Negation Research Articles

A Corpus-Based Study on the Influence of Ethnic Language on Zhuang English Learners in China

This study built a rare kind of interlanguage corpus of English compositions from middle school students of Zhuang ethnic group, exploring language transfer on English writing output of the students from their mother-tongue—Zhuang. Another interlanguage corpus is used as the reference corpus with English compositions by Chinese students of non-specific ethnic identity (but assumedly of Han majority) using Chinese as their mother tongue. Through comparison between the self-built Zhuang-Chinese-English learners’ corpus and Chinese-English learners’ one, this study found that not only are there distinctive differences between the spelling, negation, and auxiliary errors in English writing of Zhuang minority and Han majority students, but also mother-tongue transfer and training transfer have influence on Zhuang students’ English output.

Ovarian Suppression for Young Women with Breast Cancer

Adjuvant endocrine therapy for premenopausal patients with breast cancer has been limited to tamoxifen because functioning ovaries negate the effects

Prospects for the Study of H.D.

Abstract This essay looks to the future of literary scholarship about modernist writer H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). Readers can now easily obtain almost all of H.D.'s writings—which remained, for decades, ensconced in the archives—and the question becomes what else is needed in H.D. studies. New biographies are desperately needed, and edited volumes of letters are the logical complement to the biographies. Digitization of H.D.'s papers, which has begun, would make materials increasingly available to scholars, established and new. Editions are still needed for a few texts, and scholarly editions would assist our understanding of the most important works. Electronic tools are being developed and need financial support for development and publication, and the more traditional venues of selected essay volumes, reference books, and journal special issues are called for. Additionally, as the volume of scholarly work on H.D. increases, we need new critical lenses through which to read her writing.

Prospects for the Study of H.D.

AbstractThis essay looks to the future of literary scholarship about modernist writer H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). Readers can now easily obtain almost all of H.D.'s writings—which remained, for decades, ensconced in the archives—and the question becomes what else is needed in H.D. studies. New biographies are desperately needed, and edited volumes of letters are the logical complement to the biographies. Digitization of H.D.'s papers, which has begun, would make materials increasingly available to scholars, established and new. Editions are still needed for a few texts, and scholarly editions would assist our understanding of the most important works. Electronic tools are being developed and need financial support for development and publication, and the more traditional venues of selected essay volumes, reference books, and journal special issues are called for. Additionally, as the volume of scholarly work on H.D. increases, we need new critical lenses through which to read her writing.

Clíticos e negação em português: elementos para uma descrição gramatical

No presente artigo, discorremos sobre a negacao sentencial e sua relacao com os cliticos pronominais em lingua portuguesa. Para tanto, revisitamos algumas questoes sobre a sintaxe historica do portugues com o intuito de mostrar que, nessa lingua, o operador de negacao – nao – possui natureza diversa dos outros adverbios, mesmo dos negativos, pois, diferentemente dos demais itens adverbiais, nada, a nao ser um pronome clitico, aparece interrompendo a adjacencia entre o operador de negacao – nao – e o verbo . Tal caracteristica do operador de negacao sentencial, em portugues, e bastante antiga, remonta ao portugues antigo e perdura nas variantes atuais do portugues na Europa e na America. Entre outros fatos, a capacidade de licenciar elipse na oracao coordenada e a relacao da negacao sentencial com os cliticos pronominais e com indefinidos negativos compoem alguns dos argumentos para defender uma hipotese em favor da estrutura em que um nucleo funcional com conteudos polares (negacaoe afirmacao) domina as categorias flexionais do verbo. Para explicar as diferencas sintaticas percebidas na relacao entre a negacao e o clitico no tempo e no espaco da lingua, argumentamos que estas estao relacionadas a natureza da posicao pre-verbal e as diferentes possibilidades de alcamento do pronome clitico na historia do portugues. Seguindo a argumentacao, consideramos que as diferencas entre Portugues Europeu (PE) e Portugues Brasileiro (PB) atuais podem estar associadas a um pronome clitico ao verbo lexical, em PB, e nao a um nucleo funcional da flexao verbal, como parece ser o caso em PE.

