21 research outputs found
The other in a sand county almanac: Aldo Leopold's animals and his wild-animal ethic
No full textMuch philosophical attention has been devoted to “The Land Ethic,” especially by Anglo-American philosophers, but little has been paid to A Sand County Almanac as a whole. Read through the lens of continental philosophy, A Sand County Almanac promulgates an evolutionary-ecological world view and effects a personal self- and a species-specific Self-transformation in its audience. It’s author, Aldo Leopold, realizes these aims through descriptive reflection that has something in common with phenomenology-although Leopold was by no stretch of the imagination a phenomenologist. Consideration of human-animal intersubjectivity, thematized in A Sand County Almanac, brings to light the moral problem of hunting and killing animal subjects. Leopold does not confront that problem, but it is confronted and resolved by Jose Ortega y Gassett, Henry Beston, and Paul Shepard in terms of an appropriate human relationship with wild-animal Others. Comparison with the genuinely Other-based Leopold-Ortega-Beston-Shepard wild-animal ethic shows the purportedly Other-based human and possibly animal ethic of Emmanuel Levinas actually to be Same-based after all
Caracterización nutricional del pez nativo Eleotris picta
No full textThe spotted sleeper (Eleotris picta), a native fish of the tropical eastern Pacific, shows a promising nutritional profile for its potential use in aquaculture. This study evaluated its bromatological composition, including meat-to-bone ratio, protein, fat, carbohydrate, ash content, as well as amino acid and fatty acid profiles. A carcass yield of 88.4 ± 1.2% and fillet yield of 23.1 ± 12.6% were obtained, values comparable to those of commercial species such as Oreochromis niloticus, Oncorhynchus mykiss, and Ictalurus punctatus. On a dry matter basis, the fillet contained 77.1 ± 18.2% protein and 2.3 ± 1.3% lipids. Lysine content reached 13.3± 5.2%, surpassing that of other freshwater species. Additionally, the lipid profile showed 10.4 ± 0.3% fatty acids, with high levels of EPA and DHA. These results support the potential of E. pictaas a valuable alternative for the diversification of freshwater aquaculture species.La guabina manchada (Eleotris picta), pez nativo del Pacífico oriental tropical, muestra un perfil nutricional prometedor para su aprovechamiento en acuicultura. Este estudio evaluó su composición bromatológica, incluyendo proporción carne/hueso, contenidos de proteína, grasa, carbohidratos, cenizas, así como perfiles de aminoácidos y ácidos grasos. Se obtuvo un rendimiento en canal del 88.4 ± 1.2% y de filete del 23.1 ± 12.6%, cifras comparables con especies comerciales como Oreochromis niloticus, Oncorhynchus mykisse Ictalurus punctatus. En base seca, el filete presentó 77.1 ± 18.2% de proteína y 2.3 ± 1.3% de lípidos. El contenido de lisina fue de 13.3± 5.2%, superando al de otras especies dulceacuícolas. Además, el perfil lipídico indicó un 10.4 ± 0.3% de ácidos grasos, con altos niveles de EPA y DHA. Estos resultados respaldan el potencial de E. pictacomo una alternativa valiosa en la diversificación de especies para la acuicultura de agua dulce
Caracterización nutricional del pez nativo Eleotris picta
No full textLa guabina manchada (Eleotris picta), pez nativo del Pacífico oriental tropical, muestra un perfil nutricional prometedor para su aprovechamiento en acuicultura. Este estudio evaluó su composición bromatológica, incluyendo proporción carne/hueso, contenidos de proteína, grasa, carbohidratos, cenizas, así como perfiles de aminoácidos y ácidos grasos. Se obtuvo un rendimiento en canal del 88.4 ± 1.2% y de filete del 23.1 ± 12.6%, cifras comparables con especies comerciales como Oreochromis niloticus, Oncorhynchus mykiss e Ictalurus punctatus. En base seca, el filete presentó 77.1 ± 18.2% de proteína y 2.3 ± 1.3% de lípidos. El contenido de lisina fue de 13.3 ± 5.2%, superando al de otras especies dulceacuícolas. Además, el perfil lipídico indicó un 10.4 ± 0.3% de ácidos grasos, con altos niveles de EPA y DHA. Estos resultados respaldan el potencial de E. picta como una alternativa valiosa en la diversificación de especies para la acuicultura de agua dulce.
