MODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 4 2006
RACHEL MUERS
Deuteronomy 22:6,7 has been used in recent theological discussions of environmental ethics. Earlier traditions of interpretation (Jewish and Christian) suggest the further possibility of reading it as a text about how to read texts and about the nature and function of law. This article examines, and offers a contemporary Christian reappropriation of, these traditions of interpretation. The focus is on how the confrontation with the vulnerable other as a locus of divine revelation interrupts and transforms relations of use and exploitation. It is argued that in a Christian reading of the bird's-nest precept Christ "does what the precept does". [source]

EARLY MEDIEVAL DAOIST TEXTS: STRATEGIES OF READING AND FUSION OF HORIZONS

JOURNAL OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY, Issue 3 2010
FRIEDERIKE ASSANDRI
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EXILE FROM PERFECTION IN IRIS MURDOCH'S PHILOSOPHICAL TEXTS

THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 1 2010
TONY MILLIGAN
Iris Murdoch's philosophical texts set out the egocentric dangers of guilt but still endorse an account of original sin. This might seem like an unstable combination as these two are in tension, but I argue that Murdoch manages to use this tension in a productive manner. The human condition is treated as one of fallenness, in the sense of an exile from perfection. We are aware of moral failure and also aware of the standard by which we fail. Guilt is reined in, however, by the fact that such failure is a matter of commonplace flawed moral vision and not an Augustinian perversity of the will. This reining in of guilt is still accompanied by a recognition of our unbridgeable remoteness from perfection. [source]

SUFI EXEGESIS OF IMPRECATORY TEXTS IN THE QUR'Ä€N

THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 5 2009
KIRK R. MACGREGOR
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KURDISH GLOSSES ON ARISTOTELIAN LOGICAL TEXTS

THE PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY, Issue 241 2010
Mustafa Dehqan
Some of the outstanding masters of Kurdish historical schools (Medresê) are usually and rightly seen as belonging to the Aristotelian tradition. In this introductory study I briefly present some manuscripts of Kurdish glosses on Aristotelian logical texts, and show that the Aristotelian logical tradition, as inherited from early Islamic philosophers, also formed an important strand in Kurdish schools. Kurdish students' peculiar approach to Aristotelian logic affected the way in which Categories, De Interpretatione and Isagoge were studied in Kurdish schools from the fifteenth century onwards. [source]

Artistic Surface Rendering Using Layout of Text

COMPUTER GRAPHICS FORUM, Issue 2 2002
Tatiana Surazhsky
An artistic rendering method of free-form surfaces with the aid of half-toned text that is laid-out on the given surface is presented. The layout of the text is computed using symbolic composition of the free-form parametric surface S(u, v) with cubic or linear Bézier curve segments C(t) = {cu (t), cv (t)}, comprising the outline of the text symbols. Once the layout is constructed on the surface, a shading process is applied to the text, affecting the width of the symbols as well as their color, according to some shader function. The shader function depends on the surface orientation and the view direction as well as the color and the direction or position of the light source. [source]

How Do We Know?: Students Examine Issues of Credibility With a Complicated Multimodal Web-Based Text

CURRICULUM INQUIRY, Issue 2 2009
Mark Baildon
ABSTRACT As reading continues to become governed by a spatial "logic of the image" rather than strictly a temporal or linear logic of written language (Kress, 2003), and readers increasingly engage with a range of Internet-based texts, a host of challenges ensue for educators and students alike. One of the most vexing of these challenges deals with discernments of credibility. Determining the credibility of multimodal texts, especially on/within the Internet with its "vast network of relations of credibility" (Burbules & Callister, 2000), is particularly challenging because these texts mix images, music, graphic arts, video, and print to make sophisticated claims supported by various forms or types of evidence. This article examines how a group of ninth-grade students grappled with issues of credibility after viewing the controversial Internet video, Loose Change, a well-documented and comprehensive multimedia account that argues the "real story" of September 11 was covered up by the U.S. government. Findings from the study highlight the range of knowledge and literacy practices students mobilized to "read" the video and the challenges they experienced reading and evaluating the video as a multimodal text. Implications of this work point to the need to consider epistemological issues and further develop tools that can support teachers and students in critically assessing multimodal texts. [source]

