cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
CUSTOM DAIRY HEIFER GROWING: SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS OF A 2001 GROWER SURVEY
Creators: name: Wolf, Christopher A.
name: Wolf, Christopher A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: While dairy farms have been increasing in size and specialization for decades, recent years have witnessed an acceleration of these trends. As a dairy farm specializes in milking cows, other enterprises are often curtailed. Management, labor, and capital constraints necessitate a movement towards outsourcing activities that were once a part of the smaller, but more diversified, dairy operation. One increasingly common example of outsourcing among dairy farmers is utilizing a custom replacement heifer grower. By outsourcing the replacement heifer enterprise, a dairy farmer may free up labor, management, feed, or facilities for use by the milking herd. As might be expected, an industry sub-sector has been created in response to the demand for custom heifer raising. However, little objective and comprehensive information is available about this sub-sector. This project was undertaken to begin to examine custom heifer growers, their management practices, operations size, and contracts. The survey results and analysis presented here may be useful for existing custom heifer growers, dairy farmers, dairy industry personnel, and others interested in the custom heifer sub-sector.
Epitaph of a Small Winner – Título qualquer serve?
Creators: name: Nunes, Ariadne
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2015

description:

Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas has an English translation, by William L. Grossman, intitled Epitaph of a Small Winner. The article reflects upon possible consequences for the interpretation and reading of the book of such a translation of its title, trying to determine if it implies an idea of translation as a form of rewriting. It concludes that Grossman's translation of the title may imply a loss in comunication between Machado de Assis' message and the English readers of his work in this translation.

description: Rassegna iberistica
Se, con i new media, è lecito sperare in un mondo umano
Creators: name: Mininni, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2019
Subjects: new media; rhetoric; hope; power; ethics

description: This paper focuses on the risks and opportunities associated with the way people use new media. In this context, we propose that more attention must be paid to language in order to create new dynamics within the humanities.
description: ECHO, N. 1 (2019): Il soggetto, la realtà, la verità nel tempo delle loro determinazioni digitali. Nuovi linguaggi, nuove narrazioni.
Publishing and Literary System in Basque Literature
Creators: name: Kortazar, Jon
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2015

description:

The article outlines the creation of the Basque literary system, the relations of mediation between publishers and readers of literature written in Basque, through its evolution during the 20th Century. Being the Basque literary system of a precarious nature due to diglossia, the lack of schooling in Basque and adverse political conditions, the analysis will focus on the most fragile stages in the development of the literary system so as to cast a light upon the relevance of relationships between factors such as ideology, education and literary creation.

description: Rassegna iberistica
Null geodesic congruences, gravitational lensing and CMB intensity profile
Creators: name: Kaya, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is known that the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature fluctuations are modified by gravitational lensing since the angular positions of photons are altered by the metric perturbations. We reconsider this effect in the context of geodesic deviation on a perturbed Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) spacetime with scalar and tensor modes. We first give an alternative derivation of the Sachs-Wolfe effect by using the solutions of the null geodesic equation. Then, we determine the two-dimensional induced metric on the transverse cross section of the null geodesic congruence corresponding to a beam of photons after decoupling. This metric, whose variation along the congruence can be decomposed as expansion and shear, is shown to produce a nontrivial intensity profile which can be characterized by three variables analogous to the Stokes parameters of the polarization tensor.
description: 28 pages, 5 figures, v2: comments and references added, to appear in JCAP
Studies on Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1980-2014)
Creators: name: Simón Palmer, María Del Carmen
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2015

description:

We include in this volume a selection of recently published research articles about the life and works of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, without including the multiple editions of her publications.

description: Rassegna iberistica
L’impatto delle tecnologie digitali nella definizione dell’identità dell’adolescente: una riflessione filosofica
Creators: name: Modugno, Alessandra
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2019
Subjects: communication; digital device; identity; philosophy’s teaching; relationship

description: This paper aims to explore the relationship between digital communication and the development of teenagers’ identity, focusing on the contribution that philosophy may make to this issue. Digital technologies and the Net have transformed the relational categories of both ‘time’ and ‘space’; therefore, communication has changed beyond our awareness of the devices used to communicate. In particular, young people (i.e. digital natives) find it difficult not to rely on social networks or digital devices (whose two key features are speed and fragmentation) to share information or send messages, thus interacting without ever meeting each other. This framework has contaminated also the learning environment. There is an open debate between those who foster the use of technology because they think it improves students’ creativity and students’ involvement, and those who warn about the danger of using exclusively technological devices and methods, which could prevent the critical thinking needed to approach the real world holistically. Philosophical thinking can help carry out an anthropological review of these issues; in fact, philosophy ‘reads’ the reality by reconnecting it with its founding principles. Therefore, it is possible to define how communication and relationships should be in order to stand out as genuine and human. In particular, it is essential to focus on identity, which is the core of adolescence, and investigate the needs concerning identity and relational structure of human beings. It follows that philosophical experience in learning is a chance to change our perception of properties and values which may be considered outdated. However, it is even more important to gain wisdom and knowledge worthy of our historical period and of human needs.
description: ECHO, N. 1 (2019): Il soggetto, la realtà, la verità nel tempo delle loro determinazioni digitali. Nuovi linguaggi, nuove narrazioni.
Despiece peatonal | Respiración continua by Julio Reija
Creators: name: Mistrorigo, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2015

description:

