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We propose that the epistemic functions of replication in science are best understood by relating them to kinds of experimental error/uncertainty. One kind of replication, which we call "direct replications," principally serves to assess the reliability of an experiment through its precision: the presence and degree of random error/statistical uncertainty. The other kind of replication, which we call "conceptual replications," principally serves to assess the validity of an experiment through its accuracy: the presence and degree of systematic errors/uncertainties. To illustrate the aptness of this general view, we examine the Hubble constant controversy in astronomy, showing how astronomers have responded to the concordances and discordances in their results by carrying out the different kinds of replication that we identify, with the aim of establishing a precise, accurate value for the Hubble constant. We contrast our view with Machery's "re-sampling" account of replication, which maintains that replications only assess reliability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents a study on the stresses and deformations induced by the transversal loading of some flat plates made of E Glass EWR Fiberglass Woven Roving type, having delamination type defects. The parametric analysis of the delamination influence on the stresses and displacements occurring in the plate material is performed. The results of the static calculation are compared with the experimental tests of the flat plates subjected to bending, highlighting the concordance of the variation of the stresses and displacements versus to the delamination position. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the most important aspects of second language acquisition is vocabulary knowledge. Researchers, educators, and second language learners all agree that vocabulary acquisition is crucial. In our increasingly technologically advanced society, where rapid technological improvement and widespread access to high-speed internet have started to present unique and promising prospects for language teaching and learning, vocabulary growth is becoming a rising subject of interest in second language research. This study presents a review of computer corpora, concordancing, and their possible application to the acquisition of vocabulary in second languages. It also focuses on the application of computer corpora and concordancing in second language vocabulary teaching and learning after giving a brief overview of the concept of vocabulary knowledge and the function of datadriven learning (DDL) in language learning. To illustrate the variety of lexical information that several concordance lines can provide on the target word, the paper provides examples of KWIC (Keyword in Context) concordance lines and some vocabulary exercises centered on concordance. This paper may increase awareness among researchers, educators, and students regarding the possible contribution of computer corpora and concordances to the advancement of second language vocabulary knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We prove that a special alternating knot does not decompose as a non-trivial band sum. This restricts concordances from special alternating knots, and we conjecture that special alternating knots are ribbon concordance minimal. We verify our conjecture in many cases. This work is motivated by another conjecture of Owens and the second author, which posits that the set of alternating knots is downward closed under ribbon concordance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article introduces and explores the 3.5-million-word Victorian Anti-Vaccination Discourse Corpus (VicVaDis). The corpus is intended to provide a (freely accessible) historical resource for the investigation of the earliest public concerns and arguments against vaccination in England, which revolved around compulsory vaccination against smallpox in the second half of the 19th century. It consists of 133 anti-vaccination pamphlets and publications gathered from 1854 to 1906, a span of 53 years that loosely coincides with the Victorian era (1837–1901). This timeframe was chosen to capture the period between the 1853 Vaccination Act, which made smallpox vaccination for babies compulsory, and the 1907 Act that effectively ended the mandatory nature of vaccination. After an overview of the historical background, this article describes the rationale, design and construction of the corpus, and then demonstrates how it can be exploited to investigate the main arguments against compulsory vaccination by means of widely accessible corpus linguistic tools. Where appropriate, parallels are drawn between Victorian and 21st-century vaccine-hesitant attitudes and arguments. Overall, this article demonstrates the potential of corpus analysis to add to our understanding of historical concerns about vaccination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents new discoveries from a manuscript from the Collegiate Church of St Chad, Shrewsbury, with implications for the circulation of ecclesiastical music, particularly sequences, in twelfth- and thirteenth-century England. It begins with a brief examination of the twelfth-century musical contents of the manuscript, which are shown to hold close scribal affinities: in particular, a 'winged' neume shape is contextualised by contemporaneous musical inscriptions found in a manuscript probably written at Haughmond Abbey. The remainder of the article considers music, mostly sequences, inscribed in a palimpsest gathering at the back of the St Chad's manuscript in the thirteenth century. Two of these are compared for the first time with their concordances, one concordance newly discovered. Examination of the preservation and record of these musical entries (with discussion of contrafacture and marginalia) sheds light on creative practices of citation and intertextuality, performance traditions, and processes of reading and recording music at St Chad's, ultimately illuminating the role the church played within a creative network across England and