Resiting genre : a study of contemporary Italian travel writing in English translation
No full textThis thesis aims to highlight the presence of a large and varied production of contemporary
Italian travel writing and to analyse the reasons for its 'invisibility' in the Italian literary
system and critical tradition. Through the use of a comparative approach to genre and of
current theories developed in the area of Translation Studies, the thesis will outline the
different status attributed to travel writing in the Anglo-American and the Italian literary
systems. Such a comparative approach allows the study to escape the narrow confines of a
perspective based on the idea of national literature and to adopt a wider view, which, in
turn, highlights the presence of phenomena otherwise easily overlooked or discarded as
insignificant.
The peculiar characteristics of travel writing, a genre mostly based on the
representation of the Other for a home audience, are also analysed in order to point out their
affinity with translation practices and, ultimately, to underline the 'double translation'
implied by translated travel writing.
The case studies which make up the remaining part of the thesis are intended to
illustrate different aspects of the genre of travel writing; to provide scope for an analysis of
its boundaries and connections with other genres (ranging from ethnography to
autobiography, from journalism to fiction, from the essay to the novel); and to illustrate the
way in which generic expectations influence both the selection of texts for translation and
the strategies adopted when translating and marketing them for a new audience.
The writings of twentieth-century Italian explorers to Tibet, and their translations
into English, constitute a significant case of adaptation of foreign texts to the needs and
expectations of a British audience (and to the British interests in the geographical area
concerned).
The works of Oriana Fallaci and their different reception in Italy with respect to the
UK and the USA illustrate the way in which personal biography and generic choices can
intersect, determining both the popular image and the critical success of an author and of
her work.
Calvino's choice to sublimate the genre of travel writing in the stylized fiction of Le
citta invisibili is treated as an example of the way in which a text which is meant to provide
an escape from a low-status genre can become an icon of that same genre once it is
translated and read in a different cultural context.
Finally, the case of Claudio Magris's Danubio and of its English-language
translation provides evidence of the complex network of literary references which marks the
reception of a text in different cultures, and of the way in which generic affiliation can both
promote the recognition of a 'marginal' text and constrain its more idiosyncratic (and
original) characteristics
Excripta Cozarinsky
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura, Florianópolis, 2015.A proposta desta tese é o estudo do exílio e seus desdobramentos em textos críticos, literários e fílmicos de Edgardo Cozarinsky (Buenos Aires, 1939). Tem como corpus central: uma seleção de seus primeiros textos críticos e entrevistas realizadas para as revistas Sur, Primera Plana, Panorama e Tiempo de cine, além dos dois únicos números da revista Flashback, criada por ele com o apoio do crítico de cinema Alberto Tabbia (Buenos Aires, 1939-1997); Puntos suspensivos, seu primeiro filme terminado em 1971 e Vudú urbano (1985), livro que reúne seus primeiros textos escritos após seu exílio em Paris iniciado em 1974. A primeira etapa deste trabalho consistiu em recuperar as primeiras publicações de Edgardo Cozarinsky nas revistas citadas anteriormente, além de outros textos importantes que permitissem rearmar parte do conjunto de forças políticas e culturais que atravessaram o período anterior ao seu exílio. Dentre os duzentos textos do autor que recuperei ?importante ressaltar que são textos que, em sua grande maioria, foram ignorados por ele e pela crítica? incorporei ao meu estudo apenas aqueles que são concernentes à proposta desta pesquisa. No trabalho de campo pude descobrir que o exílio enquanto estratégia textual já operava nos primeiros movimentos críticos de Cozarinsky. Através da leitura da obra de alguns escritores e cineastas como Vladimir Nabokov, Severo Sarduy, Roman Polanski, Jean-Marie Straub, entre outros, Cozarinsky havia chegado a uma concepção da literatura (e do cinema) como exílio. Dessa forma, este trabalho busca rastrear e inventariar os movimentos do exílio nessa primeira etapa de sua produção que vai dos textos críticos escritos na Argentina até os primeiros textos ficcionais compostos na França entre 1974 e 1981. Mas esse inventário importa principalmente na medida em que permite vislumbrar uma máquina muito mais ampla e sofisticada que trabalha na