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Gender Performance in Jim Shepard’s “Minotaur”

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image sizeKeywords: Jim ShepardgenderJudith Butlerwork Notes1 Ford’s collection of thirty-two stories explores the virtue of work: “These are stories that in one way or other seek to imagine how human viability is found and held onto; how self-mastery comes about or doesn’t; how moral good is identified and corroborated, loneliness combated or succumbed to; or … what it means to be a producer” (x). Shepard’s “Minotaur” meets these criteria.2 Please see reviews by Taylor Antrim, Adam Cogbill, Steven Hayward, Thomas Mallon, Donna Seaman, David Ulin, and Art Winslow as well as those in Kirkus Reviews and Publisher’s Weekly.3 Parenthetical page numbers refer to “Minotaur” in Shepard’s You Think That’s Bad.

Awareness model for minimizing the effects of social engineering attacks in web applications

Social Engineering (SE) Attacks against information systems continue to pose a potentially devastating impact. Security information systems are becoming increasingly significant as the number of SE incidents rapidly increased and became more aggressive than before. The World Wide Web (WWW) has evolved for information exchange and knowledge-sharing. It enables the sharing of information in a timely, effective, and transparent manner. Identity theft and identity misuse are two sides of cybercrime in which hackers and fraudulent users collect sensitive information from current legal users in order to perform fraud or deceit for financial gain. Malicious links are used as phishing methods, in which malicious links are planted beneath legitimate-looking links. As the number of web pages grows, the number of malicious web pages and the attacks of such become more complex. In this paper, we provide a method for identifying malicious web pages using a crawling and classification approach that helps to support the automatic discovery of the malicious links. The proposed approach can successfully complete the crawling session even if the page requires partial page refreshment and authentication credentials. The evaluation of the proposed approach shows a higher accuracy compared to an existing approach with an overall accuracy of 72% in three custom applications. Moreover, the proposed approach will calculate the significance and the impact severances of each link on the website and it better differentiates malicious web pages and normal links. The results of the proposed approach will also help in providing a set of recommendations which can increase the awareness level of the end-users, website administrators on how to better deal with these types of SE attacks.

District Newspapers: The Results of Ten Years of Development in the Conditions of Digitalization (on the Example of Publications of the Novosibirsk Region)

The article examines how the newspapers of the municipal districts of the Novosibirsk region have grown in the last decade, what their websites are have developed. The data sources for the analysis were sociological studies, conducted annually by order of the regional administration. When analyzing the representation of newspapers on the Internet, we took into account the following: the date of creation of the domain, the number of pages on the site, the number of visitors, and the data on the optimization of sites for desktop and mobile devices. It was found out, that in ten years the audience of printed issues has decreased by 1.5–2 times. The newspapers with the largest audience lost it most of all. In parallel, there were processes of mastering a new information space, not only creating, but also developing websites, systematically updating materials on them, striving to make them visually attractive. Now all (with one exception) of the analyzed newspapers have websites, but their attendance is low: several dozen people a day.

Why Do People Choose Watching Adaptations of English Literature Over Reading It?

Nowadays people prefer to watch movie adaptations of a work rather than reading it. The main reason is the novel of around two fifty to n number of pages will finish within one and a half to three hours of duration. Even students of literature follow this trend of watching movies rather than reading books. The positive and negative of this trend are different for a student or academia of literature and people from other professions. Through this research paper, I am analyzing what are the positive and negative sides of this trend? How can we acquire the habit of reading books? What are the limitations of film adaptations? How can some directors overcome these limitations? The research is based on my view on five movies from multiple languages including Malayalam, English, Swedish, Hindi and Italian that are adapted from famous novels and plays. The movies are Joji (2021), The Colour Purple (1985), A Man Called Ove (2015), 2 States (2014) and Canterbury Tales (1972)

История одной несостоявшейся публикации: о рукописи «Дополнения к переписке с друзьями»

The article is devoted to certain aspects of the censorship history of “Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends” related to the preparation for the publication of “Works by Gogol” in 1855–1856. At that time, an attempt was made to publish the text of “Selected Passages…” without censorship exceptions, and the Moscow Censorship Committee received the manuscript “Additions to Correspondence with Friends,” which included the texts of chapters that were not allowed for publication in 1846. The paper presents the circumstances of its censorship consideration. It also establishes that one of the handwritten copies of the prohibited chapters of “Selected Passages…” stored in the Manuscript Department of the Russian State Library is a part of this manuscript, although it now has a different name. Comparison of this handwritten copy with other censorship materials showed that the edits in it fully correspond to those described in one of the documents of 1856; the page numbers with pencil marks coincide with those indicated in the censor’s report; the sequence of chapters is the same as in the manuscript submitted to the Moscow Censorship Committee; and finally, there are edits made by P.A. Vyazemsky, who, as is known, read the “Additions to the Correspondence…” and planned to discuss the necessary changes with the publisher. At the same time, there are still a lot of questions related to both the history of the creation of this manuscript and its future fate.