northern Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present series of contributions critically edits in Romanian and English, with concordances and commentary, a hefty string of unpublished, multilingual manuscripts written by the young Mircea Eliade, Indologist and historian of religions in South Asia, from 1929 to 1931. Previously unknown, the manuscripts were purchased by a private collector, who most graciously contacted the editors in February 2023 and bequeathed them for the present publication. The series complements ECCE | The Complete Critical Edition of Mircea Eliade’s Scholarly Works before 1945, under the auspices of the Institute for the History of Religions of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest (first two volumes forthcoming). Covering the first two, 87-page Indian Notebooks, the first three instalments of MEUM | Mircea Eliade’s Unpublished Manuscripts from Private Collections were published in Transilvania 51 [155] (2023), no. 1, pp. 1-22 (Critical edition), no. 2, pp. 1-16 (Concordances A-E) and no. 3, pp. 1-16 (Commentary), supplemented by Eugen Ciurtin, „În arhiva lui: Eliade”, Transilvania 51 [155] (2023), no. 4, pp. 52-64 (I) and no. 8, pp. 30-38 (II). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: Survival analysis is a statistical method used in many fields, especially in the field of health. It involves modeling the relationship between the survival time of individuals after a treatment or procedure and the event called response. The presence of outliers in the data may cause biased parameter estimations of the established models. Also, this situation causes the proportional hazards assumption to be violated especially in Cox regression analysis. Outlier(s) are identified with the help of residuals, Bootstrap Hypothesis test and Rank product test. Method: In R.4.0.3 software, outlier(s) are determined on a clinical dataset by the Schoenfeld residual, Martingale residual, Deviance residual method and Bootstrap Hypothesis test (BHT) based on Concordance index, and Rank product test. Results: After the cox regression established by the backward stepwise and robust cox regression, it was observed that the established models did not fit. So, the outlier(s) determined by the methods mentioned. Conclusion: It was decided that only one observation could be excluded from the study. As in the survival data, in many data types, outliers can be detected and further analyzes can be applied by using the methods mentioned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper the poetic vocabulary of Valerius Flaccus is investigated by means of a quantitative analysis based on the concordances to Vergil, Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Statius, and Silius Italicus. The collected statistics confirm the statement of Manu Leumann that the language of high hexametric poetry is unified and consolidated by the 1st century CE. Furthermore, it emerges that, with regard to vocabulary, Valerius Flaccus is the most selective of all the epic poets of this period. A closer look at usages that are only rarely attested in the Argonauticacasts doubt on the hypothesis that many of these words were coined by Valerius Flaccus. Instead, many words can already be found in the works of his predecessors. Hence, the widespread theory of 'ad hoc inventions' made by Valerius and borrowed by the subsequent poets has to be rejected. It is argued that these rarities are part of the language of Latin poetry, that they were adopted by Valerius and sometimes by his contemporaries from earlier poetry that has not survived, and that Valerius' vocabulary should not be regarded as evidence of the poet's inventiveness but rather interpreted as reflecting the conventional language of Latin hexameter poetry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Concordance analysis is widely recognised as one of the main techniques in a corpus linguist's toolkit. However, despite a growing body of work critically exploring previously unquestioned mainstays of corpus methods (Mautner, 2015; Taylor & Marchi, 2018), this has not focused on concordance analysis specifically. In this paper, we aim to discuss issues that researchers may encounter when interpreting concordances. We begin in Step One with a cursory examination of 800 concordance lines in order to identify potential issues. In Step Two, we assess the distribution of those issues in a reduced sample of 200. As a result, we identify eight interpretability issues: noise in the corpus, non-standard syntax, unclear referring expressions, unclear quotation source attribution, technical terms/jargon, acronyms/initialisms, unspecific co-text, and lines unrelated to the research question. After reflecting on practical challenges, we discuss the epistemological implications of removing concordance lines uncritically and suggest ten recommendations for future work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I focus on the relationships between language, definition and being in Antisthenes. I start from Plato's Sophist 251b–c, in which the reference to the ὀψιμαθεῖς stands out, and I conclude that it is not possible to identify these characters with Antisthenes. The conception of ὀψιμαθεῖς provides for the exclusive legitimacy of identical judgments, exploiting in an eristic sense an evident Eleatic legacy. But this position, rather than concordances, reveals serious opposition to what is surely known to us of the logical and linguistic doctrines of Antisthenes. The most explicit testimony about the relationship between language and being in Antisthenes is handed down by Porphyry, who attributes to Antisthenes the equation λέγειν = λέγειν τι = λέγειν τὸ ὄν. My analysis intends to show that this equation is assumed by Antisthenes through a Socratic mediation and has a double objective: to ensure an objective reference of language, as opposed to Gorgias' self-referential conception of language, and to nullify the antilogy, which is typical of sophistic argumentation. To it Antisthenes contrasts the ἐπίσκεψις τῶν ὀνομάτων, which is a development of Socratic ἐξετάζειν, and whose aim is to reach, at