348 research outputs found
Us future strategy in North-East Asia: Balancing or buck-passing?
No full textThis paper examines two strategies that United States can use in order to block the rise of China as a regional hegemon in North-East Asia. The two strategies are balancing and buck-passing and I argue that the first is better for United States than the second. After these two strategies will be presented followsthe demonstration that China is a potential hegemon in North-East Asia and that the other powers in the region ar too weak to oppose, and finally, an explanation of the fact will be provided that why balancing is better for USA in this case than the buck-passing.Adrian Eugen Preda is a first year student at Security and Diplomacy Master, National School of Political and Administrative Studies from Bucharest. His research interests are International Relations Theory, Theory of Alliances, Security Studies and Strategic Studies
PREDA: An R-package to identify regional variations in genomic data
No full textChromosomal patterns of genomic signals represent molecular ngerprints that may reveal how the local structural organization of a genome impacts the functional control mechanisms. Thus, the integrative analysis of multiple sources of genomic data and information deepens the resolution and enhances the interpretation of stand-alone high-throughput data. In this note, we present PREDA (Position RElated Data Analysis), an R package for detecting regional variations in genomics data. PREDA identies relevant chromosomal patterns in high-throughput data using a smoothing approach that accounts for distance and density variability of genomics features. Custom-designed data structures allow efciently managing diverse signals in different genomes. A variety of smoothing functions and statistics empower exible and robust workows. The modularity of package design allows an easy deployment of custom analytical pipelines. Tabular and graphical representations facilitate downstream biological interpretation of results. © The Author 2011. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved
The Hegemonic Gaze and East-Central Europe - Challenging the Totalitarian Paradigm
No full textThe chapter introduces the notion of the "hegemonic gaze" in relation to the representation of East-Central Europe, demonstrating how the artist becomes interpellated as a regional subject, becoming simultaneously included and othered. It begins by examining the complexities involved in defining the region and the power dynamics involved in naming and being named. The author argues that different terms produce specific subject positions, reinforcing certain narratives about the region and foregrounding the end of communism and the failure of the socialist project.
Through the lens of Stuart Hall's theory of encoding and decoding, the chapter explores how exhibitions and artworks depicting socialist monuments and architecture often become simplified and reinterpreted within the global art discourse. The author shows how the ‘‘hegemonic gaze’’ reinforces existing narratives and imposes meanings. Despite artists' efforts to engage with the complexities of the past, their work is often interpellated within predetermined frameworks that limit its interpretation
Adversarial Authorship Attribution in Open-Source Projects
No full textOpen-source software is open to anyone by design, whether it is a community of developers, hackers or malicious users. Authors of open-source software typically hide their identity through nicknames and avatars. However, they have no protection against authorship attribution techniques that are able to create software author profiles just by analyzing software characteristics. In this paper we present an author imitation attack that allows to deceive current authorship attribution systems and mimic a coding style of a target developer. Withing this context we explore the potential of the existing attribution techniques to be deceived. Our results show that we are able to imitate the coding style of the developers based on the data collected from the popular source code repository, GitHub. To subvert author imitation attack, we propose a novel author obfuscation approach that allows us to hide the coding style of the author. Unlike existing obfuscation tools, this new obfuscation technique uses transformations that preserve code readability. We assess the effectiveness of our attacks on several datasets produced by actual developers from GitHub, and participants of the GoogleCodeJam competition. Throughout our experiments we show that the author hiding can be achieved by making sensible transformations which significantly reduce the likelihood of identifying the author’s style to 0% by current authorship attribution systems
Une communauté de lecteurs à l’aube de la Révolution: Dom Bougre aux états généraux (1789)
No full textDom Bougre aux États généraux (1789) is the first in a series of pamphlets published during the revolutionary period, offering different visions of contemporary events. Its main character is taken from L’Histoire de Dom Bougre by Gervaise de La Touche, an 18th century libertine bestseller. By exposing the depravity of the clergy, the corrupt ruling classes, and the ineffectiveness of the political reforms, the pornographic Dom Bougre fits into the social and political debate. While keeping in mind the contextual and intertextual references in the pamphlet, I will analyze the role of the reader in decoding the political message and the strategies adopted by the anonymous author to guide the interpretation of the text
Afilierea lui Mattei Dogan la sociologia românească (1990-2000)
