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An Austrian in Hollywood: the representation of foreigners in the films of Billy Wilder
No full textThis paper examines the work of Billy Wilder whose rich cinematic production frequently
involves the collision of different languages as well as the clash of dissimilar cultures. As an
Austrian living in the USA, the director had the privilege of gaining insight into his adopted
culture from the point of view of an outsider – a bilingual “other” who made 25 films in
almost 40 years of working in Hollywood. His films recurrently depict foreign characters at
which Wilder pokes fun whether they are English, French, German, Italian, Russian or even
the Americans of his adopted country. More precisely, the paper offers an overview of the
multi-modal portrayals of diverse “foreigners,” with examples taken from a small but
significant sample of Wilder’s films. The subtitling of dialogue in the secondary language for
the target English-speaking audience and the specific translation solutions are not within the
scope of this discussion, instead we focus on the comic collision of two languages and more
importantly, on the way Wilder implements humour to highlight the absurdity of cultural
difference. In other words, our main goal is to explore two or more languages in contrast
when they become a humorous trope
A Low Cost Resolver-to-Digital Converter
No full textIn this paper, the full implementation on a combined analog-digital board of the resolver-to-digital conversion is proposed. It represents a low cost solution for measuring the position by means of standard resolvers. Some experimental results are presented and a comparison with the performances achieved by means of an incremental encoder is performed
Multilingualism and Translation on Screen
No full textThe chapter explores the different ways devised by audiovisual translators to deal with the presence of different languages in films. After examining the main functions played by multilingualism on screen (portraying multilingual reality, producing conflict and/or generating confusion), the chapter moves on to analyse the different translational solutions available to help audiences cope with so-called “secondary languages” present in multilingual films (part-subtitling, diegetic interpreting, contextual translation). The second part of the chapter is then devoted to critically discuss the restrictions and capabilities of both dubbing and subtitling when dealing with multilingualism. The analysis finally leads to define a number of possible further developments in the audiovisual translation of multilingual products
Towards a Deep Integration of Socio-Economic Action and Spatial Planning
No full textIt is now time to recognize that self-organizing socio-economic actors can and must act directly on the pursuit of territorial development and cohesion or, in other words, that the broadest possible number of socio-economic actors must be involved, to this end, in co-creating products, services and innovative content. ICTs can greatly help to go forward in this direction, allowing the merging of regulation, implementation of policies and spontaneous transformation, thanks to their interactivity and their potential of diffusion of “usable knowledge” (Lindblom and Cohen, 1979). The proposed approach relies on the notion of Living Labs (LLs), or better on that of “Territorial Living Labs” (TLLs). At the heart of the Living Lab approach is the idea of "co-design", through which users participate in the ICT R&D process from the outset. A TLL is a LL taking in particular account the deep link to the community (business, social, cultural) that shifting technology R&D out of the laboratory and into the real world implies, in terms of focusing of the transversal problems of cities and territories, instead of merely the sector of ICT R&D.
The above mentioned approach is potentially able to overcome the traditional and despite all persistent dichotomy between socioeconomic activities and spatial planning, as well as between social and technological aspects of territorial innovation.
The TLL approach is now under experimentation in the European CIP ICT PSP “Periphèria Project - Networked Smart Peripheral Cities for Sustainable Lifestyles” (http://www.peripheria.eu/). Periphèria is a 30-month Pilot B action funded by the European Commission under the CIP ICT PSP Programme aiming at deploying convergent Future Internet (FI) platforms and services for the promotion of sustainable lifestyles in and across emergent networks of “smart” peripheral cities in Europe. The outcomes of the Periphèria experimentation relate to transformational shifts in urban structures, lifestyles and work styles required to reach economic, social, environmental and cultural sustainability
Largest family without A ∪ B ⊆ C ∩ D
No full textLet F be a family of subsets of an n-element set not containing four distinct members such that A∪B⊆C∩D. It is proved that the maximum size of F under this condition is equal to the sum of the two largest binomial coefficients of order n.The maximum families are also characterized. A LYM-type inequality for such families is given, too
Special Issue on functional analysis, approximation theory and numerical analysis (FAATNA20>22)
No full textEvaluation of the infection‐relevant role of small RNA‐based regulatory systems in the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa
No full textPseudomonas aeruginosa is an important opportunistic pathogen in immune-compromised and cystic fibrosis patients. Emerging candidates for the role of molecular regulators of virulence in P. aeruginosa are small RNAs (sRNAs), which in other bacterial pathogens have been shown to play key roles in modulating cellular processes linked to pathogenesis.
