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L'ecologioia di Pierre Magnan
No full textIntroduction to the Italian translation of Pierre Magnan's novel "Laure du bout du monde".
The writer, best known as a crime novelist, only embraced this literary genre to get published; his true interest lays elsewhere, particularly in the depiction of the region he loved most: Haute Provence. In narrating the early years of his protagonist, Laure, he portrays an entire Provençal world, marked by hardships but still imbued with a deep "joie de vivre". The introduction concludes with a reflection on the author's style and the translating choices.Introduction à la traduction italienne du roman de Pierre Magnan "Laure du bout du monde". L'écrivain, connu surtout en tant qu'auteur de polars, n'a adopté la littérature de genre que pour être publié, son intérêt véritable s'étant toujours situé ailleurs, et en particulier dans la représentation d'une région, la haute Provence, qu'il a aimé le plus. Dans la narration des premières années de la vie de sa protagoniste, Laure, il représente tout un monde provençal, fait de duretés, mais habité quand même par une profonde joie de vivre. Une réflexion sur le style de l'auteur et sur les choix traductifs complètent l'introduction
La Maison assassinée et Le Mystère de Séraphin Monge de Pierre Magnan. Formes du double discours narratif
No full textGuillaume Émilie. La Maison assassinée et Le Mystère de Séraphin Monge de Pierre Magnan. Formes du double discours narratif. In: Cahiers du GADGES n°2, 2005. La parole masquée. pp. 353-373
Experiencing Provence in the regional imagery of Peter Mayle and Pierre Magnan
Get PDFMaster of ArtsDepartment of GeographyKevin S. BlakePlace-defining novelists convey regional imagery and regional sense of place to a wide audience, thus shaping popular perceptions of regions. Peter Mayle and Pierre Magnan are the most recent place-defining novelists of Provence, France. This research compares each author’s regional imagery and sense of place to understand what it means for each author to be in Provence. Place-name mapping geographically frames each authors’ regional imagery and sense of place. Qualitative coding and close readings of selected texts for each author identify sets of regional imagery, including nature and culture imagery, which help develop a sense of place for Provence. The subjectivities of qualitative coding analysis is addressed through personal narratives which acknowledges the researcher’s positionality vis-à-vis Provence.
Mayle’s nature imagery emphasizes remote, rough topography and bright sunny skies, which presents the natural landscape as benevolent and therapeutic. Magnan’s nature imagery emphasizes rough topography, rivers, winds, and storms, which presents the natural landscape as powerful, indifferent or malevolent towards human affairs, and imbued with a sense of deep time and an enigmatic quality. Mayle’s culture imagery emphasizes healthy, traditional agrarian lifeways; vibrant village life and social connectedness; a positive and prominent tourist industry; and a food culture which permeates Provençal identity. Magnan’s culture imagery emphasizes the harsh realities of agrarian lifestyles; insular and mistrusting villages; hard and frugal villagers; historical continuity; and references to ruined or abandoned landscapes and cultural loss.
Mayle’s sense of place defines Provence as a region defined as idyllic, most strongly developed by his culture imagery which emphasizes idealized agrarian lifeways and Provence’s food culture. This idyll is deepened with the positive associations with Provence’s tourist industry. Magnan’s sense of place defines Provence as a region defined by a melancholic sublime. His powerful, enigmatic nature imagery is the strongest shaping force behind developing Provence’s sublime qualities. Provence’s melancholic quality is linked to Magnan’s nature imagery’s enigmatic characteristics, which invite contemplation, and his culture imagery associated with ruins and cultural loss, which offers further invitation to contemplation and conveys a sense of grief
Low-frequency noise impact on CMOS image sensors
Get PDFCMOS image sensors are nowadays extensively used in imaging applications even for high-end applications. This is really possible thanks to a reduction of noise obtained, among others, by Correlated Double Sampling (CDS) readout. Random Telegraph Signal (RTS) noise has thus become an issue for low light level applications especially in the context of downscaling transistor size. This paper describes the analysis of in-pixel source follower transistor RTS noise filtering by CDS circuit. The measurement of a non Gaussian distribution with a positive skew of image sensor output noise is analysed. Impact of dimensions (W and L) of the in-pixel source follower is demonstrated. Circuit to circuit pixel output noise dispersion on 12 circuits coming from 3 different wafers is also analysed and weak dispersion is seen
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Suitable design approaches for interfaces involving geosynthetics under various loading and flow conditions.
No full textThis work integrates the research results conducted over several
years, focusing on the behaviour of interfaces in applications involving
geosynthetics. It addresses the importance of accurately characterizing the
interfaces of geosynthetic-reinforced soil walls and steep slopes, landfill
cover systems, and drainage systems to ensure their performance under both
ultimate and serviceability limit states. For geosynthetic-reinforced soil
walls and steep slopes, the research emphasizes the proper characterization
of soil-geosynthetic interfaces under static and cyclic loading conditions,
both in the short- and long-term. It provides essential guidelines for selecting
design parameters for these structures, ensuring their stability under various
loading scenarios. In landfill cover systems, the study investigates the
behaviour of interfaces between different geosynthetics under static and
seismic loading conditions, with special attention to potential damage
arising from improper installation. The lecture offers a comprehensive
approach to understanding these interactions and their impact on the longterm
performance of landfill systems. Lastly, the research examines the
soil/geotextile filter interfaces in drainage systems, particularly in contact
with unstable cohesionless soils under different boundary conditions. It
challenges conventional design methods and introduces a new methodology
to design filter transitions in contact with internally unstable soils. These
findings significantly contribute to designing and optimising geosynthetic
applications in civil engineering, advancing theoretical understanding and
practical implementation
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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