Parallel Reading Research Articles

QUESTIONING THE SKULL: ZHUANGZI AND HAMLET ON DEATH

This article aims to explore some aspects of our shared human experience of death through a parallel reading of Hamlet and Zhuangzi. These two classics belong to radically different cultural contexts, and both have traditionally been interpreted as texts in between philosophy and literature. As such, I hope this article will be of some interest for both students of world literature and transcultural philosophy, disciplines that, despite the contemporary academic distinctions, share much in common. Section 1 highlights some differences and similarities between Hamlet and Zhuangzi. Section 2 proceeds by elucidating three aspects of the problem of death approached by both texts (uncertainty; the death of others; my death). Section 3 examines two predominant perspectives in Chinese and European cultural backgrounds (the “individual” and the “cosmic” perspectives). Sections 4 analyzes how Hamlet approaches uncertainty, the death of others and my death from the individual perspective, while section 5 does the same for the cosmic perspective in Zhuangzi. In section 6, the two mirroring passages of the dialogues with the skull are compared, showing how the individual and the cosmic perspectives mutually implicate each other as two sides of the same coin.

DOxy: A Dissolved Oxygen Monitoring System.

Dissolved Oxygen (DO) in water enables marine life. Measuring the prevalence of DO in a body of water is an important part of sustainability efforts because low oxygen levels are a primary indicator of contamination and distress in bodies of water. Therefore, aquariums and aquaculture of all types are in need of near real-time dissolved oxygen monitoring and spend a lot of money on purchasing and maintaining DO meters that are either expensive, inefficient, or manually operated-in which case they also need to ensure that manual readings are taken frequently which is time consuming. Hence a cost-effective and sustainable automated Internet of Things (IoT) system for this task is necessary and long overdue. DOxy, is such an IoT system under research and development at Santa Clara University's Ethical, Pragmatic, and Intelligent Computing (EPIC) Laboratory which utilizes cost-effective, accessible, and sustainable Sensing Units (SUs) for measuring the dissolved oxygen levels present in bodies of water which send their readings to a web based cloud infrastructure for storage, analysis, and visualization. DOxy's SUs are equipped with a High-sensitivity Pulse Oximeter meant for measuring dissolved oxygen levels in human blood, not water. Hence a number of parallel readings of water samples were gathered by both the High-sensitivity Pulse Oximeter and a standard dissolved oxygen meter. Then, two approaches for relating the readings were investigated. In the first, various machine learning models were trained and tested to produce a dynamic mapping of sensor readings to actual DO values. In the second, curve-fitting models were used to produce a successful conversion formula usable in the DOxy SUs offline. Both proved successful in producing accurate results.

MerCat2: a versatile k-mer counter and diversity estimator for database-independent property analysis obtained from omics data.

MerCat2 ("Mer-Catenate2") is a versatile, parallel, scalable and modular property software package for robustly analyzing features in omics data. Using massively parallel sequencing raw reads, assembled contigs, and protein sequences from any platform as input, MerCat2 performs k-mer counting of any length k, resulting in feature abundance counts tables, quality control reports, protein feature metrics, and graphical representation (i.e. principal component analysis (PCA)). MerCat2 allows for direct analysis of data properties in a database-independent manner that initializes all data, which other profilers and assembly-based methods cannot perform. MerCat2 represents an integrated tool to illuminate omics data within a sample for rapid cross-examination and comparisons. MerCat2 is written in Python and distributed under a BSD-3 license. The source code of MerCat2 is freely available at https://github.com/raw-lab/mercat2. MerCat2 is compatible with Python 3 on Mac OS X and Linux. MerCat2 can also be easily installed using bioconda: mamba create -n mercat2 -c conda-forge -c bioconda mercat2.

