474 research outputs found
D.H.L's Oscar : An Introduction
No full textOrestano focusses on D. H. Lawrence's reception in Italy and on the volume of the Oscar Mondadori series, n. 51, L'amante di Lady Chatterley, which marks his popularity in the Sixties. While achieving mass-popularity, Lawrence was also being critically assessed by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, who finely commented on his work and the Italian reception
Contracting Authority, Expanding the Canon: The Case of Virginia Woolf
No full textWithin the general scope of the conference, the essay focusses on the one hand on the ways in which Virginia Woolf discussed the principle of authority in her essays, reviews and criticism; on the other hand, the restricted status Woolf assigns to the author (as compared with Victorian authorship) is compensated for in the bold achievement of The Waves (1931). Orestano argues that in this novel the authority of the novelist, while conventionally limited, is augmented by a deliberate move towards, and appropriation of, scientific authority and its epistemic view of the nature of the universe. The theory of the light waves, and of particles, as expounded by Eddington and Jeans in Woolf's times, and explained today by Hawking, provides the fittest key of intepretation for the seven characters of The Waves, their colours, character, and destiny
Review of Laura Peters (ed.) , Dickens and Childhood
No full textOrestano examines the many contributions to the "Library of essays on Charles Dickens" series, published by Ashgate. The volume on Dickens and Childhood, which gathers many eminent authors, who are well-known in the field of Dickens studies, includes manifold viewpoints on the concept of childhood but not often centers on Dickens's reception as an author for children or on his works addressing a yoing audience
Introduction
No full textIn this Introductory essay to the Volume Dickens and Italy: 'Little Dorrit' and 'Pictures from Italy' Orestano indicates the variety of critical responses scholars have contributed to the collection: they vary from a political assessment of the situation of the Italian states, to a response to Catholicism and its rites, to the analysis of landscape representation in terms which connect Pictures from Italy to fiction or to tourist guides
Search for the Standard Model Higgs with the ATLAS detector
No full textThe search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in data collected by the ATLAS experiment in 2011 and 2012 data is summarized, with emphasis on the combination of the results from all the analyzed channels
Pan between Renaissance and Fin-de-Siècle: the lesson of Jacob Burckhardt
No full textThe essay moves from the work of Jacob Burckhardt and the strategy he devised for his study of 'The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy.' It then traces various responses to Burckhardt's notion of "civilization" in British and European culture between the 1860s and the 1930s. Burckhardt's cultural history prompted the revival of Pan within the definition of modern identity and gender building. The cult of the pagan god Pan spread from the arts to the wide cultural scenario: from scholarly essays, travelogues, novels, gothic stories, it spread into children's literature, music, illustrations, periodicals, ballet and costume, and eventually the cinema. The conclusion of the essay points to the death of Pan, as described by D. H. Lawrence in the cultural context of the Fascist regime of the 1930s, bent on the ideological retrieval of Roman military history
D. H. Lawrence, Gargnano Graffiti and The Fight for Barbara (1912)
No full textTo celebrate the 13th D. H. Lawrence Conference held at Gargnano, the Editors have gathered critical introductions and essays on his early work, and added the play Lawrence wrote in Gargnano in 1912, The Fight for Barbara
Bringing the ATLAS muon spectrometer to life with cosmic rays
No full textThe muon spectrometer of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider is the largest device ever built to track high energy particles. It has been designed to provide muon identification and measurement in the hard environment of proton-proton collisions at high energy and high luminosity at the LHC. Three toroid magnets, one in the barrel and two in the end-caps, host the particle detectors for the trigger and for precision tracking. The bending power, which ranges between 1 and 7.5 T-m, depending on the pseudorapidity, and the low amount of material crossed by the muons in the spectrometer, allow the precise determination of the transverse momentum over a wide pseudorapidity interval, |eta|<2.4, with a resolution better than 10% up to 1 TeV for |eta|<1.1. Four different types of detectors, two devoted to triggering and two to the precision momentum measurement, cover an area of 10,000 square meters and are read out by 1 million channels of electronics. Many advanced technological components are used in both the hardware and the software to control the detector status, monitor the data quality. This impressive number of elements, spread over the large volume of the spectrometer, were commissioned for many months with cosmic rays and were ready to take data when the first beam was circulated in the LHC. A systematic study of the detector’s performance was done in the following months. More than 200 million of cosmi c ray triggers were taken in different conditions, out of them 92% triggered by the muon system itself. These data have been used to map all detector elements, and to improve the understanding of the trigger, pattern recognition, and tracking, as well as to commission the calibration and alignment procedures and the data analysis software. We present the status of the muon detectors and the main results from the reconstruction of this event sample, showing that the ATLAS muon spectrometer is well advanced towards physics data taking
Pensieri. un libro per tutti
No full textPensieri : un libro per tutti / Francesco Orestano. - Rome : Optima, 1912
Dedica manoscritta dell\u27autore: Al Ch.mo / D. Emilio Bodrero / in omaggio affettuoso / dell\u27A.
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Status of the ATLAS experiment
No full textThe status of the ATLAS experiment, as of September 2010, is presented, together with some highlights on the first physics result
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