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More Morse, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

Mention the Morse Code to logologists and they immediately think of the number FIFTEEN, unique in being being self explanatory in Morse Code represented, as it is, by 15 dots and dashes.

Poet Tree Without Mist Aches, Scot Morris

Word Ways

A Poem

Anagram Quiz 5, Anil .

Word Ways

A quiz.

Kickshaws, David Morice

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

Back Cover

Word Ways

Back cover of this issue including instructions to authors.

Words That Never Stray, Richard Lederer

Word Ways

What do the following words have in common: bread, clams, dough, cabbage, lettuce, peanuts, and chicken feed? Each is a food that is metaphoric slang for "cash."

New Pair Isograms, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

Dmitri Borgmann introduced the concept of pair isograms in Language on Vacation. Pair isograms are words which use pairs of each different letter.

A New Year's Diet, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

In Britain, at the start of each New Year, Many people make a resolution to go on a diet, in order to shed weight following excess eating and drinkin over the Christmas and New Year breaks. I'm not sure if the same applies in North America and elsewhere.

Sesquipedalian English, Richard Lederer

Word Ways

Early in my career as verbivore, I became fascinated with long words. My heart leapt up when I beheld the likes of inapprpriateness (17 letters) incomprehensibilty (19 letters), and the 22-letter counterrevolutionaries and deinstitutionalization.

Estudio Sociolinguistico De La Marca Diferencial De Objeto Directo (Dom) En Dos Variedades Del Espanol Contemporaneo, Sonia Balasch Rodriguez

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

This sociolinguistic-variationist investigation sheds light on two little-studied issues concerning Spanish DOM, or variable use of a before animate direct objects (DOs), in vernacular language: the complex interaction of co-occurring linguistic (type of verb; definiteness, specificity, grammatical number, topicality, type and syntactic position of DO) and social (speakers age, gender and occupation) features. The statistical analysis of over 1000 tokens of oral Spanish of Mérida, Venezuela, and Madrid, Spain, indicates that although a+OD is used more in Madrid (61% vs. 46%), both varieties show markedly parallel linguistic conditioning: the lexical effect of certain verbs (tener, ver, conocer, among others), as …

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 45, Number 1

Word Ways

Front cover and publication information for this issue.

More Albuquerque Words, Steve Kahan

Word Ways

Miami words are those which exhibit the letter pattern a b c a b, reverberate being one such. Let us now revisit their southwestern cousins. An Albuquerque word is one in which two identical triads appear that are separated by at least one letter.

Last But Not Ceased: Puns In Real Life Situations, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

In the February 2006 issue Word Ways, I wrote an article called "Did You Just Make that Up?" Puns in Everyday Converstaion." This sequel presents more true stories of my own experiences deploying puns in real life.

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.

Scholarworks Statistics - February 2012, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

For the month of February 2012, ScholarWorks recorded a total of 22,866 full-text downloads and 22,952 page views.

Prism #60, February 2012, Office Of The Provost

Prism: Western Michigan University's Newsletter for Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

Predicting Requirement Change Propagation Using Higher Order Design Structure Matrices: An Industry Case Study, Beshoy Morkos, Prabhu Shankar, Joshua D. Summers

All CEDAR Publications

This research examines higher order design structure matrices as requirements change modelling tools to predict requirement change propagation through two large-scale industry design projects. Due to the iterative nature of design, requirements will evolve and change. Changes in requirements can propagate to other requirements on different subsystems leading to possible increases in the project cost and lead-time. Predicting these requirement changes enables the designers to foresee unanticipated changes and maximises the probability for the project's success. These studies reveal that second-order relationships are influential in predicting requirement change propagation. Unforeseen propagation occurring in first-order form was rare, rather it was …

Effect Of Dialect On Identification And Severity Of Speech Impairment In Indigenous Australian Children, Bethany J. Toohill, Sharynne Mcleod, Jane Mccormack

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

This study investigated the effect of dialectal difference on identification and rating of severity of speech impairment in children from Indigenous Australian backgrounds. The speech of 15 Indigenous Australian children identified by their parents/caregivers and teachers as having ‘difficulty talking and making speech sounds’ was assessed using the Diagnostic Evaluation of Articulation and Phonology. Fourteen children were identified with speech impairment on the Diagnostic Evaluation of Articulation and Phonology using Standard Australian English (AusE) as the target pronunciation; whereas 13 were identified using Australian Aboriginal English (AAE) as the target. There was a statistically significant decrease in seven children’s severity …

First-Year Superintendents‘ Perceptions Of Preparation And Practice, Brady D. Quirk

Dissertations

Through this qualitative study, the perceptions of first-year superintendents in Missouri were obtained regarding their graduate preparation program and the types of supports they sought in their new position. The superintendency is a complex role, requiring the school district leader to work within the often-conflicting framework of organizational manager versus instructional leader. The superintendents, both male and female from districts of varying sizes, were interviewed within this framework in order to make comparisons with the existing related literature. Certain themes emerged from the data, notably, a relationship between district size and the perception of the primary responsibilities of the superintendent. …

Fakih: A Method To Teach Deaf People ‘Reading’ Quran, N.A. Mohd Daud, N. Jomhari, N.I. Abdull Zubi

