Terrorists Among Us: Effects of a Suspect's Group Membership, Terrorist Past, and Knowledge on Lay Persons' Interrogation Severity Recommendations

Support among US citizens for severe interrogation has been recognized as drawing upon utilitarian as well as on retributive motivation (Carlsmith & Sood, 2009). Two studies were conducted to expand on these findings in a Swiss sample. In Study 1, participants rated the severity of different interrogation techniques, which were scaled to provide an alternative measure of interrogation severity. In Study 2, retributive motivation was manipulated by varying the terrorist past of a male suspect, and utilitarian motivation was manipulated by varying the probability that the suspect could provide valuable information. Additionally, we manipulated the suspect’s group membership. The results of the vignette study suggest that the number and severity of recommended interrogation techniques is mainly influenced by whether the suspect might provide valuable information. Whether the suspect had a terrorist past was an additional influence that, however, was primarily attributable to the suspect’s group membership: If the suspect belonged to the ingroup, participants’ harsher interrogation recommendations were affected by that person’s past, whereas recommendations were not significantly influenced by a terrorist past if the suspect was an outgroup member.

Description de l'interrogation directe en français : Son emploi par des hispanophones. Vers une étude contrastive et traductologique des aspects syntaxiques, sémantiques, pragmatiques et discursifs

Nuestra contribución es una presentación general del proyecto de investigación llevado a cabo en el IES en Lenguas Vivas « Juan R. Fernández » respecto de la interrogación total o parcial en francés. Este proyecto se propone (i) detectar los mecanismos de interferencia español-francés en los estudiantes del nivel superior (formadores de formadores y traductores; (ii) analizar los efectos de sentido que resultan de la elección (consciente o inconsciente) entre las diferentes formas sintácticas disponibles en francés; (iii) profundizar la descripción del comportamiento sintáctico, semántico y pragmático de la forma interrogativa con una visión contrastiva; (iv) estudiar la relación entre forma y función pragmática en cada una de las dos lenguas, integrando un enfoque traductológico. El marco teórico parte de una concepción dinámica del sentido (Victorri y Fuchs 1996), la multifuncionalidad pragmática de la interrogación (Dixon 2010), la inscripción del locutor en el discurso (Kerbrat-Orecchioni 1980). Se analizarán cuantitativa y cualitativamente cinco corpora de fuentes variadas: tests ad hoc, traducciones español-francés y francés-español, escritos espontáneos tomados de internet. Los resultados, que serán presentados en diciembre 2013, permitirán elaborar un material pedagógico orientado a los cursos de formación de formadores y de traductores

Description de l'interrogation directe en français : Son emploi par des hispanophones. Vers une étude contrastive et traductologique des aspects syntaxiques, sémantiques, pragmatiques et discursifs

Nuestra contribución es una presentación general del proyecto de investigación llevado a cabo en el IES en Lenguas Vivas « Juan R. Fernández » respecto de la interrogación total o parcial en francés. Este proyecto se propone (i) detectar los mecanismos de interferencia español-francés en los estudiantes del nivel superior (formadores de formadores y traductores; (ii) analizar los efectos de sentido que resultan de la elección (consciente o inconsciente) entre las diferentes formas sintácticas disponibles en francés; (iii) profundizar la descripción del comportamiento sintáctico, semántico y pragmático de la forma interrogativa con una visión contrastiva; (iv) estudiar la relación entre forma y función pragmática en cada una de las dos lenguas, integrando un enfoque traductológico. El marco teórico parte de una concepción dinámica del sentido (Victorri y Fuchs 1996), la multifuncionalidad pragmática de la interrogación (Dixon 2010), la inscripción del locutor en el discurso (Kerbrat-Orecchioni 1980). Se analizarán cuantitativa y cualitativamente cinco corpora de fuentes variadas: tests ad hoc, traducciones español-francés y francés-español, escritos espontáneos tomados de internet. Los resultados, que serán presentados en diciembre 2013, permitirán elaborar un material pedagógico orientado a los cursos de formación de formadores y de traductores

Description de l'interrogation directe en français : Son emploi par des hispanophones. Vers une étude contrastive et traductologique des aspects syntaxiques, sémantiques, pragmatiques et discursifs

Nuestra contribución es una presentación general del proyecto de investigación llevado a cabo en el IES en Lenguas Vivas « Juan R. Fernández » respecto de la interrogación total o parcial en francés. Este proyecto se propone (i) detectar los mecanismos de interferencia español-francés en los estudiantes del nivel superior (formadores de formadores y traductores; (ii) analizar los efectos de sentido que resultan de la elección (consciente o inconsciente) entre las diferentes formas sintácticas disponibles en francés; (iii) profundizar la descripción del comportamiento sintáctico, semántico y pragmático de la forma interrogativa con una visión contrastiva; (iv) estudiar la relación entre forma y función pragmática en cada una de las dos lenguas, integrando un enfoque traductológico. El marco teórico parte de una concepción dinámica del sentido (Victorri y Fuchs 1996), la multifuncionalidad pragmática de la interrogación (Dixon 2010), la inscripción del locutor en el discurso (Kerbrat-Orecchioni 1980). Se analizarán cuantitativa y cualitativamente cinco corpora de fuentes variadas: tests ad hoc, traducciones español-francés y francés-español, escritos espontáneos tomados de internet. Los resultados, que serán presentados en diciembre 2013, permitirán elaborar un material pedagógico orientado a los cursos de formación de formadores y de traductores

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Interrogation of Gender Identity: Aesthetic Consumption of Korean Television Dramas by Young Women in China

Given the popularity of Korean television dramas among various age groups in other countries, one would expect to see a similar pattern of consumption across different ages in China. Instead, we see high levels of consumption of Korean dramas by a very specific demographic. Why do young Chinese females consume Korean dramas at such high levels? I argue that young Chinese women’s heavy consumption of Korean dramas that portray a particular aesthetic of self and familial resolution may be explained by a need to redress contemporary psychological issues related to gendered self-identity. I posit that the identity formation processes of this particular demographic has been shaped by changes in family dynamics that stem from social and political restructuring in the 1980s, particularly the one-child policy. Thus, this thesis explores how the consumption of Korean dramas by young females in China may be understood as an implicit interrogation of gendered identity.

