Time, change, and sociocultural communication: A chronemic perspective

The temporal orientations of any sociocultural grouping are major factors comprising its central identity. The manner in which the past (memories), the present (perception), and the future (anticipation/expectation) are commonly articulated also concern cultural identity. The identity of a cultural group is altered by developmental changes in time keeping and related objective, scientific temporalities. Three modes of temporality, objective, narrative, and transcendental, congruent with different kinds of brain processes, are common throughout our planet. Objective temporality tends to alter and replace traditional narrative and transcendental (spiritual) time, timing, and tempos. Objective temporality is concerned with what is transitory, modern and “progressive”. Objective time is not a traditional form of cultural time; it is a derived Westernized scientific imposition, rather than any cultural formation. This essay develops a new conception of how semiosis occurs. All information is essentially rhythmic, transduced through sensory systems as signals in a space-time domain, but deposited for use into a spectral thermodynamic domain in the human cortex. A “chronemic” perspective, (temporality as it is based in semiotic processes related to human communication) is assumed throughout. Such a perspective appears to be somewhat novel in both communication and semiotic studies

Reducing the Risks: Reflections on Bridging Home and School Communication

Recent scholarship on literacy development has focused on studying young at-risk learners (Allen and Mason, 1989; Clay, 1982; Taylor and Dorsey-Gaines, 1988; Swap, 1990; Teale and Sulzby, 1986). As kindergarten and first grade teachers we worried about many of our students whose families were not in the cultural mainstream and whose literacy backgrounds appeared different from those of our more successful children. As we thought about how we might better teach our children we began to consider how we could improve our communication with the children\u27s parents to begin to build a partner ship between home and school literacy experiences. We wanted to be supportive and invitational with the parents. We hoped to provide the parents with information which they could use in helping their children interact with print, and, importantly, we wanted to learn from the parents. We valued their input and welcomed information that they could provide which would allow us to build our program to sup port the home. We wished to begin to build a two way bridge that would connect home and school literacy practice

Analyses of femtosecond laser ablation of Ti, Zr, Hf

Femtosecond laser ablation of Ti, Zr and Hf has been investigated by means of in-situ plasma diagnostics. Fast plasma imaging with the aid of an intensified charged coupled device (ICCD) camera was used to characterise the plasma plume expansion on a nanosecond time scale. Time- and spaceresolved optical emission spectroscopy was employed to perform time-of-flight measurements of ions and neutral atoms. It is shown that two plasma components with different expansion velocities are generated by the ultra-short laser ablation process. The expansion behaviour of these two components has been analysed as a function of laser fluence and target material. The results are discussed in terms of mechanisms responsible for ultra-short laser ablation

Experimental Study of Longitudinally Stiffened Web Channels Subjected Predominantly to Shear

The Direct Strength Method (DSM) of design of cold-formed sections has recently been extended in the North American Specification for Cold-Formed Steel Structural Members-NAS S100:2012 to include shear. The two new features of the DSM rules for shear researched are the effect of full-section shear buckling as opposed to web-only shear buckling and Tension Field Action (TFA). The prequalified sections in the rules include sections with flat webs and webs with small intermediate longitudinal stiffeners. In order to extend the range to larger intermediate stiffeners as occurs in practice, a series of fourteen shear tests have been performed at the University of Sydney for C-sections with rectangular stiffeners of varying sizes. Six different types of stiffeners were tested with an additional preferred plain section. Each type of sections was tested twice to ensure accuracy. As the web stiffener sizes increase, the shear buckling and strength of the sections are expected to improve accordingly. However, the tests show that the shear ultimate strengths only increase slightly in association with the respective increase of stiffener sizes. The test results are compared with the DSM design rules for shear and found to be lower than those predicted by the DSM curve for shear with TFA. The test failures were observed mainly due to the combined bending and shear modes. The effect of the bending is therefore significant and starts to govern when the shear capacity is significantly strengthened by adding the large longitudinal web stiffener. The test results are subsequently plotted against the DSM interaction curves between bending and shear where the interaction is found to be significant. Modifications and recommendations for prequalified sections with longitudinally stiffened web channels in shear are proposed in the paper

Nouveau concept de séchage et de fumage artisanal des aliments : application en milieu de pêche artisanale au Gabon

L’objet de cette étude est de présenter la conception détaillée et la fabrication d’un fumoir à poissons dont les spécificités permettent de répondre aux besoins de PED (pays en développement) côtiers tropicaux liés au traitement de poissons fraîchement péchés. Cette technique de séchage et fumage correspond à un mode de conservation traditionnel en Afrique subsaharienne et permet l’exportation des produits finis. Le dispositif de fumage proposé ici est autonome en ce sens qu’il fonctionne sans électricité et ne nécessite que l’utilisation de bois de combustion et de bois de pyrolyse ; il est de plus modulaire et réalisable avec les matériaux et les outils standards de la maçonnerie et de la chaudronnerie. Il permet de séparer en deux phases distinctes, les opérations de séchage et de fumage. Le séchage des poissons se fait par convection, conduction et rayonnement à partir des conduites de fumées. De ce fait, nous avons une chaleur uniforme au sein de l'enceinte. Le système de fumage permet d'obtenir une teneur des benzo (a) pyrène recommandé par les organismes internationaux.Mots-clés : bois, conception, fumage, PED, poissons, séchage.New concept of drying and smoking of artisanal foods : application in middle of artisanal fishing in GabonThe purpose of this study is to present the detailed design and construction of a fish smokehouse whose characteristics can meet the needs of tropical coastal developing countries related to the treatment of freshly caught fish. This technique of drying and smoking is a traditional way of conservation in subSaharan Africa and allows the export of finished products. The smoking device proposed here is autonomous in the sense that it works without electricity and requires only the wooden use of combustion and wood of pyrolysis; it is of more modular and built with materials and standard tools of the masonry and the boilermaking. He allows to separate in two different phases, the operations of drying and smoking. The drying of fishes is made by convection, conduction and radiation with smoke ducts. Therefore, we have a uniform heat within the smokehouse. The system of smoking allows to obtain a content of benzo ( a ) pyrène recommended by the international bodies.Keywords : wood, design, smoking, PED, fish, drying