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Melania Trump – The First Lady of the United States
No full textკონფერენცია ეძღვნება მეიფლაუერის ხელშეკრულების დადების მე-400 წლისთავს/ The 2020 Annual conference of the American Studies is dedicated to the 400th Anniversary of the Signing of the Mayflower CompactIn the paper, the author tries to answer the question what role does Melania Trump play as the
First Lady of the United States in the Trump administration and the life of the country and how
she differs from her predecessors in this. Based on the original sources, it is concluded that in
the early years Melania Trump, unlike the other First Ladies, felt insecure, showed her
inexperience, was shy of her pronunciation of the English language, which was not native to
her. She also did not have her own program, but later she appeared under the name “Be Best”,
although it was criticized.
The coronavirus pandemic gave the First Lady the opportunity to find her new place in the
Trump administration's coronavirus response. Melania is one of several administration and
public health officials who will appear in new nationwide public service announcements, which
will educate Americans on how to protect themselves and others against Covid-19.
The new role of Melania Trump indicates that the First Lady was able to overcome the language
barrier, determined her place in the White House and is trying to play an active role in the
administration and, in general, in the life of the country
Fashion Leader Comparison: Michelle Obama and Melania Trump
No full textIn The Second Skin, author Marilyn Horn defines a fashion leader as someone who is admired, inspires fashion, and is important in society. Anyone in the public eye can be considered a fashion leader, especially the First Lady of the United States. The two most recent first ladies, Michelle Obama and Melania Trump, may be fashion leaders but their background and style varies greatly
Screening and Follow-up of Children Who Snore When Polysomnography Is Not Available
No full textWe read with great interest the article titled “The Role of Sleep Studies in Children Who Snore” by Ishman.1 In this article the author reaffirmed the importance of performing polysomnography in children with suspected sleep disordered breathing (SDB) before and especially after treatment because the risk of persistent obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) after surgery is high
Meanders of Fame. About Melania Burzyńska and More
No full textAutorka zastanawia się nad mechanizmami kariery twórcy ludowego w okresie PRL, biorąc pod uwagę przypadek Melanii Burzyńskiej. Przedmiotem namysłu jest zarówno dorobek, jak też biografia poetki z Podlasia. W artykule postawione zostaje pytanie, na ile aktywność literacka Burzyńskiej była autonomiczna, a w jakim stopniu zdeterminowana presją środowiska i miejskich elit, oczekujących od poetki, by realizowała „ludowy” model twórczości i życiorysu.The author reflects on the mechanisms of a folk artist’s career in the Polish People’s Republic, taking into account the case of Melania Burzyńska. The subject of reflection is both the output and the biography of the poet from Podlasie. The article poses the question to what extent was Burzyńska’s literary activity autonomous, and to what
extent was it determined by the pressure of the community and city elites, who expected the poet to follow the “folk” model of creativity and biography.Jolanta SZTACHELSKA, prof. dr hab., historyk literatury polskiej II połowy XIX wieku, związana z Uniwersytetem w Białymstoku, gdzie kieruje Katedrą Modernizmu Europejskiego i Badań Kulturowych. Sienkiewiczolog. Zajmuje się także formami dokumentarnymi (epistolografia, podróżopisarstwo, reportaż) oraz pisze o twórcach rodzinnego Podlasia. Wybrane publikacje książkowe: Reporteryje i reportaże (Białystok 1997), Czar i zaklęcie Sienkiewicza (Białystok 2003), Zabijanie klasyków (Białystok 2015), Mity sienkiewiczowskie (Warszawa 2017), Henryk Sienkiewicz. Życie na walizkach (Warszawa 2017).Uniwersytet w BiałymstokuAntologia poezji ludowej 1830–1980, oprac. i wstęp J. Szczawiej, Warszawa 1985.Antologia współczesnej poezji ludowej, oprac. i wstęp J. Szczawiej, Warszawa 1967, wydanie drugie: 1972.Bereza Henryk, Związki naturalne, Warszawa 1972.Burszta Jerzy, Kultura ludowa – kultura narodowa. Szkice i rozprawy, Warszawa 1974.Burzyńska Melania, Uśmiech krzywej gęby, Białystok 1991.Burzyńska Melania, I u nas jest świątek. Wiersze o treściach religijnych z rękopisów Melanii Burzyńskiej, Białystok 2013.Chłopska niepamięć. Dziedzictwo chłopskości w polskiej literaturze i kulturze, red. G.Wołowiec, D. Krawczyńska, G. Grochowski, Kraków 2019.Chmielowska Katarzyna, Lud w perspektywie, perspektywa ludu, „Teksty Drugie” 2021, nr 5.Clifford James, Kłopoty z kulturą, przeł. E. Dżurak i in., Warszawa 2000.Czapliński Przemysław, Śmierć, śmierć, inne życie, „Teksty Drugie” 2017, nr 6.Fiszerowa Maria, Piękno z „własnego podwórka”, „Gospodyni”, 1–15.06.1965.Janicki Kamil, Pańszczyzna, Poznań 2021.Klekot Ewa, Kłopoty ze sztuką. Gust, ideologie, nowoczesność, Gdańsk 2021.Kowalski Piotr, Folkloryzm nauk o kulturze ludowej, „Polska Sztuka Ludowa. Konteksty” 1992, nr 1.Leszczyński Adam, Ludowa historia Polski, Warszawa 2020.Mencwel Andrzej, Toast na progu, Kraków 2017.Myśliwski Wiesław, Kres kultury chłopskiej, „Twórczość” 2004, nr 4.Nesterowicz Piotr, Każdy został człowiekiem, Wołowiec 2016.Niedzielska Agnieszka, Poetka z Jaświł, „Tygodnik Kulturalny” 1981, nr 23.Pobłocki Kacper, Chamstwo, Wołowiec 2021.Redliński Edward, Poetka, w: E.Redliński, Ja w nerwowej sprawie, Warszawa 1969.Siemiatycka Krystyna, „Pozbieram w fartuch gwiazdy”, „Kobieta i Życie” 1981, nr 26.Sosnowski Jakub, Melania Burzyńska (1917–2003), „Twórczość Ludowa” 2017, nr 34.Sosnowski Jakub, Życie i twórczość Melanii Burzyńskiej, „Bibliotekarz Podlaski” 2008, nr 17, 2009, nr 18.Wieś tworząca. Antologia współczesnej poezji chłopskiej Lubelszczyzny, oprac. A. Aleksandrowicz, Lublin 1962.Wieś tworząca. Antologia współczesnej twórczości chłopskiej, oprac. E. i R.Rosiakowie, Lublin 1966, 1968, 1970, 1974.Zawadzka Danuta, „Szara przędza” Melanii Burzyńskiej – pamiętnik chłopki a idea „Kontrastów”, w: Białostockie „Kontrasty”: szkice i materiały, red. M.Roszczynialska,
K. Sawicka-Mierzyńska, Białystok 2018.13115
Exclusivism and truth of a “system” in the «medical philosophy» of Antonio D’Azevedo Maia (1851-1912). A history of physicians, for physicians
No full textAntonio D’Azevedo Maia (1851 - 1912) is a clinical physician and professor. Graduated in Medicine at the age of 23, from 1875 he holds a Course of General Pathology for Forensic Medicine in the Surgery-Medical School of Porto. When 26, he appears among the “lentes substitutos” of the “corpo cathedratico”. In 1877, he marries the aristocrat Norberta Cândida Pereira de Sousa, who will give a son the next year, Adriano, subsequently a brilliant politician. In 1888, he performs the first oophorectomy for fibrosarcoma in the medical history of Portugal. In 1880, he is full professor of Physiology; in 1891 of Medical Clinics. In 1908, he appears among the “lentes jubilados” for the Medical Department. In 1897 he is among the constituent members of the Medicine and Surgery Society of Porto.
Maia is the author of a “Dissertação Inaugural” (Porto, 1874), titled Nem o organicismo nem o vitalismo exclusivos são verdadeiros, a work of great scientific interest, for the worthiness of the theories argued and their “modernity”. There, two “medical systems” are covered: organicism and vitalism, to whom Maia reproaches the assumptions of exclusivity and truth. Further, he writes of an «organic evolution of medicine in the context of philosophy», considering «each system as the reflection of a dominant philosophical feature in a given epoch»; investigating on the «legitimacy of medical philosophy». So, the «golden dream of all systematics», «to simplify medicine» to «reduce it» to an «exact science», would be «to deny the scientific existence of biology».
