Journal articles: 'Tough guy'

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May, Elaine Tyler, and Rupert Wilkinson. "American Tough: The Tough-Guy Tradition and American Character." Journal of American History 71, no. 4 (1985): 846. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1888512.

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Fenwick, Mac. "‘Tough guy, eh?’: The gangster‐figure in Drum." Journal of Southern African Studies 22, no. 4 (1996): 617–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057079608708515.

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Jackson, J. David. "Heroic exploits of a no-nonsense tough guy." Physics World 7, no. 4 (1994): 62–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/7/4/40.

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Veilledent, Catherine. "Le tough guy et le déni des profondeurs." Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines 34, no. 1 (1987): 553–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/rfea.1987.1295.

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Riddiough, Timothy J., and Steve B. Wyatt. "Wimp or tough guy: Sequential default risk and signaling with mortgages." Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics 9, no. 3 (1994): 299–321. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01099281.

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Illiashenko, Pavlo. "“Tough Guy” vs. “Cushion” hypothesis: How does individualism affect risk-taking?" Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance 24 (December 2019): 100212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2019.04.005.

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Gardiner, Gareth S., and Richard N. McKinney. "The Great American War on Drugs: Another Failure of Tough-Guy Management." Journal of Drug Issues 21, no. 3 (1991): 605–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002204269102100309.

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Pearson, Sidney A. "It Is Tough to Be the Second Toughest Guy in a Tough Town: Ask the Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." Perspectives on Political Science 36, no. 1 (2007): 23–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3200/ppsc.36.1.23-28.

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Boyle, Ellexis. "Requiem for a “Tough Guy”: Representing Hockey Labor, Violence and Masculinity in Goon." Sociology of Sport Journal 31, no. 3 (2014): 327–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2013-0108.

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This paper explores the ongoing construction of hockey in Canada through a textual analysis of the popular comedy, Goon (2012). Touted by its authors as “the Canadian sequel to Slap Shot” and “an homage to enforcers”, Goon is analyzed in relation to simmering debates about fighting in hockey as well as the broader crisis of employment and masculinity that characterize the sociopolitical milieu in which the film circulates. A crisis of masculinity narrative is found to emerge in and through a discourse about working-class labor that both celebrates and devalorizes violent labor and the capitalist relations in which it is embedded. The analysis provides insight into the interlocking relationships among texts and contexts as well as the role of sport films in perpetuating dominant ideologies about violent labor in hockey.

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Holland-Toll, Linda J. "Harder than Nails, Harder than Spade: Anita Blake as "The Tough Guy" Detective." Journal of American Culture 27, no. 2 (2004): 175–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1537-4726.2004.00128.x.

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Quan, Daniel C. "Comments on ?wimp or tough guy: Sequential default risk and signaling with mortgages?" Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics 9, no. 3 (1994): 323–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01099282.

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Agar, C., L. Pickard, and A. Bhangu. "The Tough Guy prehospital experience: patterns of injury at a major UK endurance event." Emergency Medicine Journal 26, no. 11 (2009): 826–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emj.2008.067173.

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Seago, Karen. "“Philip Marlowe in drag?” – The construct of the hard-boiled detective in feminist appropriation and translation." Ars Aeterna 9, no. 2 (2017): 39–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/aa-2017-0008.

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Abstract Hard-nosed female investigators Sara Lund and Saga Norén from the extraordinarily successful Scandinavian TV crime series The Killing and The Bridge are the latest examples of female hard-boiled detectives - dysfunctional loners who solve crimes where no one else succeeds. This article looks at the character construct of the hard-boiled male detective, maps these tropes against social expectations of gender norms and then considers how Sara Paretsky constructs an explicitly feminist “tough guy” private eye in V.I. Warshawski. It then analyses how Paretsky’s negotiation and partial subversion of the tropes of the hard-boiled genre are handled in translation, drawing on the German translation of Indemnity Only.

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Lumsden, Linda. "“You're a Tough Guy, Mary-and a First-Rate Newspaperman”: Gender and Women Journalists in the 1920S and 1930s." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 72, no. 4 (1995): 913–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769909507200414.

