31 research outputs found
BOURDIEU'S WORK ON LITERATURE. CONTEXTS, STAKES AND PERSPECTIVES
No full textLITERATURE HOLDS a very important place in Pierre Bourdieu’swork: his notion of field was first applied to literature, while the mostcomplete and systematic presentation of his theory of fields is to be found in The Rules of Art, a work devoted to art and literature. What expla-nation can be given for the relevance of these objects to Bourdieu’s theor-etical work? His interest in art and literature may appear somewhat surprising and improbable at first sight when one considers that for Bourdieu the sociology of culture, in the strictest sense of the term, was just one aspect of a much vaster project: a general theory of the ‘social world’. In order to explain Bourdieu’s choice of object, in the first part of this article I will consider the national and international context within which his theory has been built. I will show that in the French intellectual space, particularly in that period, literature was a central theoretical object. In the international context, the attention paid to literature was justified by the importance given to the symbolic phenomena in the main contemporary theoretical traditions. Bourdieu himself stated, referring to Gaston Bachelard, that ‘epistem-ology is always conjunctural: its propositions and thrust are determined by the principal scientific threat of the moment ’ (Bourdieu and Wacquant, 1992: 174). Moreover, against the errors that can result from an ahistorical and derealizing reading, he argued that the proper understanding of any given author requires a double contextualization. On the one hand, in order to appreciate the singularity and difficulty of his theoretical acquisition, it is necessary to bring to light the effort involved in reaching such an achieve-ment by reconstructing the mental space of the author, the problems that he attempted to resolve, the theoretical possibilities with regard to which his hypotheses were defined, and the position that the author held in his field of production at the time in which they were formulated. On the other hand
Complex toxin profile of Mytilus galloprovincialis from the Adriatic sea revealed by LC–MS.
No full textThis study reports on the determination of toxin profile of mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) collected in November-December 2003 along the Emilia Romagna coasts (Italy) when a high concentration of Alexandrium ostenfeldii cells was detected in sea water. Detailed liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) analyses were performed on the crude extracts in both selected ion monitoring (SIM) and multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) modes. They revealed that M. galloprovincialis had accumulated the three major spirolides produced by the alga, namely 13-desMethyl spirolide C, 13,19-didesMethyl spirolide C and 27-hydroxy-13,19-didesMethyl spirolide C, which fully accounted for toxicity of lipophilic extracts shown in mouse bioassay. Interestingly, yessotoxin (YTX) and its analogues were still present in mussel polar extracts but YTX itself was not the major toxin contained in mussels. The presence of pectenotoxin-2 seco acid (PTX-2sa) and its putative epimer was also assessed
Correction: Identification of the hydrogeochemical processes and assessment of groundwater quality using Water Quality Index (WQI) in semi-arid area F'kirina plain eastern Algeria
No full textCorrection: Identification of the hydrogeochemical processes and assessment of groundwater quality using Water Quality Index (WQI) in semi-arid area F'kirina plain eastern Algeria doi :10.1007/s12665-024-11917-3International audienceIn this paper, the author name has been incorrectly transcribed as “Tiziano Boschett”. It shoule be corrected as “Tiziano Boschetti”
Aeschylus Agamemnon Catalogue. A bibliography of the Agamemnon from 1518 to present.
No full textAeschylus’ Agamemnon Catalogue is a database containing the critical bibliography of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon starting from Aldus’ 1518 editio princeps, here organized by categories. Through an easy-to-use search engine, searches can be performed on more than 2600 items and about 600 active hyperlinks to the full text of referenced books or articles available online using various parameters: author, title, year, journal/collection, keywords (Cassandra scene, commentary, death of Agamemnon, edition, exodos, first episode, first stasimon, fourth stasimon, fourth episode, fifth episode, history of classical scholarship, history of the text, interpretation, language, metrics, parodos, performance, prologue, reception, religion, second episode, second stasimon, style, textual criticism, third episode, third stasimon, translation). Results can be exported in BibTex or EndNote format, or simply copied and pasted in a Word file.
