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Cuba: Reading and Revolution—Cuban Literature and Literary Culture
No full textExamines postcolonial literature and literary culture in India, Nigeria, the UK, and Cuba, attending to what reading means and the importance of local literary marketplaces in postcolonial and neocolonial culture. Drawing on spatial theory, Ramone explores the representation of reading, both spaces and places, found in post-Revolutionary Cuban literature, including Leonardo Padura\u27s 2005 crime novel, Adios, Hemingway, in which Hemingway is a murder suspect. Analyzes Padura\u27s use of Hemingway\u27s public persona and repetition, including repeated reading of Big Two-Hearted River, to emphasize Hemingway the writer over Hemingway the celebrity. Ramone concludes that such focus on a more authentic version of Hemingway in turn draws attention to the dual representation of Cuba, and its changing relationship with global trade and tourism
De la serie El jardín perdido
No full textEn este artículo se presenta una de las series fotográficas de la artista Hanna Ramone: El Jardín perdido. La serie construye una reflexión acerca del problema social de los feminicidios. Este fenómeno afecta a mujeres de todas las edades y nacionalidades, quedando la mayoría de veces impune. En El Jardín perdido, nace el deseo de mostrar un empoderamiento generado desde una colectividad que pugna por la igualdad y la comprensión del cuerpo a partir de una instancia política. Existe una visión que reacciona y busca visibilizar una problemática que tras los siglos sigue presentándonos una deformada imagen de lo humano. La artista construye un entramado desde lo heterogéneo de los cuerpos, una resistencia desde una mirada particular donde la fotografía se transforma en portavoz del lenguaje corpóreo, como presencia imponente que se conjuga en un grito libertario
De la serie El jardín perdido
No full textEn este artículo se presenta una de las series fotográficas de la artista Hanna Ramone: El Jardín perdido. La serie construye una reflexión acerca del problema social de los feminicidios. Este fenómeno afecta a mujeres de todas las edades y nacionalidades, quedando la mayoría de veces impune. En El Jardín perdido, nace el deseo de mostrar un empoderamiento generado desde una colectividad que pugna por la igualdad y la comprensión del cuerpo a partir de una instancia política. Existe una visión que reacciona y busca visibilizar una problemática que tras los siglos sigue presentándonos una deformada imagen de lo humano. La artista construye un entramado desde lo heterogéneo de los cuerpos, una resistencia desde una mirada particular donde la fotografía se transforma en portavoz del lenguaje corpóreo, como presencia imponente que se conjuga en un grito libertario
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Salman Rushdie and translation /
No full text"Informed by contemporary translation theory, this book explores the role of the translator in Rushdie's appropriation of Indian narratives of independence and migration"--"Salman Rushdie's writing is engaged with translation in many ways: translator-figures tell and retell stories in his novels, while acts of translation are catalysts for climactic events. Covering his major novels as well as his often-neglected short stories and writing for children, Salman Rushdie and Translation explores the role of translation in Rushdie's work. In this book, Jenni Ramone draws on contemporary translation theory to analyse the part translation plays in Rushdie's appropriation of historical and contemporary Indian narratives of independence and migration"--Introduction: Colonial and Postcolonial Translation -- 1. Translation as Temptation: Gaps, Silences, Seductions -- 2. 'Talkallouf : the unsayable, the untranslatable -- 3. Translation as Transgression: Bad Language -- 4. Translation and Form: The Short Story -- 5. Kashmir and Paradise: Translating History -- 6. Translating Theory: If Grimus Fails -- 7. Paint, Patronage and Power and The Translator's Visibility -- 8. Salman Rushdie: A Split Subject.Met bibliografische referenties en index"Informed by contemporary translation theory, this book explores the role of the translator in Rushdie's appropriation of Indian narratives of independence and migration"--"Salman Rushdie's writing is engaged with translation in many ways: translator-figures tell and retell stories in his novels, while acts of translation are catalysts for climactic events. Covering his major novels as well as his often-neglected short stories and writing for children, Salman Rushdie and Translation explores the role of translation in Rushdie's work. In this book, Jenni Ramone draws on contemporary translation theory to analyse the part translation plays in Rushdie's appropriation of historical and contemporary Indian narratives of independence and migration"--Introduction: Colonial and Postcolonial Translation -- 1. Translation as Temptation: Gaps, Silences, Seductions -- 2. 'Talkallouf : the unsayable, the untranslatable -- 3. Translation as Transgression: Bad Language -- 4. Translation and Form: The Short Story -- 5. Kashmir and Paradise: Translating History -- 6. Translating Theory: If Grimus Fails -- 7. Paint, Patronage and Power and The Translator's Visibility -- 8. Salman Rushdie: A Split Subject
Variations on the Author
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
The Sarcomeric Spring Protein Titin: Biophysical Properties, Molecular Mechanisms, and Genetic Mutations Associated with Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy
No full textPurpose of Review The giant protein titin forms the “elastic” filament of the sarcomere, essential for the mechanical compliance of the heart muscle. Titin serves a biological spring, and therefore structural modifications of titin affect function of the myocardium and are associated with heart failure and cardiomyopathy.
Recent Findings In this review, we discuss the current understanding of titin’s biophysical properties and how modifications contribute to cardiac function and heart failure. In addition, we review the most recent data on the clinical impact and phenotype heterogeneity of TTN truncating variants, including diseases involving striated muscles, and prospects for future therapies. Summary Because of the giant structure of the titin protein and the complexity of its function, titin’s role in health and disease is not yet completely understood. Future research efforts need to focus on novel therapeutic approaches able to modulate titin transcriptional and post-translational modification
A Transport Synthetic Acceleration method for transport iterations
No full textDue to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to [email protected], referencing the URI of the item.Includes bibliographical references.Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.We present a family of Transport Synthetic Acceleration (TSA) methods to iteratively solve within-group scattering problems. A single iteration in these schemes consists of a transport sweep followed by a low-order calculation which is itself a simplified transport problem. We describe the development and the realization of the method for an isotropic source in XY geometry. We carry out a Fourier Analysis for a continuous set of equations and report TSA behavior. We show that a previously proposed TSA method is unstable in two dimensions but that our modifications make it stable and rapidly convergent. We follow the same procedure for descritized transport equations, using Step-Characteristics and two Bilinear Discontinuous methods, and find that discretization enhances TSA performance. We then propose to implement a Conjugate Gradient method on the low-order problem, to use a crude quadrature set in the low-order problem and to set the number of low-order iterations per transport sweep to a finite value. We prove that these features represent simple and efficient improvements to the method. We test TSA on a series of physical problems and propose a set of parameters for which the method behaves especially well. We further demonstrate that TSA achieves a substantial reduction in computational cost over Source Iteration, regardless of discretization parameters or materials and emphasize that this gain is an increasing function of the scattering ratio. We devote the final section to some conclusions and suggestions for future work
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