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La scatola dei giochi: a commitment by Bruno Munari in RAI
No full textopenQuesta tesi presenta una ricerca riguardante l’intervento artistico di Bruno Munari in RAI, attraverso la trasmissione La scatola dei giochi (1976) andata in onda sulla Rete 2, con la regia di Massimo Scaglione. In particolare verranno analizzate nove puntate delle dieci andate in onda originariamente attraverso l’osservazione e lo studio di diversi materiali multimediali forniti gentilmente dal servizio RAI-Teche (archivio della RAI) della sede regionale di Venezia. Ogni singola puntata sarà descritta nella sua interezza con particolare attenzione alla parte introduttiva eseguita da Munari, analizzando nello specifico i suoi interventi e le sue proposte di gioco per i bambini. Questo lavoro vuole approfondire nel dettaglio l’impegno e il contributo di Bruno Munari in televisione studiandone il suo metodo didattico attraverso un medium alternativo, già in parte utilizzato diversi anni prima per Costruire è facile (1956) e C’era una volta...necessità della fiaba (1971). Attraverso l’analisi delle puntate, andate in onda originariamente all’interno del programma La TV dei ragazzi, viene quindi avanzata un’ipotesi di lettura del metodo Munariano contenente i principi metodologici di quella dedizione pedagogica che porterà Munari a realizzare fuori dalla tv i suoi laboratori, a partire dal 1977.This thesis presents a research concerning the artistic participation of Bruno Munari in RAI, through the telecast La scatola dei giochi (1976) originally transmitted on Rete 2, directed by Massimo Scaglione. In particular, nine episodes of the ten originally transmitted, will be analyzed with the observation and study of various multimedia materials kindly provided by the RAI-Teche service (RAI archive) of the Venice regional office. Each single episode will be described in its entirety with particular attention to the introductory part performed by Munari, specifically analyzing his interventions and game suggestions for children. This work wants to go deeper into the commitment and contribution of Bruno Munari for television, studying his teaching method through an alternative medium, already partly used several years earlier for Costruire è facile (1956) and C’era una volta...necessità della fiaba (1971). With the analysis of the episodes, originally transmitted within the program La TV dei ragazzi, a hypothesis of interpretation of Munari's method is advanced in this thesis, through principles of that pedagogical dedication which will lead Munari to set up his workshops away from TV, in 1977
Clinton F and Beatrice Ward
No full textClinton F. and Beatrice Ward Parvin of Old Manatee (East Bradenton). She is the author of "I Remember, a family memoir." Copy on file at the Manatee County Central Library
The palindromic cyclic reduction and related algorithms
No full textThe cyclic reduction algorithm is specialized to palindromic matrix polynomials and a complete analysis of applicability and convergence is provided. The resulting iteration is then related to other algorithms as the evaluation/interpolation at the roots of unity of a certain Laurent matrix polynomial, the trapezoidal rule for a certain integral and an algorithm based on the finite sections of a tridiagonal block Toeplitz matrix
Acrapex kafula Bruno Le Ru & Claire Capdevielle-Dulac & Boaz K. Musyoka & Beatrice Pallangyo & Mohamedi Njaku & Onésime Mubenga 2017, sp. nov.