The last poetry book of Julio Reija combines two different poetry collections in the same object though a very peculiar layout designed by the same author. Far from looking for a mere rhetorical effect, the specific layout of the book is constitutive of the way Reija understands poetry: his practice of poetry is a continuous exercise in which words are literally and desperately disjointed, fragmented, took apart in a writing that is always searching for a new form. Julio Reija’s writing combines the derridian deconstruction of logos (language and though) with an ethical posture against the overwhelming power of mass media in contemporary world.

description: Rassegna iberistica
L’individualismo narrato. Le reti digitali come sfondo simbolico del soggetto moderno
Creators: name: Morcellini, Mario
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2019
Subjects: culture and technologies of knowledge; post socialization; youngs; devices and social interactions

description: To understand contemporary human beings, it is necessary to know the anthropological processes and models of inculturation, such as changing interests, stimuli and investments. The preliminary step to understanding the profound changes in Italian society is to update the list of problems and detect current key nodes; this forces us to find new interpretative tools. The aim of this article is to try to answer the following questions: how is the modern subject formed? How much easier is the construction of its autonomy? What contextual conditions and what cultural climate do we need to socialize as contemporary human beings?
description: ECHO, N. 1 (2019): Il soggetto, la realtà, la verità nel tempo delle loro determinazioni digitali. Nuovi linguaggi, nuove narrazioni.
«Abrir la puerta para ir a jugar»
Creators: name: Petrilli, Maria Elena
name: Lenarduzzi, René Julio
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2015

description:

Doctor María Elena Petrilli and Professor René Lenarduzzi pay tribute to Julio Cortázar through a dialogue between two enthusiastic readers of the stories of the Argentinian writer. Doctor Petrilli, a personal friend of Cortázar, an avid reader, tireless traveler and insatiable curious of all that relates to human beings, cites from some of the letters that she exchanged with Cortázar during those years.

description: Rassegna iberistica
Functional Groups Accessibility and the Origin of Photoluminescence in N/O-containing Bottom-up Carbon Nanodots
Creators: name: Debes, P. P.
name: Langer, M.
name: Pagel, M.
name: Menna, E.
name: Smarsly, B.
name: Osella, S.
name: Gallego, J.
name: Gatti, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chemical functionalization of carbon nanodots (CNDs) offers a valuable opportunity to tailor multifunctionality in these nanocarbons, by engineering the composition of their molecular surface. Therefore, it is important to elucidate the type and amount of CNDs functionalization to be able to design their properties accurately. CNDs are often functionalized through amide coupling without validating the degree of functionalization. As a measure of functionalization, the amounts of primary amines via Kaiser test (KT) or imine reactions of the bare CNDs is often considered. However, this may lead to overestimating the degree of functionalization obtained by the pure amide coupling due to different reaction mechanisms and involved intermediates. Herein, four different CNDs prepared by microwave-assisted synthesis from arginine or citric acid with varying amounts of ethylenediamine are presented. We resorted to a combination of physicochemical methods to provide elemental, structural, and optical information. By that, we developed a method to quantify the degree of functionalization by amide coupling and show that the functionalization is lower than one would expect. Comparing experimental optical features of the CNDs with different computed model systems further allows us to provide a more advanced vision of structure-property relationships in these still elusive nanocarbons.
Modeling Flood Perils and Flood Insurance Program in Taiwan
Creators: name: Chang, Ching-Cheng
name: Hsu, Wenko
name: Su, Ming-Daw
name: Chang, Ching-Cheng
name: Hsu, Wenko
name: Su, Ming-Daw
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Risk Assessment
subject: Typhoon
subject: Flood Insurance
subject: Financial Analysis

description: Taiwan had approximately 3,000 buildings damaged by floods with an economic loss of NT$12.8 billion annually, a figure 4.5 times more than economic losses due to fire damages. Many insurers become extremely cautious when underwriting their flood policies for people living in areas that are frequently struck by floods. The rising damages also trigger the demand for a mandatory national flood insurance program. This paper describes the development of an integrated flood risk assessment model for Taiwan which contains of a hazard, vulnerability and financial analysis module. We take the perspective that the mandatory program will be provided to fire policyholders as part of building and content insurance to mitigate the financial losses. The issue of a long-term balance between fund accumulations and its claim payouts will be addressed along with policy recommendations based on the modeling results.
title: A ten-year retrospective comparison of benzodiazepine usage between rural and urban residents of Newfoundland and Labrador
Creators: name: Batten, Ryan
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2021

