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Il-Ġiżwita Indrì Schembri
No full textDan l-artiklu jittratta dwar il-bjografija tal-Patri Ġiżwita Indri Schembri li kien wieħed minn dawk li ħabbew l-ilsien Malti. Fost il-kitbiet li kiteb kienet l-għanja tal-Milied “Ninni la Tibkix Iżjed.”N/
Dataset of mRNA levels for dopaminergic receptors, adrenoceptors and tyrosine hydroxylase in lymphocytes from subjects with clinically isolated syndromes
No full textThis data article presents a dataset of mRNA levels for dopaminergic receptors, adrenoceptors and for tyrosine hydoxylase, the rate-limiting enzyme in the synthesis of catecholamines, in peripheral blood mononuclear cells as well as in CD4+ T effector and regulatory cells from subjects with clinically isolated syndromes (CIS), which is a first episode of neurological disturbance(s) suggestive of multiple sclerosis. CIS subjects are divided into two groups according to their eventual progression, after 12 months from CIS, to clinically established multiple sclerosis. The data reported are related to the article entitled "Dopaminergic receptors and adrenoceptors in circulating lymphocytes as putative biomarkers for the early onset and progression of multiple sclerosis" (M. Cosentino, M. Zaffaroni, M. Legnaro, R. Bombelli, L. Schembri, D. Baroncini, A. Bianchi, R. Clerici, M. Guidotti, P. Banfi, G. Bono, F. Marino, 2016
Prefazione
No full textLa Prefazione al saggio La mia Vigàta è una riflessione articolata sull’universo letterario e culturale di Andrea Camilleri, incentrata sul rapporto tra la Vigàta immaginaria e la Porto Empedocle reale. La prefazione esplora tematiche come memoria, identità, percezione dello spazio e costruzione narrativa. Si evidenzia anche l’approccio originale dell’autore Lorenzo Rosso, che adotta una struttura quasi documentaristica, senza mai imporre la propria voce. Il saggio si inserisce nel dibattito contemporaneo sullo spazio come costruzione culturale, richiamando Lefebvre e il concetto di “carta mentale”. Viene inoltre messo in luce il debito di Camilleri verso il cinema di Pietro Germi, in particolare per la figura del commissario di polizia.The Preface to the essay La mia Vigàta is a detailed reflection on the literary and cultural universe of Andrea Camilleri, focused on the relationship between the imaginary Vigàta and the real Porto Empedocle. The preface explores themes such as memory, identity, perception of space and narrative construction. The original approach of the author Lorenzo Rosso is also highlighted, adopting an almost documentary structure, without ever imposing his own voice. The essay is part of the contemporary debate on space as a cultural construction, recalling Lefebvre and the concept of “mental paper”. Camilleri’s debt to the cinema of Pietro Germi is also highlighted, in particular for the figure of the police commissioner
Stratifications, Graphems and Synchronies in (Neo-figurative) Cinema: From Greenaway’s The Tulse Luper Suitcases to Miller and Rodriguez’ Sin City
No full textNel cinema postmoderno si vanno sempre più diffondendo modi di produzione tendenti a cancellare il set reale a favore di quello sintetico. Attraverso l'uso diffuso di sofisticati sistemi di Motion Capture abbinati a set virtuali e a operazioni di stratificazione dell’immagine che si avvalgono di processi di compositing si sta sempre più configurando un’estetica cinematografica “neofigurativa” che attinge al linguaggio dei fumetti. In questo contesto rinnovato le operazioni di “montaggio” non riguardano soltanto la costruzione temporale del film ma anche l'organizzazione spaziale all'interno di un singolo fotogramma. Si tratta di operazioni che esaltano sia la centralità della tecnica compositiva dell’intarsio come elemento di significazione non secondario e che esaltano la funzione estetica del corpo attoriale inteso come grafema (perimetrazione che si inscrive in uno spazio che recupera le cromie accese del Pop) sia le possibilità sincroniche di lettura da parte dello spettatore a causa del continuo debordamento delle cornici spaziali alle quali spesso si ricorre
Al cinema con papà
No full textAL CINEMA CON PAPA’
La figura del "padre" nel cinema mondiale. Il prodotto multimediale è organizzato in griglie semiotico-analitiche:
DIVENTARE PADRE (IL DIVENIRE)
Padri e figli, M. Monicelli, 1957
Piso pisello, P. Del monte, 1981
La ragazza del peccato, C. Autant-Lara, 1958
PADRI METAFORICI (MENTORI)
Momenti di gloria, H. Hudson, 1988
Nuovo cinema paradiso, G. Tornatore, 1988
L’ultima tempesta, P. Greenaway, 1988
Il postino, M. Troisi, 1994
L’attimo fuggente, P. Weir, 1989
Il monello, C. Chaplin, 1921
Quando sei nato non puoi nasconderti, M. T. Giordana, 2005