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Relying on autobiographies, articles written by the subjects, and oral history, this article analyzes how gender-based polarities affected ten “front-page gals” between 1920 and 1940. It demonstrates how women journalists had to lose their feminine selves to succeed in the male-dominated city room. The women's emphasis on succeeding on individual merit left: them unable to recognize structural discrimination in pay, assignments, and benefits. Nonetheless, their adventurous spirit blazed a trail for future women journalists.

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Gabbiadini, Alessandro, Paolo Riva, Luca Andrighetto, Chiara Volpato, and Brad J. Bushman. "Acting like a Tough Guy: Violent-Sexist Video Games, Identification with Game Characters, Masculine Beliefs, & Empathy for Female Violence Victims." PLOS ONE 11, no. 4 (2016): e0152121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152121.

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Bešker, Inoslav. "Brutal Highlanders and Crooked Coastals." Cross-cultural studies review 1, no. 1-2 (2020): 147–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.38003/ccsr.1.1-2.8.

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This paper presents a philological and imagological analysis of the mutual contradictions of two types of characters in the corpus of Mediterranean literature. The highlander and the seasider, one brutal and the other imbedded in the hetero-conception of the other, belong to standard Mediterranean literary types, namely archetypes, from myths to the present. Literature on the Mediterranean and about the Mediterranean is abundant with typified descriptions of the highlander being a tough guy, violent, and the seasider as cunning, envious or a serial seducer. The imagology of these types and their mutual opposition is the topic of this philological analysis. The paper focuses on a comparative analysis of this imagotype/stereotype existing throughout the Mediterranean and transmitted from one literature to another throughout the centuries. The aim of the work is to review and summarize the literature concerning the archetypes of the highlander and the seasider in order to have a better understanding of the patterns of imagotypes and archetypes in the collective imaginary represented by Mediterranean literature.

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Khan, Muhammad A. "The Guy with the Golden Touch:." Mathematical Intelligencer 38, no. 4 (2016): 19–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00283-016-9674-x.

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Zhu, Jingjing, Shuang Guan, Qianqian Hu, Guanghui Gao, Kun Xu, and Pixin Wang. "Tough and pH-sensitive hydroxypropyl guar gum/polyacrylamide hybrid double-network hydrogel." Chemical Engineering Journal 306 (December 2016): 953–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2016.08.026.

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Abdo, Ahmed Mahdee, and Sardar Hasan Alali. "Graphical User Interface Features In Building Attractive And Successful Websites." European Scientific Journal, ESJ 12, no. 15 (2016): 332. http://dx.doi.org/10.19044/esj.2016.v12n15p332.

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The process involve in building a successful website goes beyond knowing web developing languages such as HTML and CSS. The success or failure of any website depends heavily on the use of some aspects of Graphical User Interface. These aspects are usually reserved for client’s wishes and desires. The content features of the GUI are used to stay in touch with visitors. Therefore, this article will highlight some important GUI features used in building an attractive and a successful website.

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Wang, Han Bing, Bing Xu, Yuan Zheng, Wei Liu та Kan Cheng. "One Detection and Diagnosis System of a Certain Ordnance Equipment Based on μC/GUI Embedded Graphic User Interface". Applied Mechanics and Materials 628 (вересень 2014): 209–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.628.209.

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Aiming at the problem of the lack of a type of ordnance equipment unit fault location method and based on μC/GUI embedded graphical user interface, a new detection and diagnosis system is designed, which integrates self-inspection, spare part detection, real equipment detection and teaching into one. The system adopts C8051F020 MCU and S3C2440 ARM9 microprocessor, combines the application of data acquisition, LCD touch control & display, serial communications and other technologies to build the hardware system, and constructs a new menu system based on μC/GUI.

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Sung, Young Ah, and Bo Ah Choi. "A Study on the Hospital Blood Glucose Meter Gui Design and the Usability Evaluation - Focusing on the Touch Screen -." Journal of Cultural Product and Design 53 (June 30, 2018): 141–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.18555/kicpd.2018.53.14.

