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    A imagem de Alessandro Baricco no Brasil

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    Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução, Florianópolis, 2013.Com a intenção de delinear o modo pelo qual o escritor italiano Alessandro Baricco se inseriu no sistema literário brasileiro e os caminhos percorridos pelos seus livros traduzidos, esta dissertação dá voz às experiências tradutórias de seus tradutores. A inserção de Bariccono Brasil tem seu início em 1997, através de uma proposição da Profa. Dra. Roberta Barni à editora Iluminuras da tradução de Oceano Mare. A partir daí, outras sete obras foram publicadas no Brasil, sendo três delas traduzidas por Roberta Barni e as outras quatro por quatro tradutores diferentes. De um lado, considera-se o tradutor como figura principal namediação entre culturas, e, de outro, se analisa a realidade desta figuradentro do sistema literário, sua invisibilidade, seus limites e o exercíciode sua profissão. A pesquisa conta, ainda, com críticas e resenhas referentes ao autor italiano publicadas em jornais consagrados no Brasil, considerando estas como parte constituinte da imagem de Baricco refletida em território nacional. Abstract : Intending to delineate the way the Italian writer Alessandro Baricco has been inserted in the Brazilian literary system and the paths his translated books have followed, this thesis gives voice to the translating experiences of his translators. Baricco's insertion in Brazil began in 1997, through a personal project of Dr. Roberta Barni, with her translation of Oceano Mare. Since then, seven other of his works have been published in Brazil, three of which were translated by Roberta Barni and the other four by four different translators. On the one hand,the translator is considered as the main figure in mediation betweencultures and, on the other, this figure's reality is analyzed within theliterary system: its invisibility, its limits and its professional practice. Criticisms and reviews of this Italian author published in well established Brazilian newspapers are also considered, with the understanding that they are part of Baricco's image reflected here

    La maturità di Alessandro Fei del Barbiere, in bilico tra Maniera e Riforma

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    This article studies the mature career of the Florentine painter Alessandro Fei del Barbiere (1537-1592), beginning with the rediscovery of the 'Ascension' altarpiece formerly in the Albizi Chapel in the destroyed church of San Pier Maggiore, Florence. Studying this painting and others recorded in 1584 by the biographer Raffaello Borghini, such as the two altarpieces for Santa Maria delle Grazie and the Madonna dell'Umiltà in Pistoia, the author reconstructs a body of works showing how in the 1580s Fei gradually went beyond the archaic style of his apprenticeship - he had been trained by Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio and Pierfrancesco Foschi, but was also marked by the Maniera of Vasari - evolving towards naturalism in both mimesis and pictorial handling. In Florence, his development partly parallels that of Santi di Tito and his circle, but Fei was also influenced by a probable sojourn during the early part of that decade in Rome, where he could have been inspired by Girolamo Muziano and the painters working for Pope Gregory XIII. Among other proposals, the author suggests that the artist was responsible for decorating the chancel of Fiesole Cathedral (c. 1584-1589), which consisted of an altarpiece, only rarely discussed by scholars, and a cycle of frescoes hitherto attributed to Nicodemo Ferrucci

    Effect of genes related to meat quality traits on progeny of selected bulls of Italian Limousine breed

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    The aim of this study was to analyze polymorphisms in candidate genes for meat quality traits in the Italian Limousine beef breed. Chemical (proximate analysis and fatty acid profile) and physical (sample cut, colour, pH, cooking loss, shear force and free water) traits from steaks of 97 steers progeny of 9 selected bulls were recorded. DNA was extracted from the same animals and analysed at 10 SNP mutations in 7 different genes: myostatin (MSTN), dyacilglycerol-acyltransferase (DGAT), calpain (CAPN), calpastatin (CAST), leptin (LEP), thyroglobulin (TG), fatty acid binding protein (FABP). Allele and genotype frequencies, heterozygosity, and Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium for each SNP were estimated. Haplotype reconstruction through Phase software was also performed for SNPs located on the same chromosome. The association among SNPs or haplotypes and the recorded traits has been performed through a linear mixed model incorporating the effect of the pedigree with the pedigreemm package in R. Two SNPs at myostatin gene (F94L and Q204X) and one located in the thyroglobulin gene (C422T) were fixed whereas the other SNPs presented a MAF .05. Fixation of the first two SNPs might be either the result of the selection program developed so far or the bias due to the small sample size. No significant departures from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium were identified for the genotypes, except for the CAST282 located in the calpastatin gene where a moderate excess of heterozygous genotypes was observed. Accounting for haplotypes did not change the association results in any of the traits analyzed. Two out of three SNPs of the CAPN gene (CAPN316 and CAPN530) and one at CAST gene (CAST282) were associated with meat tenderness, free water content and fatty acid profile. Thus the combined effect of favourable alleles for CAPN and CAST markers resulted in improved meat quality traits providing further evidence that selection based on these markers might be feasible. There are also evidence that SNPs at FABP, DGAT and CAST genes were associated with fat traits confirming the important role of these genes in lipid metabolism of intramuscular fat. No significant association between LEP gene and meat quality traits has been found. Due to the moderate size of the sample is not possible to draw final conclusions but the result suggests to deepen the studies at the final aim of incorporating markers information in the selection criterion of Italian Limousine breed