Il ragazzo selvaggio, F. Truffaut, 1969
S1m0ne, A. Niccol, 2001
Gomorra, M. Garrone, 2008
PADRE CINEMATOGRAFICO (DEL CINEMA)
Le 36 apparizioni di Hitchcock
Effetto notte, F. Truffaut, 1973
Il disprezzo, J. L. Godard, 1963
I 400 colpi, F. Truffaut, 1959
Il cantante di jazz, A. Crosland, 1927
RAPPORTO COMPLICE E DI CONTINUITA’ (COMPLICI CONTINUITA’)
Il diavolo è femmina, G. Cukor, 1935
I mostri, D. Risi, 1963
Decalogo 4 – Onora il padre e la madre, K. Kieslowski, 1989
I racconti del cuscino, P. Greenaway, 1996
Ti ricordi di Dolly Belly?, E. Kusturica, 1981
Uccellacci e uccellini, P. P. Pasolini, 1966
La vita è bella, R. Benigni, 1997
Gente comune, R. Redfort, 1980
Il padrino, F. F. Coppola, 1972
Il cenerentolo, F. Tashlin, 1960
Metropolis, F. Lang, 1927
PADRE ASSENTE (ASSENZE)
Il favoloso mondo di Amelie, J. P. Jeunet, 2001
Lettere da una sconosciuta, M. Ophüls, 1948
Lola corre, T. Tykwer, 1998
Come due coccodrilli, G. Campiotti, 1994
PADRE/PADRONE (PADRI/PADRONI)
Accadde una notte, F. Capra, 1934
Buttati Bernardo, F. F. Coppola, 1966
Giglio infranto, D. W. Griffith, 1919
Caterina va in città, P. Virzì, 2003
Padre padrone, P. e V. Taviani, 1977
Sedotta e abbandonata, P. Germi, 1964
Le valigie di Tulse Luper – La storia di Moab, P. Greenaway, 2003
UCCIDERE IL PADRE (UCCIDERE IL PADRE)
Hommelette for Hamlet, C. Bene, 1987
Amleto, F. Zeffirelli, 1990
Amleto, L. Olivier, 1948
Last Action Hero, J. McTiernan, 1993
Don Giovanni, J. Losey, 1979
Edipo re, P. P. Pasolini, 1967
Festen – Festa in famiglia, T. Vinterberg, 1998
I racconti immorali di Borowczyk, W. Borowczyk, 1974
Germania anno zero, R. Rossellini, 1948
Il re leone, R. Allers – R. Minkoff, 1994
Star Wars III - La vendetta dei Sith, G. Lucas, 2005
RICERCARE IL PADRE (RICERCHE)
Europa, L. Von Trier, 1991
Gangs of New York, M. Scorsese, 2002
Tokyo-Ga, W. Wenders, 1985
SCAMBI DI RUOLI (SCAMBI)
Mulan, T. Bancroft, 1998
Mrs. Doubtfire, C. Columbus, 1993
Kramer contro Kramer, R. Benton, 1979
RICONGIUNGIMENTI (RICONGIUNGIMENTI)
Il giovedì, D. Risi, 1963
Non bussare alla mia porta, W. Wenders, 2005
Intolerance, D. W. Griffith, 1916
The Passion, M. Gibson, 2004
La vita e la passione di Gesù Cristo, F. Zecca – L. Nonguet, 1902-190
Coastal land use in the Maltese islands: a description and appraisal
No full textThe area of the Maltese Islands is 316 km , and with an official coastal length of 180 km(^2) possess a high ratio of coastal length to area. The physical properties of the coast include a highly indented and largely accessible coastline having a low sloping profile, on the north, east and south-east littoral of Malta, presenting inlets, bays and deep harbours. Most of the recreational, industrial and coastal residential areas are situated around these areas together with a wide range of fortifications and military defensive structures built as part of the coastal defensive network of Malta over the last five centuries. In contrast, the other parts of the coast, including Gozo, consists of a largely inaccessible coastline made up of cliffs and boulder scree slopes with the few indentations marking sandy beaches. These areas have a high aesthetic quality. The rapid pace of development over last half-century has witnessed an economic transformation from an economy based on British military spending to one based on the development of coastal areas for marine-related services, tourism and residential and second-home development. Coastal land use conflicts have intensified with economic development and as people have sought to make a more use of the coast. This thesis is concerned with the evaluation of the coastal land use in the Maltese Islands. A historical overview of the coast is first presented, then a methodology for the mapping, surveying and estimation of the land uses along the coastal zone of the Maltese Islands is developed. This is based on a number of coastal field surveys that the author participated in between 1989 and 1998. The coastal zone was divided into sixteen segments and mapping is covered by sixteen land uses. The main results were that coastal development was centred in areas where a high natural coastal indentation and good physical accessibility of the coast were present, these, in turn, gave rise to land use conflict. In addition, civil engineering works and modifications such as rock-cutting, jetties, breakwaters and, in densely populated areas, promenades, intensified land use conflict. A notable difference in the type of coastal development processes to the north (tourism) and south (industry) of the Great Fault is evident. The thesis also includes the part played by the Malta Environment and Planning Authority in influencing coastal land uses, the main land use modifications proposed in the European Union accession talks and a brief assessment of the land use situation in selected localities in 2003