Nicotine Addiction in Schizophrenia, Availability of Better TreatmentOptions as are in General Population

This article reviews literature regarding smoking cessation in Schizophrenia population, its harmful effects on health, finances, role of mental health care providers and better available options for treatment as are in general population. This population not only smokes at higher rates, but also has higher nicotine dependence with lower cessation rates than general population, people of schizophrenia have truncated life span due to smoking related diseases and premature mortality compared with the general population. Contrary to traditional reasoning that this population is not motivated or able to tolerate smoking cessation, but there is extensive literature that negates such rationale, even provides better treatment options to address this huge public health burden. Our review will mainly focusing treatment options particularly drug Varenicline, that shows most effective and promising results in patients of schizophrenia for smoking cessation as in general population, moreover different combination therapies, few new interventions, as well as some clinical areas will be discussed those need to be studied further in future.

Hegel and the art of negation: negativity, creativity and contemporary thought

Acknowledgements Introduction - Returning Anew Part One: The Hegel of Negation Chapter One - Negation's Art in Phenomenology of Spirit Chapter Two - Negation's Logic in Science of Logic Chapter Three - Art's Negation in Aesthetics Part Two: The Negation of Hegel Chapter Four - The Returning of Hegel and Negation: Sartre and Hyppolite Chapter Five - The Tolling of Hegel and Negation: Derrida Chapter Six - The Living of Hegel and Negation: Kristeva, Nancy, Agamben, iek, Malabou Part Three: Furthering Hegel Chapter Seven - The Ought of Negation Conclusion - Art-Religion-Philosophy Re-formed Notes Bibliography of Works Cited Index

Cooperating to compete: using technology to link the multinational corporation and the country

The new dynamic of the multinational enterprise – the nation/state relationship – is changing, and requires that viable cooperative modes be explored. This paper looks at the preferences and priorities of the multinational and development paradigms, and offers a new analytical construct or synthesis that is neither state–centred nor firm–centred, but spans national boundaries – the 'technological paradigm'. The technological paradigm offers a more competitive mode for operating in the international environment because it does not negate conflicting forces of governance but suggests a new cooperative synthesis that may be practically applied by corporations and developing countries, in particular.

An algorithm for part families identification in cellular manufacturing

The formation of machine–part families is an important task in the design of cellular and flexible manufacturing systems. The formation results in the creation of many benefits for manufacturing systems. Among the many methods utilised in machine–cells formation, the similarity coefficient method (SCM) is most widely used. When SCM is used, the rearrangement of machine and part components is required to form machine–part families. This process of rearrangement has been considered as being subjective and difficult, may result in improper assignments to parts families, resulting in a negation of benefits promised. This paper presents an effective algorithm to identify part–families and bottleneck parts, given machine groupings, rather than addressing the machine grouping problem in general.

Recognizing Questions and Answers in EMR Templates Using Natural Language Processing.

Templated boilerplate structures pose challenges to natural language processing (NLP) tools used for information extraction (IE). Routine error analyses while performing an IE task using Veterans Affairs (VA) medical records identified templates as an important cause of false positives. The baseline NLP pipeline (V3NLP) was adapted to recognize negation, questions and answers (QA) in various template types by adding a negation and slot:value identification annotator. The system was trained using a corpus of 975 documents developed as a reference standard for extracting psychosocial concepts. Iterative processing using the baseline tool and baseline+negation+QA revealed loss of numbers of concepts with a modest increase in true positives in several concept categories. Similar improvement was noted when the adapted V3NLP was used to process a random sample of 318,000 notes. We demonstrate the feasibility of adapting an NLP pipeline to recognize templates.

Identidades de papel. Identidad de la ausencia y negación de los migrantes indocumentados: un enfoque desde tres textos narrativos

Starting from the analysis of three narrative texts – the novels of Mexican author Alejandro Hernandez, Amaras a Dios sobre todas las cosas (2013) [ You shall love God above all things ] and the Uruguayan writer Jorge Majfud, Crisis (2012), and thirdly the short story by Nicaraguan author Sergio Ramirez, Abbot y Costello (2013) [ Abbot and Costello ] – this study ventures into the realities of undocumented migrants who experience their identity in terms of “absence”, due to the lack of legal acknowledgment. The condition of being “paperless” places the migrant in a particular state that locates him in a classification where a general – negative and exclusive – idea prevails, and standardizes thousands and thousands of human beings based on their shortcomings, in a process of depersonalization. Absence becomes the official identity mark and configures the identity features of this segment of the population starting from its weakness, impotence and vulnerability, thereby making these aspects of frailty the constitutive feature of its identity. The “undocumented” create an self-identity rooted in negation from and of themselves, by making the image that the others have of them into their own image, and by getting caught in the game of making themselves invisible and being perceived as invisible. The discursive texts analysed here explore these spaces of absence and invisibility that surround the discourse of the “paperless” and their experiences. They also contribute to investigating and questioning – in a territory that has remained almost unexplored so far – the issue of the annihilated identity that hopes to be able to be and to exist one day.

