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Poststructural interview analysis: Politicizing "personhood"
No full textThis Appendix introduces a new poststructural approach to interview analysis. It outlines seven closely related processes that address the following questions:
• precisely what is said in the interview?
• how was it or is it possible to say those things?
• which networks of relations (discursive practices) are relevant to the interview topic?
• what do the selected “things said” produce as “subjects”, “objects” and “places”?
• how do the interviewers and interviewees problematize “what they are, what they do, and the world in which they live” (Foucault, 1986: 10)?
• which “things said” put in question pervasive ways of thinking?
• what political consequences follow from interviewers’ selection and distribution practices?Carol Bacchi and Jennifer Bonha
Bernini (s)venduto o le scarse fortune della scultura barocca
No full textIl contributo esamina la fortuna critica e commerciale di Bernini e, più in generale della scultura barocca, nella Roma di Gabriele D'Annunzi
Ordered assembly of molecular structures based on non-covalent interaction between aromatic rings with oposite electronic distribution.
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Squamotransitional cell carcinoma of the vagina: diagnosis and clinical management: a literature review starting from a rare case report.
No full textPathol Oncol Res. 2011 Mar;17(1):149-53. Epub 2010 May 30.
Squamotransitional cell carcinoma of the vagina: diagnosis and clinical management: a literature review starting from a rare case report.
Patrelli TS, Silini EM, Berretta R, Thai E, Gizzo S, Bacchi Modena A, Nardelli GB.
SourceOb/Gyn Clinic, University of Parma, Parma, Italy. [email protected]
Abstract
Primary squamotransitional cell carcinoma (STCC) is rare squamous cell tumor variant resembling transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the urinary tract. STCC occurs rarely in the vagina and its clinical and pathological correlates are poorly known. We report a unique case of a 66-year-old Italian woman with STCC of the vagina. A biopsy of the tumor was performed. The tumor qualified as a STCC. Following biopsy, the patient underwent radical hysterectomy (Piver's III-type) with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, upper colpectomy, appendicectomy, peritoneal cytology, and lymphadenectomy. The patient is now healthy without evidence of recurrence at 30 months after surgery. Pathologically, cytoarchitectural characteristics distinguish this histotype (STCC) from conventional squamous cell carcinoma of the genital tract. The cytokeratin staining pattern (CK7 positive and CK20 negative), the p63 expression and the positivity for p16ink4a and high-risk HPV are the main elements of differential diagnosis. We suggest that STCC of the vagina should be treated by radical surgery, possibly followed by adjuvant therapy based on staging results and should receive a long-term follow-up
Copula-Based Modeling of Flood Control Reservoirs
No full textCopulas are shown in this paper to provide an effective strategy to describe the statistical dependence between peak flow discharge and flood volume featuring hydrographs forcing a flood control reservoir. A 52 year time series of flow discharges observed in the Panaro River (Northern Italian Apennines) is used to fit an event-based bivariate distribution and to support time-continuous modeling of a flood control reservoir, located online along the river system. With regard to reservoir performances, a method aimed at estimating the bivariate return period is analytically developed, by exploiting the derived distribution theory and a simplified routing scheme. In this approach, the return period is that of the peak flow discharge released downstream from the reservoir. Therefore, in order to verify the reliability of the proposed method, a nonparametric version of its frequency distribution is assessed by means of continuous simulation statistics. Copula derived and nonparametric distributions of the downstream peak flow discharge are found to be in satisfactory agreement. Finally, a comparison of bivariate return period estimates carried out by using alternative approaches is illustrated
"Strunt alt hvad du orerar" [Elektronisk resurs] : Carl Michael Bellman, ordensretoriken och Bacchi Orden
