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Determinants of 1500-m Front-Crawl Swimming Performance in Triathletes: Influence of Physiological and Biomechanical Variables
Authors: López-Belmonte Óscar , Ruiz-Navarro Jesús J. , Gay Ana , Cuenca-Fernández Francisco , Cejuela Roberto , Arellano Raúl 
Published: September 2023

Purpose: To analyze the associations between physiological and biomechanical variables with the FINA (International Swimming Federation) points (ie, swimming performance) obtained in 1500-m front-crawl swimming to determine whether these variables can be used to explain triathletes’ FINA points. Methods: Fourteen world-class, international and national triathletes (10 male: 23.24 [3.70] y and 4 female: 23.36 [3.76] y) performed a 1500-m front-crawl swimming test in a short-course pool. Heart rate (HR), oxygen uptake (), and blood lactate concentrations were obtained before and after the test. HR was also measured during the effort. Highest value () was estimated by extrapolation. Clean swimming speed, turn performance, stroke rate, stroke length, and stroke index (SI) were obtained by video analysis. Results: Average 1500-m performance times were 1088 (45) seconds and 1144 (31) seconds for males and females, respectively. HR after the effort, , aerobic contributions, total energy expenditure, energy cost, and turn performance presented moderate negative associations with swimming performance (r ≈ .5). In contrast, respiratory exchange ratio, anaerobic alactic contribution, clean swimming speed, stroke length, and SI were positively related, with clean swimming speed and SI having a strong large association (r ≈ .7). A multiple stepwise regression model determined that 71% of the variance in FINA points was explained by SI and total energy expenditure, being predictors in 1500-m front-crawl swimming. Conclusions: Swimming performance in triathletes was determined by the athletes’ energy demands and biomechanical variables. Thus, coaches should develop specific technique skills to improve triathletes’ swimming efficiency.
IOSR: Improving I/O Efficiency for Memory Swapping on Mobile Devices Via Scheduling and Reshaping
Authors: Li Wentong , Shi Liang , Li Hang , Li Changlong , Sha Edwin Hsing-Mean 
Published: September 2023

Mobile systems and applications are becoming increasingly feature-rich and powerful, which constantly suffer from memory pressure, especially for devices equipped with limited DRAM. Swapping inactive DRAM pages to the storage device is a promising solution to extend the physical memory. However, existing mobile devices usually adopt flash memory as the storage device, where swapping DRAM pages to flash memory may introduce significant performance overhead. In this paper, we first conduct an in-depth analysis of the I/O characteristics of the flash-based memory swapping, including the I/O interference and swap I/O randomness in swap subsystem. Then an I/O efficiency optimization framework for memory swapping (IOSR) is proposed to enhance the performance of flash-based memory swapping for mobile devices. IOSR consists of two methods: swap I/O scheduling (SIOS) and swap I/O pattern reshaping (SIOR). SIOS is designed to schedule the swap I/O to reduce interference with other processes I/Os. SIOR is designed to reshape the swap I/O pattern with process-oriented swap slot allocation and adaptive granularity swap read-ahead. IOSR is implemented on Google Pixel 4. Experimental results show that IOSR reduces the application switching time by 31.7% and improves the swap-in bandwidth by 35.5% on average compared to the state-of-the-art.
Let Coarse-Grained Resources Be Shared: Mapping Entire Neural Networks on FPGAs
Authors: Juang Tzung-Han , Schlaak Christof , Dubach Christophe 
Published: September 2023

Traditional High-Level Synthesis (HLS) provides rapid prototyping of hardware accelerators without coding with Hardware Description Languages (HDLs). However, such an approach does not well support allocating large applications like entire deep neural networks on a single Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) device. The approach leads to designs that are inefficient or do not fit into FPGAs due to resource constraints.
This work proposes to shrink generated designs by coarse-grained resource control based on function sharing in functional Intermediate Representations (IRs). The proposed compiler passes and rewrite system aim at producing valid design points and removing redundant hardware. Such optimizations make fitting entire neural networks on FPGAs feasible and produce competitive performance compared to running specialized kernels for each layer.
Methods to Realize Preemption in Phased Execution Models
Authors: Thilakasiri Thilanka , Becker Matthias 
Published: September 2023