Design and Implementation of a Smart Wireless Controlled Visual Acuity Measurement System.

In this article, a smart visual acuity measurement (VAM) system is designed and implemented. Hardware of the proposed VAM system consists of two parts: a wireless remote controller, and a high-resolution LCD controlled through a Raspberry-Pi mini-computer. In the remote controller, a 3.5" graphical LCD with a touch screen is used as a human-machine interface. When a point is pressed on the touch screen, the unique identifier (ID) code of that point as well as its page number is transmitted to the Raspberry-Pi. In the Raspberry-Pi, data are received and processed by a smart application coded in visual studio software. Then, the commanded tasks are executed by the Raspberry-Pi's operating system. Numerous charts, characters, and pictures are stored in the proposed VAM system to provide various VAM options while the size of the optotypes is adjusted automatically based on the distance of the patient from the LCD. The performance of the proposed VAM system is examined practically under the supervision of an expert optometrist where the results indicate that visual acuity, astigmatism, and color blindness of patients can be examined precisely through the proposed VAM system in an easier and more comfortable manner.

Sponsored Search Auction and the Revenue- Maximizing Number of Ads Per Page

Sponsored Search Auction and the Revenue- Maximizing Number of Ads Per Page

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Homogeneous Batch Memory Deduplication Using Clustering of Virtual Machines

Virtualization is the backbone of cloud computing, which is a developing and widely used paradigm. By finding and merging identical memory pages, memory deduplication improves memory efficiency in virtualized systems. Kernel Same Page Merging (KSM) is a Linux service for memory pages sharing in virtualized environments. Memory deduplication is vulnerable to a memory disclosure attack, which uses covert channel establishment to reveal the contents of other colocated virtual machines. To avoid a memory disclosure attack, sharing of identical pages within a single user’s virtual machine is permitted, but sharing of contents between different users is forbidden. In our proposed approach, virtual machines with similar operating systems of active domains in a node are recognised and organised into a homogenous batch, with memory deduplication performed inside that batch, to improve the memory pages sharing efficiency. When compared to memory deduplication applied to the entire host, implementation details demonstrate a significant increase in the number of pages shared when memory deduplication applied batch-wise and CPU (Central processing unit) consumption also increased.

Fully polynomial time approximation scheme for the pagination problem with hierarchical structure of tiles

The pagination problem is described as follows. We have a set of symbols, a collection of subsets over these symbols (we call these subsets the tiles) and an integer capacity C. The objective is to find the minimal number of pages (a type of container) on which we can schedule all the tiles while following two fundamental rules. We cannot assign more than C symbols on each page and a tile cannot be broken into several pieces, all of its symbols must be assigned to at least one of the pages. The difference from the Bin Packing Problem is that tiles can merge. If two tiles share a subset of symbols and if they are assigned to the same page, this subset will be assigned only once to the page (and not several times). In this paper, as this problem is NP-complete, we will consider a particular case of the dual problem, where we have exactly two pages for which the capacity must be minimized. We will present a fully polynomial time approximation scheme (FPTAS) to solve it. This approximation scheme is based on the simplification of a dynamic programming algorithm and it has a strongly polynomial time complexity. The conducted numerical experiments show its practical effectiveness.

