Dual Reading Research Articles

The impartial spectator and the pursuit of interest in commercial society: A dual-text reading of Adam Smith for contemporary business and management

This article encourages a dual reading of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS) and Wealth of Nations (WoN). The combined messages are important for contemporary business and management. One of the most important teachings from Adam Smith is that he makes us aware of the importance of an equilibrium between our own interests and those of individuals whom we deal and interact with in our economic life. When this is achieved with the help of the impartial spectator, in a well governed society, where there is simultaneous respect from individuals and the law for the natural flow of the economy, it is possible to achieve our own interests and those of our counterparts, and most important, we can project benefits, which may be unintended, to the society as a whole. Through this Smithian lens, we can see that business and management have a concern not only with economic projection, but also with the plurality of economic and social pursuits.

Exploring Ambiguity as a Literary Tool in Robert Frost's Selected Poems: Insights from William Empson's Theory of Ambiguity

Robert Frost's poems are well known for their abundant ambiguity, which acts as a powerful literary tool influencing various meanings. This qualitative study explores the complex and dual reading phenomenon in the context of Frost’s poetry. It highlights as how ambiguity plays its crucial role in comprehending poetic compositions of Frost. This research delves deeply into poems such as "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" in order to identify recurring themes and symbols that lend themselves to a variety of readings. The study examines the theory of ambiguity by William Empson (1930) from his book "Seven Types of Ambiguity," which discovers how ambiguity in Frost's language can create multiple layers of meanings and enriches the reader's perception in his poems. Empson's theory discusses that ambiguity isn't an imperfection rather a meditative and prodigious tool used by authors to produce rich and complex literary works. This research outlines literary exploration through close reading that reflects on how Frost's deliberate use of ambiguity encourages the readers to deeply engage with his poetry, manifesting personal insights and diverse comprehension. The findings help to explain ambiguity in literature and its impact on poetic meaning by highlighting Frost's aptitude in creating poems with deeper complexity and multi-layered meanings.

Eye Movement Correlates of Working Memory Capacity: Evidence from the Reading Span Task

In reading, eye movements are typically influenced by both higher-level and lower-level cognitive processes that are affected by individual differences such as working memory capacity. However, the extent to which working memory impacts reading under increasing task demands remains uncertain. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the influence of working memory capacity, assessed via the n-back task, on peak saccade velocity during reading when an additional memory task is introduced. Thirty-one healthy participants with normal or corrected-to-normal vision read sentences performing either comprehension task or dual task on comprehension and working memory span. The results of the comprehension task were used as a baseline to track the differences in eye movement measures in the dual task with the increasing task demand. Participants who performed well in the n-back task exhibited higher peak saccade velocity during both single and dual reading tasks, particularly as the task demands increased: reading for comprehension while simultaneously maintaining six items in working memory was associated with the highest peak saccade velocity. Conversely, those with n-back lower performance did not display significant changes in peak saccade velocity. This discrepancy is attributed to task-induced variations in arousal among high-performing individuals. The study underscores the importance of individual differences in working memory and suggests a potential link between arousal and cognitive processes involved in reading comprehension.

POSHUMANISMO Y LA DUDA ANTROPOFÁGICA: AMBIGÜEDAD, BIOPOLÍTICA Y ANIMISMO EN “SEGUNDO” DE ANA GARCÍA BERGUA

This essay proposes a reading of the story “Segundo” by Ana García Bergua, centred on the conundrum of deciding whether the protagonists are animals or humans. To this end, we collect ambiguous data concerning space, characters, and the rules they live by, and discuss hypotheses about their identity, opting for a dual reading of the text: a biopolitical one, based on the works by Gabriel Giorgi and focused on the question of the body, and an animist one, based on Viveiros de Castro’s “cannibal metaphysics” and the spiritual connection between species. We emphasize a questioning of the human/animal opposition using posthumanist and animal studies theories (Wolfe), as well as unnatural narratology (Alber) and the concept of symbolic violence (Bourdieu). The ambivalence of the characters and the problem of cannibalism are the key elements that disrupt our traditional conception of the subject. Moreover, anthropophagy does not disappear even if the protagonists are interpreted as animals.

Utility of dual read in the setting of prostate MRI interpretation.