desconstrução de textos, conceitos e de si própria, a isso denomino excripta Cozarinsky. Pois o exílio é muito mais do que uma condição temporária ou causal, inscreve-se como engrenagem fundamental em seu trabalho criativo. A excripta Cozarinsky é o lugar do desvio e do deslocamento, mas também da cripta e do desencriptamento. Não se trata simplesmente de reconhecer o exílio como um tema recorrente em vidas e textos, mas elucubrar sua tensão, resistência e articulação, na maioria das vezes subterrânea, no desenvolvimento e na disposição de textos e imagens. O exílio em Cozarinsky é singular-plural, é o lugar da tradição (literária, cinematográfica e familiar), da literatura como exílio e da existência exilada. Esse tríplice movimento constitutivo do exílio faz do texto um constante devir enquanto ser-com o leitor naconstrução de um significado que nunca é completo. A excripta de Cozarinsky, como a de Jacques Derrida, constitui-se de pelo menos dois movimentos fundamentais: trata-se da inversão e do deslocamento que enxerta e dissolve conceitos da responsabilidade com a herança (necromancia), pois este trabalho depende de um compromisso com a memória e sua disseminação diferida. Por fim, a excripta Cozarinsky caracteriza-se ainda por seu constante exercício de reelaboração enquanto desconstrução de si mesma.Resumen: Esta tesis se propone a estudiar el exilio y sus desdoblamientos en textos literarios y fílmicos de Edgardo Cozarinsky (Buenos Aires, 1939). Su corpus central se compone de: una selección de sus primeros textos críticos y entrevistas realizadas para las revistas Sur, Primera Plana, Panorama y Tiempo de cine, además cuenta con los dos únicos números de la revista Flashback, creada por él con el apoyo del crítico de cine Alberto Tabbia (Buenos Aires, 1939-1997); Puntos Suspensivos, su primer film concluido en 1971 y Vudú urbano (1985), libro que reúne sus primeros textos escritos después de su exilio en París que se inicia en 1974. La primera etapa de este trabajo consistió en recuperar las primeras publicaciones de Edgardo Cozarinsky en las revistas citadas anteriormente, además de otros textos importantes que permitieron rearmar parte del conjunto de fuerzas políticas y culturales que atravesaron el periodo anterior a su exilio. Entre los doscientos textos del autor que pude reunir  importante subrayar que son textos que, en su gran mayoría, fueron ignorados por él y por la crítica incorporé a mi estudio solamente aquellos que están directamente relacionados a la propuesta de esta investigación. A partir de mi trabajo de campo pude descubrir que el exilio como estrategia textual ya operaba en los primeros movimientos críticos de Cozarinsky. A través de su lectura de la obra de algunos escritores y cineastas como Vladimir Nabokov, Severo Sarduy, Roman Polanski, Jean-Marie Straub, entre otros, Cozarinsky había llegado a una concepción de la literatura (y del cine) como exilio. De esa manera, este trabajo busca rastrear e inventariar los movimientos del exilio en esa primera etapa de su producción que va de los textos críticos escritos en Argentina hasta sus primeros textos ficcionales compuestos en Francia entre 1974 y 1981. Sin embargo, ese inventario importa principalmente por lo que permite en el sentido de vislumbrar una máquina mucho más amplia y sofisticada que trabaja en la deconstrucción de textos, conceptos y de sí misma, a esa máquina la llamo excripta Cozarinsky. Pues el exilio va mucho más allá de una condición temporal o causal. Este se inscribe como engranaje esencial en su trabajo creativo. La excripta Cozarinsky es el lugar del desvío y del desplazamiento, pero también de la cripta y de la desencriptación. No se trata simplemente de reconocer el exilio como un tema recurrente en vidas y textos, sino buscar su tensión, resistencia y articulación, muchas veces subterránea, en el desarrollo y en la disposición de textos e imágenes. El exilio en Cozarinsky es singular-plural, es el lugar de la tradición (literaria, cinematográfica y familiar), de la literatura como exilio y de la existencia exiliada. Este movimiento triple, que constituye el exilio, hace de los textos un devenir constante en tanto ser-con el lector en la construcción de un significado que nunca es completo. La excripta Cozarinsky, como la de Jacques Derrida, se constituye de por lo menos dos movimientos fundamentales: se trata de la inversión y del desplazamiento que injerta y disuelve conceptos; y de la responsabilidad para con la herencia (necromancia), pues este trabajo depende de un compromiso con la memoria y su diseminación diferida. Por fin, la excripta Cozarinsky se caracteriza aún por su ejercicio constante de reelaboración en tanto deconstrucción de sí misma
⚘ Victoria Lady Welby, a Significian of our Times ☀ Susan Petrilli
No full textListen closely... and you will never lose track of the name of the founding mother of significs.
