Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Forgetting Fascism: Memory, History, and the Literary Text in Umberto Eco's La misteriosa fiamma della regina Loana

This article focuses on the relationship between the categories of memory, history, and the literary text in order to ask how and why Eco's La misteriosa fiamma della regina Loana might be involved in the project of forgetting fascism. It draws on recent historiographical scholarship concerning the relationship between history and memory—especially that strand focusing on collective memory and national identity—and suggests that the memories reconstructed in this literary text are shaped by the political realities of present-day Italy. The author argues that, contrary to what one might think, Eco's narrative positions the reader to forget fascism more than to remember it or come to terms with its memory. She shows how the erasure of the memory operates through the narrative trope of schizophrenia, and argues that the so-called 'critical reader' may discern the trace of the memory of fascism that remains. On a larger scale, the article presents the idea that this literary text participates in a series of problematic yet culturally dominant narratives about fascism that presently are and historically have been utilized by both the political right and left in Italy, although to differing ends.
Towards application-centric implicit authentication on smartphones

Implicit authentication schemes are a secondary authentication mechanism that provides authentication by employing unique patterns of device use that are gathered from smartphone users without requiring deliberate actions. Contemporary implicit authentication schemes operate at the device level such that they neither discriminate between data from different applications nor make any assumption about the nature of the application that the user is currently using. In this paper, we challenge the device-centric approach to implicit authentication on smartphones. We argue that the conventional approach of misuse detection at the device level has inherent limitations for mobile platforms. To this end, we analyze and empirically evaluate the device-centric nature of implicit authentication schemes to show their limitations in terms of detection accuracy, authentication overhead, and fine grained authentication control. To mitigate these limitations and for effective and pragmatic implicit authentication on the mobile platform, we propose a novel application-centric implicit authentication approach. We observe that for implicit authentication, an application knows best on when to authenticate and how to authenticate. Therefore, we delegate the implicit authentication task to the application and let the application provider decide when and how to authenticate a user in order to protect the owner's personal information. Our proposed application-centric implicit authentication approach improves accuracy and provides fine grained authentication control with low authentication overhead. Future research in this domain will benefit from our findings to provide pragmatic implicit authentication solutions.
The Role of Pubertal Timing in What Adolescent Boys Do Online

The aim of this study was to investigate associations between pubertal timing and boys' Internet use, particularly their viewing of pornography. We used a sample comprising of 97 boys in grade 8 (M age, 14.22 years) from two schools in a medium-sized Swedish town. This age should be optimal for differentiating early, on-time, and later-maturing boys. Boys responded to self-report questionnaires on their Internet use and pubertal timing. Early, on-time, and late-maturing boys did not differ in terms of most Internet activities. However, early maturers reported downloading and viewing pornography more often than the other boys did (p<.001). The findings build on previous research on the link between pubertal timing and sexual behavior in adolescence. Moreover, they help further understanding of the behavioral implications of boys' pubertal timing.
Navigation of UAV using phased array radio

Navigation and communication are two of the major challenges when flying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS), in particular when Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are unavailable. The phased array radio system used in this paper aims to solve both communication and navigation with one system. To enable high efficiency data transfer, the radio system uses electronic beamforming to direct the energy from the ground radio towards the UAV, but to be able to do this, the ground radio needs to know the bearing and elevation angles towards the UAV. By measuring the round-trip time to compute the range and observing the direction of the incoming signal to compute the bearing and elevation angles, the phased array radio system is able to find the position of the UAV, relative to the ground radio, in all three dimensions. The phased array system is shown to provide absolute measurements for UAV navigation in radio line of sight, which can be used as a redundant system to GNSS measurements. By merging the radio measurements with barometer altitude data, a mean accuracy of approximately 24 m with a standard deviation of approximately 17 m compared to the real time kinematic (RTK) satellite navigation solution is achieved on a UAV flight at a distance of approximately 5 km.
Theme 1: Masking and Frequency Selectivity

The main theme in this topic area is to highlight the different approaches taken by hearing scientists to characterize the human auditory system. If our auditory system behaves like a linear time-invariant system, whereby the response of the cochlear filter is completely described by the relationship between its inputs and its outputs, such characterization would be a trivial matter. However, our peripheral auditory system is non-linear and is also coupled by further up-stream processing at higher levels in the auditory system. Therefore many different approaches need to be cross-referenced to ascertain whether a given representation of the human auditory system characteristic is valid. In this report, the studies of non-linear phenomena in our auditory system, both in psychophysical and physiological experiments are highlighted. Such non-linearities include two tone rate suppression, basilar membrane (BM) compression near the characteristic frequency (CF), cochlear amplification, and the psychophysical phenomena of simultaneous and nonsimultaneous masking.
PAR 2-induced inflammatory responses in human kidney tubular epithelial cells