The purpose of this study is to assess the utility of dual reader interpretation of prostate MRI in the evaluation/detection of prostate cancer, using the PI-RADS v2.1 scoring system. We performed a retrospective study to assess the utility of dual reader interpretation for prostate MRI. All MRI cases compiled for analysis were accompanied with prostate biopsy pathology reports that included Gleason scores to correlate to the MRI PI-RADS v2.1 score, tissue findings and location of pathology within the prostate gland. To assess for dual reader utility, two fellowship trained abdominal imagers (each with > 5years of experience) provided independent and concurrent PI-RADS v2.1 scores on all included MRI examinations, which were then compared to the biopsy proven Gleason scores. After application of inclusion criteria, 131 cases were used for analysis. The mean age of the cohort was 63.6years. Sensitivity, specificity and positive/negative predictive values were calculated for each reader and concurrent scores. Reader 1 demonstrated 71.43% sensitivity, 85.39% specificity, 69.77% PPV and 86.36% NPV. Reader 2 demonstrated 83.33% sensitivity, 78.65% specificity, 64.81% PPV and 90.91% NPV. Concurrent reads demonstrated 78.57% sensitivity, 80.9% specificity, 66% PPV and 88.89% NPV. There was no statistically significant difference between the individual readers or concurrent reads (p = 0.79). Our results highlight that dual reader interpretation in prostate MRI is not needed to detect clinically relevant tumor and that radiologists with experience and training in prostate MRI interpretation establish acceptable sensitivity and specificity marks on PI-RADS v2.1 assessment.

Madrigal or canzona? Performing intellectual and sensual pleasure in Jacopo Tintoretto’s Women making music

Abstract The vague mythological context of Jacopo Tintoretto’s Women making music (after 1566, Dresden Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister) has puzzled scholars, resulting in little consensus regarding the allegorical meaning of the work. H. Colin Slim, for example, emphasized the orderly disposition of bodies in the painting, suggesting a musical-cosmological reading of the work. Liana de Girolami Cheney, on the other hand, includes the sensual in her reading, suggesting that the painting represents the dual natures of Venus. In this article, I build on Cheney’s dual reading of the work but focus differently on the partbooks and performance, exploring how the painting blurs lines between painting as performance, and music-making as visual experience, resulting in a painted performable image. I first demonstrate how the music in the depicted partbooks encodes two divergent ways of experiencing the painting: one characterized by learned and clever allusions in the case of Andrea Gabrieli’s madrigal Quando lieta, and the other through pleasure and the erotic in the case of the anonymous canzona napolitana Dolc’amorose. By using the partbooks as interpretative clues, I argue that the painting contributes to the Renaissance paragone between painting and music, in particular a shift away from early 16th-century associations between painting, music and reason towards a celebration of the manual, sensory and embodied acts of painting. This interpretation of the painting requires the viewer to identify the songs through a combined strategy of seeing and singing, with the painting sounding differently depending on which music the viewer performs: the intricate and elevated madrigal or the sensually pleasing canzona. Seen thus, the painting blurs lines between painting and music, visual and aural, object and performance, introducing an element of ‘play’ that decentres any one allegorical meaning.

Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature by Max K. Strassfeld (review)