This event, commented on by Clara Chapdelaine-Feliciati (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University) and Zoe Hurley (Zayed University) and chaired by Yulia Nikitenko (Institute for Philosophical Studies), is part of the activities of the 2022 International Open Seminar on Semiotics: a Tribute to John Deely on the Fifth Anniversary of His Passing, cooperatively organized by the Institute for Philosophical Studies of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, the Lyceum Institute, the Deely Project, Saint Vincent College, the Iranian Society for Phenomenology at the Iranian Political Science Association, the International Association for Semiotics of Space and Time, the Institute for Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Semiotic Society of America, the American Maritain Association, the International Association for Semiotic Studies, the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies, the International Center for Semiotics and Intercultural Dialogue, Moscow State Academic University for the Humanities and the Mansarda Acesa with the support of the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education of the Government of Portugal under the UID/FIL/00010/2020 project.
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Susan Petrilli is Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Languages, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy, Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide, SA and 7th Thomas Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America. Her main research areas include philosophy of language, semiotics and translation theory. With Augusto Ponzio she has introduced Semioethics as an orientation in semiotics. Her books include: Sign Studies and Semioethics (2014); Victoria Welby and the Science of Signs (2015); The Global World and Its Manifold Faces (2016); Challenges to Living Together (2017), Signs, Language and Listening (2019); Significare, interpretare e intendere (2019); Senza ripari. Segni, differenze, estraneità (2021). Through her work as author, editor, and translator she has contributed to the dissemination of works, among others, by Victoria Welby, Charles C. Peirce, Mikhail M. Bakhtin, Charles Morris, Gérard Deledalle, Emmanuel Levinas, Adam Schaff, Thomas A. Sebeok, Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, Ferruccio Rossi-Landi, Giorgio Fano, Umberto Eco and Augusto Ponzio. Her numerous essays are published both as book chapters and in journals. These include: Semiotica; Traduction, Terminologie, Rédaction; Signata; Chinese Semiotic Studies; Language and Semiotic Studies; Signs & Media; International Journal for the Semiotics of Law; International Journal of Legal Discourse; Calumet; Signs and Society; and The American Journal of Semiotics. Most recently she has translated a collection of writings into Italian by Victoria Welby, Senso, significato, significatività 1879–1911 (2021), and edited Maestri di segni e costruttori di pace (2021), Brian Medlin: The Level-Headed Revolutionary. Essays, Stories and Poems (in collab.) (2021), Exploring the Translatability of Emotions: Cross-Cultural and Transdisciplinary Encounters (with Meng Ji) (2022), and Intersemiotic Perspectives on Emotions Translating across Signs, Bodies and Values (in collab.) (2023).
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Dr. Clara Chapdelaine-Feliciati is Associate Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, and a licensed Lawyer (Barrister and Solicitor) with the Law Society of Upper Canada. She holds a Ph.D. in International Law from Oxford University, where she applied Victoria Welby’s significs theory and Susan Petrilli’s and Augusto Ponzio’s ‘semioethics’ theory. She also holds a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Civil Law from McGill University, and a Master of Laws from King’s College London. She conducts research on legal semiotics and legal significs in English and French and decodes the content of international human rights treaties. Her forthcoming book The Status of the Girl Child under International Law: A Semioethic Analysis will be published by Cambridge University Press. She contributed to the Semiotica Centennial Special Issue for Victoria Welby (2013).
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Zoe Hurley (PhD) is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and an assistant professor in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies, at Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Her work focuses on semiotics, intersectional feminism(s), power and visual communication. She is the President of the Gulf Association for Semiotic Studies, which is an associate member of the International Association for Semiotic Studies. She has published articles in leading academic journals including New Media & Society; Feminist Media Studies; Social Media + Society; Information Communication & Society; Postdigital Science and Education; and Visual Communication, in addition to several chapters, commentaries and blogs on semiotics. Her upcoming monograph - Social Media Influencing in the City of Likes: Dubai and the Postdigital Condition - expands a semiotic critique of social media and its role in the global visual economy.