David A. Vesey, Jacky Y. Suen, Vernon Seow, Rink-Jan Lohman, Ligong Liu, Glenda C. Gobe, David W. Johnson, and David P. Fairlie Centre for Kidney Disease Research, The University of Queensland Department of Medicine at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, Queensland, Australia; Department of Nephrology, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Queensland, Australia; and Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
The Evolution of Circumstellar Disks in Ophiuchus Binaries

Four Ophiuchus binaries, two Class I systems and two Class II systems, with separations of ~450-1100 AU, were observed with the Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) millimeter interferometer. In each system, the 3 mm continuum maps show dust emission at the location of the primary star, but no emission at the position of the secondary. This result is different from observations of less evolved Class 0 binaries, in which dust emission is detected from both sources. The nondetection of secondary disks is, however, similar to the dust distribution seen in wide Class II Taurus binaries. The combined OVRO results from the Ophiuchus and Taurus binaries suggest that secondary disk masses are significantly lower than primary disk masses by the Class II stage, with initial evidence that massive secondary disks are reduced by the Class I stage. Although some of the secondaries retain hot inner disk material, the early dissipation of massive outer disks may negatively impact planet formation around secondary stars. Masses for the circumprimary disks are within the range of masses measured for disks around single T Tauri stars and, in some cases, larger than the minimum mass solar nebula. More massive primary disks are predicted by several formation models and are broadly consistent with the observations. Combining the 3 mm data with previous 1.3 mm observations, the dust opacity power-law index for each primary disk is estimated. The opacity index values are all less than the scaling for interstellar dust, possibly indicating grain growth within the circumprimary disks.
A Design Study of Direct‐Touch Interaction for Exploratory 3D Scientific Visualization

We present an interaction design study of several non‐overlapping direct‐touch interaction widgets, postures, and bi‐manual techniques to support the needs of scientists who are exploring a dataset. The final interaction design supports navigation/zoom, cutting plane interaction, a drilling exploration, the placement of seed particles in 3D space, and the exploration of temporal data evolution. To ground our design, we conducted a requirements analysis and used a participatory design approach throughout development. We chose simulations in the field of fluid mechanics as our example domain and, in the paper, discuss our choice of techniques, their adaptation to our target domain, and discuss how they facilitate the necessary combination of visualization control and data exploration. We evaluated our resulting interactive data exploration system with seven fluid mechanics experts and report on their qualitative feedback. While we use flow visualization as our application domain, the developed techniques were designed with generalizability in mind and we discuss several implications of our work on further development of direct‐touch data exploration techniques for scientific visualization in general.
New ways of insulin delivery

The last year was not a good year for new ways of insulin delivery, at least when you regard the number of publications about this topic as a reflection about the scientific and commercial interest in this area of research. Not only has the number of papers published from the middle of 2010 to the middle of 2011 about inhaled insulin decreased in comparison with the years before, but also in general there were a limited number of publications about alternative routes of insulin administration (ARIA). Thus the number of clinical studies published in leading peerreviewed journals that can be presented here is small. Simply no data from a clinical study were published about nasal insulin, dermal insulin or transdermal insulin developments; it appears as if there is a standstill with these approaches. It would be quite helpful for this area of research if at least one product came to the market in 2012 (e.g. inhaled insulin ⁄ Technosphere insulin). It might be that an oral insulin formulation will come to the market in the next few years, but most probably in less regulated markets. The story is clearly different when it comes to insulin pens; there is an increasing number of publications about these widely used devices.
Delivery of Molecular and Cellular Medicine to Solid Tumors

To reach cancer cells in a tumor, a blood‐borne therapeutic molecule or cell must make its way into the blood vessels of the tumor and across the vessel wall into the interstitium and finally migrate through the interstitium. Unfortunately, tumors often develop in ways that hinder each of these steps. Our research goals are to analyze each of these steps experimentally and theoretically and then integrate the resulting information in a unified theoretical framework. This paradigm of analysis and synthesis has allowed us to obtain a better understanding of physiologic barriers in solid tumors and to develop novel strategies to exploit and/or to overcome these barriers for improved cancer detection and treatment.
A replicated resource architecture for high performance network service