the end of the examination, no longer just a ὁμολογία, but a definition valid once and for all. Antisthenes is aware that there is a distinction between essence and quality, and with this, he moves a first important step beyond the univocal conception of being proper to Parmenides. The doxography will sum up Antisthenes' position by describing him as the first philosopher to advance a definition of logos, i. e., definition. He bases his theory of definition on the identification of that attribute which is ἴδιον καὶ οἰκεῖον of the proposed object. Antisthenes coined the phrase τὸ τί ἦν to designate what the predicate is meant to say in a definition, i. e., the proper quality. This expression does not seem to identify the general notion of a predicate as such, but rather to indicate the determination or qualification necessary to actually define the object in question. In the final part of my article, I examine some testimonies that show how, with his theory of definition, Antisthenes is, and was considered already in antiquity, the precursor of the Stoic theory of definition, whose objective is, according to Chrysippus' formula, to provide the explanation of what is proper (ἰδίου ἀπόδοσις). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Epigraphic concordances (lists which give corresponding references for two or more epigraphic corpora) are an indispensable resource for any scholar whose work relates to inscriptions. Despite their usefulness, there are inherent issues with conventional concordances of the type found at the back of epigraphic corpora. This article presents a digital concordance for Etruscan, Faliscan and early Latin inscriptions from Etruria. The concordance, which is contained in a CSV file, is downloadable from the repository Zenodo, and allows for both free-text searches and reordering according to each included corpus. The digital format allows for future revision and correction; an email address dedicated to feedback from the scholarly community has been set up. The corpora included in the concordance are chosen to make the concordance a comprehensive resource for both contemporary scholarly use and study of the history of epigraphy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Legal processes take into account the mental state of a person at the time of committing a crime to determine their responsibility. Having a mental disorder in Ecuador is a cause of non-imputability, although there is no catalog of these as causes of non-imputability. The objective of this research was to determine the concordance between the expert diagnosis and the diagnosis established by the Institute of Neurosciences of the Guayaquil Charity Board in people declared inimputable, interned by court order during the period 2013-2022. The methodology is quantitative, descriptive in scope and non-experimental design. The population is 142 participants. The results showed that most of the people declared inimputable are men, between 18 and 34 years old, single, from the coastal region, unemployed and with a low socioeconomic level; crimes against life and personal integrity were the most common. It was found that the concordance between the expert diagnosis and the diagnosis assigned by the Institute of Neurosciences was low, which causes problems in terms of diagnostic reliability; however, the concordance between the hospital admission diagnosis and the hospital discharge diagnosis was good. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: Childhood cancer confronts families with major challenges. The study aimed at developing an empirical and multi‐perspective understanding of emotional and behavioral problems of cancer survivors diagnosed with leukemia and brain tumors and their siblings. Further, the concordance between child self‐report and parent proxy‐report was examined. Methods: 140 children (72 survivors, 68 siblings) and 309 parents were included in the analysis (respond rate: 34%). Patients, diagnosed with leukemia or brain tumors, and their families were surveyed on average 7.2 months after the end of intensive therapy. Outcomes were assessed using the German SDQ. Results were compared with normative samples. Data were analyzed descriptively, and group differences between survivors, siblings, and a norm sample were determined using one‐factor ANOVA followed by pairwise comparisons. The concordance between the parents and children was determined by calculating Cohen's kappa coefficient. Results: No differences in the self‐report of survivors and their siblings were identified. Both groups reported significantly more emotional problems and more prosocial behavior than the normative sample. Although the interrater reliability between parents and children was mostly significant, low concordances were found for emotional problems, prosocial behavior (survivor/parents), and peer relationship problems (siblings/parents). Conclusion: The findings point out the importance of psychosocial services in regular aftercare. These should not only focus on survivors, but additionally address the siblings' needs. The low concordance between the parents' and the children's perspectives on emotional problems, prosocial behavior, and peer relationship problems suggests the inclusion of both perspectives to allow needs‐based support. Key points: Childhood cancer survivor and siblings reported higher levels of emotional problems and prosocial behavior compared to normative values.Parent proxy‐report is an important and meaningful tool to evaluate children's distress and needs.Due to the nonconformity found between parents and children, especially regarding non‐observable issues, the parent proxy‐report should not be solely relied upon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present series offers an anthology of excerpts from all types of Mircea Eliade’s writings, unpublished or published as journals, reminiscences, memoirs, articles, essays, and shorter pieces, which may as a whole describe his own production and continual re/use of personal manuscripts. There is at present no systematic inquiry into the nature, form, quantity and scope of his lost Bucharest