370 research outputs found
Cloenda del Simposi Trias "Josep Maria Capdevila"
No full textActe de cloenda del Simposi Trias "Josep Maria Capdevila" a càrrec de Joan Vergés, director de la Càtedra Ferrater Mora; Josep Berga, regidor de cultura de l'Ajuntament d'Olot i Maria Elisa Capdevila, filla de Josep Maria Capdevila4998.mp4
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“Mark the music”: Shakespearean female characters in contemporary rock music
No full textThrough an investigation grounded on the theoretical and methodological guidelines provided by women's studies and reader response theories, this contribution aims to consider the ways in which Shakespeare's female characters are used and reshaped in the lyrics of rock songs written in English by male singer-songwriters, between the 1960s and the 1990s. Given the amplitude of the topic and the ungraspable nature of such fields as popular culture and pop-Shakespeare, the author does not (and cannot) aim to be exhaustive, but rather addresses the issue by selecting four characters, Juliet, Ophelia, Cordelia, and Lady Macbeth, whose musical alter egos will be analysed by the close reading of a selection of songs written and sung by rock singer-songwriters chosen for their representativeness and their popularity. The analysis will try and answer the following questions: which aspects of the dramatic characters are highlighted or, on the contrary, omitted in the songs? What is the function of this musical use of Shakespeare's work? Through their musical identity, do these female characters reinforce or undermine the socio-cultural and psychological oppression of women characteristic of a patriarchal culture? What can the role of these musical offshoots play in the study of Shakespeare's reception
“Schakespear in der Klemme: Johann Friedrich Schink and the Problem of Adaptation”
No full textIn his short play Schakespear in der Klemme, oder wir wollen doch auch den Hamlet spielen, 1 Johann Friedrich Schink pictures the ghosts of William Shakespeare and David Garrick in heaven as they meet the ghost of Jean-François Ducis, author of the famous 1769 French adaptation of Hamlet, and two actors of Schink’s Theater Schule, directed by Müller, who are about to perform Hamlet. This hilarious play is, in Andreas Höfele’s words, “a solid, if none-too-subtle piece of theatrical entertainment combining the ever-popular sport of bashing the French with a laugh at the current craze for Hamlet”. 2 This paper aims to demonstrate that the play’s nationalist lampoons and hilarious gags are also significant metatextual elements, which are worth investigating to outline Schink’s insights into the problematic issue of Shakespearean adaptations. Studies on Shakespeare’s afterlife, particularly in Germany, build up the theoretical basis of this contribution, and the ‘close reading’ methodology is used in the analysis of the play
New characterizations of freeness for hyperplane arrangements
No full textIn this article, we describe two new characterizations of freeness for hyperplane arrangements via the study of the generic initial ideal and of the sectional matrix of the Jacobian ideal of arrangements
a. Advertising in Shakespearean plays and in Shakespeare's times
No full textThe author anchors the exploration in a discussion of the oral and visual strategies used to advertise goods in the early modern period. Her analysis draws
on diverse examples that range from Autolycus’s merchandise in The Winter’s Tale to the First Folio as the earliest modern use of Shakespeare
in advertising
Development of an aquaporin-4 orthogonal array of particle-based ELISA for neuromyelitis optica autoantibodies detection
No full textSerological markers of Nuromyelitis Optica (NMO), an autoimmune disorder of the central nervous system, are autoantibodies targeting the astrocytic water channel aquaporin-4 (AQP4). We have previously demonstrated that the main epitopes for these autoantibodies (AQP4-IgG) are generated by the supramolecular arrangement of AQP4 tetramers into an Orthogonal Array of Particles (OAPs). Many tests have been developed to detect AQP4- IgG in patient sera but several procedural issues affect OAP assembly and consequently test sensitivity. To date, the protein based ELISA test shows the lowest sensitivity while representing a valid alternative to the more sensitive cell based assay (CBA), which, however, shows economic, technical and interpretation problems. Here we have developed a high perfomance ELISA in which native OAPs are used as the molecular target. To this aim a native size exclusion chromatography method has been developed to isolate integral, highly pure and AQP4-IgG-recognized OAPs from rat brain. These OAPs were immobilized and oriented on a plastic plate by a sandwich approach and 139 human sera were tested, including 67 sera from NMO patients. The OAP-ELISA showed a 99% specificity and a higher sensitivity (91%) compared to the CBA test. A comparative analysis revealed an end-point titer three orders of magnitude higher than the commercial ELISA and six times higher than our in-house CBA test. We show that CNS-extracted OAPs are crucial elements in order to perform an efficient AQP4-IgG test and the OAP-ELISA developed represents a valid alternative to the CBA currently used. © 2015 Pisani et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
