558 research outputs found
Interculturalité versus transculturalité : expérience épistémologique de la mobilité
No full textLa mobilité est-elle une condition, un dispositif une expérience, quelque chose d’autre….?
Avant-propos
Ceux qui connaissent et qui ont visité la Corée du Nord, et même, d'autres pays auparavant, devraient pouvoir se rendre compte de la différence de sens anthropologique, anthropique et ontogénétique que les déplacements et la mobilité portent en eux-mêmes. Les grandes routes désertes, qui se remplissent à certains horaires de bicyclette, donnent le sens d'une constante toujours égale à elle-même, répétée, quotidienne ; les mêmes gestes, les mêmes visages, les mêmes heures, les espaces liés. Pour nous Occidentaux, émerge un sentiment d'étrangeté, comme dans Orwell 1984, presque un vide du Moi. Il n'y a pas de personnes en « mouvement » en Corée du Nord ; il n'y a pas de mobilité interne ou externe à moins qu'elles ne soient contrôlées mutuellement ; il n'y a aucune information qui se diffuse sauf celles utiles au pouvoir. La communauté comme idéal, élargie, comme sujet-monde est abstraite, visible dans les superstructures du pouvoir, une visibilité matérielle, l'immatériel est sous contrôle. Qu’est qui arrive alors aux sujets, leur évolution, leur existence, leur humanité, leur savoir ? Comment peut-on penser l'interculturel dans l'immobilité d'un système ?
Le système nord-coréen, tout en étant unique en son genre, n'est pas, ni n’était unique à travers l'histoire. Aujourd'hui nous pouvons dire que des traces, des structures de ce système sont encore vivantes dans certains pays et dans certaines structures de gouvernement du pouvoir. L'immobilité, la fermeture, le confinement, le silence sont des dispositifs de pouvoir qui peuvent déterminer les orientations évolutives, les processus existentiels et les stratégies mentales et psychologiques
Voices and Colors of Murano, Italy
No full textTitle: Voices and Colors of Murano, Italy
Author: Stefano G. Padoan
This collection of poetry displays the voices and colors of Murano, Italy, where I have spent a lifetime of summers. With this collection, I hope to capture the details of the island as well of the hearts of its’ people
Il corpo in Psicomotricità
No full textL'articolo analizza l'epistemologia del corpo psichico nell'area della psicomotricità e presenta casi di educazione e di terapia psicomotoria nonché prospettive di formazione per lo psicomotricist
Tradition and "Modernity" in Il Corago
No full textTheoretical reflection, especially as related to early opera, took on particular importance in Italian aesthetics in the period from 1624 to the early 1640's. During this brief time, theorists and critics of different cultural stamp — among them Doni, Giustiniani, the anonymous author of Il corago, and Delia Valle — espoused certain ideas that function as particularly important markers in the demarcation of a rapidly changing phenomenology of taste.
II corago, a manual-like compendium on staging, was probably written in the 1630's, and in spite its clearly pragmatic aims does not totally avoid theoretical reflection.
It enunciates certain premisses designed to define the epistemological status of the dramma in musica.
The indubitable originality of Il corago is characterized by its outlining of a structural relationship between language and music, where poetic choices condition the composer's contributions in all directions. Further on, the treatise outlines a plan in which the various articulatory segments of theatrical discourse are arranged so as to temper the needs of rappresentazione with those of staging, of variety, and indeed of artifice
Effectiveness of the combined evaluation of KLK3 genetics and f/tPSA ratio for prostate cancer diagnosis
No full textPurpose. Forty per cent of serum PSA variability depends on inherited factors. We ascertained whether the knowledge of KLK3 genetics enhance PSA diagnostic performance in patients with clinical suspect of prostate cancer (PCa).
Materials and Methods. We studied 1058 men who consecutively underwent prostate biopsy for clinical suspect of PCa. At histology PCa was present in 401 and absent in 657 cases. Serum tPSA and f/tPSA were determined. Four polymorphisms of KLK3 gene (rs2569733, rs2739448, rs925013 and rs2735839) and one polymorphism of SRD5A2 gene (rs523349) were studied. The influence of genetics on PSA variability was evaluated by means of multivariate linear regression analysis. The performances of tPSA and f/tPSA alone or combined with a genetic-based patients’ classification were defined by receiver operating characteristic curve analyses.
Results. For PCa diagnosis f/tPSA index alone (cut-off = 11%) was superior to tPSA (cut-off = 4ng/ml) or f/tPSA reflex testing (61%, 43% and 54% positive predictive values respectively). PSA correlated with KLK3 genetics (p=0.001 for rs2735839 polymorphism and p=0.003 for rs2569733, rs2739448 and rs925013 haplotype combination). In patients with different KLK3
genetics, two optimal f/tPSA cut-off (11% and 14.5%) were found. For f/tPSA values between 11%-14.5% PCa probability ranged from 30.0% to 47.4% according to patient’s genetics.
Conclusions. f/tPSA is superior to tPSA for PCa diagnosis, independently from tPSA results. f/tPSA findings below 11% are positively associated with PCa, those above 14.5% are negatively associated with PCa, while the interpretation of those between 11% and 14.5% is improved by patients’ KLK3 genetics analysis
Systems of fixpoint equations: Abstraction, games, up-to techniques and local algorithms
No full textSystems of fixpoint equations over complete lattices, which combine least and greatest fixpoints, often arise from verification tasks such as model checking and behavioural equivalence checking. In this paper we develop a theory of approximation in the style of abstract interpretation, where a system over some concrete domain is abstracted into a system on a suitable abstract domain, ensuring sound and possibly complete over-approximations of the solutions. We also show how up-to techniques, commonly used to simplify coinductive proofs, fit into this framework, interpreted as abstractions. Additionally, we characterise the solution of fixpoint equation systems through parity games, extending prior work limited to continuous lattices. This game-based approach allows for local algorithms that verify system properties, such as determining whether a state satisfies a formula or two states are behaviourally equivalent. We describe a local algorithm, that can be combined with abstraction and up-to techniques to speed up the computation. (c) 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons .org /licenses /by/4.0/)
Some results on joint record events
No full textLet X1,X2,... be independent and identically distributed random variables on the real line with a joint continuous distribution function F. The stochastic behavior of the sequence of subsequent records is well known. Alternatively to that, we investigate the stochastic behavior of arbitrary Xj,Xk,j<k, under the condition that they are records, without knowing their orders in the sequence of records. The results are completely different. In particular it turns out that the distribution of Xk, being a record, is not affected by the additional knowledge that Xj is a record as well. On the contrary, the distribution of Xj, being a record, is affected by the additional knowledge that Xk is a record as well. If F has a density, then the gain of this additional information, measured by the corresponding Kullback-Leibler distance, is j∕k, independent of F. We derive the limiting joint distribution of two records, which is not a bivariate extreme value distribution. We extend this result to the case of three records. In a special case we also derive the limiting joint distribution of increments among records
A novel coding schemesfor the ROM of parallel ADCs, featuring reduced conversion noisein the case of single bubbles in the thermometer code
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