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Fire and the design of educational buildings

Fire and the Design of Educational Buildings

Fire and the Design of Educational Buildings

Museums and Design Education

Looking to Learn, Learning to See

How can museum educators and higher education tutors enhance the way HE students use museums? There are many examples in the UK of museums and universities working together in productive and innovative ways, but these relationships tend to be based on individual enthusiasm and opportunistic arrangements. Despite the growing importance of museum education departments, higher education tends to be overlooked by museums. This book looks at the interaction between design students and museums, and explores issues, projects and emerging ideas about how museums can better support HE students. It illustrates the general lessons that can be learnt, both strategic and practical, which can help to bring about long-term and constructive relationships between museums and universities in order to enable effective student learning.

Learning settingsfor design education have followed a predictable pattern. There
has been some appreciation by design educators of the value to the learning
process of industry and workplace experiences, and thecurriculum of mostdesign
schools includes industrybased projectsand someformof workplace experiences.
Butthe magnitudeof learning experiences that can takeplace outsidethe
academic setting and the studiohas notbeen appreciated fullyby Design Learning
in an ...

Modelling, Computation and Optimization in Information Systems and Management Sciences

Second International Conference MCO 2008, Metz, France - Luxembourg, September 8-10, 2008, Proceedings

In this paper we describe how the co-author network, which is built from the
bibliographic records, can be incorporated into the process of personal name
language classification. The model is tested on the DBLP data set. The results
show that the extension of the language classification process with the co-author
network may help to refine the name language classification obtained from the
author names considered independently. It may also lead to the discovery of
dependencies ...

Speech Production and Speech Modelling

Speech sound production is one of the most complex human activities: it is also one of the least well understood. This is perhaps not altogether surprising as many of the complex neurological and physiological processes involved in the generation and execution of a speech utterance remain relatively inaccessible to direct investigation, and must be inferred from careful scrutiny of the output of the system -from details of the movements of the speech organs themselves and the acoustic consequences of such movements. Such investigation of the speech output have received considerable impetus during the last decade from major technological advancements in computer science and biological transducing, making it possible now to obtain large quantities of quantative data on many aspects of speech articulation and acoustics relatively easily. Keeping pace with these advancements in laboratory techniques have been developments in theoretical modelling of the speech production process. There are now a wide variety of different models available, reflecting the different disciplines involved -linguistics, speech science and technology, engineering and acoustics. The time seems ripe to attempt a synthesis of these different models and theories and thus provide a common forum for discussion of the complex problem of speech production. Such an activity would seem particularly timely also for those colleagues in speech technology seeking better, more accurate phonetic models as components in their speech synthesis and automatic speech recognition systems.

The behavorial classification of aphasic patients according to the
fluencynonfluency dimension is particularly interesting because this dimension is
rooted largely in speech behavior rather than formal language operations related
to, for example, syntax and semantics. Benson (1967) was quoted earlier to the
effect that anterior patients have "a mechanical speech difficulty." His remark is
testimony to the tenuous separation of speech and language. More recent
research emphasizes ...

Cognitive Modelling in Language and Discourse across Cultures

This volume deals with core issues in figurative language and figurative thought. It also explores areas of convergence between idealised cognitive models and language across fourteen European and non-European languages (Croatian, English, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Polish, Russian, Old Saxon, Sicilian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish). The collection foregrounds the relationship that holds between literalness and figurativeness in meaning construction, it emphasises the role of conceptual metonymy and metaphor as the main cognitive tools at work in inferential activity and as generators of discourse ties, and it also depicts the import of cognitive models in the production and interpretation of multimodal communication. In addition, a number of more specific topics are addressed from different perspectives, such as language variation and cultural models, the argumentative role of metaphor in discourse and the role of empirical work in cognitive linguistics.

This volume deals with core issues in figurative language and figurative thought.