description: Background: Benzodiazepines are believed to be one of the most overprescribed medications worldwide. Inappropriate prescribing of benzodiazepines can lead to serious adverse effects including cognitive impairment, falls in the elderly, and decreased motor function. Guidelines have been developed to address overprescribing, however analysis of prescribing patterns before and after implementing these guidelines shows inappropriate use is still present. Objectives: This thesis examined benzodiazepine prescribing patterns in a sample of Newfoundland patients. Various definitions for inappropriate prescriptions were used: within 30, 45 and 60 days of previous prescription. Comparisons were assessed between rural and urban areas of Newfoundland, Canada. Methods: Patients with a benzodiazepine prescription between 2007 and 2017, through the Newfoundland and Labrador Prescription Drug Program, were included in this study. Descriptive statistics were used to describe prescribing patterns. Regression analyses were used to examine the association between prescribing / usage and age, sex, prescriber specialty and location of residence (urban / rural). Results: Using the various definitions for inappropriate prescribing, the rate of inappropriate prescribing was between 71.7% and 74.9%. Individuals in urban areas had a higher quantity of inappropriate prescriptions, less than 30 days apart, compared to those in rural areas. Additionally, the percentage of inappropriate prescriptions did not decrease during the ten-year timeframe examined. Conclusions: Inappropriate prescribing remained prevalent in a Newfoundland and Labrador sample. Results from this study highlight that we need to remain vigilant pursuing strategies that encourage appropriate prescribing of this drug class.
Virgilio Piñera’ Centenary in Venice
Creators: name: Cecere, Fabiola
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2015

description:

In a year during which some of the most leading figures in Latin American literature were celebrated on their centenary of their birth, (Julio Cortázar, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, Octavio Paz), I would like to remember a belated centenary, due to a real “rebirth” in the cultural and literary Cuban scene. I’m going to propose an excellent cuban writer, Virgilio Piñera (1912-1979), who become the subject of growing critical and popular attention in recent years. His singular stories – or better still, his whole existential adventure – answer to a deep-rooted obsession with authenticity, that insidious zone where each character and situation denude his author and the ghosts tormenting him. His writing, being a continuous paradox, is the instrument trough which he wants to fight the trivial and the meaningless. His troublesome literary voice was reconsidered after his death, and his first official centenary, in his native country, was commemorated only three years ago, in 2012.

description: Rassegna iberistica
A simple and efficient approach to the optimization of correlated wave functions
Creators: name: Scemama, Anthony
name: Filippi, Claudia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a simple and efficient method to optimize within energy minimization the determinantal component of the many-body wave functions commonly used in quantum Monte Carlo calculations. The approach obtains the optimal wave function as an approximate perturbative solution of an effective Hamiltonian iteratively constructed via Monte Carlo sampling. The effectiveness of the method as well as its ability to substantially improve the accuracy of quantum Monte Carlo calculations is demonstrated by optimizing a large number of parameters for the ground state of acetone and the difficult case of the $1{}^1{B}_{1u}$ state of hexatriene.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure
Su alcuni riflessi cognitivi nel tempo online delle nuove forme della comunicazione/informazione governate dagli algoritmi. Note e appunti per una ricerca
Creators: name: Silvestri, Filippo
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2019
Subjects: cognitive process; epistemology; hermeneutics; artificial intelligence; algorithms