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WATANABE, Shingo, and Ryoji YOSHITAKE. "1D2-2 Influence of Design of the Button GUI in Touch Pointing Task." Japanese journal of ergonomics 51, Supplement (2015): S118—S119. http://dx.doi.org/10.5100/jje.51.s118.

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Kyung, Ki-Uk, Jun-Young Lee, Junseok Park, and Mandayam A. Srinivasan. "wUbi-Pen: Sensory Feedback Stylus Interacting with Graphical User Interface." Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 21, no. 2 (2012): 142–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/pres_a_00088.

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In this work, we designed an interactive stylus interface for touch-screen devices, the wUbi-Pen haptic stylus. The stylus has functions of providing both vibration and impact with a single actuator, and it is a stand-alone system including its own battery and communication module. We present a new interaction scheme on the graphical user interface (GUI) based on sensory feedback events for clicking, drag-and-drop, moving, sliding, highlighting, and drawing. Experiments evaluating stylus performance indicated that the haptic cues improved precise control of GUI elements. A simple interactive digital sketchbook was also implemented, which provided a variety of haptic feedback while drawing and touching objects.

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., Asif Sardar Shaikh. "UNITY 7: GUI BAESD DESIGN PLATFORM FOR UBUNTU TOUCH MOBILE OS." International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology 03, no. 05 (2014): 658–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0305122.

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Shin, Heesook, Jeong-Mook Lim, Jong-Uk Lee, Geehyuk Lee, and Ki-Uk Kyung. "Effect of Tactile Feedback for Button GUI on Mobile Touch Devices." ETRI Journal 36, no. 6 (2014): 979–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.4218/etrij.14.0114.0028.

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Grov, Christian, Ana Ventuneac, H. Jonathon Rendina, Ruben H. Jimenez, and Jeffrey T. Parsons. "Perceived Importance of Five Different Health Issues for Gay and Bisexual Men." American Journal of Men's Health 7, no. 4 (2012): 274–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557988312463419.

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This study assessed the perceived importance of five health issues for gay and bisexual men ( N = 660) using time-space sampling in gay bars/clubs and bathhouses in New York City: “HIV & STDs,” “Drugs & Alcohol,” “Body Image,” “Mental Health,” and “Smoking.” This study compared ratings based on demographic differences, recent substance use, recent sexual risk behavior, and whether or not participants owned a smart device (e.g., “smart” phone, iPad, iPod touch). Contrary to research indicating that gay and bisexual men may be experiencing HIV prevention fatigue, this study identified that HIV and STIs were perceived as most important. Drugs and alcohol and mental health were also rated high, suggesting that providers may be well served to include mental health and drugs and alcohol as part of their comprehensive approach to HIV prevention. A majority of participants (72%) owned a smart device. Smart device owners rated health issues similarly to those who did not, suggesting that such devices may be a useful platform to reach gay and bisexual men for health education and prevention.

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Puglisi, Vera, Jasmine Ghorbani, Yan Chen, Manuel Nyagisere, Grace Babalola, and Tianqi “Tenchi” Gao Smith. "Soda Machine and User Experience: A Study of Icon Display." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 64, no. 1 (2020): 2035–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1071181320641493.

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Touch-screen GUIs have become a key feature of modern consumer electronics. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect that reducing the number of icons on the GUI of a popular soda machine has on drink selection time and user satisfaction. Twenty subjects participated in the study, with 10 assigned to the control and experimental groups respectively. Time to make a drink selection was recorded and compared between groups using unpaired t-test. User satisfaction was measured using a five-point scale questionnaire. The results suggested that user satisfaction, except for the display dependability category, is not affected by the reduction of the number of icons on the soda machine GUI and no change was observed in drink selection time.

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Komazaki, Masanobu, and Masanori Idesawa. "A Study of Human Pointing Features on Touch-Screens -Age Effect, Difference by Gender, and Difference in Direction-." Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics 19, no. 6 (2007): 715–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jrm.2007.p0715.