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

Allah revealed the Quran to be practiced by all human beings irrespective of whether the humans are normal, or mentally or physically challenged. According to the Department of Malaysian Special Education, in 2002, there were 663 blind students and 3649 deaf students, all over Malaysia. However, in terms of Quran education, deaf students are far behind compared to blind students. This is because they could not hear and therefore posed a difficult situation for the teachers to teach them. Based on this initiative, Fakih methods have been introduced to eight deaf students to learn Quran in within two months. The …

Mobile Application Of Quran And Arabic Language For Interactive And Self Learning Assistant: A Review, Noor Jamaliah Ibrahim, Mohd Yakub @ Zulkifli Mohd Yusoff, Zaidi Razak, R.J. Raja Yusof

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

Mobile technology in learning process is quite demanding, nowadays. It has a huge potential as a learning tool and also can be used as distance learning environment. This kind of technology is believed able to solve the current problem in j-QAF learning, especially the Arabic and Quran learning process. It is because, the current method of Arabic and Quran learning method, become less effective and unattractive to be implemented, especially towards the young Muslim generation. Moreover, today’s busy lifestyle needs a modern and technological approach that able to optimize the study time and improve the learning process. This paper seeks …

The Concept Of “Maqasid Al-Quran”: Its Genesis And Developments, T. Islam

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

Maqasid al-Qur’an” is an approach to understanding the Qur’Énic discourse. This research aims to explore its genesis and conceptual development throughout the ages of the Qur’anic literature. To fulfill this objective, it firstly explores the origin of this concept and then its developmental trends in early, formative, classical and modern period of the Qur’anic Literature. The findings are expected to contribute to introducing a compact idea of this very concept which has yet to emerge as a completely functional concept. However, this study will follow an analytical and historical method.

Ignacio Manuel Altamirano's Journey From 'Indio Puro' To Cultural Mestizo: Indigenous Identity, Mestizaje, And Nationalism In Nineteenth-Century Mexico, Angelica Sanchez-Clark

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

Like many Mexican Liberal intellectuals, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (b. Tixtla, Guerrero, 1834; d. San Remo, Italy, 1893) played a central role in defining the role that the mestizo—and, by force of circumstance, the Indian—would play in the formation of national identity after Mexicos independence from Spain. This dissertation examines Altamirano's literary and political works, as well as his personal correspondence, and his experiences as a soldier, educator, and politician, in order to understand how Altamirano, represented as an 'indio puro' who underwent the transformation to mestizo, exemplifies the link between Mexico's colonial past and its struggle to define its national …

Listening To Unheard Voices: Professional Development Reforms For Pakistani Tertiary Teachers, Imran Anjum Chaudary, Shahida Imran

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Fragmented, unfocused, and top down approaches to professional development are unrealistic, ineffective and do not promise anything significant to teachers and their contexts. This paper questions professional development for tertiary teachers in Pakistan. It does so from the perspectives of Pakistani tertiary teachers gained through a qualitative, ethnographic case study. The analysis of these previously unheard voices revealed themes that expand our understanding of the problematic nature of professional development. The results of this study indicate the need to reform professional development and to assist in these reforms, the study suggests that teachers need to gain a wide repertoire of …

Challenging Carnegie, Kristen Holmquist

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Christian Justification After Nihilism, Joel Meyer

Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation

Meyer, Joel P. "Christian Justification after Nihilism." Ph.D. diss., Concordia Seminary,2012. [235] pp.

This dissertation addresses the problem that nihilism presents to Christian faith and life. North Atlantic Christians live in an age when nihilism is a normal condition. The world does not appear to have one clear and unquestionable meaning. Instead, each of us has convictions about the world that we hold dear. But we realize that other people hold drastically different convictions than our own, and we have no absolute way of determining the validity of one set over another. So they appear to us as values, rather …

A Review Of Situation Identification Techniques In Pervasive Computing, Juan Ye, Simon Dobson, Susan Mckeever

Articles

Pervasive systems must offer an open, extensible, and evolving portfolio of services which integrate sensor data from a diverse range of sources. The core challenge is to provide appropriate and consistent adaptive behaviours for these services in the face of huge volumes of sensor data exhibiting varying degrees of precision, accuracy and dynamism. Situation identification is an enabling technology that resolves noisy sensor data and abstracts it into higher-level concepts that are interesting to applications. We provide a comprehensive analysis of the nature and characteristics of situations, discuss the complexities of situation identification, and review the techniques that are most …

Phase-Distortion-Robust Voice-Source Analysis, Alan O'Cinneide

Doctoral

This work concerns itself with the analysis of voiced speech signals, in particular the analysis of the glottal source signal. Following the source-filter theory of speech, the glottal signal is produced by the vibratory behaviour of the vocal folds and is modulated by the resonances of the vocal tract and radiation characteristic of the lips to form the speech signal. As it is thought that the glottal source signal contributes much of the non-linguistic and prosodical information to speech, it is useful to develop techniques which can estimate and parameterise this signal accurately. Because of vocal tract modulation, estimating the …

English Language Learners In Tennessee Public Schools, Tennessee. Comptroller Of The Treasury.

Office of Research and Education Accountability

No abstract provided.

The Relationship Of Religion And The Ethnic Nationalism In Bosnia-Herzegovina, Morgan Oddie

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.