archive. The rather large amount of Eliade Bucharest manuscripts sold through auctions since 2017 has already lethally interfered with the integrity of Eliade’s archive, as he bided farewell in August 1942 and the subsequent material owners offered after Eliade’s death no public catalogue or minimal listing of identified manuscripts, no indices, and almost no proper clues regarding its very size. Meanwhile, some manuscripts from this archive were sold directly by Eliade estates to public institutions in Romania (1986-1989) or sold directly to two public libraries in Bucharest by the sole material owner (and for his own personal benefit), in March-December 1989. Eliade’s published and especially unpublished manuscripts auctioned since 2017 are extraordinarily sundry, and only a part has been rescued by public institutions (17 manuscripts by the Library of the Romanian Academy in 2021, 67 manuscripts in 2022 and 10 manuscripts in 2023 by the donors of the Institute for the History of Religions of the Romanian Academy, and several grand others at present under critical scrutiny, also in 2023 and by the donors of the same Institute). All these manuscripts are only a fragment from the full archive Eliade left for good in Bucharest in 1942. Synoptic rereading may thus help indeed improve our knowledge of that very archive, its content being a source of endless litigious intervention. With a first part published in Transilvania 51 [155] (2023), no. 4, pp. 52-64, the series complements ECCE | The Complete Critical Edition of Mircea Eliade’s Scholarly Works before 1945, under the aegis of the Institute for the History of Religions, as well as MEUM | Mircea Eliade’s Unpublished Manuscripts from Private Collections, published by Eugen Ciurtin and Andreea Apostu in Transilvania 51 [155] (2023), no. 1, pp. 1-22 (Critical edition), no. 2, pp. 1-16 (Concordances A-E) and no. 3, pp. 1-16 (Commentary), with forthcoming instalments in 2023. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The semantics of verb-deriving processes in English and, specifically, of conversion/zero-derivation and affixation has been extensively described in the literature from various theoretical and empirical points of view. Some studies have used a method whereby corpus concordances are classified semantically in order to assess the distribution of semantic categories across word-formation processes. This paper tests this method on a sample of 246 verbal hapaxes from the British National Corpus manually classified into the various semantic categories traditionally used in the literature. The results obtained are consistent with previous studies regarding the semantic profile of denominal verbs. Methodologically, this study shows the relevance of the method used, but also points at some of its limitations to be addressed in future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Some historiographical studies today confirm to orally handed down information about a 'stopover' in eastern Sicily of Albanian colonists who, at the end of the 15th century, would settle definitively in western areas of the island. Is it possible to trace today, in their Siculo-Albanian speech, traits that are linguistically justified by a contact with eastern Sicilian varieties and that, in turn, count as further evidence of a historical situation that could have allowed such linguistic outcomes? Such a question had been posed by Birken Silverman in a 1989 essay entitled Concordanze linguistiche della parlata di Piana degli Albanesi con la Sicilia orientale [Linguistic Concordances of the Piana degli Albanesi dialect with Eastern Sicily], but upon closer examination, almost all the traits taken into consideration to support the analytic viewpoint proposed in the title of the essay by the German scholar turn out to be irrelevant. Such a viewpoint could be (re)considered, if not supported entirely, through other and different linguistic traits taken into consideration in the second part of the essay. Today these traits seem to be found, only, or mostly, in varieties of eastern Sicily, and particularly in the north-eastern Gallo-Italic and/or those with strong Gallo-Italic influence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present work, emulating more or less the form of a concordance dictionary, is a systematic bilingual English-Romanian lexicon of the Book of Genesis, created by using the authorized English & Romanian versions of the Book of Genesis. We focus on the linguistic and translational concordances, between the standard Bible in English (the authorized version of 1611, revised in 1881-1885, and republished in 1901) and the standard Bible in Romanian (we use two fundamental versions of the Romanian Bible: 1. the one published by the United Bible Societies -- abbreviated "UBS"; and 2. the one published, with the approval of the Holy Synod, by Editura Institutului Biblic şi de Misiune al Bisericii Ortodoxe Române, from Bucharest; also known as "Biblia de la Bucureşti," the "Bible from Bucharest" -- abbreviated "BB"). The present systematic lexicon has two sections: the first section (§1) is a general bilingual English-Romanian lexicon, in which we include words, expressions and (proper) names as they are used in the text of Genesis, including names of persons, temples, shrines, nicknames, toponyms, etc, to which are added short explanations in Romanian. The second section (§2) is a systematic bilingual English-Romanian lexicon, divided into five parts: 1) a list of the names of people and places mentioned in the Book of Genesis, with short explanations in Romanian (names of persons, temples, shrines, nicknames, toponyms, etc); 2) a list of the names mentioned in Genesis, without any explanations (names of persons, temples, shrines, nicknames, toponyms, etc), for quick reference; 3) a list of the names of people mentioned in Genesis; 4) a list of the names of tribes mentioned in Genesis; 5) the genealogical tree of the Book of Genesis, as a detailed list and as a arboreal scheme in two parts (Part 1: from Adam and Eve to Isaac; Part 2: from Isaac to Joseph). The present systematic lexicon will thus prove to