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We set up guidelines for designing graphic user interfaces (GUI), e.g., software-keyboards, for touch screens easier to used than conventional input (or interface) devices for IT systems such as keyboards and mice. We studied aging and gender differences in the dynamic properties of user pointing on a touch screen. We obtained the following results: (1) Standard Fitts’law did not hold very well when subjects repeated pointing using one finger between two targets close together on the touch screen. Movement-Time (MT) -the time required for pointing- increased linearly with the index of difficulty (ID) - the ratio of distance between targets (D) to target size (S). (2) Neither α -the ratio of the increase of MT to ID- nor β -MT when ID is 0- differed significantly between men and women. (3) α took almost the same value in older, middle-aged, and younger subjects, whereas β differed significantly between these groups. β increased linearly with age. (4) α and β did not differ significantly between left-right and depth in pointing. (5) The practice effect reduced the dispersion of α and β.

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Zhou, Bin, Jing Chen, Yi Fei Wang, You Xin Yuan, Liang Yuan, and Ping Kuang. "Development of the Mobile Power Supply System with Stabilizing Voltage and Frequency, UPS, Intelligent Charging." Applied Mechanics and Materials 556-562 (May 2014): 1983–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.556-562.1983.

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According to the principle of a novel integration method with stabilizing voltage and frequency, UPS, intelligent charging for mobile power supply proposed by authors, the mobile UPS system has been developed in this paper. The system is designed by the inverter NB70124 with integration functions and the additional peripheral configuration, such as the touch screen, the circuit breaker, and so on. The following works have been done in the study: the configuration of the mobile UPS system, communication between the touch screen and the inverter, GUI of the mobile UPS system. The system can be realized functions, such as the generating electricity, outputting stabilizing voltage and frequency, UPS, and intelligent charging. By the system, the high precision voltage amplitude and frequency is supply to outdoor load, and the UPS state is maintained.

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Han, Ye, Xiang Dong You, Xu Zhang, Hui Yang Wang, and Cong Deng. "A Novel Design of the CNG Dispenser Electronic Control System." Applied Mechanics and Materials 448-453 (October 2013): 3119–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.448-453.3119.

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This paper presents a novel design of the CNG dispenser electronic control system. The hardware design includes the ARM11 core-board and the expansion board, and the software design is based on the embedded Linux system with QT Embedded and SQLite. In addition to the general function as filling natural gas, the system has the GUI designed for touch input, the embedded database, and equipped with a RJ45 cable network interface, WiFi wireless network interface and RS485 interface etc.

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Apte, M. V. "The importance of keeping in touch: regulation of cell-cell contact in the exocrine pancreas." Gut 54, no. 10 (2005): 1358–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gut.2005.070953.

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Kim, Jun Hyung. "A study on GUI symbol figure and usability of mobile touch using product due to functional fusion phenomenon by graphic." KOREA SCIENCE & ART FORUM 37, no. 2 (2019): 75–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.17548/ksaf.2019.03.30.75.

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Chen, Wei, Yunhao Bu, Delin Li, et al. "Development of high-strength, tough, and self-healing carboxymethyl guar gum-based hydrogels for human motion detection." Journal of Materials Chemistry C 8, no. 3 (2020): 900–908. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c9tc05797h.

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Hong, Jonggi, Hwan Kim, Woohun Lee, and Geehyuk Lee. "TouchRoller: A Touch-sensitive Cylindrical Input Device for GUI Manipulation of Interactive TVs." Interacting with Computers 28, no. 3 (2015): 293–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/iwc/iwv006.

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Tian, Yan Yan, Yang Yang Xu, and Shang Hong Yu. "Study and Design of the Control System for Crop Growth Cabinet." Applied Mechanics and Materials 740 (March 2015): 511–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.740.511.

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The crop growth cabinet control system mainly consists of color touch screen interface operating system and control system. They communicate with each other through the RS485 module. The control system’s control core is ATmega128L single chip microcomputer, and operating system interface uses Cortex_M3 as the kernel of 32-bit processor STM32F103VC, and adopts μC/GUI to write human-machine interface which real-time monitors crop growth environmental parameters in the cabinet, and by setting various parameters to simulate the plant a variety of ecological environment.