ACT-based self-help for perceived stress and its mental health implications without therapist support: A randomized controlled trial

Access to interventions that effectively reduce stress is limited and often costly. Lack of time, and stigma might also be significant barriers. This study examined the effectiveness of an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)-based self-help book without therapist support for adults with moderate levels of stress, without psychiatric diagnoses. Participants were recruited primarily through the website of the book and posts in various social media channels. Participants (n = 133) were randomly assigned to an intervention group (n = 67) or a wait-list group (n = 66). Both the primary outcome measure (stress) and the secondary outcome measures (e.g., quality of life, worry, depressive symptoms and burnout symptoms) were measured before and after the intervention, and at 6-months follow-up. Compared to the wait-list group, the improvement was significantly larger in the intervention group at the end of intervention for stress (Cohen’s d = 1.00), worry (d = 0.69), and all three subscales of the burnout questionnaire (d = 0.59 to 0.73). The corresponding effect on depressive symptoms was medium (d = 0.51). We did not find any robust evidence of mediation of outcome through psychological flexibility or mindfulness, but number of pages read, number of mindfulness exercises performed, and perceived helpfulness of the weekly assignments significantly predicted change in stress. At the 6-month follow-up, the gains in the intervention group remained as the results were virtually identical to those at the end of intervention. Our findings provide additional support for the efficacy of an ACT-based pure self-help to reduce stress among adults with moderate level of stress, without psychiatric diagnoses.

Levels of methodological competence in foreign language teaching

The notions “methodological competence” and “methodological competency” are differentiated in the scientific literature but their use in the methodological works is not always appropriate according to their essence. There is no gradation of these terms to different levels depending on knowledge, skills and abilities in teaching if to speak about people having different scientific and methodological potential. Therefore, it brings to the necessary to determine the level of methodological competence/competency of pedagogues who teach foreign languages in preschool, secondary, higher educational institutions and scholars-didacts and methodists. Due to the limited number of pages of a scholar paper only the problem of “methodological competence” differentiation is highlighted in the presented work. Purpose is to determine the levels of methodological competence of foreign language teachers with different scientific and methodological potential. Methods. Literature review on the topic of the research, comparative analysis of different definitions of methodological competence, generalization of the scholars-didacts and methodists’ experience. Results. This study analyses the notion “methodological competence” and determines its definition. Three levels of methodological competence have been developed and substantiated. The precise distinction between three levels has been defined and described taking into account the content of seven links of the teaching process introduced by us in the work. The first level of methodical competence correlates with the first level of language and speech competences (Martynova, Bodnar, 2022), as well as with the ability of calendar and lesson planning; the second correlates with the second level of language and speech competences, as well as with the ability to plana foreign language teaching process during the academic year and semesters, with the subsequent composing professional educational programs and syllabus; the third correlates with the third level of language and speech competences, as well as with the ability to plan foreign language self-study process, both in language and communicative and speech aspects, to the possibility of students creating their own speech products in a foreign language. Conclusion. It has been concluded that three established levels of methodological competence will clarify the essence of this concept, detail its components and become objective characteristics of educators’ methodological knowledge and skills.

TRANSLATOR TRAINING IN LIGHT OF BLOOM’S TAXONOMY OF LEARNING OBJECTIVES: DESIGN OF A MODULAR CURRICULUM IN THE IRANIAN CONTEXT

In many countries, translation training is provided in the form of certificate and degree programs. Those who do not choose to pursue a degree (but are interested in translation as a source of income) enroll in certificate programs and acquire the fundamentals of translation in a rather shorter amount of time. Compared to degree programs, certificate programs have the great advantage of meeting market needs where an unlimited number of pages are waiting to be translated by a limited number of (human) translators. Iran is a country that, despite its great potential to recruit many translators, lacks such certificate programs. To fill the gap, a modular curriculum for translation training in Iran was designed. As learning and translation are intertwined cognitive processes, the researchers chose to link Bloom’s learning objectives with Chesterman’s domains of translation skill development. Finally, a modular curriculum was proposed to be tested in the context of Iran. The researchers believe that, with a few adaptations, this curriculum can be used in different contexts. Keywords: translation, training, Bloom, curriculum, competence, Iran

An Unhealthy Webpage Discovery System Based on Convolutional Neural Network

Currently, with the popularity of the internet, people are surrounded by a large number of unhealthy pages which have a serious impact on the physical and mental health of visitors. To protect the legitimate rights and interests of internet users from infringement and maintain the harmonious and stable development of society, a new unhealthy webpage discovery system is needed. First, this paper proposed the knowledge of unhealthy webpages and web crawlers, and then the whole system's plan and design were introduced. The test results show that the unhealthy webpage discovery system can meet the needs of users. This experiment uses a CNN algorithm to classify the text and completes the collection and classification of unhealthy information through URL acquisition and URL filtering. The experimental results show that the unhealthy webpage discovery system based on a convolutional neural network can greatly improve the accuracy of unhealthy webpage discovery and reduce the omission rate, which can meet the needs of users for unhealthy webpage discovery.