Phased execution models are a good solution to tame the increased complexity and contention of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) multi-core platforms, e.g., Acquisition-Execution-Restitution (AER) model, PRedictable Execution Model (PREM). Such models separate execution from access to shared resources on the platform to minimize contention. All data and instructions needed during an execution phase are copied into the local memory of the core before starting to execute. Phased execution models are generally used with non-preemptive scheduling to increase predictability. However, the blocking time in non-preemptive systems can reduce schedulability. Therefore, an investigation of preemption methods for phased execution models is warranted. Although, preemption for phased execution models must be carefully designed to retain its execution semantics, i.e., the handling of local memory during preemption becomes non-trivial.
This paper investigates different methods to realize preemption in phased execution models while preserving their semantics. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to explore different approaches to implement preemption in phased execution models from the perspective of data management. We introduce two strategies to realize preemption of execution phases based on different methods of handling local data of the preempted task. Heuristics are used to create time-triggered schedules for task sets that follow the proposed preemption methods. Additionally, a schedulability-aware preemption heuristic is proposed to reduce the number of preemptions by allowing preemption only when it is beneficial in terms of schedulability. Evaluations on a large number of synthetic task sets are performed to compare the proposed preemption models against each other and against a non-preemptive version. Furthermore, our schedulability-aware preemption heuristic has higher schedulability with a clear margin in all our experiments compared to the non-preemptive and fully-preemptive versions.
ANV-PUF: Machine-Learning-Resilient NVM-Based Arbiter PUF
Authors: Nassar Hassan , Bauer Lars , Henkel Jörg 
Published: September 2023

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) have been widely considered an attractive security primitive. They use the deviations in the fabrication process to have unique responses from each device. Due to their nature, they serve as a DNA-like identity of the device. But PUFs have also been targeted for attacks. It has been proven that machine learning (ML) can be used to effectively model a PUF design and predict its behavior, leading to leakage of the internal secrets.
To combat such attacks, several designs have been proposed to make it harder to model PUFs. One design direction is to use Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) as the building block of the PUF. NVM typically are multi-level cells, i.e, they have several internal states, which makes it harder to model them. However, the current state of the art of NVM-based PUFs is limited to ‘weak PUFs’, i.e., the number of outputs grows only linearly with the number of inputs, which limits the number of possible secret values that can be stored using the PUF. To overcome this limitation, in this work we design the Arbiter Non-Volatile PUF (ANV-PUF) that is exponential in the number of inputs and that is resilient against ML-based modeling. The concept is based on the famous delay-based Arbiter PUF (which is not resilient against modeling attacks) while using NVM as a building block instead of switches. Hence, we replace the switch delays (which are easy to model via ML) with the multi-level property of NVM (which is hard to model via ML). Consequently, our design has the exponential output characteristics of the Arbiter PUF and the resilience against attacks from the NVM-based PUFs. Our results show that the resilience to ML modeling, uniqueness, and uniformity are all in the ideal range of 50%. Thus, in contrast to the state-of-the-art, ANV-PUF is able to be resilient to attacks, while having an exponential number of outputs.
Equation-Directed Axiomatization of Lustre Semantics to Enable Optimized Code Validation
Authors: Brun Lélio , Garion Christophe , Garoche Pierre-Loïc , Thirioux Xavier 
Published: September 2023

