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Il Canzoniere di Petrarca : nella traduzione di Aleksej Berdnikov
No full textA una breve premessa sulla fortuna del Petrarca in Russia segue, nell’articolo, una rapida panoramica delle traduzioni disponibili nel contesto editoriale russo nei primi due decenni degli anni Duemila. Il contributo si sofferma sulla traduzione del Canzoniere di Petrarca di Aleksej Berdnikov, pubblicata nel 2017. Nonostante il talento del traduttore e la sua padronanza delle tecniche poetiche, essa ha suscitato scarso in-teresse sia nel pubblico sia nella critica. La traduzione di Berdnikov, realizzata per la maggior parte a metà degli anni Ottanta del XX secolo come esempio di letteratura underground, si basa sulla lingua del tardo periodo sovietico con i suoi diversi registri stilistici stratificati e riferimenti culturali. Interpretato con ironia postmodernista e con spirito ludico, il Petrarca di Berdnikov al lettore contemporaneo appare bizzarro e per molti aspetti forse addirittura inconcepibile, o quanto meno assai diverso dal Petrarca conosciuto nel periodo sovietico. Sperimentando un inedito approccio alla traduzione dei classici, Berdnikov pone in risalto la dipendenza del testo dalle accezioni culturali e linguistiche proprie di un determinato periodo e la breve durata della traduzione nel tempo.
After a brief introduction tracking Petrarch’s fortune in Russia, the author describes the situation in the two thousand and focuses on the translation of Petrarch’s Canzoniere made by Aleksey Berdnikov and published in 2017 to explain why, in spite of translator’s talent and masterful command in poetical techniques, it passed without public and critical interest. Berdnikov’s translation, being mostly realized in the mid of the 1980-s as a piece of underground literature, is based on the language of the late soviet period with its different stylistic strata and cultural references. Interpreted with postmodernist irony and a certain ludic spirit, Berdnikov’s Petrarch looks odd and in many aspects inconceivable to the modern reader who is different from that of the soviet period. As a possible way of translating classics, Berdnikov’s experience showed its dependency on the cultural and linguistic nuances of a certain period and its historical shortness
Corrections to “Satellite Estimation of Chlorophyll-a Concentration Using the Red and NIR Bands of MERIS—The Azov Sea Case Study”
No full textWe correct here some errors that appear in our paper: W.J. Moses, A.A. Gitelson, S. Berdnikov, and V. Povazhnyy, “Satellite estimation of chlorophyll-a concentration using the red and NIR bands of MERIS—The Azov Sea case study,” IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, volume 6, number 4, pp. 845–849, October 2009
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Hydrodynamics and heat exchange of crystal pulling from melts. Part II: Numerical study of free convection mode
No full textThis work is a brief overview of numerical study results for hydrodynamics and convective heat exchange for the classic Czochralski technique obtained at the Institute of Thermophysics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Flow structure evolution has been compared for melts with Prandtl numbers Pr = 0.05, 16, 50 and 2700. The regularities of local and integral convective heat exchange in the crucible/melt/crystal system for thermal gravity, thermocapillary and heat-induced gravity capillary convection have been studied. The calculations have been carried out using the finite and compact difference methods. This work is a continuation of an article: Berdnikov VS (2019) Hydrodynamics and heat exchange of crystal pulling from melts. Part I: Experimental studies of free convection mode. Modern Electronic Materials 5(3): 91–100. https://doi.org/10.3897/j.moem.5.3.4664
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Topics in strongly correlated electrons
No full textThe thesis is a collection of three topics connected together by the common themes of strong interactions, magnetism and quantum phases, such as the Aharonov-Bohm or Berry phase.
The first part of the present dissertation discusses the possibility of examining microscopic origins of magnetism in strongly interacting systems by exploiting the setting of ultra-cold atomic gases in optical lattices. We discuss signatures of correlation in the trap, and propose an experiment to measure the phase diagram of itinerant magnetism directly.
The second part focuses on the exotic phase of matter exhibiting the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, which emerges when interacting particles are placed in a very strong magnetic field. We propose a trial ground state wave-function and prove that it is the unique highest density ground state of a well-motivated pseudo-potential Hamiltonian. The exchange statistics of quasiparticles are shown to be exotic, and overlaps with results of exact diagonalization are
also discussed.
The final part of the thesis studies frustrated magnetic systems, in which competing forces cannot not be satisfied simultaneously, doped with electrons. The interplay of frustration and itinerant behavior generates Berry phases associated with charge transport. We study the effects of these phases on electronic behavior, as well as the effect electrons have on the underlying
magnetic textures. In the quasi-classical limit, we conjecture a field-driven metal-insulator transition, and discuss persistent currents arising in ground states selected by the presence of charge. In the quantum regime we derive the full Hamiltonian and discuss small fluctuations about the classical results.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references.by Ilya Berdniko
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
The Thursday Murder Club: Launching a megabrand author - a publishing case study
No full textIn 2020, the Christmas book charts in the UK made headlines: Barack Obama’s eagerly awaited autobiography, The Promised Land, was beaten to the top spot by The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, a debut cosy crime novel set in a retirement village. Not only did Osman’s book beat the former US president’s expected bestseller, it also broke records, becoming the fastest-selling debut crime novel of all time. Although Osman has a certain level of fame in the UK from his TV appearances on shows such as Pointless, his celebrity status does not entirely explain the novel’s huge sales. This article tracks the acquisition, publication, and promotion journey of The Thursday Murder Club in order to understand the industry and cultural context of its success and to interrogate the role of celebrity in the creation of author brands. The findings suggest that the unexpected scale of the success of the book owed to a number of factors, including in-depth editing by the novel’s agent, editor, and author to tighten up the plot, an extensive and strategic promotional campaign, the pandemic (which drove interest in the book’s genre and themes), and the quality of the writing. We find that the book’s success was accentuated by Osman’s celebrity status rather than being entirely reliant on it. This research adds to the growing scholarship on celebrity authorship by means of an in-depth case study and provides insight into the processes behind publishing a ‘celebrity’ book and launching a megabrand author
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