be a useful tool not only for translators, but also for anyone interested in better understanding, in a survey-like, synoptic approach, the cultural Judeo-Christian foundations as described in the Book of Genesis, in the context of the concordances between the English and the Romanian versions of the Bible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article discusses the third edition of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV), a catalogue of Johann Sebastian Bach's works. The revisions made in this edition include the reallocation of entries, the introduction of a new system to indicate different versions of the same work, and the abandonment of the a-b-c suffix system. The catalogue also includes new features such as a systematic overview, a table of concordances, and comprehensive lists of historical printed texts. The article acknowledges some oversights and suggests improvements for future revisions, but overall, the third edition is seen as a valuable reference work for Bach scholars and enthusiasts. [Extracted from the article]

We study families of diffeomorphisms detected by trivalent graphs via the Kontsevich classes. We specify some recent results and constructions of the second named author to show that those non-trivial elements in homotopy groups π∗(BDiff∂(Dd))⊗Q are lifted to homotopy groups of the moduli space of h-cobordisms π*(BDiff⊔(Dd×I))⊗Q. As a geometrical application, we show that those elements in π*(BDiff∂(Dd))⊗Q for d≥4 are also lifted to the rational homotopy groups π*(Mpsc∂(Dd)h0)⊗Q of the moduli space of positive scalar curvature metrics. Moreover, we show that the same elements come from the homotopy groups π*(Mpsc⊔(Dd×I;g0)h0)⊗Q of moduli space of concordances of positive scalar curvature metrics on Dd with fixed round metric h0 on the boundary Sd-1. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present series of contributions critically edits in Romanian and English, with concordances and commentary, a string of unpublished, multilingual manuscripts written by the young Mircea Eliade, Indologist and historian of religions in South Asia, from 1929 to 1931. Previously unknown, the manuscripts were purchased by a private collector, who most graciously contacted the editors in February 2023 and bequeathed them for the present publication. The series complements ECCE | The Complete Critical Edition of Mircea Eliade’s Scholarly Works before 1945, under the auspices of the Institute for the History of Religions in Bucharest (first two volumes forthcoming). The first (double) instalment was published in Transilvania 51 [155] (2023), no. 1, pp. 1-22. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this short note we observe that a result of Eliashberg and Polterovitch allows to use the doubly slice genus as an obstruction for a Legendrian knot to be a slice of a Lagrangian concordance from the trivial Legendrian knot with maximal Thurston--Bennequin invariant to itself. This allows to obstruct concordances from the Pretzel knot P(3,-3, -m) when m ≥ 4 to the unknot. Those examples are of interest because the Legendrian contact homology algebra cannot be used to obstruct such a concordance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The BestCyte® Cell Sorter Imaging System (BestCyte) facilitates algorithmic discrimination of clinically relevant cells in Pap test cytopathology by classifying and projecting images of cells in galleries based on cytomorphology. Warranted is awareness of potential BestCyte advantages as measured through 3 cytologists’ interobserver diagnostic concordance, specificity and sensitivity differentials, and equivalency grading relative to manual microscopy (MM). Objectives: Using 500 MM-reported ThinPrep thin-layers, analyze: (1) cytologists’ blinded BestCyte screening to raise Bethesda diagnoses; (2) correlate BestCyte and MM diagnoses (i.e., predicate) to establish Truth Reference Diagnoses (TRDx) from concordance between 4 possible diagnoses; (3) analyze cytologists’ and MM predicate diagnoses through 4 diagnostic thresholds defined by TRDx: NILM (Negative) for specificity, and ASCUS+, LSIL+, and ASCH+ (Positive) for graded sensitivity (with abnormal cells decreasing in size with increasing dysplasia); and, (4) statistically determine cytologists’ equivalency grading to MM using 95% Confidence Interval (CI) ranges. Results: 500 TRDx breakdown (n/%): NILM (241/48.2), ASCUS (79/15.8), ASCH (9/1.80), AGUS (2/0.40), LSIL (86/ 17.2), HSIL (68/13.6), CA (2/0.40), UNSAT (13/2.60). TRDx breakdown (n/%) per 4 of 4, 3 of 4, 2 of 4 diagnostic concordances: 264 (52.8%), 182 (36.4%), 54 (10.8%), respectively. No cases of discordant diagnoses were recorded. HSIL TRDx were established from 66.2% of 4 of 4 concordances, followed by NILM (59.3%), LSIL (46.5%), ASCUS (41.8%); antithetically, from 4.40% of 2 of 4 concordances. Specificity for MM predicate (NILM): 67.08%; for Cytologists 1, 2, and 3: 89.71%, 82.30%, 97.53%, respectively. For NILM threshold, cytologists revealed Significantly Superior equivalency to MM. Sensitivity for ASCUS+, LSIL+, and ASCH+ thresholds: MM (91.36%, 86.67%, 74.36%); Cytologist 1 (95.88%, 96.97%, 94.87%); Cytologist 2 (95.47%, 95.76%, 93.59%), Cytologist 3 (94.65%, 95.15%, 98.72%), respectively. Cytologists revealed Significantly Superior equivalency to MM for graded Positive thresholds; with Cytologist 3 for ASCUS+ being: Superior. Conclusions: BestCyte detects and efficiently displays abnormal cells in strategic galleries standardizing objectivity by systematizing mosaics of cell-types for cytologists’ consideration. BestCyte fosters consistent, enhanced cytologists’ sensitivity values for the ASCUS+, LSIL+, and ASCH+ Positive thresholds relative to MM. Also, BestCyte facilitates improved specificity and superior equivalency grading to MM reflecting efficient screening, and reduced labor. Confident interpretations of small dysplastic epithelial cells characteristic of HSIL led to exceptional interobserver diagnostic concordance inferring BestCyte is primed for effective cervical cancer screening practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The planning of