Free to be Accountable: Extended Self as a Moderator of Cheating Among Those Primed with Determinism

The idea that free will may be an illusion has been a source of great concern. It has led to suggestions that it may be wise to avoid public discussion of this topic lest it lead to a general moral decay. This concern has seemingly been supported by research demonstrating that individuals, when primed with the notion they lack free will, tend to cheat more and prefer less retributive punishment. The current research suggests that these effects can be moderated by the introduction of a second prime. In experiment one, participants believed they were being tested on note-taking and the subsequent recall of the content of two articles when, in fact, the dependent measure was actually the degree to which, after being primed with the articles, they cheated on a math task. It was hypothesized that the cheating effect noted in prior research would be moderated by the introduction of a second prime – one that extends the concept of self beyond our dualistic intuitions. In a second experiment, it was hypothesized that this prime would also moderate the reported reduction of preference toward retributivist punishment. In each experiment, the results trended in the direction hypothesized but in neither case were they statistically significant. The difficulties surrounding methodology and reproducibility in this type of research is discussed and suggestions for improvements in experiment design are offered

Paixão, dever e fama: As tradutoras de Cuore para o romeno (1893-1936)

The second half of the nineteenth century saw a proliferation of translations from romance languages into Romanian as a consequence of the economic and cultural development of the Romanian society. In this context, 1893 saw the publication of the first Romanian translation of De Amicis’s Cuore (Heart): An Italian Schoolboy’s Journal, by Clelia Bruzzesi (1836-1903). The twentieth century brought five other versions, two of them signed by women translators: Sofia Nădejde (1856-1946) in 1916 and Mia Frollo (1885-1962) in 1936. Until recently, Cuore was part of the primary school curriculum in Romania, so the text left a mark on the cultural history of the country. This paper aims to raise awareness of the often neglected translation activity of women and to reveal Bruzzesi, Nădejde and Frollo’s place in society as well their motivations and the public reception of their translations.A segunda metade do século XIX viu uma proliferação de traduções de línguas românicas para o romeno como consequência do desenvolvimento econômico e cultural da sociedade romena. Neste contexto, em 1893 foi publicada a primeira tradução romena de Cuore (Heart): An Italian Schoolboy’s Journal [Coração: Diário de um aluno], de Amici, feita por Clelia Bruzzesi (1836-1903). No século XX, há outras cinco versões, duas delas assinadas por mulheres tradutoras: Sofia Nădejde (1856-1946), em 1916, e Mia Frollo (1885-1962), em 1936. Até recentemente, Cuore fazia parte do currículo do ensino fundamental na Romênia, por isso o texto deixou uma marca na história cultural do país. Este trabalho tem como objetivo sensibilizar as mulheres para a atividade de tradução muitas vezes negligenciada e revelar o lugar de Bruzzesi, Nădejde e Frollo na sociedade, bem como suas motivações e a recepção pública de suas traduções

3D Vascular Pattern Extraction from Grayscale Volumetric Ultrasound Images for Biometric Recognition Purposes

Recognition systems based on palm veins are gaining increasing attention as they are highly distinctive and very hard to counterfeit. Most popular systems are based on infrared radiation; they have the merit to be contactless but can provide only 2D patterns. Conversely, 3D patterns can be achieved with Doppler or photoacoustic methods, but these approaches require too long of an acquisition time. In this work, a method for extracting 3D vascular patterns from conventional grayscale volumetric images of the human hand, which can be collected in a short time, is proposed for the first time. It is based on the detection of low-brightness areas in B-mode images. Centroids of these areas in successive B-mode images are then linked through a minimum distance criterion. Preliminary verification and identification results, carried out on a database previously established for extracting 3D palmprint features, demonstrated good recognition performances: EER = 2%, ROC AUC = 99.92%, and an identification rate of 100%. As further merit, 3D vein pattern features can be fused to 3D palmprint features to implement a costless multimodal recognition system

Recent Advances in Machine Learning Applied to Ultrasound Imaging

Machine learning (ML) methods are pervading an increasing number of fields of application because of their capacity to effectively solve a wide variety of challenging problems. The employment of ML techniques in ultrasound imaging applications started several years ago but the scientific interest in this issue has increased exponentially in the last few years. The present work reviews the most recent (2019 onwards) implementations of machine learning techniques for two of the most popular ultrasound imaging fields, medical diagnostics and non-destructive evaluation. The former, which covers the major part of the review, was analyzed by classifying studies according to the human organ investigated and the methodology (e.g., detection, segmentation, and/or classification) adopted, while for the latter, some solutions to the detection/classification of material defects or particular patterns are reported. Finally, the main merits of machine learning that emerged from the study analysis are summarized and discussed. © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland

Blow-up behaviour of a fractional Adams-Moser-Trudinger type inequality in odd dimension

Given a smoothly bounded domain $\Omega\Subset\mathbb{R}^n$ with $n\ge 1$ odd, we study the blow-up of bounded sequences $(u_k)\subset H^\frac{n}{2}_{00}(\Omega)$ of solutions to the non-local equation $$(-\Delta)^\frac n2 u_k=\lambda_k u_ke^{\frac n2 u_k^2}\quad \text{in }\Omega,$$ where $\lambda_k\to\lambda_\infty \in [0,\infty)$, and $H^{\frac n2}_{00}(\Omega)$ denotes the Lions-Magenes spaces of functions $u\in L^2(\mathbb{R}^n)$ which are supported in $\Omega$ and with $(-\Delta)^\frac{n}{4}u\in L^2(\mathbb{R}^n)$. Extending previous works of Druet, Robert-Struwe and the second author, we show that if the sequence $(u_k)$ is not bounded in $L^\infty(\Omega)$, a suitably rescaled subsequence $\eta_k$ converges to the function $\eta_0(x)=\log\left(\frac{2}{1+|x|^2}\right)$, which solves the prescribed non-local $Q$-curvature equation $$(-\Delta)^\frac n2 \eta =(n-1)!e^{n\eta}\quad \text{in }\mathbb{R}^n$$ recently studied by Da Lio-Martinazzi-Rivi\`ere when $n=1$, Jin-Maalaoui-Martinazzi-Xiong when $n=3$, and Hyder when $n\ge 5$ is odd. We infer that blow-up can occur only if $\Lambda:=\limsup_{k\to \infty}\|(-\Delta)^\frac n4 u_k\|_{L^2}^2\ge \Lambda_1:= (n-1)!|S^n|$

On local and nonlocal Moser-Trudinger inequalities

Moser-Trudinger inequalities arise naturally in the study of the critical case of the well known Sobolev embeddings. In this work, we cover two issues related to Moser-Trudinger inequalities. We address the problem of the existence of extremal functions for Moser-Trudinger embeddings in the presence of singular potentials, and the problem of finding sharp Moser-Trudinger type inequalities in fractional Sobolev spaces

A note on the Moser-Trudinger inequality in Sobolev-Slobodeckij spaces in dimension one

We discuss some recent results by Parini and Ruf on a Moser-Trudinger type inequality in the setting of Sobolev-Slobodeckij spaces in dimension one. We push further their analysis considering the inequality on the whole $\mathbb{R}$ and we give an answer to one of their open questions

A note on the Moser-Trudinger inequality in Sobolev-Slobodeckij spaces in dimension one

We discuss some recent results by Parini and Ruf on a Moser-Trudinger type inequality in the setting of Sobolev-Slobodeckij spaces in dimension one. We push further their analysis considering the inequality on the whole $\mathbb{R}$ and we give an answer to one of their open questions

In A Little Garden (You Made Paradise)

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