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Through the lens of Membership Categorization Analysis, this study explicates the process of discursive categorization in courtroom opening and closing statements, focusing on the use of mundane categories as well as associated activities to negotiate the legal facticity of a criminal offense. Based on the official transcripts of a high-profile Anglo-American trial, the study reveals that much of what constitutes the opening and closing is the dispute over the categorization of the main characters in legal narratives, which at times provides conflicting information to fact-finders. The two sides are found to deploy explicit and implicit categorizations. However, instead of using oppositional categories, the two sides commonly make use of different membership categorization devices. This alternation of devices supplants and replaces each other, so that two versions of realities are discursively constructed. Such strategic categorization enables lawyers to go beyond offering a road map of the case in the opening and emphasizing key evidence in the closing: everyday categories smuggle in moral evaluation and make an emotional appeal to the jurors, which in principle are legally prohibited. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract This study employs Conversation Analysis to create a recursive model that improves the quality of human-robot interaction. Our research goal is to create a dialogue robot that offers pleasant experiences for users, so they are willing to engage in repeated interactions in daily lives. While there has been dramatic progress in the performance of dialogue robots, there has been less attention to the importance of users’ interactional experience compared to the “specs” of the dialogue system. Employing Goffmanian insights and using research in Conversation Analysis (CA), the present study develops a dialogue closing system to exit the interaction. We then experimentally verified that the robot with the dialogue closing system performs better in the user’s perception of the robot (i.e. likeability, politeness, and dialogue satisfaction) than the control group. Further, by analyzing the dialogue between the human and the robot through CA, we propose to build a recursive, reflective model to improve the dialogue model design. A constructive approach urges us to reproduce complicated social phenomena in human-robot interaction so that we can investigate the underlying cognitive mechanisms of humans and create robots that can convey human-like cognition functions and coexist with humans. Taking such a constructive approach, we posit that our recursive model for dialogue systems that uses CA insights and then qualitatively analyzes conversational data can enhance the quality of dialogue systems because the model elucidates which properties of a conversation humans need to experience a conversational robot as human-like. Our study suggests that interactional morality - particularly conversational closings - is one property of human interactions that humans likely require social robots to adhere to.

We will show that factor codes that have a bi-closing word are bi-closing a.e. and have a degree. Moreover, a closing code with a bi-closing word into an irreducible shift space is constant-to-one. Then we study which properties may be invariant by codes that have a bi-closing word under factoring and extension. Moreover, we give some conditions for a bi-closing word and show that every closing open code in an irreducible shift space has a bi-closing word. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present study investigates the generic structure of “Attwa", the reconciliation instrument in Arabic language, specifically within Jordanian society. The data for this study consists of ten instances of Attwa from 2017 to 2022. (Bhatia, 2004) notion of genre is considered in this study. The study revealed how each component of the text contributes to the overall communicative function of conveying gratitude and thankfulness. Furthermore, the study also emphasizes the need for qualitative and quantitative research that delves deeply into analyzing the content of Arab reconciliation instruments. Additionally, this research should be extended to other disciplines in Arabic studies and to other languages in order to compare and contrast how peace building is expressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Complete closure of gastric wall defects is critical following endoscopic full-thickness resection (EFTR). The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and clinical outcome of a new endoscopic method: closing while dissecting. Methods: Twenty-seven patients who underwent EFTR were retrospectively analyzed between January 2020 and March 2021. Gastric defects resulting from EFTR were closed using the "interrupted-close during dissection" technique with endoclips. Tumor characteristics, en bloc resection rates, and postoperative adverse events were evaluated. Results: All submucosal tumors were successfully resected and complete resection was histologically confirmed. The mean maximal tumor diameter was 1.3 cm (ranging from 0.8 to 3.0 cm). The majority of these tumors were gastrointestinal stromal tumors (n = 20), Leiomyoma (n = 3), schwannomas (n = 2), others included fibroma (n = 1) and neurogenic tumor (n = 1). There were no cases of hemorrhage, peritonitis, or delayed perforation. Four patients complained of slight abdominal pain, but no hyperpyrexia or serious elevated white blood cell count was detected in the first 24 h after treatment. All wounds were healed on follow-up endoscopy 3 months after the procedure. The mean follow-up duration was 8.5 months (ranging from 3 to 17) and no tumor recurrences were observed. Conclusions: The feasibility and safety of this interrupted-close during dissection