description: Today, information spreads online, halfway between being free and its substantial disintermediation. In this context, some important cognitive processes have undergone a radical transformation, which coincides with a major crisis of reading and writing, along with a new way of remembering and forgetting things, for a common and uncommon memory. All this implies new dispositions to a subconscious which is further from any re-enactment or control. One would say that it is a matter of being more or less intelligent or wise in a broader digital sense: that is, it is still a matter that concerns one’s own mental health in general, with a continual digression towards what would otherwise be known as digital dementia. On such premises, where is the boundary between our intelligence and the artificial one today? How far has machine learning gone in its quest for understanding, for an interpretation of our online experiences, for those of us who are an integral part of a network of things that has gone far beyond the extension of our bodies? Certainly, Google with its PageRank dominates the search we conduct, directs our daily interests, shapes our most hidden desires. This causes behavioural short circuits from which it is often difficult to escape, beyond the substantial opacity in which all of this takes place. Inside this maze of new political constitutions, halfway between our being real and virtual, mysterious algorithms dominate our lives, whose implementation and government nowadays constitute the castle of power in its new branches, with its magical and secret nature that makes it the new mathesis universalis of our contemporary relationships.
description: ECHO, N. 1 (2019): Il soggetto, la realtà, la verità nel tempo delle loro determinazioni digitali. Nuovi linguaggi, nuove narrazioni.
The Dragonfly Wide Field Survey. II. Accurate Total Luminosities and Colors of Nearby Massive Galaxies and Implications for the Galaxy Stellar Mass Function
Creators: name: Miller, Tim B.
name: van Dokkum, Pieter
name: Danieli, Shany
name: Li, Jiaxuan
name: Abraham, Roberto
name: Conroy, Charlie
name: Gilhuly, Colleen
name: Greco, Johnny P.
name: Liu, Qing
name: Lokhorst, Deborah
name: Merritt, Allison
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stellar mass estimates of massive galaxies are susceptible to systematic errors in their photometry, due to their extended light profiles. In this study we use data from the Dragonfly Wide Field Survey (DWFS) to accurately measure the total luminosities and colors of nearby massive galaxies. The low surface brightness limits of the survey ($μ_g \approx $ 31 mag arcsec $^{-2}$ on a one arcmin scale) allows us to implement a method, based on integrating the 1-D surface brightness profile, that is minimally dependent on any parameterization. We construct a sample of 1188 massive galaxies with $\log M_*/M_\odot > 10.75$ based on the Galaxy Mass and Assembly (GAMA) survey and measure their total luminosities and $g-r$ colors. We then compare our measurements to various established methods applied to imaging from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), focusing on those favored by the GAMA survey. In general, we find that galaxies are brighter in the $r$ band by an average of ${\sim}0.05$ mag and bluer in $g-r$ colors by $\sim 0.06$ mag compared to the GAMA measurements. These two differences have opposite effects on the stellar mass estimates. The total luminosities are larger by $5\%$ but the mass-to-light ratios are lower by $\sim 10\%$. The combined effect is that the stellar mass estimate of massive galaxies decreases by $7\%$. This, in turn, implies a small change in number density of massive galaxies: $\leq 30\%$ at $\log M_*/M_\odot \geq 11$.
description: Accepted to ApJ, Photometry data for the final sample can be found here: https://tbmiller-astro.github.io/data/
L’œuvre connective. L’être-ensemble, l’émotion publique, la condition numérique
Creators: name: Susca, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2019
Subjects: imaginary; digital culture; mediatisation; public emotion

description: Digital culture completes the transition from public opinion to public emotion started in the first half of the 20th century following the advent of historical avant-gardes, the catastrophes of world wars and the crisis of ideologies. In this scenario, empathy, “we” (tribes, networks, clouds, fans, etc.) and technology prevail over the pillars of Western modernity: abstract thought, the rational and autonomous individual, the subject as the center of the world. The analysis of the changes taking place in the sociology of the imaginary and mediaology makes it possible to identify new forms of being together, the cause and effect of transpolitical sensitivities capable of modifying the consolidated balance in power and knowledge relations. In particular, we are witnessing the emergence of an unprecedented way of experiencing thought, daily life and creation: this is the birth of a connective work that tends to make ordinary existence coincide with art and politics, beyond art and politics.
description: ECHO, N. 1 (2019): Il soggetto, la realtà, la verità nel tempo delle loro determinazioni digitali. Nuovi linguaggi, nuove narrazioni.
Bandersnatch, ovvero sulla possibilità di altri futuri. Distopie e linee di fuga al tempo del realismo capitalista ricerca
Creators: name: Di Stasi, Michele
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2019
Subjects: Black Mirror; critical theory; science-fiction; interactivity; participation; social imaginary

description: This paper demonstrates that Bandersnatch (2018), an episode of the Black Mirror series, reflects the current condition of the subjectivities in the participative society of ‘capitalist realism’ (Fisher 2018). Additionally, the proposed study aims to shed light on the underlying idea of subversion or resistance promoted by Charlie Brooker, the screenwriter of the TV series. Since the film blends fiction and fact, we will firstly discuss how the episode has been constructed by Brooker and David Slade (the film director) focusing on references to past events. Secondly, we will argue that interactivity can be seen as a metaphor for the actual paradigm of participative politics. Then, we will discuss the connections between contemporary subjectivity (or, according to some scholars, ‘techné’) and the web (which is intended here as the connections between structure and human/non-human actors). Finally, we will present the idea of ‘retroactivism’, that is opening new possibilities of the imaginary (which is an essential element of the Bandersnatch episode). Additionally, we will discuss the idea of ‘capitalist realism’, that is the most coherent description of the actual society and the relevance of dystopia as a narrative that influences and shapes reality.
description: ECHO, N. 1 (2019): Il soggetto, la realtà, la verità nel tempo delle loro determinazioni digitali. Nuovi linguaggi, nuove narrazioni.
Storie in divenire. Pratiche di interazione efficace sulla piattaforma Instragram
Creators: name: Arenare, Federica
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2019
Subjects: semiotic; user interface; social media; online information; science communication

