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Giorgina Cantalini

In the diamesic continuum from spontaneous speech to written language, many speech forms lack the unwilling responses and the reflex actions of face-to-face interaction. For instance, beyond reading aloud speech, the peculiarity typically regards formal public speech and acted speech. In fact, while in the spontaneous language performance, the ideational process is synchronous to the locutionary process, and speech goes on together with the flow of thought, in the reading, instead, the content is figured out completely only afterward, and also, for this reason, the performance frequently lacks communicative efficiency. The paper offers an overview of an innovative reading-aloud teaching practice based on an empiric multimodal approach in which visuospatial sensorimotor dynamic instructions exploit the capability of gestures and body movements to trigger a meaningful, effective text interpretation.

Mengya He, Yaping Mao

The \textit{set-coloring Ramsey number} $\mathrm{R}_{r, s}(G_1,G_2,...,G_r)$ is the least $n \in \mathbb{N}$ such that every coloring $χ: E\left(K_n\right) \rightarrow\binom{[r]}{s}$ contains a monochromatic copy of $G_i$, that is, a color $i \in[r]$ such that $i \in χ(e)$ for every $e \in E(G_i)$. If $G_1=G_2=\cdots=G_r=G$, then we write $\mathrm{R}_{r,s}(G)$ for short. In 2022, Le asked to find lower and upper bounds for $\mathrm{R}_{s, t}(G)$ with various kinds of graphs $G$ such as stars, paths, cycles, etc. In this paper, we obtain exact values or bounds for the set-coloring Ramsey numbers of stars, paths, matchings, etc. By Lovász Local Lemma, we give a lower bound for the set-coloring Ramsey number for general graphs.

Sachin Shivakumar, Declan Jagt, Danilo Braghini et al.

The PIETOOLS 2025 User Manual describes all the features of version 2025 of the MATLAB toolbox PIETOOLS for the analysis and control of Partial Integral Equations (PIEs). The manual is aimed to guide, with examples, first-time users to four fundamental features of PIETOOLS: converting coupled ODE-PDEs, DDEs, DDFs, etc., to PIE representation; analysis of stability and input-output properties of PIEs; design of optimal observers and controllers for PIEs; simulation of open- and closed-loop PIE systems. The use of PIETOOLS is not limited to the features described above. However, the manual focuses on these features to provide a holistic understanding of the workflow of PIETOOLS, which will serve as a foundation to develop more complicated programs, for example, the design of boundary feedback controllers, robust observers, robust controllers, etc..

Sambit Panigrahi

Italo Calvino’s The Cosmicomics, despite its pluralistic openness to multiple critical interpretations by various theoretical and conceptual frameworks including post-humanism, science-fiction studies, postmodernism and many more, deals with the fundamental issue of the human’s physical and conceptual inseparability from Nature or the cosmos. The human’s inseparability from the non-humans (including animals, vegetation and inanimate matters) has profound ecological implications. What Calvino establishes in the mentioned text is the human’s inevitable and unconditional inclusion in Nature rather than his self-proclaimed, physical/conceptual exclusion from the same. This is vindicated by the fictional illustrations in the text in which the ‘human’ is posited as a mere member of the ecosystem, and not as its master. In this context, this article endeavours to explore and analyze the said ecological implications of the mentioned work in the light of some the established ecological theories and postulations.   

Alessandra Grandelis

Se gli studi postcoloniali conoscono la loro fortuna in Italia in un passato recente, le pubblicazioni dimostrano un fertile ampliamento degli interessi e dei campi d’indagine, accompagnati da una costruttiva discussione di carattere teorico. A partire dall’idea che le grandi opere letterarie non sono mai espressione della sola cultura del dominio – conservatrici ed eversive allo stesso tempo – l’articolo offre un contributo all’interno della critica postcoloniale prendendo in esame Guerra in camicia nera di Giuseppe Berto. Scritto da chi, almeno in una prima fase, si è schierato apertamente con il fascismo, questo diario romanzato si discosta dai testi finzionali di propaganda per mostrare, nelle scelte formali, l’ambiguità di senso rispetto ai discorsi univocamente ideologici.

