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Limba română la NTNU în anul universitar 2010-2016
No full textThe Romanian language lectureship in Trondheim was established on June, 5th, 2008. As a novelty the optional course in Romanian language made its debut in January 2009, for the spring semester of NTNU. The course is intended for students from all specializations. It is divided into Romanian 1 and Romanian 2, each of them holding 7. 5 credits. The course is concluded with an oral examination and a short dictation as means of assessment during the semester and the final four hours of the written exam. The present paper aims to explore the assimilation ofRomanian language by the foreign students in the written exams from December 2010 and May 2011, followed by a grammar analysis of the errors identified in the written tasks of the foreign students (the present indicative, the subjunctive, the definite article, the gender of the adjectives, the number of the nouns and of the adjectives, the preposition, the construction of the genitive/dative). At the end we share a brief unconventional history of the lectureship. Romanian Language at NTNU, 2010-2011
The Romanian language lectureship in Trondheim was established on June, 5th, 2008. As a novelty the optional course in Romanian language made its debut in January 2009, for the spring semester of NTNU. The course is intended for students from all specializations. It is divided into Romanian 1 and Romanian 2, each of them holding 7. 5 credits. The course is concluded with an oral examination and a short dictation as means of assessment during the semester and the final four hours of the written exam. The present paper aims to explore the assimilation ofRomanian language by the foreign students in the written exams from December 2010 and May 2011, followed by a grammar analysis of the errors identified in the written tasks of the foreign students (the present indicative, the subjunctive, the definite article, the gender of the adjectives, the number of the nouns and of the adjectives, the preposition, the construction of the genitive/dative). At the end we share a brief unconventional history of the lectureship. 
BUILDING FOR PLANT CONSERVATION – A CASE STUDY FROM BUCHAREST, ROMANIA
No full textIn the big and crowded cities of the world, a large number of rooftops have been transformed into living green areas, small or large, extensive, semi-intensive or intensive, with different uses in the lives of citizens. This contribution presents an example of a small, intensive rooftop garden, created on the rooftop terrace of a private house, in the city of Bucharest, with the aim of conserving plants and reconnecting people with nature. The terrace, located at a height of 10 m, on an area of 40 sqm, was built in 2011, using the ZinCo Technology, which ensures high water storage and a variety of substrates and depths. The current floristic composition (2023) includes 55 taxa of vascular plants (51 non-native species and 4 native species), belonging to 31 families of angiosperms and 3 families of gymnosperms: annual plants, geophytes, perennial herbaceous plants, subshrubs, shrubs, and trees. The criteria used in the selection and grouping of plants pertain to ecological preferences, tolerance to stressful environmental factors, plant importance, growth rate, low maintenance, spatial and seasonal diversity. The results provide an overview of the green rooftop system technology, the development of taxa introduced during a decade since the establishment of the garden and highlight the plants and combinations of plants suitable for local conditions
Cyborg networks: freedom through data with open source and implantable devices
No full textImplantable computing technologies are the blueprint for the ongoing process of cyborgization. Already with the present devices, design decisions and computational issues blend together with a living organism, so that our health, for example, depends on well-adjusted information security, which requires constant work and decisions by many actors of different expertise. This means that implantable technologies form important sociotechnical systems. I will explore cyborg vulnerabilities found in sociotechnical systems, but take seriously the proposed development model of open-source technologies, promising existing and future cyborgs more autonomy and freedom. However, I want to take this vision further. Given the number of technologies that matter in the context of cyborgs, it becomes necessary to look at a wider application of open source, needing more experts and quicker data exchange. While offering a technological solution to make the data exchange possible, granting the users freedoms and autonomy, I also find it important to address how the debates around open source move from software to a large-scale social consideration, should the solution be implemented
INTEGRITY, COURAGE, SCEPTICISM
No full textDoes our inability to always self–attribute epistemic courage when we manifest it (a limited kind of reflective scepticism about epistemic courage) conflict with the virtue of integrity? I articulate this problem, and argue that it can be eschewed if we construe integrity along meliorist rather than perfectionist lines
The protective effects of glutathione plus silymarin on hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injuries produced in the kidney and lung tissues
No full textHere we examine the efficacy of pretreatment with glutathione (GSH) plus silymarin (SM) on kidney and lung injury as a distant organ after hepatic ischemia reperfusion (IR). Rats were randomly separated into five groups: Sham, IR, GSH-IR, SM-IR, and SM plus GSH-IR. The treatment groups took 100 mg/kg of GSH, SM, or a combination of GSH plus SM 60 minutes prior to IR. The groups excluding sham were exposed to 30 minutes of ischemia and 24 hours of reperfusion. The rats were euthanized after 24 hours; blood, kidney, and lung specimens were gathered to perform analyses and pathology studies. As a result, serum creatinine and blood urea nitrogen (BUN) were significantly elevated in the IR group compared to sham. GSH administration prior to hepatic IR statistically declined IR-induced elevations of creatinine and BUN; likewise, creatinine and BUN were lower by an average of 19.8% and 54% in the SM plus GSH-IR group compared to the IR group, respectively. GSH, SM, and SM plus GSH pretreatments significantly reduced the kidney histopathological damage. Lung histopathologic damage scores on hepatic IR-induced lung injury were higher in the IR group than in the sham group, but lung pathological damage scores in the SM plus GSH-IR group were statistically low according to the IR group. Application of GSH plus SM before liver IR may be a potential therapy to mitigate remote injury of the kidney and lung resulting from hepatic IR
