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The abstract examines the linguopragmatic adaptation of large language models (LLMs) into specific national and cultural contexts. The author analyzes the challenges posed by the dominance of Western …

The abstract examines the linguopragmatic adaptation of large language models (LLMs) into specific national and cultural contexts. The author analyzes the challenges posed by the dominance of Western sociocultural frames in modern artificial intelligence systems and justifies the need for alignment to accurately reproduce local speech acts.

This dataset contains the questionnaire responses collected for the study Beyond Immersion: Socio-Technical Pathways to User Experience and Behavioral Intentions in Cultural Heritage Location-Based VR…

This dataset contains the questionnaire responses collected for the study Beyond Immersion: Socio-Technical Pathways to User Experience and Behavioral Intentions in Cultural Heritage Location-Based VR. It includes 552 submissions from users of the Wind Rises in Luoyang LBVR project, comprising 527 valid responses retained for analysis and 25 responses excluded during data-quality screening. The variables cover demographic characteristics, previous experience with cultural heritage LBVR, and 41 five-point Likert-scale items measuring social interaction, value co-creation, comfort perception, interactivity, multisensory cues, cultural identity, ethical concerns, brand equity, focused attention, post-experience satisfaction, behavioral intention, prior knowledge, and sense of gain. Construct-level mean scores used in the PLS-SEM and fsQCA analyses are also included.

This file provides supplementary material for the chapter Offence and Impoliteness in Latin. The chapter investigates practices and evaluation of offence in ancient Rome through the study of the two m…

This file provides supplementary material for the chapter Offence and Impoliteness in Latin. The chapter investigates practices and evaluation of offence in ancient Rome through the study of the two main terms conveying this concept in Latin: contumelia and iniuria.

What is the role that the “common” plays in contemporary socio-environmental research and action? “Open” environmental research technologies—such open scientific software…

What is the role that the “common” plays in contemporary socio-environmental research and action? “Open” environmental research technologies—such open scientific software, open data, and open scientific hardware—have returned to the forefront of debate concerning the present and future of participatory knowledge-making. Governments, international agencies, funding organizations, and community projects have renewed hope for the purported cross-pollination effects of “open technologies,” promising large-scale collaborations with increased efficacy in the application and reuse of public funds, but also renewed forms of solidarity across groups. Yet, skepticism with “openness” has been rampant given the actual and potential cases of corporate enclosures of collective efforts and research outputs that have been made public. In this article, we discuss the experience of a distributed network of environmental activists, open technology practitioners, and STS researchers studying the production of “open technologies” for socio-environmental research named “SEEKCommons” (Socio-Environmental Knowledge Commons). Drawing from the debate on the “socio-environmental question” in the context of Latin American social movements, we debate the alternative that “communality” and “conviviality” as technopolitical practices afford in creating concrete alternatives to developmentist policy through the “digitalization” of nature in contemporary “data-driven” environmental research. We present the collective work that was developed by SEEKCommons to realize a double agenda: to contribute to the study of common tools and infrastructures for STS research about socio-environmental concerns while helping to build such infrastructures. For this purpose, we developed a fellowship program, a series of community activities, such as talks and gatherings, and funded several socio-environmental projects to advance our understanding of the state of “open technologies for socio-environmental research.” As a contribution to STS, we developed a “translational” approach across three fundamental axes that organized the SEEKCommons project (socio-environmental action, STS research, and Open technology development) that was aimed at working out the contradictions of operating with open technologists in a hostile environment, but also developing a collaborative approach to collective STS scholarship in an increased individualized and competitive academic environment with the commercialization and platformization of the sciences. For the conclusion, we will discuss the practical lessons we learned from the network in terms of the benefits and challenges of building bridges across disparate domains (such as open technology development and socio-environmental research) having STS as a “translational device.”

Part 1 of 2. Data and reconstructions supporting "Transverse quantum-state characterization of programmable electron optics." This part contains 10 of the 21 descan-corrected 4D-STEM datasets (stems …

Part 1 of 2. Data and reconstructions supporting "Transverse quantum-state characterization of programmable electron optics." This part contains 10 of the 21 descan-corrected 4D-STEM datasets (stems 0016, 0019, 0020, 0024, 0027, 0028, 0029, 0031, 0033, 0036), PLUS the complete set of eight-physical-mode mixed-state ptychographic reconstructions (.npz for all 21 stems), the DATA_MANIFEST.md, and CHECKSUMS.md5. The remaining 11 datasets are in Part 2 of 2 (see related identifiers). 4D-STEM datasets are HDF5: dataset 'data' of shape (256, 256, 192, 192) float16 (256x256 scan x 192x192 detector), plus 'com_fitted' and mean diffraction patterns. Reconstruction .npz: complex probe mode stacks (9 modes = 8 physical + 1 radial-support absorber), mode powers, object amplitude/phase, losses. See DATA_MANIFEST.md for the full manifest, reconstruction command, calibration/masks/seeds, and software environment. Analysis and figure scripts: https://github.com/ECLIPSE-Lab/mems_ptychography

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This article examines antonymy as a central lexical-semantic relation that reflects the systematic organization of contrast in language. The study argues that antonymy should not be reduced to the sim…

This article examines antonymy as a central lexical-semantic relation that reflects the systematic organization of contrast in language. The study argues that antonymy should not be reduced to the simplified notion of “opposite meaning,” since it represents a structurally and cognitively motivated relation between lexical units belonging to the same semantic field. Particular attention is given to the main types of antonymy, including gradable, complementary, and converse oppositions, as well as to their semantic and functional properties.