Text as design, writers as designers

ENGLISH IN EDUCATION, Issue 2 2005
Ian Maun
Abstract Acknowledging the changing nature of writing in the 21st century, particularly the increasing significance of visual characteristics in written texts, this paper explores the implications of multimodality for the pedagogy of writing. It considers the potential disjunction between children's life experiences of written texts and the demands of the writing curriculum, particularly in the secondary phase, and whilst arguing for greater recognition of the role of the visual, the paper also notes the importance of ensuring all children also have access to powerful verbal texts. Drawing on two separate research studies, the paper demonstrates how visual characteristics of written texts influence readers' responses to texts, but also how writers are aware of some of the choices they make in shaping verbal texts. The paper argues for a reconceptualisation of the writing process as a design process, and for a pedagogy of writing which encourages, supports and enables writers to become confident and effective designers of texts. [source]

Using Film Text to Support Reluctant Writers

ENGLISH IN EDUCATION, Issue 1 2002
Collette Higgins
Abstract This article is the result of working with several schools concerned with improving achievement in boys' writing. It begins by describing a range of effective teaching and learning strategies, observed in my role as a Literacy Consultant, which had a positive influence on writers especially boys. The article goes on to explore how a small group of boys, described by their teacher as ,reluctant writers', were encouraged by the use of film text to make the most of their preferences for action-driven narratives to improve story writing. It suggests that ,slowing down' this action in the author's eye gives pupils, and boys in particular, an opportunity to consider detail to enhance composition in the same way that a film director uses camera angles to capture the viewer's attention. [source]

Learning from research on the information behaviour of healthcare professionals: a review of the literature 2004,2008 with a focus on emotion

HEALTH INFORMATION & LIBRARIES JOURNAL, Issue 3 2009
Ina Fourie
Objective:, A review, focusing on emotion, was conducted of reported studies on the information behaviour of healthcare professionals (2004,2008). Findings were intended to offer guidelines on information services and information literacy training, to note gaps in research and to raise research interest. Method:, Databases were searched for literature published from January 2004 to December 2008 and indexed on eric, Library and Information Science Abstracts, medline, PsycINFO, Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition; Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts; Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection; Social Work Abstracts; SocINDEX with Full Text; SPORTDiscus; cinhal; and the ISI Web of Knowledge databases. Key journals were manually scanned and citations followed. Literature was included if reporting on issues concerning emotion. Results:, Emotion in information behaviour in healthcare contexts is scantily addressed. This review, however, offers some insight into the difficulty in identifying and expressing information needs; sense making and the need to fill knowledge gaps; uncertainty; personality and coping skills; motivation to seeking information; emotional experiences during information seeking; self-confidence and attitude; emotional factors in the selection of information channels; and seeking information for psychological or emotional reasons. Conclusion:, Suggestions following findings, address information literacy programs, information services and research gaps. [source]

Fact, Truth, and Text: The Quest for a Firm Basis for Historical Knowledge Around 1900

HISTORY AND THEORY, Issue 3 2003
Rolf Torstendahl
The object of this essay is to discuss two problems and to present solutions to them, which do not quite agree with what is generally said of them. The first problem concerns the history of methods for reaching firm historical knowledge. In three methodological manuals for historians, written by J. G. Droysen, E. Bernheim, and C.-V. Langlois and C. Seignobos and first published in the late nineteenth century, the task of the historian was said to be how to obtain firm knowledge about history. The question is how this message should be understood. The second problem concerns the differences between the three manuals. If their common goal is firm historical knowledge, are there any major differences of opinion? The answer given in this article is yes, and the ground is sought in their theories of truth. [source]

CoagMDB: a database analysis of missense mutations within four conserved domains in five vitamin K,dependent coagulation serine proteases using a text-mining tool,

HUMAN MUTATION, Issue 3 2008
Rebecca E. Saunders
Abstract Central repositories of mutations that combine structural, sequence, and phenotypic information in related proteins will facilitate the diagnosis and molecular understanding of diseases associated with them. Coagulation involves the sequential activation of serine proteases and regulators in order to yield stable blood clots while maintaining hemostasis. Five coagulation serine proteases,factor VII (F7), factor IX (F9), factor X (F10), protein C (PROC), and thrombin (F2),exhibit high sequence similarities and all require vitamin K. All five of these were incorporated into an interactive database of mutations named CoagMDB (http://www.coagMDB.org; last accessed: 9 August 2007). The large number of mutations involved (especially for factor IX) and the increasing problem of out-of-date databases required the development of new database management tools. A text mining tool automatically scans full-length references to identify and extract mutations. High recall rates between 96 and 99% and precision rates of 87 to 93% were achieved. Text mining significantly reduces the time and expertise required to maintain the databases and offers a solution to the problem of locus-specific database management and upkeep. A total of 875 mutations were extracted from 1,279 literature sources. Of these, 116 correspond to Gla domains, 86 to the N-terminal EGF domain, 73 to the C-terminal EGF domain, and 477 to the serine protease domain. The combination of text mining and consensus domain structures enables mutations to be correlated with experimentally-measurable phenotypes based on either low protein levels (Type I) or reduced functional activities (Type II), respectively. A tendency for the conservation of phenotype with structural location was identified. Hum Mutat 29(3), 333,344, 2008. © 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source]

