\u27Computerized Profiling\u27 of Clinical Language Samples and the Issue of Time

This collection is a resource book for those working with language disordered clients in a range of languages. It collects together versions of the well-known Language Assessment Remediation Screening Procedure (LARSP) prepared for different languages. Starting with the original version for English, the book then presents versions in more than a dozen other languages. Some of these are likely to be encountered as home languages of clients by speech-language therapists and pathologists working in the UK, Ireland, the US and Australia and New Zealand. Others are included because they are major languages found where speech-language pathology services are provided, but where no grammatical profile already exists

NASA Wallops Flight Facility Air-Sea Interaction Research Facility

This publication serves as an introduction to the Air-Sea Interaction Research Facility at NASA/GSFC/Wallops Flight Facility. The purpose of this publication is to provide background information on the research facility itself, including capabilities, available instrumentation, the types of experiments already done, ongoing experiments, and future plans

Convergence Analysis of the Fast Subspace Descent Methods for Convex Optimization Problems

The full approximation storage (FAS) scheme is a widely used multigrid method for nonlinear problems. In this paper, a new framework to design and analyze FAS-like schemes for convex optimization problems is developed. The new method, the Fast Subspace Descent (FASD) scheme, which generalizes classical FAS, can be recast as an inexact version of nonlinear multigrid methods based on space decomposition and subspace correction. The local problem in each subspace can be simplified to be linear and one gradient descent iteration (with an appropriate step size) is enough to ensure a global linear (geometric) convergence of FASD.Comment: 33 page

A new view of nonlinear water waves: the Hilbert spectrum

We survey the newly developed Hilbert spectral analysis method and its applications to Stokes waves, nonlinear wave evolution processes, the spectral form of the random wave field, and turbulence. Our emphasis is on the inadequacy of presently available methods in nonlinear and nonstationary data analysis. Hilbert spectral analysis is here proposed as an alternative. This new method provides not only a more precise definition of particular events in time-frequency space than wavelet analysis, but also more physically meaningful interpretations of the underlying dynamic processes

Failed Love in the Drama of Edward Albee

The plays of Edward Albee are frequently examinations of characters who are unable to love or to be loved. A central and recurring conflict which runs through many of Albee\u27s plays is the conflict which stems from the lack of success which the characters often experience as they strive to find love. The uncertainty and ambiguity which surround the abstraction called love leave the characters with feelings of unhappiness, frustration, fear, self-hatred, and despondency. Though the individuals in Albee\u27s plays are aware that love is the ingredient which is missing from their lives, none knows how to go about alleviating such a emotional deficiency. The result is a collection of characters who desperately want love, but who are, nevertheless, totally unequipped to attain it. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate and examine the pervasiveness of failed love and to explore it as a theme in the drama of Edward Albee. Utilizing examples from five representative Albee works--The Zoo Story, Who\u27s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Delicate Balance, All Over, and Seascape--as well as previous criticism on Albee\u27s drama, I will analyze the failed love theme. A framework for examining the phenomenon of love is provided by the inclusion of insights and observations on the topic from Dr. Erich Fromm\u27s The Art of Loving (1956). Though other critics have alluded to the significance of the failed love theme in Albee\u27s plays, few have delved deeply into the area and none has provided a working definition of love or criteria to differentiate love from other similar (but inferior) phenomena. The goal of the present study is to give greater insight into the forces at work in Albee\u27s powerful drama by showing the major role that love and its routine failure play in the development of the theme and plot of each play. This examination will focus chiefly on four specific areas in which Albee\u27s characters routinely fail in their quests for love. After briefly discussing the philosophies of Albee and Fromm on the subject of Man\u27s alienation and his need for love, I will provide an overview of the prevalence of the problem of alienation in twentieth-century Western culture. Each of the remaining sections will deal with one of the obstacles to the achievement of love which regularly surface in the plays of Edward Albee. Specifically, those obstacles include: chronic passivity, personal immaturity, a lack of love during childhood, and an inability to love oneself

