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Gli Studi Culturali in India. Il collettivo Subaltern Studies e il discorso postcoloniale da Said a Spivak
2012
Sull'origine e lo sviluppo del collettivo "Subaltern Studies" in India, sul ruolo fondamentale che ha giocato nella formazione degli Studi Culturali e Postcoloniali, e sulla sua diffusione transnazionale.
“Things which don’t shift and grow are dead things”: Revisiting Betonie’s Waste-Lands in Leslie Silko’s Ceremony
2014
This article explores the socio-political background that led to widespread Native American urban relocation in the period following World War II – a historical episode which is featured in Leslie Marmon Silko’s acclaimed novel Ceremony (1977). Through an analysis of the recycling, reinterpreting practices carried out by one of Ceremony’s memorable supporting characters, Navajo healer Betonie, Silko’s political aim to interrogate the state of things and to re-value Native traditions in a context of ongoing relations of coloniality is made most clear. In Silko’s novel, Betonie acts as an organic intellectual who is able to identify and challenge the 1950s neocolonial structure that forced Na…
Faut-il provincialiser les Lumières
2013
OS nat; National audience; no abstract
A new species ofLimonium(Plumbaginaceae) from Soqotra (Yemen)
2009
Abstract Limonium guigliae, from the island of Soqotra (Yemen) is described. This new species, close to L. paulayanum differs from it by its size, flower morphology and ecology.
Eiropas kultūras diplomātijas dinamika Indijā: pētījums par Banglores Franču Aliansi
2017
Kultūras diplomātija ieņem galveno vietu daudzu valstu ārpolitikā. Kultūras diplomātijas pētnieciskā literatūra ir attīstījusies, iekļaujot izmaiņas tās praksē tādas kā sadarbība, jaunu aktieru iesaiste, jauni kanāli, caur kuriem sadarbību praktizē, un sasniedz jaunus mērķus. Darba mērķis ir veicināt kultūras un publiskās diplomātijas lauciņu, analizējot Eiropas kultūras diplomātijas dinamiku caur trešās pasaules valstīm. Darbs pēta Franču alianses darbību Bengalūru, Indijā, izmantojot gadījuma analīzes metodi. Darbs koncentrējās uz visu valodas apgūšanas sistēmu kultūras institūtos, aplūkojot to kā kultūras un publiskās diplomātijas ziņu pavairotāju. Dati tika vākti un analizēti, balstotie…
Clonal Interference and the Evolution of RNA Viruses
1999
In asexual populations, beneficial mutations that occur in different lineages compete with one another. This phenomenon, known as clonal interference, ensures that those beneficial mutations that do achieve fixation are of large effect. Clonal interference also increases the time between fixations, thereby slowing the adaptation of asexual populations. The effects of clonal interference were measured in the asexual RNA virus vesicular stomatitis virus; rates and average effects of beneficial mutations were quantified.
The TaqIB and −629C>A polymorphisms at the cholesteryl ester transfer protein locus: associations with lipid levels in a multiethnic population. T…
2002
The Singapore population comprises Chinese, Malays and Asian Indians. Within this population, Asian Indians have the highest rates of coronary heart disease, whereas Chinese have the lowest. Conversely, Indians have the lowest high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) concentrations, followed by Malays and Chinese. We studied the TaqIB and -629C>A polymorphisms at the CETP locus in 1300 Chinese, 364 Malay and 282 Asian Indian men, and in 1558 Chinese, 397 Malay and 306 Asian Indian women, to determine whether these polymorphisms are responsible for the ethnic difference in HDL-C concentration. The frequency of the B2 allele in Chinese, Malays and Indians was 0.384, 0.339 and 0.449 in men…
Is group selection a factor modulating the virulence of RNA viruses?
1997
RNA viruses consist of populations of extremely high genetic heterogeneity called quasispecies. Based on theoretical considerations, it has been suggested that the unit of selection in such complex genetic populations is not the single viral particle but a set of genetically related particles which form the quasispecies. In the present study we carried out a set of experiments with the vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) dealing with the evolution of life-history characters under selection acting at two factors either in the same or in opposite directions. The two factors at which selective pressure is applied are the individual and the group. We show evidence that group selection modulates th…
The cost of replication fidelity in an RNA virus
2005
It is often argued that high mutation rates are advantageous for RNA viruses, because they confer elevated rates of adaptation. However, there is no direct evidence showing a positive correlation between mutation and adaptation rates among RNA viruses. Moreover, theoretical work does not argue in favor of this prediction. We used a series of vesicular stomatitis virus clones harboring single amino acid substitutions in the RNA polymerase to demonstrate that changes inducing enhanced fidelity paid a fitness cost, but that there was no positive correlation between mutation an adaptation rates. We demonstrate that the observed mutation rate in vesicular stomatitis virus can be explained by a t…
Epistasis and the Adaptability of an RNA Virus
2005
Abstract We have explored the patterns of fitness recovery in the vesicular stomatitis RNA virus. We show that, in our experimental setting, reversions to the wild-type genotype were rare and fitness recovery was at least partially driven by compensatory mutations. We compared compensatory adaptation for genotypes carrying (1) mutations with varying deleterious fitness effects, (2) one or two deleterious mutations, and (3) pairs of mutations showing differences in the strength and sign of epistasis. In all cases, we found that the rate of fitness recovery and the proportion of reversions were positively affected by population size. Additionally, we observed that mutations with large fitness…