description: This research aims to make the sense effect generated by observing some content shared through Instagram Stories intelligible, as well as to investigate the phenomenon of the so-called ‘influencer’. Starting from some case studies, we bring out the effectiveness of the text (Marsciani 2017) and reflect on the different roles that these figures can play, as well as on the interactions that can be established within the community. Through an ethno- and socio-semiotic approach to observation and interpretation, some reconsiderations of the actors involved in the practices of influencer-platform-community interactions have emerged. This activates a process of mutual realization and allows influencers to create networks of subjects that cooperate for mutual adjustment (Landowski 2005) through Instagram Stories. We also want to develop an additional layer of analysis by focusing on the emerging phenomenon of divulgers. Starting from scientists and science communicators, such as Dario Bressanini (@dario.bressanini) and Beatrice Mautino (@divagatrice), we want to investigate how these figures can lead to a subversion of social networking services (SNS), which are used to create intermediate projects. This allows a mainstream and very heterogeneous audience to access contents that are normally available only to experts and niche audiences
description: ECHO, N. 1 (2019): Il soggetto, la realtà, la verità nel tempo delle loro determinazioni digitali. Nuovi linguaggi, nuove narrazioni.
Andresen, Carl / Denzler, Georg: Wörterbuch der Kirchengeschichte
Creators: name: Kg.
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 31 Nr. 4 (1982): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 31, Heft 4
Heterologous expression and purification of bovine rod photoreceptor glutamic acid rich protein
Creators: name: Mah, Nancy Lynne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Glutamic Acid Rich Protein exists in three alternately spliced forms within the bovine rod photoreceptor: 1) as part of the unusual bipartite structure of the p subunit of the cGMPgated cation channel; 2) as a 590 amino acid polypeptide (f-GARP); and 3) as a 299 amino acid polypeptide (t-GARP). The function of GARP in photoreceptors is unknown. Although it is not visible by Coomassie Blue staining, t-GARP appears to be the most abundant form of GARP as seen by western blotting. Such an abundant protein must have a role in the function or structure of the photoreceptor. As a first step in examining the function of GARP, a method for the recombinant production and purification of t-GARP was developed in this study. Heterologous expression o f t-GARP was attempted in three different systems— bacterial, yeast and mammalian systems. t-GARP could not be expressed in E. coli, but it was expressed by mammalian COS cells and in the yeast Pichia pastoris. COS cells produced 23 ROS Units of t-GARP (1 ROS Unit = amount of t-GARP in 12.5 μg of ROS) per 10 cm plate. From Pichia, t-GARP was both secreted and produced intracellularly at 280 and 700 ROS units per 500 mL of culture, respectively. Considering the cost, ease of production, quality and yield of recombinant t-GARP, the intracellularly produced t-GARP was selected as the system from which to purify recombinant t-GARP. Using affinity chromatography, 9% of the t-GARP produced intracellularly was isolated from Frenchpressed, detergent solubilized yeast lysates.
Arrivederci a San Junipero. Estetiche metaseriali della paranoia, dalla theory-fiction alla funzione black mirror
Creators: name: Attimonelli, Claudia
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2019
Subjects: Tv serial; Black Mirror; Videodrome; post-humanism; future

