This article addresses cinematic remediations of literary works treating the Allied occupation of Naples: Liliana Cavani’s La pelle (1981) and Francesco Patierno’s Naples’44 (2016). Taking a memory studies approach, it surveys the corpus of cultural representations of the occupation and asks what the remediations studied contribute to the Italian cultural memory of the occupation. Analysis focuses on the diverse strategies deployed by the films to reshape the cultural memory of the occupation for their respective audiences. I argue that where Cavani’s remediation seeks to construct a feminist counter-memory of the Allied occupation, Patierno’s film betrays a contradictory impulse to both revive and lay the cultural memory to rest. I close by asking how successful the two films are in becoming meaningful ‘media of cultural memory’ (Erll 2010, 390) and what that may tell us about the place of the Allied occupation in Italian cultural memory at distinct historical junctures.

This paper focuses on six-degree-of-freedom (six-DOF) spatial cable-suspended parallel robots with eight cables (8-6 CSPRs) because the redundantly actuated CSPRs are relevant in many applications, such as large-scale assembly and handling tasks, and pick-and-place operations. One of the main concerns for the 8-6 CSPRs is the stability because employing cables with strong flexibility and unidirectional restraint operates the end-effector of the robot under external disturbances. As a consequence, this paper attempts to address two key issues related to the 8-6 CSPRs: the force-pose stability measure method and the stability sensitivity analysis method. First, a force-pose stability measure model taking into account the poses of the end-effector and the cable tensions of the 8-6 CSPR is presented, in which two cable tension influencing factors and two position influencing factors are developed, while an attitude influence function representing the influence of the attitudes of the end-effector on the stability of the robot is constructed. And furthermore, a new type of workspace related to the force-pose stability of the 8-6 CSPRs is defined and generated in this paper. Second, a force-pose stability sensitivity analysis method for the 8-6 CSPRs is developed with the gray relational analysis method, where the relationship between the force-pose stability of the robot and the 14 influencing factors (the end-effector’s poses and cable tensions) is investigated to reveal the sequence of the 14 influencing factors on the force-pose stability of the robot. Finally, the proposed force-pose stability measure method and stability sensitivity analysis method for the 8-6 CSPRs are verified through simulations.

This article theorizes the concept ‘ethnolinguistic infusion’ as a language socialization and language management practice. Infusion involves community members incorporating fragments of their group language, in which most members have little or no competence, in the context of a different dominant language, with the potential effect of fostering ideological links among the individual, group, and language. I explain the metaphor, enumerate several characteristics, and offer a categorization of different types of infusion. I contextualize ethnolinguistic infusion among related constructs in language contact, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology, including translanguaging, postvernacularity, and metalinguistic communities, I explain its relationship to ethnolinguistic repertoire, and I distinguish it from out-group-initiated phenomena like crossing and mock language. I demonstrate how ethnolinguistic infusion plays out in my research on American Jewish summer camps. I offer empirical questions for future research, and I conclude by arguing for the utility of ethnolinguistic infusion, both for academic analysis and for language activism. (Language and ethnicity, heritage language, symbolic language, emblematic language, language and group identity, Hebrew, infusion, loanwords, language contact, translanguaging, metalinguistic community, postvernacularity, endangered languages, language reclamation, language revitalization)

Since its publication, Luis Laso de la Vega’s foundational text, Huei tlamahuiçoltica (1649), continues to influence Guadalupan devotion but has only recently been examined as a theological and pastoral work. Still missing from these treatments is a discussion of the significance of the text’s genre, hagiography. This paper continues to draw out the theological and pastoral depth of Huei tlamahuiçoltica, specifically as the first Guadalupan hagiography. Moreover, it argues for the text to be considered a communal hagiography of sixteenth-century Nahuas that seeks to shape Nahua-Christian identity through Guadalupan devotion.

This article presents the methodological reflections of two anthropological studies in Oaxaca, the Guiengola Archaeological Project and the San Carlos Yautepec Ethnographic Landscape Project. Both projects emphasize not only the involvement of local people, descendant communities, or both in archaeological work as temporary workers or spectators of the research results but more importantly as active participants in development of the archaeological research design. This includes involvement in such processes as the proposal of and reflection on an anthropological study, the formulation of relevant questions, ontological considerations when interpreting the results, and participation in dissemination tasks after these studies are concluded. Involving people from local and descendant communities does not detract from the scientific nature of anthropological work but instead results in much richer data, as the mapping of the archaeological city of Guiengola and the analysis of pre-highway pedestrian mobility patterns in Oaxaca in the past demonstrate.

