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Models, analogies, and metaphors in scientific investigation
Filosofia Unisinos, 2021 This paper discusses the interaction view of metaphors proposed by Max Black and intended to criticise the view Black calls comparative, which, according to him, goes back to Aristotle and is based on the distinction between literal and metaphorical ...
Luiz Henrique de Araújo Dutra
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Scambi di sensi e comprensione metaforica
Rivista di Estetica, 2013 In this paper I deal with the process involved in understanding metaphors. My aim is to show how synaesthetic sentences moderate the conflict between the minimalist point of view and the radical contextualist standpoint.
Filippo Domaneschi
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Metapher der Person im juristischen Diskurs.
Glottodidactica, 2015 The title of my paper could have suggested that I was going to address the metaphor of a person in the legal discourse as a type of scientific discourse in a broad sense of the term, i.e. beyond any individual accounts of it.
Rafał Szubert
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A Metaphoric Nexus of Terms in Neuroanatomy [PDF]
Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2015 This article offers an overview on the usage of technological metaphors in medicine, and in Neuroanatomy in particular. Exploring major technological metaphors surrounding human brain and nervous system, the paper aims at illustrating the cognitive functions these metaphors have in communicating clinical phenomena and pathologies.
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A new reading in understanding metaphor
آداب الكوفة, 2017 This research is an attempt to benefit from the ancients' understanding of the term as well as the modernists, showing the efforts of our scholars in this field, the most famous of whom is Abdul Qaher Al-Jurjani.
عهود حسين جبر
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Atmosphere, 2023 Lorenz rediscovered the butterfly effect, which is defined as the sensitive dependence on initial conditions (SDIC), in 1963. In 1972, he used the term “butterfly” as a metaphor to illustrate how a small perturbation can lead to a tornado with a complex ...
Bo-Wen Shen, Roger A. Pielke, Xubin Zeng
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On the Role of Preprocessing and Memristor Dynamics in Reservoir Computing for Image Classification
Advanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Reservoir computing (RC) is an emerging recurrent neural network architecture that has attracted growing attention for its low training cost and modest hardware requirements. Memristor‐based circuits are particularly promising for RC, as their intrinsic dynamics can reduce network size and parameter overhead in tasks such as time‐series ...
Rishona Daniels +4 more
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Extension Economists: Valued in Mission, Penalized in Practice
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As the public engagement arm of the land‐grant mission, we argue that Extension faculty in US agricultural economics departments face an identity crossroads as they struggle for institutional support. Specifically, we argue that Extension economists function as boundary‐spanning professionals within academic structures that often devalue ...
Trey Malone +5 more
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The impact of metaphorical framing on term creation in biology
, 2011 International audienceThe present paper is an in-depth study of the lexical units transferred by metaphorical extension from general English to the field of biology, based on the analysis of a 20 million word corpus of scientific articles. Terminological
Volanschi, Alexandra, Kübler, Natalie
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using nationwide data on the US Environmental Protection Agency's Risk Management Plan (RMP) program, we examine the proportions of underserved populations living near facilities that use extremely hazardous chemicals, both before and after accidents involving fires, explosions, and/or toxic vapors occur.
Karlee Cook +3 more
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