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Corrigendum: Human mental workload: A survey and a novel inclusive definition
No full textIn the published article, the name of Gabriella Hancock was incorrectly written as “Gabriela M. Hancock.” The correct name is “Gabriella Hancock.” In the published article, there was also an error in the author list as published. Gabriella Hancock was listed as the last author, but should have been listed as third author. P. A. Hancock was listed as third author but should be listed as the last author. The corrected author list appears below. Luca Longo1, Christopher D.Wickens, Gabriella Hancock and P. A. Hancock. The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated
Janus Bifrons, Janus Cerus: strategie traduttive e autotraduttive in Nabokov
No full textJanus Bifrons, Janus Cerus: Nabokov’s translation and Self-translation
Strategies
The first part of the paper delves into the question of the writer’s approaches to literary
translation. A distinction between his translations into Russian (this is the case of Alice in
Wonderland,1923, Anja v Strane Čudes) and those into English (Evgenij Onegin, 1964,Eu-gene Onegin) is in order. It should be underlined, however, that in this reference frame the
translation is conducted on works belonging to otherauthors. Nonetheless, these examples
make it possible to discuss Nabokov’s distinct, if not contradictory, theoretical position con-cerning the practice of translation. In fact, his opinion dramatically changes depending on
the direction of translation, from Russian into English or the other way round.
The second focus is on the problem of translating one’s own text. In Nabokov’s literary
career this activity was undertaken from the 1930s onwards. It is possible here to mention a
novel such as Otčajanie(Despair, 1936), which the author self-translated twice into English
(1937, 1965). Finally, the paper considers Nabokov’s collaboration with his son Dmitri, because of its theoretical importance. Examples of this cooperation can be found, for instance,
in the translation of Priglašenie na kazn’ (1938, Invitation to a Beheading, 1959), and Cose
Trasparenti(1975, Transparent Things, 1972). The legitimacy of the translation and its value
are called into question, while the role of the author in this context is also discussed
L’Ara Pacis di Augusto e la campagna elettorale per le elezioni amministrative, del 2006, del Comune di Roma
No full textIl 21 aprile del 2006, ricorrenza del Natale di Roma, il sindaco Walter Veltroni inaugurò il nuovo Museo dell’Ara Pacis progettato dall’architetto statunitense Richard Meier. L’edificio sostituiva la precedente teca realizzata da Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo, tra il 1937 e il 1938, per la committenza di Benito Mussolini. A far da sfondo alla cerimonia del 2006, accompagnata da molte polemiche, il clima “infuocato” della campagna politica per l’elezione, imminente, del sindaco della capitale. Campagna elettorale che, sia nella costruzione del consenso sia nella creazione di un eventuale dissenso nei confronti della giunta in carica, vide al centro del dibattito elettorale anche l’edificio di Meier. L’autrice, dunque, a partire da questa evidenza, analizza nel saggio l’attenzione da parte della politica nei confronti di un progetto che solo ad una lettura disattenta risulta circoscritto all’archeologia, all’urbanistica e all’architettura. Una riflessione, quella proposta da Gabriella De Marco, sollecitata dagli strumenti metodologici della storia dell’arte. Lo scritto, quindi, non è centrato sull’analisi dell’edificio di Meier, sulle modalità dell’assegnazione dell’incarico e sulle altre questioni tecniche su cui esiste un’ampia e qualificata letteratura scientifica, ma sull’uso della storia, dell’archeologia e dell’urbanistica come forma attuale di comunicazione politica ed elettorale.On 21th April 2006, anniversary of the founding of Rome, the Major Walter Veltroni inaugurated the new Ara Pacis Museum designed by the American architect Richard Meyer. The building replaced the previous shrine created by Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo, between 1937 and 1938, and commissioned by Benito Mussolini. Background of the 2006 ceremony, not without controversy, was “the fiery climate” of the political campaign for the election of the Mayor of the city. Election campaign that put in the middle of the political clash, and of the political debate, the Museum designed by Meier. Therefore, in the essay, Gabriella De Marco analyzes the attention by the contemporary politic towards a cultural project that only a distracted reading may narrow to the specific context of the archaeology, the history and the urban planning. The author proposes a reflection conducted through the methodological tools of the history of art. The text, therefore, is not built on the analysis of the Museum of Meier and on the other technical matters, on which there is a wide and qualified scientific literature, but on the use of history, archaeology, and urban planning as a current form of political and electoral communication
Proteindynamik im Zellkern: Auswirkungen auf die Genexpression
No full textMithilfe der Mikroskopietechnik "Fluorescence
Recovery After Photobleaching" (FRAP) wurden die
kinetischen Eigenschaften der Proteine der Polycomb
Gruppe in lebenden Drosophila Embryonen und
verschiedenen Geweben (Imaginalscheibe der Flügel und
Speicheldrüse) charakterisiert. Dieses sind meines
Wissens die ersten kinetischen Bleichexperimente, die
an kompletten Embryonen und lebenden Geweben
durchgeführt wurden.
