How do we judge the acceptability of spatial terms?

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Kojima ◽  
T. Kusumi
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Terms

Spatial Terms Convey Distance Information

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric S. Covey ◽  
Laura A. Carlson-Radvansky
Keyword(s):  
Distance Information ◽  
Spatial Terms

Reflections on Death by Spiritually Mature Elders

1994 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Eugene Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Spatial Terms ◽  
Present Life

Beliefs and feelings about death are excerpted from interviews conducted with elderly English men and women, who were viewed as spiritually mature by those in their community. Respondents reported a wide range of beliefs about death, reflecting their personal experience, but none reported fear of death. Subtle sex differences were noted: men tended to picture death in spatial terms, of moving into a new dimension, while women tended to describe death in terms of relationships. Overall the respondents indicated that they placed a positive value on death, viewing it as a continuation of, and source of meaning for their present life.

Atomized urbanism: secrecy and security from the Gulag to the Soviet closed cities

Urban History ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Asif Siddiqi
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Urban Geography ◽  
General Public ◽  
Early History ◽  
Physical Isolation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Camp System ◽  
Spatial Terms ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The City

Abstract This article recovers the early history of the Soviet ‘closed city’, towns that during the Cold War were absent from maps and unknown to the general public due to their involvement in weapons research. I argue that the closed cities echoed and appropriated features of the Stalinist Gulag camp system, principally their adoption of physical isolation and the language of obfuscation. In doing so, I highlight a process called ‘atomized urbanism’ that embodies the tension between the obdurate reality of the city and the goal of the state to obliterate that reality through secrecy. In spatial terms, ‘atomized’ also describes the urban geography of these cities which lacked any kind of organic suburban expansion.

scholarly journals General location across languages: On the division of labour between functional and lexical items in spatial categories

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco-Alessio Ursini
Keyword(s):  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Spatial Terms ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
Case Markers ◽  
At Home

AbstractIn many languages, it is possible to describe the location of any entity with respect to a landmark object without specifying the exact place that the locatum occupies (e.g. English at in at home). Such vocabulary items usually contrast with items that belong to the same categories but have more restricted senses (e.g. on top of in on top of the shelf). Thus, the degree of “abstractness” that such spatial case markers can convey usually depends on the organization of the lexicon and grammar of spatial terms in each language. The goal of this paper is to explore these properties across a small sample of languages and offer an account of this variation that is connected to previous theories of spatial case markers (e.g. adpositions). Our key proposal is that the morpho-syntactic structure of spatial case markers and their phrases can license a clear division of labour between functional and lexical spatial senses. However, intermediate solutions blurring categories and semantic boundaries are shown to be possible. We formalize this proposal via a fragment of Lexical Syntax, and show that degrees of distinction between ‘functional’ and ‘lexical’ sense types and categories can be modelled via a unified account.

Travelling fronts in a food-limited population model with time delay

2002 ◽  
Vol 132 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. A. Gourley ◽  
M. A. J. Chaplain
Keyword(s):  
Population Model ◽  
Time Delays ◽  
Front Solutions ◽  
Heteroclinic Connection ◽  
Non Local ◽  
Spatial Terms ◽  
Travelling Fronts ◽  
Manifold Theory ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Existence Question

In this paper we study travelling front solutions of a certain food-limited population model incorporating time-delays and diffusion. Special attention is paid to the modelling of the time delays to incorporate associated non-local spatial terms which account for the drift of individuals to their present position from their possible positions at previous times. For a particular class of delay kernels, existence of travelling front solutions connecting the two spatially uniform steady states is established for sufficiently small delays. The approach is to reformulate the problem as an existence question for a heteroclinic connection in R4. The problem is then tackled using dynamical systems techniques, in particular, Fenichel's invariant manifold theory. For larger delays, numerical simulations reveal changes in the front's profile which develops a prominent hump.

scholarly journals Imaging Analysis and Digital Restoration of the Holy Face of Manoppello—Part I