No full texturn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:B727D00A-7E31-4B44-9B33-E6DC82D548B2 Figs 1G–J, 2B, J, 3B Diagnosis Male easily separated from males of other species of the group by the shovel-shaped uncus (at the apex) and the distal part of the aedeagus (grooved-shaped), with the vesica having a basal tuft of needleshaped cornutus, pointed downward (Fig. 2B, J). Female easily separated from females of other species of the group by the very short ductus bursae, with a strongly sclerotised funnel-shaped connection with the ostium; antrum sclerotized, with a large, broad ventral plate, slightly bilobate, widening to the front, the anterior part shaped like a thin lip and more sclerotized than the posterior part, slightly concave (Fig. 3B). Etymology Named after the village of Kafulo in Zambia. Type material Holotype ZAMBIA: ♂, Western Province, Kafulo, 14°08.726' S, 23°27.638' E, 1056 m a.s.l., 20 Mar. 2012, ex light trap, B. Le Ru leg. (MNHN, gen. prep. LERU Bruno/G595). Paratypes CAMEROON: 1 ♀, Central Region, Sanaga River, 04°22.387' N, 11°15.162' E, 388 m a.s.l., Dec. 2013, ex light trap (MNHN, gen. prep. LERU Bruno/G603). KENYA: 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, Nyanza Province, edge of Ruma Park, 00°36.293' S, 34°16.046' E, 1221 m a.s.l., 14 Nov. 2012, ex light trap, B. Le Ru leg. (MNHN, gen. prep. LERU Bruno/G511-G513-G529); 1 ♂, Central Province, Ruiru Aukland, 01°05.063' S, 36°55.621' E, 1595 m a.s.l., Jun. 2011 (MNHN). REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: 1 ♂, Plateau Region, Lefni River, 02°54.501' S, 15°37.776' E, 320 m a.s.l., 13 Apr. 2013, ex light trap (MNHN, gen. prep. LERU Bruno/G584). TANZANIA: 1 ♂, Iringa Region, Lukumburu, 09°40.048' S, 35°16.892' E, 1299 m a.s.l., 17 Apr. 2015, ex light trap, B. Le Ru leg. (MNHN, gen. prep. LERU Bruno/G799). UGANDA: 2 ♂♂, Western Region, Itojo, 00°50.546' N, 30°13.131' E, 1070 m a.s.l., 22 May 2014, ex light trap (MNHN, gen. prep. LERU Bruno/G714). ZAMBIA: 1 ♂, same date and locality as holotype, ex. light trap, B. Le Ru leg. (MNHN, gen. prep. LERU Bruno/G178); 1 ♀, same date and locality as holotype, ex light trap (MNHN, gen. prep. LERU Bruno/G165). Description Both sexes look similar; however, general shape of female fore wing more elongated at apex than in male and fore wings paler in females (Fig. 1G–J); antennae bright fuscous dorsally and ochreous ventrally, fliform in female and slightly ciliate in male; fagellum adorned dorsally with black scales, palpus cupreous brown, eyes fuscous. Head and base of thorax brown, thorax becoming gradually fuscous; legs brown-ringed with buff, buff on inner surface; abdomen fuscous, irrorated with buff scales. FORE WING. Ground colour ochreous in both sexes, suffused with fuscous scales, more heavily along veins and costal area, particularly in males; reniform indicated by a few white scales, preceded by some brown scales; longitudinal brown median fascia along lower external margin of cell, ending obliquely at apex; veins below cell adorned with white, fuscous and brown scales; postmedial row of white spots on veins; row of black elongated spots between veins on margin; fringe whitish externally, fuscous suffused with brown internally. Underside of fore wing with ground colour fuscous, densely suffused with brown scales. HIND WING. Ground colour white, veins slightly irrorated, with fuscous scales, costa and apex more heavily suffused with fuscous scales; hind wing of males much more suffused with fuscous scales than in females; fringe white, suffused with fuscous and adorned with narrow fuscous line. Underside of hind wing white, suffused with fuscous scales but much more heavily on costa and apex; veins slightly irrorated, with fuscous scales. WINGSPAN. 18–22 mm (6 ♂♂); 21–25 mm (5 ♀♀). MALE GENITALIA (Fig. 2B, J). Uncus long, widening in distal third, shovel-shaped at apex, tufted with long hairs on upper side. Tegumen with medium-sized rounded penniculi, vinculum pointed, with mediumsized triangular saccus, valves short and broad, cucullus rounded and tufted with medium-sized hairs, coastal margin slightly broadened on inner side and produced into strong, tooth-shaped spine, strongly sclerotized at apex, pointed and slightly curved inwardly; juxta large, plate-like, without sclerotisation. Aedeagus short, slightly curved, with two lateral areas adorned with short setae; hand-shaped vesica with basal tuft of needle-shaped cornutus, pointed downward. FEMALE GENITALIA (Fig. 3B). Corpus bursae elongated ovoid and globular without signa; ductus bursae very short, with strongly sclerotised, funnel-shaped connection with ostium; antrum sclerotized, with large, broad ventral plate, slightly bilobate, widening to the front, anterior part shaped like a thin lip, more sclerotized than posterior part, slightly concave; dorsal plate small, weakly sclerotized. Ovipositor lobes relatively short (2.2 times as long as wide), with pointed apex, dorsal surface bearing numerous short and stout setae. Bionomics Biology unknown. The moths were caught in a light trap in grasslands near marshes. Distribution Cameroon,Kenya,theRepublicoftheCongo,Tanzania,UgandaandZambia.Mothswerefoundinamosaic of lowland rainforest and secondary grassland (Mosaic #11), in a mosaic of Zambezian dry evergreen forest and wetter miombo woodland (Mosaic #21), in a mosaic of East African evergreen bushland and secondaryAcacia wooded grassland (Mosaic #45) and in undiffentiated montane vegetation (Mosaic #19) (White 1983) (Fig. 4), belonging to the Congolian and Zambezian bioregions (Linder et al. 2012) (Fig. 5).Published as part of Bruno Le Ru, Claire Capdevielle-Dulac, Boaz K. Musyoka, Beatrice Pallangyo, Mohamedi Njaku & Onésime Mubenga, 2017, Phylogenetic analysis and systematics of the Acrapex unicolora Hampson species complex (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Noctuinae, Apameini), with the description of Fve new species from the Afrotropics, pp. 1-36 in European Journal of Taxonomy 270 on pages 11-13, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.270, http://zenodo.org/record/88948
Acrapex kavumba Bruno Le Ru & Claire Capdevielle-Dulac & Boaz K. Musyoka & Beatrice Pallangyo & Mohamedi Njaku & Onésime Mubenga 2017, sp. nov.
