28 research outputs found
Intertexts and dialogues in the poetry of Titos Patrikios: from Greek antiquity to modern Greek literature
No full textThis thesis discusses the relationship of the poetry of Titos Patrikios to ancient and Modern Greek poetry as well as his treatment of Greek myth. The dialogue that Titos Patrikios has with his precursors has, as a starting point, the lyric poets of Greek antiquity. Archilochos from Paros and Pindar from Thebes are the two major poets to have an impact on Patrikios’ poetics as an artist and as an individual. What is more, the appropriation of Greek myth may be either direct or otherwise provided via the prism of another author. The reception of the mythological leitmotivs in Patrikios recalls the reception of the myth by the French-Algerian writer Albert Camus and by other Modern Greek poets of the twentieth century, such as Kostas Karyotakis, Constantinos Cavafy and George Seferis. This is a comparative approach therefore between modern and ancient Greek literature, taking also into consideration European literature with regards to the myth
CD38+ Liver Stellate Cells in Chronic Hepatitis C Patients with Fibrosis
No full textBackground: Approximately 3% of the world population is infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV). Protein of hepatitis C virus modulates apoptosis and steatosis, liver cell injury, activates liver stellate cells and liver fibrosis. Hepatitis C virus infection will cause injury to the hepatocytes. This injury to the hepatocyte will activate liver stellate cells. Stellate cells have a huge role in the development of liver fibrosis. The objective of this study is to evaluate the difference of active CD38+ liver stellate cells in various degree of fibrosis as well as its relation with aspartate transaminase (AST), alanine transaminase (ALT), and quantitative amount of hepatitis c virus ribonucleic acid (HCV RNA) in chronic hepatitis C.Method: This study was a cross-sectional study performed in 32 patients with chronic hepatitis C who had undergone liver USG, did not suffer from hepatoma, had undergone liver biopsy. Paraffin block of patients’ liver tissue was further stained using Haematoxylin and Eosin technique to identify the Metavir degree which is categorized into mild-moderate or severe degree. Special staining is performed to evaluate liver stellate cells that were then counted in averagely in five fields of view.Results: In this study, we found significant difference in the amount of CD38+ stellate liver cells between severe and mild-moderate fibrosis (p 0.001), there was no association between CD38+ stellate liver cells with AST (p = 0.2) or ALT (p = 0.7), and there was association between CD38+ stellate liver cells with quantitative HCV RNA (r = -0.372).Conclusion: Total amount of CD38+ stellate liver cells in severe fibrosis was higher compared to the total amount of CD38+ liver stellate cells in mild-moderate fibrosis. There was no association between the value of AST, ALT, and quantitative HCV RNA with the number of CD38+ stellate liver cells.</jats:p
City Usage Analysis using Social Media
No full textOver the last few years, social media have become part of the daily life of many people, leading scientists to study their users and the data they produce in numerous contexts. For instance, geo-enabled social media provide us with the means to study the dynamics and features of large geographical areas. In this thesis, our goal is to leverage social media to study cities, and their usage by people of different origin (e.g. citizens vs. tourists) and demographics. We design and implement a system that uses Twitter and Instagram as data sources, defining and extracting several features about the city and its users, such as finding points of interests, paths, differentiating users in gender, age, and their role in the city. We also build a proof of concept visualization tool that allows non-scientific users to analyze a city using our extracted data. The system is used for an in-depth analysis, where we compare the usage, as observed through the lens of social media, of cities like Amsterdam, London, Paris, and Rome over a three week period on both Twitter and Instagram. We show that, through social media, it is possible to observe differences in usage patterns, both in the temporal sense, but also in regards to the places that are visited in the city.Web Information SystemsElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Sulla problematica dei prestiti Bizantini e Neo-Greci nei dialetti Italo-Albanesi
No full textThis paper examines, for the first time, the problem of Byzantine andModern Greek loanwords into the dialects of the Albanian-speaking villages of Southern Italy and Sicily.The author defines the periods during which these loanwords were introduced into the aforesaid dialects, and the consonant and vowel changes, these loanwords have undergone
Gemeinsame motive in der italienisch-albanischen und der griechischen Volksdichtung
No full textThe close relations and similarities between the Greek folk poetry and thefolk poetry of the Albanians of South Italy and Sicily are discussed for thefirst time in this paper.Six common motifs are pointed out, among which, the soldier’s fall fromthe horse and his death, is particularly examined in this study.The author believes that the initial core of this theme is very old andgoes back to the type of “philippique” song which revives during the Byzantineperiod with the military life along the border-land of the empire, and acquiresin the long run, the dramatic content of a ballad
Análisis metaliterario de El chico de la última fila de Juan Mayorga