description: The British TV series Black Mirror, with its enunciative (starting from the opening sequence) and marketing strategies (both online and offline), has triggered innovative spectatorial dynamics in audiovisual seriality. They operate in the interzone known as ‘the space of the black mirror’ and rely on a radical exploitation of media convergence. The series has a strong ‘meta-serial’ component which becomes even stronger from season to season, from episode to episode. Starting from the interactive film Bandersnacth (2018), as well as other relevant episodes, the present paper aims to analyse the contemporary and progressive loss of autonomy of human beings and the crisis of their individual unity. Therefore, this paper deals with the ineluctable nostalgia for and the importance of the human dimension, as well as the functions played by Black Mirror. In particular, we focus on the categories of humanism, the collapse of the space-time linearity, and the questionable notion of ‘future’ which is broadly applied to most scenarios. Videodrome (1982) is here proposed as the antecedent of Black Mirror in order to better understand the advent of the new flesh, an electronic flesh which innervates the so-called BlackDrome.
description: ECHO, N. 1 (2019): Il soggetto, la realtà, la verità nel tempo delle loro determinazioni digitali. Nuovi linguaggi, nuove narrazioni.
Expectation propagation on the diluted Bayesian classifier
Creators: name: Braunstein, Alfredo
name: Gueudré, Thomas
name: Pagnani, Andrea
name: Pieropan, Mirko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Efficient feature selection from high-dimensional datasets is a very important challenge in many data-driven fields of science and engineering. We introduce a statistical mechanics inspired strategy that addresses the problem of sparse feature selection in the context of binary classification by leveraging a computational scheme known as expectation propagation (EP). The algorithm is used in order to train a continuous-weights perceptron learning a classification rule from a set of (possibly partly mislabeled) examples provided by a teacher perceptron with diluted continuous weights. We test the method in the Bayes optimal setting under a variety of conditions and compare it to other state-of-the-art algorithms based on message passing and on expectation maximization approximate inference schemes. Overall, our simulations show that EP is a robust and competitive algorithm in terms of variable selection properties, estimation accuracy and computational complexity, especially when the student perceptron is trained from correlated patterns that prevent other iterative methods from converging. Furthermore, our numerical tests demonstrate that the algorithm is capable of learning online the unknown values of prior parameters, such as the dilution level of the weights of the teacher perceptron and the fraction of mislabeled examples, quite accurately. This is achieved by means of a simple maximum likelihood strategy that consists in minimizing the free energy associated with the EP algorithm.
description: 24 pages, 6 figures
Moreno Cabrera, Juan Carlos (2015). Los dominios del español: Guía del imperialismo lingüístico panhispánico. Madrid: Síntesis, pp. 276
Creators: name: Morales, Albert
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2015

description:

description: Rassegna iberistica
Do Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Protection Induce More Bilateral Trade? Evidence from China's Imports
Creators: name: Awokuse, Titus O.
name: Yin, Hong
name: Awokuse, Titus O.
name: Yin, Hong
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Intellectual property rights
subject: patent laws
subject: international trade

description: Most of the previous studies on the effect of IPR protection on international trade have been from the perspective of major industrialized nations. However, much of the current debate on the effects of IPR protection involves large developing countries with high threat of imitation. This study contributes to the literature by analyzing the impact of the strengthening of patent laws in China on its bilateral trade flows. We estimate the effects of patent rights protection on China’s imports at the aggregate and detailed product categories for both OECD (developed) and non-OECD (developing) countries. The empirical results suggest that increased patent rights protection stimulate China’s imports, particularly in the knowledge-intensive product categories. Furthermore, while the evidence in support of the market expansion effect is significant for imports from OECD countries, it is rather weak and mostly insignificant for imports from non-OECD countries.
$^{25}$Si $β^+$-decay spectroscopy
Creators: name: Sun, L. J.
name: Friedman, M.
name: Budner, T.
name: Pérez-Loureiro, D.
name: Pollacco, E.
name: Wrede, C.
name: Brown, B. A.
name: Cortesi, M.
name: Fry, C.
name: Glassman, B. E.
name: Heideman, J.
name: Janasik, M.
name: Kruskie, A.
name: Magilligan, A.
name: Roosa, M.
name: Stomps, J.
name: Surbrook, J.
name: Tiwari, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: $β$-decay spectroscopy provides valuable information on exotic nuclei and a stringent test for nuclear theories beyond the stability line. To search for new $β$-delayed protons and $γ$ rays of $^{25}$Si to investigate the properties of $^{25}$Al excited states. $^{25}$Si $β$ decays were measured by using the Gaseous Detector with Germanium Tagging system at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. The protons and $γ$ rays emitted in the decay were detected simultaneously. A Monte Carlo method was used to model the Doppler broadening of $^{24}$Mg $γ$-ray lines caused by nuclear recoil from proton emission. Shell-model calculations using two newly developed universal \textit{sd}-shell Hamiltonians, USDC and USDI, were performed. The most precise $^{25}$Si half-life to date has been determined. A new proton branch at 724(4)~keV and new proton-$γ$-ray coincidences have been identified. Three $^{24}$Mg $γ$-ray lines and eight $^{25}$Al $γ$-ray lines are observed for the first time in $^{25}$Si decay. The first measurement of the $^{25}$Si $β$-delayed $γ$ ray intensities through the $^{25}$Al unbound states is reported. All the bound states of $^{25}$Al are observed to be populated in the $β$ decay of $^{25}$Si. Several inconsistencies between the previous measurements have been resolved, and new information on the $^{25}$Al level scheme is provided. An enhanced decay scheme has been constructed and compared to the mirror decay of $^{25}$Na and the shell-model calculations. The measured excitation energies, $γ$-ray and proton branchings, log~$ft$ values, and Gamow-Teller transition strengths for the states of $^{25}$Al populated in the $β$ decay of $^{25}$Si are in good agreement with the shell-model calculations, offering gratifyingly consistent insights into the fine nuclear structure of $^{25}$Al.
David Alvarez Roblin (2014). De l’imposture à la création: Le Guzmán et le Quichotte apocryphes. Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, pp. 406
Creators: name: Gómez Canseco, Luis
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2015