Die Gene der Polycomb Gruppe (PcG) sind essentielle
Gene in höheren Eukaryoten, die für die
Aufrechterhaltung der räumlich spezifischen
Unterdrückung für die Entwicklung wichtiger
Regulatoren, wie der homeotischen Gene, nötig sind.
Deren Abwesenheit sowie deren Überexpression führt zu
Transformationen der axialen Segmente des Körpers.
Obwohl PcG Proteinkomplexe bereits ex vivo isoliert wurden, ist bisher nur
wenig über deren Stabilität und den exakten Mechanismus
der Repression in vivo
bekannt.
Ich habe den Diffusionskoeffizieten von PcG Proteinen
und deren Dissotiationskonstante und Aufenthaltszeit in
Komplexen in verschiedenen Entwicklungsstadien
bestimmen können. In polytenen Zellkernen suggerieren
die Ratenkonstanten eine Heterogenität der Komplexe.
Zum Vergleich mit den experimentellen Daten wurden
Computersimulationen mit neuartigen Modellen
durchgeführt, die die räumlich inhomogene Verteilung
der Proteine berücksichtigen.
Daraus ergaben sich Schätzungen sowohl für die vorwärts
gerichtete als auch die rückwärtige Ratenkonstante der
Komplexbildung. Der Austausch in den Komplexen
geschieht in einer Zeitspanne von einer bis zu zehn
Minuten, also etwa eine Größenordnung schneller als die
Zellzykluszeit. Dies spricht gegen Modelle der
Repression, in denen die Zugänglichkeit von
Transkriptionsaktivatoren zum Chromatin permanent
eingeschränkt wird und zeigt, dass die
Langzeitunterdrückung hauptsächlich durch das chemische
Gleichgewicht in Verbindung mit dem
Massenwirkungsgesetz erreicht wird.
Mithilfe der Computersimulation von Diffusion und
räumlich lokalisierter Bindungsstellen unter
Berücksichtigung der Randbedingungen konnte ich die
gemessenen biophysikalischen Prozesse, die dem FRAP
Experiment zugrunde liegen, genau beschreiben und
daraus einen optimierten experimentellen Ablauf und
eine quantitative Interpretation der Ergebnisse
ableiten.Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP)
microscopy was used to determine the kinetic properties
of Polycomb group proteins in whole living Drosophila
organisms (embryos) and tissues (wing imaginal discs
and salivary glands). These are the first
photobleaching experiments performed in whole embryos
and tissues. Polycomb group (PcG) genes are essential
genes in higher eukaryotes responsible for the
maintenance of the spatially distinct repression of
developmentally important regulators such as the
homeotic genes. Their absence, as well as
overexpression, causes transformations in the axial
organization of the body. Although protein complexes
have been isolated in vitro, little is known about
their stability or exact mechanism of repression
in vivo.
I determined the translational diffusion coefficients
of PcG proteins, dissociation constants and residence
times for complexes in vivo
at different developmental stages. In polytene nuclei
the rate constants suggest heterogeneity of the
complexes. Computer simulations with new models for
spatially distributed protein complexes were performed
in systems showing both diffusion and binding
equilibria and the results compared with the
experimental data. I was able to determine forward and
reverse rate constants for complex formation. Complexes
exchanged within a period of one to ten minutes, more
than an order of magnitude faster than the cell cycle
time, ruling out models of repression in which access
of transcription activators to the chromatin is limited
and demonstrating that longterm repression primarily
reflects mass-action chemical equilibria.
With the help of computer programs built to simulate
diffusion in boundary conditions and binding kinetics
of proteins to localized binding sites in the genome I
describe in detail the observed biophysical processes
underlying FRAP and offer guidance for a better setup,
optimization and interpretation of photobleaching
experiments
Gabriella Infinita: a perspective of Colombian history and culture through electronic literature
No full textGabriella infinita is a landmark of Latin American digital literature by Colombian author Jaime Alejandro Rodríguez Ruiz. It is a hypermedia novel in Spanish which was originally written and published as a traditional printed novel in 1994, to later on become a hypertext and a hypermedia novel. As a literary piece, Gabriella Infinita is an excellent example of Latin American literature. It brings to the fore topics that have been common to many Latin American countries, such as a civil war, guerrilla wars, repression, freedom of expression, fear and exile. It also highlights Latin America fascination with the United States and the counterculture movements of the 1970s. This essay explores how Colombian writer Jaime Alejandro Rodríguez Ruiz uses the various modalities of the new media in his hypermedia Gabriella Infinita to provide a better understanding of Colombian culture and history
Sull’insegnamento universitario di storia dell’arte contemporanea e le scritture al femminile. Riflessioni sul metodo, il canone e i manuali di storia dell’arte. Spunti per un avio di riflessione
No full textGabriella De Marco propone una riflessione sul genere a partire da alcuni manuali adottati in Italia, dalla metà degli anni settanta del Novecento, nelle scuole e all’Università. In particolare, ha preso in considerazione alcuni volumi di autori italiani e stranieri pubblicati tra il 1970 ed il 2016.