Commune, Movement, Negation: Notes from Tomorrow

Commune, Movement, Negation: Notes from Tomorrow

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Revanche of conflict? Pleidooi voor een agonistische literatuurstudie

This article aims to contribute to the academic debate concerning the legitimation of the study of contemporary Dutch literature. In the twentieth century literary scholarship appealed to a model of negation for legitimation: (the study of) literature was conceived in terms of critique and emancipation. In recent years this model has been succeeded by a model of assimilation: (the study of) literature tends to conform to the hegemonic organization of society. Two recent studies bear witness of this model: De revanche van de roman (2009) by Thomas Vaessens en ‘De revanche van de populaire cultuur’ (2012) by Ben de Bruyn and Pieter Verstraeten. These scholars seek the so-called ‘revenge’ in social commitment and popular (literary) culture respectively. In a critical analysis of both texts this article aims to show that insufficient attention is paid to ideological and hegemonic processes. As an alternative, the article proposes a critical revision of the model of negation: an agonistic study of literature in which the irreducibly conflictual heterogeneity of conceptions of literature and literary scholarship serves as legitimation. To conclude, the authors discuss their own contribution to this model: the critique of ideology.

Plato’s Theory of Negation and Falsity in Sophist 257 and 263: A New Defense of the Oxford Interpretation

Plato’s Theory of Negation and Falsity in Sophist 257 and 263: A New Defense of the Oxford Interpretation

Intralinguistic and extralinguistic variation factors in Old French negation withne-Ø, ne-mie, ne-pasandne-pointacross different text types

ABSTRACTOld French sentential negation (NEG) represents an important morphosyntactic change that has been investigated by a large number of scholars from different theoretical approaches. From the 12th to the 14th (and mainly in the 13th) century, there are two variants of this variable in competition: NEG with onlyne(the older variant) and NEG withne+pas/mie/point, etc. The research presented in this paper has been motivated by the wish to find relevant factors for this variation in Old French. In order to identify factors of influence on the variable NEG with or withoutpas,mieandpoint, we analyse two subcorpora containing two different text types. The choice of the tested factors is rooted both in variational linguistics and in previous studies on Old French negation, implying (extralinguistic) diasystematic factors like diatopic and diastratic ones as well as intralinguistic factors like transitivity of the verb, word order and clause type. Main findings are the probable relevance of clause type and the influence of socially definable (diastratic) groups. Beyond this, the results across the two different text type are predominantly similar, but we found differences as well. This leads us to plead in favour of the importance of considering the factor text type while working on diachronic corpora.

Sustancia, sucesión y permanencia según Aristóteles.

Este artículo subraya la incidencia de un componente temporal en la doctrina aristotélica de la sustancia y las categorías en la medida en que la distinción sustancia-accidentes se refiere no sólo a la oposición lógica entre el sujeto y el predicado, sino también a la oposición real entre el sujeto de cambio y sus determinaciones. El argumento se basa en la interpretación de importantes pasajes de Cat. 5, Phys. I, 7 y IV 10-14.

A SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF SOME DISTRIBUTIVE LOGICS WITH NEGATION

Fil: Celani, Sergio Arturo. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires.facultad de Ciencias Exactas; Argentina

Squaring EU Competition Law and Industrial Policy: The Case of Broadband

Industrial and competition policy are often seen as logical opposites: inherently conflicting. In my earlier research (1997) I have found that at EU level these two policies are in principle compatible if industrial policy is defined as promoting structural reform. This was illustrated by the telecommunications liberalization which was then ongoing. An update of this research based on the example of broadband roll-out shows that the finding of consistency remains the same or at least similar. However the impact of competition policy has broadened. It has moved from antitrust and mergers to include more active policies on state aid and sectoral competition policy. At the same time in the context of broadband these policies favour (i) more public intervention (aid) and (ii) perpetuate sectoral regulation where originally a rapid transition to general antitrust had been envisaged. This example suggests that to balance industrial policy and competition policy as a whole consistency and predictability – including between the different branches of competition policy – is essential.

Just who didn’t eat what, exactly?

Just who didn’t eat what, exactly?