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Di Maio, A
No full textTraduzione di poesie e brani tratti da varie opere di Wole Soyinka, Premio Nobel per la letteratura (1986
Multivariate Polarimetric Bistatic Clutter Statistical Analysis
No full textThis paper deals with the analysis of simultaneously collected co- and cross-polarized bistatic sea-clutter returns with special emphasis on their representation as a Spherically Invari-ant Random Process (SIRP). The study is conducted by using appropriate testing procedures involving the complex envelope of the measured data that provide both first- and higher-order compatibility conditions. The results highlight that the SIRP model is a good candidate for the representation of bistatic coherent clutter, and usually the coherence time of the SIRP texture is longer than that in the monostatic case.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Microwave Sensing, Signals & System
Gordimer's Short Novel The Late Bourgeois World. Elisabeth, a Woman in the Interregnum
No full textFocusing on a close-reading of Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer's short novel The Late Bourgeois World, the essay investigates the history of Apartheid South African society and its racial tensions in one of its most critical moments. Gordimer's fiction and non-fiction frame the study, as well as an array of references to the major critical texts regarding the author
Feature article: A survey on two-stage decision schemes for point-like targets in Gaussian interference
No full textIn recent years, the design of so-called tunable detectors has raised significant interest in the radar community. The class of tunable detectors has been shown to be an effective means to attack detection of mainlobe targets or rejection of coherent repeater interferers in the presence of clutter and/or possible noise-like in-terferers. Tunable detectors allow adjustment of the rate at which the probability of detection Pd decreases as the received signal departs from the nominal one. In this case, a mismatch between the nominal and the actual steering vector is present. We refer to the capability of rejecting or detecting signals as directivity. Existing architectures can be classified according to their directivity as follows [1]: ▸ Robust decision schemes provide good detection performance in the presence of echoes containing signal components not aligned with the nominal (transmitted) signal (as shown in Figure 1, where target returns lie on a direction that is not aligned with the antenna beam boresight). ▸ Selective decision schemes are capable of rejecting signals whose signature is unlikely to correspond to the signal of interest to avoid false alarm
Postcolonial Intersections: Transnational Women Voices from Minor Italy
No full textThe rising corpus of Italian postcolonial literature, mainly by women writers originally from the Horn of Africa, is urging Italian letters to engage with other contemporary transnational productions, thus challenging the notion of national canons and vertical power relations, in favor of a writing seeking for horizontal, minor connections unmediated by the center, as suggested by Francoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih, whose work on Minor Transnationalism draws from Deleuze & Guattari and Edouard Glissant. As a case of point, the article offers a reflection on Ubax Cristina Ali Farah's narratives and their use of language
La fiaba del Mediterraneo Nero: Quando il cielo vuole spuntano le stelle di E.C. Osondu
No full textPubblicato in prima mondiale in italiano nel 2020, Quando il cielo vuole spuntano le stelle del nigeriano E.C. Osondu racconta, attraverso lo sguardo e la voce di un giovane africano di un paese non meglio identificato, uno dei fenomeni più significativi della nostra storia contemporanea, l’odissea di chi sfida il Mediterraneo per raggiungere l’Europa. Il protagonista di questo classico romanzo di formazione dai toni fiabeschi sogna di arrivare a Roma, città sacra nota per la sua bellezza. Per raggiungerla, il giovane attraverserà il deserto e il mare, incontrando un’umanità in movimento, con cui condividerà storie, esperienze, aspirazioni. Il viaggio è rito di passaggio intimo ma anche condivisione di un destino collettivo di migrazione che caratterizza la storia della diaspora africa. Raccontarlo assicura la sopravvivenza in un mondo in cui i confini nazionali si confondono nello spazio del bisogno e del desiderio. Il romanzo di Osondu, inquadrato nel contesto