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Nagpal, Meenu, Geeta Aggarwal, Upendra Kumar Jain, and Jitender Madan. "OKRA FRUIT GUM-CHITOSAN IMPREGNATED POLYMER NETWORK FILMS: FORMULATION AND SUBSTANTIAL DEPICTION." Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research 10, no. 10 (2017): 219. http://dx.doi.org/10.22159/ajpcr.2017.v10i10.20362.

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Objective: The present research is aimed at formulation and evaluation of okra fruit gum (OFG)-chitosan (CH) impregnated polymer network films.Methods: The film forming property of the gum attained from fruits of Abelmoschus esculentus was enhanced by co-processing it with CH. Estimation of properties including swelling index (SI), film volume, volume index, film surface contact angle with buffer solutions (pH 1.2, 7.4 or 6.8), work of adhesion (Wa), and spreading coefficient was done.Results: The contact angle and SI of OFG-CH film in both acidic and alkaline buffers were witnessed to be lowest when equated with the films prepared with difference in ratios of both gum and CH. Moreover, the Wa and spreading coefficient were less for this film. These results could be attributed to the optimum interaction between –COO− groups of gum and -NH3+ groups of CH.Conclusion: The actual nature of the film found to be tough, flexible, and water resistant. Hence, the results have shown that the films produced have a high potential for use in modified drug release and in food and pharmaceuticals.

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Wang, Jin He, Jun Liu, Bin Wang, Nan Zhang, and Yu Xi Gong. "Research and Application of Gene Amplification System Based on QT." Advanced Materials Research 850-851 (December 2013): 1251–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.850-851.1251.

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Embedded GUI recently has been highlighted in the design of embedded products with the widespread use of embedded system for implementing the human-computer interaction function. A gene amplification system based on ARM embedded Linux OS is introduced. Combined with the requirement of PCR gene amplification system, this article using Samsung's S3C6410 core processor, the choice of Linux + Qt software scheme, built the hardware and software development environment and realized most functions of the gene amplification system GUI based on Qt integrated development environment, such as the real-time temperature curve display, the parameter settings of circulating process and other auxiliary functions showed on LCD. The results demonstrate that the system can reliably and stably run on the Linux system, support for touch screen driver interface for easy operation, excellent scalability, superior performance, beautiful interface, and basically meet the functional requirements of each module.

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Chu, Edward T. H., and Heng-Chih Hsieh. "A Platform for Measuring the Response Time of Smartphones." Journal of Imaging Science and Technology 63, no. 5 (2019): 50403–1. http://dx.doi.org/10.2352/j.imagingsci.technol.2019.63.5.050403.

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Abstract Smartphones are playing an increasingly important role in helping people share information and communicate with each other, as evidenced by an increasing number of applications (or apps), including news, search engine, mailbox, and social networking apps. The more heavily people rely on their phones, the more they begin to take the term “user experience” into consideration when buying a smartphone. Obviously, the key to providing a good user experience is to minimize the response time of each graphical user interface (GUI) operation, such as a touch, slide, or flick. Thus, it is crucial for smartphone manufacturers and mobile app developers to measure the response times to enhance the performance of the device or application. In this article, the authors present the SMArtphone Response Time measuring platform (SMART), a novel and low-cost platform for measuring the response time of a smartphone. SMART consists of a normal 30-fps (frame per second) webcam and a mirror. The proposed platform first simultaneously records the changes on a smartphone screen and the GUI operation shown in the mirror. It then adopts image processing techniques to analyze the latency of the GUI operation. The authors’ validation results show that the measurement error of SMART is less than 1/30 s, which means that SMART is a practical solution for measuring the latency of GUI operations. In addition, they adopted SMART for the measurements and analysis of six different commercial smartphones to further demonstrate its applicability.

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Sekiguchi, Tatsuya, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Masahiro Okamoto. "WinBEST-KIT: Biochemical reaction simulator that can define and customize algebraic equations and events as GUI components." Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 17, no. 06 (2019): 1950036. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219720019500367.

