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Cultural Aspects of Immediacy in an Asian Classroom Context
No full textAmong the various factors affecting students’ learning, immediacy is
probably the one that has been most studied over the last four decades. Immediacy,
a term coined by Mehrabian (1967), refers to verbal and nonverbal behaviours
used by interlocutors to decrease physical and physiological distance between
them, thus creating affinity, liking and affect. However, a number of questions arise
as to the suitability of the various immediacy scales and their cultural significance
in a non U.S. context, such as Hong Kong. Furthermore we were interested in
possible differences in teachers’ perception based on students’ motivation. This
paper presents the first part of an immediacy study, based on students of the
Department of English of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (looking into
mapping patterns of behaviours that increase immediacy). The results indicate
that Hong Kong students prefer the holistic approach of the Chinese traditional
teacher, a teacher who goes beyond just teaching in class, and that nonverbal
actions are not high in their list of preferred behaviours in teachers, such as
gestures, walking around the classroom or standing close to students (unlike what
has been observed among U.S. students)
[Letter from Elia J. Hobbs to T. N. Carswell - February 24, 1954]
No full textA letter written to Mr. Carswell from Elia J. Hobbs, Garland, N. C., February 24, 1954. Hobbs explains who C. W. Presswood is, what he has asked and advises that she has included a "copy" of part of the letter from C. W. Presswood. Presswood requests to lease her place for five years describing the work needed to "get it fixed up where you could use it for some good" then states that he would like to buy the place. Hobbs resumes her correspondence to Carswell explaining what she thinks about the proposition
SVD algorithms to approximate spectra of dynamical systems
No full textIn this work we consider algorithms based on the singular value decomposition (SVD) to approximate Lyapunov and exponential dichotomy spectra of dynamical systems. We review existing contributions, and propose new algorithms of the continuous SVD method. We present implementation details for the continuous SVD method, and illustrate on several examples the behavior of continuous (and also discrete) SVD method. This paper is the companion paper of [L. Dieci,C. Elia, The singular value decomposition to approximate spectra of dynamical systems. Theoretical aspects, J. Diff. Equat., in press]
XMM-Newton Proposal 03059701: XMM-Newton Search for X-Ray Emission from the Microlensing Event MACHO-96-BLG-5(PI A. A. Nucita)
No full textIl proposal per osservare con il telescopio spaziale XMM-Newton l'evento di microlensing gravitazionale MACHO-96-BLG-5 e' stato approvato nel gennaio del 2005 e nell'ottobre 2005 XMM e' stato puntato per 107000 secondi verso le coordinate proposte (ObsID 30597).
L'osservazione ha portato alla pubblicazione del lavoro "An XMM-Newton Search for X-Ray Emission from the Microlensing Event MACHO-96-BLG-5" (autori Nucita, De Paolis, Ingrosso, Elia, de Plaa, Kaastra), Astrophysical Journal 651, 1092 (2006)
Re-imagining Anthropocene: towards a post-anthropocentric planetary literature
No full textRe-imagining Anthropocene: towards a post-anthropocentric planetary literature
Scientific and cultural debates around the concept of Anthropocene – proposed by Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer to name our current geological epoch – have opened the literary world to new narratives, ideas, and theoretical horizons. Despite its ambiguity, the term reveals how human action has negatively influenced the Earth system’s equilibria, causing catastrophic events such as climate change, biodiversity loss, floods, and droughts.
In this context, philosophical and literary discussions have pointed out the necessity of a paradigmatic shift from the anthropocentrism of western cultures – based on the division between nature and culture, human and non-human worlds – towards more ecological, eco-cosmopolitan, and posthuman systems of belief.
Literary fiction contributes to the western culture’s paradigmatic change in different ways: I turn to new materialism, environmental humanities, and posthuman ecocriticism to propose a comparative analysis of narrative works of the Italian writer Laura Pugno and the French writer Marie Darrieussecq to support such theoretical discussions, underlying their value in our contemporary planetary and post-anthropocentric literary scenario.
Keywords: Anthropocene; Ecocriticism; Environmental Humanities.
References
Benedetti, Carla: La letteratura ci salverà dall’estinzione. Turin 2021.
Braidotti, Rosi: The Posthuman. Cambridge-Malden 2013.
Haraway, Donna J.: Staying with the Trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene, Durham 2016.
Heise, Ursula K: Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global. New York 2008.
Iovino, Serenella; Oppermann Serpil: Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene. London 2016.
Latour, Bruno : Face à Gaia. Huit conférences sur le nouveau régime climatique. Paris 2015.