Reviewed by: Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature by Max K. Strassfeld Jordan D. Rosenblum Max K. Strassfeld. Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. 248 pp. Hardcover $95.00. ebook $95.00. ISBN-13: 9780520382053 In the past few decades, scholarship on rabbinic literature has benefited from the inclusion of more diverse voices and perspectives. This diversity—which is reflected both in the embodied humans who study these texts and traditions and in the inclusion of theories and methods from various other fields and disciplines—has allowed for new, dynamic, and impactful developments in the field. Max K. Strassfeld’s Trans Talmud adds to the emerging—and necessary—growth in diverse perspectives and voices in scholarship on rabbinics. Strassfeld draws on theories and methods from both trans and intersex history, as well as disability studies, in order to (re-)read rabbinic texts, and vice-versa. This dual reading, wherein rabbinics scholars learn from the theories and methods of trans, intersex, and disability studies, and scholars of trans, intersex, and disability studies learn from rabbinic texts, is a key feature of his book. Strassfeld (successfully, in my opinion) attempts to initiate a dialog and thus, in order to do so, makes sure to introduce texts and theories from various disciplines to the other. He does an excellent job of not [End Page 263] presuming knowledge of either ancient texts or modern theories on the part of the reader, and introduces them equally well to his various audiences. At the same time, Strassfeld is aware of the modern, embodied implications of both his scholarship and the world in which it is written. He un-apologetically speaks to his “trancestors” (see 195–196). Yet, he uses a deft touch to impart nuance to activism. For example, while acknowledging the subversive (and yet constructive) potential of a particular rabbinic text, he also cautions “I have no wish to buy queer subversion using androgynes as currency” (80). On several occasions, Strassfeld is explicit about his struggle to balance what can be competing goals of historical and activist scholarship. On numerous occasions, Strassfeld “embrace[s] a ‘bad’ or literal reading strategy” (165; also see e.g., 188) in order to trans a rabbinic text (more on the term “trans” below). These moments are often when Strassfeld makes his most important contributions. My one small criticism is that this is a missed opportunity. Strassfeld’s “bad” readings are in line with traditional practice for the text—that is to argue for a literal reading to advance a new reading is, after all, very rabbinic. Therefore, more focus might have been put on how his readings conform with conventional Talmudic and Midrashic exposition. That is, his most subversive readings are much more in line with rabbinic practice than might be at first apparent. In my opinion, reframing them in this way increases his contribution. Strassfeld’s “bad” readings are part of his strategy to “trans” rabbinic texts. For example, he notes: “I will embrace anachronism as part of embracing a ‘bad/trans’ reading strategy designed to acknowledge the particular ontologies that govern contemporary trans and intersex politics” (7). Strassfeld argues that transing rabbinic texts leads to readings that both elucidate the past and offer opportunities for the present (and future). One instance in which this strategy is especially effective is in Chapter 4 (“Transing the Eunuch: Kosher and Damaged Masculinity”), wherein he argues that “transing eunuchs and androgynes can mean noticing the ways in which they carry special burdens in rabbinic sources” (135). In this case, these burdens focus around “procreative failures” (135). This chapter is a good example of where Strassfeld takes texts often studied and offers insights that will benefit both scholars of rabbinic literature and modern trans, intersex, and disability studies. Strassfeld’s Trans Talmud is well written. In particular, he does a good job of not assuming knowledge on the part of the reader. As such, he defines key words and concepts both in the text and in footnotes clearly and succinctly. Trans Talmud is written both for scholars of rabbinic literature and those not familiar with the texts and history and therefore would...

Два ранних фильма Д.У. Гриффита

In his early films, created during his collaboration with the Biograph company, D.W. Griffith often varied the same plot moves and schemes, while achieving great variety. Thus, two films of 1912, The Girl and Her Trust and The Lesser Evil, contain a very similar set of functions and devices, the distribution of which, however, leads to different semantic effects. Some of them — pointing to the possibility of a dual reading of the motivation of the characters and their psychology — unexpectedly anticipate the further development of cinema. As Roger Caillois writes in his notes on fantastic art, a necessary condition for the fantastic (or miraculous) is its involuntary nature, which often arises due to the contradiction between the openly formulated meaning and the elements that are not integrated into it. This observation can be extended to the whole realm of the aesthetic. At a time when cinema is taking its first steps and discovering elementary means of expression, Griffith’s psychological nuances seem redundant, premature, and therefore miraculous.

Guest editorial: Introduction to the special section on sustainable security solutions for Internet of Vehicles (VSI-iov)

A new current conveyor for Static Random Access Memory current sense amplifier is proposed for dual read bit-line cells. The first stage of sense amplifier is current conveyor that turns to a latch with substrate bias assistance, also reduces leakage during no sense period. Regenerative action is improved for faster latching action and operation at lower supply voltages. Simulation is performed using TSMC 65 nm, BSIM level 54 and results compared with the earlier suggested current sensing schemes. The proposed circuit consumes average power of 6.54µW for typical capacitance of 100fF bit-line and data-line capacitance and maximum power of 8.07μW at bit line capacitance as high as 200fF. Leakage current when sense amplifier is disabled, is only 80.4fA which is 2 × 10−5 × the latch-type circuit. The proposed circuit offers improved current sensitivity by 56% than the earlier suggested schemes and latching action at 0.2 V supply ensuring subthreshold SRAM operation. The delay of proposed circuit is just 12% of the conventional latch type circuit. Higher sensitivity of the proposed circuit ensures small memory cell size while maintaining basic stability and reliability. The proposed circuit was simulated for various memory sizes and 1 GHz clock frequency and exhibits reduced supply voltage operation, average power consumption, leakage power dissipation, immunity to temperature variation and memory size when compared with the earlier suggested sensing schemes.

