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Combining intersemiotic and interlingual translation in training programmes: A functional approach to museum audio description
Full text linkThis paper seeks to put forward a didactic proposal focused on museum audio description (AD) to be implemented with post-graduate students attending a translation studies course within a Languages and Communication programme. The aim is to raise students’ awareness of translation and accessibility practices in the cultural and creative industries and train specialised translators and describers. The proposal includes two different but complementary levels. On a more theoretical side, museum AD is introduced, both as a form of intersemiotic translation and as an interpretative tool in the museum’s wider communication framework. From a practical point of view, we draw on Mazur (2020), who exploited the functional model proposed by Nord (2018 [1997]) with her translation-oriented text analysis in the context of screen AD training. We suggest that it may also be adapted to serve as a guiding methodology for prospective museum translators and describers. In doing so, intersemiotic translation is combined with interlingual translation to train students to (1) audio describe specific artworks/artefacts in their first language (L1) and (2) translate the produced ADs into their second language (L2)
La valorizzazione delle aree montane: passato e nuovo periodo di programmazione a confronto in una verifica empirica
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Architecting for reuse: A software framework for automated negotiation
No full textIf agents are to negotiate automatically with one another they must share a negotiation mechanism, specifying what possible actions each party can take at any given time, when negotiation terminates and what the resulting agreements could be. The current state-of-the-art represents this as a negotiation protocol specifying the flow of messages. However, they omit other aspects of the rules of negotiation (such as obliging a participant to improve on a previous offer), requiring these to be represented implicitly in an agent's design, potentially resulting in compatibility, maintenance and re-usability problems. In this paper we propose an alternative approach, allowing all of the mechanism to be formal and explicit. We present (i) A taxonomy of declarative rules which can be used to capture a wide variety of negotiation mechanisms in a principled and well-structured way. (ii) A simple interaction protocol, which is able to support any mechanism which can be captured using the declarative rules. (iii) A software framework for negotiation, implemented in JADE [2] that allows agents to effectively participate in negotiations defined using our rule taxonomy and protocol
Pliocene-Quaternary sedimentation in the Northern Apennine Foredeep and related denudation
No full textThe deposits of the Pliocene-Quaternary foredeep of the Northern Apennine cover at present an area of 103,000 km2. The original boundaries of the basin are not known, since marginal deposits have been eroded, in particular those of the inner, south-western border. During Pliocene times the basin area has been reduced by thrust tectonics and the amount of shortening may be tentatively estimated.
The present volume of Pliocene and Quaternary sediments may be inferred with good approximation from the maps of the base of the Pliocene and of the Quaternary (base of the Hyalinea balthica Zone) successions. The Pliocene volume has been corrected adding the estimate of the underthrust sediments, while no correction has been attempted for the eroded marginal deposits. The estimates of 97,000 and 95,000 km3, reflecting the present volume of the Pliocene and Quaternary deposits, are therefore sensibly less than the volumes originally deposited.
Present volumes have been transformed in "net" (0% porosity) volumes, in order to obtain the relative net supply rates: 0.021 (Pliocene) and 0.047 (Quaternary) km3/a. Other not estimable factors (volume variations due to the weathering of silicates, loss of leached carbonates) may induce a probably not important understimate of the supply rates.
Available data allow an approximate estimate of the range of the net volume of the Holocene sediments deposited during the last 6000 a B.P. (221-276 km3) and of the relative net supply rate (0.037-0.046 km3/a), that is not significantly different from the Quaternary one.
Applying a porosity correction, these supply rates may be related to the Quaternary source area (128,000 km2) to obtain the relative denudation rates: 0.41-0.46 mm/a (Quaternary) and 0.36-0.51 mm/a (Holocene).
Present supply and denudation rates, deduced from the direct measurements of the bed load and suspended load of the apenninic and alpine rivers do not differ significantly from the Quaternary and Holocene ones.
Available data do not allow a reliable estimate of the Pliocene source area, and consequently of the Pliocene denudation rate. However, a minimum of 160,000-177,000 km3 has been eroded during Pliocene and Quaternary times. Assuming, as a working hypothesis, that the Pliocene source area did not significantly differ from the present one, an average thickness of 1240-1390 m could have been eroded since the beginning of Pliocene. This estimate is in agreement with the values obtained from the measurements of coalification of vegetal organic matter in the outcrops, and suggests that post-orogenic successions and "higher" thrust sheets may have been completely removed in vast areas
Versione italiana della "Scale for Interpersonal Behavior": fedeltà, stabilità e validità concorrente
No full textSearch for stomatolite-like structures in the martian environment
No full textAssuming that exchanges of forms of life could have occurred between Mars and Earth, we investigate where and how a future mission could detect stromatolite-like structures similar to the terrestrial ones. In the terrestrial fossil record, the presence of laminated structures may derive from biologic processes such as those originating stromatolites. Stromatolites are finely laminated, lithified microbial structures that may preserve traces of microorganisms (primarily prokaryotes) widespread in suitable aquatic habitats. We propose to select the sites where such laminated Mars rocks could exist, by an appropriate radar system
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