This article provides an overview of key challenges in second language (L2) pronunciation learning and teaching within the context of instructed second language acquisition (SLA), with the goal of identifying promising directions for future research. It begins by examining persistent difficulties in L2 pronunciation instruction, such as the typically limited quality of input and the dominant emphasis on grammar and vocabulary in communicative language teaching (CLT). These conditions often result in learners having limited awareness of their pronunciation needs and teachers facing challenges in incorporating pronunciation instruction into CLT-based curricula. The article then reviews emerging instructional approaches that aim to integrate attention to phonetic form within CLT, highlighting the need for further empirical investigation. In addition, several pronunciation training techniques, some underexplored (HVPT, shadowing, embodied pronunciation training, captioned video, accent imitation, and pronunciation self-assessment), are briefly described, with an emphasis on their pedagogical potential both inside and outside the classroom. Finally, the article considers the role of individual differences in L2 pronunciation development and proposes directions for future research in instructed SLA.

Acute effects of a daily dose of red wine may cause deterioration of visual function; however, there is limited information on healthy individuals. This study aims to investigate acute effects of daily red wine consumption on visual function and retinal microvasculature in healthy young adults through a randomized self-controlled design, and to explore the molecular mechanisms using an animal model. In healthy young adults’ study, 27 adults with follow-up at baseline, 0.5 h, and 2 h after consuming 300-mL of either red wine or water underwent blood biochemistry, visual function, morphology and blood flow of retinal and choroidal vasculatures, and cerebral blood flow (CBF) evaluation. Acute red wine consumption caused abnormal changes in retinal function (mERG) that preceded changes in vision. Macular vessel diameter index (VDI) increased significantly at 0.5 h, but decreased significantly at 2 h, despite increased regional CBF following red wine consumption, which was consistent with increased choroidal thickness and decreased retinal thickness. Animal experiments conducted on Brown Norway rats demonstrated a significant decrease in retinal VDI and vessel area density (VAD) associated with increased ROS production following red wine administration, as well as decreased eNOS and increased ET-1 levels in the retina. Consequently, red wine consumption caused abnormal changes in retinal function and microvascular constriction in healthy young adults, and an animal model suggested that the underlying mechanism may involve the regulation of eNOS and ET-1 levels in the retina. These findings imply the potential detrimental effects of drinking habits on individuals with retinal ischemic diseases.

We characterize the subsets E of a metric space X with doubling measure whose distance function to some negative power $\operatorname{dist}(\cdot,E)^{-\alpha}$ belongs to the Muckenhoupt A1 class of weights in X. To this end, we introduce the weakly porous sets in this setting, and show that, along with certain doubling-type conditions for the sizes of the largest E-free holes, these sets characterize the mentioned A1-property. We exhibit examples showing the optimality of these conditions, and simplify them in the particular case where the underlying measure satisfies a qualitative annular decay property. In addition, we use some of these distance functions as a new and simple method to explicitly construct doubling weights in ${\mathbb R}^n$ that do not belong to $A_\infty.$

Family meals are positively associated with healthier diets among children and parents. We aimed to deepen the understanding of these relationships by exploring the associations between shared meals and dietary quality among children, fathers, and mothers. A subset of parent-child dyads (296 children aged 3 to 6 years, 103 fathers, 293 mothers) from the DAGIS Intervention baseline assessment were included in this cross-sectional study. The parents reported how often they shared meals with the child and filled in a food frequency questionnaire assessing their child’s and their own food consumption. A Healthy Food Intake Index (HFII) describing dietary quality was calculated for all family members. We used linear regression to investigate the associations between shared meals and the HFII of the children, fathers, and mothers. Models were adjusted for child’s age and gender, parent’s age and educational level, and number of children in the household. Children whose fathers reported less frequently sharing a weekend lunch with the child had a lower HFII (B estimate −1.58, 95% CI −2.66; −0.50). The association remained close to statistical significance with adjustments (B estimate −0.99, 95% CI −2.17, 0.19). A less frequently shared weekend lunch was also borderline significantly associated with lower HFII among the fathers (adjusted model, B estimate −1.13, 95% CI −2.30; 0.04). Fathers should be encouraged to share meals with their family, since it might have a role in the dietary quality of both children and fathers. Future studies should recognize fathers as important contributors to a healthy home food environment.