No full texturn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:17B55911-C7C0-4733-B131-D9C0C59FE72A Figs 2C, K, 6A–B Diagnosis Males easily separated from males of other species of the group by the spoon-shaped cucullus and the turn of the hand-shaped vesica being adorned with a large tuft of needle-shaped cornutus (Fig. 2C, K). Etymology Named after the village of Kavumba in Zambia. Type material Holotype ZAMBIA: ♂, Luapula Province, Kavumba, 11°29.074' S, 29°25.757' E, 1193 m a.s.l., 22 Mar. 2012, ex light trap, B. Le Ru leg. (MNHN, gen. prep. LERU Bruno/G161). Paratypes ZAMBIA: 2 ♂♂, North-Western Province, Rwanko Azi, 12°13.212' S, 25°39.064' E, 1413 m a.s.l., 20 Mar. 2012, ex light trap (MNHN, gen. prep. LERU Bruno/G169-G377). TANZANIA: 1 ♂, Iringa region, Sao Hill, 08°27.421' S, 35°10.036' E, 1845 m a.s.l., 22 Jan. 2012, ex larva (in stem of Hyparrhenia sp.), B. Le Ru leg. (MNHN); 3 ♂♂, same locality, Nov. 2015, ex light trap, B. Le Ru leg. (MNHN, gen. prep. LERU Bruno/G937). Description Only the male is known (Fig. 6A–B); antennae cupreous brown dorsally and ochreous ventrally, slightly ciliate; fagellum adorned dorsally with white scales, palpus cupreous brown, adorned with white scales, eyes fuscous. Head and base of thorax brown, thorax becoming gradually ochreous; legs brown-ringed with white; abdomen brown irrorated with fuscous scales, extremity of abdomen densely suffused with buff scales. FORE WING. Ground colour dark ochreous, suffused with fuscous and brown scales, more heavily along veins and in costal area; reniform indicated by few white scales, preceded by some brown scales; longitudinal brown median fascia along lower external margin of cell, ending obliquely at apex; veins below cell adorned with white, fuscous and brown scales; postmedial row of white spots on veins; row of black elongated spots between veins on margin; fringe whitish externally, ochreous suffused with brown internally. Underside of fore wing with ground colour brown, suffused with fuscous scales on costa. HIND WING. Uniformly brown; fringe white suffused with fuscous and adorned with narrow fuscous line. Underside of hind wing brown, suffused with fuscous scales. WINGSPAN. 21–23 mm (4 ♂♂). MALE GENITALIA (Fig. 2C, K). Uncus long, widening in distal third, truncated at apex, tufted with long hairs on upper side. Tegumen with medium-sized rounded penniculi, vinculum pointed, with mediumsized triangular saccus, valves short and broad, cucullus spoon-shaped and tufted with medium size hairs, coastal margin slightly broadened on inner side and produced into narrow, straight, long lobe, roundly pointed; juxta oblong, pear-shaped, with long and wide neck, elongate bifd. Aedeagus short, slightly curved, with two lateral areas adorned with short setae; turn of hand-shaped vesica with large tuft of needle-shaped cornutus. Bionomics One larva was collected at the bottom of a stem of a Hyparrhenia sp. growing in grasslands near marshes (Table 3); like many species of Acrapex, A. kavumba sp. nov. is a markedly hygrophilous species. Unfortunately, no pictures were taken before pupation. All the moths were caught in a light trap in grasslands near marshes. Distribution Tanzania and Zambia. The records are from a mosaic of Zambezian dry evergreen forest and wetter miombo woodland (Mosaic #21) (White 1983) (Fig. 4), belonging to the Zambezian bioregion (Linder et al. 2012) (Fig. 5).Published as part of Bruno Le Ru, Claire Capdevielle-Dulac, Boaz K. Musyoka, Beatrice Pallangyo, Mohamedi Njaku & Onésime Mubenga, 2017, Phylogenetic analysis and systematics of the Acrapex unicolora Hampson species complex (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Noctuinae, Apameini), with the description of Fve new species from the Afrotropics, pp. 1-36 in European Journal of Taxonomy 270 on pages 13-16, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.270, http://zenodo.org/record/88948
