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La métamorphose version androide
No full textLa Métamorphose version androïde, spettacolo commissionato e prodotto nel 2014 dall’Automne en Normandie Festival in una collaborazione che ha coinvolto TRAFO Budapest, Seinendan Theatre Company e Kinosaki International Arts Center, è parte del più ampio e complesso progetto Robot-Human Theatre, avviato nel 2008 dal regista e drammaturgo Hirata Oriza e dall'ingegnere dell'automazione Ishiguro Hiroshi. Dalla collaborazione dei due giapponesi sono nati cinque spettacoli che vedono la compresenza in scena di attori robot e attori carne ed ossa
La danza giapponese nella scuola Amatsu
No full textL’universo ricchissimo delle arti dello spettacolo del Giappone vede un ampio
ventaglio di scuole di danza tradizionale, da quelle legate al mondo maschile del
teatro kabuki alle forme coreutiche che si intrecciano, invece, al mondo femminile
dei quartieri di piacere. Nell’epoca moderna, alle già numerose scuole risalenti
a coreografi e attori del kabuki, si aggiungono via via nuove scuole guidate da
danzatrici che divengono le corifee creative della nuova era.
Fondata nel 1978, la nuova scuola Amatsu nasce dall’amicizia tra due danzatrici
di singolare talento Ryūko (1923-2017) e Amatsu Yōko (n. 1927). Per mantenere la
famiglia le due, appena diciottenni o ancor più giovani, nell’immediato dopoguerra
si lanciano nell’avventura di avviare di una compagnia di danza, spingendosi
in tournée in tutto il Paese con un vasto repertorio che spazia dai brani classici a
nuove creazioni su musiche e canti popolari. Alle radici delle danze della scuola
si riconoscono la profonda cultura e la sapienza dell’arte coreutica dei drammi
kabuki, che si mescolano a nuove creazioni tanto apprezzate da essere richieste da
piccoli teatri (yose) o dalle geisha dei quartieri di piacere. Oggi la danzatrice Amatsu
Tatsuhana, designata da Ryūko come caposcuola, dedica il suo talento e la sua fine
sensibilità a tramandare quella meravigliosa tradizione portandola in tutto il mondo
Divenire amatore,divenire professionista. Teoria della pratica ed esperienze tra creazione artistica e partecipazione
No full textPer chi frequenta, pratca e studia le art performatve, la fgura del cosiddeto “amatore” risulterà,per lo meno da un decennio a questa parte, familiare e tutavia sfuggente. I cambiament economicisu larga scala, il mutamento nei rapport – sia politci che progetuali – tra comunità e isttuzioni, ilriemergere e il trasformarsi di corrent estetche preesistent sembrano far convergere, in modoprolifco e capillare, due mondi separat, la cui distanza rimane naturalmente dinamica nel tempo. Sitrata delle scene ufciali, la cultura cosiddeta “alta” e più in generale il mondo degli “addet ailavori” dello spetacolo che paiono incontrare – e a volte efetvamente collaborare con –untessuto di comunità e gruppipiù o meno organizzat in ciò che comunemente si defnisce “nonprofessionismo”. Si notano così i tentatvi di una certa scena “canonica” di fuoriuscire da se stessa edi trovare nuovi approdi
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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Cuprizone induced-demyelination in mice alters brain expression of genes involved in arachidonic acid metabolism .
Full text linkChronic feeding with the copper chelator cuprizone in mice
causes oligodendrocyte death and subsequent reversible
demyelination. Although the mechanism of demyelination is
unknown, activation of glia is integral to the process. Since
metabolism of arachidonic acid (AA) is involved in glial
activation, we hypothesized that cuprizone exposure would
alter expression of AA cascade genes. Mice were fed 0.2 %
cuprizone in the diet for 6 weeks and then returned to a normal
diet. Histochemistry with the myelin stains Black Gold and
Fluoromyelin demonstrated that frank demyelination and
influx of glial cells into the corpus collosum begins at week 3
and peaks at week 5. A decrease in myelin and oligodendrocyte
markers, accompanied by increased expression of markers of
microglia (CD11b) and astrocytes (glial acidic fibrillary
protein), was evident at week one. Gene expression of
cyclooxygenase-2 and 15-lipoxygenase (LOX) was also changed
at week one, suggesting that these genes are either involved
in or respond to early demyelination. Expression of 5-LOX was
not changed during early demyelination but it peaked during
week 5, when glial markers and frank demyelination also
reached their peak, suggesting that 5-LOX expression is a
consequence of the massive influx of inflammatory cells into
the area of demyelination. Our study is the first to demonstrate
that multiple enzymes involved in arachidonic acid metabolism are altered in the cuprizone model of demyelination and
remyelination. These data may help to develop new therapeutic
targets to treat human demyelinating diseases, such as multiple
sclerosis.
Supported by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH,
NIA
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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