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    Lexical metaphors in Westlife's selected song lyrics

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    The study aims to discover lexical metaphors in Westlife's selected song lyrics. Specically, it was to reveal the types and source domains of the metaphors. Swear It Again, If I Let You Go, Flying Without Wings, I Have a Dream, and Fool Again, which are the legendary boy band's most popular songs according to TraxFM (), were selected as the data sources. The study applied the qualitative descriptive method, the study focused on exploring the nature of the study object as proposed by Kothari (). Since the phenomena investigated are metaphors in song lyrics, the study adapted Schmitt's () concept of metaphor analysis. The study's data are all metaphors in the ve songs of Westlife (Swear it Again, If I Let You Go, Flying Without Wings, I Have a Dream, and Fool Again), which TraxFM () considers as the boy band's best songs ever. The data MIP-Praglejazz was employed to identify the metaphors in those selected song lyrics. The study found: () the selected song lyrics contained structural, ontological, and only two orientational metaphors; () Most of the metaphors have a concrete thing as their source domain, such as living thing, traveler, place, ame, sunrise, container, bird, and object. It can be inferred that: () the song lyrics are dominated by ontological and structural metaphors, and () the metaphors are mainly constructed of concrete concepts, which humankind are so familiar with in their daily life. Detailed ndings will be presented, and their implications will be discussed. © , Slovenska Vzdelavacia Obstaravacia. All rights reserved

    Transient massive hyperlipidaemia in a type 2 diabetic subject

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    A 50-year-old man, in apparently good health, was referred to the Lipid Center of San Luigi Gonzaga Hospital, Orbassano (Turin, Italy), by his primary care physician (PCP) because clinical tests at the time of blood donation showed milky plasma with serious hypertriglyceridaemia (>5000 mg/dl) and hyperglycaemia (381 mg/dl), diagnostic for diabetes. It was not possible to perform further blood chemical analyses because hypertriglyceridaemia would have provided abnormal results. The patient entered the hospital to prevent acute pancreatitis, which is often associated with severe hypertriglyceridaemi

    Analysis of turbulence and surface growth models on the estimation of soot level in ethylene non-premixed flames

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    Soot prediction in a combustion system has become a subject of attention, as many factors influence its accuracy. An accurate temperature prediction will likely yield better soot predictions, since the inception, growth and destruction of the soot are affected by the temperature. This paper reported the study on the influences of turbulence closure and surface growth models on the prediction of soot levels in turbulent flames. The results demonstrated that a substantial distinction was observed in terms of temperature predictions derived using the k-Δ and the Reynolds stress models, for the two ethylene flames studied here amongst the four types of surface growth rate model investigated, the assumption of the soot surface growth rate proportional to the particle number density, but independent on the surface area of soot particles, ƒ(As) = ρNs , yields in closest agreement with the radial data. Without any adjustment to the constants in the surface growth term, other approaches where the surface growth directly proportional to the surface area and square root of surface area, ƒ(As) = As and ƒ(As) = √As, result in an under- prediction of soot volume fraction. These results suggest that predictions of soot volume fraction are sensitive to the modelling of surface growth

    Multi-band analyses of the bright GRB~230812B and the associated SN2023pel

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    International audienceGRB~230812B is a bright and relatively nearby (z=0.36z =0.36) long gamma-ray burst that has generated significant interest in the community and therefore has been subsequently observed over the entire electromagnetic spectrum. We report over 80 observations in X-ray, ultraviolet, optical, infrared, and sub-millimeter bands from the GRANDMA (Global Rapid Advanced Network for Multi-messenger Addicts) network of observatories and from observational partners. Adding complementary data from the literature, we then derive essential physical parameters associated with the ejecta and external properties (i.e. the geometry and environment) and compare with other analyses of this event (e.g. Srinivasaragavan et al. 2023). We spectroscopically confirm the presence of an associated supernova, SN2023pel, and we derive a photospheric expansion velocity of v ∌\sim 17×103\times10^3 km s−1s^{-1}. We analyze the photometric data first using empirical fits of the flux and then with full Bayesian Inference. We again strongly establish the presence of a supernova in the data, with an absolute peak r-band magnitude Mr=−19.41±0.10M_r = - 19.41 \pm 0.10. We find a flux-stretching factor or relative brightness kSN=1.04±0.09k_{\rm SN}=1.04 \pm 0.09 and a time-stretching factor sSN=0.68±0.05s_{\rm SN}=0.68 \pm 0.05, both compared to SN1998bw. Therefore, GRB 230812B appears to have a clear long GRB-supernova association, as expected in the standard collapsar model. However, as sometimes found in the afterglow modelling of such long GRBs, our best fit model favours a very low density environment (log⁥10(nISM/cm−3)=−2.16−1.30+1.21\log_{10}({n_{\rm ISM}/{\rm cm}^{-3}}) = -2.16^{+1.21}_{-1.30}). We also find small values for the jet's core angle Ξcore=1.70−0.71+1.00 deg\theta_{\rm core}={1.70^{+1.00}_{-0.71}} \ \rm{deg} and viewing angle. GRB 230812B/SN2023pel is one of the best characterized afterglows with a distinctive supernova bump