La divulgazione dei dati ufficiali sull’epidemia di Covid-19 in Italia
No full textLe fonti ufficiali dei dati sull’epidemia di Covid-19 in Italia sono l’Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) e il Ministero della Salute che si avvale del supporto della Protezione Civile.
In questo articolo si considerano i report periodici pubblicati dai suddetti enti, se ne analizza la struttura e si fornisce una guida alla loro lettura e alla corretta interpretazione di alcune statistiche che possono altrimenti risultare di non facile e immediata comprensione.
Una delle statistiche più importanti per quantificare l’impatto della pandemia è senza dubbio il numero dei deceduti per Covid-19. Questo, tuttavia, risulta essere un dato estremamente incerto in quanto non viene computato in base all’esame delle schede di morte redatte dai medici competenti, bensì sulla base di una proxy rappresentata dal numero di deceduti con positività (attuale o pregressa) al SARS-CoV-2. Ad oggi, di fatto, non sappiamo quante persone siano veramente morte a causa della malattia in oggetto e suscita stupore il fatto che gli enti preposti (ISS e ISTAT) non abbiano ancora compiuto sforzi adeguati per colmare questa grave lacuna
La Croix et les idoles d'après l'apologie d'Athanase 'Contre les paiens'
No full textThrough the analysis of some significant passages of Athanasius' apology «Against the Pagans on the Incarnation of the Word», and also thanks to their comparison with other selected texts by the same author, P. F. Beatrice tries to date this still problematic work to around the middle of the fourth century. In particular, he intends to show that Athanasius did know the Neoplatonic philosophy of his time sufficiently well and that the target of his polemic was especially Porphyry. But anti-pagan criticism also supplies Athanasius with a substantial support in his struggle with the Arian heresy which had been shared by his great precursor and adversary Eusebius of Caesarea
Cioè. L’ontologia di Bruno Latour
No full textL’incipit della Piccola filosofia dell’enunciazione presenta nella forma di un bizzarro esperimento mentale il programma di ricerca dell’ontologia di Bruno Latour. Ne risulta che ad articolare il campo latouriano è una comprensione del senso dell’essere che nel passaggio – in qualcosa che troppo frettolosamente si assimila al divenire ha il suo pivot. Come la sostanza spinoziana, insomma l’Essere in quanto Essere, che Latour non ha affatto dimenticato, non è dunque nient’altro che il suo comunicarsi, nient’altro che l’atto del suo enunciarsi, del suo tradursi in una teoria infinita di delegati che occupano il suo posto e si sostituiscono a lui. La traduzione è infinita (nel senso “privativo” dell’infinito) a causa della differenza dell’Essere dall’ent
The Contribution of Design Discipline in Business Decisions through Design-Oriented Production Diversification: A Case Study in Italian Furniture Sector
No full textFirm diversification is a growth strategy that allows firms to launch new products in untapped markets to increase revenue. It is the identified approach where industrial designers can contribute to exploring new tactical assets. The paper analyses the design-oriented diversification of a furniture company in Italy, where Design played a crucial role in positioning new demands. The tool applied to display the current and the feasible product portfolio is the Product Space. The company has leveraged its know-how on bent glass to produce iconic objects, winning prestigious design awards
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