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Mediating Satire. Italian Adaptation and Dubbing of US Sitcoms
No full textIn recent years, American satirical routines have spread into different markets, thanks to the international distribution of US television sitcoms. However, global circulation is only one side of a more complex process: entering another nation, each product changes to be easily understood by a different audience. Several production and distribution routines, as dubbing and scheduling, influence the satirical program and its receptions, and lead to a number of modifications that often limits the ambiguity of comedy. Puns, parodies and other forms
of irony need to be reconstructed, or at least explained. The chapter focuses on the adaptations and transformations of satirical jokes and references to politics, sex and religion in the Italian dubbed version of some US TV sitcoms
On the cost functions for the control of the human arm movement
No full textCruse H, Wischmeyer E, Brüwer M, Brockfeld P, Drees A. On the cost functions for the control of the human arm movement. Biological cybernetics. 1990;62(6):519-528
Effects of Teacher Intonation on the Responding of Young Children with Autism.
No full textColor poster with text and graphs describing research conducted by Cassandra C. Drees, Tasha M. Rieck, and Cierra A. Micke, advised by Kevin P. Klatt.This study examined performance on maintenance skills when using a conversational or enthusiastic voice tone for children diagnosed with autism.University of Wisonsin--Eau Claire Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Light stop searches at the LHC with monojet events
No full textWe consider light top squarks (stops) in the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider. Here, we assume that the lightest neutralino is the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) and the lighter stop is the next-to-LSP. Stop pair production is difficult to probe at the Large Hadron Collider for small stop-LSP mass splitting. It has been shown previously that even in this case stop detection is possible if one considers stop pair production in association with one hard jet. We reconsider this supersymmetric monojet signature and go beyond previous works by including the full Standard Model background and optimizing the cuts, working at the hadron level and including detector effects. As a result, a larger portion of the stop-LSP mass plane becomes accessible to monojet searches.M. Drees, M. Hanussek, J.S. Ki
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Using mixed integer programming to schedule experiments on the Texas A&M University nuclear science center reactor
No full textDue to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to [email protected], referencing the URI of the item.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 54-55).The NSC scheduling problem involves a two-station graphics. bowshot. Several practical aspects prevent it from conforming to existing models in the literature. Some jobs may be preempted, while others may not. Some jobs have deadlines, while others have only due-dates. Some jobs require tooling, while others do not. This problem is modeled as a time-indexed Mixed Integer Program. Constraints were formed and variables were defined in such a way to minimize-to the fullest extent possible-the number of integer variables in the problem. The objective is to minimize the total weighted tardiness of the jobs with due-dates. Deadlines must be observed as constraints. We developed four optimizing strategies and one heuristic and tested them to determine their effectiveness in solving the NSC scheduling problem. One optimizing strategy exploits the Multiple Choice Sets structure within the constraints. The other three optimizing strategies deal with various ways of prioritizing the variables to bias the branch-and-bound search. The higher the priority, the earlier the search branches on that variable. The heuristic starts with the solution to the LP relaxation and fixes all binary variables to 1 that are greater than or equal to some variable k, which is between 0 and 1. These optimizing strategies and the heuristic were tested on 25 test problems, each of which represented a ten-job scheduling problem. The parameters for the jobs were taken from a database of 103 jobs that were processed by the Nuclear Science Center in early 1997. A11 optimizing strategies and the heuristic were tested using CPLEX 6.0. The results of these tests were compared with the CPLEX default settings for solving MIPs. One particular optimizing strategy worked especially well in terms of the number of test problems solved to optimality and the run-time. This "skip-factor'' strategy prioritized variables in such a way that some tardiness is allowed initially in order to arrive at an initial feasible solution quickly. This strategy optimized 80% of the test problems within a predetermined time limit (the highest of all strategies tested) and did so with an average run-time of less than one minute
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
Van de hemel naar de lagere regionen. De eerste Italiaanse mise-en-scène van "Lucifer" (1999)
No full textPer un volume monografico olandese dedicato alla fortuna di "Lucifer" (1654) di Joost Van den Vondel, l'articolo ricostruisce la tardiva penetrazione italiana della tragedia (circoscritta al secondo Novecento) e il suo inaspettato successo nel 1999 sulle scene della nostra penisola grazie all'innovativa regia proposta da Antonio Syxty. Partendo dalla forza visionaria della vicenda narrata, unita alla struggente partecipazione umana che l’autore olandese ha saputo infondere alla sua opera, il regista ha deciso di non lasciarsi influenzare particolarmente dal contesto in cui nasce la tragedia, ma ha scelto di individuarne il senso più profondo, procedendo in modo analogico, attualizzando e facendo interagire la vicenda trattata con la memoria culturale del pubblico italiano. Per poter portare sul palcoscenico la storia dell’angelo più bello e luminoso che, disobbedendo a Dio, viene condannato ad essere una bestia e a vivere nelle tenebre, la chiave di lettura prescelta per lo spettacolo affonda le radici nel "noir", nel mondo astratto e borghese della "gangster story" in cui due bande rivali si combattono tra loro. Il contesto della vicenda viene quindi spostato all'interno di un’organizzazione malavitosa guidata da un capo assoluto, potente e invisibile, con diritto di vita e di morte su tutti coloro che sono a lui soggetti. In questo contesto malavitoso il paradiso si tramuta, per atteggiamenti e abbigliamento, in un ghetto italo-americano anni Trenta, con tanto di pupa muta e appariscente. Benché nello spettacolo il confronto tra angeli lealisti e angeli ribelli avvenga con le armi in pugno – un elemento che rende oggettiva la violenza latente nei confronti verbali da entrambe le parti –, la cifra che connota significativamente la lettura scenica dell'opera proposta da Syxty fa emergere come in realtà ci si trovi davanti ad esseri fragili, intimamente lacerati tra l’assoluta fedeltà a Dio e l’asserzione di un diritto che sentono calpestato, senza motivazione alcuna
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