Il genere, dunque, e in particolare quello che l’autrice definisce come scritture al femminile , è spunto di riflessione per un ragionamento legato al canone, o più precisamente, all’avvio del canone negli studi di storia dell’arte contemporanea. L’attenzione nei confronti dell’avvio di storicizzazione dell’arte delle donne è motivo, inoltre, di un ragionamento sulle potenzialità di un manuale nella formazione della ricezione e del gusto sul fronte culturale. L’autrice, esponendo i suoi criteri di selezione, ha preso in esame alcune artiste attive, nel contesto internazionale dall’età neoclassica ai nostri giorni. La disamina, inoltre, ha evidenziato, al di là delle scelte personali degli autori dei manuali considerati, l’esistenza di un centro e di una periferia
che incide profondamente nell’elenco delle presenze; e ciò indipendentemente dalla questione del genere.
Il testo, per concludere, proprio perché vuol essere una sguardo su alcuni di quei volumi su cui si sono formate generazioni di studenti, si propone come un contributo sull’avvio del canone e la contemporaneità. Ciò a partire dall’arte delle donne.Gabriella De Marco proposes a reflection on gender starting from some textbooks adopted in Italian schools and universities since the mid-seventies, with specific reference to some volumes of Italian and foreign authors published between 1970 and 2016. The gender, which the author defines as female writings , is a reflection on the canon or more precisely on the start of the canon in the studies of contemporary art history.
The start of a process of historicization of women’s art is also an occasion for a reasoning on the potential that a manual has in the forma tion of cultural taste. The author has examined some artists active in the international context from the neoclassical age to the present. The survey has highlighted, beyond the personal choices of the authors, the existence of an interior and an exterior that deeply affects the list of selected artist, regardless of the gender issue. Finally, the text wants to have a glance at some of those textbooks on which generations of students have been formed. It is proposed as a contribution to the beginning of the canon and the contemporary studies, starting from the art of wome
Writing about a Stranger. Therese Schlesinger (1863 Vienna – 1940 Blois): Vom Gemeintsein im Bild der Vergangenheit
No full textThis article addresses theories and methods of writing biography with regard to Walter Benjamin’s metaphor of »recognizing the image of the past as one’s own concern«. The author reflects on »recognizing« herself in the historical image and in the work of Therese Schlesinger. Tracing the biography of the Jewish-Austrian feminist, social democrat and member of parliament, who was forced into exile by the National Socialist takeover in 1938, the author refuses to limit the reading of Schlesinger’s biography to a single historicist narrative. Gabriella Hauch argues that we must look for narrative fissures and gaps to make visible the multi-dimensional tangle of cause and effect in biographical research.This article addresses theories and methods of writing biography with regard to Walter Benjamin’s metaphor of »recognizing the image of the past as one’s own concern«. The author reflects on »recognizing« herself in the historical image and in the work of Therese Schlesinger. Tracing the biography of the Jewish-Austrian feminist, social democrat and member of parliament, who was forced into exile by the National Socialist takeover in 1938, the author refuses to limit the reading of Schlesinger’s biography to a single historicist narrative. Gabriella Hauch argues that we must look for narrative fissures and gaps to make visible the multi-dimensional tangle of cause and effect in biographical research
Numerical simulation of non-standard tensile tests of thin metal foils
No full textThe evolution of the fracture processes occurring in thin metal foils can be evidenced by tensile tests performed on samples of non-standard dimensions. The load versus displacement record of these experiments does not return directly the local stress-strain relationship and the fracture characteristics of the investigated material. In fact, the overall response of thin foils is sensitive to local imperfections, size and geometric effects. Simulation models of the performed tests can support the interpretation of the experimental results, provided that the most significant physical phenomena are captured. The present contribution focuses on the role of modelling details on the numerical output that can be obtained in this context
La tutela dell'ambiente come diritto della persona
No full textIn this essay the author proposes a reconstruction of the environment as a right of
the person and of environmental damage as an existential damage aimed at filling that
void of protection in environmental matters denounced by the internal and European
courts.
In particular, in the Italian legal system, the absence of remedies that allow the
individual affected person to obtain compensation protection reveals, on the basis of
current legislation, within the Italian legal system, a dangerous vacuum of protection.
According to the author, the legitimacy of the injured party could be derived from
a parallel reconstruction of the environmental damage that, regardless of the legislative configuration, identifies it as damage to the quality of life, in accordance with the
enhancement of the environment as a fundamental right of the person, operated by
jurisprudence and confirmed by the principles of domestic and European legislation.
In this perspective, the author identifies in the reform of the commons, currently
under consideration by Parliament, the opportunity to introduce a specific discipline for
the private protection of the environment.
According to the author, in addition to the public legitimacy of the State, in the
person of the Ministry of the Environment, provided for by the special environmental
legislation, the reformed civil code could still establish the individual legitimacy of the
person injured by a phenomenon of environmental damage, as damage to an individual
existential conditio
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