A low leakage substrate bias-assisted technique for low voltage dual bit-line SRAM

A new current conveyor for Static Random Access Memory current sense amplifier is proposed for dual read bit-line cells. The first stage of sense amplifier is current conveyor that turns to a latch with substrate bias assistance, also reduces leakage during no sense period. Regenerative action is improved for faster latching action and operation at lower supply voltages. Simulation is performed using TSMC 65 nm, BSIM level 54 and results compared with the earlier suggested current sensing schemes. The proposed circuit consumes average power of 6.54µW for typical capacitance of 100fF bit-line and data-line capacitance and maximum power of 8.07μW at bit line capacitance as high as 200fF. Leakage current when sense amplifier is disabled, is only 80.4fA which is 2 × 10−5 × the latch-type circuit. The proposed circuit offers improved current sensitivity by 56% than the earlier suggested schemes and latching action at 0.2 V supply ensuring subthreshold SRAM operation. The delay of proposed circuit is just 12% of the conventional latch type circuit. Higher sensitivity of the proposed circuit ensures small memory cell size while maintaining basic stability and reliability. The proposed circuit was simulated for various memory sizes and 1 GHz clock frequency and exhibits reduced supply voltage operation, average power consumption, leakage power dissipation, immunity to temperature variation and memory size when compared with the earlier suggested sensing schemes.

A multi-scenario dip-stick immunoassay of 17β-estradiol based on multifunctional and non-composite nanoparticles with colorimetric-nanozyme-magnetic properties

The paper dip-stick immunoassay (DSIA) is rapid, cheap, and easy to produce. As a modified lateral flow immunoassay, DSIA also has obtained significant attention in point-of-care testing (POCT). Investigating more diverse signal carriers for paper immunoassay has always been a research hotspot. In this work, a dual reading (color/catalytic signal) DSIA based on the multifunctional material NiCo2O4 (NCO) is developed for detecting 17β-estradiol (E2). NCO is highly stable and possesses inherent properties of dark black color, nanozyme activity, and magnetism. The colorimetric and catalytic signals-based method of immunoassay strips can obtain a more accurate result maximally. The double reading NCO-DSIA can obtain a limit of detection of 0.2 ng mL−1 and 1 ng mL−1 for E2 under colorimetric and catalysis signals, respectively. In addition, the magnetic property of NCO can contribute to inhibiting the matrix effect of food samples. Furthermore, this non-composite multifunctional nanomaterial-based DSIA has potential development prospects for pollutants detection.

Rings of Saturn: Fellini Rosi1

This article offers a comparative reading of Gianfranco Rosi’s Sacro GRA (‘Holy GRA’) (2013) and Federico Fellini’s Roma (1972). It sets Sacro GRA within Rosi’s career, his ambiguous identity as an ‘Italian’ filmmaker and the film’s relation to the history of cinema in/on Rome and psycho-geographical road movies. It moves on to analyse Rosi’s treatment of place and urban space, comparing key motifs and patterns in Sacro GRA with the short episode of Fellini’s Roma, also set on the GRA, Rome’s urban outer ring road. This dual reading is articulated around four axes of comparison in the construction and evocation of the ring-road space: street furniture, metacinematic frames and recordings, noises and silences, machines and monsters. Through these and other incidental constellations, the article argues that the two films display parallel, at times symmetrical, fascinations with the urban as simultaneously a space of utopia and dystopia, nature and the man-made, past and future.

Standardization of a test to evaluate the ability to read and diagnose its difficulties for a child of 7 to 10 years in the Arabic-Algerian linguistic environment.

The article deals with the psychometric procedural steps for constructing and standardizing a test to assess the reading abilities of the schooled child in the primary stage and diagnose reading disability (dyslexia). The test was standardized on a total sample of 280 male and female students between the ages of 7 to 10 years. based on the dual reading model of Coltheart [1], [2] and the L'Alouette text test by researcher Lefevrais [3], [4].The experimental method was adopted to ascertain the psychometric stages represented mainly in the validity and reliability of the scale items. Which includes the reading text «City Garden in this study on 243 unfamiliar words for the child and outside the curriculum. in addition to lists of reading words. non-words and pseudo-words in order to determine the type of reading deficit (phonological or lexical) and to identify the way of reading used by the child (direct or indirect). The results resulted in the validity and reliability of the test for evaluating and classifying reading ability and dyslexia. The scale can also be used to diagnose cases of people with reading difficulties

