Safety Applications and Measurement Tools for Connected Vehicles

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Usi del turpiloquio nella traduzione filmica

Le varie funzioni del turpiloquio all'interno dell'enunciato sono presenti in entrambe le lingue analizzate, benché, oltre ai significati che vengono codificati, possano variare la frequenza e la flessibilità di uso di alcune delle espressioni. Questo si traduce, talvolta, in difficoltà di trascodifica da una lingua all'altra, che si manifesta nelle scelte di omissione, di attenuazione o di rese che si distaccano fortemente dall'originale. Sul piano dell'accettabilità sociale, la censura del turpiloquio sembra essere ancora molto presente nei prodotti per la televisione, destinati al grande pubblico e accessibili con facilità anche ai più piccoli. La traduzione del turpiloquio nei film coinvolge questioni che vanno al di là di mere corrispondenze semantiche tra traducenti, ma investono ambiti pragmatici e culturali più ampi, che comprendono la valenza affettiva e emotiva del linguaggio, i fenomeni di interdizione e l'indicibile, l'abilità e la fantasia del traduttore che si muove tra grevità e gioco verbale

Demo: Open source testbed for vehicular communication

The challenge of enabling the communications between the vehicle and its surroundings is being faced by the entire automotive industry, while the main standardization bod- ies are undergoing a huge effort to propose new solutions and improve the existing ones. The lack of open source solu- tions for vehicular communications penalizes the technology advances, and for this reason we present an open source plat- form based on PC Engines’ boards and Unex’s WNICs for the testing of V2X (vehicle-to-everything) applications. Our platform enables the connectivity over a 802.11p channel between two boards that can be deployed as wireless don- gles, so it can be used to extend the network capabilities of any kind of computing system. The testbed has been setup to work with several applications: from video streaming, to online gaming, to a containerized version of a latency tester, called LaTe

Cominco American Well: Implications for the Reconstruction of the Sevier Orogen and Basin and Range Extension in West-Central Utah

Re-evaluation of acoustic, gamma ray and dip meter logs from the Cominco American Federal No. 2 well in the Sevier Desert basin of west-central Utah sheds new light on the interpretation of Neoproterozoic and Cambrian stratigraphy and Mesozoic structure in a region that has been influential in the development of ideas about crustal shortening and extension. The most prominent of several major thrust faults (the Canyon Range and Pavant thrusts) have been interpreted by DeCelles and Coogan (2006) [Regional structure and kinematic history of the Sevier fold-and-thrust belt, central Utah: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 118, n. 7-8, p. 841-864, http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/B25759.1] as having been cut and in part re-activated between late Oligocene and Holocene time by as much as 47 km of displacement on the gently west-dipping Sevier Desert detachment. This interpretation, which is based upon a combination of outcrop, seismic reflection and well data, depends critically on the Canyon Range thrust intersecting the Cominco well at a depth of 2,551 to 2,557 m (8,370-8,389 ft.), and terminating downwards against a re-activated Pavant thrust. Our work suggests that the fault at 2,551 m (8,370 ft.) is a strand of the Pavant thrust, and that the Canyon Range thrust cuts the well at a depth of 1,222 m (4,010 ft.). This alternative interpretation depends in turn on identification of the section between the two faults as terminal Neoproterozoic to middle Cambrian Prospect Mountain Quartzite through Chisholm Formation rather than Neoproterozoic "Pocatello Formation," "Blackrock Canyon Limestone" and lower Caddy Canyon Quartzite. To support this interpretation we present evidence for stratigraphic repetition and for deformation at the 1,222 m (4,010 ft.) level. Use of the lithostratigraphic terms "Pocatello" and "Blackrock Canyon" in west-central Utah is shown to be inappropriate, and among the reasons that the critical interval in the Cominco well has been misinterpreted by some authors. If the Canyon Range and Pavant thrusts are both found in the Cominco well, as we suggest, then they cannot be used as a piercing point for the estimation of displacement on the Sevier Desert detachment or as justification for the existence of the detachment. Published estimates of extension across the Sevier Desert basin therefore need to be reduced, potentially to as little as ∼ 10 km

Slip distribution inversion by trans-dimensional Monte Carlo sampling: application to the 2009 L’Aquila Earthquake (Central Italy)

Non-uniform slip distribution on a fault plane from geodetic data is usually estimated in two steps. First, the geometric fault parameters are inferred by non -linear inversion assuming a uniform slip on a rectangular fault. A second analysis, based on linear inversion techniques, infers the slip distribution on an arbitrary subdivision of the fault plane into patches. Two main concerns arise. First, the fault geometry determined under the assumption of a uniform slip i s not guaranteed to properly represent the fault geometry for a spatially variable slip distribution. Moreover, an arbitrary fault subdivision into patches u nrelated to the observed data could bias the model resolution, introducing spurious features. In recent years, the availability of large coverage data, such as DInSAR images, improved mapping the coseismic displacements. The large amount of geodetic da ta from the area surrounding earthquake faults allows for improving the slip models and refining the knowledge of earthquake dynamics. Less attention has been given to the development of new inversion algorithms that can resolve the main concerns above. In particular, the question is whether the data themselves ca n constrain the slip model complexity, i.e., the unknown number and distribution of the fault patches needed to fit the observations. The reversible jump Mar kov chain Monte Carlo (RJMCMC) algorithm has been recently introduced in the geosciences to solve a variety of non linear inverse problems. RJMCMC combines a classical Markov chain Monte Carlo method with the ability to shift between models with a different number of unknowns. A posterior probability distribution of the num ber of unknowns is obtained at the end of the Markov chain, so that the model resolution is determined by the observed data. In this study, we apply a RJMCMC method to the Mw 6.3 L’Aquila earthquake that occurred on April 6th 2009 in Central Italy. Three DInSAR images, mapping the c oseismic displacement, are inverted to constrain not only the slip distribution but also the number of unknowns (i.e., the number of fault patches) and the ge ometry of non-rectangular patches

MOLECULAR MECHANISMS REGULATING SPINE REMODELLING

N-Cadherin plays an important role during dendrite arborisation, axon guidance and synaptogenesys. In particular, at synaptic sites, it is required for activity-dependent synaptic plasticity and dendritic spine remodeling. Recent studies have shown that N-Cadherin can be cleaved by the metalloproteinase ADAM10. Here we demonstrate that modulating ADAM10 localization and activity at synaptic sites regulates its processing of N-Cadherin. This indices modification of dendritic spines morphology and of composition and function of AMPA receptors. In particular, inhibition of ADAM10 synaptic localization and activity leads to an accumulation of the full-length form of N-cadherin, to an increase in spine head width and to modifications of number and function of glutamate receptors of AMPA-type, both in vitro and in vivo. Conversely, the stimulation of ADAM10 activity towards N-Cadherin reduces dendritic spine size and AMPA receptor localization at post-synaptic site