The Photo-Text in the Mussolini Era

In the 1930s, Fascism’s Mythopoeia found in propaganda photobooks a comfortable space in which to configure itself. The layout of the photobooks draws on the experiments carried out by the editors of “Campo Grafico” [1933 - 1939] and by eclectic personalities like Guido Modiano; with reference to photography, on the other hand, from the modernist style developed by the amateurs of photographic circles reworking the experience gained by the European avant-gardes since the previous decade. All these innovations led to a rethinking of the usual relationship between image and text, gaining a new and a much more dynamic interaction between visual and textual. Through the analysis of some of the most important photobooks of the Fascist Era, the following article aims to show some aspects of the verbal and visual rhetoric which the Fascist regime used to generate an articulated model of the world in which to believe, even if its appearance differed radically from what one saw with one's own eyes or experienced on one's own skin every day. In propaganda photo books, the facts are emphasized, even judged, in order to construct a specious argument that leaves no room for doubt.

Implementing Sustainable Evidence-Based Interventions in the Community: A Fidelity-Focused Training Framework for the Savvy Caregiver Program

Evidence-based (EB) programs provide a tested means for addressing serious public health concerns. While establishing and maintaining fidelity to these programs is critical for high-quality outcomes, unfortunately, implementation reports rarely describe the strategies used to train and monitor fidelity in community-based implementations. Thus, an essential translational ingredient is a clearly articulated model for establishing a systemic, sustainable fidelity framework. This article provides a detailed description of the fidelity-focused framework developed for Michigan’s statewide implementation of the Savvy Caregiver Program. This framework, titled Creating Confident Caregivers® (CCC), instilled conceptual understanding of fidelity, practice adherence, and competence via ongoing progressive practitioner training, peer observation, participant evaluation, and experiential assessments. Practitioners maintained very high evaluations from participants, and a select cadre of practitioners achieved master trainer status to monitor regional fidelity. This framework promotes sustainable fidelity to EB interventions and provides a replicable platform for other community-based implementations.

Beyond interfaces

By analyzing the empirical data from two experiments that test Spanish psych-verb properties (e.g. gustar ‘to like’), this article assesses the empirical adequacy of the Interface Hypothesis (IH), which claims that external interfaces (i.e. interfaces between a linguistic module and a cognitive module) are more problematic for learners than internal interfaces/narrow syntax (Sorace & Filiaci, 2006; Sorace, 2011; inter alia). Because my findings were inconsistent with the IH (i.e. target-like pragmatics knowledge can precede syntactic awareness of the same construction), I turned to the Integrative Model of Bilingual Acquisition (Pires & Rothman, 2011), which accounts for non-native divergence by resorting to the interplay of a series of factors (i.e. formal complexity, L1-L2 parameter mapping, processing resources, and PLD). This more articulated model is not only able to account for the patterns in these experiments but it also constitutes a more integrated explanation for the intricacies of the acquisition process.

An Exploration of a PASSIVE Articulated Fish-Like System

This study is aimed to investigate the bio-mimetic swimmer propulsion mechanism with the use of its internal muscle force. A simplified articulated model, with multiple rigid segments connected by the joints (imitating the muscle force), is adopted to represent the real swimmer body. To modeling the problem, a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method is coupled with the system dynamic equations. Some preliminary results obtained showed that the numerical methods developed are able to predict the self-propelled articulated multi-body system with multiple degrees of freedom.

A Brief Review on Models of Animal Tracking in Video

The observation on motion and behaviors of the animal is still important in scientific research fields, and various behaviors of animals are tracked and analyzed for many different purposes. The paper concentrates on the technologies employed for animal tracking in video, and reviews the tracking models related to animal motions and behaviors including shape-based model, contour-based model, articulated model, Bag-Of-Feature based model, Markov Model, etc. and gives a brief summary of these models respectively.