“Making something new”: rethinking genre in the end times

ABSTRACT Rhetorical Genre Studies has been a productive subfield of communication studies since the 1980s, with the conceptualization of “apocalyptic” as a genre being one influential outcome. Literature on the topic has explored apocalypse as a genre arising to make sense of destabilizing events that fit within no pre-existing symbolic framework. I join this conversation with a slight shift in focus, from the genre itself to the destabilization that occasions it and its potential for rhetorical invention. Picking up on Lauren Berlant’s theorization of the “genre flail,” I argue that the flail can be an ambivalent and productive rhetorical space where reparative and radical rhetorics may gain ground in addition to or beyond apocalyptic and violent alternatives. My case study in end times here is the global climate crisis as depicted in the 2018 film Annihilation. Through rhetorical analysis of the film’s mixed-genre style and ambivalent narrative, I define two possible readings of the film: as diagnostic and as social ecology. These dual readings demonstrate the creativity of genre flail, its potential as a rhetorical zone of innovation, and the importance of interrogating the destructive and reparative genres of practice it produces as potential ways of living-with environmental end times.

Mythosemantics and Mythic Plot of the Folk Painting Cossack with a Girl are at the Well

The semantics of the picture Cossack with a Girl are at the Well, widespread in folk painting, is considered in the article. The published work is aimed at the detection of the archetypal mythological meanings of the motifs and images of the specified plot, as well as the old content of the artistic composition. Research methods imply the use of structural and comparative analyses with the other genres of oral myth poetics and visual art. The obtained results. The visual interpretation of the picture allows to single out three constituent plot components: well-crane, bucket-horse, girl-Cossack. In the semantic sense, these pairs create a single complex that can be interpreted metaphorically (a system of index signs) and literally (a system of sensory images). The listed elements form semantic pairs, the meaning of which is interpreted on several levels, which are compared with the hierarchical structure of the mythological picture of the world, in particular its vertical and horizontal structures, where the function of the center / place of transition to the other world is performed by the well (hence the semantics of separate fairy-tale female images). In this regard, the well text has a dual reading, where the opposition of that and this is not literal. Hence there is the explanation of certain rites connected with reproductive female magic (in this case, the well-crane opposition is actualized). The vertical structure presupposes the existence of the top, which is corresponded with the images connected with the sky and the sun, the middle, associated with the natural substances of earth and water, on the other hand, the bottom forms a system of meanings associated with corporality. Linear connections are also relevant, since the reproduction occurs at all levels – natural (rain, dew), cultural (plowing and sowing) and corporal (coitus). In this way, semantic chains well–bucket–girl – crane–horse–boyfriend are formed.

Building Character: The Formation of a Hybrid Organizational Identity in a Social Enterprise

AbstractThe formation of a hybrid organizational identity is a significant challenge for many social enterprises. Drawing on in‐depth longitudinal data from the first three years of a successful social enterprise – Fairphone, founded in Amsterdam – we induce an empirically grounded theoretical model of how a hybrid organizational identity is formed. We identify a general process of organizational identity formation, with founders, leaders and members experimenting with different organizational characters describing ‘who they are’ as well as with alternative social impact strategies defining ‘what they do’. As part of this experimental process, we elaborate the role of a key leadership process – ‘rekeying’, which involves leaders re‐figuring prior understandings into more dual readings – which we found facilitates ongoing adaptation and helps members of the organization to become progressively better able at combining multiple objectives and values as part of a shared hybrid identity. Our theoretical model of hybrid organizational identity formation has a number of direct implications for ongoing research on organizational identity formation and hybrid organizations.

A Standard Reading of Selected Online Readers’ Comments on Domestic Violence against Men in Nigeria

The study performs a standard reading of online readers’ comments on Domestic Violence against Men (henceforth, DVAM). This is with a view to exploring how the readers’ comments develop dialogically to build up threads that depict salient motifs on DVAM in the Nigerian sociocultural domain. The specific objectives of the study are to identify the dialogic developments of threads among the commenters; construe motifs cum shared socio-cultural values in the identified threadal developments; and elicit the rhetorical implications of the threadal developments on the phenomenon of DVAM in Nigeria. The data comprise two purposively selected online news reports on DVAM with their readers' comments, sourced from the news archives of The News and Sahara Reporters. The study adopts the Dialogic Dual Reading Model as the analytical framework. The standard reading of the threadal developments of the readers’ comments in the two selected news reports reveals that a large number of the commenters maintain the ideological stance that DVAM is unjustifiable; some commenters, however, argue that acts of DVAM are often perpetrated in self-defense. This contrary ideological notion of self-defense not only portrays the women-offenders in these cases as victims but also justifies their acts of violence.