The interrogation and multiplexing of long period grating curvature sensors using a Bragg grating based, derivative spectroscopy technique

A long period grating is interrogated with a fibre Bragg grating using a derivative spectroscopy technique. A quasi-linear relationship between the output of the sensing scheme and the curvature experienced by the long period grating is demonstrated, with a sensitivity of 5.05 m and with an average curvature resolution of 2.9 × 10-2 m-1. In addition, the feasibility of multiplexing an in-line series of long period gratings with this interrogation scheme is demonstrated with two pairs of fibre Bragg gratings and long period gratings. With this arrangement the cross-talk error between channels was less than ± 2.4 × 10-3 m-1.

Extended range interrogation of wavelength division multiplexed fibre Bragg grating sensors using an arrayed waveguide grating

A technique for interrogating multiplexed fibre Bragg grating (FBG) sensors using an arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) is described. The approach considerably extends the sensing range from that achieved previously, while providing a strain resolution of 17nevHz at 30 Hz.

Interferometric sensor interrogation using an arrayed waveguide grating

We experimentally investigate the use of an arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) to interrogate interferometric sensors. A single broad-band light source is used to illuminate the system. Reflected spectral information is directed to an AWG with integral photodetectors providing 40 electrical outputs. We show that using the dual-wavelength technique we can measure the length of a Fabry-Perot cavity by determining the optical phase changes of the scanned interferometric pattern, which produced a maximum unambiguous range of 1440 mum with an active sensor and a maximum unambiguous range of 300 mum with the introduction of a second processing interferometer, which allows the sensor to be passive.

Simultaneous interrogation of fiber Bragg grating sensors using an acoustooptic tunable filter

We describe a novel technique to provide demultiplexing of fiber Bragg grating sensors, interrogated using interferometric wavelength shift detection. Amplitude modulation of multiple radio frequency driving signals allows an acoustooptic tunable filter to provide wavelength demultiplexing. We demonstrated a noise limited strain resolution of 150 nanostrain/v(Hz) and a crosstalk better than -50 dB.

Interrogation of fibre Bragg grating sensors using an arrayed waveguide grating

We experimentally investigate the use of an arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) to interrogate fibre Bragg grating (FBG) sensors. A broadband light source is used to illuminate the FBG sensors. Reflected spectral information is directed to the AWG containing integral photodetectors providing 40 electrical outputs. Three methods are described to interrogate FBG sensors. The first technique makes use of the wavelength-dependent transmission profile of an AWG channel passband, giving a usable range of 500 µe and a dynamic strain resolution of 96 ne Hz-1/2 at 13 Hz. The second approach utilizes wide gratings larger than the channel spacing of the AWG; by monitoring the intensity present in several neighbouring AWG channels an improved range of 1890 µe was achieved. The third method improves the dynamic range by utilizing a heterodyne approach based on interferometric wavelength shift detection, providing an improved dynamic strain resolution of 17 ne Hz-1/2 at 30 Hz.

Fiber Bragg grating sensor interrogation system using a CCD side detection method with Superimposed blazed gratings

We present, for the first time to our knowledge, experimental evidence showing that superimposed blazed fiber Bragg gratings may be fabricated and used to extend the dynamic range of a grating-based spectrometer. Blazed gratings of 4° and 8° were superimposed in germanosilicate fiber by ultraviolet inscription and used in conjunction with a coated charged-coupled device array to interrogate a wavelength-division-multiplexing sensor array. We show that the system can be used to monitor strain and temperature sensors simultaneously with an employable bandwidth which is extendable to 70 nm.

Optical fibre sensors and their interrogation

This thesis describes novel developments in the fabrication and understanding of type IA fibre Bragg gratings, the uses of said gratings as optical sensors and the interrogation of optical sensors using tilted fibre Bragg gratings. This thesis presents the most detailed study of type IA gratings performed to date and provides the basis of a dual grating optical sensor capable of independently measuring strain and temperature. Until this work it was not known how to reliably fabricate type IA gratings or how they would react to high ambient temperatures, nor was it known what effect external parameters such as fibre type, dopant levels, inscription laser intensity, or hydrogenation levels would have on the physical properties of the grating. This comprehensive study has yielded answers to all of these unknowns and produced several unexpected uses for type IA gratings, such as the use of the previously unreported strong loss band at 1400nm to locally heat fibres by optical absorption and thereby fabricate optically tuneable gratings which do not affect directly adjacent standard gratings. Blazed fibre Bragg gratings have been studied in detail and used to produce several high quality prototype sensor interrogation systems yielding stability an accuracy values unsurpassed by similar devices reported in literature. An accurate distribution map of light radiated by blazed gratings is shown for the first time and has been studied in respect of polarisation state showing that for certain easily achievable conditions a blazed grating spectrometer may be deemed to be polarisation insensitive. In a novel implementation of the system, it is shown that the dynamic wavelength range of a blazed grating spectrometer may be at least doubled by superimposing blazed gratings.