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Friedrich H. Tenbruck e la modernità
No full text[No abstract available]In this paper, we intend to focus on the relationship between Friedrich H. Tenbruck and some modern themes, chosen from the vast range of work that characterizes the complex production of the author. Covered by deep spiritual and cultural tensions, the latter ranging from the history of philosophy to that of sociology, sociology of science and religion, the sociology of culture, role theory, action, history and social change. The notes that follow are intended to suggest insights on: - the strong independence of mind which distinguishes the author, together with the ability, in line with the choice in favor of interdisciplinarity, to assume an eccentric position in relation to the barriers that so easily, in the social sciences, as elsewhere, it tends to build and strengthen - the existence, in the context of a production as complex and varied, some wires that testify to a profound continuity and consistency of thought - the deep current that characterizes many suggestions provided by the author
Friedrich H. Tenbruck e la sociologia della cultura
No full textCaratterizzata da un vastissimo ventaglio di lavori, la complessa produzione di Friedrich H. Tenbruck spazia dalla storia della filosofia a quella della sociologia, alla sociologia della scienza e della religione, alla sociologia della cultura, alla teoria dei ruoli, dell’azione, della storia e del mutamento sociale.
Le note che seguono intendono suggerire spunti di riflessione:
sulla spiccata indipendenza di pensiero che contraddistingue l’autore, unitamente alla capacità, in linea con la scelta a favore dell’interdisciplinarietà, di assumere una posizione eccentrica nei confronti degli steccati che tanto facilmente, nelle scienze sociali come altrove, si tende a erigere e rafforzare;
sull’esistenza, nell’ambito di una produzione tanto complessa e articolata, di alcuni fili conduttori che testimoniano una profonda continuità e coerenza di pensiero;
sulla profonda attualità che caratterizza molte suggestioni fornite dall’autore.Featuring a wide range of jobs, the complex production of Friedrich H. Tenbruck ranges from the history of philosophy to that of sociology, sociology of science and religion, the sociology of culture, role theory, action, history and social change. The notes that follow are intended to suggest ideas for reflection: the strong independence of mind which distinguishes the author, together with the ability, in line with the choice in favor of interdisciplinarity, to assume an eccentric position in relation to the barriers that so easily, in social sciences, as elsewhere, it tends to build and strengthen, the existence, in the context of a production as complex and varied, some wires that testify to a profound continuity and consistency of thought on the profound relevance that characterizes many suggestions provided by 'author
Mesoscale surface analyses of the ERICA IOP-2 cyclone
No full textThe mesoscale structure of an explosively deepening open-ocean cyclone, the Intensive Observation Period (IOP) 2 of the Experiment on Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones over the Atlantic (ERICA) which occurred 13-14 December 1988, was studied. Aircraft, buoy and ship observations were plotted in 3 h blocks, and detailed hand-analyses of surface pressure and temperature, as well as frontal and cyclone structure, were prepared. The analyses were then converted to a 20 km grid using a Cressman analysis scheme, and the gridded fields passed to a Brown-Liu planetary boundary layer (PBL) model to calculate surface latent and sensible heat fluxes. The results of the mesoscale surface analysis showed that the regions east and northeast of the low featured less warm thermal advection than expected for a typical maritime cyclone and a low- level easterly flow that had a 5-10 C thermal disequilibrium between the sea surface and the overlying air. This caused substantial positive heat fluxes east of the low throughout the 12 h prior to and during rapid deepening. This pattern of surface interaction is substantially different from other cyclones and suggests that surface processes contributed significantly to the cyclogenesis.Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.Lieutenant Commander, United States Navyhttp://archive.org/details/mesoscalesurface109452762
Products of their Past? Cleavages and Intra-Party Dissent Over European Integration. IHS Political Science Series Paper No. 118. February 2009
No full textWhat explains contemporary intra-party dissent on EU issues? This article develops a cleavage theory model of internal party dissent over European integration. Drawing on Lipset and Rokkan’s classic model of political cleavages and on its applications to party positioning on European integration, I argue that if one seeks to understand when, where, and to what extent internal divisions manifest themselves, one must look to the particular historical vulnerabilities of political parties. Using expert survey data, I demonstrate that the ease with which political parties are able to assimilate the issue of European integration is influenced by the legacy of past political tensions and the extent to which the economic and political aspects of the EU reactivate pre-existing cleavages
Veterinary science : humans, animals and health
No full textThis living book is a collection of open access materials bringing scientific papers to a humanities audienc
Compiti e vocazione critica della Sociologia dei processi culturali e comunicativi