ANALYSIS OF INSTALLING HISTORY SUMMARY FORM IN AND OUT OF ADULT PATIENTS IN KINDERGARTEN HOSPITAL. IV KENCANA SERANG

Background: A summary form of admission and discharge history is a medical record form that is used to record a summary of the course of the disease from the time the patient enters until the patient leaves the hospital. Therefore, it is one of the forms that are immortalized, so it is necessary to design a design that is in accordance with the standards.
 Research Objectives: To identify the physical aspects, anatomical aspects, and aspects of the contents of the summary form of admission and discharge history of adult patients at the Kindergarten Hospital. IV Kencana Serang in 2022.
 Research Methodology: This study used descriptive research with observation and interview methods. The subjects in this study were medical record officers and the object in this study was a summary form of admission and discharge history of adult patients. The research instrument used observation sheets and interview guidelines.
 Research results: From the physical aspect, the material is HVS 75 gram paper, rectangular shape, HVS F4 paper size, the color of the paper is white with black ink writing. From the anatomical aspect, the heading in the form of the title of the form has been included, the subtitles are missing, the name of the hospital has been included, the hospital logo is not included, the revision number is not included. page numbers are included. Introduction in the form of the title of the form. Instruction in the form of * Adult and child patients. Body in the form of top margin (5 cm), bottom margin (2 cm), side margin (1.5 cm), back margin (1.5 cm). Spacing 1.15 spaces. Vertical and horizontal rules. Type Style Times New Roman with font size 11. The way of recording is done by handwriting. Close in the form of a clear name and signature has been included. From the aspect of content, the completeness of the data items is appropriate. Terminology / Terms in the form of diagnosis, complications, anesthesia, transfusion. Abbreviations in the form of Date, Goal, NRP, NIP, Kls, dr, Sp, Lk / Pr, Is / Kk / Kp / H / B, S / N / J / D. The symbol is the symbol * Adult and child patients. Suggestion: It is necessary to redesign the entry and exit history summary form for adult patients from the physical, anatomical and content aspects.

On the upward book thickness problem: Combinatorial and complexity results

Among the vast literature concerning graph drawing and graph theory, linear layouts of graphs have been the subject of intense research over the years, both from a combinatorial and from an algorithmic perspective. In particular, upward book embeddings of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) form a popular class of linear layouts with notable applications, and the upward book thickness of a DAG is the minimum number of pages required by any of its upward book embeddings.A long-standing conjecture by Heath, Pemmaraju, and Trenk (1999) states that the upward book thickness of outerplanar DAGs is bounded above by a constant. In this paper, we show that the conjecture holds for subfamilies of upward outerplanar graphs, namely those whose underlying graph is an internally-triangulated outerpath or a cactus, and those whose biconnected components are st-outerplanar graphs.On the complexity side, it is known that deciding whether a graph has upward book thickness k is NP-hard for any fixed k≥3. We show that the problem, for any k≥5, remains NP-hard for graphs whose domination number is O(k), but it is fixed-parameter tractable (FPT) in the vertex cover number.

Transformer: An OS-Supported Reconfigurable Hybrid Memory Architecture

Non-volatile memories (NVMs) have aroused vast interest in hybrid memory systems due to their promising features of byte-addressability, high storage density, low cost per byte, and near-zero standby energy consumption. However, since NVMs have limited write endurance, high write latency, and high write energy consumption, it is still challenging to directly replace traditional dynamic random access memory (DRAM) with NVMs. Many studies propose to utilize NVM and DRAM in a hybrid memory system, and explore sophisticated memory management schemes to alleviate the impact of slow NVM on the performance of applications. A few studies architected DRAM and NVM in a cache/memory hierarchy. However, the storage and performance overhead of the cache metadata (i.e., tags) management is rather expensive in this hierarchical architecture. Some other studies architected NVM and DRAM in a single (flat) address space to form a parallel architecture. However, the hot page monitoring and migration are critical for the performance of applications in this architecture. In this paper, we propose Transformer, an OS-supported reconfigurable hybrid memory architecture to efficiently use DRAM and NVM without redesigning the hardware architecture. To identify frequently accessed (hot) memory pages for migration, we propose to count the number of page accesses in OSes by sampling the access bit of pages periodically. We further migrate the identified hot pages from NVM to DRAM to improve the performance of hybrid memory system. More importantly, Transformer can simulate a hierarchical hybrid memory architecture while DRAM and NVM are physically managed in a flat address space, and can dynamically shift the logical memory architecture between parallel and hierarchical architectures according to applications’ memory access patterns. Experimental results show that Transformer can improve the application performance by 62% on average (up to 2.7×) compared with an NVM-only system, and can also improve performance by up to 79% and 42% (21% and 24% on average) compared with hierarchical and parallel architectures, respectively.