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We previously developed Windows-based Biochemical Engineering System analyzing Tool-KIT (WinBEST-KIT), a biochemical reaction simulator for analyzing large-scale and complicated biochemical reaction networks. One particularly notable feature is the ability for users to define original mathematical equations for representing unknown kinetic mechanisms and customize them as GUI components for representing reaction steps. Many simulators support System Biology Markup Language SBML; however, since the definition of the algebraic equations (AssignmentRule) and the events are made through an interface that is distinct from the definition of the reaction steps, there are tough works to define them. Accordingly, we have developed a new version of WinBEST-KIT that allows users to define the algebraic equations and the events through the same interface as those used in the definition of the reaction steps and customize them as GUI components appearing in the symbol selection area. The customized algebraic equations and events can thus be visually arranged at any time and any place. It also allows users to easily understand the roles of the algebraic equations and the events. We have also implemented other useful features, including importing/exporting of SBML format files, exporting to MATLAB, and merging the existing models into the model currently being created. The current version of WinBEST-KIT is freely available at http://winbest-kit.org/ .

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Goodich, Michael. "Mirabilis Deus in Sanctis Suis*:Social History and Medieval Miracles." Studies in Church History 41 (2005): 135–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400000188.

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Perhaps our most learned and knowledgeable informant concerning both the heretics and their persecutors is the great inquisitor, hagiographer and Dominican historian Bernard Gui (1261–1331), who has been immortalized as the personification of evil by Umberto Eco inThe Name of the Rose. In his manual for inquisitors, Gui issued the following caveat concerning the conduct of inquiries into heresy:It is worthwhile noting that if too many questions and answers are raised, the truth is distorted and destroyed as a result of the diversity of persons and events. Rather, it is suitable not to write down all the questions and answers, but only those which touch directly on the substance and character of the event and which more closely appear to express the truth. If in one deposition too many questions and answers are found, another deposition will appear thereby diminished since too little is recorded. When so many questions and answers are written down in a trial, agreement can scarcely be found in the depositions of the witnesses, which should be both considered and avoided.

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Rice, J., W. Curtin, and S. K. O’Rourke. "A no-touch technique of loading bone cement for gun injection at total hip arthroplasty." Irish Journal of Medical Science 165, no. 1 (1996): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02942795.

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Wang, Yan, Jinhui Liu, Lin Xia, Mei Shen, and Zhenxiang Xin. "Super-tough poly(lactic acid) thermoplastic vulcanizates with heat triggered shape memory behaviors based on modified natural Eucommia ulmoides gum." Polymer Testing 80 (December 2019): 106077. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polymertesting.2019.106077.

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Hoppe, Trevor. "Punishing Sex: Sex Offenders and the Missing Punitive Turn in Sexuality Studies." Law & Social Inquiry 41, no. 03 (2016): 573–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lsi.12189.

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At precisely the same time that gay and lesbian activists were securing marriage rights for same-sex couples nationwide, courts and “tough on crime” state legislatures were devising new ways to regulate sex. Despite recent estimates that over 750,000 Americans are registered sex offenders, few sexuality scholars have examined the growth of punitive policies regulating sex offenders. In this article, I draw on a unique set of data on the population of sex offenders in the United States to analyze: (1) whether recent trends in sex offender registration mirror those of corrections more generally, and (2) whether these policies disproportionally impact racial minorities. Findings reveal that sex offender registries grew dramatically between 2005 and 2013; that this growth is out of step with concurrent trends in corrections; and that black communities are disproportionately impacted. I conclude by considering whether these data reveal a new mode of “governing through crime” specifically targeting sex. It might as well be admitted that sex is a disgrace. Michael Warner (1999) There is a big secret about sex: most people don't like it. Leo Bersani (1987)

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Krumholz, Philipp, Armin Janß, and Klaus Radermacher. "Usability Evaluation of a One-Handed Touchbased OR-Table Control." Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering 4, no. 1 (2018): 157–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cdbme-2018-0039.