Distributed Learning Environments represent the hope that communications and information technology can improve and widen access to education while maintaining and improving its quality. Such environments consist of network applications and services. Good interactive response time is crucial to their success. Slow responses can quickly dissuade teachers and learners alike from investing their time in the use of these services. Responsiveness timings taken across 155 Mb/s IP/ATM networks have exposed traditional monolithic server performance as the main bottleneck in interactive response time. A strategy of providing bigger and faster monolithic server hardware in response to each occurrence of system slow down is not a good solution as it is expensive and inflexible. Cluster computing has proven a successful and cost effective alternative to conventional supercomputing and it would now seem to be appropriate to investigate its application to the problem of high performance network service provision. In order to research this issue a replicated resolute architecture has been designed to harness the combined power of multiple independent computers. The architecture is outlined and an initial implementation of its core component, a coherence server, is described. Results are presented which indicate that this approach is viable within the context of Distributed Learning Environments.
Using simulation in a vocational programme: does the method support the theory?

Use of simulation is well established as a way of learning and assessing skills in vocational disciplines. In many institutions the use of simulation with student nurses is being tested as a way of helping them learn clinical skills, problem‐solving, clinical assessment and decision‐making. This paper explores the value of simulation as a learning tool through the presentation of findings from an evaluative research project into the use of simulation in nursing education. The focus of this paper is how students perceive that simulations help them learn and suggests that simulation may play a part in how students perceive learning that is meaningful to them. A literature review on the use of simulation is presented together with literature related to the learning theory that underpins simulation. The methodology, data collection and findings of the evaluative study are then presented followed by a discussion of the findings. Although the original research did not set out to examine how students perceived that simulations influenced their learning, the analysis indicated that this was a significant issue for them. Conclusions are drawn about how learning theory and simulation can be brought together to enhance student learning.
Forearm Posture and Mobility in Quadrupedal Dinosaurs

Quadrupedality evolved four independent times in dinosaurs; however, the constraints associated with these transitions in limb anatomy and function remain poorly understood, in particular the evolution of forearm posture and rotational ability (i.e., active pronation and supination). Results of previous qualitative studies are inconsistent, likely due to an inability to quantitatively assess the likelihood of their conclusions. We attempt to quantify antebrachial posture and mobility using the radius bone because its morphology is distinct between extant sprawled taxa with a limited active pronation ability and parasagittal taxa that have an enhanced ability to actively pronate the manus. We used a sliding semi-landmark, outline-based geometric morphometric approach of the proximal radial head and a measurement of the angle of curvature of the radius in a sample of 189 mammals, 49 dinosaurs, 35 squamates, 16 birds, and 5 crocodilians. Our results of radial head morphology showed that quadrupedal ceratopsians, bipedal non-hadrosaurid ornithopods, and theropods had limited pronation/supination ability, and sauropodomorphs have unique radial head morphology that likely allowed limited rotational ability. However, the curvature of the radius showed that no dinosaurian clade had the ability to cross the radius about the ulna, suggesting parallel antebrachial elements for all quadrupedal dinosaurs. We conclude that the bipedal origins of all quadrupedal dinosaur clades could have allowed for greater disparity in forelimb posture than previously appreciated, and future studies on dinosaur posture should not limit their classifications to the overly simplistic extant dichotomy.
Colorectal Cancer Screening at the Nexus of HIV, Minority Statuses, and Cultural Safety

Background The incidence of non-AIDS-defining cancers has increased significantly among persons living with HIV (PLHIV). Screening education is recommended. Purpose Social learning, minority stress, and cultural safety theories informed this pilot to assess the feasibility of a colorectal cancer screening intervention targeted to PLHIV, with additional tailoring for relevance to Native Hawaiians, a group with low participation in cancer screening. Method The targeted education included behavioral modeling and barriers counseling in a culturally safe environment. Using a 2-group, pre/posttest design, AIDS service organizations were randomized to culturally responsive or standard education. AIDS service organizations consumers recruited through venue-based promotions were the unit of analysis. Knowledge–attitudes–practices, fecal occult blood test screening completion, and intervention feasibility were measured. Results Treatment arm participants, regardless of ethnicity, adhered to fecal occult blood test instructions and achieved increases in screening knowledge, attitudes, and practices. Relevance and acceptability of the educational intervention were endorsed. Discussion The culturally responsive intervention was successful in this group of PLHIV. Additional tailoring may be needed to reach PLHIV who do not participate in organizational activities. Conclusion/Translation to Health Education Practice This culturally responsive intervention shows promise for efficacy testing in a broader PLHIV population. Constituent-involving strategies were central to its development and delivery.
A generalized likelihood ratio approach to the detection and estimation of jumps in linear systems