inputs such as grammatical structure, pronunciation and vocabulary in the foreign language education process directly affects the efficiency. Vocabulary is at the centre of the process in terms of the functional use of basic language skills of individuals learning the target language. Individuals who learn the target language through lists shaped according to levels will achieve high productivity with less effort. In the international literature, vocabulary studies are carried out through frequency lists. These frequency lists are formed through data repository called corpus, which are created with written and spoken texts with various types and structural features of the target language. In this study, it is aimed to determine the most frequently used noun, adjective and verb type words for C1 level in teaching Turkish as a foreign language. The data set of the research consists of the textbooks "Gazi, Yedi İklim, Türkçeye Yolculuk, Yeni Hitit, Yeni Istanbul" used at the C1 level in the field of teaching Turkish as a foreign language, and the reading materials Yenisey and Türkçe Okuyorum, which are used at the C1 level. In this context, the relevant materials were adapted to the database of the software used in the field of corpus linguistics and transferred to the digital environment. After the UTF code conversion, optical character reading errors were eliminated and C1 Level YDTÖ Materials Corpus consisting of 326,591 words was created. Words for which frequency lists were created by means of C1 Level YDTÖ Materials Corpus were transformed into base (lemma) by removing inflectional morpheme. Considering the frequency intensities, the most frequently used words in the type of noun, adjective and verb were determined as a result of the concordance analysis by considering the minimum f(10) value. Through this list, an important contribution has been made to those who learn and teach Turkish as a foreign language; 250 nouns, 250 adjectives and 250 verbs that are most frequently used in teaching Turkish as a foreign language at an advanced level have been suggested. This study is not a final study, but with the aim of being a reference for researchers and publishers, it has prioritized to use the advantages of software and language education fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The word 'health' is highly polysemous, and many attempts have been made to define its meaning in terms of actual use and to create a workable and even universal concept of health (Balog 1978; Boruchovitch & Mednick 2002). However, though the meaning of 'health' has been debated extensively, as well as the metaphorical conceptualizations of illness (e.g., Sontag 1978), there has been little treatment of how health is metaphorically conceptualized. This article investigates the meaning of the word 'health' in the United States and the United Kingdom, through a search on websites based on an examination of concordances in the Corpus of Global Web-Based English (GloWbE). It focuses on the senses emerging from metaphorical cultural conceptualizations. Recent developments in Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Kövecses 2005; Yu 2009) and Cultural Linguistics (Palmer 1996; Sharifian 2011) have increased the focus on the interaction between cognition and culture. I present an analysis of the conceptual metaphors, proposition schemas, and image schemas that converge to form a cultural model for health within these speech communities revealing, for example, that one model sees health in terms of a manageable valuable commodity, which may contribute to health behaviors such as self-tracking and observation, as discussed by Lupton (2016). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Several drought indices are commonly used to quantify the severity and magnitude of agricultural drought. A comprehensive assessment of temporal and spatial convergences is important. This study evaluates the spatio-temporal concordances of eight drought indices, between October and April, over the period 2003–2021 under the semi-arid conditions of two watersheds in Morocco. These include three monovariate, two bivariate and three composite indices. Taylor diagram, linear regression and Random Forest (RF) clustering were used to evaluate and compare the overall performance of the indices. The results indicate that spatio-temporal variability and spatial heterogeneity of the different agrosystems have little influence on the concordances of composite indices while TCI and VCI have a variable spatio-temporal concordance depending on the spatial extent considered. Nevertheless, depending on the spatial extent considered and the agroclimatic characteristics of each agrosystem, the seasonal correlations between the composite indices and precipitation anomalies, net primary productivity and cereal yield anomalies vary from 0.52 to 0.79, 0.23 to 0.78 and from 0.33 to 0.73, respectively. The correlations between the simple indices and precipitation anomalies, net primary productivity, and cereal yield anomalies range, respectively, from 0.33 to 68 0.13 to 0.72, and from 0 to 0.84. In general, the composite indices showed the best agreement between them and reference indicators but the VCI seems better suited for the assessment of the seasonal profitability of studied agrosystems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Background: Melasma is a common hypermelanosis characterized by symmetrical brownish macules, especially on the face. Histologic analysis demonstrates increased epidermal and dermal melanin. Dermoscopy is useful to estimate the depth of the melanin and may help in the diagnosis and classification of melasma, with therapeutic importance. Objectives: To evaluate the diagnostic concordance of dermoscopic classification of epidermal or mixed subtypes of melasma and the correlation between dermoscopic and histopathological findings. Methods: Twenty‐eight women with facial melasma, phototypes III to V, ages between 30 and 61 years were selected. Based on the evaluation of clinical and dermoscopic images, two independent observers classified melasma into epidermal or mixed