teorico del Mediterraneo Nero, narra l’aspetto tutto umano della vicenda migratoria cui siamo sovraesposti nelle cronache quotidiane, ribaltandone la prospettiva e l’aspettativa in chiave poetica.E.C. Osondu’s novel When the Sky Is Ready the Stars Will Appear tells the story of an unnamed African boy from an unidentified country who leaves home to reach the city of his dreams, Rome. In his voice, we hear those of the uncountable migrants from Africa who cross the desert and the sea searching for opportunities, democracy, and better life conditions in Europe. With his travel partners, the protagonist shares stories, experiences, and expectations. The journey is an intimate, spiritual, rite of passage – Rome is not only renowned for its beauty but also for being the Pope’s city – as well as a collective experience of displacement that has marked the history of the African people for centuries. Telling this story, and its complex history, ensures survival in a world whose borders remain a conundrum. Reading Osondu’s fablelike coming-of-age novel within the Black Mediterranean theoretical framework helps us readers to better understand the historical implications of one of the most important phenomena of our time, from a perspective overturning that offered by the mainstream media
Al di là dei versi: Tradurre il colore, il genere, la storia
No full textPrompted by the recent, heated controversy on the translation into Italian of works by women poets from the African Diaspora (i.e. Zong! by NourbeSe Philip and Amanda Gorman’s ‘The Hill We Climb’), the volume investigates how intersectional experiences of languages, cultures, genders, and colors are articulated in the translational tradition of postcolonial poetry and poetics. Examining how cultural discourses influence translation practices in both North America and Italy, the study asserts the necessity to reassess translation theories through a decolonial and political lens that takes into consideration plural intersectional identities. The volume, prefaced by the editors, is divided into four sessions: I – Alterity and ethics of translation; II – Through forms and codes; III – Decolonizing the text: languages, spaces, bodies; IV – Re-thinking translation
Un Recupero Atipico per ridare qualità al costruito storico
No full textDegrado fisiologico, degrado patologico, obsolescenza fisica sono le ragioni prime che motivano e in alcuni casi impongono gli interventi sul costruito storico. Quando però la domanda di riqualificazione avviene per esigenze legate al riuso del bene, allo sviluppo dell’economia locale, alla valorizzazione dell’offerta culturale e alla conservazione della memoria storica, siamo in presenza di un’altra categoria di interventi, ascrivibili alla sfera più ampia del “governo” del patrimonio costruito. In questi casi, la prima finalità è il miglioramento delle prestazioni tecnologiche e ambientali per la fruizione, sia essa materiale (fisica) che immateriale (della conoscenza).
Il caso del restauro della Chiesa intitolata Maria SS. Assunta in Cielo, nel Comune di S. Maria La Fossa (CE) risponde ad entrambe le esigenze: riportare l’organismo edilizio a uno stato di efficienza materica e costruttiva, ma anche ridare qualità architettonica, nel rispetto sia dell’istanza estetica che dell’istanza storica (cfr. art. 12 Carta di Venezia), ad un bene martorizzato da più o meno recenti interventi scellerati
Il mare colore del sangue
No full textIn their artwork "Calendoola: SURUS", visual artists Simone Trabucchi and Simone Bertuzzi AKA Invernomuto, in their characteristically visionary language combine sensory experiences and political urgency, offering a reflection on a potentially dystopian society incapable of coming to terms with its own history of colonial, imperial, neocolonial, and global domination. In their 2018 installation at the MAXXI Musuem in Rome, men bleed, turtles lie on their backs, and elephants look on, wise and inexorable. Meanwhile the sea is burning and has turned blood-red. It is the blood of the sons who cross it from opposite sides of the Mediterranean, some succeeding, others succumbing to its abysses. It is the blood of the Black Mediterranean, a tongue of fire that acts as a hinge to the loop, ideally opening it and closing it, and that turns the screen into cloud, smoke, sky, sea, island, and archipelago. A space that is shared and boundless, and that in recent years has become an area of heated debate in European electoral campaigns
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