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Per un superamento delle ‘due culture’. I nuovi albi illustrati di divulgazione per l’infanzia e l’intreccio possibile e fecondo tra scienza e arte
Get PDFIn our modern world, there is a clash between scientific research and the humanities, between the exact, experimental, objective knowledge offered us by the natural sciences and the unprovable but touching insights, enlightenments, and awareness acquired through literature, poetry, art, philosophy, and our sensitive, emotional immersion in the world. The two kinds of knowledge are usually kept separate or deemed opposite in our Western culture, but they come together in an illuminating way within and thanks to a new genre of picturebook for children that has been spreading at an international level over the last decade and demands critical analysis
Attribution of the “sign of the trapezius hypotrophy” to the clinician Cesare Federici: historical evidence in the scripts of Umberto Gabbi and Fabio Rivalta
Get PDFComprehensive study of superficial palmar arch – A revisit
Get PDFHand vasculature can be affected by various traumatic and non-traumatic pathologies. A precise understanding of arterial anatomy is pertinent to preoperative diagnosis, operative procedure and post operative outcome as the vascular pattern of hand has a wide range of variations. Considering recent interest, the present study was undertaken i) to observe the morphology of superficial palmar arch and ii) to establish clinico-anatomical correlation of such variations. Sixty-four cadaveric hands were dissected. Superficial palmar arches were classified based on morphology of arches into three types and different subtypes. The variations of superficial palmar arch and their digital branches were noted. Complete arches were more prevalent in present study, observed among 76.56% hands and incomplete arches found in 21.88% hands. Another type was found as combined type, in 1.56% hands. Classical picture of superficial palmar arch was found in 29.69% in right side and 28.12% in left side. The rest of cases were variable. Digital supply varied according to different types and subtypes of superficial palmar arch. Hand ischemia after radial artery cannulation is a rare but potentially devastating complication. Awareness of variations regarding circulatory dynamics of hand is worth knowing in successful planning of surgery involving palm to achieve least complications
The roles of sodium nitroprusside, salicylic acid, and methyl jasmonate as hold solutions on vase life of Gerbera jamesonii ‘Sun Spot’
Get PDFTThe present study investigates the roles of nitroprusside (SNP), salicylic acid (SA), methyl jasmonate (MJ), and their interaction with 8-hydroxyquinoline sulfate (8-HQS) in regulating the peroxidase activity (POX), water uptake, the relative water content (RWC), the contents of malondialdehyde (MDA), soluble sugar, proline, and protein content in the petals and the stem bending of Gerbera jamesonii ‘Sun Spot’ cut flowers. Cut flowers were treated with various concentrations (50, 100, and 200 µM) of hold-solutions containing 8-HQS, SA, MJ, and SNP. Hold solutions were used alone or in combination with 100 µM 8-HQS for 24 h. Distilled water was used as control and sucrose (4%, w/v) was added to all solutions. The findings showed that 50 µM SA+ 100 µM 8-HQS markedly improved the RWC, the contents of proline, anthocyanin, carotenoid, protein, and soluble sugar, and activities of POX in the petals and markedly reduced water loss and the contents of MDA in the petals, compared with other treatments, especially the control. Meanwhile, the combination of plant growth regulators (PGR) with 8-HQS markedly improved positive indexes than use alone PGR. This phenomenon seemed to be due to more absorption of PGR. Among different concentrations of PGR, 50 μM is the most effective treatment for the improvement of the vase life of Gerbera jamesonii cut flowers. The results also demonstrated that SA+8-HQS improves the vase life of gerbera cut flowers by enhancing the membrane stability and water retaining capacity as well as increasing proline, antioxidant activity, and pigment contents
Nota a Verg., Aen. 10.800: El escudo como clave de lectura del enfrentamiento desigual entre Eneas y Lauso
Get PDFThe motif of the unfair fight in the encounter between Lausus and Aeneas finds forceful expression in Vergil’s prolepsis (mox illos sua fata manent maiore sub hoste, Aen. 10.438), as well as in Aeneas’ concerned warning (… maioraque viribus audes,10.811). In this article, we discuss another sign of asymmetry: the variation in the nomenclature of both character’s shields: clipeus vs. parma
From Aesthetic to Epistemic Structures and back: Complex Dynamics between Art and Science
Get PDFWe often forget that art and science are not dissociated, nor indeed antagonistic, but rather allow a creative interplay to emerge from which arises the generation of new forms of knowledge (Miller [1995]: 190). According to Parkinson, “the analogy between the new painting and the new physics consists in that elements formerly held as cognitive or conceptual a-prioris enter as constitutive factors in the very structure of the edifices of art and science” (Parkinson [2008]: 161). How exactly does it work? If for us nowadays it’s relatively easy to think of the mimetic moment of art as a prelude to geometry, it is not so trivial to claim how higher-order representational symbolic epistemic structures (h.o.r.s.e.s.) arise from the lifeworld, or simply how both interact together. The aim of this paper is to stake out the complexity of processes going from the lifeworld and, before that, from the life of pictorial language, to h.o.r.s.e.s., in order to apply this model to further enquiries. In the first part, we will reactivate the Kantian interdependence between aesthetics and epistemology via the intersubjective dimension, in order to understand how the shaping of forms and the figuring-out patterns remain an essential component of any epistemic structure as such. In the second part, moving from Hacking, Husserl and Foucault, we will look into the way in which the evidence of symbolic structures can be maintained even alongside a genetic conception of science. Art plays an essential role in such a conception, in that it opens new horizons of figurativity in which new shapes can arise and new kinds of objectivities (Gegenständlichkeiten) can be accepted as belonging to our epistemic experience of the world
The Sublime in Lutoslawski’s Three Poems of Henri Michaux (1961-63)
Get PDFThe sublime in classical aesthetics arrived at a famous formulation with Kant (CPJ, Part I, Section 1, Book 2, §23–29) as a subjective quality more elevated than beauty, linked to commotion and respect followed by reaffirmation. However, a new interpretation of the Schopenhauerian sublime is necessary in its transforming appreciation of the importance of this feeling as a psychological state, which is not yet metaphysical as usually understood, when dealing with struggling situations without resolution (Vandenabeele [2015]: 128). Here the focus will be on a variety of the sonorous sublime in contemporary music, which finds resonances with Schopenhauer’s sublime: Witold Lutoslawski’s Three Poems of Henri Michaux (1961–63) for mixed chorus and orchestra focuses on unpredictability and form-contrariness, “picturing” surrealist texts of uncertainty in Pensées, violence in Le Grand Combat, and resignation in Repos dans Malheur (Michaux [1928], [1938])
Alcune osservazioni sui personaggi del Misoumenos di Menandro
Get PDFThis paper deals with the characterization and dramatic function of some personaein Menander’s Misoumenos. More specifically, the presentation of Thrasonides as a milesamatoriuscan be supported by a comparison with the behaviour of Charisios in Epitr. 879-900. Theportrait of Thrasonides as the reverse of the traditional comic type presentssome echoes of the final lament of the Sophoclean Herakles (Tr. 1058-1075). Simultaneously, the pallakeKrateia clearly subverts the submission to the soldier who bought her, as a comparison with Ajax’s Tecmessa may highlight. Finally, Chrysis should not be identified with Krateia’s nurse, especially on account of her name; the role of the nurse might be attributed to Simiche