subtypes. The intra and interobserver concordances were calculated. Histopathological analysis of epidermal melanin extension and maximum number of melanophages per high‐power field (400×; HPF) have been assessed. Association between the melanophages count and the dermoscopic classification was evaluated. Results: Intraobserver agreement was 82.1%, and between observers, from 78.6% to 89.3%, according to the Kappa index. Histopathology revealed increased intraepidermal melanin and the presence of dermal melanophages in all the samples. Ten or more melanophages/HPF was significantly associated with mixed melasma. Conclusions: Moderate to substantial concordance in the dermoscopic classification of melasma was found, and the correlation between this classification and the dermal melanophages count have been suggested. Intradermal component of every case of melasma should be considered for therapeutic and prognostic purposes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article uses newspaper archives to assess the extent to which High Noon (Fred Zinnemann, 1952) was received as a film with a political message pertaining to the Hollywood blacklist on its initial cinematic release. Various assumptions surrounding the film are interrogated by revealing that the film was overwhelmingly hailed as an instant genre classic, by examining levels of awareness around writer Carl Foreman's role, and by analyzing concordances between news coverage of the House Un-American Activities Committee and that of High Noon. The article thereby seeks to illuminate the fragmentary nature of political discourse in Cold War–era popular culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses about the potential and limitations of cognitive corpus linguistics for pedagogy . Topics discussed include the use of concordances in terms of vocabulary acquisition; several limitations on the applications of both cognitive and corpus linguistic research to pedagogy, and the strategies which may assist in the conscious learning of lexical items or more abstract metalinguistic knowledge.

The purpose of this paper is to model plural nominal concordance errors for a Spanish corpus of four learners of Spanish as a foreign language: SONIA (level A1/A2), NATI (level B1), JAKO (level B2), MIRKA (level C1). In the framework of dynamical systems, it is postulated that "correct" and "incorrect" concordances constitute stable discrete attractors to which the continuous flow of the system converges in three simple simulation models: Lokta-Volterra, coordination game (evolutionary games theory), gradient ascent. As a result, the models better approximate the global error pattern than the session pattern. In the latter, the model based on Lokta-Volterra offers better performance for SONIA, NATI and JAKO. MIRKA obtains the worst performance in all the models, but its error decreases with the gradient ascent model. It is concluded that learning patterns are self-organized and emerge from the dynamics of concordance microsystems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to show that the Sophist dialogue can be read as a not-allegorical recreation of the cave's image found in Republic VII. Through a parallel reading of both texts, we will try to prove that this late work systematically recreates not only the successive phases of the said Socratic image, but also parts of its vocabulary, its ontological classifications, its pedagogical interests and even its practical and political commitments. This reading will lead us both to clarify some unclear senses of an image such as the Allegory's (that, being an outline, leaves much unsaid) and to read the Sophist dialogue, whose unity has been questioned, as a whole, while evidencing some dimensions of the dialogue overlooked by the interpreters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since 2020, COVID-19 has become a contemporary topic of study in a wide variety of disciplines. One of these is education, since the linguistic competence of Malaysian International high school learners is unknown as physical schooling has been replaced by online learning, which involves no formal language tests. Hence, a corpus-based analysis of salient phrases related to COVID-19 among Malaysian international high school learners through data visualisation makes a useful contribution because it is concerned with both COVID-19 and the linguistic competence of such learners. The study's main objective is to recognise these salient phrases in extended writing. A quantitative strategy was employed, focusing on quantitative computational linguistics analysis with a corpus-based methodology. On a methodological level, it analyses salient phrases, concordances, loglikelihood values, and their semantic domains using LancsBox, trigram from N-grams, a loglikelihood calculator, and the USAS semantic tagger. The findings include the ten most salient phrases discovered for the trigram and related concordances, as well as their associated semantic domains. Overall, the study reports the linguistic competence evident among Malaysian international high school learners post-COVID-19 and contributes to the corpus-based education research literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction. The paper aims to establish whether cancer discourse can alter when being communicated via social networks. We supposed that every platform has intrinsic characteristics which might affect the way certain topics are being delivered. Because there has been much criticism from the cancer community about the media representation, we decided to observe what might be called an alternative discourse of cancer of social networks. Therefore, we chose to review Instagram accounts of two cancer influencers, who aspire to revise existing stereotypes about people with an incurable disease.Methodology and sources. The chosen methodology includes the statistical concordance analysis, Metaphorical Identification Procedure (MIP), structural semantic and syntactic studies of two narratives organized as a minicorpus. The combined approach was employed to reveal lexical markers of both cancer discourse and Instagram