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Jon Keune, Shared Devotion, Shared Food: Equality and the Bhakti-Caste Question in Western India [Ludovica Tozzi], p. 391
No full text"Shared Devotion, Shared Food: Equality and the Bhakti-Caste Question in Western India" by Jon Keune deals with an in-depth analysis of Marathi literature from 1854 to 1950, in order to find an answer to the question: "Can the idea that people are equal before God inspire them to treat each other as equals? Can theological egalitarianism lead to social equality?”. While trying to answer such a complex question, the author reveals the strengths and flaws of the so-called "most liberal Hindu religious movement"
Electronic trading on futures exchanges
Get PDFAlthough the open outcry method is still the best way to trade highly active contracts on futures exchanges, electronic systems can improve the efficiency and cost effectiveness of trading some types of futures and options. In recent years, the volume of electronic trades on futures exchanges has more than doubled, and it should continue to grow rapidly.Futures
Dentro «Il podere» di Federigo Tozzi: la 'tecnica del montaggio'
No full textThis article analyses a particular assembly technique used by Federigo Tozzi in composing his texts. The case of study is offered by one of his major novels, «Il podere» (1921), whose manuscript reveals how Tozzi deliberatly left some descriptives parts to be completed later. To reach this completion, the author could work en plein air, to catch a landscape as a painter would have done, otherwise re-use some pages written years before. In this second case, the pages here re-used are taken from the typescript of «Adele» (1979, posthumous), the well-known first novel never published by Tozzi but rather dis-mantled, put aside and kept in a drawer as a sort of tank of useful pages, to be re-used if necessary
On characterization of (E,M)-structures in procategories,
No full textMardesic introduced the concept of pro-reflective (dense) subcategory of a category C in order to define a categorical shape theory for topological spaces. Following the results obtained by the author introducing the (E,M)-factorisation structure on C w.r.t ProC, it is given a characterisation of those classes M for which there exists the class E in the ProC morphisms such that the pair (E,M) is a factorisation structure on C w.r.t. Pro
L’infante, la donna, la bestia: un’analisi ecocritica degli incontri non umani in Federigo Tozzi, Dino Buzzati, Anna Maria Ortese
No full textRestricted AccessThe authorial connections between Federigo Tozzi, Dino Buzzati and Anna Maria Ortese are notable and varied. Linked by a fervent animalistic and, in the case of the latter two, also environmentalist spirit, the non-human plays a central role in the works of the authors, who represent natural entities, animals, or fantastic creatures as narrative archetypes of universal pain. This thesis investigates the encounters between the human and the nonhuman in the works of Tozzi, Buzzati, and Ortese with the aim of answering the questions “what does otherness represent for the authors?”, and “how is this 'other' portrayed in their novels, short stories, and journalistic writings?”. To tackle these issues, my analysis considers three thematic areas, namely the representation of the child, the woman, and the beast, categories united by a perception of inferiority, and thus of marginalization, in a purely patriarchal social context. In the three chapters, one per individual author, the investigation of the three principal thematic areas makes use of a range of critical theories such as Ecocriticism (Garrard, Buell, Wolfe, Iovino), Animal Studies (Derrida, Cimatti, Regan, Singer), Ecofeminism (Warren, Adams, Plumwood, Ruether) and Children's Studies (Freud, Joosen, Khan, Kellert).
In the works of the three authors, the animal is portrayed as abused, castrated, and killed, and this confirms how, due to a lack of logos, the nonhuman can be easily subjugated in human society. On other occasions, the animal, as a model of otherness, is acknowledged by the authors as a fragile entity, and thus in need of protection or defense. However, animality also serves the function of representing human figures through animalistic characteristics, or portraying characters who are placed on the same social scale as beasts enslaved to man: namely, women and children.
