The Perception of Neighbour in CMLL Publicistics

This article deals with the content of neighbour on the basis of the forms of the noun ‘neighbour’ (Lith. kaimynas). Efforts are made to strike a balance between the structural and the cognitive approach to its meaning. The sample base for the study consists of 700 published sentences sourced in the Corpus of the Modern Lithuanian Language (CMLL) compiled by the Centre for Computational Linguistics at the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas.The study has revealed a neighbour to be someone who experiences a certain mental state, someone who, in his or her (un)favourable response to the environment, affects another person in a relatively close space. Emotionally charged, this effect shows a neighbour who is a nice or a bad person to live next-doors with. The (dis)harmony of attitudes, values, and actions grounded on an (un)favourable mind-set defines a dynamic coexistenceof neighbours, or a failure to coexist.When it comes to the perception of neighbour that shifts in time, what matters is the shared space of the neighbours that has its relative boundaries and is measured as a distance – the closeness resulting in the distinction between a close > distant neighbour; yet even more important is the camaraderie – the proximity of attitudes, values, and the actions that they define – something that the dictionary definitions of the word neighbour tend to omit – and the related gradational differences between a homey > strange neighbour. When it comes to building and maintaining proximity, it is the neighbour’s temper, polite and supportive interaction, and behaviour that favours another person, such as sharing things with them and all kinds of assistance, especially in need, that matters. As the mind-sets, values, and behaviours assimilate, the neighbours become one – they become homey to each other. And the axis of oneness grounded on favour in neighbourhood is God.

Quadrupole Coupling in some H-bonded Organic Systems by ab initio Lattice Calculations of Electric Field Gradients

We present ab initio Hartree-Fock lattice calculations performed in the unit cell environment, to compute a wave-function and the derived electric field gradients for the bulk material. These calculations differ from cluster calculations by including the effects of more distant neighbour molecules. Examples considered are ammonia, formamide, oxamide, urea, thiourea, uracil, para-banic acid, alloxan, guanidine bicarbonate and melamine.

Order-disorder statistics. I

In 1941 Kramers & Wannier discussed the statistical mechanics of a two-dimensional Ising model of a ferromagnetic. By making use of a ‘screw transformation’ they showed that the partition function was the largest eigenvalue of an infinite matrix of simple characteristic structure. In the present paper an alternative method is used for deriving the partition function, and this enables the ‘screw transformation’ to be generalized to apply to a number of problems of classical statistical mechanics, including the three-dimensional Ising model. Distant neighbour interactions can also be taken into account. The relation between the ferromagnetic and order-disorder problems is discussed, and it is shown that the partition function in both cases can be derived from a single function of two variables. Since distant neighbour interactions can be taken into account the theory can be formally applied to the statistical mechanics of a system of identical particles.