approach allows for clinical applications in EFTR of gastric submucosal tumors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Normal lower limb alignment is with the tibia in varus and the femur in valgus, forming an oblique joint line in bipedal stance and a horizontal line in unipedal stance. Alignment may be valgus or varus in case of femoral metaphyseal or tibial-femoral deformity, respectively. Bone correction must be performed at the site of the deformity. If a femoral deformity is corrected at the tibia, this results in an oblique joint line and malunion, with poor functional outcome. In genu valgum, distal femoral osteotomy (either medial closing or lateral opening wedge) may be indicated in case of lateral femorotibial osteoarthritis secondary to extra-articular femoral deformity. Likewise, in genu varum of femoral origin, lateral closing or medial opening wedge osteotomy is indicated. Preoperative planning is essential to achieve the ideal correction target, which is a key to success. Surgery should adhere strictly to the plan, with ideally biplanar oblique osteotomy, precise correction and stable fixation by locking plate. Complications are due to technical errors. The most frequent error is in correction, with malunion. Hinge fracture is also common, aggravating correction error. Patient-specific cutting guides are the state-of-the-art means of improving preoperative planning, surgical precision and hinge protection. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: expert opinion., Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest Consultant for Smith & Nephew; royalties from Serf, SBM., (Copyright © 2024 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

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The article examines naturally-occuring video-mediated breaks from work as social activity and focuses on the use of waving gestures in their openings and closings. Drawing on multimodal conversation analysis as a research method and recorded virtual breaks of two work communities in Finland as data, the study shows that, contrary to openings and closings in a physical breakroom at the workplace, waving 'hello' or 'goodbye' is a prevalent practice in video-mediated break openings and closings. By waving their hand(s), which is typically accompanied by a verbal greeting or farewell, participants make their own arrival or departure, or their orientation to the arrival or departure of someone else, visible and explicit. Thus, waving facilitates the management of co-presence in technology-mediated encounters. Further, by waving in conjunction with other upgraded features of openings and closings, participants engage in important relationship maintenance work during their encounter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study critically scrutinizes the discursive practice of state killing in capital trials. The quantitative and qualitative analysis compares the experientiallyconstitutive roles of lexico-grammatical choices in attributing agency to the actions of the defendant and victims in lawyers’ opening and closing speech in the penalty phase of a high-profile capital trial. Integrating Van Leeuwen’s social actor representation framework (2008) into Halliday’s transitivity analysis (1994), the study identifies the prosecution’s and defense’s polarized referential practice for the defendant and victims as well as descriptions of their actions. It is argued that, rather than existing as facts outside the trial discourse, aggravating and mitigating factors are morally and normatively constructed in real-time discursive interaction through these extreme, and at times disturbing, reference and transitivity choices, potentially leading to a death recommendation.

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We study the problem of sequentializing a cellular automaton without introducing any intermediate states, and only performing reversible permutations on the tape. We give a decidable characterization of cellular automata which can be written as a single sweep of a bijective rule from left to right over an infinite tape. Such cellular automata are necessarily left-closing, and they move at least as much information to the left as they move information to the right. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An active region (AR) of the sun is an area of strong magnetic field. Sunspots are frequently formed in an AR. Solar activity exhibits in the form of solar flares and coronal mass ejections. Solar active region AR12 192 occurring on October 18, 2014 hosted the largest sunspot of the 24th solar cycle which was of the size of Jupiter. AR12 192 was ranked 33rd largest active region out of 32908 active regions since 1874. This study analyzes the complexity and roughness of AR12 192 by studying the hidden persistency. Here persistency will be studied with the help of self-similar fractal dimension. For this purpose two techniques will be used, the Hausdorff-Besicovich box dimension and correlation dimension. The fractal dimension of the image of solar active region AR12 192 will be studied for its persistency. An image is considered to be persistent if the value of Hurst exponent is greater than 0.5. In addition, an analysis is performed using scaling parameters and wave spectrum. In this regard exponents such as scaling exponent, spectral exponent, and autocorrelation coefficient will be particularly studied. Heavy tail analysis for the data relevant to AR12 192 is also performed. A novelty of this study is the application of segmental image analysis using the transformation tools of mathematical morphology such as dilation, erosion, closing and opening to AR12 192. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mathematical morphology provides various tools for image analysis. The two basic operations, dilation and erosion, are based on translations with the help of a given structural element (another image of the grid). In contrast to the case of discrete subgroups of Rn, the triangular grid is not closed under translations; therefore, we use a restriction for the structural elements. Namely, we allow only those trixels (triangle pixels) to be in the structural elements which represent vectors such that the grid is closed under translations by these vectors. We prove that both strict dilation and erosion have nice properties. Strict opening and closing have also been defined by combining strict dilation and erosion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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• We assess the child weight impacts of supermarket openings and closings. • There is little overall impact with either supermarket openings or closings. • Supermarket openings reduce the weight of low-income children. • Supermarket closings does not have a clear impact on children. Retail food environment is increasingly considered in relation to obesity. This study investigates the impacts of access to supermarkets, the primary source of healthy foods in the United States, on the bodyweight of children. Empirical analysis uses individual-level panel data covering health screenings of public schoolchildren from Arkansas with annual georeferenced business lists, and utilizes the variations of supermarket openings and closings. There is little overall impact in either case. However, supermarket openings are found to reduce the BMI z-scores of low-income children by 0.090 to 0.096 standard deviations. Such impact remains in a variety of robustness exercises. Therefore, improvement in healthy food access could at least help reduce childhood obesity rates among certain population groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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It would not be unreasonable to say that all of Char's poetry is the scene of a great conflict between opening and closing. Indeed, there is always a great desire at Char to leave and perpetual change and a great tendency to return to the inaugural place, not to remain there, but to take advantage of it as a point of support that better prepares a reserve of energy for the subject who seeks to open up on the different possibilities of being. The Charian subject never gives in to the seductive seductions of the tenderness of the protective enclosure, on the other hand he makes himself constantly available for a perpetual renewal. In other words he prefers the risk of going to lethargy to stay. The main objective of this article is to answer this question. In Char's poetry, what poetic images metaphorise these two contradictory tendencies, namely, the desire to leave, and the attraction of the protective origins that diminishes in us the desire to be born again. time to time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Currently, the most important determinant of gastroschisis outcomes in high resource settings is whether the condition is associated with intestinal complications, such as atresia, necrosis, perforation, or volvulus. This form of the anomaly, known as complex gastroschisis, accounts for most of the mortality and a disproportionate burden of the morbidity from gastroschisis. There is some disagreement about what constitutes complex gastroschisis, and little consensus on the type and timing of surgical interventions. This article establishes a clear definition of complex gastroschisis. Surgical approaches to treatment of the diverse presentations of complex gastroschisis will be described and the timing of such interventions will be discussed. Contemporary outcomes of complex gastroschisis will be reviewed. Finally, a non-congenital intestinal complications that may arise in gastroschisis patients will be discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The composition The Tree of Life by Ivana Stefanović, for string orchestra, was written in 1997. It is composed of several entities of similar meaning, which derive from one motif. This fact alone suggests that this composition is essentially a powerful allegory that achieves a complex picture of the birth of human life and its development. The compositional techniques of decorating, superimposing and improvisation are powerful metaphors that indicate the flowering of living wood. From the analytical point of view, the composition by Ivana Stefanović is interesting to observe for it avoids postmodernist procedures. On the contrary, it is like reinterpreting the modernist idea of construction, but tying itself to the transcendent metaphor of life. The aforementioned procedures, which render their perpetual branching to be perceived as a single entity, lead to a complete musical gesture that begins, matures, and ends in transcendence. The common mode of all the procedures used in this piece is the movement that arises from one constant, a pulsation. Musical gestures related to several strategies will be examined in an analytical way. The first is decorating, which is directly related to similar strategies: growing, blooming and improvisation. The binding together of such situations leads to the creation of a unique musical gesture that points to life itself. Such symbolic unity, from the beginning to the end, has been realized in a transcendent mode. In this capacity, the composition The Tree of Life by Ivana Stefanović stands aside from most of the usual stylistic procedures of the time in which it was created. The combination of the strategies used points to a ludic game of linking the pulsation, that is, movements, which stand in direct union with the inexpressible sphere of symbolic, that is, unstoppable eternal currents. The work deals with the analysis of strategies by which motor musical movements, as symbols, at the signifying level, are placed as gestures of expressing the transcendent. Moving lines and their collisions, places for creating prolongation, spreading and shrinking of the texture with the change of its layers, development of motifs with the pronounced application of the variation procedure, all these procedures will be treated as methods of building a unique tree of life. The composer began her narrative network with the basic motif cell, with the first statement, "in the beginning it was [...]". Based on the identification and method of combining the compositional strategies of the movement, it will be possible to prove the thesis of a transcendental musical gesture, formed as a result of the complex interrelations between the individual meaningful units. