Branding like a City García Naharro, Fernando
Mémoires du livre,
Printemps 2020, Letnik:
11, Številka:
2
Journal Article
This essay seeks a detailed and intimate understanding of the presence of Barcelona as Guest of Honour at the 45th Buenos Aires Book Fair. In so doing, I focus on the stand of Barcelona at the Buenos ...Aires Book Fair for arguing that exhibition units create the conditions for telling particular stories about national/local literatures to a broad and foreign audience. Moreover, building bridges between existing lines of research and informed by ongoing debates in the field, this paper aims to highlight the entanglements between politics and tourism, “pure” literature and marketplace imperatives. Everything analysed, however, through cultural products and exhibition spaces.
Branding like a City García Naharro, Fernando
Mémoires du livre,
2020, Letnik:
11, Številka:
2
Journal Article
This essay seeks a detailed and intimate understanding of the presence of Barcelona as Guest of Honour at the 45
th
Buenos Aires Book Fair. In so doing, I focus on the stand of Barcelona at the ...Buenos Aires Book Fair for arguing that exhibition units create the conditions for telling particular stories about national/local literatures to a broad and foreign audience. Moreover, building bridges between existing lines of research and informed by ongoing debates in the field, this paper aims to highlight the entanglements between politics and tourism, “pure” literature and marketplace imperatives. Everything analysed, however, through cultural products and exhibition spaces.
Le présent article explore en détail et de l’intérieur la présence de Barcelone en tant qu’invité d’honneur de la 45
e
Foire du livre de Buenos Aires. Partant du stand de Barcelone à la Foire, je souhaite faire valoir que les éléments constituants d’une exposition créent les conditions nécessaires pour raconter certaines histoires à propos de littératures nationales ou locales à un public élargi et étranger. De plus, jetant des ponts entre des questions de recherche actuelles et ancré dans les débats qui animent notre champ d’étude, l’article vise à mettre en évidence les enchevêtrements qui unissent politique et tourisme, littérature « pure » et impératifs du marché, par l’entremise des produits culturels et des espaces d’exposition.
(1) Goals: The purpose of this study was to analyze the feasibility of using the information obtained from a one-channel electro-encephalography (EEG) signal to control a mouse pointer. We used a ...low-cost headset, with one dry sensor placed at the FP1 position, to steer a mouse pointer and make selections through a combination of the user's attention level with the detection of voluntary blinks. There are two types of cursor movements: spinning and linear displacement. A sequence of blinks allows for switching between these movement types, while the attention level modulates the cursor's speed. The influence of the attention level on performance was studied. Additionally, Fitts' model and the evolution of the emotional states of participants, among other trajectory indicators, were analyzed. (2) Methods: Twenty participants distributed into two groups (Attention and No-Attention) performed three runs, on different days, in which 40 targets had to be reached and selected. Target positions and distances from the cursor's initial position were chosen, providing eight different indices of difficulty (IDs). A self-assessment manikin (SAM) test and a final survey provided information about the system's usability and the emotions of participants during the experiment. (3) Results: The performance was similar to some brain-computer interface (BCI) solutions found in the literature, with an averaged information transfer rate (ITR) of 7 bits/min. Concerning the cursor navigation, some trajectory indicators showed our proposed approach to be as good as common pointing devices, such as joysticks, trackballs, and so on. Only one of the 20 participants reported difficulty in managing the cursor and, according to the tests, most of them assessed the experience positively. Movement times and hit rates were significantly better for participants belonging to the attention group. (4) Conclusions: The proposed approach is a feasible low-cost solution to manage a mouse pointer.
This study aimed to investigate the accuracy of a broad range of echocardiographic variables to develop multiparametric scores to diagnose CA in patients with proven light chain (AL) amyloidosis or ...those with increased heart wall thickness who had amyloid was suspected. We also aimed to further characterize the structural and functional changes associated with amyloid infiltration.
Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) is a serious but increasingly treatable cause of heart failure. Diagnosis is challenging and frequently unclear at echocardiography, which remains the most often used imaging tool.
We studied 1,187 consecutive patients evaluated at 3 referral centers for CA and analyzed morphological, functional, and strain-derived echocardiogram parameters with the aim of developing a score-based diagnostic algorithm. Cardiac amyloid burden was quantified by using extracellular volume measurements at cardiac magnetic resonance.
A total of 332 patients were diagnosed with AL amyloidosis and 339 patients with transthyretin CA. Concentric remodeling and strain-derived parameters displayed the best diagnostic performance. A multivariable logistic regression model incorporating relative wall thickness, E wave/e′ wave ratio, longitudinal strain, and tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion had the greatest diagnostic performance in AL amyloidosis (area under the curve: 0.90; 95% confidence interval: 0.87 to 0.92), whereas the addition of septal apical–to–base ratio yielded the best diagnostic accuracy in the increased heart wall thickness group (area under the curve: 0.80; 95% confidence interval: 0.85 to 0.90).
Specific functional and structural parameters characterize different burdens of CA deposition with different diagnostic performances and enable the definition of 2 scores that are sensitive and specific tools with which diagnose or exclude CA.
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This paper presents a study about hardware attacking and clock signal vulnerability. It considers a particular type of attack on the clock signal in the I2C protocol, and proposes the design of a new ...sensor for detecting and defending against this type of perturbation. The analysis of the attack and the defense is validated by means of a configurable experimental platform that emulates a differential drive robot. A set of experimental results confirm the interest of the studied vulnerabilities and the efficiency of the proposed sensor in defending against this type of situation.
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