Compared to general purpose bibliographic search engine, Aeschylus’ Agamemnon catalogue provides a high precision and a high recall on the specific aeschylean topic
Occurrence of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica in bivalve molluscs and associations with Escherichia coli in molluscs and faecal coliforms in seawater
No full texthe objectives of this study were to present data on the presence of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica and on the enumeration of Escherichia coli and faecal coliforms respectively in different species of bivalve molluscs and seawater and to conduct a retrospective evaluation to assess the capacity of E. coli in molluscs and faecal coliforms and S. enterica subsp. enterica in sea and brackish water to predict the presence of S. enterica subsp. enterica in bivalve molluscs, and therefore, the risk of exposure for consumers. Data were collected from 4972 seawater samples and 5785 live bivalve molluscs samples (2877 Ruditapes philippinarum, 2177 Mytilus galloprovincialis, 256 Chamelae gallina and 475 C gigas and O. edulis) collected in the molluscs production area of Ferrara, Northern Italy, from 1997 to 2015. An overall S. enterica subsp. enterica occurrence of 2.2% was reported in water and molluscs, with percentages varying depending on the type of sample and on the classification areas. All the 237 Salmonella strains were identified as genus Salmonella and a total of 53 different serovars were observed. Significant associations between the fecal indicators and presence of S. enterica subsp. enterica were observed both applying EU and USA criteria, but, it should be noted that the EU approach seems to be more stringent achieving the goal of identifying the most critical batches (94 out of the 100) whereas, following the USA approach, a not negligible and higher number of batches compliant for faecal coliforms but contaminated by S. enterica subsp. enterica has to be mentioned. In any case, the faecal indicators E. coli in molluscs and faecal coliforms in seawaters reflect only in part the presence of S. enterica subsp. enterica in molluscs and the consequent potential risk for consumers. Microbiological evaluation of seawaters seems to have a minor impact into the prediction of S. enterica subsp. enterica presence in molluscs
Who Wrote the Erotic Novel Josefine Mutzenbacher? Speculations, Theories, and Stylometric Analyses
No full textThe paper proposes a series of stylometric analyses aimed at attributing the erotic novel Josefine Mutzenbacher (1906) to one of its possible authors: Felix Salten, Arthur Schnitzler, Hermann Bahr, Peter Altenberg, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Ernst Klein, and Willi Handl. After reviewing the discussion among literary scholars, two analyses have been performed: one that combines 480 different methods to compare the seven candidate authors; one that verifies the attribution using the “impostors” method. Results show how the most probable author is Felix Salten, more commonly known for his children’s book Bambi
Occurrence of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica in bivalve molluscs and associations with Escherichia coli in molluscs and faecal coliforms in seawater
No full textThe objectives of this study were to present data on the presence of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica
and on the enumeration of Escherichia coli and faecal coliforms respectively in different species of bivalve
molluscs and seawater and to conduct a retrospective evaluation to assess the capacity of E. coli in
molluscs and faecal coliforms and S. enterica subsp. enterica in sea and brackish water to predict the
presence of S. enterica subsp. enterica in bivalve molluscs, and therefore, the risk of exposure for consumers.
Data were collected from 4972 seawater samples and 5785 live bivalve molluscs samples (2877
Ruditapes philippinarum, 2177 Mytilus galloprovincialis, 256 Chamelae gallina and 475 C. gigas and
O. edulis) collected in the molluscs production area of Ferrara, Northern Italy, from 1997 to 2015. An
overall S. enterica subsp. enterica occurrence of 2.2% was reported in water and molluscs, with percentages
varying depending on the type of sample and on the classification areas. All the 237 Salmonella
strains were identified as genus Salmonella and a total of 53 different serovars were observed. Significant
associations between the fecal indicators and presence of S. enterica subsp. enterica were observed both
applying EU and USA criteria, but, it should be noted that the EU approach seems to be more stringent
achieving the goal of identifying the most critical batches (94 out of the 100) whereas, following the USA
approach, a not negligible and higher number of batches compliant for faecal coliforms but contaminated
by S. enterica subsp. enterica has to be mentioned. In any case, the faecal indicators E. coli in molluscs and
faecal coliforms in seawaters reflect only in part the presence of S. enterica subsp. enterica in molluscs and
the consequent potential risk for consumers. Microbiological evaluation of seawaters seems to have a
minor impact into the prediction of S. enterica subsp. enterica presence in molluscs
Matheuristics: Optimization, simulation and control
No full textEds. Maria J. Blesa, Christian Blum et al
Soft variable fixing in path relinking: An application to ACO codes
No full textLecture notes in Computer Science edited by Marco Dorigo et al