R. K. Narayan’s (Post-)Colonial Perspective: Malgudi in Its Humour
No full textR. K. Narayan (1906-2001) is considered one of the founding fathers of Indian writing in English, along with Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand and G.V. Desani, and is best known for creating the imaginary town of Malgudi. Another important feature of his fiction is what both critics and readers call a gentle or light-hearted humour. Humour has often been used to both subvert and survive various forms of political oppression (see Ştefănescu, Tripathi and Chettri). In Narayan, Malgudi, the centre of the action, is both a colonial and a post-colonial town, created and recreated over years and even decades. Since Malgudi can be considered a metonymy of India (see Mukherjee), Narayan’s use of humour as a subversive device, together with his skilful examination of the cultural and colonial context, can be perceived as a poignant criticism of the British colonial system and what it entailed, specifically the suppression of what constitutes ‘Indianness’, the Indian way of life and cultural values. On the other hand, the light-hearted and subversive irony allows Narayan to offer a more profound insight into the human nature as such, while juxtaposing a colonial and post-colonial context
Of deep time and slow violence: anthropo-scenic timespaces and the chronotopes of climate theatre
No full textRebellion’s “The Sea Is Rising and so Are We” (2019); and Chris Rapley and Duncan Macmillan’s 2071 (2014), showing how each uses theatrical chronotopes to transform deep This article explores how contemporary climate theatre navigates the distorted scales of the Anthropocene and the climate crisis through its unique aesthetics – embodiment, spatiality, temporality, and reciprocity.Previous literature on climate theatre has largely discussed its anthropomorphism and anthropocentrism in relation to global warming. Building on ecodramaturgical frameworks, this article draws on ecocritical appropriations of Mikhail Bakhtin’schronotope to investigate how theatrical time and space make the abstract nature of climate change tangible. The argument posits that chronotopes of climate theatre are crucial for understanding how contemporary theatre and performance tackle scalar derangement. By drawing on interdisciplinary approaches from environmental humanities, performance and theatre studies, and posthumanism, the study situates itself at the intersections of performance art, political theatre, aesthetic theatre, drama, and environmentalism, examining how different theatrical formats use theatrical ‘timespaces’ to address the spatio-temporal complexities of the Anthropocene. It discusses Ella Hickson’s Oil (2016); April De Angelis’s Extinct (2021); Extinction time, slow violence, and the dispersed nature of climate change into the ‘hyper-present’ of the stage
Post-historicism, post-territorialism, and the problem of scale: a metacritical appraisal of the literary-theoretical paradigm of ‘planetary time’
No full textWai Chee Dimock’s literary-theoretical paradigm of ‘planetary time’ neatly fits the epithet ‘post-historicist/post-territorialist’ for its simultaneous repudiation of historicist and nationalist approaches to literary critical practice. Opposed to the absolute jurisdiction of temporal periods and spatial territories as literary analytic units, the ‘post-historicist/post-territorialist’ paradigm seeks to tapinto the spatiotemporal entanglements of literary criticism to produce analyses of literature that trace the transtemporal and extraterritorial linkages forged by literary processes and their attendant actors. The article primarily focuses on Dimock’s literary analytic scale of ‘planetary time’, an extended temporal scale that, according to Dimock, is intrinsically coupled to a spatial scale of planetary dimensions. While subjecting Dimock’s literary-theoretical approach to a sustained metacritique, the article also intermittently engages with closely related paradigms that could shed more light on the nuances of literary analytic scales. Two analytic scales appropriated from the field of historiography – Fernand Braudel’s extended longue durée and Carlo Ginzburg’s episodic (micro)history – will not only lend an interdisciplinary perspective to this metacritical study, but also underscore thespatiotemporal implications of scale in literary criticism. These insights could help recalibrate literary critical practice by introducing greater self-reflexivity in its deployment of scale
Finding a space to call home in Tayari Jones’s Leaving Atlanta
No full textTayari Jones, one of the more memorable contemporary African American voices, debuted at the beginning of the 20th century with her novel Leaving Atlanta (2002). She did not gain notable recognition until the publication of An American Marriage (2018) a decade later. Nevertheless, a number of scholars praised her first effort and included it in famous African American critical anthologies as an example of the voice of a new generation. In her debut while she tackles a painful episode in American history, the Atlanta Child Murders, Jones achieves a multivocal child-led narrative that supplies a new perspective on the events, which does not take as a starting point statistics and easy solutions. Tasha, Rodney, and Octavia are left to navigate their oft dangerous and difficult social and private environment as the threat looms over their lives as an ‘unspeakable’ and invisible presence. Each of them becomes a victim to the spaces that predetermine their existence. The present article evaluates the characters’ ability to find a space that they would consider a home in order to reach conclusions about general belonging patterns, coping mechanisms, and available alleys for escap
„ALLER AUGEN WAREN AUF IHN GERICHTET“ – EINE ÜBERSETZUNGSBEZOGENE ANALYSE SOMATISCHER AUSDRÜCKE IN JOANNE ROWLINGS HARRY POTTER UND DER STEIN DER WEISEN AUS PERSPEKTIVE DER KOGNITIVEN LINGUISTIK
No full textIn this paper, the translation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher\u27s Stone is analysed with respect to the degree of equivalence in translating somatic expressions from the perspective of usage-based Cognitive Linguistics. Thus, it is demonstrated that translations may conceptually diverge from the source text to varying extents, provided that the target language does not encompass these cultural linguistic frame conditions. Cognitive Linguistics provides an appropriate theoretical and methodological framework for addressing phraseology-related issues in both language and translation studies. As such, sentence structures will be analysed in terms of Trajector-Landmarke relationships and conceptually-metaphorological considerations of Cognitive Linguistics