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Data for: Improved modelling and critical analysis of future electrification pathways: the case of Tanzania
No full textSupplementary material accompanying the paper:Improved modelling and critical analysis of future electrification pathways: the case of TanzaniaMatteo V. Rocco, Elena Fumagalli, Chiara Vigone, Ambrogio Miserocchi, Emanuela ColomboDepartment of Energy, Politecnico di MilanoCopernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht UniversityCorresponding author: Via Lambruschini 4, 21056 Milan, Italy. E-mail: [email protected]
Gabriel García Márquez and the cinema : life and works / Alessandro Rocco.
No full textRocco focuses on Gabriel GarciÌa MaÌrquez's relations with the world of cinema and gives us the first detailed study of the author's wide-ranging filmography. A unique and indeed indispensable addition to the critical literature on a writer of world importance. Gerald Martin, author of Gabriel GarciÌa MaÌrquez: A Life Far from being an occasional occupation, GarciÌa MaÌrquez's film work forms an intrinsic part of his overall aesthetic and literary poetics. The book's primary aim is to present a detailed study of GarciÌa MaÌrquez's wide-ranging filmography, which has never received a comprehensive,systematic analysis. Rocco argues that it should be recognised as an integral part of the author's narrative output, and brought into the mainstream of studies concerning his literary activity. The first part of the book reconstructs the trajectory of GarciÌa MaÌrquez's career in cinema and his connections with the world of film. The second part looks at all his screenplays on which actual films have been based. These are examined chronologically, but also analysed according to thematic and aesthetic concerns and placed in relation to the novels and short stories with which they are 'twinned'. Alessandro Rocco is Researcher in Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of Bari, ItalyTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Feb 2023).Rocco focuses on Gabriel GarciÌa MaÌrquez's relations with the world of cinema and gives us the first detailed study of the author's wide-ranging filmography. A unique and indeed indispensable addition to the critical literature on a writer of world importance. Gerald Martin, author of Gabriel GarciÌa MaÌrquez: A Life Far from being an occasional occupation, GarciÌa MaÌrquez's film work forms an intrinsic part of his overall aesthetic and literary poetics. The book's primary aim is to present a detailed study of GarciÌa MaÌrquez's wide-ranging filmography, which has never received a comprehensive,systematic analysis. Rocco argues that it should be recognised as an integral part of the author's narrative output, and brought into the mainstream of studies concerning his literary activity. The first part of the book reconstructs the trajectory of GarciÌa MaÌrquez's career in cinema and his connections with the world of film. The second part looks at all his screenplays on which actual films have been based. These are examined chronologically, but also analysed according to thematic and aesthetic concerns and placed in relation to the novels and short stories with which they are 'twinned'. Alessandro Rocco is Researcher in Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of Bari, Ital
The Vitruvian Man of Leonardo Symbol of Western Civilization
No full textABSTRACT: THE VITRUVIAN MAN by Rocco Sinisgalli,
Federighi Editori, Certaldo, Florence, 2006.
ISBN 978-88-89159-22-4
9 788889 159224
The famous drawing of Leonardo (Vinci 1452, Amboise 1519) has become the symbol of western civilization. The author wrote The man is named Minor World by
the ancients. As Plato had bound fire and earth, the components with which God created the universe (the macrocosm), through the proportional mean, which was
named Divine, thus Leonardo bound man (the microcosm) which Vitruvius dissected in a circle and a square using the Golden Section. The Vitruvian man of Leonardo dates 1490 circa and measures 344x245 mm; the author was inspired by Vitruvius in the relationship between proportions, as he himself reports. We restrain ourselves to delineate how the square becomes the circle, or how from the circle one passes to the square, applying what we will discuss in Applied problems and in How to graphically obtain the
Golden Section.