No full textMetalinguistic, metaliterary and metatheatrical resources stand out in the work of Juan Mayorga as a manifestation of a reflective and self-conscious writing style.One of his metaliterary principal work is The boy at the back, since it presents a complex and precise formal elaboration in which we witness the staging of a writing exercise (the drama within the drama). The use of these self-reflective resources by the author makes the audience to adopt a critical and reflective posture and represents a renewal and commitment in contemporary dramaturgy.Los recursos metalingüisticos, metaliterarios y metateatrales destacan en la obra de Juan Mayorga como manifestación de un estilo de escritura reflexivo y autoconsciente. Una de sus obras esencialmente metaliteraria es el El chico de la última fila, ya que presenta una compleja y precisa elaboración formal en la que asistimos a la puesta en escena de un ejercicio de escritura (la obra dentro de la obra). La utilización de estos recursos autorreflexivos por parte del autor obliga al espectador a adoptar una postura crítica y reflexiva y representa una renovación y compromiso en la dramaturgia contemporánea
"Ráfagas de una campaña" (1962). Un texto recuperado de José-Miguel Ullán
No full textDuring summer 1962, a 17-years old José-Miguel Ullán took part in a Literacy Campaign organized by the University Service of Labour (Servicio Universitario del Trabajo, SUT), integrated in the Spanish University Union (Sindicato Español Universitario, SEU). He worked and lived together with the people of El Almendral, a very small village next to the town of Zafarraya, in the province of Granada. Shortly after his arrival, he began to write a series of short articles, or “bursts”, sharing his impressions and experiences were published in the local newspapers Ideal during July and August 1962. These juvenile texts, the first ones known to have been signed by the author, remained lost inside the pages of a provincial daily and had never been cited when studying the works and evolution of Ullán, who then became a renowned poet from Salamanca. This paper focuses on its recovery and analysis.En el verano de 1962 José-Miguel Ullán, con 17 años, participó en una Campaña de Alfabetización que el Servicio Universitario de Trabajo (SUT), dependiente del Sindicato Español Universitario (SEU), realizó en la provincia de Granada. Trabajó y convivió con los vecinos de El Almendral, un pequeño núcleo de población anejo al municipio de Zafarraya y al poco de llegar comenzó a escribir unos breves artículos o «ráfagas» contando sus impresiones y experiencias, que fue publicando el diario granadino Ideal durante los meses de julio y agosto. Nunca se habían citado dichos textos juveniles, perdidos en las páginas de un periódico provincial, al estudiar la obra del poeta salmantino, los primeros conservados, cuya recuperación y análisis se realiza en este trabajo
Harnessing heterogeneous social data to explore, monitor, and visualize urban dynamics
No full textUnderstanding the complexity of urban dynamics requires the combination of information from multiple city data sources. Besides traditional urban data, geo-localized social media provide human-generated content, which may reflect in (near) real time the activities people undertake in cities. The challenge is to devise methods and tools that enable the integration and analysis of such heterogeneous sources of information. Motivated by this, we developed SocialGlass, a novel web-based application framework to explore, monitor, and visualize urban dynamics. By deploying our platform in three real-world use cases, the paper elaborates on the benefits and limitations of integrating social media with related city datasets. It further shows how the inherent spatiotemporal, demographic, and contextual diversities of social data influence the interpretations of (dynamic) urban phenomena.Architectural Engineering and TechnologyArchitecture and The Built Environmen
CHAINels: Network Visualization
No full textThe report concluding 2 months of work at CHAINels for the Bachelorproject. The project consisted of making a visualization of a business network, and design a new chain (friend) recommendation algorithm.Software TechnologyElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
A quarry for the construction of a Roman camp next to the Celtiberian city of Deza during the Sertorian Wars (Soria, Spain)
No full textThrough an interdisciplinary investigation, a hastily exploited individual quarry of limestone is studied. The quarry was made all at once for the construction of a nearby military camp to improve the defence of a remarkable Celtiberian city during the Sertorian Wars. This is a perfect Roman military engineering project: on the one hand, the geological deposit was exploited selectively, differentiating the areas of extraction of large and small blocks of stone, according to the needs of the work. On the other hand, the material was transported by means of small roads along a carefully studied and laid out road of about 600 m in length and of clear Roman origin. The archaeological evidence shows the existence of a large camp that, according to previous surveys, adopts the known classical models of rectangular plans and the typology of Roman construction. In the camp environment, there are enough scattered remains that seem to point to a battlefield. All this indicates the importance of the primitive Celtiberian settlement, which is justified by an analysis of the territory by the existence of springs of high guarantee for human water supply, livestock and irrigation. The existence of silver mines is another added economic value. Due to the predominance in the monetary findings of the mint of Titiakos, the possibility is raised that the Celtiberian city was linked to the ethnic group of the Titos indicating their active participation during the Sertorian Wars. © 2023, The Author(s)