H.G. Widdowson, 2004, Text, Context, Pretext

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS, Issue 3 2005
Christopher Tribble
Books reviewed: H.G. Widdowson, Text, Context, Pretext, [source]

H.G. Widdowson, 2004, Text, Context, Pretext

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS, Issue 3 2005
Henry Widdowson
Books reviewed: Henry Widdowson, Response to Christopher Tribble's review of Text, Context, Pretext. [source]

Meat Science: An Introductory Text

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, Issue 4 2001
Peter McNally
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Assessment of the equivalence of conventional versus computer administration of the Test of Workplace Essential Skills

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT, Issue 4 2006
Hal Whiting
This study examined the equivalency of computer and conventional versions of the Test of Workplace Essential Skills (TOWES), a test of adult literacy skills in Reading Text, Document Use and Numeracy. Seventy-three college students completed the computer version, and their scores were compared with those who had taken the test in the conventional paper-and-pencil mode. Scores for the two groups for all three subscales were equivalent based on their means and variances. Rank order equivalency was demonstrated for two of the three TOWES subscales (Reading Text and Document Use). Additionally, participants rated the computer version of the test as easy to use. [source]

Talking Text and Talking Back: "My BFF Jill" from Boob Tube to YouTube

JOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION, Issue 4 2009
Graham M. Jones
Exploring the close relationship between poetic language and metalanguage, this article analyzes both a series of 2007-8 U.S. TV ads that humorously deploy the language of text messaging, and the subsequent debates about the linguistic status of texting that they occasioned. We explore the ambivalence of commercials that at once resonate with fears of messaging slang as a verbal contagion and luxuriate in the playful inversion of standard language hierarchies. The commercials were invoked by monologic mainstream media as evidence of language decay, but their circulation on YouTube invited dialogic metalinguistic discussions, in which young people and texting proponents could share the floor with adults and language prescriptivists. We examine some of the themes that emerge in the commentary YouTubers have posted about these ads, and discuss the style of that commentary as itself significant. [source]

Effects of Campaign-to-User and Text-Based Interactivity in Political Candidate Campaign Web sites

JOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION, Issue 3 2005
Barbara Warnick
This study examined the effects on users of two forms of interactivity commonly found on political candidate campaign Web sites in the 2002 U.S. House election cycle. The first form, campaign-to-user interactivity, focuses on features or mechanisms used to enable or facilitate communication between site users and the campaign. The second form, text-based interactivity, focuses on how site content is verbally and visually expressed. Study participants viewed one of four versions of either a Democratic or Republican campaign website. Both text-based and campaign-to-user interactivity increased the amount of time users spent on the site and their accurate recall of candidates' issue stances. The co-occurrence of both forms of interactivity, however, showed a noticeably lower level of issue recall, confirming earlier findings that too much interactivity can interfere with user recall of site content. [source]

Mosby's Color Atlas and Text of Pediatrics and Child Health

JOURNAL OF PAEDIATRICS AND CHILD HEALTH, Issue 4 2002
MK Marks
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Alzheimer Talk, Text and Context: Enhancing Communication, Edited by Boyd H. Davis

JOURNAL OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS, Issue 5 2006
Jackie Guendouzi
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Text-based video content classification for online video-sharing sites

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Issue 5 2010
Chunneng Huang
With the emergence of Web 2.0, sharing personal content, communicating ideas, and interacting with other online users in Web 2.0 communities have become daily routines for online users. User-generated data from Web 2.0 sites provide rich personal information (e.g., personal preferences and interests) and can be utilized to obtain insight about cyber communities and their social networks. Many studies have focused on leveraging user-generated information to analyze blogs and forums, but few studies have applied this approach to video-sharing Web sites. In this study, we propose a text-based framework for video content classification of online-video sharing Web sites. Different types of user-generated data (e.g., titles, descriptions, and comments) were used as proxies for online videos, and three types of text features (lexical, syntactic, and content-specific features) were extracted. Three feature-based classification techniques (C4.5, Naïve Bayes, and Support Vector Machine) were used to classify videos. To evaluate the proposed framework, user-generated data from candidate videos, which were identified by searching user-given keywords on YouTube, were first collected. Then, a subset of the collected data was randomly selected and manually tagged by users as our experiment data. The experimental results showed that the proposed approach was able to classify online videos based on users' interests with accuracy rates up to 87.2%, and all three types of text features contributed to discriminating videos. Support Vector Machine outperformed C4.5 and Naïve Bayes techniques in our experiments. In addition, our case study further demonstrated that accurate video-classification results are very useful for identifying implicit cyber communities on video-sharing Web sites. [source]

