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Linguistic changes in the transition from summaries to abstracts: The case of the Journal of Experimental Medicine
No full textThe introduction of Abstracts to replace article summaries in 1990 recognized changes to linguistic reporting that have been apparent during the century. The 1970s showed a dramatic increase in the informal language used in article abstracts and summaries. The Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM) demonstrates an increase in first-person pronouns within article abstracts and summaries, but moves from singular to plural to represent the increase in multi-authored research works. Linguistic changes during the century also include a greater focus on the future rather than the past, and an increase in language that indicates ‘clout’ which signifies author self-confidence
LE MASCHERE E I NEMICI DELLE APPARENZE. JEAN STAROBINSKI INTERPRETE DEL TOTALITARISMO
No full textThis paper analyses the motives and the contents of the research carried out
by Jean Starobinski in the Forties on the theme of mask and simulation. After reconstructing
the historical context and the theoretical intention of Starobinski’s essay Interrogatoire du
masque (1946, republished 2015), the author examines the definition of the mask as an
essential element of interaction between nature and culture. He then discusses the interpretation
of modern culture as a project of demystification of appearances and search for true reality
beyond the masks. Finally, the author shows that the investigation of problems of simulation
and dissimulation is linked to the desire to understand the reasons for the success of totalitarianism.
According to Starobinski, in the Twentieth century dictatorial regimes have used the
rhetoric of authenticity to credit the mythical images of a human existence and a social order
finally free of any simulation, or any artifice of appearances
Dante and the Shaping of Poetic Rhythm
No full textBreve analisi introduttiva al possibile confronto tra il verso dantesco e quello di Chaucer
I teatri puri impazziscono: scene di sconfinamento teatrale dal Giappone e ritorno
No full textIl titolo del contributo cita apertamente, nella sua parte iniziale, quello della versione italiana del fortunato libro di James Clifford "I frutti puri impazziscono. Etnografia, letteratura e arte nel XX secolo". Tra le più raffinate e acute critiche all’antropologia classica e alla sua retorica narrativa, l’ossatura portante dell’opera cliffordiana si snoda –semplificando alquanto – lungo la disamina dell’asse identità-autenticità-autorità applicate al concetto di cultura.
Nel convulso frangente di mutamento socio-culturale avvenuto con la restaurazione Meiji (1868) anche il Giappone, apertosi all’Occidente e lanciato nella costruzione di un moderno stato nazionale, sentì l’esigenza di dotarsi di simboli e linguaggi capaci di incarnare e comunicare – tanto ai giapponesi quanto agli stranieri, ossia l’Altro – i nuovi valori fissando, al contempo, un’immagine distillata e istituzionale della cultura autoctona che ricalcasse il profilo ideale e fisico dei confini dell’arcipelago.
I teatri di tradizione – nō, kabuki, bunraku e kyōgen – in tempi e modi diversi furono parte integrante di tale meccanismo di costruzione identitaria, un’identità sentita tanto più autentica quanto più capace di raccontare all’Altro il ‘vero’ Giappone: la natura composita e al tempo stesso sintetica dei teatri classici, unitamente alla loro antica tradizione, li resero linguaggi assai adatti allo scopo.
La sempre maggiore frequenza dei contatti con l’Altro, però, creò anche i presupposti per forme di negoziazione culturale in senso bilaterale. Tali presupposti portarono alla nascita, nell’ambito dei teatri giapponesi classici, ‘puri’, di creazioni sceniche ibride, ‘impazzite’ se confrontate col modello tradizionale. Rispetto alla più ampia scena teatrale mondiale, invece, condussero all’emersione di infinite ipotesi e realizzazioni creative volte a tradurre la lezione giapponese secondo paradigmi e orizzonti estetici altri. Un esempio, credo, che può ben testimoniare la sublimazione di un preteso confine culturale in un più ampio e poroso orizzonte interculturale
Responsabilità e democrazia. Winnicott interprete del dispositvo elettorale
No full textWinnicott's "Some Thoughts on the Meaning of the Word Democracy" is a problematic, layered work, which analyzes the importance of unconscious emotional factors in the election and removal of leaders. According to Winnicott, a true democracy exists only if a certain number of individuals, thanks to the secrecy of the vote, are capable of producing a psychic field in which the public sphere is brought back to interiority, so as to produce a specific individual responsibility. Voting is considered an intermediate zone of experience, to which both internal and external life contribute. The author shows the relationship that this interpretation of the democratic electoral system has with the concept of "transitional area"
I casi T-Mobile Netherlands e GlaxoSmithKline ovvero il ritorno della giurisprudenza antitrust comunitaria all'approccio strutturalista
No full textReport prepared and submitted to Office of Policy and Management and the Judiciary Committee in accordance per the requirements of section 11-4a of the Connecticut general statutes and section 23 of Public act 20-1
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Probabilistic characterisation of an analytical fuzzy-random model for seismic fragility computation
No full textThere is a high degree of uncertainty in the assessment of seismic performance of civil structures, and in the estimate of risk and loss, insomuch that the probabilistic approach is essential. Recently, the cognitive source of uncertainty, i.e. fuzziness, has been stressed as an aspect beside randomness. Consistent with the classical time-invariant first-order second-moment reliability method, the author proposed a simple analytical model to incorporate fuzziness into the fragility computation, being capacity and demand lognormal random variables independent of each other. In the present study, such a fuzzy-random model is fully characterised in terms of probabilistic moments, distribution, and percentiles, in comparison with the classical reliability model. Above all, the fuzziness causes the fragility dispersion to decrease in most cases. Since the fuzziness makes the distribution partly continuous, the fragility percentiles can be considered. Application is presented referring to the fragility curve of seismic non-structural damage to masonry-infilled reinforced-concrete frames. Basic techniques for parameter estimation are tested. Coupled identification of the randomness and fuzziness parameters would be advisable, as opposed to independent identification. Referring to the whole frame as a series system, the fragility curve according to the proposed fuzzy-random model with coupled identification of the parameter values is lower than the curve according to the classical model. The former curve is similar to the curve according to the fuzzy-deterministic model. The proposed model appears to be suitable for practical fuzzy-random estimate of seismic fragility
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