Emanuela Piga Bruni

Questo studio è dedicato alla rappresentazione degli automi nel Romanticismo, con particolare attenzione ai concetti di ‘perturbante’ e ‘ambivalenza’. La riflessione include i temi dello specchio, dell’immagine ideale del sé (Ideal-Ich) e della figura femminile, in una prospettiva che tiene conto delle tracce del mito pigmalionico e del mito prometeico nell’immaginario romantico. Il primo paragrafo ripercorre sommariamente le forme dell’automa nel tempo a partire dall’età classica; seguono un breve inquadramento delle categorie storico-filosofiche dominanti nel Romanticismo, l’identificazione del fantastico come modo letterario e l’analisi comparata di due casi studio: L’uomo della sabbia (1816) di E.T.A. Hoffmann e L’Ève future (1886) di August Villiers de L’Isle-Adam. Il confronto mira a illuminare le costanti e le varianti dei significati incarnati dall’automa in due opere che coprono un arco che va dalla fase di ascesa del Romanticismo con Hoffmann, alla sua tarda espressione con Villiers.

Mikhail Drobyshevskiy, Denis Turdakov

Random graph (RG) models play a central role in the complex networks analysis. They help to understand, control, and predict phenomena occurring, for instance, in social networks, biological networks, the Internet, etc. Despite a large number of RG models presented in the literature, there are few concepts underlying them. Instead of trying to classify a wide variety of very dispersed models, we capture and describe concepts they exploit considering preferential attachment, copying principle, hyperbolic geometry, recursively defined structure, edge switching, Monte Carlo sampling, etc. We analyze RG models, extract their basic principles, and build a taxonomy of concepts they are based on. We also discuss how these concepts are combined in RG models and how they work in typical applications like benchmarks, null models, and data anonymization.

Sergey Goncharov, Tarmo Uustalu

We study Kleene iteration in the categorical context. A celebrated completeness result by Kozen introduced Kleene algebra (with tests) as a ubiquitous tool for lightweight reasoning about program equivalence, and yet, numerous variants of it came along afterwards to answer the demand for more refined flavors of semantics, such as stateful, concurrent, exceptional, hybrid, branching time, etc. We detach Kleene iteration from Kleene algebra and analyze it from the categorical perspective. The notion, we arrive at is that of Kleene-iteration category (with coproducts and tests), which we show to be general and robust in the sense of compatibility with programming language features, such as exceptions, store, concurrent behavior, etc. We attest the proposed notion w.r.t. various yardsticks, most importantly, by characterizing the free model as a certain category of (nondeterministic) rational trees.

Juan Carrillo del Saz

Mística y misionera católica española en Inglaterra, Luisa de Carvajal (1566–1614) legó una cincuentena de poemas espirituales. Este artículo examina la traducción al inglés de uno de ellos, el romance «En una graciosa isleta», texto con el que Georgiana Fullerton concluye su Life of Luisa de Carvajal (1873). Esta biografía, basada en otra escrita por Luis Muñoz en 1632, presenta la vida de la poeta como ejemplo de sacrificio en el contexto de las persecuciones a los contrarreformistas. El estudio del poema traducido se aborda principalmente desde dos ópticas: por un lado, una indagación en las motivaciones y circunstancias editoriales que pudieron rodear la traducción del texto a finales del siglo xix; por el otro, un análisis microtextual del tratamiento de la versificación y los recursos retóricos en que se plasma la visión mística de Carvajal.

