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The meaning of 'dark*' in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
No full textIn this article the author makes a contribution to the still ongoing debate concerning the relation among Joseph Conrad's representations of the African continent in Heart of Darkness and the phenomenon of Imperialism. She does so through an analysis of the lemma DARK* and its diverse word forms. This is a crucial aspect of Heart of Darkness, as it is precisely this stylistic feature that has been pointed out as having played a decisive role in the construction of the well-know modern myth of 'dark Africa'
Ostia: un'iscrizione inedita e i restauri di età teodericiana alle terme di Porta Marina
No full textThe paper aims to present the theoderician phase of the Terme di Porta Marina in Ostia to the attention of scholars. The stamps coming from the thermal context was already known even if they had never been the subject of a specific publication. Now we can add to these an unpublished inscription which recalls the restoration of the building: according to the rhetoric of the time, the baths would have been brought back to the condition of the past thanks to the splendor of the marbles
La fine di un’era? Suggestioni apocalittiche al tempo del Covid-19
No full textIn this chapter, the author explores, with introspective approach, the collective experience during the Covid-19 pandemic. The chapter seeks to provide an explanation for the paradox wherein, during the initial phase of the pandemic, citizens passively accepted the restrictions imposed by the government, which due to the lack of scientific evidence were generic and largely irrational, while in the second period, characterised by the availability of the vaccine, forms of rebellion were witnessed. The author explains the first situation by resorting to an analysis of symbolism and discursive figures used in public communication. For the second, he introduces insights from the conception of time and history of the Oromo people of Ethiopia, capable of elucidating the political paradigm shift experienced by the European Union during the pandemic period. The author then employs suggestions from the anthropological theory of incorporation to explain the public's reactions in terms of resistance
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Infezioni cervico-vaginali da Chlamydia trachomatis in un campione di donne asintomatiche: confronto di quattro differenti
No full textIn campioni cervico-vaginali di 150 donne asintomatiche sono state messe a confronto 4 metodiche in uso per la ricerca di Chlamydia trachomatis. I risultati hanno confermato che l'immunofluorescenza diretta rappresenta la tecnica in grado di rilevare il maggior numero di casi positivi anche in assenza di sintom
The Tax protein of HTLV-II binds to the RelA/p65 subunit of NF-kB through interaction with its amino-terminal region.
No full textThe Tax protein of HTLV-II binds to the RelA/p65 subunit of NF-kB through interaction with its amino-terminal region
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