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Society and the inquisition in Malta 1743-1798
No full textThe thesis falls into two main sections. It endeavours to analyse the major aspects of Maltese society in the second half of the eighteenth century as they emerge from a close scrutiny of the Archives of the Inquisition in Malta. The approach is mainly that of the ethnologist, a social history written 'from below'. The ultimate purpose was to try to arrive at as clear and accurate a picture of the Maltese mentalite as the archives permitted. Unfortunately, the Archives of the Inquisition in Malta have hardly ever been seriously studied by the social historian. Their richness and diversity not only cast enormous insight into the mental habits and frame of mind of a wide cross-section of Maltese society; they even shed sufficient light on a wide range of the social life of the Maltese. The subject is also approached from the point of view of the legal historian. The Inquisition was a Tribunal of Faith set up to stop the onslaught of Protestantism, as well as to reform the superstitious accretions to popular religion practised by the remaining part of the Catholic Church. The thesis examines the events leading to the charge and possibly arrest of the accused. Most of the reports were self-accusations and those arrested were taken into custody only after much deliberation. If the Inquisitors did make use of torture the accused was assisted by the defence counsel and produced his own witnesses. No instance of death sentences are encountered with in the second half of the eighteenth century and those found guilty were kindly dealt with, the Inquisitors being only after their conversion
Popular song in early modern drama 1580-1620
No full textThis dissertation investigates the reciprocal relationship between the song culture of early modern England and its representation in drama of the late sixteenth and early
seventeenth centuries. Unlike past studies, no preference is given to any particular playwright. Rather, the dissertation considers evidence from close to 100 plays in which songs, references to song, and elements of song culture are most abundant.
The study begins with an exploration into the particular ability of early modern audience members to recognise and appreciate sophisticated references to song as they
encountered them in drama. Next there is a discussion of some of the more famous characters of song culture whose narratives and reputations – effectively lost to us now
– were regularly mined by playwrights. The third part of the study investigates song’s power as represented in fictive spaces. Chapter 4 examines dramatic representations of song performance by elites and their relationship to contemporary decorum. Lastly, Chapter 5 focuses on a point in London’s history where its dramatists appear to have
been particularly keen to capitalize on song’s function as a consolidator of cultural identity.
The overriding impression at the end of the study is of early modern playwrights basing representations of song and singing less upon contemporary beliefs surrounding
music, its power, and its place in the cosmos, and more upon phenomenological observation of song as it operates in people and in their society
Search for displaced supersymmetry in events with an electron and a muon with large impact parameters
No full textThis article is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI.A search for new long-lived particles decaying to leptons is presented using proton-proton collisions produced by the LHC at s=8TeV. Data used for the analysis were collected by the CMS detector and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.7fb-1. Events are selected with an electron and muon with opposite charges that both have transverse impact parameter values between 0.02 and 2 cm. The search has been designed to be sensitive to a wide range of models with nonprompt e-μ final states. Limits are set on the "displaced supersymmetry" model, with pair production of top squarks decaying into an e-μ final state via R-parity-violating interactions. The results are the most restrictive to date on this model, with the most stringent limit being obtained for a top squark lifetime corresponding to cτ=2cm, excluding masses below 790 GeV at 95% confidence level
Performance of the CMS missing transverse momentum reconstruction in pp data at √s = 8 TeV
No full textPublished under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License by IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab srl. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation and DOI.The performance of missing transverse energy reconstruction algorithms is presented using √s=8 TeV proton-proton (pp) data collected with the CMS detector. Events with anomalous missing transverse energy are studied, and the performance of algorithms used to identify and remove these events is presented. The scale and resolution for missing transverse energy, including the effects of multiple pp interactions (pileup), are measured using events with an identified Z boson or isolated photon, and are found to be well described by the simulation. Novel missing transverse energy reconstruction algorithms developed specifically to mitigate the effects of large numbers of pileup interactions on the missing transverse energy resolution are presented. These algorithms significantly reduce the dependence of the missing transverse energy resolution on pileup interactions. Finally, an algorithm that provides an estimate of the significance of the missing transverse energy is presented, which is used to estimate the compatibility of the reconstructed missing transverse energy with a zero nominal value