Here is presented the work of Maia, for the first time translated into Italian, aiming to present an original author to the scientific community, making “a history of physicians, for physicians”: a biographical history of medicine, providing preferred perspectives to study the scientific ideology of medical systems and of “medical science”, in general
Nicola Andria et les origines de la psychiatrie moderne Une contribution historiographique
No full textFrFrancesco Nicola Maria Andria (Massafra – 1747; Naples – 1814), auteur malheureusement presque complètement inconnu aujourd’hui, déploya son activité de professeur à l’Université de Naples, occupant divers enseignements: Histoire Naturelle, Médecine Théorique et Pratique, Pathologie, Agriculture. Il publie des oeuvres appréciées et examinées dans diverses parties d’Europe. En Andria, recherche et didactique s’inscrit dans un seul projet de re-fondation de la science médicale, que le «philosophe de Parthénope» méditait dès le commencement: former la nouvelle génération des médecins philosophes était partie intégrant de ce plan ambitieux. Nous avons besoin d’une médicine qui soit philosophique en combinant les résultats des recherches dans les domaines des différentes disciplines dont elle se sert, à orienter les efforts vers un but unique: l’homme est «l’oeuvre la plus merveilleuse de la main de l’Omnipotent», «convertie en une machine matérielle», principalement par le réductionnisme mécaniste. C’est pourquoi, si le but de la science est celui de protéger l’homme (voici la grande nouveauté de Andria), objectif principal semble être la pratique d’une médicine ni chimique, ni mécanique, mais d’une médicine “à l’èchelle humaine”, morale dans le traitement de ces patients qui souffrent de troubles mentaux. En Andria, la pathogénie de ces troubles est certainement organique, mais peut aussi s’enraciner dans des raisons psycho-émotionnelles. Il devient, donc, promoteur d’une thérapie morale comme moderne psychothérapie. Il insiste sur les avantages que la “médicine gentille” peut ammener aux patients, dont «aliénations mentales» peuvent être traitées avec methodus, à partir de ceux qu’on appellerait aujourd’hui les données anamnestiques; c’est à dire les souvenirs, principalement de l’enfance et des relations familiales, ainsi que les relations scolaires dans l’enfant.EnFrancesco Nicola Maria Andria (Massafra – 1747; Naples – 1814), author unfortunatelyalmost unknown nowadays, carried out his activity of teacher at the University of Naples, holding various subject: Natural History, Theoretical and Practical Medicine, Pathology, Agriculture. He published works, which were appreciated and reviewed in different parts of Europe. In Andria, investigation and teaching are inscribed in a unique project of medical science re-foundation, which the «philosopher of Partenope» meditated from the beginning: forming the new generation of medical philosophers was an integral part of this ambitious plan. It’s needed a medicine which is philosophical in combining the results of investigations in the areas of the several disciplines he uses, in addressing the efforts towards a unique end: the man is «the most wonderful Work from the hand of the Almighty», «converted in a material machine», mainly by the mechanistic reductionism. So that, if the aim of science is to protect the man (here stands the great Andria’s innovation), the main aim appears to be the practice of a medicine neither chemical nor mechanical, but a medicine “on a human scale”, moral in treating those patients suffering from mental disorders. In Andria, the pathogenesis of such disorders is certainly organic, but may also be rooted in psycho-emotional reasons. Hence, he becomes the promoter of a moral therapy as a modern psychotherapy. He insists on the advantages that the “kind medicine” may bring to patients, whose «mental alienations» can be treated with methodus, starting from those we would define today as anamnestic data, the memories, mainly of childhood and family relationships, besides the school relationships in the child.ItFrancesco Nicola Maria Andria (Massafra – 1747; Napoli – 1814), autore purtroppo oggi quasi del tutto sconosciuto, svolse la sua attività di cattedratico presso l’Università di Napoli, ricoprendo vari insegnamenti: Storia Naturale, Medicina Teoretica e Pratica, Patologia, Agricoltura. Pubblicò opere apprezzate e recensite in varie parti d’Europa. In Andria, ricerca e didattica s’inscrivono in un unico progetto di ri-fondazione della scienza medica, che il «filosofo di Partenope» meditò fin dall’inizio: formare la nuova generazione dei medici