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AbstractDue to the increasing number and the complexity of devices in the operation room (OR), which are caused by the diversity and variety of proprietary interface designs, the probability for use errors increases. In order to ensure a safe intraoperative workflow in the OR, integrated OR systems with central work stations have been developed. For this, there also exist concepts for handhelds, which offer touchbased graphical user interfaces (GUI). However, those come along with various limitations, e.g. possibility for one-handed interaction, which is influenced i.a. by the size, the design and the working task. Within our investigations, requirements for an enhanced concept have been gathered by taking into account corresponding standards regarding ergonomics, riskmanagement and usability-engineering. According to DIN EN 60601-2-46, machinery directive 2006/42 EG and guideline VDI/VDE 3850, the stipulated user interface has been designed in order to preselect functions on the touchscreen and their subsequent activation by physical buttons. Furthermore, the accessibility of areas of interest has been considered on the touchscreen, to avoid the re-gripping of the handheld. As a first step, the OR-table control for a tablet has been realized with Microsoft Blend, using a 22’ touch monitor. The usability study has been conducted in accordance with DIN EN ISO 9241-11 and IEC 62366. A group of ten surgeons and OR nurses underwent multiple tasks in the framework of a usability test, comparing the developed concept with a common keypad handheld. The study showed comparable results concerning the usability criteria effectiveness and efficiency. However, the concept clearly outperforms the handheld regarding user satisfaction, in particular due to the higher learnability and the easy transfer of daily-used GUI skills. The current approach motivates to develop a functional model of a touch-based handheld for OR-tables as well as with further integrated OR devices and to conduct additional usability studies.

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Rozczyn, Magdalena. "Wpływ środowiska wirtualnego na procesy uwagi- efekt rozgrzania i drenażu poznawczego." Ogrody Nauk i Sztuk 9 (August 15, 2019): 418–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.15503/onis2019.418.426.

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Cel badania. Celem badania było sprawdzenie hipotezy o istnieniu wpływu środowiska wirtualnego (VR) na zakres funkcjonowania uwagi i wystąpienie efektu rozgrzania poznawczego u osób badanych. Metody badania. W badaniu wzięło udział 36 osób, w wieku od 20 do 35 lat. Analiza obejmowała porównanie wyników zebranych przed przystąpieniem do gry i po jej zakończeniu w dwóch grupach. Grupa badawcza grała w wirtualnej rzeczywistości, grupa kontrolna na komputerze PC. Badanie w grupie VR przeprowadzono z użyciem Google VR Oculus Rift oraz Touch Motion–Controller. Grupa kontrolna użytkowała komputery prywatne. Obie grupy jako pretest oraz posttest wykonały równoważne wersje testu uwagi i spostrzegawczości TUS.  Wyniki badania. Analiza wyników uzyskanych w teście uwagi i spostrzegawczości (TUS) wykazała, że środowisko wirtualne zadziałało poznawczo wyczerpująco na osoby badane, a szybkość pracy percepcyjnej oraz zawodność uwagi pogorszyły się istotnie statystycznie. Analiza wyników wśród graczy komputerowych wykazała, że szybkość pracy percepcyjnej poprawiła się istotnie statystycznie po zakończeniu gry, zatem środowisko komputerowe zadziałało mobilizująco na system poznawczy graczy i wystąpiło u nich zjawisko rozgrzania poznawczego. Wnioski. Badanie jest krokiem w kierunku zrozumienia, jaki wpływ ma wirtualna rzeczywistość na funkcjonowanie uwagi. Okazuje się, że granie w środowisku wirtualnym działa poznawczo wyczerpująco i powoduje czasowy spadek wydolności poznawczej.

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Rasmussen, Chris. "From Garden State to Gun Control State: New Jersey’s 1966 Firearms Law and the NRA’s Rise as a Political Lobby." New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 6, no. 2 (2020): 85–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.14713/njs.v6i2.214.

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In 1966, the New Jersey legislature passed An Act Concerning Firearms and Other Dangerous Weapons, which imposed significant regulations on gun buyers and dealers. Two years later, members of Congress frequently cited the Garden State’s tough gun control law as a model for the Gun Control Act of 1968. Although New Jersey’s 1966 firearms law has received little attention from scholars, the battle over gun control in New Jersey marked a significant turning point in the nationwide debate between supporters and opponents of gun control and exposed political fissures that endure today. The National Rifle Association (NRA) mobilized its membership to pressure New Jersey legislators to reject gun control. In its effort to oppose gun control in New Jersey, the NRA honed its arguments that gun control infringed upon citizens’ Second Amendment right “to keep and bear arms,” contended that gun laws would not reduce crime, and charged that keeping records of gun sales would ultimately lead to confiscation of firearms. The NRA’s fight against gun control in Trenton revealed the organization’s enormous influence and signaled its emergence as one of the most effective political interest groups in the United States.