La “prima opera” del Furini
No full textThe article is about the rediscovery of the altarpiece that marked Francesco Furini’s début. This is a canvas housed in the church of Santa Maria a Vezzano in the Mugello, recorded by Filippo Baldinucci in his biography of the painter as “his first work in oil”, sent to the Mugello. Believed to be lost by modern writers, it stands at the very beginning of his oeuvre, preceding the well-known Crucifixion with Saints Bartholomew, John the Baptist and Magdalen in Todiano, which was completed by the nineteen-year-old artist between 25 March and 10 April 1623. The author provides new details about Furini’s youthful period and reflects on a lost fresco he painted in the Florentine church of San Procolo, as well as discussing his role within Matteo Rosselli’s workshop during the decoration of the villa at Poggio Imperiale
Il ciclo di dipinti dell'ex refettorio del convento dei Servi di Santa Maria a Siena
No full textIl refettorio del convento senese dei Servi, che risale originariamente alla seconda metà del XIII secolo, fu progettato e realizzato nel 1752-1753 e decorato dal pittore Giuseppe Fantastici e dallo stuccatore Giuseppe Tofani. Fu probabilmente all'inizio del XX secolo che il refettorio, annesso all'ospedale psichiatrico, venne ammodernato, anche con alcuni piccoli paesaggi sotto le volte. Il ciclo figurativo principale è incentrato su alcuni protagonisti senesi dell'Ordine dei Servi, spesso presunti capostipiti di famiglie nobili, fra i quali i beati Gioacchino Piccolomini, Francesco Patrizi e Bonaventura Ghini Bandinelli. Un possibile filo rosso tra i personaggi qui raffigurati, oltre che in virtù delle fortune devozionali, potrebbe essere ricondotto a Niccolò Borghese, umanista senese autore delle loro agiografie.The refectory of the Sienese Convent of the Servites, which originally dates back to the second half of the 13th century, was designed and built in 1752-1753 and decorated by the painter Giuseppe Fantastici and the plasterer Giuseppe Tofani. It was probably at the beginning of the 20th century that the refectory, annexed to the psychiatric hospital, was modernised, including some small landscapes under the vaults. The main figurative cycle focuses on some of the Sienese protagonists of the Order of Servants, often presumed forefather of noble families, including Blessed Gioacchino Piccolomini, Francesco Patrizi and Bonaventura Ghini Bandinelli. A possible red thread between the characters depicted here, in addition to their devotional fortunes, could be traced back to Niccolò Borghese, a Sienese humanist and author of their hagiographies
Technological scouting of bi-material face masks: simulation of adherence using 3D Facial Norms
No full textDuring the COVID-19 pandemic started in March 2020, the need for personal protective equipment rapidly grew as it became mandatory. The availability of a set of faces can be of great utility in designing a face mask with proper adherence and comfortability in wearing and breathing. A 3D geometry of a face with user-defined anthropometric measures was generated with Blender, a powerful development tool for creating 3D images. Using 3D Facial Norms, a free online database, it was possible to compute the mean anthropometric measures for the age groups of 17-20, 20-30, and 30-40 years old and then generate the respective faces for both genders. The adherence of an innovative face mask was then simulated with the reverse engineering software considering both the face mask and the faces rigid
Technological scouting of bi-material face masks: experimental analysis on real faces
No full textThe need for personal protective equipment rapidly grew during the COVID-19. Companies had to face problems related to their products’ sustainability, adherence, and comfortability. Designing a face mask with proper adherence and comfortability in wearing and breathing became a matter of great importance. In this work, the adherence of an innovative face mask and its comfortability were experimentally tested with real faces, considering the deformation of the mask and the soft facial tissues. A stereophotogrammetric acquisition was made of the face with the face mask during these tests. A comparison between the geometries of the face and the mask, undeformed and deformed, gave the respective deformations. The force applied by the mask to the face was calculated, measuring the elastic strain of the mask bands during wearing and the deformation
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