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2019
During speech perception listeners rely on multimodal input and make use of both auditory and visual information. When presented with speech, for example syllables, the differences in brain responses to distinct stimuli are not, however, caused merely by the acoustic or visual features of the stimuli. The congruency of the auditory and visual information and the familiarity of a syllable, that is, whether it appears in the listener’s native language or not, also modulates brain responses. We investigated how the congruency and familiarity of the presented stimuli affect brain responses to audio-visual (AV) speech in 12 adult Finnish native speakers and 12 adult Chinese native speakers. They…
An Interactive Framework for Offline Data-Driven Multiobjective Optimization
2020
We propose a framework for solving offline data-driven multiobjective optimization problems in an interactive manner. No new data becomes available when solving offline problems. We fit surrogate models to the data to enable optimization, which introduces uncertainty. The framework incorporates preference information from a decision maker in two aspects to direct the solution process. Firstly, the decision maker can guide the optimization by providing preferences for objectives. Secondly, the framework features a novel technique for the decision maker to also express preferences related to maximum acceptable uncertainty in the solutions as preferred ranges of uncertainty. In this way, the d…
Attributional and relational influence of numerals in S’ncamtho metaphors
2020
AbstractYouth varieties in Africa such as S’ncamtho, the Ndebele-based youth variety in Zimbabwe, and urban vernaculars interact with urban and modern experiences which offer them new materials and experiences to base their metaphors on compared to older metaphors in the base languages. This paper explores the use of numeral qualities and associations in the conceptualisation and orthographic representation of S’ncamtho metaphors. S’ncamtho is popular with urban youth and this makes social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, SMS and Instagram key in the performance of the youth variety, a performance that includes the creation, use and contraction of metaphors. Numerals off…
A reflection on the translation of sex-related language in audio-visual texts: the Spanish version of J.K. Rowling’sThe Casual Vacancy
2018
Studies on the way sex-related language has been approached in audio-visual translation are still rather limited. This article documents the range of solutions given in Spanish to the sex-related l...
How is the Driver's Workload Influenced by the Road Environment?
2017
Abstract This paper focuses on the study of the driver's workload while driving on a rural two-lane road with different traffic flows. The aim of the research is to examine a parameter that could be representative of the driving effort, quite sensible to the external factors that cause disturbance to the regular driving activity. To solve this problem, the authors used a specific instrumented vehicle for monitoring some physiological parameters of the driver (as the eye movements and the Galvanic Skin Resistance), referring their values to the road context. The results are very interesting and confirm that knowing the workload is useful to improve the road safety only if it is related to th…
Introduction to Gestural Similarity in Music. An Application of Category Theory to the Orchestra
2019
Mathematics, and more generally computational sciences, intervene in several aspects of music. Mathematics describes the acoustics of the sounds giving formal tools to physics, and the matter of music itself in terms of compositional structures and strategies. Mathematics can also be applied to the entire making of music, from the score to the performance, connecting compositional structures to acoustical reality of sounds. Moreover, the precise concept of gesture has a decisive role in understanding musical performance. In this paper, we apply some concepts of category theory to compare gestures of orchestral musicians, and to investigate the relationship between orchestra and conductor, a…
3D visualization of engendering collaborative leadership in the space
2012
The paper focuses on collaborative leadership in education and how to illustrate its engendering process in a three-dimensional space. This complex and fluid process is examined as distributed and pedagogical within a Finnish vocational upper secondary educational organization. As a consequence, the notion of distributed pedagogical leadership is used when collaborative leadership in education is studied. Collaborative leadership is argued to consist of the innermost substance of a professional learning community, as attributes of a group of people working together for specific purposes. Therefore, collaborative leadership naturally involves actors, activities, and context. However, the inn…
I Palazzi Enciclopedici: le passioni della conoscenza e le forme del possesso
2013
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico, come aspirazione alla conoscenza totale del mondo, ci costringe a interrogarci, per converso, sulle cesure che attraversano il campo del sapere entro cui ci muoviamo, e sulle finalità che può avere il mantenerle o il superarle. L’ossessione inesausta e sempre frustrata verso la totalità, in cui la ricerca si sostiene sulla meraviglia, sposta inoltre l’attenzione sulle passioni che stimolano la conoscenza: un piano di confronto dove arte e scienza, viste sotto un’angolazione storica, negoziano le loro reciproche posizioni, e non sempre risultano antagoniste. Infine, il metodo della raccolta e dell’esposizione ci induce a considerare il ruolo degli oggetti, i quali n…
(Re)imagining African independence
2018
Critical review of a research book on the visual representation of the Portuguese Colonies in Africa.
Análisis de la sintomatología y los factores de riesgo asociados al uso de las pantallas de visualización de datos en usuarios adultos no presbitas
2013
La literatura científica presenta una cierta confusión sobre la prevalencia de los síntomas asociados al uso de las pantallas de visualización de datos (PVD), debido a varios factores tales como: las diferentes poblaciones estudiadas, edades, sexo y los métodos utilizados para su determinación. Se ha realizado un estudio para determinar la prevalencia de síntomas asociados al uso de las PVD (eliminando estos factores de confusión) y su relación con los factores de riesgo. Método. Participaron 97 usuarios de las PVD de entre 20 y 34 años. Después de un examen optométrico completo para determinar la ausencia de problemas refractivos importantes y de salud ocular, fueron excluidos 10 sujetos. …