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Roberts, Charles, Graham Wakefield, Matthew Wright, and JoAnn Kuchera-Morin. "Designing Musical Instruments for the Browser." Computer Music Journal 39, no. 1 (2015): 27–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/comj_a_00283.

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Native Web technologies provide great potential for musical expression. We introduce two JavaScript libraries towards this end: Gibberish.js, providing heavily optimized audio DSP, and Interface.js, a GUI toolkit that works with mouse, touch, and motion events. Together they provide a complete system for defining musical instruments that can be used in both desktop and mobile Web browsers. Interface.js also enables control of remote synthesis applications via a server application that translates the socket protocol used by Web interfaces into both MIDI and OSC messages. We have incorporated these libraries into the creative coding environment Gibber, where we provide mapping abstractions that enable users to create digital musical instruments in as little as a single line of code. They can then be published to a central database, enabling new instruments to be created, distributed, and run entirely in the browser.

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Kruglikova, Irina, Teodor P. Grantcharov, Asbjorn M. Drewes, and Peter Funch-Jensen. "The impact of constructive feedback on training in gastrointestinal endoscopy using high-fidelity virtual-reality simulation: a randomised controlled trial." Gut 59, no. 2 (2009): 181–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gut.2009.191825.

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BackgroundRecently, virtual reality computer simulators have been used to enhance traditional endoscopy teaching. Previous studies have demonstrated construct validity of these systems and transfer of virtual skills to the operating room. However, to date no simulator-training curricula have been designed and there is very little evidence on the impact of external feedback on acquisition of endoscopic skills.The aim of the present study was to assess the impact of external feedback on the learning curves on a VR colonoscopy simulator using inexperienced trainees.Materials and methods22 trainees, without colonoscopy experience were randomised to a group which received structured feedback provided by an experienced supervisor and a controlled group. All participants performed 15 repetitions of task 3 from the Introduction colonoscopy module of the Accu Touch Endoscopy simulator. Retention/transfer tests on simulator were performed 4–6 weeks after the last repetition. The proficiency levels were based on the performance of eight experienced colonoscopists.ResultsAll subjects were able to complete the procedure on the simulator. There were no perforations in the feedback group versus seven in the non-feedback group. Subjects in the feedback group reached expert proficiency levels in percentage of mucosa visualised and time to reach the caecum significantly faster compared with the control group. None of the groups demonstrated significant degradation of performance in simulator retention/transfer tests.ConclusionConcurrent feedback given by supervisor concur an advantage in acquisition of basic colonoscopy skills and achieving of proficiency level as compared to independent training.

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Adam, John A., and Edith W. Martin. "Aerospace and military: Sandia builds a tough compact computer, the autonomous land vehicle takes a spin, and the Sergeant York gun is axed." IEEE Spectrum 23, no. 1 (1986): 76–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mspec.1986.6370970.

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Davie, Grace, and Caroline Starkey. "The Lincoln Letters: A Study in Institutional Change." Ecclesial Practices 6, no. 1 (2019): 44–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22144471-00601001.

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On Friday 2nd September 2016, The Guardian published an online article entitled ‘Bishop of Grantham first C of E bishop to declare he is in a gay relationship.’ In response, a large quantity of correspondence was sent to the Bishop from members of the public, the vast majority expressing support. In this paper, we set the empirical data contained in the letters themselves within a context of continuing change in both society and the Church of England. We consider the reactions of the Church at the ‘tipping points’ of social change as it seeks to balance its responsibilities as a guardian of ‘truth’ with the need to keep in touch with modern ways of living. A key concept underpinning our analysis will be the notion of ‘vicarious religion’, which deals with the subtle but continuing relationships between the actively faithful and a wider body of more loosely attached adherents.

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