The Ones Who Walk Away From the Ocean

When a mermaid mysteriously appears on the shore of a Northern island, the town\u27s children become enthralled with the newfound mythic creature, while the adults become wary and untrusting

Recreational marathon running does not cause exercise-induced left ventricular hypertrabeculation.

BACKGROUND: Marathon running in novices represents a natural experiment of short-term cardiovascular remodeling in response to running training. We examine whether this stimulus can produce exercise-induced left ventricular (LV) trabeculation. METHODS: Sixty-eight novice marathon runners aged 29.5 ± 3.2 years had indices of LV trabeculation measured by echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging 6 months before and 2 weeks after the 2016 London Marathon race, in a prospective longitudinal study. RESULTS: After 17 weeks unsupervised marathon training, indices of LV trabeculation were essentially unchanged. Despite satisfactory inter-observer agreement in most methods of trabeculation measurement, criteria defining abnormally hypertrabeculated cases were discordant with each other. LV hypertrabeculation was a frequent finding in young, healthy individuals with no subject demonstrating clear evidence of a cardiomyopathy. CONCLUSION: Training for a first marathon does not induce LV trabeculation. It remains unclear whether prolonged, high-dose exercise can create de novo trabeculation or expose concealed trabeculation. Applying cut off values from published LV noncompaction cardiomyopathy criteria to young, healthy individuals risks over-diagnosis

(Re)Writing Home: Unimagining and Reimagining Haitian Identity in Diasporic Literature from the United States

This study explores the responses of the members of the Haitian diaspora in the U.S. to the current historical moment. This historical moment in which the President of the United States would feel so inclined as to ask: “Why do we want people from Haiti here?” and “Why are we having all these people from sh*thole countries come here?” (Davis et al. 2018; Dawsey 2018). The same man who promised Haitians “I will be your champion,” has made the decision to force 59,000 members of the Haitian diaspora who currently hold Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to return to Haiti in July of 2019 (MSNBC 2017).This research thus seeks to understand how individuals in the Haitian diaspora define their Haitian identity as well how they respond to stereotypes of Haitians as portrayed and perpetuated in media and embodied in racist immigration policies. These responses are poignantly expressed in literature written by Haitian authors following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. This study conducts a comparative, anthropological literary analysis of two post-earthquake novels: American Street by Ibi Zoboi and Mouths Don’t Speak by Katia D. Ulysse. Davis, Julie Hirschfeld et al. “Trump Alarms Lawmakers With Disparaging Words for Haiti and Africa.” The New York Times, January 20, 2018. Dawsey, Josh. “Trump Derides Protections for Immigrants from \u27Shithole\u27 Countries.” The Washington Post, January 12, 2018. “Trump Hurts Haitians He Promised to Help.” MSNBC, November 22, 2017

Evaluation plan

The overall objectives of TeleFOT are to assess the impacts of aftermarket and nomadic devices used in vehicles for driver support and to raise the awareness of the functions and potential that these devices offer. This report starts from the scientific and technological objectives that will make these overall objectives more concrete. They are 1. Build, mobilise and integrate European test communities for long term testing and assessment of driver support functions through aftermarket and nomadic devices 2. Create a methodological framework for executing the tests and analysing the data 3. Study aftermarket and nomadic devices in different technical contexts 4. Study different levels of impacts on drivers and society 5. Focus on functions and services for safe, efficient and economical travel 6. Investigate the contents of functions provided for cooperative driver support 7. Develop effective procedures of enhancing awareness and take-up of driver support ICT systems among the public 8. Focus also on aspects in the use of aftermarket and nomadic devices that may decrease safety TeleFOT is supposed adopt the approach of Field Operational Test (FOT). When going into the actual work in TeleFOT, as laid out in the DoW, it was seen as a useful step to make use of the structure of the deliverable D2.2.1 Testing and Evaluation strategy I, based on the FESTA FOT Chain (from the FESTA Handbook). This was done in order to identify what findings in the TeleFOT project (so far) has a unique and from the FESTA Handbook deviating approach. The intention has been to highlight these deviations (or improvements) in order to widen the potential use of the FOT methodology in the future. This IP-level deliverable is therefore focused on what constitutes the unique features of TeleFOT that could have an impact also on a more general level. This is especially important as new FOTs are planned in the area “cooperative driving”. Most of the TeleFOT deliverables until today have been consulted including the first series of deliverables addressing the Data Analysis Plans for all the impact areas to be covered by TeleFOT; they are Efficiency, Environment, Mobility, Safety and User Uptake. It is concluded that the first of the overall objectives has been met to quite a high degree, even if there still are some important steps that must be finished. The second overall objective is not yet addressed in a systematic way. However, there are WPs in the TeleFOT DoW that are supposed to cover these aspects in the last part of the project

Telefot: first results in assessing the impacts of aftermarket and nomadic devices

This paper presents the status and first results achieved in the European Large Scale Collaborative Project TeleFOT (Field Operational Tests of Aftermarket and Nomadic Devices in vehicles). The paper is structured into three sections. The Introduction is conceived to show the key issues that TeleFOT deals with and its scenario. Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) have been the subject of significant research and development in Europe in recent years as they are contributing to a change in the transportation process. The market penetration of portable navigators and smart phones is consistently increasing but no standards directly related to the use of aftermarket and nomadic devices in vehicle exist. To conduct Field Operational Tests (FOTs) based on a large number of drivers using nomadic/mobile devices in their own vehicles and to raise wide awareness of the functions and the potential these devices offer are in the core of TeleFOT. The section on FOTs provides a description of the trials carried out in TeleFOT. It includes a presentation of the functions tested and of the Research Questions and Hypotheses generation process. The impact areas to be analysed in the project are shown as well. Finally, the section on Indicative results achieved shows the progress made so far in the project, in particular concerning the analysis of data from the pilot tests