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Translation proposal and analysis of Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons by Sam Steiner
No full textopenIl presente lavoro propone una traduzione dall'inglese all'italiano del libro Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons di Sam Steiner, pubblicato da Nick Hern Books nel novembre 2015. Il testo di partenza della traduzione è il copione dell'omonimo spettacolo teatrale che ha debuttato nel gennaio 2015 al Warwick Arts Centre, diretto da Sam Steiner. La storia parla di una coppia, Oliver e Bernadette, che vive in un futuro distopico dove l'entrata in vigore della Quietude Bill permette alle persone di pronunciare solo centoquaranta parole al giorno, alterando immensamente il loro modo di comunicare. Oltre alla traduzione, il presente lavoro comprende un capitolo dedicato al suo contesto teorico, con un'analisi degli aspetti della teoria della traduzione che più sono pertinenti alla mia tesi. Inoltre, questa tesi offre un capitolo dedicato al commento della traduzione, dove vengono evidenziati e analizzati i problemi più importanti sorti durante il processo di traduzione. Per ognuno di questi problemi, viene fornita una spiegazione delle strategie traduttive applicate, supportata da esempi e passi tratti dal testo di partenza e di arrivo. Lo scopo principale di questo lavoro è quello di offrire una proposta di traduzione dell'opera Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons di Sam Steiner e di portare maggiore notorietà a questo talentuoso autore che, purtroppo, in Italia è quasi sconosciuto.The present work proposes a translation from English into Italian of the book Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons by Sam Steiner, published by Nick Hern Books in November 2015. The source text of the translation is the script of the homonymous play that premiered in January 2015 at the Warwick Arts Centre, directed by Sam Steiner. The story is about a couple, Oliver and Bernadette, who lives in a dystopian future where the entry into force of the Quietude Bill allows people to speak only one hundred and forty words every day, immensely affecting the way they communicate. Besides the translation, the present work includes a chapter dedicated to its theoretical background, with an analysis of the translation theory that pertains the most to my thesis. Moreover, this thesis offers a commentary on the translation. This chapter highlights and analyses the most serious problems that arose during the translation process. For each of these problems, the reader is given an explanation of the translation strategies applied, as well as examples and excerpts of the source and target text. The main purpose of this work is to offer a translation proposal of Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons by Sam Steiner and hopefully to bring greater awareness about this talented author who, unfortunately, is almost unknown in Italy
Defending the “Woman’s Sphere”: The Ideology and Opposition of Anti-suffragists
No full textIn “Defending the ‘Woman’s Sphere’: The Ideology and Opposition of Anti-suffragists,” J. Stanley Lemons examines the cultural roots of the anti-woman suffrage movement that emerged in Rhode Island in the early twentieth century. When woman suffrage activists first organized in the state in 1868, Lemons notes, there was almost universal opposition among both genders to the idea of women gaining the franchise. He explains the prevalent “cult of true womanhood” that informed opposition to woman suffrage in the nineteenth century. In the first decades of the twentieth century, as woman suffrage activists gained ground, an organized anti-suffrage movement emerged in the state. Lemons examines the biographies of some of the women who were leaders and activists in the anti-suffrage cause in Rhode Island. J. Stanley Lemons is emeritus professor of history at Rhode Island College. He has published extensively on Rhode Island and Baptist history. Among his works are: The Woman Citizen: Social Feminism in the 1920s (University of Illinois Press), co-author of The Elect: Rhode Island’s Women Legislators 1922-1990 and co-author of the article, “The Independent Woman: Rhode Island’s First Woman Legislator [Isabelle Ahearn O’Neill] in Rhode Island History
Drawing physics: 2600 year of discovery from Thales to Higgs