Kant und Dostoevskij über Gott

Summary There is a widespread opinion among Russian literary scholars and philosophers that Dostoevsky was an irreconcilable anti-Kantian, and in his novels, first of all in The Brothers Karamazov, he conducted polemics against Kant on the issues of moral and religion. In my paper, I analyze the problem of the relationship between moral and religion in Kant and Dostoevsky. In this regard, I consider the question of what is primary as the basis of moral believes – moral or religion, as well as the question of autonomy in matters of religion. A parallel reading of the Critique of Pure Reason and the novels The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment from the perspective of these questions reveals Dostoevsky, to some extent, as a Kantian.

Entre le roman de la tragédie d’une nation et l’allégorie théâtrale grotesque. Ismail Kadaré et Matéi Visniec: une lecture parallèle


 
 
 Fine connoisseurs of totalitarian mechanisms and familiar with the experience of censorship and uprooting, Ismail Kadaré and Matei Vișniec are, in different proportions, followers of a type of literature that, often adopting the principles of allegory, illustrates the sunset of a nation crushed by political extremism. While the novels of the Albanian author evoke, in a style that combines macabre rough detail and shades of magical realism, the ruins of a people in the proximity of tragedy since its origins, the Romanian playwright orchestrates in his plays tragicomic metaphors about how the destiny of a country has been seized by the ambitions of an aberrant political system. This article1 2 proposes a parallel close reading exercise of the two authors who, although coming from different geographical spaces, share the same thematic obsession, in an attempt to capture a detailed yet painful picture of a people marked by the terror of a totalitarian history. 
 
 

Research on Parallel Reading and Drawing Techniques for Chemical Mechanical Polishing Simulation Data Based on Multi-Thread

In advanced integrated circuit manufacturing, the quality of chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) is a key factor affecting chip performance and yield. Designers need to use CMP simulation tools to locate and analyze the defects in the layout after the CMP process. However, the advancement of process nodes and the increase in data volume presents a great challenge to the speed of graphical display of CMP simulation data. To solve this issue, we propose a solution that uses multi-threading technology to optimize both data reading and drawing. In the process of data reading, we employ OpenMP and memory mapping (Mmap) technology to achieve parallel reading of file segmentation and propose a fast-string conversion algorithm based on the properties of simulation data. In the process of data drawing, we propose an adaptive downsampling method for data graphical display that combines multi-threading and double buffering technology to enable the parallel drawing of layouts. The effectiveness of this method is verified by testing CMP simulation data of various scales. Compared to traditional methods, this approach improves reading efficiency by over 8 times and drawing efficiency by more than 10 times. Furthermore, it enhances the smoothness of interaction with the CMP simulation tool.

"Giordano Bruno. Lights from the Pyre" (1966) by the Philosopher Slavi Boyanov – a Literary Version of the Manuscript "Protection of the Human Person" Confiscated by the State Security (1953)

The paper traces the migration of a philosopher in the literary field. The purpose of this text is to prove, through the method of mutual interpretation (parallel reading of works of fiction, documentary texts and historiographical narrative), that Slavi Bo-yanov's novel ‘Giordano Bruno’. is a literary compensation for his confiscated manu-script ‘Defense of the Human Person’ (1953), which was not published until 1997. The contribution of the study is that it illuminates another case of an intellectual's strained relationship with the authorities in power.

Refleksi Sejarah Orde Baru pada Novel Namaku Alam

Literary works offer an in-depth and subjective perspective on a historical event. Historical events that may not be fully documented can be revived through literary works. This research aims to find a reflection of the history of the New Order using the Newhistoricism approach formulated by Greenblatt (1980) in Leila S. Chudori's latest work entitled Namaku Alam. This research is a type of qualitative descriptive research using content analysis techniques. Based on the nature of the new historicism approach, data collection was carried out using a parallel reading method between literary and non-literary texts. Data analysis techniques were carried out using archaeological methods and in-depth description methods. The results of the research prove that the historical events of the New Order that were discovered included the arrest of people who were related to the PKI along with the negative stigma received by political prisoners and their descendants; personal hygiene and environmental cleanliness policies; supervision of people's reading; and petition 50.