We consider a class of stochastic linear systems that are subject to jumps of unknown magnitudes in the state variables occurring at unknown times. This model can be used when considering such problems as estimation for systems subject to possible component failures and the tracking of vehicles capable of abrupt maneuvers. Using Kalman-Bucy filtering and generalized likelihood ratio techniques, we devise an adaptive filtering system for the detection and estimation of the jumps. An example that illustrates the dynamical properties of our filtering scheme is discusssed in detail.
Network Analysis of miRNA and Protein Expression Profiles in Breast Cancer Patients

miRNAs and proteins are key regulators of gene expression, but their roles lead to tumor initiation and progression are not very well characterized. To better understand their dynamics in a systematic approach, this paper employs network analysis method to investigate their molecular activity and network-wide function in breast cancer patients. Random forest model has been used for filtering and wrapping miRNAs and proteins expression profiles from breast cancer patients' normal and tumor tissues. Maximal Information Coefficient of every two miRNAs or proteins is calculated as distance of two nodes in each network. Comparing the miRNAs network from normal tissue and tumor tissue, 10 nodes in two networks are selected respectively based on the differences in distance. Namely, hsa-mir-101-2, hsa-mir-10b, hsa-mir-130b, hsa-mir-190b, hsa-mir-193a, hsa-mir-204, hsa-mir-28, hsa-mir-365-2, hsa-mir-375, hsa-mir-192, including eight miRNAs are highly related with breast cancer. Similarly, E-Cadherin, PI3K, Caveolin, GSK3, XBP1, Bax, and syk have been identified in the proteins network associated with breast cancer. This novel method will yield deep insight into the regulatory architecture of breast cancer initiation and progression.
Presurgical Orthopedic Treatment Ameliorates Postoperative Nasal Deformity After Cheiloplasty

AbstractWe assessed the postoperative nasal form and symmetry after presurgical use of a Hotz plate (HP) in patients with unilateral complete cleft lip and palate (UCLP). The subjects were 28 infants with UCLP who underwent cheiloplasty. Of these subjects, 14 underwent presurgical orthopedic treatment using the HP (HP group) and 14 underwent the same treatment without the HP (non–HP group). Photographic records were obtained 1 and 6 months after cheiloplasty, and the results of anthropometric analysis were compared between the 2 groups. The nasal inclination and the ratio of the width of the nasal base to the total width of the nose were significantly improved in the HP group compared with the non–HP group at both postoperative time points. Thus, presurgical use of the HP significantly improved the nasal asymmetry and deformity in UCLP patients after primary cheiloplasty and nasal repair.
Leakage Power Reduction by using Sleep Switches in Domino Logic Circuit Design in DSM Technology

Power consumption is hurdle problem face by nanometer CMOS circuit in deep submicron process (DSM) technology. As technology scales down, leakage power significantly increases very rapidly due to high transistor density, reduced voltage and oxide thickness. A new circuit technique based on: “Sleep Switch” is proposed in this paper for reducing the subthreshold and gate oxide leakage currents when circuit is operating in idle and non idle mode in domino circuit design. In this technique a p-type and an n-type leakage controlled sleep transistor are introduced between the pull-up and pull-down network and their gates are controlled by the source of the other. For any combination of input, one of the Sleep transistor will operate near cut off region which increase the resistance path between supply voltage and ground resulting in reduced leakage current. The proposed circuit technique reduces the active power consumption by 14.3% to 44.45% and by 12% to 33% at the low and high die temperature respectively compared to the standard footerless domino logic circuits. During idle mode, 11.64% to 78.39% and 21.2% to 36.19% reduction of leakage current is observed with low and high inputs at 25C and 110C respectively. Similarly, during non-idle mode 0.94% to 99.3% and 1.57% to 98.58% is observed with low and high inputs at 25C to 110C respectively when compared to standard footerless domino logic circuits.
A Continuous Spatial Index of a Triangulated Surface

We show how to build a continuous, one-dimensional index of the points on a triangulated twodimensional manifold such as a surface map of a geographic information system. The method involves creating an adjacency-preserving ordering of the triangular regions and then indexing each region with a space lling curve oriented in a special way. We prove that a continuous path can be created through any triangulation T , and that a continuous circuit can be constructed through all but a certain family of triangulations. We provide a construction algorithm requiring O(n) steps, when T has n faces. We characterize the family of noncircuit-indexable triangulations, and provide a simple O(n) necessary and su cient test condition for circuit-indexability. We show how continuous paths and circuits can be extended to hierarchical triangulations, requiring only local changes to existing indices. When a cell in T is itself triangulated withm triangles, the current index of T can be augmented in O(m) steps.