The last thing William Shakespeare wants to be is predictable. Roughly halfway through his published collection of one hundred and fifty-four sonnets, he frets that we may find it dull that he “write[s] . . . all one, ever the same,” producing one fourteen-line poem after another (76.5). He has reason to worry: he rarely allows himself to deviate from a strict iambic pentameter, and holds his v...

Acknowledgments This research project would not have been finished if I had not the help of some people. First, I would like to thank Sheelagh Carpendale, my supervisor in Calgary, and Henry Sonnet, my supervisor in Magdeburg, for giving me the opportunity to do my internship in Canada in a great lab with great people. Special thanks to Stacey, Mike B., Russel, Gregor and Ed who helped me a lot...

This paper aims to examine the eighteenth-century British poet, Mary Steele’s “Sonnet, 1795” in terms of recuperative power act writing and relationship between semiotic symbolic. The study suggests that sonnet serves as poetic testament symbolic real life historical author who manage her emotional suffering mental agony via therapeutic writing. female has a confrontation with what is be repres...

7 Sonnet S Jonker, George D Giraud, Herbert M Espinoza, Erica N Davis, Dane A Crossley II. 8 Knight Cardiovascular Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon; Department of 9 Physiology and Pharmacology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon; VA Portland 10 Health Care System, Portland, Oregon; Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, 11 ...

The need for natural language generation (NLG) arises in diverse, multimodal contexts: ranging from describing stories captured in a photograph, to instructing how to prepare a dish using a given set of ingredients, and to composing a sonnet for a given topic phrase. One common challenge among these types of NLG tasks is that the generation model often needs to work with relatively loose semant...

OBJECTIVE To determine the impact of the fixed and adaptive beamforming technology of the new MED-EL SONNET cochlear implant audio processor on speech perception in noise. METHODS The study cohort comprises 18 postlingually deafened adult cochlear implant recipients with at least six months of experience. Speech reception thresholds were measured with the Oldenburg Sentence Test in continuous...