Annamaria Elia is a PhD candidate in Italian Studies at the Sapienza University of Rome. She was previously enrolled in a Double Master’s Degree at Sapienza University and Sorbonne University (Paris), where she graduated with honours in Comparative Literature. Her research interests concern ecocriticism, posthuman studies and environmental humanities
The Three Layers of Elia Moutamid’s Cinema
No full textIn this article, the author proposes three layers of film analysis and spectatorship in order to discuss film director Elia Moutamid's oeuvre. The first layer refers to the filmic texts (plots and aesthetics), the second situates the films in their socio-historical and cinematographic contexts, and the third layer relates the films to Plato's simile of the cave, establishing their philosophical quality. The author argues that the interrelation between these various layers attests to the refinement of Moutamid's cinematic production
Replication_data_for_Bove_DiSalvatore_Elia_JCR_2024
No full textReplication data for the paper: Bove, V., Di Salvatore, J., & Elia, L. (2024). What it Takes to Return: UN Peacekeeping and the Safe Return of Displaced People. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 69(5), 898-924. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002724126719
[Letter from T. N. Carswell to Elia J. Hobbs - March 16, 1954]
No full textA letter written to Miss Elia J. Hobbs from T. N. Carswell, dated March 16, 1954. Carswell explains the drouth and the run-down condition of her land advising that Mr. Presswood [C. W. Presswood] is reluctant to offer money for rent and offers instead that he should repair fences, clear cactus and get the place in order so it can be farmed, swapping improvments for rent
The influence of smoking status on malnutrition risk and 1-year mortality in outpatients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.\ud
No full textIntroduction: Smoking status in outpatients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has been associated with a low body mass index (BMI) and reduced mid-arm muscle circumference (Cochrane & Afolabi, 2004). Individuals with COPD identified as malnourished have also been found to be twice as likely to die within 1 year compared to non-malnourished patients (Collins et al., 2010). Although malnutrition is both preventable and treatable, it is not clear what influence current smoking status, another modifiable risk factor, has on malnutrition risk. The current study aimed to establish the influence of smoking status on malnutrition risk and 1-year mortality in outpatients with COPD.\ud
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Methods: A prospective nutritional screening survey was carried out between July 2008 and May 2009 at a large teaching hospital (Southampton General Hospital) and a smaller community hospital within Hampshire (Lymington New Forest Hospital). In total, 424 outpatients with a diagnosis of COPD were routinely screened using the ‘Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool’, ‘MUST’ (Elia, 2003); 222 males, 202 females; mean (SD) age 73 (9.9) years; mean (SD) BMI 25.9 (6.4) kg m−2. Smoking status on the date of screening was obtained for 401 of the outpatients. Severity of COPD was assessed using the GOLD criteria, and social deprivation determined using the Index of Multiple Deprivation (Nobel et al., 2008).\ud
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Results: The overall prevalence of malnutrition (medium + high risk) was 22%, with 32% of current smokers at risk (who accounted for 19% of the total COPD population). In comparison, 19% of nonsmokers and ex-smokers were likely to be malnourished [odds ratio, 1.965; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.133–3.394; P = 0.015]. Smoking status remained an independent risk factor for malnutrition even after adjustment for age, social deprivation and disease-severity (odds ratio, 2.048; 95% CI, 1.085–3.866; P = 0.027) using binary logistic regression. After adjusting for age, disease severity, social deprivation, smoking status, malnutrition remained a significant predictor of 1-year mortality [odds ratio (medium + high risk versus low risk), 2.161; 95% CI, 1.021–4.573; P = 0.044], whereas smoking status did not (odds ratio for smokers versus ex-smokers + nonsmokers was 1.968; 95% CI, 0.788–4.913; P = 0.147).\ud
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Discussion: This study highlights the potential importance of combined nutritional support and smoking cessation in order to treat malnutrition. The close association between smoking status and malnutrition risk in COPD suggests that smoking is an important consideration in the nutritional management of malnourished COPD outpatients.\ud
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Conclusions: Smoking status in COPD outpatients is a significant independent risk factor for malnutrition and a weaker (nonsignificant) predictor of 1-year mortality. Malnutrition significantly predicted 1 year mortality.\ud
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References: Cochrane, W.J. & Afolabi, O.A. (2004) Investigation into the nutritional status, dietary intake and smoking habits of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. J. Hum. Nutr. Diet.17, 3–11.\ud
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Collins, P.F., Stratton, R.J., Kurukulaaratchym R., Warwick, H. Cawood, A.L. & Elia, M. (2010) ‘MUST’ predicts 1-year survival in outpatients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Clin. Nutr.5, 17.\ud
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Elia, M. (Ed) (2003) The ‘MUST’ Report. BAPEN. http://www.bapen.org.uk (accessed on March 30 2011).\ud
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Nobel, M., McLennan, D., Wilkinson, K., Whitworth, A. & Barnes, H. (2008) The English Indices of Deprivation 2007. http://www.communities.gov.uk (accessed on March 30 2011).\u
Erratum to: Prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage on admission among patients attending regional hospitals in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
No full textFollowing publication of the original article [1], author Elia Mmbaga pointed out that her name had been misspelt as Elia Mbaga
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