No full textNegli ultimi anni il settore scientifico disciplinare “Sociologia dei processi culturali e comunicativi” è stato caratterizzato, soprattutto a livello accademico, da un’enfatizzazione quasi esclusiva della dimensione comunicativa, peraltro declinata quasi sempre in termini di entusiastica esaltazione delle nuove potenzialità dischiuse dai “new media”. Oltre a una sorta di oblio, dunque, per la componente più propriamente “culturale” della disciplina, ciò ha spesso comportato un declino della tradizionale vocazione critica propria, in generale, dell’approccio sociologico. Facendo riferimento alla lezione weberiana e, soprattutto, all’insegnamento di Friedrich H. Tenbruck – un autore ancora troppo poco ricordato negli studi di settore –, le note che seguono intendono ricondurre l’attenzione sui compiti di una Sociologia dei processi culturali che voglia recuperare la dimensione critica, dedicandosi al fondamentale compito di demistificazione ideologica tramite una riflessione sul contesto di riferimento – evidenziando, ad esempio, il problema della costruzione culturale dei problemi sociali – nonché su se stessa – a partire dalla mancata neutralità delle stesse scienze sociali.In recent years the scientific field “Sociology of cultural and communicative processes” was marked, especially at the academic level, by an almost exclusive emphasis on the communicative dimension, which has been often declined in terms of enthusiastic exaltation of the new opportunities opened up by the “new media”. As a consequence of this, the “cultural” size of this scientific field has been neglected, with a decline of the critical approach which has traditionally characterized sociology as well. By making reference to the Weberian lesson and especially to the teaching of Friedrich H. Tenbruck – an author who has been often forgotten in field studies – the following notes are intended to bring attention to the tasks of a Sociology of cultural processes that wants to recover its critical size, devoting itself to the fundamental task of ideological demystification through a reflection on its context of reference –for instance, pointing out the problem of the cultural constructio
Per una dottrina della costituzione come scienza della cultura
No full textIn tempi in cui in Italia e in Germania si è posto il problema di rinnovare il patto costituzionale e di riscrivere la costituzione per le generazioni successive a quella dei padri costituenti, e in cui l’Europa e il mondo intero si interrogano sulla multiculturalità dello Stato costituzionale e sullo sviluppo di costituzioni sovranazionali ed internazionali, di spiccata rilevanza appare il problema del rapporto tra costituzione e cultura. Le costituzioni moderne non sono infatti un pezzo di carta, una decisione della politica o un prodotto dell’economia; esse si configurano piuttosto come cristallizzazioni di cultura, frutti e semi di un processo pubblico sempre aperto e mediato da istituzioni culturali che alimentano tanto la politica quanto il diritto.
È questo il filo conduttore del volume di Peter Häberle, 'Per una dottrina della costituzione come scienza della cultura' (Carocci, 2001), traduzione italiana della seconda edizione di un opuscolo di appena ottanta pagine, pubblicato nel 1982 con il titolo 'Verfassungslehre als Kulturwissenschaft'. Häberle – autore, nell’opinione di molti, dell’ultima grande teoria della costituzione del XX secolo – cerca di rintracciare nel dialogo interdisciplinare con una tradizione più remota delle “scienze della cultura” (W. Dilthey, A. Weber, M. Eber) e sulla scia di un filone di esperienze della dottrina del diritto civile, l’impronta delle scienze della cultura nel diritto pubblico di Weimar, con le firme di R. Smend e G. Holstein, H. Heller e A. Hensel. Tale impostazione, lamenta l’autore, è andata smarrita nel secondo dopoguerra “nei cantieri della ricostruzione della Germania, in una Repubblica federale fissata sui valori dell’economia e del benessere”. Ma, nell’arco di più decenni, “la legge fondamentale ha generato una tradizione di cultura costituzionale, un insieme di comprensioni e precomprensioni della scienza e della prassi che merita ora un’analisi più approfondita – dalla prospettiva di una teoria della costituzione come scienza della cultura. I testi della legge fondamentale restano testi giuridici e conservano il loro carattere di diritto ‘positivo’, ma rinviano nel contempo anche a qualcosa di ulteriore: a una realtà solo parzialmente e ‘superficialmente’ indicata e creata dai testi stessi” (p. 17).At a time when Italy and Germany has raised the issue of renewing the constitutional pact and to rewrite the constitution to succeeding generations to that of the founding fathers, and in which Europe and the whole world will wonder about multiculturalism State constitutions and constitutional development of supra-national and international, with a strong importance is the problem of the relationship between the constitution and culture. The modern constitutions are not in fact a piece of paper, a policy decision or a product of the economy, rather they are configured as crystallizations of culture, fruits and seeds of an open and public process always mediated by cultural institutions that feed both the policy As the law. This is the leitmotif of the volume of Peter Häberle, 'For a doctrine of creation as a science of culture' (Carocci, 2001), the Italian translation of the second edition of a booklet of just eighty pages, published in 1982 under the title 'Verfassungslehre als Kulturwissenschaft '. Häberle - author, in the opinion of many, the last great theory of the constitution of the twentieth century - trying to track down in interdisciplinary dialogue with a tradition of more remote "science of culture" (W. Dilthey, A. Weber, M. Eber ) and on the heels of a loaf of experiences of the doctrine of the civil law, the footprint of the sciences of culture in the public right of Weimar, with the signatures of R. Smend and G. Holstein, H. Heller and A. Hensel. This approach, the author complains, was lost in the Second World War "in the yards of the reconstruction of Germany, a federal republic set the values of the economy and well-being." But, over several decades, "the fundamental law has created a tradition of constitutional culture, a set of understandings and preconceptions of science and practice that now deserves a deeper analysis - from the perspective of a theory of the constitution as a science culture. The texts of the Basic Law are legal texts and retain their character of law 'positive', but at the same time also refer to something further: in reality only partially and 'superficial' and indicated created by the texts themselves "(p. 17)
"After my husband's circumcision, I know that I am safe from diseases": Women's Attitudes and Risk Perceptions Towards Male Circumcision in Iringa, Tanzania.
