51 research outputs found
Ambiente, diritti e cittadinanza
No full textAfter reflecting on the environment and its multiple meanings, the author goes on to examine the rights of the environment and to the environment as a prerequisite for the construction of a good quality of life. The environmental issue from the point of view of citizenship implies rights and obligations and involves perceptions and representations of the world on the basis of responsibility, respect, sharing and collaboration. Hence, the pedagogical role of an education for the environment and of the environment
Weak solutions of a conservation law with memory
No full textIn this paper, the author obtains the existence and uniqueness of weak solutions of the Cauchy problem for a quasilinear equation of conservation type with memory ut +f(u)x +a∗ψ(u) = 0, u(0,x) = u0(x), in one space variable. The main additional hypothesesareψ(0)=0,ψ′ >0and(−1)na(n) ≥0forn=0,1,2
Gongsun Long and the Gongsun Longzi: authorship and textual variation in a multilayered text
No full textIl presente lavoro si pone come obiettivo il gettare nuova luce sulla struttura e il contenuto del Gongsun Longzi, concentrandosi in particolare sui cosiddetti “capitoli originali”, ovvero quelli considerati i più fedeli ad una ipotetica formulazione originaria – scritta e/od orale - degli argomenti discussi, il Baima Lun ed il Zhiwu Lun. Dopo aver preso il considerazione la figura pseudo-storica dell’autore putativo, Gongsun Long, viene fornita un’analisi della struttura complessiva del testo, incluso anche un accurato studio delle variati testuali esistenti tra le due versioni più antiche del testo ricevuto (le edizioni dello Shuofu e del Daozang). Infine, un’esaustiva trattazione dei contenuti filosofici del Baima Lun e del Zhiwu Lun, corredata da una traduzione commentata, chiude il lavoroThe present work aims at shading new light on the structure and content of the Gongsun Longzi, focusing in particular on the so-called “original chapters”, those who are considered more truthful to an hypothetical original formulation – written and/or oral – of the topics discussed, the Baima Lun and the Zhiwu Lun. After taking into consideration the pseudo-historical figure of the putative author, the persuader Gongsun Long, an analysis of the overall structure of the text is provided, comprehending an accurate study of textual variants existing between the two most ancients versions available of the received text (the Shuofu and the Daozang edition). Finally, an exhaustive treatment of the philosophical contents of the Baima Lun and Zhiwu Lun, accompanied with a commented translation, concludes the work
"Against Palladio: Reading The Stones of Venice in the train between Vicenza and Venice"
No full textEssay on Ruskin's influence on American author
Manzoni, a Writer in Search of an Italo-European Language: 'I Promessi Sposi' and the 'Visibility' of its Early French (and English) Translators
No full textSince the nineteenth century, Manzoni criticism has assiduously investigated the norms and procedures adopted by the author in order to identify and enrich this ‘Italian’ language while he proceeded in the three drafts of I promessi sposi.Among these three different drafts, the third is particularly noteworthy to this study, that is the period that marks the passage from the ‘ventisettana’ to the ‘quarantana’. Interestingly, notwithstanding the extremely accurate analysis of the corrections on the ‘ventisettana’ by critics and philologists, no attention has been paid to the influences exercised by the earliest French translations of IPS on the definitive edition . Given the significant developments in translation studies, and I refer in particular to the theories regarding the polysystem and the translator’s invisibility, this fact sheds new light and is worthy to be explored. The earliest translations in French, entitled Les fiancés, – two of which appeared in early 1828, the first by M. Rey-Dussueil and the second by P-J. Gosselin, and a third in 1832 by the Marquis de Montgrand –, suggested a wide range of possible textual variations to Manzoni, at the lexico-grammatical-syntactic-semantic and stylistic levels
North by East piece on Rosella Loveitt, 93, of South Portland, unofficial city
No full textNorth by East piece on Rosella Loveitt, 93, of South Portland, unofficial city historian, author of the city\u27s first history, and one of the founders of the South Portland-Cape Elizabeth Historical Society. She spent 43 years as a social studies teacher
PROVENTRICULAR INTUSSUSCEPTION IN A YELLOW ROSELLA (PLATYCERCUS FLAVEOLUS)