    Tra socialdemocrazie e Perestrojka. Le relazioni internazionali del Pci attraverso le carte di Alessandro Natta

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    This essay reconstructs the foreign policy of the Italian Communist Party during the four years of Alessandro Natta’s secretariat (1984-1988) through largely original archival documentation, from the Alessandro Natta Fonds of the Historical Archive of the Chamber of Deputies. Natta’s papers are also cross-referenced with those kept in the PCI Archive at the Gramsci Foundation. The author analyses the relationship that the PCI establishes with Gorbachev’s Perestroika, Deng’s China, and European social democracies during the last years of the Cold War

    Volta Alessandro

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    The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (extension and updating of the Dictionary of Scientific Biography) is one of the most substantial reference works in the field of the history of science. An up-to-date overview on Alessandro Volta's science with new perspectives offered by the author. Information and critical analysis is also provided on the main secondary literature produced on this main protagonist of enlightenment science after the 1976 entry "Volta Alessandro" in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography

    "Muy señor nuestro Alessandro Varaldo". La ricognizione del mondo spagnolo e portoghese per riscoprire un autore italiano di successo ma dimenticato

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    Who is Alessandro Varaldo (1876-1953)? This first analysis about what was said, adapted and translated of Varaldo’s work in the Iberian Peninsula and South America, maybe the only areas outside Italy where some traces of Italian author can be found, is a chance to go along his literary paths that overtook two temporal barriers (1900 and 1950), although it has not overtaken the oblivion’s threshold.Questa è una prima ricognizione di ciò che è stato detto, adattato e tradotto di Alessandro Varaldo (1876-1953) nella Penisola iberica e in Sud America, che si sospetta siano gli unici territori stranieri dove si riesca a ritracciare qualcosa dell’autore italiano, ed è un’occasione per ripercorrerne la traiettoria letteraria che ha superato due transenne temporali come il 1900 e il 1950 ma non quella della dimenticanza

    Lean six sigma in a call centre : a case study

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    This paper, a case study, aims to illustrate the application of lean six sigma in a call centre of a service industry corporation. The study draws on process information and primary data from a real project. The study describes improvements in the operation of the call centre attributable to lean six sigma: increase in first-call resolution ratio, reduction in operator turnover and streamlining of processes. The introduction of lean six sigma into the call centre daily operations' management may have organizational benefits. Although lean six sigma has been extremely successful in the last two decades in the manufacturing sector, its applicability to the service sector has been a controversial topic. This study illustrates its application to a fast-growing area of the service sector, assisting companies in identifying areas of development for their call centres

    First person – Alessandro Soloperto

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    ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Alessandro Soloperto is the first author on ‘Mechano-sensitization of mammalian neuronal networks through expression of the bacterial large-conductance mechanosensitive ion channel’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Alessandro is a PhD student in the lab of Francesco Difato at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy, investigating the potential of targeted modulation of the neuronal Ca2+ activity via remote mechanical stimulation.</jats:p

    Interview with Alessandro Bonnano

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    Dr. Alessandro Bonanno, 2019 Blackmar Lecturer, is Texas State University System Regents Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Sam Houston State University. He is the author of 25 books and numerous journal articles that appeared in English and other major languages. Dr. Bonanno’s areas of specialization include Economy and Society, Theory, and Sociology of Agriculture and Food

    Ebrei e “zona di residenza” durante il regno di Alessandro II

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    Alessandro CifarielloJews and &ldquo;living space&rdquo; during the reign of Tsar Alexander IIThis is the first of a series of papers written in Italian, English, and Russian, devoted to the publication of material not included in the Author&rsquo;s 2009 dissertation entitled Judeophobia and the Anti-Nihilistic Novel in Russia at the End of the 19th Century. Taking as a point of departure works by leading scholars, such as Israel Bartal, Cesare G. De Michelis, Jonathan Frankel, John D. Klier, Dan Miron, Benjamin Nathans, Laura Salmon, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, and Yuri Slezkine, this article aims at offering some new perspectives on the Pale of Settlement and on the history and culture of Russian Jewry during the reign of Alexander II. It highlights the laws and reforms concerning Russian Jews implemented by the Tsar&rsquo;s government, and their fallout on Russian culture. The Author analyzes Jewish geography, urban space, history, legislation, reforms, society, cultural convergences and differences in the Pale of Settlement. The paper concludes with information about the 1881-1882 Russian pogroms and about how certain Jewish inhabitants of the Pale of Settlement then emigrated towards Central and Western Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. The paper discusses the commonplace of a separate Jewish space in the Pale envisaged in some late 19th and early 20th Century Yiddish literature, and describes the multicultural universe made up of several nationalities, one of which was in fact Russian Jewry, struggling for its rights and for full emancipation
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