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Islam and cultural identity among the Berti of Sudan
No full textFocusing on the Berti of Sudan, this article assesses the role of Islam and Arabism as important variables in the social construction of cultural identity of the studied people. In line with most relevant recent literature, the author looks at cultural identity as a social construct, a dynamic ideology of shifting borders and a historical process that is grounded on diachronic social formation. The article argues that the present Berti identity is a conscious reflection of their subordinate position vis-à-vis the kingdoms and states which have dominated Sudan over the past few centuries
The Valuable Plurality of the Citizen Sciences
No full textWe are grateful to Caren Cooper, Sachit Mahajan, Hussein Zeidan, Maxson Anyolitho, and Mercy Gloria Ashepet for their comments on earlier versions of this paper. Author Anna Berti Suman’s research was supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant n. 891513, awarded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Funding Program. Views and opinions expressed in this article by author Anna Berti Suman are those of the author only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Commission. The ATRAP project is financed by the Development Cooperation program of the Royal Museum for Central Africa with support of the Belgian Directorate-General Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid.Peer-reviewe
Osservazioni sulla data drammatica del 'Dialogus de oratoribus' di Tacito
No full textAmong the numerous problems posed by Tacitus’ Dialogus
de oratoribus, one of the most debated concerns the dramatic
date of the work. Scholars are divided between two possible dates of
74/75 or 77/78; but consideration of the role played in the plot of the
dialogue by the author himself enables us to fix the dramatic date
in the years 74/75, when Tacitus was 18 and was following his
tirocinium fori. That corresponds to the author’s desire to present
himself as an old-fashioned orator, formed according to the traditional
training system
Female circumcision and ethnic identification in Sudan with special reference to the Berti of Darfur
No full textThis article assesses the state of female circumcision in the Sudan with the primary emphasis being placed on the Berti
of Darfur. Among other things, the article examines the factors that have so far led to the perpetuation of the practice and the failure of the anti-circumcision campaign. The author suggests a renewal of the campaign through the use of a comprehensive approach which encompasses the social, aesthetic, medical, identificational and religious variables involved in the practice
Lexical collocations in bilingual dictionaries
No full textElusive yet intuitive at the same time, the concept of collocation has attracted the attention of different branches of linguistics for many a year, owing to the proven pervasiveness of such combinations in languages. Although a universally accepted definition of collocation has not been reached as each attempted description is inextricably related to the linguist’s standpoint, the development of a series of very workable ideas on the nature of these combinations has led to the production of worthy linguistic commodities. While English lexicography has kept pace with the development in lexicology and corpus linguistics, Italian lexicography has only recently started to look in that direction. The author investigates the treatment of lexical collocations in the major bilingual English-Italian dictionaries, looking closely at the lexicographers’ choices while keeping the end users and their heuristics in mind
Homoclinics and chaotic behaviour for perturbed second order systems
No full textThis paper deals with perturbed Hamiltonian systems. The main assumption is that the unperturbed system has a homoclinic orbit which is non-degenerate in the sense that the linearized equation as a 1-dimensional kernel. If the Poincare Melnikov potential is sufficiently oscillating we construct multi-bump and also infinite-bump solutions. These ideas and results in bifurcation theory have been later used by several author
Homoclinics and chaotic behaviour for perturbed second order systems
No full textThis paper deals with perturbed Hamiltonian systems. The main assumption is that the unperturbed system has a homoclinic orbit which is non-degenerate in the sense that the linearized equation as a 1-dimensional kernel. If the Poincare Melnikov potential is sufficiently oscillating we construct multi-bump and also infinite-bump solutions. These ideas and results in bifurcation theory have been later used by several author
A Consistency Theorem for Regular Conditional Distributions
No full textLet (omega, beta) be a measurable space, An in B a sub-sigma-field and µn a random probability measure, n >= 1. In various frameworks, one looks for a probability P on B such that µn is a regular conditional distribution for P given An for all n. Conditions for such a P to exist are given. The conditions are quite simple when (omega, beta) is a compact Hausdorff space equipped with the Borel or the Bairesigma-field (as well as under other similar assumptions). Such conditions are then applied to Bayesian statistics.Posterior distribution, Random probability measure, Regular conditional distribution.