No full textAn intussusception is a situation in which a part of the gastrointestinal tract has prolapsed into another section of intestine, similar to the way in which the parts of a collapsible telescope slide into one another. The part which prolapses into the other is called the intussusceptum, and the part which receives it is called the intussuscipiens. This type of pathology is usually associated to the intestine tract of mammalian species. The author witnessed an unusual case of intussusception, affecting the proventriculus and ventriculus of a Yellow Rosella (Platycercus flaveolus) presented in advanced stage of disease. Although the diagnosis was made post-mortem, the bird was in a too severely debilitated status to have survived surgery, the only effective resolution for these cases. The following article gives a description of the case
Factors affecting growth and expansion of women's microenterprises : the case of Rosella Women group in Dodoma Municipality
No full textThe project on factors affecting growth and expansion of women micro-enterprises involved Rosella Women Group based in Dodoma town. The group is engaged in the cultivation of rosella flowers, drying and processing the flower into juice and jam for sell. The main objective of the project was to find out why the group's enterprise was not growing and expanding since it was started 9 years ago and then recommend appropriate measures to facilitate growth and expansion of the women's enterprise which was necessary to improve their livelihood. The research findings revealed that the group was unable to expand their enterprise due to the following problems and constraints: (i) Lack of capital; (ii) Lack of appropriate technology for rosella flower drying and wine processing; (iii) Inability to access financial support and markets outside Dodoma Region; (iv) Inadequate land for increased production of raw material; and (v) Lack of business skills. This situation had a negative impact on the incomes of the group which remained low throughout the project life. It was also found that the group could not access financial support from potential donors because it was not registered as an NGO.
This being the case, it was recommended to assist the group to register itself as an NGO and write a proposal for funding to be submitted to potential donors. The financial assistance to the group would be used to secure solar drier machines, wine processing plant and for training of the group members on business development skills. The total financial assistance required is Tshs 30,500,000/= (US $ 23,462). (Author abstract)Mushi, C. J. (2007). Factors affecting growth and expansion of women's microenterprises: the case of Rosella Women group in Dodoma Municipality. Retrieved from http://academicarchive.snhu.eduMaster of Science (M.S.)School of Community Economic Developmen
The legacy of Corrado Gini in population studies
No full textThis volume contains 12 papers that range over many different research subjects, taking in many of the population questions that, directly or indirectly, absorbed Corrado Gini as demographer and social scientist over several decades. They vary from the analysis of the living conditions and behaviours of the growing foreign population (measurements and methods of analysis, socio-economic conditions and health, ethnic residential segregation, sex-ratio at birth), to studies on the homogamy of couples; from population theories (with reference to the cyclical theory of populations) to the modelling approach to estimating mortality in adult ages or estimating time transfers, by age and sex, related to informal child care and adult care; from historical studies that take up themes dear to Gini (such as the estimates of Italian military deaths in WWI), to the application of Gini’s classical measurements to studying significant phenomena today (transition to adulthood and leaving the parental home, health care, disabled persons and social integration).
The subjects and measurements that appear here are not intended to exhaust the broad spectrum of Gini’s research work in the demographic and social field (nor could they), but they can make up a part of the intersection between his vast legacy and some interesting topics in current research, some of which were not even imaginable in the mid twentieth century.
Looking at the many contributions that celebrated Gini in Treviso and thinking about his legacy, it seems possible to identify at least two typologies of approach, to be found in this issue of the journal, too. On the one hand, there are contributions that aim to retrieve and discuss themes, methodologies and measurements dealt with or used by Gini so as to evaluate their present relevance and importance in the current scholarly debate. On the other, there are contributions that deal with topics that are far from Gini’s work, as they study very recent phenomena, but actually, among other things, make use of methods and indicators devised by Gini that are now so much part of the common currency of methodology, so they don’t require explicit reference to their Author
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