No full textThe 1760's and 1770's saw the emergence of numerous clubs, orders and societies in Stockholm. One of the most extraordinary expressions of this phenomenon was Carl Michael Bellman's Bacchi Orden, a series of semi-public dramatic entertainments chronicling the exploits of the members of Bacchi Orden, a fictional society enrolling several of Stockholm's most notorious drunkards and dedicated to the celebration of Bacchus. Bellman's parodic perspective stands in marked contrast to the self-professed virtuous undertakings of Stockholm's contemporary clubs and orders, whose members were recruited from the social and economic elites and professional and artisanal classes. The main purpose of the dissertation was to study the ceremonial rhetorical practices of Bacchi Orden - speeches, processions and other features designed to enhance the members' loyalty to the society's chosen ideal - and compare them to similar rhetorical traits in several orders and societies of the era in Stockholm to understand what made Bellman's parody work as an entertainment.The dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter introduces Bacchi Orden as a parodic and dramatic work and the eighteenth-century associations as cultural and social institutions. The second chapter outlines the use of ceremonial rhetoric in a number of orders and societies in Stockholm contemporary with Bacchi Orden. Through a combined chronological and thematic approach, the third chapter examines recurring rhetorical patterns in Bellman's parody and the rhetorical implications these patterns might have signaled to his audicence.The ceremonial rhetorical practices of Bacchi Orden may be interpreted as parodying rhetorical commonplaces occuring in all the examined orders' pledges to uphold certain virtues for the benefit of the Swedish nation. This system of virtues - with moderation, patriotism and diligence as cornerstones - is put to parodic use in Bacchi Orden through the different breaches of decorum Bellman allows his characters to act out in their doomed endeavors to combine ceremonial protocol and severe intoxication. As a contrast, friendly and frank companionship among the selected few is the one positive virtue that Bellman's audience can infer from his mock-society. This particular tenet became central to subsequent social clubs, which used Bellman's fiction as a template for their ceremonies.</p
Dinuclear arene ruthenium dichloro complexes designed for host-guest propensity
No full textThe synthesis and the crystal structures of several wheel-and-axle metal-organic (waamo) complexes are studied. The design of such systems is basically constituted by the binding between two Ru(II)(p-cymene) Cl-2 units (wheels) and an organic spacer (axle), bearing pyridinic and/or cyano functions. Particular attention is given to the solid-state organization of the waamo complexes and to their propensity to create acceptors sites for guest species The inverted piano-stool motif, a characteristic synthon of half-sandwich ruthenium units, is always observed here, generating well defined layers of host molecules. Both polycatenated and host-guest systems were generated in order to achieve a compact packing
Le Bernin et la sculpture baroque à Rome
No full textMonografia su Bernini e la scultura del suo temp
"Strunt alt hvad du orerar" : Carl Michael Bellman, ordensretoriken och Bacchi Orden
No full textThe 1760's and 1770's saw the emergence of numerous clubs, orders and societies in Stockholm. One of the most extraordinary expressions of this phenomenon was Carl Michael Bellman's Bacchi Orden, a series of semi-public dramatic entertainments chronicling the exploits of the members of Bacchi Orden, a fictional society enrolling several of Stockholm's most notorious drunkards and dedicated to the celebration of Bacchus. Bellman's parodic perspective stands in marked contrast to the self-professed virtuous undertakings of Stockholm's contemporary clubs and orders, whose members were recruited from the social and economic elites and professional and artisanal classes. The main purpose of the dissertation was to study the ceremonial rhetorical practices of Bacchi Orden - speeches, processions and other features designed to enhance the members' loyalty to the society's chosen ideal - and compare them to similar rhetorical traits in several orders and societies of the era in Stockholm to understand what made Bellman's parody work as an entertainment. The dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter introduces Bacchi Orden as a parodic and dramatic work and the eighteenth-century associations as cultural and social institutions. The second chapter outlines the use of ceremonial rhetoric in a number of orders and societies in Stockholm contemporary with Bacchi Orden. Through a combined chronological and thematic approach, the third chapter examines recurring rhetorical patterns in Bellman's parody and the rhetorical implications these patterns might have signaled to his audicence. The ceremonial rhetorical practices of Bacchi Orden may be interpreted as parodying rhetorical commonplaces occuring in all the examined orders' pledges to uphold certain virtues for the benefit of the Swedish nation. This system of virtues - with moderation, patriotism and diligence as cornerstones - is put to parodic use in Bacchi Orden through the different breaches of decorum Bellman allows his characters to act out in their doomed endeavors to combine ceremonial protocol and severe intoxication. As a contrast, friendly and frank companionship among the selected few is the one positive virtue that Bellman's audience can infer from his mock-society. This particular tenet became central to subsequent social clubs, which used Bellman's fiction as a template for their ceremonies
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