Homogeneity or implicature: An experimental investigation of free choice

A sentence containing disjunction in the scope of a possibility modal, such as Angie is allowed to buy the boat or the car, gives rise to the FREE CHOICE inference that Angie can freely choose between the two. This inference poses a well-known puzzle, in that it is not predicted by a standard treatment of modals and disjunction (e.g., Kamp 1974). To complicate things further, FREE CHOICE tends to disappear under negation: Angie is not allowed to buy the boat or the car doesn’t merely convey the negation of free choice, but rather the stronger DUAL PROHIBITION reading that Angie cannot buy either one. There are two main approaches to the FREE CHOICE-DUAL PROHIBITION pattern in the literature. While they both capture the relevant data points, they make a testable, divergent prediction regarding the status of positive and negative sentences in a context in which Angie can only buy one of the two objects, e.g., the boat. In particular, the implicature-based approach (e.g., Fox 2007; Klinedinst 2007; Bar-Lev & Fox 2017) predicts that the positive sentence is true in such a context, but associated with a false implicature, while it predicts the negative sentence to be straightforwardly false. The alternative approach (e.g., Aloni 2018; Goldstein 2018; Willer 2017) predicts both the positive and negative sentences to be equally undefined. Investigating the contrast between these sentences in such a context therefore provides a clear way to address the debate between implicature and non-implicature accounts of FREE CHOICE. We present an experiment aiming to do just this, the results of which present a challenge for the implicature approach. We further discuss how the implicature approach could in theory be developed to account for our results, based on a recent proposal by Enguehard & Chemla (2018) on the distribution of implicatures.

Different expectations: A comparative history of structure, experience, and strategic alliances in the U.S. and U.K. poultry sectors, 1920–1990

AbstractResearch SummaryThis comparative historical analysis demonstrates how memory and reflexive interpretations of the past can shape entrepreneurial willingness to collaborate with larger firms in an industry. Emphasizing the importance of spatial metaphors and periodization for developing historical knowledge, the paper focuses on how the historical space of experience explains how entrepreneurs make strategic choices regarding collaboration under conditions of complexity and uncertainty. Comparing the U.S. and U.K. emerging poultry sectors offers a methodologically novel analysis of an important but little‐studied agribusiness sector, offering a dual reading that compares two versions of historical reasoning both theoretically and empirically.Managerial SummaryHistorical experience matters to entrepreneurs, shaping their expectations about markets and opportunities, including possibilities for strategic alliances with larger firms. Rather than assuming that the events of the past structurally determine entrepreneurial expectations for the future, we demonstrate how experience, interpretation, and memory shape the nature of competition and collaboration in emerging industries. Our approach relies on the comparative method, suggesting a new way to consider how uses of the past might shape entrepreneurship in industries other than the U.S. and U.K. poultry industries that serve as our empirical focus.

20 years' experience of quality assurance strategies of a large and ISO 22870 accredited POCT multiparameter network

The paper dip-stick immunoassay (DSIA) is rapid, cheap, and easy to produce. As a modified lateral flow immunoassay, DSIA also has obtained significant attention in point-of-care testing (POCT). Investigating more diverse signal carriers for paper immunoassay has always been a research hotspot. In this work, a dual reading (color/catalytic signal) DSIA based on the multifunctional material NiCo2O4 (NCO) is developed for detecting 17β-estradiol (E2). NCO is highly stable and possesses inherent properties of dark black color, nanozyme activity, and magnetism. The colorimetric and catalytic signals-based method of immunoassay strips can obtain a more accurate result maximally. The double reading NCO-DSIA can obtain a limit of detection of 0.2 ng mL−1 and 1 ng mL−1 for E2 under colorimetric and catalysis signals, respectively. In addition, the magnetic property of NCO can contribute to inhibiting the matrix effect of food samples. Furthermore, this non-composite multifunctional nanomaterial-based DSIA has potential development prospects for pollutants detection.