The Effects of First Language Orthographic Features on Second Language Reading in Text

LANGUAGE LEARNING, Issue 2 2003
Nobuhiko Akamatsu
This study investigated the effects of first language (L1) orthographic features on second language (L2) reading. Three groups of fluent L2 readers with a variety of L1 backgrounds (i.e., Chinese, Japanese, and Persian) were provided with English passages printed in either alternated case or a normal manner and asked to read them for comprehension. Results showed that the Chinese and the Japanese (nonalphabetic L1 groups) were more adversely affected by case alternation than was the Persian group (an alphabetic L1 group), in terms of reading speed. This suggests that, because of L1 effects on basic processing in L2 reading, L2 readers with a nonalphabetic L1 background were less efficient in processing English words than those with an alphabetic L1 background. [source]

Melville Cosmopolite: The Future of the Melville Text

LEVIATHAN, Issue 1 2009
John Bryant
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A Brief History of the Edited Shakespearean Text

LITERATURE COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 2 2006
Gavin Paul
This essay won the 2005 Literature Compass Graduate Essay Prize, Shakespeare Section. This essay will involve a historical survey of the underlying theories and principles that have been instrumental in determining the formative scholarly editions of Shakespeare since the early eighteenth century. By examining representations of editorial practice , specifically representations as expressed in prefatory material as well as other editorial apparatuses such as notes and commentary in influential editions from Nicholas Rowe's (1709) through to those of the late twentieth century , this paper is aimed at providing a clear sense of the fundamental principles shaping the edited Shakespearean text. [source]

Protein Sequences as Literature Text

MACROMOLECULAR THEORY AND SIMULATIONS, Issue 5 2006
Valentina V. Vasilevskaya
Abstract Summary: We have performed analysis of protein sequences treating them as texts written in a "protein" language. We have shown that repeating patterns (words) of various lengths can be identified in these sequences. It was found that the maximum word lengths are different for proteins belonging to different classes; therefore, the corresponding values can be used to characterize the protein type. The suggested technique was first applied to analyze (decompose into words) normal (literature) texts written as a gapless symbolic sequence without spaces and punctuation marks. The tests using fiction, scientific, and popular scientific English texts proved the relative efficiency of the technique. Maximum word length for various proteins: ,fibrillar proteins, ,globular proteins, ,membrane proteins. [source]

Acceptability, feasibility and affordability of infant feeding options for HIV-infected women: a qualitative study in south-west Nigeria

MATERNAL & CHILD NUTRITION, Issue 3 2006
Titilayo C. Abiona
Abstract The objective of this study was to explore the acceptability, feasibility, affordability, safety and sustainability of replacement feeding options for HIV-infected mothers in Ile-Ife, in south-west Nigeria. Six focus group discussions were conducted with a purposive sample of mothers, fathers and grandmothers. The HIV status of all participants was unknown to investigators. All text data were analysed using the Text-based Beta Software program. With regard to the acceptability of replacement feeds, respondents perceived the stigma associated with not breastfeeding to be an important consideration. In this community, breastfeeding is the norm , even though it is not necessarily exclusive. For infected mothers who choose to breastfeed exclusively and then to wean their infants before 6 months of age, respondents did not anticipate early cessation of breastfeeding to be problematic. Respondents noted that acceptable replacement foods included infant formula, soy milk and cow's milk. Barriers to replacement feeding that were mentioned included: the high costs of replacement foods and fuel for cooking; an unreliable supply of electrical power; poor access to safe water; and poor access to storage facilities. The research confirms the difficulty of replacement feeding for HIV-infected mothers in sub-Saharan Africa. The results also provide the basis for new issues and hypothesis for future research in other communities with similar socio-cultural and economic characteristics. [source]

The Writing of the Kingdom: Thirty-Seven Aphorisms Towards an Eschatology of the Text

MODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 2 2000
D. Bentley Hart
Starting from the question of the identities,in a given text,of author and reader, subsumed under the broader (Hegelian and post-Hegelian) question of "self" and "other" in exteriority, this essay attempts a theological response in three critical moments: the first follows the transcendental tradition of Western thought from the (Cartesian) turn towards transcendental subjectivity to the collapse of the dialectics of subjectivity in "postmodern" thought; the second moves the problem of exteriority from the realm of recognition that of promise and expectation (eschatology); and the third formulates a Trinitarian ontology of distance that accommodates this eschatology. [source]