Fiona Rossette-Crake

Shlok Gilda, Tanvi Jain, Aashish Dhalla

Authentication and authorization of a user's identity are generally done by the service providers or identity providers. However, these centralized systems limit the user's control of their own identity and are prone to massive data leaks due to their centralized nature. We propose a blockchain-based identity management system to authenticate and authorize users using attribute-based access control policies and privacy-preserving algorithms and finally returning the control of a user's identity to the user. Our proposed system would use a private blockchain, which would store the re-certification events and data access and authorization requests for users' identities in a secure, verifiable manner, thus ensuring the integrity of the data. This paper suggests a mechanism to digitize documents such as passports, driving licenses, electricity bills, etc., issued by any government authority or other authority in an immutable and secure manner. The data owners are responsible for authenticating and propagating the users' identities as and when needed using the OpenID Connect protocol to enable single sign-on. We use advanced cryptographic algorithms to provide pseudonyms to the users, thus ensuring their privacy. These algorithms also ensure the auditability of transactions as and when required. Our proposed system helps in mitigating some of the issues in the recent privacy debates. The project finds its applications in citizen transfers, inter-country service providence, banks, ownership transfer, etc. The generic framework can also be extended to a consortium of banks, hospitals, etc.

Jun Hu, Shengsheng Qian, Quan Fang et al.

We introduce tf_geometric, an efficient and friendly library for graph deep learning, which is compatible with both TensorFlow 1.x and 2.x. tf_geometric provides kernel libraries for building Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) as well as implementations of popular GNNs. The kernel libraries consist of infrastructures for building efficient GNNs, including graph data structures, graph map-reduce framework, graph mini-batch strategy, etc. These infrastructures enable tf_geometric to support single-graph computation, multi-graph computation, graph mini-batch, distributed training, etc.; therefore, tf_geometric can be used for a variety of graph deep learning tasks, such as transductive node classification, inductive node classification, link prediction, and graph classification. Based on the kernel libraries, tf_geometric implements a variety of popular GNN models for different tasks. To facilitate the implementation of GNNs, tf_geometric also provides some other libraries for dataset management, graph sampling, etc. Different from existing popular GNN libraries, tf_geometric provides not only Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) APIs, but also Functional APIs, which enable tf_geometric to handle advanced graph deep learning tasks such as graph meta-learning. The APIs of tf_geometric are friendly, and they are suitable for both beginners and experts. In this paper, we first present an overview of tf_geometric's framework. Then, we conduct experiments on some benchmark datasets and report the performance of several popular GNN models implemented by tf_geometric.

Namrata Patel, Sandeep Munjal

Herein, we report a brief introduction of metal oxide nanoparticles and their diverse applications in different scientific and medical fields. This report will be updated frequently to give a complete review in similar fields of nanotechnology. In the present version of the report, an introduction to nanotechnology and nanomaterials with some synthesis routes (such as Hydrothermal synthesis and Sol-Gel synthesis etc.) to prepare the metal oxide nanoparticles is given. In this version we have primarily included the basic introduction of application of metal oxide nanoparticles in the fields of biomedical, resistive switching and photovoltaic etc.

Antonietta Sanna

Il processo al romanzo realista iniziato tra la fine dell’Ottocento e l’inizio del Novecento in Francia, ed estesosi fino agli anni Sessanta, rivendicava la riduzione e persino l’eliminazione della Storia dal progetto estetico di una parte della letteratura. Tra gli anni Ottanta e Novanta del Novecento, con il crollo delle ideologie, il tramonto dei valori tradizionali e il futuro offuscato da uno sguardo troppo orientato sul presente, il romanzo postmoderno torna invece a mettere in scena personaggi che guardano il passato e reintroducono la dimensione storica. Tre esempi, Modiano, Haenel, Littel, mostrano il grande ritorno della Storia nella tessitura del romanzo con personaggi dotati di una logica che attraversano i lati più oscuri e terribili della condizione umana.

Oleg Pikhurko

We provide a gentle introduction, aimed at non-experts, to Borel combinatorics that studies definable graphs on topological spaces. This is an emerging field on the borderline between combinatorics and descriptive set theory with deep connections to many other areas. After giving some background material, we present in careful detail some basic tools and results on the existence of Borel satisfying assignments: Borel versions of greedy algorithms and augmenting procedures, local rules, Borel transversals, etc. Also, we present the construction of Andrew Marks of acyclic Borel graphs for which the greedy bound $Δ+1$ on the Borel chromatic number is best possible. In the remainder of the paper we briefly discuss various topics such as relations to LOCAL algorithms, measurable versions of Hall's marriage theorem and of Lovász Local Lemma, applications to equidecomposability, etc.