Paragraphs: Leonardo's man, The man of Vitruvius, The Golden Section, Applied problems, How to graphically obtain the Golden Section, From the square to the circle, From the circle to the square, The bidimensionality within space, What Leonardo says about his drawing, Chronological summary of Leonardo's life
CROATIAN EMIGRANTS IN VENICE AND SCUALA GRANDE S. ROCCO
No full textU radu se, na osnovi izvorne građe iz Državnog arhiva u Mlecima i Arhiva Bratovštine sv. Jurja i Tripuna (oporučni spisi), predstavljaju različiti oblici komunikacije hrvatskih iseljenika u Mlecima s Bratovštinom S. Rocco, u prošlosti jednom od najpoznatijih i najuglednijih bratimskih udruga u gradu na lagunama. Obrađuju se zavičajna, profesionalna i društvena struktura Hrvata povezanih s Bratovštinom S. Rocco i predstavljaju temeljne sastavnice koje se odnose na upućenost Hrvata sa spomenutom bratovštinom.In this article, on the basis of the extant archival sources kept in the State Archives in Venice and in Archive of St. George and Triphon fraternity (testaments), author tries to describe various relationships of Croatian emigrants in Venice with the members of St. Rocco fraternity, which was one of the most prominent and most respectable fraternities in the history of Venice. Author tries to analyze provenience, professional and social structure of the Croats related to the fraternity of St. Rocco, which was quite important regarding these relations between Croatian emigration and the aforementioned fraternity. Since the primary sources for this investigation were testaments, which contain rather specifi c
sort of information, this investigation was focused chiefl y at the information regarding the burial place – taking into account all the testators who had chosen St. Rocco fraternity as their last resting place. Moreover, author also has analyzed all the legacies regarding the bestowal of the fraternity and their members, as well as the legacies regarding the funeral ceremony that included the fraternity or its members. At the end, author emphasizes that one of the purposes of this research was to point out importance of this, not so known but very signifi cant, part of daily life of Croatian emigration in Venice
Emerging New Roles for Designers and Planners: Articulating Soft and Hard Infrastructures.
No full textHard infrastructure are often purposed by urbanists to facilitate further economic and societal Hard infrastructure are often purposed by urbanists to facilitate further economic and societal development. However, the recent protests in Brazil and Turkey against the urban plans told the development. However, the recent protests in Brazil and Turkey against the urban plans told the other side of the story of infrastructure: the design of hard infrastructure alone is not enough. other side of the story of infrastructure: the design of hard infrastructure alone is not enough. Roberto Rocco, an assistant professor of TU Delft and also a Brazilian, reviews the underlying Roberto Rocco, an assistant professor of TU Delft and also a Brazilian, reviews the underlying causes of the protest in Brazil, from which he stresses the importance of soft infrastructure and causes of the protest in Brazil, from which he stresses the importance of soft infrastructure and the political role of urban planners and designers. the political role of urban planners and designers.UrbanismArchitecture and The Built Environmen
Methodology for Urbanism AR2U090: Best essays 2010-2012
No full textThese are essays written by students of the course AR2U090 Research and Design Methodology for Urbanism from 2010 to 2012. This is a 5 ECTS course given within the Masters in Urbanism programme of the TU Delft by Roberto Rocco and Egbert Stolk. At the end of the course students are asked to write an essay about themes studied. The theme of the essay has varied over the years, but essays generally concentrate on the relationship between research and design in Urbanism and an evaluation of the Urbanism Masters programme at TU Delft.Urbanis
Articulating Soft and Hard Infrastructures: Emerging New Roles for Designers and Planners
No full textHard infrastructure are often purposed by urbanists to facilitate further economic and societal development. However, the recent protests in Brazil and Turkey against the urban plans told the other side of the story of infrastructure: the design of hard infrastructure alone is not enough. Roberto Rocco, an assistant professor of TU Delft and also a Brazilian, reviews the underlying causes of the protest in Brazil, from which he stresses the importance of soft infrastructure and the political role of urban planners and designers.UrbanismArchitecture and The Built Environmen
The political meaning of informal urbanization