No full textThe article reconstructs the mechanisms through which the work of the French scholar of Romanian origin, Mattei Dogan was brought to light in Romania after 1990 thanks to the efforts of the community of sociologists. Romanian sociologists used three methods to assimilate the author who is considered the founder of comparative political analysis and who left Romania immediately after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in sociology under Henri H. Stahl supervision: they translated Dogan’s articles and books, they made him a member of prestigious institutions and they included him in the post-communist effort to reclaim the legacy of the school founded by Dimitrie Gusti. To capture the institutional and editorial strategies that were used, I conducted interviews with several protagonists of the Romanian sociology renaissance movement. I also used epistolary resources, sociology and political science journals, press articles, as well as documents from the archives of the University of Bucharest and from the Mattei Dogan Foundation. The article shows the success of some methods and the failure of others. It also brings to light a text that was ignored in the studies and bibliographies that discuss the work of the scholar who was born in Roman in 1920 and who went by the name of Matei Pinsler until 1945 (Preda, 2020). This research paper is relevant for various reasons. Firstly, it complements not only the biography of Dogan, but also that of Henri H. Stahl. Furthermore, it highlights the trajectory of a discipline in a period of dissociation with the communist past while restoring the connections with the interwar period
Afilierea lui Mattei Dogan la sociologia românească (1990-2000)
No full textThe article reconstructs the mechanisms through which the work of the French scholar of Romanian origin, Mattei Dogan was brought to light in Romania after 1990 thanks to the efforts of the community of sociologists. Romanian sociologists used three methods to assimilate the author who is considered the founder of comparative political analysis and who left Romania immediately after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in sociology under Henri H. Stahl supervision: they translated Dogan’s articles and books, they made him a member of prestigious institutions and they included him in the post-communist effort to reclaim the legacy of the school founded by Dimitrie Gusti. To capture the institutional and editorial strategies that were used, I conducted interviews with several protagonists of the Romanian sociology renaissance movement. I also used epistolary resources, sociology and political science journals, press articles, as well as documents from the archives of the University of Bucharest and from the Mattei Dogan Foundation. The article shows the success of some methods and the failure of others. It also brings to light a text that was ignored in the studies and bibliographies that discuss the work of the scholar who was born in Roman in 1920 and who went by the name of Matei Pinsler until 1945 (Preda, 2020). This research paper is relevant for various reasons. Firstly, it complements not only the biography of Dogan, but also that of Henri H. Stahl. Furthermore, it highlights the trajectory of a discipline in a period of dissociation with the communist past while restoring the connections with the interwar period
Cultura Starčevo-Criş în Nordul Munteniei. Cercetări recente la Seciu (jud. Prahova) / Starčevo-Criş culture in Northern Wallachia. Recent research at Seciu (Prahova County)
No full textThis study aims to publish the results of the archaeological excavations carried out in 2012 in the Neoeneolithic site from Boldeşti-Scăieni, Seciu neighbourhood (Prahova County). The surface excavated in 2012 was small, comprised of two sections. Extensive research was performed at the site in 2009 ; the results were published in a monography and in several studies. Archaeological artefacts specific to the Starčevo-Criş culture, especially ceramics, but also an inhumation burial of a child were unearthed in 2012. Archaeozoological material was also found. An Eneolithic dwelling attributed to the Stoicani-Aldeni cultural aspect was found above the Early Neolithic habitation layer. Two radiocarbon dates were obtained from samples taken from the Neolithic layer. They are presented and analised in this paper in the broader context of the evolution of the Starčevo-Criş culture at the Lower Danube.În acest studiu ne-am propus publicarea rezultatelor cercetărilor arheologice derulate în anul 2012 în situl neoeneolitic din localitatea Boldeşti-Scăieni, cartier Seciu (jud. Prahova). În campania respectivă au fost derulate cercetări arheologice restrânse, fiind trasate două secţiuni. Săpături mai extinse au fost realizate în acest sit în anul 2009, rezultatele obţinute fiind deja valorificate atât monografic, cât şi într-o serie de studii. În anul 2012 au fost descoperite materiale arheologice specifice culturii Starčevo-Criş, în special ceramică, dar şi un mormânt de inhumaţie de subadult. De asemenea, a fost recuperat şi material faunistic. Deasupra depozitului de locuire din epoca neolitică timpurie au fost descoperite şi resturile unei locuinţe eneolitice atribuită aspectului cultural Stoicani-Aldeni. Au fost realizate şi două datări radiocarbon, probele fiind prelevate din nivelul de locuire neolitic, redate şi analizate în acest text în contextul mai larg al evoluţiei culturii Starčevo-Criş la Dunărea de Jos.Frînculeasa Alin, Preda Bianca, Bălășescu Adrian, Soficaru Andrei, Negrea Octav, Nica Tiberiu. Cultura Starčevo-Criş în Nordul Munteniei. Cercetări recente la Seciu (jud. Prahova) / Starčevo-Criş culture in Northern Wallachia. Recent research at Seciu (Prahova County). In: Materiale şi cercetãri arheologice (Serie nouã), N°11 2015. pp. 101-125
Manifestations of Death in Two Collections of Short-Stories: 'L’horizon bleu de la mort' by Marin Preda and 'Geotenn ar Werhez' by Jakez Rioù
No full textThis article offers a reading of two volumes of short stories, 'Geotenn ar Werhez' by Breton author Jakez Rioù (1899-1937) and 'L’horizon bleu de la mort' by the Romanian Marin Preda. Both works describe traditional agrarian societies, one in western the other in eastern Europe, in the early to mid-twentieth century. We examine here attitudes to death and manifestations of death in Rioù’s and Preda’s writing. The thrust of the article is to suggest that these works provide rare insights into rural life in Europe before the advent of mechanisation. This leads us to consider litterature in the Celtic languages, Breton
in this instance, and Romanian, as a primary sources for evidence of aspects of European culture little documented in the metropolitan traditions of other languages. Rioù’s text is translated by Youenn Drezen, Preda’s by Micaela Slăvescu.412971088Studia Romanica Posnaniensi
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