Search results for "American"

La Sicilia, un’altra realtà a cui appigliarsi, nella ricerca di network efficaci. Sicily, another reality to cling to in the quest for effective netw…

2009

La Sicilia, un’altra realtà a cui appigliarsi, nella ricerca di network efficaci [“Sicily, another reality to cling to in the quest for effective networks”]

Sociedades fragiles

2001

Antiamericanismo

2002

“Much Ado About Something: Nineteenth-Century American Writers and the Atlantic Cable”

2022

Cet article décrit et analyse les réactions de plusieurs grands auteurs américains (Thoreau, Longfellow, Irving, Melville, Whittier, Whitman et Emerson) au succès en 1858 du premier lien télégraphique transatlantique entre les États-Unis et l’Europe. Ces réponses à cet exploit technologique apparaissaient dans des journaux privés, des lettres, des éditoriaux et des notes marginales; elles étaient parfois incorporées dans des œuvres littéraires. Dans presque tous les cas, les réactions peuvent...

En torno al humorismo de Augusto Monterroso

2013

Augusto Monterroso e la minifinzione ispanoamericana

2007

The author tries to explain the mini-text in relation to the so called "post-modern" condition by resorting -in particular- to the notion of "fractal". This term is taken from the scientific language and distinguishes itself from the notion of "detail", which would clearly refer to a modern vision of the text. Moving from the realm of science to the literary domain, it is inevitable to think of the deconstruction of the narrative canon not so much to negate it as to explore and exploit its creative potentialities in the form of shards, fragments, which the necessary extension of the traditional novel has suffocated since its origine. This outlook implies, in general, an ironical fre-reading…

Avocado “born in Sicily”, gli agricoltori scommettono su questa produzione

2021

In questo lavoro è stato possibile mettere a confronto la qualità dei frutti di avocado Born in Sicily e di quelli Imported. I risultati ottenuti evidenziano per i frutti raccolti in Sicilia valori più elevati del contenuto di sostanza grassa, di alcune vitamine e minerali rispetto a quelli importati, indicando nell’avocado isolano un frutto ricco di componenti dall’alto valore nutrizionale.

Operator splitting methods for American option pricing

2004

Abstract We propose operator splitting methods for solving the linear complementarity problems arising from the pricing of American options. The space discretization of the underlying Black-Scholes Scholes equation is done using a central finite-difference scheme. The time discretization as well as the operator splittings are based on the Crank-Nicolson method and the two-step backward differentiation formula. Numerical experiments show that the operator splitting methodology is much more efficient than the projected SOR, while the accuracy of both methods are similar.

Tensions and expression in Milos Forman’s American films

2012

Milos Forman’s American films require a plural outlook. The director has always been drawn to stories of conflicts that are essential, according to him, to study human passion. This tension, thematic as well as esthetic, allows him to show the smallest mechanisms that lead to oppression in European and American stories, providing the viewer with a lesson of anatomy that pinpoints the most invisible magnetic forces leading to power. This course is accompanied by a journey to individualism, through forces involved in the identification with attractive though realistic characters, through the rediscovery of individual freedom within primitive or regressive worlds, insisting on the necessity of…

Personal Reasons for Withdrawal from Team Sports and the Influence of Significant others among Youth Athletes

2013

The aim of this study was to identify the main reasons for withdrawal from team sports and to examine the influence of significant others (i.e., coaches, parents, peers, and siblings) in the decision making concerning withdrawal from youth sports. An attempt was also made to compare withdrawal components and the influence of significant others in terms of gender, level of competition and years of involvement in youth sports. The participants in this study were young football (American soccer) (n=397), ice hockey (n=88) and basketball (n=50) players who had terminated their participation in their sports. Principal component analysis was used to reduce the number of withdrawal items and iden…