No full textMany countries in the Global South are relatively young democracies. The resilience and legitimacy of their political systems rely largely on their ability to integrate and represent millions of citizens who are ‘excluded’ from formal social, political, and economic structures. Exclusion from those formal structures has deep-reaching consequences and is reflected in the built environment, as many of the so-called excluded are also excluded from formal housing markets and must ‘help themselves’ in order to inhabit the city. They often build informal settlements, mostly characterized by insecurity of tenure, poor infrastructure, and lack of basic services, though in time, and mostly through public intervention, some of those neighborhoods might develop into liveable places. We argue that democracy’s success depends not only on the ability of formal institutions to respond to the legitimate demands of its citizens. It also depends on how these citizens are able to enter the political realm in order to claim their rights. The toils of people struggling to inhabit the city have different consequences for their empowerment as citizens in different contexts. In this sense, informal urbanization is often a short-term, last-resort solution for the lack of affordable housing in developing countries, and it is simultaneously the mark of non-inclusive political systems and of a deficit of rights.Accepted Author ManuscriptSpatial Planning and StrategyDesign and Politic
«Non s’introduce alcun vocabolo se il bisogno non se ne fa sentire»: Emmanuele Rocco e la questione dei neologismi nell’Ottocento
No full textIl «filologo napoletano» Emmanuele Rocco è una figura di un certo rilievo nella cultura linguistica italiana del medio e secondo Ottocento. Giornalista poligrafo e polemista vivace, oltre che lessicografo di prim’ordine, Rocco fu uno dei principali compilatori del Vocabolario universale italiano noto come Tramater e fu autore, tra le altre cose, di una raccolta di diverse migliaia di aggiunte e correzioni alla lessicografia italiana e, soprattutto, di un monumentale dizionario storico del dialetto napoletano, redatto per intero, ma interrotto nella stampa alla voce feletto. Il presente articolo si propone in particolare di delineare le idee e la posizione di Rocco nell’ambito delle discussioni ottocentesche intorno ai neologismi.The «filologo napoletano» Emmanuele Rocco is a figure of some prominence in Italian linguistic culture of the middle and second half of the 19th century. A polygraph journalist and lively polemicist, as well as a first-rate lexicographer, Rocco was one of the main compilers of the Vocabolario universale italiano known as Tramater and was the author, among other things, of a collection of several thousand additions and corrections to Italian lexicography and, above all, of a monumental historical dictionary of Neapolitan, compiled in full but discontinued in print at the entry for feletto. This article aims in particular to outline Rocco’s ideas and position in the context of nineteenth-century discussions around neologisms
Antibodies against human cytomegalovirus late protein UL94 in the pathogenesis of scleroderma-like skin lesions in chronic graft-versus-host disease
No full textHuman cytomegalovirus (hCMV) infection and its reactivation correlate both with the increased risk and with the worsening of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). Because scleroderma-like skin lesions can occur in chronic GVHD (cGVHD) in allogeneic stem-cell transplant (HCT) patients and hCMV is relevant in the pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis (SSc), we evaluated the possible pathogenetic link between hCMV and skin cGVHD. Plasma from 18 HCT patients was tested for anti-UL94 and/or anti-NAG-2 antibodies, identified in SSc patients, by direct ELISA assays. Both donors and recipients were anti-hCMV IgG positive, without autoimmune diseases. Patients’ purified anti-UL94 and anti- NAG-2 IgG binding to human umbilical endothelial cells (HUVECs) and fibroblasts was performed by FACS analysis and ELISA test. HUVECs apoptosis and fibroblasts proliferation induced by patients’ anti-NAG-2 antibodies were measured by DNA fragmentation and cell viability, respectively.
About 11/18 patients developed cGVHD and all of them showed skin involvement, ranging from diffuse SSc-like lesions to limited erythema. Eight of eleven cGVHD patients were positive for anti-UL94 and/or anti-NAG-2 antibodies. Remarkably, 4/5 patients who developed diffuse or limited SSc-like lesions had antibodies directed against both UL94 and NAG-2; their anti-NAG-2 IgG-bound HUVECs and fibroblasts induce both endothelial cell apoptosis and fibroblasts proliferation, similar to that induced by purified anti-UL94 and anti-NAG-2 antibodies obtained from SSc patients.
In conclusion, our data suggest a pathogenetic link between hCMV infection and scleroderma-like skin cGVHD in HCT patients through a mechanism of molecular mimicry between UL94 viral protein and NAG-2 molecule, as observed in patients with SSc
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