Indices of metabolic stress following resistance exercise

The purpose of this study was twofold: 1). to evaluate the metabolic responses to varying volume load (VL), manipulated through relative training intensity and 2). to evaluate the metabolic response to training via direct and indirect methods to assess the application potential of non-invasive methods. Recreationally trained male weight lifters (n = 11) volunteered to participate in this resistance training (RT) study. During three separate testing sessions, participants completed three sets of repetitions of the barbell bicep curl exercise to technical failure with short inter-set rest intervals (60 seconds). Participants were randomly assigned one of three training intensities immediately prior to each testing session: low-load (30% 1RM), moderate-load (60% 1RM), or high-load (90% 1RM). Blood lactate was measured at baseline (Pre), immediately post exercise (Post), five minutes post exercise (Post5), and at 15 minutes post exercise (Post15). Metabolic markers VO2, VCO2, and RER were monitored at all times during each session. Low-load training resulted in significantly greater accumulated VL compared to moderate and high-load training. However, no significant differences were observed in blood lactate, VO2, or VCO2. RER values significantly favored the 30% condition over the 60% and the 90% between Post1 and Post2 and favored the 30% condition over the 90% between Post2 and Post3. Observed RER values were similar during the 30% and 60% conditions at all time points other than the period between Post1 and Post2. These results indicate that blood lactate measurements may underestimate the total exerciseassociated accumulation of metabolites, and that non-invasive, indirect markers may be more useful in assessing the metabolic training response. Additionally, these findings suggest that VL may not exert significant influence over lactate accumulation. Lastly, these findings indicate that moderate intensities may induce similar metabolic responses to low intensity training when exercise is performed for multiple sets of repetitions

«Natural Law and Natural Rights» and the Negation of the Objective Priority of Speculative Truth

This essay explores the nature and implications of John Finnis’s express negation in his work Natural Law and Natural Rights of the objective primacy of speculative truth with respect to the derivation of practical reason and agency. The essay observes two senses of the speculative/practical distinction. One sense concerns whether the object known is a contingent matter ordered to an end or whether it concerns a universal, necessary, or eternal truth. The other sense concerns the mode of the knowledge itself: whether its end is simply knowledge, or whether the end is the good of an operation. Because prior to desire and intention all knowledge is speculative in its mode, and this knowledge is absolutely necessary for knowledge that is practical in its mode; and because knowledge that is practical in its mode is absolutely prior to knowledge that is practical merely in that it concerns a practical object – because without knowledge practical in its mode there will never be such knowledge that is practical in its object – it follows that practical reasoning is derivative of knowledge that is speculative in its mode. Implications of Finnis’s error – about teleology, common good, and God – are considered.Este ensayo responde al propósito de explorar la naturaleza e implicaciones de la negación de la primacía objetiva de la verdad especulativa sobre la razón práctica del agente, que John Finnis recoge expresamente en su obra Ley Natural y Derechos Naturales. El trabajo presupone dos sentidos de la distinción entre razón especulativa y razón práctica. Desde uno de ellos se considera si el objeto conocido por la razón está constituido por una materia contingente ordenada a un fin o, si, por el contrario, es una verdad universal, necesaria o eterna. Desde el segundo sentido se atiende al modo operativo del razonamiento mismo: ya sea su fin el conocimiento en sí o el bien de una acción. Precisamente porque todo conocimiento previo al deseo y a la intención es especulativo, y que éste es absolutamente necesario para el conocimiento práctico, y porque el conocimiento práctico es absolutamente anterior al conocimiento práctico referido a un objeto práctico –porque sin el conocimiento práctico no podría haber conocimiento práctico referido a un objeto–, el razonamiento práctico deriva del especulativo. Se analizan las consecuencias del error de Finnis en su enfoque sobre la teleología, el bien común y Dios