Mrs. and Mr. Wakefield: intertextualidad y reescritura de "Wakefield" de Nathaniel Hawthorne en la novela <i>La mujer de Wakefield</i> de Eduardo Berti
No full textHacia 1999, el escritor argentino Eduardo Berti, con la publicación de su novela La mujer de Wakefield, traza un arco que anuda, mediante una relación intertextual, casi dos siglos y dos hemisferios continentales. En efecto, el cuento “Wakefield” del escritor norteamericano decimonónico Nathaniel Hawthorne, se presenta como texto fuente del texto meta de Berti. Amén de apoderarse de algunos elementos de la diégesis propias del cuento del autor norteamericano, mediante estrategias de expansión, urde el propio, como un rebote cultural de su antecedente. Donde Hawthorne apela a la síntesis, la condensación y la retórica alegórica (propias del cuento), Berti acudirá a una poética sin moralejas, en tanto desata zonas del texto fuente que se hallaban tan sólo insinuadas, latentes o inexistentes. Queda claro que este texto se inscribe en una tradición poderosa de la literatura argentina reciente (Borges, Puig, Piglia, Kohan), en la cual textos del pasado son reescritos y traducen, mediante nuevas poéticas, lecturas renovadoras de ese pasado cultural.By 1999, the Argentine writer Eduardo Berti, with the publication of his novel The Woman in Wakefield draws an arc, through intertextual relationship, that ties nearly two centuries and two continental hemispheres. Indeed, the short story "Wakefield" by the nineteenth-century American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne is presented as text font of the text scopum by Berti. Amen to take over some elements of the diegesis from the American author´s Tale by expansion strategies, weaves his own, as a cultural rebound of its antecedent. Where Hawthorne appeals to the synthesis, condensation and allegorical rhetoric (own tale), Berti attends a poetry without morals; setting free those areas of the source text which have been only insinuated, dormant or nonexistent. It is clear that this text is part of a tradition Argentina powerful recent literature (Borges, Puig, Piglia, Kohan) in which past texts are rewritten and translated through new poetic, renovating readings of that cultural past.Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educació
Minumally invasive videi-assisted thyroidectomy: multinstitutional experience
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Minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy: Multiinstitutional experience
Author(s): Miccoli, P (Miccoli, P); Bellantone, R (Bellantone, R); Mourad, M (Mourad, M); Walz, M (Walz, M); Raffaelli, M (Raffaelli, M); Berti, P (Berti, P)
Source: WORLD JOURNAL OF SURGERY Volume: 26 Issue: 8 Pages: 972-975 DOI: 10.1007/s00268-002-6627-7 Published: AUG 2002
Times Cited: 88 (from Web of Science)
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Conference: International Surgical Week Conference Location: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM Date: AUG 26-30, 2001
Abstract: Minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy (MINAT) was described in 1998. In this study we collected the experience of four third-level referral centers that adopted this technique. A total of 336 patients (279 females, 57 males) were selected for MINAT. Selection criteria were thyroid volume < 15 ml, nodules not exceeding 3.5 cm of diameter, and an absence of thyroiditis, previous neck surgery, or previous irradiation. The procedure, totally gasless, is carried out through a 15 rum central incision above the sternal notch. Dissection is performed under endoscopic vision using conventional and endoscopic instruments. The mean operating time was 69.4 +/- 30.6 minutes for lobectomy (range 20-150 minutes) and 87.4 +/- 43.5 minutes for total thyroidectomy (range 30-220 minutes). The mean postoperative stay was 1.9 +/- 0.8 days. Postoperative complications were 7 transient and I definitive recurrent nerve palsies and 11 cases of hypoparathyroidism (9 transient, 2 definitive). Conversion to open surgery was necessary in 15 patients (4.5%). This study confirms in a large number of cases the safety and feasibility of MINAT, even in different surgical settings where similar results were achieved. The complication rate was not different from that of standard thyroidectomy. Although the operating time appears longer than with conventional procedures, the learning curve demonstrates a sharp decrease with increasing experience and the introduction of new technologies. The number of patients eligible for this approach remains low, thereby limiting its use, but it should be considered a valid option in selected surgical centers, offering some advantages to patients in terms of cosmetic results and postoperative distress
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