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A transitional Arabic dialect of the northern Omani interior
A major classificatory division of the Arabic vernaculars spoken throughout much of the Arab world is that of the socially-based Sedentary (S) versus Bedouin (B) division. In studies of the Omani dialect area these terms are used to distinguish between the speech of the traditionally settled populace concentrated in and around the mountainous interior of the country (S type), and that of the nomadic and recently settled communities of the deserts (B type). However in some transitional regions the distinction between these dialects is blurred, as the spoken Arabic in these regions contains characteristics of both types.
The present contribution examines important structural features of the spoken Arabic of al-Darīz and places the findings within the broader Omani typological context. It is shown that although the dialect exhibits some characteristics of accommodation to the speech of nearby Bedouin communities with respect to certain phonological features, the dialect of al-Darīz retains most of the distinctly S-type features which characterize the traditionally settled communities in and around the mountain region to the north of the country. This is in striking contrast with the situation in the town of al-Mintirib, which is located to the south of al-Darīz. The speech of the sedentary population of al-Mintirib has acquired most of the features which characterize the speech of the surrounding B populace. The differences in the speech of the population in the two towns can be explained by the contrasting socio historical circumstances in which the dialects of each town has developed
www.bankofcanada.ca—The Bank on the World Wide Web
This article by the Bank's Web master details the development of the Bank's Web site and highlights some of its special features. It includes a description of dataBANK, a custom-built interface to the Bank's economic databases that gives visitors access to 220 data series. It also provides a mini tour of monetary policy material "on site," as well as a taste of things to come. Above all, this article invites you to come and visit our site.
Opening up closings - the Ecuadorian way
In the conversation analytic tradition, this paper examines the procedures Ecuadorian Spanish (ES) speakers employ to close telephone conversations. Conversation analysts (cf. Schegloff, 1979) examined telephone talk in American English and that found that conversations are opened and brought to a close by the joint work of participants. Concerning closings, they observed, for example, that participants employ certain procedures to signal their desire to bring the conversation to an end and others to actually close the interaction. They also suggested that the conversational procedures they describe are of a universal character (cf. Schegloff and Sacks, 1974 [1973]). The examination of telephone closings in the present study reveals that similar procedures are employed in Ecuadorian Spanish. Nevertheless, it also highlights some of the features that appear to be characteristic of Ecuadorian Spanish only, that is, that seem to be culture-bound, and thus contests Schegloff and Sacks's unversality claims. The need for a culturally contexted conversation analysis, along the lines proposed by Moerman (1988) is supported here
eulerForce: Force-directed Layout for Euler Diagrams
Euler diagrams use closed curves to represent sets and their relationships. They facilitate set analysis, as humans tend to perceive distinct regions when closed curves are drawn on a plane. However, current automatic methods often produce diagrams with irregular, non-smooth curves that are not easily distinguishable. Other methods restrict the shape of the curve to for instance a circle, but such methods cannot draw an Euler diagram with exactly the required curve intersections for any set relations. In this paper, we present eulerForce, as the first method to adopt a force-directed approach to improve the layout and the curves of Euler diagrams generated by current methods. The layouts are improved in quick time. Our evaluation of eulerForce indicates the benefits of a force-directed approach to generate comprehensible Euler diagrams for any set relations in relatively fast time
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Community Perceptions of Forced Marriage
NoThis is an analytical report for the Community Liaison Unit (CLU),
'Community Perceptions of Forced Marriage'. This report provides the context,
explores the problems and the perceptions of the Pakistani and Bangladeshi
communities of forced marriages. Therefore, this report represents a
comprehensive and rigorous synthesis of existing research evidence
combined with primary data collected specifically for the report
Fashion blogs: too trendy for libraries or useful resources?
Do your students look at blogs?
Do you see them as information sources?
Are they part of your library’s resources?
This article summarises some recent research on fashion blogs, both ‘amateur’ and ‘professional’, and their use in providing information to fashion students. It highlights the potential usefulness of subject blogs, based on points that arose from the data collected from fashion librarians and students in interviews, an online survey and a round-table discussion. Hopefully the results will encourage you to consider your own stance on blog information in the library, whichever subject you support
A survey of comet missions
Survey of scientific mission possibilities to comets passing through solar syste
Dualized Simple Type Theory
We propose a new bi-intuitionistic type theory called Dualized Type Theory
(DTT). It is a simple type theory with perfect intuitionistic duality, and
corresponds to a single-sided polarized sequent calculus. We prove DTT strongly
normalizing, and prove type preservation. DTT is based on a new propositional
bi-intuitionistic logic called Dualized Intuitionistic Logic (DIL) that builds
on Pinto and Uustalu's logic L. DIL is a simplification of L by removing
several admissible inference rules while maintaining consistency and
completeness. Furthermore, DIL is defined using a dualized syntax by labeling
formulas and logical connectives with polarities thus reducing the number of
inference rules needed to define the logic. We give a direct proof of
consistency, but prove completeness by reduction to L.Comment: 47 pages, 10 figure
Drawing Big Graphs using Spectral Sparsification
Spectral sparsification is a general technique developed by Spielman et al.
to reduce the number of edges in a graph while retaining its structural
properties. We investigate the use of spectral sparsification to produce good
visual representations of big graphs. We evaluate spectral sparsification
approaches on real-world and synthetic graphs. We show that spectral
sparsifiers are more effective than random edge sampling. Our results lead to
guidelines for using spectral sparsification in big graph visualization.Comment: Appears in the Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on
Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2017
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