No full textHumans have been trying to understand the physical universe since antiquity. Aristotle had one vision (the realm of the celestial spheres is perfect), and Einstein another (all motion is relativistic). More often than not, these different understandings begin with a simple drawing, a pre-mathematical picture of reality. Such drawings are a humble but effective tool of the physicist's craft, part of the tradition of thinking, teaching, and learning passed down through the centuries. This book uses drawings to help explain fifty-one key ideas of physics accessibly and engagingly. Don Lemons, a professor of physics and author of several physics books, pairs short, elegantly written essays with simple drawings that together convey important concepts from the history of physical science. Lemons proceeds chronologically, beginning with Thales' discovery of triangulation, the Pythagorean monocord, and Archimedes' explanation of balance. He continues through Leonardo's description of -earthshine- (the ghostly glow between the horns of a crescent moon), Kepler's laws of planetary motion, and Newton's cradle (suspended steel balls demonstrating by their collisions that for every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction). Reaching the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Lemons explains the photoelectric effect, the hydrogen atom, general relativity, the global greenhouse effect, Higgs boson, and more. The essays place the science of the drawings in historical context -- describing, for example, Galileo's conflict with the Roman Catholic Church over his teaching that the sun is the center of the universe, the link between the discovery of electrical phenomena and the romanticism of William Wordsworth, and the shadow cast by the Great War over Einstein's discovery of relativity
How is the Rate of Total Knee Arthroplasty Influenced by ACL Injury Treated by ACL Reconstruction Versus Non-Operative Treatment and How Does Prior ACL Reconstruction Compromise Outcomes: A Systematic Review
No full textAssessing mesopredator foraging habits in response to an extirpated and extant predator
No full textTitle: Assessing mesopredator foraging habits in response to an extirpated and extant predator
Author: Cord Lemons
Mentor: Dr. Andrea Darracq
Abstract
The landscape of fear is the perceived threat of predation, whether spatial or temporal, within an environment that can affect prey communities and their foraging habits. Because of the perceived threat of predation, the foraging habits of prey species are mitigated, which in turn lessens environmental strains such as overgrazing, which can reduce plant biomass. The effects of the landscape of fear can also extend to mesopredator populations. Specifically, in environments without apex predators, mesopredator populations, such as raccoons (Procyon lotor), may increase and lead to declines in their prey via depredation of both terrestrial and aquatic species. To replicate predation risks on an environment, and thus implement an artificial landscape of fear to determine if predation risks restrain mesopredator foraging habits, previous studies have used audio playbacks of known raccoon predators. While previous studies have used audio cues from extant predators to simulate a landscape of fear for raccoons, none have used the audio cues of an extirpated predator such as the red wolf (Canis rufus). Using foraging stations and audio cues from a current (coyotes [Canis latrans]), extirpated (red wolves), and non-predator (barred owls [Strix varia]) we will implement a landscape of fear model to determine if raccoons will display similar antipredator responses to a historic, extirpated predator compared to an extant predator. Our data could provide support for the restoration of these extirpated predators to the landscape to benefit populations of raccoon prey.
Keywords:
Landscape of fear, extirpated predator, mesopredator, vigilance, antipredator respons
Is There an Energy Efficiency Gap?
No full textMany analysts have argued that energy efficiency investments offer an enormous “win-win” opportunity to both reduce negative externalities and save money. This overview paper presents a simple model of investment in energy-using capital stock with two types of market failures: first, uninternalized externalities from energy consumption, and second, forces such as imperfect information that cause consumers and firms not to exploit privately-profitable energy efficiency investments. The model clarifies that only if the second type of market failure cannot be addressed directly through mechanisms such as information provision, energy efficiency subsidies and standards may be merited. We therefore review the empirical work on the magnitude of profitable unexploited energy efficiency investments, a literature which frequently does not meet modern standards for credibly estimating the net present value of energy cost savings and often leaves other benefits and costs unmeasured. These problems notwithstanding, recent empirical work in a variety of contexts implies that on average the magnitude of profitable unexploited investment opportunities is much smaller than engineering-accounting studies suggest. Finally, there is tremendous opportunity and need for policy-relevant research that utilizes randomized controlled trials and quasi-experimental techniques to estimate the returns to energy efficiency investments and the welfare effects of energy efficiency programs.
Is the Market for Mortgage-Backed Securities a Market for Lemons?
