bodleian Library MS. Eng. poet. a. 1, f. 231v), written in the West Midlands in the last decades of the fourteenth century (Scase, ed. 2013). The table presents the Lord’s Prayer in a diagrammatic way, linking its seven petitions to the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit, the Seven Virtues, and the Seven Deadly Sins (Fig. 1). While recent scholarship has concentrated on the visual elements of the table (Henry 1990), its meditative and devotional purposes (Vulic 2004), and literacy modes available to its readers (Gottschall 2008), little attention has been given so far to the relation of the vernacular glosses in the roundels of the table (e.g. Drede of god in the middle of Fig. 1) to the contemporary Middle English lexical usage. The aim of the paper is twofold: to analyse how the visual aids of the table can help us interpret its lexical parts and, the other way, how the vocabulary of the vernacular roundels can enlighten us about the purpose, audience, and readings of the table. In particular, the author will concentrate on the binominals (here, coordinated noun phrases (Mollin 2014)) employed in the columns containing the Virtues and Vices (the two right-hand roundels in Fig. 1) in their relation to the lexicon of virtues and vices in the second half of the fourteenth century, using the Middle English Dictionary as a reference tool. This examination uncovers both neologisms (or possible copying mistakes) in the Vernon table, such as Pruide & stow(t)nesse ‘pride’ (Fig. 1), and commonplace usage, such as loue & charite. Previous research has seen these double glosses as interpretative tools, while this paper treats them as established binominal phrases undergoing freezing and idiomatisation. The author’s conclusion is that the table served both a mnemonic and meditative function. Drawing directly and indirectly on the images and metaphors of mutability of life and fortune and of mutability of sin and virtue, the design of the table also invites us to consider variation in language: the lexical stability of Latin against the changeability of English, native English terms against loanwords from Anglo-Norman and Old Norse, dialectal West Midland terms against their more common counterparts, and recent phrasal innovations against established poetic clichés

Royal chancery after 1066: Lexical choice, change and negotiation

This paper explores linguistic and sociolinguistic mechanisms that facilitated collaboration between English and Norman administrators in the decades following the Norman Conquest. First, a community of royal and episcopal chancellors and scribes is reconstructed from historical and documentary sources and their ties and networks are described. In the second step, two subcorpora are used to illustrate the processes of lexical selection and focusing in their common professional language, Latin: royal writs of William I and circuit returns of the Domesday inquest for the South-West. Both parts of the study demonstrate high involvement of Norman actors in the leading bureaucratic positions but, at the same time, point to their wide collaboration with the local administrative and scribal personnel. As a result, the two vernaculars are mutually enriched with new professional vocabulary, while in the written Latin standard, common to both, compromise lexical features emerge

SWETS Information Technology In Russian Library Processes

Intervention à la 33e conférence générale annuelle de la Ligue des bibliothèques européennes de recherche (Liber)

Management of the Sensitized Cardiac Transplantation Recipient

Preoperative sensitization of the cardiac transplant recipient, defined as the presence of anti-Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) antibodies before transplant, represents a significant management challenge for physicians. Sensitization prolongs the pre-transplant wait time and is associated with postoperative transplant complications and death. It is critical that sensitized heart transplant candidates be identified and optimized before surgery. In this review, we describe the risk for sensitization, discuss the means through which sensitization may be diagnosed, and highlight some of the new therapeutic options for managing the sensitized cardiac transplant patients

RATIONAL POWER SUPPLY OF ENERGY-DEFICIENT REGIONS

The questions of supplying power to the region with remote consumers are considered. The model of integrated power supply is proposed. Mathematical dependences that allow accounting volumes of certain types energy resources consumption and forming rational energy balance of the region are formulated

DYNAMIC NATURE OF HYDROLOGICAL SIMILARITY

Nowadays, there is a growing interest in understanding how water bodies and their catchments react to environment, landscape and climate change. Runoff change is an integral indicator of climate and landscape changes. Similar landscapes form a similar hydrological catchment response to precipitation. The algorithm for identification of homogeneous groups of catchments (in terms of hydrometeorology) has been developed and tested. The 26 catchments studied are situated in the south-eastern part of the Baltic Sea Basin. Observational data from 1986 to 2016 were used for cluster analysis. Catchments clustering over three consecutive ten-year periods has shown some variability in the clusters content due to changes in the hydrological response of the study catchments. The results obtained were analyzed based on both hydrogrometeorological and landscape characteristics

Modernization of Traditional Educational Forms in the Context of Distance Learning

The research aims to reveal the contradictions and issues of higher education in the context of a rapid digital transformation related to the pandemic. We carry out a comparative analysis of students’ academic performance in traditional, distance, and mixed educational formats. Based on the analysis of the literature, teaching practice, and the survey conducted with students, we revealed that despite the visible increase in academic performance during online studying and mixed learning environment, issues regarding technical equipment, stable Internet connection, students’ non-involvement in the educational process, the change of their priorities in favor of part-time job or even the complete loss of communication with the university became more complicated. We conclude that improving the traditional educational form towards more effective ICT adaptation to lectures is crucial, including practical and laboratory classes. It is necessary to conduct classes in a digital format, despite the presence or absence of a pandemic. The mixed learning format will allow us to combine the advantages of traditional and distance learning

INDICATORS OF FORMALIZED DESCRIPTION QUALITY AND ANALYSIS OF PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES

This paper discusses conceptual basis for assessment and analysis of model quality relating to formalized description of technologies. The authors give indicators used to assess formalized and textual descriptions of technologies. They raise some questions concerning the analysis of technologies that enable to make a list of indicators. The paper examines decomposition structures of specific technologies and provides the calculations of introduced coefficients.

DETERMINATION OF IRIDOID, ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY AND PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS BY HPLC METHOD IN PLANTS GENTIANA CRUCIATA L. FROM DIFFERENT GROWTH PLACE

Background. The ecological and geographical conditions of the habitat may be responsible for the synthesis and accumulation of various bioactive compounds and, therefore, for biological effects, including the antioxidant properties of medicinal plants. Understanding the impact of environmental factors on bioactive compounds in medicinal plants have great importance for choosing a place for growing and harvesting plants with a high content of bioactive compounds, as well as providing the highest quality raw materials in the pharmaceutical industry. Objective. To study the accumulation of iridoids, phenolic compounds and antioxidant activity in G. cruciata plant samples, depending on the growing conditions. Results. The regions of the Republic of Tatarstan with the best quality of medicinal raw materials, as well as factors contributing to the accumulation of various groups of biologically active substances in G. cruciate plants, were identified. Humidity and soil type played a decisive role in the accumulation of iridoids; the synthesis of phenolic compounds was more influenced by humidity than the type of soil. However, since the change in antioxidant activity did not correspond to concentration of phenolic compounds, this may be due to the presence of iridoids, which are considered to be the main substances of the plant of the genus Grecian. Their antioxidant activity has been shown in previous studies. In our studies, soil properties seem to have great influence on the production of studied compounds. Conclusions. Almetevsky and Laishevsky districts can be chosen as the optimal place for growing and collecting medicinal plants G. cruciata L