Rules of Engagement: The Intersection of Art History and Christian Scholarship

Messiah College faculty scholarship papers : submitted by faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for promotion to the rank of professo

MMT: New Open Source MT for the Translation Industry

MMT is a new open source machine translation software specifically addressing the needs of the translation industry. In this paper we describe its overall architecture and provide details about its major components. We report performance results on a multi-domain benchmark based on public data, on two translation directions, by comparing MMT against state-of-theart commercial and research phrase-based and neural MT systems

Optical sensors based on polymeric nanofibers layers created by electrospinning

Porous materials have become ideal candidates for the creation of optical sensors that are able to reach extremely high sensitivities, due to both the possibility to infiltrate the target substances on them and to their large surface-to-volume ratio. In this work, we present a new alternative for the creation of porous optical sensors based on the use of polymeric nanofibers (NFs) layers fabricated by electrospinning. Polyamide 6 (PA6) NFs layers with average diameters lower than 30 nm and high porosities have been used for the creation of Fabry-Pérot optical sensing structures, which have shown an experimental sensitivity up to 1060 nm/RIU (refractive index unit). This high sensitivity, together with the low production cost and the possibility to be manufactured over large areas, make NFs-based structures a very promising candidate for the development of low-cost and high performance optical sensors.The Spanish government (TEC2015-63838-C3-1-R-OPTONANOSENS); Basque government (KK-2017/00089-μ4F)

Percorsi attraverso i confini: un'etnografia delle esperienze delle donne richiedenti protezione internazionale e asilo tra Bolzano e il Brennero

This research aims to describe and monitor migration of women seeking international protection and asylum to show the forms of mobility they involve across the border area and the effects of time lived in contact with the asylum and reception devices . The context in which the observation is located is that of the Brenner border and the Autonomous Province of Bolzano: these places are affected by "secondary movements" both from the countries of northern Europe and from the regions within Italy. The reading keys that support the analysis will be foreseen: the first is the one that reads in the peculiar configuration of the recognition system present in Bolzano a category device towards women particularly excluded and ambiguous. The second is that which considers the dimension of time - individual, relational and institutional - as a productive element of surveillance in the experience of research subjects

Utilizzo delle nuove tecnologie nella didattica LIM, Skype, Piattaforma e-learning e Geometria dinamica: una possibile interazione

The experience, built up with the students of the I M, the II M and the III M classes of the ex- "Scuola Media Antonelli - Croce", located at via Cerulli, during the Professor Caroselli’s Math and Science lessons is a direct consequence of training activities held during the earlier school years by the Professor Manuppella in the "Scuola Media B. Croce", located in Pescara, in compliance with the norms that regulated the participation of the School to the "Innovascuola" Ministerial Project

“Under the Brixton Sun”. Riflessioni su un antirazzismo di classe a 40 anni dai “riots” del 1981

Numerato anche p. 328-334Circa 40 anni fa, i riots di Brixton infiammarono le strade di Londra. Nonostante sia ricordata come una rivolta esclusivamente “nera”, essa rappresenta l’esito di un dialogo policulturale e “meticcio” tra la gioventù working-class che era andato sviluppandosi lungo gli anni Sessanta e Settanta. Ripercorrendo il cammino che ha condotto agli eventi, l’articolo mostra il modo in cui questo incontro ha preso forma nell’esperienza quotidiana e come possa aiutarci a superare limiti e contraddizioni dell’odierno antirazzismo istituzionale.About 40 years ago, the Brixton riots set the streets of London on fire. Even if depicted as a black-led riot, the uprising represents the outcome of a polycultural and mixed-race dialogue between black and white working-class youth that took place in the 60s and 70s. Trying to retrace the path of Brixton, this paper aims at showing how this alliance has been taking form within youth’s everyday experience and how it can help us facing limits and contradictions of contemporary institutional antiracism

Pioneer settlement of the cold-water coral Desmophyllum dianthus (Esper, 1794) on plastic

Larval settlement is a critical step for sessile benthic species such as corals, whose ability to thrive on diverse natural and anthropogenic substrates may lead to a competitive advantage in the colonization of new environments with respect to a narrow tolerance for a specific kind of substratum. Plastic debris, widespread in marine waters, provides a large, motile, and solid substratum supporting a highly diverse biological community. Here we present the first observation of a floating plastic bottle colonized by the deep-sea coral Desmophyllum dianthus. The density pattern and co-occurring species composition suggest a pioneer behavior of this coral species, whose peculiar morphologic plasticity response when interacting with the plastic substrate (i.e., low density polyethylene) has not been observed before. The tolerance of D. dianthus for such plastic substrate may affect ecological processes in deep water environments, disrupting interspecific substrate competition in the benthic community