Gabriele Scaramuzza

Questo saggio intende indagare il rapporto tra psichiatria fenomenologica e poesia nelle opere di Eugenio Borgna Le passioni fragili e La nostalgia ferita. Per lui il mondo estetico-artistico ha un valore cognitivo: la letteratura non è materia tanto della critica letteraria o di attenzioni filologiche; la letteratura è piuttosto fonte, testimonianza e corroborazione della conoscenza psichiatrica.

Giovanni Bottiroli

Hamlet’s desire must be examined in relation to the desire to be, that is the desire for identity: this is the claim upheld in this study. Consequently, the article begins by making a distinction between the desire to be and the desire to have: this distinction was expressed in a new way by Freud, but was never adequately developed either by Freud himself or by Lacan. Therefore, the desire to be has remained prisoner of the Oedipus complex, even in Lacan’s reformulation in which it basically proves to be the desire to be the Phallus. Yet the desire to be must be understood starting from the “modal revolution” introduced by Heidegger, and this allows us to appreciate the more innovative thesis in Freud’s essay, “Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego” (1921). Identity is a relationship that may be considered to be a coincidence or a non-coincidence with oneself: in the latter case, we will refer to an “overcoming identity.” As a result, philosophy, the theory of the subject and the theory of literature are called upon to investigate the modes of identity. From the perspective of the modes of being, Hamlet is analyzed here starting from his refusal to subordinate his own identity to the role of avenger. His desire oversteps the borders of neurosis and melancholy, in which it had traditionally been imprisoned (also by Lacan). Hamlet is a hero of non-coincidence: he goes beyond the models that appear to him to be inadequate and attempts to construct a flexible identity. Adopting the mask of madness, he has the opportunity to display his linguistic creativity. This does not deny that Hamlet is a tormented hero: the shadow of his father and the lust of his mother are obstacles to the desire for identity. This interpretation is only delineated in the last pages of the article. It is first necessary to show that the limitations of Lacan’s interpretation derive from a narrow conception of the Symbolic and the desire to be for which Lacan never acknowledges creative possibilities. The Lacanian notion of “lack” is a logical and epistemological obstacle that prevents the development of the logic of flexibility and the nonof “non-coincidence.”

Ciro Ciliberto, Mikhail Zaidenberg

This is a survey on the Fano schemes of linear spaces, conics, rational curves, and curves of higher genera in smooth projective hypersurfaces, complete intersections, Fano threefolds, etc.

Federico Pianzola

Negli ultimi cinque anni vi è stata un’attenzione crescente per le teorie della complessità da parte di narratologi. La recente summadella narratologia mondialeEmerging vectors of Narratology(Hansen et al. 2017) contiene due saggi dedicati a questo tema e due volumi collettivi sono in pubblicazione. Questo articolo presenta le motivazioni di tale interesse per la complessità e traccia alcuni percorsi intorno a concezioni sistemiche della narrazione, dal Formalismo russo, ad una recente proposta di John Pier, fino a giungere alla narratologia cognitivista di seconda generazione. In the last five years the attention of narratologists for complexity theory has been growing. The recent most comprehensive collection of narratology, Emerging vectors of Narratology(Hansen et al. 2017), includes two essays on the topic and two other collective books are forthcoming. This article explores the motivation of such interest in complexity and puts forth some reflections on systemic conceptions of narrative, from Russian Formalism, to a recent proposal by John Pier, ending with second generation cognitive narratology.

Tanya Piplani, David Bamman

Most of the internet today is composed of digital media that includes videos and images. With pixels becoming the currency in which most transactions happen on the internet, it is becoming increasingly important to have a way of browsing through this ocean of information with relative ease. YouTube has 400 hours of video uploaded every minute and many million images are browsed on Instagram, Facebook, etc. Inspired by recent advances in the field of deep learning and success that it has gained on various problems like image captioning and, machine translation , word2vec , skip thoughts, etc, we present DeepSeek a natural language processing based deep learning model that allows users to enter a description of the kind of images that they want to search, and in response the system retrieves all the images that semantically and contextually relate to the query. Two approaches are described in the following sections.