filosofi era parte integrante di questo ambizioso disegno. Occorre una medicina che sia filosofica nel coniugare i risultati delle ricerche negli ambiti delle varie discipline di cui si serve, nel dirigere gli sforzi verso un fine unico: l’uomo è «l’Opera più stupenda della mano dell’Onnipotente», «convertita in una macchina materiale», principalmente dal riduzionismo meccanicistico. Ragion per cui, se scopo della scienza è tutelare l’uomo (qui è la grande novità dell’Andria), obiettivo primario risulta essere la pratica di una medicina né chimica, né meccanica, ma di una medicina “a misura d’uomo”, morale nel curare quei pazienti che soffrono di disturbi mentali. In Andria, la patogenesi di questi disturbi è certamente di carattere organico, ma può altresì radicarsi in ragioni psicoemotive. Egli si fa quindi promotore di una terapia morale quale moderna psicoterapia. Insiste sui vantaggi che la “medicina gentile” può recare ai pazienti, le cui «alienazioni mentali» sono curabili con methodus, a partire da quelli che oggi diremmo i dati anamnestici e cioè i ricordi, principalmente dell’infanzia e delle relazioni familiari, oltreché nel bambino di quelle scolastiche
Cosa è una vita se non viene raccontata? Intrecci temporali in La lunga attesa dell’angelo di Melania Mazzucco
No full textLa lunga attesa dell’angelo è la rivisitazione romanzata della vita di Jacomo Robusti detto Tintoretto e della figlia Marietta detta Tintoretta che nell’Ottocento era un vero e proprio mito. La storia si svolge in un felice equilibrio tra fantasia e puntigliosa documentazione che Melania Mazzucco ha effettuato su antiche carte contenute in archivi custoditi in diverse città. La storia individuale di Tintoretto fa parte di un epos collettivo, di un affresco generazionale del Cinquecento veneziano : è un romanzo corale in cui voci e comportamenti si intrecciano, dando alla narrazione una forma plurifocalizzata attraverso l’adozione dei punti di vista dei diversi personaggi. A questi si aggiunge un autore che muove i fili della narrazione e che spesso si azzera nel proprio oggetto (Tintoretto) fino a confondersi in un’unica soggettività. Ne consegue l’abolizione del distacco prospettico dell’autore e una sua immersione nel flusso del raccontoWhat is a life if it is not told ? Temporal framework in La lunga attesa dell’angelo by Melania Mazzucco · La lunga attesa dell’angelo is the fictional revisiting of Jacomo Robusti’s life, known as Tintoretto, and of his daughter Marietta, known as Tintoretta, who was a real myth in the Nineteenth century. The story strikes a felicitous balance between fantasy and meticulous documentation work carried out by Melania Mazzucco on ancient papers contained in archives of different cities. The individual history of Tintoretto is part of a collective epos, thus outlining a Sixteenth-century Venetian generational fresco. It is a choral novel in which voices and behaviors intertwine, giving the narration a multi-focused form through the adoption of the different characters’ points of view. To these characters, an author who moves the threads of narration is added. Indeed, Mazzucco often resets herself in her own object (Tintoretto) to the extent that they often merge into a single subjectivity. As a consequence, the detachment of the author’s perspective is abolished and we assist to her immersion in the flow of the stor
L'Architettrice di Melania Mazzucco. Una cattedrale romanzesca per Plautilla
No full textIl saggio analizza il romanzo più recente di Melania Mazzucco, L’Architettrice (2019). Per raccontare la vicenda di Plautilla Bricci
(1616–1705) e di un intero secolo l’autrice compie un lavoro di ri-
cerca erudita imponente, ma l’esito editoriale è un solo romanzo e
non una coppia di libri come nel caso precedente di Mazzucco (2008
e 2009). La lista dei documenti archivistici consultati – un file pdf di ventisei pagine – è confinata nel portale dell’editore. Il rapporto tra storia e invenzione, tra documento e finzione, si sviluppa dunque
