324 research outputs found
The Story of the Meo People
No full textDone by Thongsar, a Meo, it is an accurate interpretation of the Meo legend and histor
Lao Project: The Meo of Xieng Khouang Province
No full textSelection from a thesis describing the Meo, a cultural group living in Vietnam, Thailand, China and Laos.1. Chapters II and III of the author's Master's Thesis,
Christianity: Innovation in Meo Culture. A Case Study
in Missionization. University of Minnesota, 1957. 2. Laos Project; Paper #13;
The Meo of Xieng Khouang Province;
The period of field work was 1949-1953
MEO SAR: System Concepts and Analysis
No full textExisting microwave remote sensing instruments used for Earth observation face a clear tradeoff between spatial resolution and revisit times at global scales. The typical imaging capabilities of current systems range from daily observations at kilometer-scale resolutions provided by scatterometers to meter-scale resolutions at lower temporal rates (more than ten days) typical of synthetic aperture radars (SARs). A natural way to fill the gap between these two extremes is to use medium-Earth-orbit SAR (MEO-SAR) systems. MEO satellites are deployed at altitudes above the region of low Earth orbits (LEOs), ending at around 2000 km and below the geosynchronous orbits (GEOs) near 35 786 km. MEO SAR shows a clear potential to provide advantages in terms of spatial coverage, downlink visibility, and global temporal revisit times, e.g., providing moderate resolution images (some tens of meters) at daily rates. This article discusses the design tradeoffs of MEO SAR, including sensitivity and orbit selection. The use of these higher orbits opens the door to global coverage in one- to two-day revisit or continental/oceanic coverage with multidaily observations, making MEO SAR very attractive for future scientific missions with specific interferometric and polarimetric capabilities.Mathematical Geodesy and Positionin
The Pathet Lao and Change in Traditional Economies of the Meo and Kha
No full textArticle describing the economy of the Meo in Laos and the effect the Pathet Lao had on the economy.Hafner, James. "The Pathet Lao and Change in Traditional Economies of the Meo and Kha, 1958-1961, Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, 1965 (Vol. L; Pages 431-436
The Author/Translator Interactional Process. A Case Study
No full textSee Naples and Kill (1988) is a lively and colourful novel by the con-temporary English writer, Gregory Dowling, translated into Italian in 2015.
Following the tradition of translation studies (Venuti 2000, Bass-nett 2002, Cronin 2006), this paper analyses the rewriting process of literary translation, considering in particular the fruitful but sometimes tense and even conflictual relationship between writer and translator.
The translation of the novel See Naples and Kill was an ongoing rewriting process entailing a constant dialogue between the writer and the translator. Therefore, the study aims at answering two main ques-tions: what happens if the rewriting process of translation is constant-ly questioned by the author? What happens if the author has a good mastery of the target language and s/he is her/himself a translator?
By exploring the relationship between translation and re-creation, the research focuses on the differences and similarities between the primary creation (source text) and the secondary creation (target text), and aims to verify in which way the dialogic encounter of two different personalities and cultures does not make them merge but, by retaining their own uniqueness, leads eventually to their mutually en-riching each other. A comparative analysis of the source text and the different drafts of the translated version accompanied by the author’s comments will shed light on the tense author-translator relationship in the specific case under investigation and how both actors handle this tension in order to create a new work resulting from the (dis)agreement of the two parties
L’industria tessile a Herakleia di Lucania e nel territorio tra III e I secolo a.C.
No full textThe paper focuses on the role of Herakleia and Metaponto in textile production during the Hellenistic period. The analysis of thousands of loom weights from several houses in the so-called Quartiere occidencate in Herakleia provides new insight into textile production during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC. The fact that some households possessed two looms and were able to produce textiles of outstanding quality has led to the hypothesis that urban households produced textiles for exportation, as also indicated by epigrams attributed to Leonidas of Taras. On the other hand, the author argues that textile production in the rural hinterland was focused on self-supply, and that the surplus was sent to the urban center where it was processed by professional labourers
Recent results in nuclear astrophysics at the n-TOF facility at CERN
No full textThe neutron time of flight (n-TOF) facility at CERN is a spallation source characterized by a white neutron spectrum. The innovative features of the facility, in the two experimental areas, (20 m and 185 m), allow for an accurate determination of the neutron cross section for radioactive samples or for isotopes with small neutron capture cross section, of interest for Nuclear Astrophysics. The recent results obtained at n-TOF facility are presented. © Copyright owned by the author(s)
The Language of Inspector Montalbano: a Case of Irony in Translation
No full textThe translation of irony implies the recognition of the elements that produce it, as it is true for all the linguistic and rhetoric phenomena that connotate language, with the added difficulty that understanding irony poses the issue of interpretation and metalinguistic awareness, since “irony happens rather than exists” (De Wilde, 2010, p. 41), in the sense that it can either be triggered by the receiver’s active participation or remain completely invisible and latent in the source text.
Setting off from previous research concerning the translation of humour in the subtitles of the detective TV-series Inspector Montalbano, the aim of this paper is to focus more specifically on irony. From a methodological point of view, the issues concerning the translation of irony in subtitling will be considered adopting a dynamic methodological perspective (Hutcheon, 1994), developing a descriptive framework of the ways in which irony is constructed in the source text and then carried across in the English subtitles. Through a range of examples, the focus will be on its heterogeneous functions at a linguistic, textual and pragmatic level. What happens when the author of the source text and the receiver do not share common background knowledge, as the interpretation of irony relies heavily on a set of shared assumptions in order to be carried across? And what happens when irony is a constitutive part of this source text and not just a marginal element? The translator, quite evidently, becomes the ironist, performing the double action of interpreting and reframing irony for the target audience
Experimental setup and procedure for the measurement of the 7Be(n,p)7Li reaction at n_TOF
No full textFollowing the completion of the second neutron beam line and the related experimental area (EAR2) at the n_TOF spallation neutron source at CERN, several experiments were planned and performed. The high instantaneous neutron flux available in EAR2 allows to investigate neutron induced reactions with charged particles in the exit channel even employing targets made out of small amounts of short-lived radioactive isotopes. After the successful measurement of the 7Be(n,α)α cross section, the 7Be(n,p)7Li reaction was studied in order to provide still missing cross section data of relevance for Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN), in an attempt to find a solution to the cosmological Lithium abundance problem. This paper describes the experimental setup employed in such a measurement and its characterization. © 2017 The Author(s
Neutron spectroscopy of 26Mg states: Constraining the stellar neutron source 22Ne(α,n)25Mg
No full textThis work reports on accurate, high-resolution measurements of the 25Mg(n,γ)26Mg and 25Mg(n,tot) cross sections in the neutron energy range from thermal to about 300 keV, leading to a significantly improved 25Mg(n,γ)26Mg parametrization. The relevant resonances for n+25Mg were characterized from a combined R-matrix analysis of the experimental data. This resulted in an unambiguous spin/parity assignment of the corresponding excited states in 26Mg. With this information experimental upper limits of the reaction rates for 22Ne(α,n)25Mg and 22Ne(α,γ)26Mg were established, potentially leading to a significantly higher (α,n)/(α,γ) ratio than previously evaluated. The impact of these results has been studied for stellar models in the mass range 2 to 25 M⊙. © 2017 The Author(s
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