Parallelizing Bible texts: Developing the database of the Unified Bible Reader online application

The Unified Bible Reader (UBR), developed by the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, aims to facilitate the parallel reading of various Bible versions, including original language editions and antique as well as modern translations. This paper outlines the creation of a parallelized database of Bible texts through a four-step process: digitization, data cleaning, integration, and parallelization. The paper discusses the inherent challenges of the digitization phase which involves the conversion of non-digital texts to digital format, primarily using optical character recognition (OCR) technology. Data cleaning focuses on correcting OCR errors and resolving format inconsistencies. Integration, that is, importing text into a unified database, addresses issues with rare cases of text division. Parallelization involves aligning textual units across different versions, accounting for variations in verse numbering and verse boundaries. The development of software tools enabled semi-automatic and manual alignment. The application may serve as a basis for more refined text splitting and the addition of annotations to support advanced textual analysis and translation comparisons. The UBR project marks a significant step towards comprehensive, accessible parallel Bible reading and analysis.

Głos Kasandry. Prognostyczne wizje wojny ("Przyszła wojna" Władysława Sikorskiego i "Dwa końce świata" Antoniego Słonimskiego)

The article formulates predictions as a rational variant of prophetism in the literature and journalism of the interwar period. The motif of the unheard Cassandra is a metaphor for the impossibility of warnings and predictions of impending war to intervene in the course of history to avert future catastrophe. This motif was derived from the essays of Czeslaw Milosz and Jerzy Stempowski and applied to the understanding of prognostication in the 1930s. The projected visions of the war in the historical‑political books of Bocheński, Studnicki, Cat Mackiewicz were discussed. A parallel reading of The Future War by Sikorski and The Two Ends of the World by Słonimski was made in the context of his anti‑fascist and anti‑totalitarian journalism.

Il tempo e lo spazio, laggiù in fondo… Una doppia lettura di Leonora Carrington

This article analyzes Leonora Carrington’s Down Below from a double perspective. First, we want to offer an interpretative framework, in order to contextualize Carrington's literary production within the Surrealist avant-garde. Furthermore, the article examines the literary geographies of Carrington's writing, offering a parallel reading of Down Below with The Hearing Trumpet, focusing on the interconnection between physical space and the body, a geography made of flesh, which can be analyzed according to the hermeneutical lines of neo materialism.

An Ecocritical Reading of Arundhati Roy’s Select Works – A Literature Review

Purpose: The theme of ecocriticism as it is presented in Arundhati Roy's nonfiction writings is the focus of the study. The interdisciplinary study of the environment and literature is known as ecocriticism. Several of Arundhati Roy's chosen writings contain allusions to ecocriticism. The challenges people had to deal with because of the different environmental crisis that mankind had caused are explored in ecocritical literature, especially nonfiction works. The purpose of the study is to investigate how ecocriticism is used in the nonfiction works of the author selected for this study. A careful reading of Roy's works demonstrates the impact of the suffering the individuals endured. Design: In order to identify the research gap, a review of the literature is conducted by gathering data from secondary sources like peer-reviewed journals, national and international publications, the internet, and research sources like Google Scholar, Research Gate, SSRN, Elsevier, and Academia. Using ABCD analysis, the main points of the study are highlighted. To complete the proposed research, information is gathered from academic publications, doctoral theses, scholarly articles, and websites. The methodology utilized largely relies on gathering, analyzing, and interpreting prior knowledge. The methodology will use the textual analysis and comparison method. A close reading of a few of Arundhati Roy’s works will be done on the related topics. The APA Manual has been used to conduct the study's analysis in accordance with its guidelines. Findings: After reviewing numerous papers, books, and theses, it has been determined that the focus of the study will be on ecocriticism in a few key pieces of Arundhati Roy. It demonstrates that ecocriticism studies the goals intended to take a review of the literature and a thorough investigation of the problem at hand. Through a parallel reading of the fiction works with her non-fiction works, the research hopes to gain a deeper understanding of Arundhati Roy's works. Ecocriticism in nonfictional works is not emphasized in analyses of these important literary works. Paper Type: Literature Review