Model-based design tools like SCADE Suite and Simulink are often used to design safety-critical embedded software. Consequently, generating correct code from such models is crucial. We tackle this challenge on Lustre, a dataflow synchronous language that embodies the concepts that base such tools. Instead of proving correct a whole code generator, we turn an existing compiler into a certifying compiler from Lustre to C, following a translation validation approach.
We propose a solution that generates both C code and an attached specification expressing a correctness result for the generated and optionally optimized code. The specification yields proof obligations that are discharged by external solvers through the Frama-C platform.
Farmers versus Technocrats: A Comparative Analysis of A. D. Gordon and Theodor Herzl on Nature and Technology
Authors: Shamis Asaf J. 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
This paper analyzes the treatment of nature and technology in the writings of two prominent early Zionist thinkers, A. D. Gordon and Theodor Herzl. At the heart of Herzl’s vision, we find technocrats applying industrial systems to dominate the naked nature that Gordon is committed to preserve. Gordon, in contrast, describes Jewish national revival as triggered by farmers utilizing Eretz Israel’s natural world to extract Jews from industrial society, underwriting Herzl’s Zionist vision. Expanding the analysis to the domains of nature and technology reveals the two thinkers’ creeds to be rival Zionist ideologies in which nature and technology serve as catalysts for competing visions of national revival.
A Hasidic Commentary on the Passover Haggadah for the New World
Authors: Wiskind Ora 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
Todat Yehoshua (1935), a Hasidic commentary on the Passover Haggadah by Rabbi Yehoshua Heschel Rabinowitz of Monastyrishche, Ukraine, later of Brownsville, New York, offers an important perspective on Orthodox experience in North America in the interwar period. On his reading, the Haggadah invites an understanding of history that recognizes and contends with all that is radically unholy: from secularism, enlightenment, and Zionism in the Jewish camp, to Marxism, communism, anarchy, Nazism, and contemporary antisemitism. As a Hasidic tsadik and émigré rabbi, R. Yehoshua Heschel sought to revitalize religion as an existentially vital facet of being, while encouraging those around him to forge a Jewish identity loyal to the past and empowered to rise to the challenges of the present.
Entering Anthologies with Names: The First Generation of Courtesan Poets in Ming Dynasty Nanjing
Authors: Chen Jiani 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
This article traces the first generation of Ming courtesan poets and the earliest extant anthology recording both their poems and full names. These pioneering courtesan poets emerged from anonymity in the city of Nanjing during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. They represented a new mode of literary production and circulation in the context of social, economic, and cultural transformation which began in the mid-Ming. To better situate courtesan poets within the Ming world of letters, we examine the various sources recording their biographical information and literary/artistic creations.
Bathing through Time and Landscape: Everyday Encounters and Reconstructions at Huaqing Hot Springs (1000–1900)
Authors: Huang Fei 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
Despite the long-standing interest in hot springs in China, this subject has remained understudied. This article explores how the most famous hot springs in China, the Huaqing Hot Springs 華清池 at Mount Li 驪山, were selectively reused and negotiated by different social groups from the tenth to the nineteenth century. It retraces the historical process of reconstructions at the Huaqing Hot Springs by local officials, religious practitioners, literati, and local inhabitants after the Huaqing palaces were abandoned by the Tang central court. In the post-Tang life of the Huaqing Hot Springs, the long-term co-existence of activities between various social classes and across the gender divide are deeply rooted in the local everyday usage of the hot springs. This article reveals multiple transformations within continuity in reimaging and reconstructing the hot springs landscape in Chinese history.
Transmitted Sayings and Their Transmissibility: Patterns and Meanings of Zhuan yue 傳曰 Quotations in Early Chinese Texts
Authors: Gu Yixin 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
This article investigates the introductory formula zhuan yue 傳曰 (“a transmitted source says”) in early China, together with its “quotations” and their parallel texts. Rarely found in pre-imperial texts, the zhuan yue formula gained prominence especially from the mid-Western Han onward. As a vague, unspecific gesture of reference, the formula was flexibly applied to varying functions but also used with limited patterns and regularity. Both the formula and the quoted material are almost never found in the core texts of the “Five Classics” (wujing 五經); instead, zhuan yue appears to indicate sources that existed as an open repository outside of the emerging canon. Thus, in marking the non-canonical body, zhuan yue also helped define the canonical one. Finally, another usage of zhuan yue—which emerged in early Han times if not earlier—as an introduction to specific zhuan-commentaries of the classics is clearly a separate function altogether.
Democracy Under Occupation: Coalition Government Formation and Survival in Iraq and Palestine
Authors: Stapleton Stephanie , Biygautane Taib , Bhasin Tavishi , Hallward Maia Carter 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
