Nguyễn Cung Thông

Bài này (phần 47A) bàn về giọng Sài Gòn và những đặc tính của giọng này cũng như các nguyên nhân có thể dẫn đến 5 thanh điệu (vì không phân biệt rõ thanh hỏi và thanh ngã) như trong tiếng Việt hiện đại. Nội dung tóm tắt các trao đổi trên diễn đàn du học sinh Colombo Plan ở Úc về cùng chủ đề vào tháng 8 và tháng 9 năm 2024. Nếu cách phát âm của từng chữ là yếu tố quan trọng để phát hiện phương ngữ của tiếng Anh, Pháp thì thanh điệu lại là một tiêu chuẩn ban đầu cho ta phân biệt phương ngữ tiếng Việt một cách đơn giản. Bài này chú trọng vào khuynh hướng thay đổi thanh hỏi và ngã của giọng Bắc so sánh với giọng Nam Bộ (Sài Gòn) hiện nay, đặc biệt qua sự ghi nhận bằng chữ quốc ngữ. Tiếp tục đọc “Tiếng Việt từ TK 17: các thanh hỏi ngã trong chữ quốc ngữ và giọng Sài Gòn (phần 47A)” →

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Security Council
SC/15692
10 May 2024

Security Council Press Statement on Mass Graves in Gaza

The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Pedro Comissário Afonso (Mozambique):

The members of the Security Council expressed their deep concern over reports of the discovery of mass graves, in and around the Nasser and Al Shifa medical facilities in Gaza, where several hundred bodies, including women, children and older persons, were buried.

The members of the Security Council underlined the need for accountability for violations of international law and called for investigators to be allowed the unimpeded access to all locations of mass graves in Gaza to conduct immediate, independent, thorough, comprehensive, transparent and impartial investigations to establish the circumstances behind the graves.

The members of the Security Council reiterated their demand that all parties scrupulously comply with their obligations under international law, including international humanitarian law and international human rights law, in particular regarding the protection of civilians and civilian objects.

The members of the Security Council reaffirmed the importance of allowing families to know the fate and whereabouts of their missing relatives, consistent with international humanitarian law.

The members of the Security Council emphasized the imperative of all parties to immediately and fully implement resolutions 2728 (2024), 2720 (2023) and 2712 (2023).

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math.stackexchange

When I studied chemical engineering I often found the need to rewrite lecture notes, handouts and books in order to gain a thorough understanding of the subject I was reading. As much as time permitted I used to draw mindmaps of the reading material combining the symbols on the left in the image below:

The first ones are probably known, but some of these may need some explanation. I will list all of them with my own explantions to make clear what I mean.

1. B is a part of A. B is a subset of A. B is a property of A.
2. B is partly a part of A. B is a almost a subset of A. B is to a very small degree a property of A.
3. A equals B. A and B are the same thing.
4. B is a consequence of A. If A happens then B happens as a consequence.
5. A becomes B. First there is only A, later there is only B.
6. This describes a process or a verb. A is put into B. Example: A reactant (A) is fed into a reactor (B).
7. A affects property B and causes a decrease, and B is a property of some other object as drawn in 1.
8. A affects property B and causes an increase, and B is a property of some other object as drawn in 1.
9. A intends to cause B to come into existance. Example: A company (A) strives to create profit (B).
10. A strives/wants/intends to become B. Example: One strives to keep the concentration of reactant (A) in a reactor to be 0.1 mol/liter (B).

What are the conventional mathematical names and symbols used to denote these relations above?

Answer

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© UNICEF/Eyad El Baba Babies are fed at Al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza. (file) 19 January 2024Humanitarian Aid Babies are being “delivered into hell” in Gaza with many others likely dying as a result of conflict with Israel and increasingly dire conditions in the enclave, UN humanitarians warned on Friday. Reiterating urgent international calls for a ceasefire, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported that there have been nearly 20,000 births since the start of widespread Israeli bombardment in response to Hamas-led attacks in Israel that left some 1,200 dead and approximately 250 taken hostage. Chronic aid access problems have meant that Caesarean sections have been performed without anaesthetic while other women have been unable to deliver their stillborn babies because medical staff are overwhelmed, the UN agency said. Tiếp tục đọc “Gaza crisis: Babies being born ‘into hell’ amid desperate aid shortages” →