Heritage ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liberato De Caro ◽  
Emilio Matricciani ◽  
Giulio Fanti
Keyword(s):  
Fine Structure ◽  
Physical Mechanism ◽  
Empty Space ◽  
Imaging Analysis ◽  
Digital Restoration ◽  
The Face ◽  
Spatial Terms ◽  
The Veil ◽  
Optical Behavior ◽  
Fiber Fabric

The Veil of Manoppello is an icon of the face of Christ (Holy Face). Its particular characteristic is being semitransparent. The face is visible on both sides (front–back) and, depending on the lighting and observation conditions, shows some differences in the anatomical details. An analysis of this icon has allowed us to clarify some aspects of the possible physical mechanism underlying its unusual optical behavior. It is a linen fiber fabric consisting of very thin threads with a thickness of about 0.1 mm, separated by distances even double the thickness of the threads, so that about 42% of the Veil is empty space. The fibers constituting the linen threads may have been cemented by an organic substance of chemical composition similar to cellulose, presumably starch, eliminating the air between them. Such a structure causes the optical behavior of the medium to be intermediate between those of a translucent medium (thin cemented linen threads) and a transparent one (empty space between the threads). The problem of digital image restoration in spatial terms has also been tackled, since the Holy Face is deformed due to distortions of the meshes of the Veil, caused by the yielding of the very fine structure of the fabric.

Spatial perspective choice in ASL

2002 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Emmorey ◽  
Barbara Tversky
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Load ◽  
American Sign Language ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Video Monitor ◽  
Spatial Perspective ◽  
Object Locations ◽  
Shared Space ◽  
Spatial Terms ◽  
Spatial Locations

Two studies investigated the ramifications of encoding spatial locations via signing space for perspective choice in American Sign Language. Deaf signers (“speakers”) described the location of one of two identical objects either to a present addressee or to a remote addressee via a video monitor. Unlike what has been found for English speakers, ASL signers did not adopt their addressee’s spatial perspective when describing locations in a jointly viewed present environment; rather, they produced spatial descriptions utilizing shared space in which classifier and deictic signs were articulated at locations in signing space that schematically mapped to both the speaker’s and addressee’s view of object locations within the (imagined) environment. When the speaker and addressee were not jointly viewing the environment, speakers either adopted their addressee’s perspective via referential shift (i.e. locations in signing space were described as if the speaker were the addressee) or speakers expressed locations from their own perspective by describing locations from their view of a map of the environment and the addressee’s position within that environment. The results highlight crucial distinctions between the nature of perspective choice in signed languages in which signing space is used to convey spatial information and spoken languages in which spatial information is conveyed by lexical spatial terms. English speakers predominantly reduce their addressee’s cognitive load by adopting their addressee’s perspective, whereas in ASL shared space can be used (there is no true addressee or speaker perspective) and in other contexts, reversing speaker perspective is common in ASL and does not increase the addressee’s cognitive load.

Constraints to the modelling of diet selection and intake in the grazing ruminant

1996 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 257 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Dove
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Diet Selection ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Botanical Composition ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Major Constraint ◽  
Physical Chemical ◽  
Herbage Intake ◽  
Spatial Terms ◽  
Future Work

The interaction of grazing animals and their pasture generates substantial income for Australia, so that an interest in modelling the processes involved can be justified readily. Based on a brief review of the factors influencing diet selection, it is suggested that, from the point of view of modelling the process, a major constraint has been the availability of accurate and convenient methods for estimating the botanical composition of the consumed diet. It is also suggested that there is a need in future work to define more adequately the available herbage in botanical, physical, chemical and spatial terms, and to conduct experiments in which factors influencing selection are examined in an unconfounded way. It is further suggested that, while the idea of fixed preference or selection coefficients for particular species is attractive from a modelling standpoint, available evidence does not support the concept. Factors influencing herbage intake are then discussed, particularly in relation to the interaction between the degree of rumen fill and the animal's capacity to use energy. The manner in which this interaction has been used in the modelling of intake is then described briefly and the modeling of diet selection and intake within the decision-support system GrazFeed is presented by way of example. Finally, the constraints associated with model validation are discussed briefly, especially in relation to the need in future work to define more adequately the characteristics of the pasture on offer.

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