Therefore, after having traced the narrative archetypes and symbolic connections between the child, the woman, and the animal in selected works of Tozzi, Buzzati and Ortese, the last part of the respective chapters addresses the salient themes of the three authors' attitude towards animals from an ethical-moral perspective. In the case of Tozzi, I analyze texts that draw upon his strong influence by nonhuman agents. For Ortese and Buzzati, I consider a selection of the authors’ militant journalistic production which advocates for the protection of those who have no voice to denounce their own oppression, existential imperatives of an ethical-moral order which constitute the critical building blocks of their animalist spirit. The conclusions highlight the connections between the authors through the three thematic cores examined (child, woman, and beast), and trace the positioning of the nonhuman in the authorial imaginary of Tozzi, Buzzati and Ortese, authors who are only seemingly dissimilar, but who are linked, instead, by a profound, indissoluble interest in the other
A study on middle school students' use of computer-generated representations as they solve probability tasks
No full textThis study examined the problem-solving behavior of four students from an urban, middle school as they used computer simulation software to solve probability tasks, by generating and interpreting computer data and representations to make decisions about fairness and adequacy of sample size. The questions that guided the study were: (1) How are data generated by the students from computer simulations interpreted with respect to (a) fairness and (b) significance of sample size? (2) What decisions about fairness and adequacy of sample size do students make on the basis of evidence that they collect? and (3) How are student ideas influenced, if at all, by their computer-generated representations and others? The students were video-taped during five sessions which occurred on two days of a summer institute, a component of the Informal Mathematical Learning (IML) Project at Rutgers University. Data consisted of discussions between and among students as they worked in pairs on the task, conversations between students and researchers, screen-shots of computer representations that students selected and discussed, and students’ written work recorded on CDs. These were analyzed using the Powell, Francisco & Maher (2003) model for investigating the development of mathematical knowledge using video data. Analysis of the data revealed that the simulation software, together with social interaction, resulted in students' making and testing conjectures about a sophisticated concept, the Law of Large Numbers. The type of representations that were chosen by students also influenced their arguments. The students agreed that fair dice have a uniform frequency distribution; however, they also agreed that a fair die could have an outcome that alternated between having the highest and then lowest frequencies in two separate experiments. This study contributes to the data base that documents the building of mathematical ideas as students work on investigations in supportive environments, and addresses a gap in the probability education literature for studies of middle-school students using simulation software to generate data and representations that support their claims.Ed.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Barbara Tozz
Della novissima iconologia /
No full textText printed in double columns.Engraved title vignette, repeated on t.p. of each part; engraved portrait plate of the author (pi4 verso); numerous woodcut ill. of emblems, initials, head- and tail-pieces.Each part has a separate t.p.; parts 2 and 3 have imprint date 1624 and additional imprint statement on t.p.: "Nella stampa del Pasquati".Includes several indexes (1st count).Mode of access: Internet.Binding: contemporary full vellum, two old paper labels on spine, the lower label torn, bottom edge of the leaves inscribed in ink "Iconol. dt Ripa."
Correction: Production of IL-8, VEGF and Elastase by Circulating and Intraplaque Neutrophils in Patients with Carotid Atherosclerosis (PLoS ONE (2015) 10: 4 (e0124565) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124565)
No full textThis article was republished on May 22, 2017, as the original S1 Dataset was published in error. The correct Data Availability statement is: Due to ethical restrictions pertaining to participant privacy, data from this study are available upon request to the corresponding author at [email protected]. Please download this article again to view the correct version
L'imperialismo, come la lebbra, si cura con la morte": intesecting narratives in Ennio Flaiano's Tempo di uccidere
No full textIncludes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.In 1947 Ennio Flaiano published what was to become his only full-length novel, Tempo di uccidere. Set in Abyssinia during the 1935-1936 Italo-Ethiopian War, it is a work that, notwithstanding its ostensibly "realist" subject matter, displays a palpable dissonance with the coeval cultural and literary landscape of post-war Italy, then dominated by the age of neorealism. With Tempo di uccidere, Flaiano chooses to counter the largely nationally inward, materialist gaze of his contemporary authors by shifting the focus to a socio-political and cultural environment ghat would have proved largely foreign to the majority of his readers...The primary aim of this MA dissertation is to explore-and to critically engage with - the two indentifiable narratives that frame the interpretation of the novel..
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