in modo assai diverso rispetto alla diade narrativa precedente (quella dedicata alla figlia di Tintoretto). Si dedicherà perciò particolare cura al rapporto triangolare tra la narrazione principale – quella della famiglia e di Plautilla, la prima architettrice della storia – il complesso paratesto che stabilisce un contatto tra i valori del passato e quelli del presente e i numerosi intermezzi dedicati alla fase finale della Repubblica romana che narrano la repentina distruzione della principale opera realizzata da Plautilla. Tale ricostruzione dei fatti, con il Seicento che crea e innova e l’Ottocento che invece devasta, impatta sulla storia lunga dei generi di cui ci stiamo occupando – dai Promessi sposi ai molti romanzi novecenteschi ambientati nel XVII secolo – sia sul piano narratologico che sul piano ideologico.The essay analyses Melania Mazzucco's most recent novel, L'Architettrice (2019). In order to tell the story of Plautilla Bricci (1616-1705) and of an entire century, the author undertakes an impressive erudite research work, but the editorial outcome is a single novel and not a pair of books as in Mazzucco's previous case (2008 and 2009). The list of archival documents consulted - a twenty-six-page pdf file - is confined to the publisher's portal. The relationship between history and invention, between document and fiction, is thus developed in a very different way from the previous narrative dyad (the one dedicated to Tintoretto's daughter). Particular attention will therefore be paid to the triangular relationship between the main narrative - that of the family and Plautilla, the first architect of the story - the complex paratext that establishes a contact between the values of the past and those of the present, and the numerous interludes dedicated to the final phase of the Roman Republic that narrate the sudden destruction of Plautilla's main work. This reconstruction of events, with the seventeenth century creating and innovating and the nineteenth century devastating, has an impact on the long history of the genres we are dealing with - from I Promessi Sposi to the many twentieth-century novels set in the seventeenth century - on both a narratological and ideological level
Reservoir Study of an Underperforming Lacustrine Turbidite Field in West Africa
No full textThe objective oil field is located offshore south Gabon. It was discovered in 1969 and first put it on production in 1980. The present operator bought 90% of the field in 1994. To date, under primary recovery, only 6% of the currently estimated STOIIP has been recovered. Heterogeneity of the deposits and poor reservoir quality as a result of diagenetic alteration upon burial are the main reasons for the low production rates. The main goal of this study was to investigate how production in this underperforming reservoir could be improved. For this purpose a detailed geologic model was developed for the B-area of the field. Then the performance of a hypothetical well with a horizontal trajectory into a selected target layer was analyzed. Literature studies pointed out that the oil-bearing Melania sands were deposited in a rifting phase preceding the opening of the South Atlantic Ocean. Seismic interpretation was performed by the present operator and indicated that the Melania Formation is nowadays found in a series of rotated fault blocks. The Top Melania Reservoir surface that was interpreted by the present operator is used in this study. With the help of spectral analyses on gamma ray log curves a tentative well correlation was established. The oil-bearing Upper Melania Unit was hereby subdivided into three subunits: A, B and C. Petrophysical analysis of wireline logs provided clay volume, porosity, water saturation and permeability curves. Based on the interpreted surfaces and the petrophysical evaluation, a 3D static model of the Upper Melania Unit was created. This model included several property grids. Literature studies on sedimentation in half-grabens and the results of seismic interpretation, well correlation and petrophysical analyses lead to a plausible geologic model. The Upper Melania Unit is thought to comprise amalgating fan deltas or turbidite fan lobes, or a combination of these. Sub-aqueous channels transported most sediment into the area from at least two principal directions. Syn-sedimentary tectonic movement probably occurred during deposition. From production data and perforation information the state of depletion in sub-unit A was analyzed. Based on the depletion analysis and the developed geologic model a 1000 m long horizontal well was proposed in sub-unit A. A more detailed near horizontal well was suggested based on a 3D porosity model. The production of this hypothetical well was analytically estimated at 2492 bbls/d. Its vertical counterpart is assessed to produce 725 bbls/d. The horizontal well turned out to be superior to any kind of hydraulically fractured vertical well. Because it is drilled in the direction of least horizontal stress, multiple production-increasing transverse fractures can be initiated along the horizontal wellbore.Civil Engineering and GeosciencesApplied Earth SciencesCentre for Technical Geoscienc
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