초급 교재 피아노 테크닉 분석 연구

The purpose of this paper is to understand technique teaching methods and textbook literature by comparing and analyzing the beginner piano techniques of Piano Adventure, Piano Academia, Magic Finger Piano, which are domestic and foreign piano textbooks using a parallel reading approach. For the study, based on three references piano teaching strategies for 21st century teachers, successful piano teaching methods, and general theory of piano pedagogy, the study categorizes 10 techniques within the beginner learning goals. Next, the beginner techniques for each textbook are analyzed into the 10 types above. As a result, it was found that 7-8 techniques were evenly distributed through the three characteristic techniques icons, and that other techniques were classified as additional techniques and intermediate techniques. Accordingly, though detailed comparison and analysis, similar techniques are grouped and supplementary and characteristic techniques are selected. It will expand the range of technique education and textbook selection for domestic piano teachers and students who rely on Bayer.

Robodebt, Kafka and institutional absurdism in Australia

The report of the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme was published in July 2023. It found that the scheme was a ‘costly failure of public administration, in both human and economic terms’. The Trial by Franz Kafka is a seminal literary metaphor for how bureaucracy can give way to corruption and dystopia. In a brief parallel reading, I show how the findings made by Commissioner Holmes conform with Kafka's blueprint of an absurd bureaucratic machine. I also explore some broader implications of this argument.

PSYCHOLINGUISTIC CATEGORIES AS THE LEADING MEANS IN THE COMPARATIVE FRAMEWORK OF IMPRESSIONISM

The Purpose of The Study is to study the poetics of impressionism, which unites the world of music, visual and verbal arts, creating a flexible and eclectic impressionistic synthesis and opening up new possibilities for artistic creativity. The Methodology of The Research is the teaching of the methods of description of impressionism, which ensures the comprehensiveness of obtaining information about psycholinguistic categories as the leading means in the comparative study of impressionism. The Scientific Novelty of the research consists in comparative and intertextual methods, which reveal the cultural concept of the category of style and allow to compare the works of different types of art within the same artistic era, as well as to put the works of writers of different artistic directions in the same row. The Conclusions. In works in which the issues are related to the comprehensive disclosure of the specifics of historical and cultural eras or artistic directions and currents, the parallel reading of works of different types of art implies a common aesthetic orientation of artists (within the same period, different artistic systems can be combined with different types of art, coexist ). The given conclusions encourage the study of impressionistic stylistic currents not only in literature, but also in painting and music.

A vehicle license plate data access model based on the jump hash consistency algorithm.

The massive amount of vehicle plate data generated by intelligent transportation systems is widely used in the field of urban transportation information system construction and has a high scientific research and application value. The adoption of big data platforms to properly preserve, process, and exploit these valuable data resources has become a hot research area in recent years. To address the problems of implementing complex multi-conditional comprehensive query functions and flexible data applications in the key-value database storage environment of a big data platform, this paper proposes a data access model based on the jump hash consistency algorithm. Algorithms such as data slice storage and multi-threaded sliding window parallel reading are used to realize evenly distributed storage and fast reading of massive time-series data on clustered data nodes. A comparative analysis of data distribution uniformity and retrieval efficiency shows that the model can effectively avoid generating the cluster hotspot problem, support comprehensive analysis queries with various complex conditions, and maintain high query efficiency by precisely positioning the data storage range and utilizing parallel scan reading.