Mr. Turbulent: A Critical Edition

Mr. Turbulent: A Critical Edition

1290. A Structural Intervention Improves ID Fellow Wellness Amid a Pandemic

Abstract Background Infectious Disease (ID) physicians have historically had higher levels of burnout compared to other medical specialties. Fellows are not immune to the pressures that attendings experience in the course of clinical care. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education now requires programs to formally promote well-being amongst trainees. We created a structural intervention to improve fellow well-being and conducted a before-and-after study demonstrating effectiveness. Methods We restructured our institution’s inpatient ID clinical services, which increased attending presence on weekends and afternoons to help with clinical volume. A survey including the Maslach Burnout Inventory for Medical Personnel (MBI-HSS(MP)) and wellness metrics was completed by our 5 fellows before and after the intervention. Consult volume and efficiency were assessed before and after the intervention. Descriptive statistics, paired t-tests or Wilcoxon signed-rank tests were utilized as appropriate for data normality. Qualitative survey responses were coded into key domains until saturation was reached for analysis. Results Post-intervention MBI-HSS(MP) mean scores significantly improved for emotional exhaustion (EE) [3.3 to 2.3, p-value .0089]. Personal accomplishment and depersonalization metrics improved but were not significant. Survey items assessing time for education, learning to service balance, satisfaction and wellness all improved but were not significant (Table 1). Consult volume was the most frequent domain associated with dissatisfaction, and was described as the most improved domain since intervention (Table 2). Clinical work volumes were the same, if not higher, in the post intervention period (Table 3). All 5 fellows completed surveys before and after the intervention. The pre and post intervention means with standard errors (SE) or frequency of responses are listed in the table as well as p- values for Wilcoxon-signed rank or paired t-test (depending on normality of that variable). For “education versus service balance” fellows used a visual analogue scale (0-100) to assess their views of balance of education (lower values) to service (higher values) while on General Infectious Disease consults (GID). Fellows were asked to rate their “satisfaction” with GID on a visual analogue scale from 0-100 with lower values as dissatisfaction and higher values as satisfaction. EE, DP, and PA are metrics used in the Maslach Burnout Inventory for Medical Personnel (MBI-SS(MP)). The values of the MBI questions are mean responses across items in their respective inventories, with higher values for EE and DP meaning more frequent negative experiences, and higher values for PA meaning more frequent positive experiences. For MBI, scores indicate how frequently feelings occur: 1, a few times/year; 2, monthly; 3, a few times monthly; 4, weekly; 5, a few times/week. Fellows were also asked to give the frequency at which they were able to teach or complete responsibilities at home (such as childcare, cleaning, cooking, grocery shopping) while on GID. Responses truncated only to frequencies selected by respondents. Responses to the last two questions were numerically coded for statistical analysis. * Indicates statistical significance (p < .05). Free text survey responses were analyzed by authors, resulting in the generation of key conceptual response domains; this process continued until saturation was reached, leading to the coding of text responses as above. Examples from text responses included in parenthesis. Prompt 1 was given to the 5 fellows before and after the intervention leading to 10 responses. Prompt 2 was given to the 5 fellows only following intervention. Variables were assessed pre and post intervention. Max list size is the maximum number of patients on the general infectious disease (GID) consult service, bumped consults is the number of consults not seen until the following work day, curbside consults is the number of consults where recommendations were given without seeing the patient, last rec is the time of delivery of the last recommendation, pages is the raw number of pages received in a day by the GID fellow and COVID-19 census is the total number of patients admitted to our center with COVID-19. *Indicates statistical significance (p < .05) by paired t-test. IQR signifies inter-quartile range. Conclusion We found that an intervention addressing structural contributors to burnout was effective in reducing EE and perception of clinical volume. This finding was significant despite stable to increased clinical volumes and the added stress of the cotemporaneous Omicron outbreak of COVID-19. Disclosures Aniruddha Hazra, MD, Gilead Sciences: Grant/Research Support.

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