narratives in the narratives of two Insta influencers Nicky Newman and Laura Hughes.Results and discussion. The results of the study suggest that Instagram narratives of cancer patients differ from other texts about cancer. Bloggers strive to maintain constant simultaneous communication with a large number of people; therefore, their texts are designed to be entertaining, involving and diverse in subject matter. When narrating about their life with the cancer diagnosis, bloggers broadcast a positive media image of a happygo-lucky person. In the narratives chosen for this study, there is hardly an example of the CANCER-WAR metaphor. The main ways of conceptualizing cancer are the CANCERCONSPIRACY, CANCER-JOURNEY, CANCER-COHABITANT metaphors.Conclusion. Quantitative analysis of the English language corpus aimed at identifying key words and concordances of the lexeme ”cancer”, does not help fully define the cancer discourse. It is necessary to further research into the obtained data. Consequently, it is necessary to take into account the genre of ”cancer” narratives.

Threats elicit physiological responses, the frequency and intensity of which have implications for survival. Ethical and practical limitations on human laboratory manipulations present barriers to studying immersive threat. Furthermore, few investigations have examined group effects and concordance with subjective emotional experiences to threat. The current preregistered study measured electrodermal activity in 156 adults while they participated in small groups in a 30-min haunted-house experience involving various immersive threats. Results revealed positive associations between (a) friends and tonic arousal, (b) unexpected attacks and phasic activity (frequency and amplitude), (c) subjective fear and phasic frequency, and (d) dissociable sensitization effects linked to baseline orienting response. Findings demonstrate the relevance of (a) social dynamics (friends vs. strangers) for tonic arousal and (b) subjective fear and threat predictability for phasic arousal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Past research has established that observing the outcomes of forgone alternatives is an important driver of regret. In this research, we predicted and empirically corroborated a seemingly opposite result: Participants in our studies were more likely to experience regret when they did not observe a forgone outcome than when it was revealed. Our prediction drew on two theoretical observations. First, feelings of regret frequently stem from comparing a chosen option with one's belief about what the forgone alternative would have been. Second, when there are many alternatives to choose from under uncertainty, the perceived attractiveness of the almost-chosen alternative tends to exceed its reality. In four preregistered studies (N s = 800, 599, 150, and 197 adults), we found that participants predictably overestimated the forgone path, and this overestimation caused undue regret. We discuss the psychological implications of this hidden source of regret and reconcile the ostensible contradiction with past research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The literature of empirical studies on the concordance-based cloze test (ConCloze) is far and few between. This is despite the fact that it has a potential for item writing without the aid of native speakers and for making use of corpus-based technology in task design. This article explores the test-taking processes and strategies of a ConCloze item variant. The aim is to investigate the substantive aspect of the construct validity for the item type and increase the generalizability of the findings in the universe of admissible observations. The sample consists of 14 non-native English users who are in higher education and engage with 3 test tasks each, totaling 42 verbal reports. The sampling method is purposive sampling, in which their first language profiles are maximized in terms of heterogeneity for increased power of generalization. It is found that Reading concordance lines and recognizing clue words inside is a major process, and Assessing item components and testing a meaningful compatibility of a word in context a secondary one. A model of communicative language ability is used to provide a context for task use in this study, where strategic competence is represented in ConCloze substantive validity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Reciprocity--the mutual provisioning of support/goods--is a pervasive feature of social life. Directed networks provide a way to examine the structure of reciprocity in a community. However, measuring social networks involves assumptions about what relationships matter and how to elicit them, which may impact observed reciprocity. In particular, the practice of aggregating multiple sources of data on the same relationship (e.g., "double-sampled" data, where both the "giver" and "receiver" are asked to report on their relationship) may have pronounced impacts on network structure. To investigate these issues, we examine concordance (ties reported by both parties) and reciprocity in a set of directed, double-sampled social support networks. We find low concordance in people's responses. Taking either the union (including any reported ties) or the intersection (including only concordant ties) of double-sampled relationships results in dramatically higher levels of reciprocity. Using multilevel exponential random graph models of social support networks from 75 villages in India, we show that these changes cannot be fully explained by the increase in the number of ties produced by layer aggregation. Respondents' tendency to name the same people as both givers and receivers of support plays an important role, but this tendency varies across contexts and relationships type. We argue that no single method should necessarily be seen as the "correct" choice for aggregation of multiple sources of data on a single relationship type. Methods of aggregation should depend on the research question, the context, and the relationship in question. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]