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What are cultural metaphors?

Baranyiné Kóczy Judit

Publication Name: Magyar Nyelvor

Publication Date: 2017-01-01

Volume: 141

Issue: 4

Page Range: 404-425

Description:

One of the central issues in metaphor research is the interrelation of metaphors and cultural experience (Gibbs 2017; Kövecses 2005a, 2015; Sharifian 2011). As part of that research agenda, the notion of cultural metaphor has become one of the major categories of cultural linguistics (Sharifian 2011, to appear). The multidisciplinary theoretical framework interprets cultural metaphors within the set of cultural conceptualisations whose common trait is that they are rooted in a system of values and principles characteristic of a community. The aim of this paper is to outline the notion of cultural metaphor, and present its most important characteristics and dimensions of study in a cultural linguistic framework. First, its close connection is introduced with cultural schemas (including emotional schemas and event schemas) and cultural categories, and then it is argued that individual cultural metaphors cannot be taken to be elaborations of a more generic conceptual metaphor (Kövecses 2005ab). Next, it is discussed how source domains and target domains can be brought to bear on cultural cognition. Finally, metaphor preference (Benczes & Ságvári to appear) is discussed as an instance, broadly construed, of cultural metaphors. It is argued that, albeit cultural metaphors are of a conceptual nature, their conceptual structure is largely determined by cultural experience, hence their analysis primarily targets experiences and suppositions that make them culturally decisive. The theoretical claims of the paper are illustrated by cultural metaphors taken from Hungarian folk songs, along with examples borrowed from the relevant literature (Yu 2017; Yu-Jia 2016).

Open Access: Yes

DOI: DOI not available

Female physicians' and nurses' self-rated general and psychosocial health status and health behaviour in Hungary

Kovácsné Tóth Ágnes Feith Helga Judit Balázs Péter

Publication Name: New Medicine

Publication Date: 2007-07-01

Volume: 11

Issue: 3

Page Range: 55-58

Description:

Aim. This study analyses the self-rated general and psychosocial health of female physicians and nurses in Hungary related to healthy lifestyle habits and individual behavioural patterns. Material and method. cross-sectional data were taken by a questionnaire survey among Hungarian female health care staff members (N=409) selected representatively in 2005 (responding rate 45.5%). Results. Six out of ten staff members mentioned at least one health problem. Strongly related to self-rated health (SRH) were role conflicts (p<0.001), pessimistic future expectations (p<0.001), perceived difficulties in maintaining the actual partnership (p=0.001), and satisfaction with one's life and career (p<0.001). About 40% said that they did some sports once a week or even more frequently. Smokers represented 24.4%. Conclusion. The results obtained suggest that health is not a highly appreciated value among female staff members in Hungarian health care. Moreover, their health-related behaviour is at a substandard level. Improving this situation should be a priority aim of any intervention. ©Borgis.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: DOI not available

The Interpretive Practice of the Hungarian Constitutional Court: A Critical View

Zoltán Szente

Publication Name: German Law Journal

Publication Date: 2013-08-01

Volume: 14

Issue: 8

Page Range: 1591-1614

Description:

No description provided

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1017/S2071832200002418

Design and Evaluation of Abstract Aggregated Avatars in VR Workspaces

Ádam Csapó Gyorgy Persa

Publication Name: Infocommunications Journal

Publication Date: 2024-01-01

Volume: Unknown

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: 92-101

Description:

Avatars are commonly used in digital platforms to provide a visual representation of individual users to each other. Generally, avatar design in the past has focused on achieving visual fidelity and realism of social interactions. In this paper, we broaden the concept of avatars to incorporate displays using an abstract visual language and conveying information on aggregated, interpersonal information from the perspective of the digital platform as a whole. We propose a general design methodology for such aggregated avatars, and also introduce and experimentally evaluate an aggregated avatar which we have developed on the MaxWhere VR platform. Results are promising in that users were able to discern several key states of the avatar and correctly associate them with the correct virtual reality scenarios in a statistically meaningful way.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.36244/ICJ.2024.5.11

Thermodynamic tests with nano-ceramic thermal insulation coatings

Dávid Bozsaky

Publication Name: Pollack Periodica

Publication Date: 2017-01-01

Volume: 12

Issue: 1

Page Range: 135-145

Description:

From nanotechnology-based thermal insulation materials nano-ceramic thermal insulation coatings are generally considered to be the most critical because of contradictory technical data that could be founded in special literature. Complete agreement had not been already found about the mechanism how does their insulating effect take. In the Laboratory of Building Materials and Building Physics at Széchenyi István University (Gyo′r, Hungary) several thermodynamic tests were made in order to find out thermodynamic process inside this material. Several building structures with different order of layers were tested with heat flow meter. Results showed that convective heat transfer coefficient cannot be taken account in usual way using this material as thermal insulation.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1556/606.2017.12.1.11

Application of quadtrees in the method of fundamental solutions using multi-level tools

Csaba Gáspár

Publication Name: Sema Simai Springer Series

Publication Date: 2020-01-01

Volume: 23

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: 41-57

Description:

The traditional version of the Method of Fundamental Solutions is revisited, which is based on using external sources. The sources are defined in a completely automatic way using a quadtree cell system controlled by the boundary of the domain. This results in a spatial density distribution of sources which decreases rapidly when going far away from the boundary. A similar technique is also proposed, when the sources are located along the boundary (which can be automated easily) and the collocation points are moved into the interior of the domain. In this case, the boundary conditions have to be properly redefined at the inner collocation points, This is done by using boundary-controlled quadtrees again. Both techniques can be embedded in a multi-level context in a natural way. The accuracy of the resulting methods are less than that of the traditional Method of Fundamental Solutions, but it is still acceptable. However, the computational cost is more moderate and the problems of singularity and the extremely ill-conditioned matrices are avoided.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-52804-1_3

Timing Chain Test Bench Equipped with Hydraulic Chain Force Control †

Cs Tóth-Nagy L. Paulovics László Boros

Publication Name: Engineering Proceedings

Publication Date: 2025-01-01

Volume: 113

Issue: 1

Page Range: Unknown

Description:

The condition of the lubricating oil is a critical factor for the lifetime of internal combustion engines. The timing chain is a particularly sensitive component to the oil quality, so it can be used as an indicator when the effect of the oil quality and contamination on the engine has to be examined. For this purpose, a unique timing chain test bench was developed at the Department of Propulsion Technology at Széchenyi István University. This paper presents the function of this test equipment and the results of the first tests aimed at comparing the wear of a diesel engine’s timing chain using various soot-contaminated engine oils. A significant difference in wear was detected after 25 h of operation using oils with different soot contents. In the case of oil comparison studies, the chain test bench can be a cheap and fast alternative to engine dynamometer tests.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.3390/engproc2025113029

Annex 1: The Age of Empires – Trends in the Development of Europe and Its Empires in the Mirror of a Hundred Years (1814 –1914) – Preface to a Thematic Conference Research and its Studies

Balázs Pálvölgyi Attila Barna

Publication Name: Journal on European History of Law

Publication Date: 2025-01-01

Volume: 16

Issue: 2

Page Range: 49

Description:

No description provided

Open Access: Yes

DOI: DOI not available

Discovery and Interactive Representation of the Dimensionless Parameter-Space of the Spring-Loaded Inverted Pendulum Model of Legged Locomotion Using Surface Interpolation

Ambrus Zelei Dóra Patkó Ábel Mihály Nagy

Publication Name: Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics

Publication Date: 2024-01-01

Volume: 454

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: 373-386

Description:

The spring-loaded inverted pendulum is a widely used model of legged locomotion. However, a complete map of the dimensionless parameter regions that correspond to the stable periodic solutions cannot be found in the literature. In this work, the three-dimensional space of two dimensionless physical parameters and the dimensionless total mechanical energy of the conservative system was discovered by means of numerical continuation. The fundament of the stability analysis of the piecewise-smooth system was provided by the numerical calculation of the fundamental solution matrices and the monodromy matrix. An effective iteration procedure based on the Nelder-Mead method is presented which tunes the model parameters in order to imitate the motion characteristics of specific animals and locomotion types such as running, trotting and galloping. The results are available online in the form of an interactive platform.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-56496-3_24