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The Language of Derogation and Hate: Functions, Consequences, and Reappropriation
No full textOver the last decades, the use of explicit derogatory language (e.g., hate speech, slurs, micro-insults) has risen in many countries. We provide an overview on blatant language discrimination, including its psychological antecedents and consequences. After presenting a working definition of derogatory language and describing its prevalence, we discuss the social functions it serves and the role it plays in identity protection, in legitimizing group hierarchies, and in establishing and enforcing group norms. Drawing from both the socio-cognitive and discursive traditions in social psychology, it is argued that the language people are exposed to and the language they employ, shape the way they think and construct reality. We also consider two ways in which targeted groups may respond to derogatory language, specifically confrontation and reappropriation. Finally, we address challenges for future research, in particular the need for more cross disciplinary research to ebb the growing proliferation of hate speech on digital media which has become a global international concern
Design and implementation of a 'false step adaptive' control for CVT using hardware in the loop and rapid prototyping techniques
No full textIn the world of automotive control and electronics, technology is the driving force behind ever decreasing product cycle times. Cost and time to market are crucial factors to ensure continued success in a competitive business where products must be tailored precisely to the customers' needs. To achieve these goals, co-operation between suppliers and vehicle manufacturers need to reach unprecedented levels through the use of common tools. This paper aims to show the competitive edge that may be derived from using current state-of-theart rapid prototyping systems and control development tools. The tools shift the emphasis away from expensive on- vehicle work to lever the power of simulation and vehicle emulation in the development of prototype CVT controller. Focus will be placed on new CVT control generation developed using the technology previously described. The CVT automatic transmission with new control software behaves as a conventional step transmission (False Step) giving a more acceptable feeling for European client not used to conventional CVT Engine-speed response. Better fuel consumption results were carried out trough an adaptive control able to recognise different road profiles and driver behaviour and to change vehicle response to the driver demand
Consequential support: The effects of inequality awareness on the endorsement of redistributive policies
No full textEconomic inequality is a harmful and pervasive phenomenon, with negative consequences affecting individual and societal wellbeing. The knowledge that inequality exists, however, does not seem associated to a greater demand for redistribution, possibly due to laypeople’s lack of knowledge about how economic inequality affects individuals and societies. In the present study, participants were informed of consequences of inequality for the individual and for society and were asked their opinion on redistribution. Awareness of consequences was found to reduce tolerance for inequality and to increase support for structural policies. Informing people of individual consequences, however, might lead them to reject economic policies. Together, these findings underline the potential for positive effects on information campaigns aimed at increasing support for redistribution and the need to investigate it through further research
Dry Dual Clutch Torque Model with Temperature and Slip Speed Effects
Full text linkDry dual clutches are widely used in automated manual transmissions. In such systems the clutch engagement
maneuvers require a precise knowledge of the characteristics that relate the frictional torque transmitted by
the clutches with the corresponding actuators variables. In this paper a temperature and slip speed dependent model of the torque characteristic for dry dual clutches is proposed. Dynamic models of the temperature evolution are determined and linked to the characteristics of the mechanical components influencing the torque. The models, whose parameters are tuned with dedicated experiments and realistic data coming from an industrial automotive environment, show the temperature influence on the torque transmitted by the clutch. Real time simulation results, obtained through a detailed software in the loop driveline model, showthat, if not compensated, the temperature variation can determine critical degradations of the clutch engagement performances. It is shown how the use of the clutch temperature estimation in the torque transmissibility model allows to compensate for such negative effects. The torque model is also exploited for the realization of a decoupling clutch engagement controller. The corresponding closed loop results show the effectiveness of the proposed compensations for the dependencies of the clutch torque on temperature and slip speed
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Modelli per calcoli di concentrazione di materiale radioattivo disperso a breve-medio raggio in aree caratterizzate da configurazioni architettoniche tipiche delle principali città italiane
Full text linkIl rapporto integra il cotributo dell'Università degli studi di Palermo sullo studio della trattazione fisico-matematica del fenomeno della deposizione secca degli inquinanti, in forma sia gassosa che corpuscolare, a supporto del cosice di calcolo RADCAL III, assieme al contributo interno ENEA riguardante lo sviluppo di una interfaccia grafica specifica per la visualizzazione dei risultati ottenuti da RADCAL II
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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