Effectively integrating research argumentation in syllabus learning: A case study of reading journal articles in four fourth-year engineering fluid mechanics courses

In an emerging trend in engineering education students are engaged in the scientific discovery process through reading about research published in articles rather than textbooks. A research-based and curriculum-oriented intervention in an undergraduate course was designed to elucidate whether students can progressively gain reading skills when provided with selected articles explicitly related to fluid mechanics research. The aim was also to monitor student awareness of their own progress. A questionnaire was designed to evaluate how fourth-year fluid technology students perceived their reading skills during the teaching intervention. A progressive strategy was applied, including warm-up readings, in- and out-of-class assignments, and best practice lectures. Two parallel test exams and test readings were associated and quantitatively analyzed. Each cohort was randomly divided into two groups, and each group was assigned a different test reading before the lectures; the readings were then switched for the post-lecture assignment. The results demonstrate that the students acquired selective reading skills and awareness of accomplishment. The analyses indicated that learners gained an understanding of the core concepts and gave positive feedback on the teaching materials and schedule. These findings may serve as a guide for engineering educators to improve the preparation of undergraduate students.

TRcaller: a novel tool for precise and ultrafast tandem repeat variant genotyping in massively parallel sequencing reads.

Calling tandem repeat (TR) variants from DNA sequences is of both theoretical and practical significance. Some bioinformatics tools have been developed for detecting or genotyping TRs. However, little study has been done to genotyping TR alleles from long-read sequencing data, and the accuracy of genotyping TR alleles from next-generation sequencing data still needs to be improved. Herein, a novel algorithm is described to retrieve TR regions from sequence alignment, and a software program TRcaller has been developed and integrated into a web portal to call TR alleles from both short- and long-read sequences, both whole genome and targeted sequences generated from multiple sequencing platforms. All TR alleles are genotyped as haplotypes and the robust alleles will be reported, even multiple alleles in a DNA mixture. TRcaller could provide substantially higher accuracy (>99% in 289 human individuals) in detecting TR alleles with magnitudes faster (e.g., ∼2s for 300x human sequence data) than the mainstream software tools. The web portal preselected 119 TR loci from forensics, genealogy, and disease related TR loci. TRcaller is validated to be scalable in various applications, such as DNA forensics and disease diagnosis, which can be expanded into other fields like breeding programs. Availability: TRcaller is available at https://www.trcaller.com/SignIn.aspx.

Reflecting on the Self: Introspective Construction of the Feminine in Nineteenth-Century Poets Carolina Valencia and Carolina Coronado

This essay explores the construction of the female creative self in nineteenth-century Spain and introduces the virtually unstudied poet Carolina Valencia (born 1860 in Valladolid) through her poem “A la margen del arroyo” (1890). It brings Valencia into dialogue with the established canon through a parallel reading of the construction of subjectivity in Carolina Coronado’s “El jilguero y la flor del agua” (1852). This reading of subjectivity interacts with various aspects of nineteenth-century Spanish femininity: the identification with nature, the dichotomy of the angel and the monster, and the language of sentimentality.

Hardware Design and Implementation of a Lightweight Saber Algorithm Based on DRC Method

With the development of quantum computers, the security of classical cryptosystems is seriously threatened, and the Saber algorithm has become one of the potential candidates for post-quantum cryptosystems (PQCs). To address the problems of long delay and the high power consumption of Saber algorithm hardware implementation, a lightweight Saber algorithm hardware design scheme based on the joint optimization of data readout and clock (DRC) was proposed. Firstly, an analysis was carried out on the hardware architecture, timing overhead and power consumption distribution of the Saber algorithm, and the key circuits that limit the performance of the algorithm were identified; secondly, a dual-port SRAM parallel reading method was adopted to improve the data reading efficiency and reduce the timing overhead of double data reading in the multiplier module. Then, a clock gating technology was used to reduce the dynamic flipping probability of internal registers and reduce the hardware power consumption of the Saber algorithm; finally, data reading and clock gating were jointly optimized to design a high-speed and low-power Saber algorithm hardware IP core. Lightweight IP cores were integrated into RISC-V SoC systems via APB bus in a TSMC 65 nm process to complete the digital back-end design. The experimental results show an IP core area of 0.99 mm2 and power consumption of 8.49 mW, which is 33% lower than that reported in the related literature. Under 72 MHz & 1 V operating conditions, the number of clock cycles for the Saber algorithm’s key generation, encryption and decryption are 3315, 9204 and 1420, respectively.