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description: Rassegna iberistica
Decoherence time in self-induced decoherence
Creators: name: Castagnino, Mario
name: Lombardi, Olimpia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A general method for obtaining the decoherence time in self-induced decoherence is presented. In particular, it is shown that such a time can be computed from the poles of the resolvent or of the initial conditions in the complex extension of the Hamiltonian's spectrum. Several decoherence times are estimated: $10^{-13}-$ $10^{-15}s$ for microscopic systems, and $10^{-37}-10^{-39}s$ for macroscopic bodies. For the particular case of a thermal bath, our results agree with those obtained by the einselection (environment-induced decoherence) approach.
description: 11 pages
Adaptive-Attentive Geolocalization from few queries: a hybrid approach
Creators: name: Berton, Gabriele Moreno
name: Paolicelli, Valerio
name: Masone, Carlo
name: Caputo, Barbara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We address the task of cross-domain visual place recognition, where the goal is to geolocalize a given query image against a labeled gallery, in the case where the query and the gallery belong to different visual domains. To achieve this, we focus on building a domain robust deep network by leveraging over an attention mechanism combined with few-shot unsupervised domain adaptation techniques, where we use a small number of unlabeled target domain images to learn about the target distribution. With our method, we are able to outperform the current state of the art while using two orders of magnitude less target domain images. Finally we propose a new large-scale dataset for cross-domain visual place recognition, called SVOX. The pytorch code is available at https://github.com/valeriopaolicelli/AdAGeo .
description: The pytorch code is available at https://github.com/valeriopaolicelli/AdAGeo
Dancing with the Dragon Heads: Enforcement, Innovations and Efficiency of Contracts between Agricultural Processors and Farmers in China
Creators: name: Yu, Xiaohua
name: Abler, David G.
name: Peng, Chao
name: Yu, Xiaohua
name: Abler, David G.
name: Peng, Chao
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: Contractual breaches are very common in developing countries such as China. In order to prevent breaches of contract, the contractual designs between farmers and agricultural processors (Dragon Head Firms) in China are innovating in two ways: organizational innovations and contractual innovations. Due to contractual innovations, simple price-quantity contracts are evolving into complex cooperation contracts. Using data for over 500 state key processors in 2003 from the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture, we construct econometric models to study contractual choices, contract intensity, and their impacts on sales and profits for agricultural processors in China. The results indicate that capital and the number of contracted farmers are endogenous to contract choices. Processors are more likely to use cooperation contracts compared with price-quantity contracts as the number of contracted farmers increases, because the costs of coordinating, monitoring and enforcing price-quantity contracts may increase dramatically under these circumstances . On the other hand, contract types are not important for the number of contracted farmers, the intensity of contracts, or sales and profits for processors. The results also indicate that the elasticity of profits with respect to capital is 0.52, which implies that the returns to investing in the food processing industry are relatively high in China.
Il country branding su twitter. Configurazioni identitarie nazionali nell’era dei 280 caratteri: il caso della Francia
Creators: name: Funari, Fernando
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2019
Subjects: personalization; political discourse; microblogging; Macron; brevitas; country branding

description: This paper questions the links between the growing personalization of political discourse and some enunciative and discursive features of Twitter microblogging. Through a case study – the French nation branding in Emmanuel Macron’s Twitter communication – we will try to determine how this new form of enunciative brevitas is able to influence the classic functions of political communication, as well as to determine new configurations of the national subject as a ‘country brand’.
description: ECHO, N. 1 (2019): Il soggetto, la realtà, la verità nel tempo delle loro determinazioni digitali. Nuovi linguaggi, nuove narrazioni.
Density functional theory for the freezing of soft-core fluids
Creators: name: Archer, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a simple density functional theory for the solid phases of systems of particles interacting via soft-core potentials. In particular, we apply the theory to particles interacting via repulsive point Yukawa and Gaussian pair potentials. We find qualitative agreement with the established phase diagrams for these systems. The theory is able to account for the bcc-fcc solid transitions of both systems and the re-entrant melting that the Gaussian system exhibits.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Refugee crisis and right-wing populism in the digital era: the australian case
Creators: name: Grasso, Arianna
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2019
Subjects: australian refugee crisis; atlantic bias; antipodean populism; twitter discourse; discourse-historical approach; populist rhetorical strategies