Panaria Film: An Italian Case of Production Company Style in Documentary Film
No full textAttraverso l’analisi filmica di opere della Panaria Film (tra le quali “Cacciatori sottomarini”, “Tonnara”, “Tra Scilla e Cariddi”), il lavoro individua coerenze di linguaggio e di temi che, assieme alle innovazioni tecniche che le veicolano, consentono di ipotizzare e dimostrare l'esistenza di uno stile rappresentativo specifico della casa di produzione cinematografica siciliana nell'ambito del cinema documentario. Nelle opere documentaristiche di questa casa di produzione, infatti, non c'è soltanto l'interesse antropologico; c'è anche l'interesse tecnico e di sperimentazione del linguaggio cinematografico che nasce da una consapevolezza artistica che spazia dalle esperienze dei formalisti russi alla tensione neorealista, passando per le esperienze dei padri del documentario Flaherty e Grierson e che giunge ad esiti originali e dotati di coerenza
Another brick in the wall: calcification of atherosclerotic plaque. A scanning electron microscopy study
No full textExcavations at Tas-Silg, Malta : a preliminary report on the 1996-1998 campaigns conducted by the Department of Classics and Archaeology of the University of Malta
No full textThe area known as Tas-Silg is situated in the south-eastern part of the island of Malta, close to
Marsaxlokk harbour. In reality the place name refers to the small church
dedicated to Our Lady of the Snows (hence Tas-Silg) situated at the point where the narrow ·
road from Zejtun forks out in two directions: to Delimara and Xrobb il-Ghagin due south-east
and to Marsaxlokk village due south-west. A British-period fort occupying the highest point
of the elongated hill further south along· the first road also carries the same place name. The
lower and more compact hill on which the excavations have been conducted is called 'Ta'
Berikka' , but since it is so close to the above-mentioned church (only 50 m to the north) the
tradition of calling it Tas-Silg is now well established and there is no sense in changing it.
The site has a commanding view of the Marsaxlokk harbour to the south and overlooks two
other bays, Marsascala and St Thomas's bay, to the north-east. On all sides the slope is broken
up by man-made terraced fields
There is no doubt that the topography of the site must have been a determining factor in its
choice for the establishment of a religious centre in the Temple period of Maltese pehistory
(3000--2500 BC), though one must keep in mind that close to Tas-Silg there are three other
prehistoric temple sites. each one with a completely different topography. The Temple people
were quite introverted in their cultural isolation and do not seem to have been much interested
in seafaring and in the outside world. The situation changed radically in the following age, the
Bronze Age. when the island was occupied by people who set up villages on naturally defensible hilltops, occasionally fortifying them with artificial ramparts. The Tas-Silg hill
with its temple ruins was occupied by these people, but it is not as yet clear for what purpose.
The scenario changed again in historical times when the central and western Mediterranean
started to be parcelled out among the commercial powers originating in the eastern
Mediterranean. The Greeks do not seem to have even tried 10 colonize Malta as they did in
neighbouring Sicily. The Phoenicians, however, did occupy the island, apparently through a
slow process of peaceful penetration and eventual political and cultural assimi lation. It was in
this period that the ruins of the megalithic temple were transformed into a Phoenician extraurban
shrine dedicated to Astarte, which in time expanded into a full y-fledged sanctuary with
an international reputation. The last chapter in the millennia- long history of the site was
written when the colonnaded courtyard in front of the old temple was transformed into an
early Christian church. Any use made of the site in the following Arab period is, once again,
poorly understood.peer-reviewe
Daphnis nerii L. (Lepidoptera : Sphingidae) in Malta
No full textA specimen of the Oleander Hawk Moth (Daphnis nerii L.) was handed to the author on 24 July 1984. This large moth was taken from Zurrieq (southern Malta) where it had entered a house, presumably having been attracted to light. The hawk moth was in good cond- ition when captured but due to mishandling it reached the author in a very battered state. However identification was readily made.peer-reviewe
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