No full textWhile male circumcision reduces the risk of female-to-male HIV transmission and certain sexually transmitted infections (STIs), there is little evidence that circumcision provides women with direct protection against HIV. This study used qualitative methods to assess women's perceptions of male circumcision in Iringa, Tanzania. Women in this study had strong preferences for circumcised men because of the low risk perception of HIV with circumcised men, social norms favoring circumcised men, and perceived increased sexual desirability of circumcised men. The health benefits of male circumcision were generally overstated; many respondents falsely believed that women are also directly protected against HIV and that the risk of all STIs is greatly reduced or eliminated in circumcised men. Efforts to engage women about the risks and limitations of male circumcision, in addition to the benefits, should be expanded so that women can accurately assess their risk of HIV or STIs during sexual intercourse with circumcised men
An experimental study of the status of two low-rising intonation contours in American English
No full textThis thesis addresses the question of whether two low-rising contours, the L\sp* L H% and L\sp* H H% (Pierrehumbert and Hirschberg 1991), should be considered categorical distinctions in Midwestern American English. The status of L\sp* L H% has been questioned by several previous researchers, while the L\sp* H H% has only recently been investigated as an important contour in American English.The status of the two low-rising contours was investigated through the use of two meaning-based tests. The interpretation of the L\sp* L H% was compared to that of the fall (H\sp* L L%) and fall-rise (H\sp* L H%), two generally accepted contours, while the interpretation of the L\sp* H H% was compared to the H\sp* H H%, a third accepted contour. Twenty-eight dialogues were recorded. The nucleus of the final utterance of each dialogue (utterances included declaratives, Yes/no questions, and WH questions) was electronically manipulated to produce two or three dialogues differing only in the nuclear tone, resulting in a total of 70 stimuli. Fourteen dialogues were used to compare the interpretations of the L\sp* L H%, H\sp* L L% and H\sp* H H% and fourteen to compare the L\sp* H H% and H\sp* H H%. Forty-seven subjects interpreted the meaning of the final utterances.Results indicate that neither the L\sp* L H% nor the L\sp* H H% are clearly categorical. In mixed results, subjects interpreted the L\sp* L H% as distinct from the H\sp* L L% but not the H\sp* L H%. However, the L\sp* H H% and H\sp* H H% contours were consistently interpreted in the same way on all three grammatical structures examined, indicating that this dialect of English has a single category for a generally high-rising contour.The results suggest that this dialect of English distinguishes only three of the five contours on the basis of meaning. Furthermore, they suggest that the phonological distinction in English between simple high and low pitch accents (H\sp* vs. L\sp*) is of questionable value for this dialect. A critical evaluation of the value and most appropriate use of meaning-based tests is presented, and the results of intonational research are applied to the teaching of intonation in English as a second language (ESL) textbooks.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:34:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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TiN/STO/TiN MIMcaps nanolayers on silicon characterized by SIMS and AFM
No full textHigh-k dielectrics as SrxTi1-xOy (STO) are of great interest for the development of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) devices. The characterization of these nanolayers is important. SIMS depth profiling through TiN and STO films is affected by strong artifacts in different ways. The erosion process causes surface topography modifications both in the TiN/STO/TiN layer system and in the silicon substrate. AFM analyses have been carried out on pristine TiN and STO film surfaces and at various crater depths. Very different roughness evolutions are identified for TiN or STO films, within the SIMS craters sputtered with 500 eV Cs+ while using eucentric stage rotation
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