676 research outputs found
Visions, Dreams and Reality: Charles Lamb and the Inward ‘Topography’ of Shakespeare’s Plays
No full textThe essay explores the complex reception of Shakespeare during British Romanticism, with a particular focus on Charles Lamb, one of the greatest essayists of the romantic period, and his encompassing critique of representation. The essay analyses a number of writings by the author, including his famous essay ‘On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, Considered with Reference to their Fitness for Stage Representation’ (1811), and attempts to problematize Lamb’s controversial positions on the (im)possibility to perform Shakespearean dramas on the Romantic Stage
George Edmund Street e il Victorian Gothic a Genova
No full textStudying the neo-roman anglican church of the Holy Ghost, the author focuses the Genoese activity of one of the most important architects of the Gothic Revival in England during the Vistorian period: George Edmund Street. The history of the monument, its original projects rediscovered, the patronage, the English milieu in Genoa, the links with local medieval architecture and european neo-gothic and archaeological culture
The impact of renewable energy systems on local sustainability
No full textThe purpose of the paper is to discuss and assess the impact of renewable energy, RE, generation on sustainable communities, with a specific focus on employment impact. In recent years, local authorities have been involved in the energy planning process due to the site-specific nature of renewable production and thanks to their nearer connection to citizens. Four small and medium-size sustainable communities belonging to Marche region, in central Italy, have been analysed. The work forecasts the employment generated by the RE capacity defined by two different energy scenarios: 1) the 'business as usual' scenario with a 20% CO2 emission reduction target by 2020, where all the energy policies suggested by Sustainable Energy Action Plans have been considered; 2) the 'potential' scenario with a 50% CO2 emission reduction target by 2050. Results show that the spreading of renewable energy, as expected, can increase local jobs, although the high investments required and problems connected to the impact on the grid have to be considered in the analysis of the global economic effect
A Relational Unsupervised Approach to Author Identification
No full textIn the last decades speaking and writing habits have changed.
Many works faced the author identification task by exploiting frequencybased
approaches, numeric techniques or writing style analysis. Following
the last approach we propose a technique for author identification
based on First-Order Logic. Specifically, we translate the complex data
represented by natural language text to complex (relational) patterns
that represent the writing style of an author. Then, we model an author
as the result of clustering the relational descriptions associated to the
sentences. The underlying idea is that such a model can express the typical
way in which an author composes the sentences in his writings. So,
if we can map such writing habits from the unknown-author model to
the known-author model, we can conclude that the author is the same.
Preliminary results are promising and the approach seems viable in real
contexts since it does not need a training phase and performs well also
with short texts
Nuovi orizzonti negli studi giuridici delle città
No full textCities are realities with a very high potential legal impact, which law scholars just partially note. The article underlines legal relationships that local authorities develop with citizens and collectives for the recovery and reuse of urban assets and spaces. These relationships are listed in five diverse models, which are analyzed by the author in terms of legal characteristics, differences, relationships between these experiences and statute law and, finally, the disciplinary regime to be adopted for the resolution of any dispute. At the end of the essay, the author underlines the risks of an attitude of legal studies excessively leaned towards a communitarian perspective of the cities, by forgetting the values of the written law
Chemical cross-linking with a diazirine photoactivatable cross-linker investigated by MALDI- and ESI-MS/MS
No full textFundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance are well-established methods to study protein tertiary structure and interactions. Despite their usefulness, such methods are not applicable to many protein systems. Chemical cross-linking of proteins coupled with mass spectrometry allows low-resolution characterization of proteins and protein complexes based on measuring distance constraints from cross-links. In this work, we have investigated cross-linking by means of a heterobifunctional cross-linker containing a traditional N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS) ester and a UV photoactivatable diazirine group. Activation of the diazirine group yields a highly reactive carbene species, with potential to increase the number of cross-links compared with homobifunctional, NHS-based cross-linkers. Cross-linking reactions were performed on model systems such as synthetic peptides and equine myoglobin. After reduction of the disulfide bond, the formation of intra- and intermolecular cross-links was identified and the peptides modified with both NHS and diazirine moieties characterized. Fragmentation of these modified peptides reveals the presence of a marker ion for intramolecular cross-links, which facilitates identification. Copyright (c) 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.458892899Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)FAPESP [FAPESP 2004/14846-0, FINEP 01 07 0290.00]FAPESP [FAPESP 08/57805-2, CNPq 573672/2008-3
Prudentius and the Landscapes of Late Antiquity
No full textI reviewed the volume by Cillian O' Hogan about "Prudentius and the Landscapes of Late Antiquity" (Oxford 2016). The volume is the revised version of doctoral thesis of the author written at the University of Toronto, and already in the Introduction (pp. 1-8) he presents his readers, first, to the deep change of views in Late Antiquity because of the rise of Christianity and the new ways in which people thought about the world as literature, and, second, to a new approach towards the poetry of Prudentius, which, according to O’Hogan, is intensely concerned not only with questions of empire, cult-spaces and identity but also with the prominence of topographical and geographical themes
Sigara (Pseudovermicorixa) nigrolineata subsp. nigrolineata nigrolineata (Fieber 1848
No full textSigara (Pseudovermicorixa) nigrolineata nigrolineata (Fieber, 1848) Arctocorisa nigrolineata Mancini 1935: 14. Sigara nigrolineata Mancini 1952: 4. Sigara (Sigara) nigrolineata nigrolineata Servadei 1967: 10. Sigara (Pseudovermicorixa) nigrolineata nigrolineata Jansson 1986: 53 (displayed on map); Bacchi and Rizzotti Vlach 2005: CD-ROM; 2007: CD-ROM. Records. Capraia. Capraia Island, X.[1927–1931], C. Mancini leg., CMG (Mancini 1935 as “[Isola di Capraia] Alcuni esemplari in ottobre al Vado del Porto”; Mancini 1952 as “Isola Capraia”; Servadei 1967 as “I. Capraia: Mancini 1935, 1952 b”; Jansson 1986: material not examined by the author, but reported on map). Giglio. Giglio Island, 1897, MSNG (Bacchi & Rizzotti Vlach 2005; 2007 as “Isola del Giglio / Coll. Mus. Civ. St. Nat. Genova / 1897”); Giglio Island, IV.[1900–1902], G. Doria leg., 5 exx, MSNG; idem, V.[1900–1902], G. Doria leg., 2 exx, MSNG; idem, XI.[1900–1902], G. Doria leg., 6 exx, MSNG (Mancini 1935 as “Is. Giglio”; Mancini 1952 as “[Isola del Giglio] 5 es. aprile, 2 es. maggio, 6 es. novembre”; Servadei 1967 as “I. Giglio: Mancini 1935, 1952 b”; Jansson 1986: material not examined by the author, but reported on map; Bacchi & Rizzotti Vlach 2005; 2007 as “Isola del Giglio / Coll. Mus. Civ. St. Nat. Genova / 1901”). Remarks. The quotation “I. Capraia: Razzauti 1917 ” by Servadei (1967) is wrong: probably a mistake between Notonecta fabricii Fieber, 1851 (family Notonectidae), syn. Notonecta glauca L., 1758 sensu lato (Razzauti 1917; see discussion) and Corisa fabricii Fieber, 1851 (family Corixidae), syn. Sigara n. nigrolineata (cf. Jansson 1995).Published as part of Cianferoni, Fabio, Rocchi, Saverio & Terzani, Fabio, 2013, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha and Leptopodomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of the Tuscan Archipelago (Italy), pp. 302-320 in Zootaxa 3669 (3) on page 306, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3669.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/526667
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