582 research outputs found
Da Iperide a Fulgenzio : a proposito di due lettere tra D. Comparetti e W.N. du Rieu : 1868
No full textThe article publishes an exchange of letters between the Italian classical scholar D. Comparetti and the Dutch scholar W.N. du Rieu; the correspondence, in Italian, concerns several aspects of the study of Hyperides and of Fulgentius
Douceur et violence chez les personnages féminins des romans de Béroalde de Verville
No full textVengono analizzati i personaggi di sesso femminile nei numerosi romanzi dell'autore barocco Béroalde de Verville. Si constata che le figure femminili sono connotate dalla dolcezza, benché spesso, in situazioni di legittima difesa della propria vita e/o della propria virtù, esse ricorrano alla violenza e perfino all'omicidio. Se in un romanzo come "L'Histoire d'Herodias" la protagonista è estremamente malvagia e scandalosa nei suoi comportamenti, per contro, nel romanzo che precede immediatamente questa riscrittura della storia sacra, "La Pucelle d'Orleans", è presente la figura dell'amazzone,donna forte ma leale, figura che peraltro ricorre frequentemente anche in altri romanzi di questo autore
UN Watercourses Convention:user's guide
No full textNone Copyright © 2012 Alistair Rieu-Clarke, Ruby Moynihan and Bjørn-Oliver Magsig. All rights reserved. No part of this book shall be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information retrieval system without the written permission of the Authors.</p
The energy cost of running increases with the distance covered
No full textThe net energy cost of running per unit of body mass and distance (C(r), ml O2.kg-1.km-1) was determined on ten amateur runners before and immediately after running 15, 32 or 42 km on an indoor track at a constant speed. The C(r) was determined on a treadmill at the same speed and each run was performed twice. The average value of C(r), as determined before the runs, amounted to 174.9 ml O2.kg-1.km-1, SD 13.7. After 15 km, C(r) was not significantly different, whereas it had increased significantly after 32 or 42 km, the increase ranging from 0.20 to 0.31 ml O2.kg-1.km-1 per km of distance (D). However, C(r) before the runs decreased, albeit at a progressively smaller rate, with the number of trials (N), indicating an habituation effect (H) to treadmill running. The effects of D alone were determined assuming that C(r) increased linearly with D, whereas H decreased exponentially with increasing N, i.e. C(r) = C(r0) + aD + He(-bN). The C(r0), the "true" energy cost of running in nonfatigued subjects accustomed to treadmill running, was assumed to be equal to the average value of C(r) before the run for N equal to or greater than 7 (171.1 ml O2.kg-1.km-1, SD 12.7; n = 30). A multiple regression of C(r) on N and D in the form of the above equation showed firstly that C(r) increased with the D covered by 0.123%.km-1, SEM 0.006 (i.e. about 0.22 ml O2.kg-1.km-1 per km, P < 0.001); secondly, that in terms of energy consumption (obtained from oxygen consumption and the respiratory quotient), the increase of C(r) with D was smaller, amounting on average to 0.08%.km-1 (0.0029 J.kg-1.m-1, P < 0.001) and thirdly that the effects of H amounted to about 16% of C(r0) for the first trial and became negligible after three to four trials
The functional locus of intrusions: Encoding or retrieval?
No full textMany current accounts of the origin of intrusions and other confabulatory-like phenomena emphasize the role of a retrieval or postretrieval deficit in these disorders. In the experiments reported herein we examine whether the presence of an interfering task at encoding elicits more intrusions in normal subjects than the presence of an interfering task at retrieval. In Experiment 1, performance in story recall without interference was compared to the performance with an interfering task at retrieval. In Experiment 2, the performance in story recall with an interfering task at encoding was compared to performance in story recall with interference at encoding and retrieval. Results suggest that interference at retrieval has no effect on the accuracy of recall and on intrusions. Interference at encoding compared to interference at encoding and retrieval (Experiment 2) had no effect on the accuracy of recall and on frequency of intrusions. Cross-experiment comparisons suggest that interference at encoding affects both the accuracy of retrieval and the probability of intrusions in recall. These results suggest that encoding processes, more than retrieval processes, have a role in eliciting intrusions
French adaptation of the Hopkins verbal learning test [Adaptation française du «Hopkins verbal learning test»]
No full textIntroduction. A number of tests are currently used in clinical and research settings for the assessment of patients with memory deficits. Among them, the Hopkins Verbal Learning Test (HVLT) is particularly appropriate for the longitudinal follow-up of patients with memory disorders because it exists in six parallel forms, and therefore avoids the risk of learning effect at retest. Since a test with these characteristics is not available in French, we decided to adapt a French version of the HVLT. Methods. 180 normal subjects participated in the study. Their mean age was 41 years (SD=11), and they had had on average 12 years of schooling (SD=3). The subjects were randomly divided into 6 groups of 30 subjects. One of the six forms of the French version of the HVLT was administered orally to each group of subjects. Each form consisted of a list of 12 words belonging to 3 different semantic categories. For the construction of the French version of the HVLT, we adopted the same procedure a
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