We have performed a comparative sRNA profiling via deep-sequencing of P. aeruginosa PAO1 and PA14 strains which share the same host range but differ in pathogenicity, PA14 being considerably more virulent in several model organisms. Altogether, we have identified more than 150 novel candidate sRNAs and validated a third of them by Northern blotting (1). We now aim at identifying infection-relevant small RNA-based regulatory systems. To this end, we are focusing on a short list of 8 validated sRNAs which showed, at preliminary screenings, potential virulence hallmarks such as: specific expression in PA14 or PAO1; responsiveness to infection-relevant host stimuli (e.g. oxygen availability, temperature shift) or invasion signals (e.g. quorum sensing). Our approach is to generate sRNA deletion mutants and test them for i) canonical virulence phenotype(s) such as motility, protease and siderophore secretion, mucoidy, biofilm formation, haemolytic/autolytic activity, rhamnolipids production; ii) the ability to invade human respiratory epithelial cells and stimulate an immune response. Virulence/attenuation of those sRNA mutants showing altered virulence traits in vitro will be tested in both acute and chronic murine models of airways infection by P. aeruginosa. The above tests are accompanied by in silico, genetic and transcriptomics-based screenings for the genome-wide search of sRNAs target genes.
1. Ferrara S, Brugnoli M, De Bonis A, Righetti F, Delvillani F, Deho G, Horner D, Briani F, Bertoni G (2012) Comparative profiling of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains reveals differential expression of novel unique and conserved small RNAs. PLoS One 7: e36553
Are implantable cardiac monitors reliable tools for cardiac arrhythmias detection? An intra-patient comparison with permanent pacemakers
No full textIntroduction: Implantable cardiac monitor (ICM) is an established tool for the management of unexplained syncope and atrial fibrillation (AF) even if its accuracy of arrhythmia detection may be suboptimal. The aim of this study was to perform an intra-patient comparison of the diagnostic capability of ICM with a dual-chamber PM as a gold standard. Methods: We included 19 patients with a previously implanted ICM (BioMonitor 2 Biotronik, Berlin, Germany), who received a dual-chamber PM for standard indications. ICM-detected arrhythmic events in a 6-month follow-up were compared with those detected by the PM and classified by visual inspection of intracardiac electrograms. Results: During follow up, ICMs generated 15 false asystole and 39 false bradycardia detections in 5 patients (26.3%) due to recurrent premature ventricular contractions. A total of 34 true high ventricular rate (HVR) episodes were detected by the PM. Of them, 30 (88%) events were also recorded by the ICM, which further detected 14 false HVR snapshots, leading to a sensitivity and positive predictive value of 88% and 68%, respectively. In addition, PM identified 234 true AF episodes. Of them, 225 (96%) events were also detected by the ICM, while 8 (42%) ICMs stored 50 AF episodes classified as false positives. The ICM sensitivity for AF was 96% with a positive predictive value of 82%. Conclusion: Our intra-patient comparison with permanent PM confirmed that ICM is an effective tool for cardiac arrhythmias detection. ICM algorithms for AF and HVR detection were highly sensitive with an acceptable rate of false positive episodes
Emission spectra investigation of fs induced NPs probed by the ns laser pulse of a fs/ns DP-LIBS orthogonal configuration
No full textContralateral and ipsilateral tactile extinction in patients with right and left focal brain damage
No full textHeilman has suggested that right hemisphere lesions produce neglect both in the spaces contralateral and ipsilateral to the damaged hemisphere. To test this hypothesis, we studied the incidence of contralateral and ipsilateral tactile extinctions in 44 right and 59 left brain-damaged patients, by means of a standard test of a double tactile simultaneous stimulation of symmetrical and asymmetrical parts of the two sides of the body and of ipsilateral body parts. Results did not confirm Heilman's hypothesis; while contralateral tactile extinction was more frequent and severe in right than in left brain-damaged patients, no hemispheric difference was found when the number of ipsilateral extinctions was taken into account. Furthermore, ipsilateral tactile extinction was significantly related to aspecific factors (such as age, severity of sensorimotor impairment and widespread mental deterioration), irrespective of the hemispheric side of lesion
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