While existing research on coalition government formation and durability has significantly enhanced our understanding of coalition processes, it remains heavily focused on (1) the experiences of established democracies in Europe and on (2) the various roles of domestic institutions and actors. In this article, we examine the interplay of external interference and domestic actors to explain the success and failure of coalition government formation in the context of fragile democracies. We ask: How does external interference impact government coalition formation? Drawing on Domestic Opposition Theory (dot), we explore two cases of coalition government efforts in the Middle East: post-elections in Iraq in 2018 and in Palestine in 2006. Findings show that, in the case of Palestine, external interference – financial boycott of Hamas-led government and support for Fatah against Hamas – played a key role in the eventual failure of the governing coalition. In Iraq’s case, widespread public domestic opposition to continued external influence, particularly from Iranian-backed interests, played a defining role in coalition formation processes.
Coalition Maintenance during Democratization: Comparative Insights from Tunisia and Yemen
Authors: Heibach Jens , Jermanová Tereza 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
In light of the oft-cited benefits of power sharing, this paper compares two cases of coalition governments that emerged from domestically initiated transition processes in the Arab world: the Tunisian Troika (2011–2014) and the Yemeni Coalition Government (1993–1994). While the former facilitated Tunisia’s democratization, the latter’s disintegration contributed to the 1994 war and Yemen’s authoritarian backsliding. It asks why coalition cooperation endured in Tunisia but not in Yemen, exploring intra-elite relations, the power dynamics at play, as well as elites’ motivations in launching and maintaining cooperation. The paper reveals that both coalitions’ internal functioning was hampered by adverse power configurations and ideological differences. In Yemen, intra-elite relations were further impaired by mutual distrust. Crucially, a history of sustained partnership along with normative commitment to the idea of power sharing, existent in Tunisia and not in Yemen, explains why cooperation within the Troika remained solid amid unfavorable circumstances.
Creating the ‘New Fascist Man’
Authors: Borri Michelangelo 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
The creation of the Fascist New Man was one of the primary objectives of the Mussolini regime. This article aims to examine the theme by way of a specific case study of the physician and Fascist party official Giorgio Alberto Chiurco. A Fascist ‘of the first hour’ and faithful follower of Mussolini, Chiurco expressed his commitment to the project of creating a new Italian man with activity in various sectors. In medicine and sports, by promoting the training of new generations that would be healthy and athletic. In eugenics, by promoting the defense of the national genetic heritage from the ‘peril’ of contamination. In politics and culture, by promoting the so-called fascistization of schools and universities. All this activity shows, on the one hand, the important contribution made by single individuals to the totalitarian project of the regime and, on the other, the efficacy with which Fascism succeeded in orienting the activities of intellectuals and scientists on a national and international level.
Art de Déconcentration
Authors: Pelc Adrian 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
The paper attempts to establish a dialogue between advertising, the Yugoslav avant-garde and a theoretical discourse on the “death” of the avant-garde. In a first step, the trope of the avant-garde dying through its techniques being appropriated by advertising is briefly scrutinized. In a second step, the article demonstrates that the axes of exchange between Yugoslav avant-garde movements (Zenitism, Hypnism, Dadaism) and early advertising were multifold and irreducible to a simple matrix of originality and bad appropriation. Finally, the results of the analysis are considered from the perspective of “peripheral modernism” and their consequences for the grand death-discourse are scrutinized.
A Comparative Study of International and Local School Teachers’ Perceptions and Enactments of Humility in Hong Kong
Authors: Harrison Mark , Briffett-Aktaş Carla , Ying Ji , Tsui Gordon , Cheng Anna Susanne , Jackson Liz 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
While humility has been widely explored philosophically and psychologically, there is little research on humility in educational settings. Based on semi-structured interviews with teachers from local and international schools, we investigated the role of humility in the pedagogy and wider contexts of schools in Hong Kong. Both international and local teachers regarded humility as being important for education, but they conceptualized and enacted it differently, reflecting the high power distance of Hong Kong’s Confucian heritage culture and teacher-centeredness of traditional Chinese education, and the more social constructivist form of pedagogy in international education. These findings provide a lens to understand how teaching and teacher-student relations are shaped by cultural, pedagogical, and educational philosophies and practices in different educational settings.
Wooden sandwich panels with auxetic core for furniture - experimental and numerical analysis
Authors: Zhong Yanan , Ren Yi , Zhang Jijuan , Zhang Zhongfeng 
Published: September 2023

Honeycomb panels manufactured from wood and paper materials promote a high-value utilization of wood resources. However, the poor mechanical properties and uncommon thicknesses (32 and 40 mm) of paper honeycomb panels limit their application and promotion in the panel furniture industry. Hence, numerous attempts have been made to develop high-strength and low-density wood sandwich composites for the frames and partitions of cabinet furniture. This paper describes a method for manufacturing lightweight sandwich panels (18 mm thickness) with auxetic cores, made of fast-growing poplar. The mechanical properties of the panels and the negative Poisson's ratio of the perforated sheet cores were determined by three-point bending and uniaxial compression tests. The lower density, higher modulus of elasticity, and bending strength suggest that the developed panel is a good substitute for traditional wood-based panels. A numerical model for panels in bending tests is proposed and validated against the experimental analysis results. These investigations facilitate further research into optimizing the sandwich panel structure and its applicability in the architectural and furniture industry.