Construction of an A-manifold on a principal torus bundle

We construct a new example of an A-manifold, i.e. a Riemannian manifold with a cyclic-parallel Ricci tensor, which can be viewed as a generalization of the Einstein condition. The underlying manifold for our construction is a principal torus bundle over K\"ahler-Einstein manifold a with fibre a torus of arbitrary dimension

Television aesthetics, media and cultural studies and the contested realm of the social

This article seeks to intervene in the ‘television aesthetics’ versus ‘media and cultural studies’ debate. It argues that aesthetic evaluation does not necessarily rely upon bad textual others or result in canon construction. It engages with Bourdieu in order to demonstrate that his account of cultural capital and distinction is more nuanced than is suggested by its uptake by scholars who want to use it to argue against evaluative activity. Finally, it argues that television aesthetics cannot be divorced from ‘media and cultural studies’ to the extent that some of its practitioners appear to want

Das schwedische Danken als akzeptierende Bestätigung einer Bitte. Gezeigt anhand von Beispielen aus institutionellem Gespräch

The act of thanking is one of the most distinct linguistic phenomenain Swedish. Thanking is very often reciprocated with thanking, especially in conversation closings. This is regarded as a part of the Swedish communication patterns. The ritual occures also in terminal sequences of phone calls to the Swedish Poison Information Centre, which are treated as institutional conversation. However, other interesting ways of the use of Swedish thanking can also be observed in the middle parts (so called insertion sequences) of these calls. Thanking functions there as the speaker’s acceptance of a special type of request formulated by the conversation partner

Kan man tacka för senast eller för sig? Prepositionsfrasens struktur med utvalda svenska och polska tackformler som exempel

The present paper focuses on some frequent Swedish thank formulas that do not seem to fit the pattern of thanking – either syntactically or semantically. One example of the syntactic irregularities is tack för senast, ‘thanks for last time’ (lit. ‘thanks for lastADV’), where the prepositional phrase consists of an adverbial (not a nominal) component relating to time. On the other hand, the Swedish tack för mig, ‘thanks for me / myself’, does not conform to the semantics of thanking, as it seems to suggest that the speaker himself is the only proper reason for thanking, not – as usually expected – ‘something good’ for the speaker, i.e. an action brought about for him or her by the addressee. Some similarities with the Polish phrases for thanking (which also include adverbs but are fewer and less frequent in comparison Swedish), e.g. dziekuje za dzis, ‘thanks for today’, have also been taken into consideration. Such constructions can be analysed and explained in terms of metonymy. Furthermore, the thank formulas including the temporal adverbs seem to reflect the significance of time as a special value in the Swedish culture

A-manifolds on a principal torus bundle over an almost Hodge A-manifold base

An A-manifold is a manifold whose Ricci tensor is cyclic-parallel, equivalently it satisfies ∇X Ric(X, X) = 0. This condition generalizes the Einstein condition. We construct new examples of A-manifolds on r-torus bundles over a base which is a product of almost Hodge A-manifolds

Einige Bemerkungen zur Semantik der Sprechhandlung DANKEN im Schwedischen, Polnischen, Deutschen und anderen Sprachen

The aim of the article is to analyse the most important semantic units of the act of thanking in Swedish, Polish and German. According to the etymology of the verbs tacka, dziękować and danken, the act of thanking may be paraphrased as ‘the speaker’s good thoughts towards the addressee’ (mental paraphrase). On the other hand, the etymology of thanking in the Romance languages allows the paraphrase in terms of a mercantile exchange: ‘giving something in return for something else’. These two paraphrases, though seemingly competing, do not exclude but rather complement each other: ‘good thoughts’ about someone can at the same time be interpreted as ‘giving them good thoughts for something good’

Imidazole and its saturated derivatives vs pyrazole and it saturated derivatives : a computational study on relative stability

Possible structures of imidazole, pyrazole, and their semi saturated and fully saturated derivatives have been studied at the DFT and ab initio computational levels. Calculations have been performed using several computational schemes (BLYP, PBE0, CAM-B3LYP, wB97XD, M06, MP2, CBS-QB3, and G4 methods have been employed) and the 6-311++G** basis set. The most stable structures for each group of studied compounds (tautomers of native imidazole and pyrazole, tautomers of their semi saturated derivatives, and fully saturated derivatives) have been determined. In general species with imidazole ring are more stable than those with pyrazole one. The discussion of this phenomenon origin, especially the influence of aromaticity as well as distributions of total charge and energy among atoms are thoroughly discussed