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Acquired ECG signal is degraded by low-pass EMG drift modifying its baseline, and by power net interference, high-pass noise and A/D conversion compromising its morphology. One of the main problems in the automated ECG analysis is to filter out the baseline wander, and extract the isoelectric reference, thus enabling accurate measurements and morphology recognition. Using Mathematical Morphology (MM) binary primitive operators, accurate baseline extraction is performed in three steps. First is to determine the exact heart rate (HR), which is done by high-pass MM filtering and R-wave detection. In the second step, preliminary baseline estimation is performed using low-pass MM filtering, thus allowing accurate morphology recognition. In the third step, the baseline is corrected using the ending points of TP intervals (P-start) which are considered as truly isoelectric. This procedure allows accurate baseline extraction and recognition of the complete morphology. The Mathematical Morphology offers a reliable solution for the baseline extraction problem, allowing ECG analysis for holter and monitoring applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the problem of agency in resident–staff interaction in a Japanese eldercare facility. Data were collected during the morning care routines and analysed within the framework of Conversation Analysis. Focusing on the openings and closings, I show that the interactions in the setting under observation are marked by a clear dominance of the care workers. This becomes most obvious at the level of the turn-taking system, where the first pair part of a new sequence is commonly delivered by a care worker, thus assigning a mainly reactive role to the residents. However, the data also contain instances where this pattern is broken up by a reversal of the turn structure. I show how this sequential re-organisation enables a resident to take a more proactive role in determining the relevant next action, arguing that there is much potential for higher resident agency even in routine interactions such as the morning care activities. I also discuss the practical implications of these findings for care communication in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A significant number of U.S. health sciences libraries have closed since the mid-1990's. A pilot study was conducted with academic physicians to understand the impact of closing the health sciences library in the teaching hospital with which they were affiliated. A brief survey was designed and distributed to fourteen faculty members with thirteen useable responses received. The study elicited a context-sensitive perspective on the closing of the library with the most noteworthy outcome being the additional time required by attending physicians and trainees to perform the work that previously was performed by library staff. The loss of the expert literature search, instructional services, journal request, and interlibrary loan services had the most significant impact on study participants. Further research is needed to understand the long term consequences of closing hospital-based health sciences library on the education of physicians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines patients' calls to three different GP services in the United Kingdom. Using conversation analysis, combined with coding of 447 calls, we studied the role of thank you in closing sequences, focusing on their timing and order in relation to service outcome. We show first how patients withhold thank you in orientation to an absent summary or specification of service: patients are more likely to initiate thank you if the receptionist volunteers such a summary. Second, we show there is variation in how appropriately participants project the termination of calls using thank you. Finally, while thank you serves a primary role in managing the termination of calls, the timing, order and design of thank you can also display patient (dis)satisfaction. We discuss our findings in terms of service encounters more generally, including implications for larger scale analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a review of power-system synchronization, proper sync-check coordination, and fast synchronization methods. When paralleling two sources, it is crucial that the interconnecting circuit breaker be closed only when both sources are in voltage, frequency, and phase coincidence. An operator can synchronize manually or use one of the latest, state-of-the-art automatic synchronizers (ANSI/IEEE device 25A) and sync-check relays (ANSI/IEEE device 25) to automate closing. Generator and bus synchronization share most principles—with some important differences—for each type of synchronization. For generation plants, the method of generator synchronization selected depends greatly on the plant configuration and operating mode. For bus-line applications, the synchronizing method selected depends on the power-system “stiffness,” motor loads, and whether a wye-delta transformer is located between the line and bus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]