description: In the current ‘post-factual age’, truth has often been distorted with the aim of serving the political goals of demagogues, especially with regards to debated hot issues, such as the recent migratory crisis. Despite being located further from certain conflict areas on the world map, Australia has also been challenged by influxes of refugees and asylum seekers coming from the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. Especially since the 2012 reimplementation of the Pacific Solution, the proliferation and manipulation of media contents on the matter has intensified. The main purpose of this small-scale study is to understand what kind of representation strategies populist leaders employ to represent refugees on the social media platform of Twitter and shed light on the nationalist propaganda underlying their tweets. The research relies on a mixed methodology that combines Corpus Linguistics and Discourse-Historical-Approach, which were employed to analyse qualitative data elicited from the Twitter corpus. The findings suggest that there are several similarities between the Euro-American and the Australian populisms, although the former has received greater attention within the literary field. As a matter of fact, refugees are pictured as outlaws or petty criminals, who come massively to Australia to usurp the country’s resources while taking advantage of Australia’s welfare system. As a whole, they are portrayed as a threat to the unity of the Australian nation, to be neutralised in order to safeguard the integrity and the future prosperity of the country. The ultimate goal of the research is to encourage social media users to become aware of these manipulative discursive practices circulating online and, ultimately, spur them on to oppose an indiscriminate accreditation of untruthful information.
description: ECHO, N. 1 (2019): Il soggetto, la realtà, la verità nel tempo delle loro determinazioni digitali. Nuovi linguaggi, nuove narrazioni.
L’adattamento multimodale dell’alterità culturale nel discorso umoristico dei meme
Creators: name: Iaia, Pietro Luigi
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2019
Subjects: humorous discourse; memes; cultural otherness; arousal/safety contrast; multimodality

description: This paper reports on a case study implemented at the University of Salento about the translation of memes, that is to say the ‘highly dynamic’ text types (Leskovec et al. 2009) which have become a ‘mainstream phenomenon’ (Moreau 2018) propagating ‘through the World Wide Web’ (Çalişkan 2012), mostly for humorous purposes, thanks to the increased use of online forums and social networks. This study examines the translation strategies, that were selected by a number of undergraduate students, representing the subject of this research, who were commissioned to adapt four memes characterized by a type of humorous discourse stemming from a culture-bound connotation of ‘otherness’. In particular, the examined jokes rely on the activation of the ‘arousal/safety’ and ‘expected/unexpected’ (Attardo 2001) cognitive clashes by means of a particular multimodal composition. In fact, pictures and verbal elements are arranged into narrative patterns (Kress, van Leeuwen 2006) which are expected to guide the recipients’ reading. Precisely, the written caption at the top of the frame interacts with the image so as to provoke an unexpected, politically-incorrect claim that plays on stereotypical representation of one’s otherness. Then, the resulting ‘arousal’ is mitigated by the description at the bottom of the meme, eventually prompting the addressees’ laughter. The analysis will cover the theoretical and practical dimensions of reformulations, which are divided into two groups: group 1 includes the memes whose translation had to be limited to their linguistic dimension; group 2 includes the memes that had to be translated both visually and verbally. This paper will enquire into the extent to which a multimodal critical analysis of source versions is essential to create pragmalinguistic equivalents that preserve the senders’ illocutionary force and the perlocutionary effects on receivers. Finally, the renderings of the memes from group 2 will also help us to reveal the target-culture peculiarity of the notion of ‘otherness’ that subjects actualize multimodally not only by resorting to the ‘Italians versus Non-Italians’ dichotomy, but also to the ‘Northern-Italy versus Southern-Italy’ clash.
description: ECHO, N. 1 (2019): Il soggetto, la realtà, la verità nel tempo delle loro determinazioni digitali. Nuovi linguaggi, nuove narrazioni.
La “crisi migratoria” e la crisi della sfera pubblica
Creators: name: Lucchesi, Dario
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2019
Subjects: online public sphere; refugee crisis; comments in news; user-generated content; discursive ethics

description: This paper analyses the quality of the online public debate about the contemporary migration phenomenon known as ‘refugee crisis’ to detect some characteristics of participation and re-articulate the themes developed in the online public sphere. Specifically, the paper analyses the debate encouraged by users on Facebook through their comments as a practice of access and participation in social media. The empirical basis of the proposed case study consists in a corpus of comments left by users under articles about the “refugee crisis” and posted on Facebook by three Italian newspapers between 2016 and 2018. Starting from the notion of degradation of the public sphere, this study aims to critically reflect on the role of comments, trying to define a public sphere model that includes online participatory forms. On the one hand, this can promote informed citizenry and collective reflection; on the other, it may increase opinion radicalization, polarization and the spread of niche audiences.
description: ECHO, N. 1 (2019): Il soggetto, la realtà, la verità nel tempo delle loro determinazioni digitali. Nuovi linguaggi, nuove narrazioni.