No full textThis paper models and provides empirical evidence for the quality of assets that are securitized through bankruptcy remote special purpose vehicles (SPVs). The model predicts that assets sold to SPVs will be of lower quality ("lemons") compared to assets that are not sold to SPVs. We find strong empirical support for this prediction using a comprehensive data set of sales of mortgage-backed securities (Freddie Mac Participation Certificates, or PCs) to SPVs over the period 1991 through 2002. Valuation estimates based on a structural two-factor model indicate that PCs sold to SPVs are on average valued 100 of face value relative to PCs not so sold. For the four largest coupon groups in our full sample of Freddie Mac PCs, we find a "lemons spread" of 4--6 basis points in terms of yield-to-maturity, and this spread accounts for 13--45% of the overall prepayment spread of these securities. The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Society for Financial Studies. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: [email protected], Oxford University Press.
The brave new world: imperfect information, segregation costs, and genetically modified organisms
No full textThe introduction of genetically modified (GM) crops in the mid 1990s appeared to be the latest in a string of technological innovations in agriculture. However, consumer resistance, particularly in Europe has limited the sector’s enthusiasm. One response to the limited enthusiasm has been the emergence of segregated markets for GM and non-GM products. These separated markets reduce economic welfare because they require additional costs in the marketing system. Offsetting these segregation costs, however, the introduction of GM technologies offers increased economic welfare through reduced commodity prices for consumers who are indifferent to the presence of GM traits and increased profits to producers who adopt GM technologies. This study develops the combinations of segregation costs and increased supplies that leave societal surplus unchanged. Any GM technology that yields a larger increase in supply for any segregation cost depicted in this relationship meets the compensation principle and, thus, improves societal welfare. In this case, market based adoption of these technologies improve economic surplus. On the other hand, technologies that yields less increase in supply for any segregation cost reduces societal welfare. Under this scenario, market based adoption will not be welfare improving and, hence, government regulation may be required.genetically modified (GM) crops, compensation principle, segregation costs, Pareto principle, immiserizing growth, Agricultural and Food Policy, Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies,
Dynamic Adverse Selection and the Size of the Informed Side of the Market
No full textIn this paper we examine the problem of dynamic adverse selection in a stylized market where the quality of goods is a seller’s private information. We show that in equilibrium all goods can be traded if a simple piece of information is made publicly available: the size of the informed side of the market. Moreover, we show that if exchanges can take place frequently enough, then agents roughly enjoy the entire potential surplus from exchanges. We illustrate these findings with a dynamic model of trade where buyers and sellers repeatedly interact over time. More precisely we prove that, if the size of the informed side of the market is a public information at each trading stage, then there exists a weak perfect Bayesian equilibrium where all goods are sold in finite time and where the price and quality of traded goods are increasing over time. Moreover, we show that as the time between exchanges becomes arbitrarily small, full trade still obtains in finite time – i.e., all goods are actually traded in equilibrium while total surplus from exchanges converges to the entire potential. These results suggest two policy interventions in markets suffering from dynamic adverse selection: first, the public disclosure of the size of the informed side of the market in each trading stage and, second, the increase of the frequency of trading stagesdynamic adverse selection; full trade; size of the informed side; frequency of exchanges; asymmetric information
Financial safety nets and incentive structures in Latin America
No full textThe literature on safety nets has become technically more precise by drawing on advances in contract theory and optimal governance structure. This paper begins with a treatment of some aspects of the theory. The author's approach draws more on institutional economics, and more precisely on the approach taken by Kindleberger (1978), in the sense that he believes the design of good financial safety nets for Latin America depends upon an understanding of the way that formal ex-ante safety nets have broken down during times of crisis over the past one hundred years. In this paper then author explores issues surrounding safety nets for financial systems in small open economies like those in Latin America. The starting point in Section 2 is the idea that asymmetric information will generally restrict the scope for lending to potential borrowers. Section 3 shows that government regulation of financial intermediaries can frequently lower the cost of lending. Section 4 discusses the creation of central banks in Latin America in the 1920s as an innovation to promote financial deepening. Section 5 shows that the extension of the safety net to depositors is a relatively new and untested development. Section 6 concludes with a discussion of the design of safety nets that takes into account the principles developed in the paper.Financial Crisis Management&Restructuring,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,Financial Intermediation,Banks&Banking Reform,Labor Policies,Financial Intermediation,Financial Crisis Management&Restructuring,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform
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