    Multi-band analyses of the bright GRB~230812B and the associated SN2023pel

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    International audienceGRB~230812B is a bright and relatively nearby (z=0.36z =0.36) long gamma-ray burst that has generated significant interest in the community and therefore has been subsequently observed over the entire electromagnetic spectrum. We report over 80 observations in X-ray, ultraviolet, optical, infrared, and sub-millimeter bands from the GRANDMA (Global Rapid Advanced Network for Multi-messenger Addicts) network of observatories and from observational partners. Adding complementary data from the literature, we then derive essential physical parameters associated with the ejecta and external properties (i.e. the geometry and environment) and compare with other analyses of this event (e.g. Srinivasaragavan et al. 2023). We spectroscopically confirm the presence of an associated supernova, SN2023pel, and we derive a photospheric expansion velocity of v ∌\sim 17×103\times10^3 km s−1s^{-1}. We analyze the photometric data first using empirical fits of the flux and then with full Bayesian Inference. We again strongly establish the presence of a supernova in the data, with an absolute peak r-band magnitude Mr=−19.41±0.10M_r = - 19.41 \pm 0.10. We find a flux-stretching factor or relative brightness kSN=1.04±0.09k_{\rm SN}=1.04 \pm 0.09 and a time-stretching factor sSN=0.68±0.05s_{\rm SN}=0.68 \pm 0.05, both compared to SN1998bw. Therefore, GRB 230812B appears to have a clear long GRB-supernova association, as expected in the standard collapsar model. However, as sometimes found in the afterglow modelling of such long GRBs, our best fit model favours a very low density environment (log⁥10(nISM/cm−3)=−2.16−1.30+1.21\log_{10}({n_{\rm ISM}/{\rm cm}^{-3}}) = -2.16^{+1.21}_{-1.30}). We also find small values for the jet's core angle Ξcore=1.70−0.71+1.00 deg\theta_{\rm core}={1.70^{+1.00}_{-0.71}} \ \rm{deg} and viewing angle. GRB 230812B/SN2023pel is one of the best characterized afterglows with a distinctive supernova bump

    Multi-band analyses of the bright GRB~230812B and the associated SN2023pel

    No full text
    International audienceGRB~230812B is a bright and relatively nearby (z=0.36z =0.36) long gamma-ray burst that has generated significant interest in the community and therefore has been subsequently observed over the entire electromagnetic spectrum. We report over 80 observations in X-ray, ultraviolet, optical, infrared, and sub-millimeter bands from the GRANDMA (Global Rapid Advanced Network for Multi-messenger Addicts) network of observatories and from observational partners. Adding complementary data from the literature, we then derive essential physical parameters associated with the ejecta and external properties (i.e. the geometry and environment) and compare with other analyses of this event (e.g. Srinivasaragavan et al. 2023). We spectroscopically confirm the presence of an associated supernova, SN2023pel, and we derive a photospheric expansion velocity of v ∌\sim 17×103\times10^3 km s−1s^{-1}. We analyze the photometric data first using empirical fits of the flux and then with full Bayesian Inference. We again strongly establish the presence of a supernova in the data, with an absolute peak r-band magnitude Mr=−19.41±0.10M_r = - 19.41 \pm 0.10. We find a flux-stretching factor or relative brightness kSN=1.04±0.09k_{\rm SN}=1.04 \pm 0.09 and a time-stretching factor sSN=0.68±0.05s_{\rm SN}=0.68 \pm 0.05, both compared to SN1998bw. Therefore, GRB 230812B appears to have a clear long GRB-supernova association, as expected in the standard collapsar model. However, as sometimes found in the afterglow modelling of such long GRBs, our best fit model favours a very low density environment (log⁥10(nISM/cm−3)=−2.16−1.30+1.21\log_{10}({n_{\rm ISM}/{\rm cm}^{-3}}) = -2.16^{+1.21}_{-1.30}). We also find small values for the jet's core angle Ξcore=1.70−0.71+1.00 deg\theta_{\rm core}={1.70^{+1.00}_{-0.71}} \ \rm{deg} and viewing angle. GRB 230812B/SN2023pel is one of the best characterized afterglows with a distinctive supernova bump
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