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Metodologia di documentazione di un relitto di età moderna: il Mercurio (1812), Punta Tagliamento
No full textWho needs the cinematic author ? film criticism, hegemony and the invention of the auteur
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Upwardly mobile proteins. Workshop: the role of HMG proteins in chromatin structure, gene expression and neoplasia
No full textA 5th-Century-AD Sewn-Plank River Barge at St Maria in Padovetere (Comacchio-FE), Italy: an interim report
No full textThis article reports on the remains of a 5th-century-AD river barge excavated in 2014 and 2015. Most of the flat bottom and one side are preserved. The barge is at least 20 m in length and 2.9 m across the floor, and is constructed using sewn planks, iron nails and mortise-and-tenon fasteners. Both flush-laid and lapstrake planks are recorded. Archaeological, historical, iconographic and ethnographic evidence is used to propose explanations for features, such as the use of lapstrakes, a possible steering system and platform, and the likely position of a pump, while setting the barge in the context of the North Adriatic shipbuilding tradition. (C) 2016 The Author
Information Circular 12. Selected Bibliography of Cuyuna Range Geology, Mining and Metallurgy
No full textThis work is an extension of a bibliography prepared by the author as part of a final report submitted to the U.S. Bureau of Mines for grant # G026/t002 entitled "Manganese-bearing ores of the Cuyuna iron range, east-central Minnesota, Phase 1". This bibliography, though directed primarily towards the geologic and mining literature of the Cuyuna range, does include the major works on the metallurgical aspects of the Cuyuna ores. For historical interest the very earliest publications are included. This list of abbreviations given on pages 2-4 are consistent with those from the "Bibliography and Index of Geology".Beltrame, R.J.. (1977). Information Circular 12. Selected Bibliography of Cuyuna Range Geology, Mining and Metallurgy. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/59304
Montage as Allegory: On the Concept of Historical Truth in Walter Benjamin and Guy Debord
No full textWhether the truth of history can become an object of knowledge or it is bound to be lost forever is the crucial question that defines the field of inquiry of what has been called “philosophy of history”. Doubts about the historian’s ability to offer an authentic representation of the past through a work of reconstruction have haunted the field since the publication in 1874 of the second of Nietzsche’s “Untimely meditations”, On the Use and Abuse of History for Life. Nietzsche’s text situates itself at the beginning of an intellectual geneaology that has called into question the applicability of a scientific method of research to history. His suspicions about scientific historiography are echoed in Walter Benjamin’s famous essay, On the concept of history. Here Benjamin develops a thorough critique of the “additive method” employed by positivist historians, whose concept of history correspond to simply mustering “a mass of data to fill the homogoneous, empty time” of the past. Benjamin’s concept of history is of particular consequence for film studies since it implies a theory of montage inspired to Russian avant-garde cinema. His recourse to film theory to propose an alternative historiographical method is not isolated in the field of the critics of historicism. Jean-Luc Godard - himself a proponent of a “true history of the cinema”- has gathered a whole collection of such figures in his monumental Histoire(s) du cinéma, in which he draws a cinematographic constallation between such apparently unrelated figures as Walter Benjamin, André Malraux, Elie Faure, Serge Daney, and Guy Debord.
Of these, the one who has gone further in employing film theory to produce an alternative method to do history is certainly Guy Debord
Protein HU binds specifically to kinked DNA
No full textWe have purified the main four-way junction DNA-binding protein of Escherichia coli, and have found it to be the well-known HU protein. HU protein recognizes with high-affinity one of the angles present in the junction, a molecule with the shape of an X. Other DNA structures characterized by sharp bends or kinks, like bulged duplex DNAs containing unpaired bases, are also bound. HU protein appears to inhibit cruciform extrusion from supercoiled inverted repeat (palindromic) DNA, either by constraining supercoiling or by trapping a metastable interconversion intermediate. All these properties are analogous to the properties of the mammalian chromatin protein HMG1. We suggest that HU is a prokaryotic HMG1-like protein rather than a histone-like protein
Imported Infections with Mansonella perstans Nematodes, Italy
No full textWe report 74 patients in Italy infected with Mansonella perstans nematodes, a poorly described filarial parasite. M. perstans nematodes should be included in the differential diagnosis for patients with eosinophilia from disease-endemic countries. Serologic analysis is useful for screening, and testing for microfilaremia in peripheral blood should be performed for parasite-positive patients
Observations of decision-making in the mechanical design process in a start-up company
No full textThesis: S.M. in Advanced Manufacturing and Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, September, 2018Cataloged from the PDF version of thesis. "Due to the condition of the original material, there are unavoidable flaws in this reproduction. We have made every effort possible to provide you with the best copy available"--Disclaimer Notice page.Includes bibliographical references (page 51).This thesis examines the effect that working at a start-up company has on decisions and considerations during the mechanical design process, and is based on the experience of the author while interning at an Al robotics start-up as part of an MIT graduate students' team. An overview of the company is provided, the different stages of the product development are introduced and Miso's approach to the design of the modules for its product is discussed. Advantages and disadvantages of the approach are examined with examples, and suggestions for improvement are provided. In particular, the role of first-order-analysis (FOA) as a powerful tool to predict problems early is presented, the need for order as a necessary condition for growth is discussed, and next steps for the future production ramp-up stage are shared.by Enrique Nicolás Beltrame Filgueiras.S.M. in Advanced Manufacturing and DesignS.M.inAdvancedManufacturingandDesign Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineerin
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