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Margaret Atwood and Adaptation: The Handmaid’s Tale and Beyond
2021
Margaret Atwood has long been appreciated for her ardent defense of Canadian authors and her genre-bending fiction, essays and poetry. However, an aspect of her work that has perhaps been less thoroughly examined is her work both as adaptor and as source for adaptation in media as varied as opera, television, film, or comic books. Recent critically acclaimed television adaptations of the novels The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu) and Alias Grace (Amazon) have rightfully focused attention on these works, but Atwood’s fiction has long been a source of inspiration for artists of various media, a seeming corollary to Atwood’s own tendency to explore the possibilities of media (graphic novels), genres (s…
Ethanol preservation effects on stable carbon, nitrogen and hydrogen isotopes in the freshwater pearl mussel
2023
AbstractChemical preservatives can alter stable isotope ratios in animal tissues. The effects of preservation on δ13C and δ15N values have been investigated in a variety of species, but not on δ2H values or on the freshwater pearl mussel (FPM, Margaritifera margaritifera) tissues. We evaluated the effect of ethanol preservation (unpreserved vs preserved tissues) over 6 months on the δ13C, δ15N and δ2H values of FPM foot and gonad tissues. Ethanol preservation significantly increased δ13C values (foot 0.4 ‰; gonad 0.3 ‰), whereas it did not significantly affect δ15N values (foot 0.2 ‰; gonad − 0.1 ‰). The positive effect of ethanol preservation on δ2H values (foot 7.1 ‰; gonad 14.5 ‰) and th…
Margara Russotto, Roman Hernandez. Laboratorio lombrosiano, Firenze, Centro Studi Eielson, 2012
2013
"Laboratorio lombrosiano" es un libro en el que literatura y ciencia dialogan, coincidiendo en un universo a la par caotico y ordenado, en el que el ser humano participa con soberano y libre albedrio.
The Reason of Imagination. The Blazing Worlds of Margaret Cavendish and Siri Hustvedt
2020
One of the peculiarities of 17th and 18th centuries literature is the link between knowledge and imagination, a relationship in which narration sometimes accompanies science, sometimes goes beyond it. The idea of imagination as a true means of knowledge is the subject of Margaret Cavendish’s best known work, The Blazing World (1666), where her alter ego is free to built a whole social and philosophical system based on corporality and subjectivity. From the same conception of imagination starts Siri Hustvedt when in 2014 rewrites The Blazing World: the story of an artist who still in the twentieth century tries to face the overwhelming misogyny with the performance of the body and the theory…
High-resolution images in macular disorders
2021
Objective: This study analyzed and compared the results of adaptive optics (AO) and fundus autofluorescence (FAF) in various maculopathies. Methods: The study included four different types of maculopathy: central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC), retinitis pigmentosa (RP), Stargardt disease (STGD) and phototoxic retinopathy. In all four cases, cone mosaic and cone density were obtained using AO fundus camera. Further, the high-resolution images were compared with the FAF and optical coherence tomography (OCT) results. Results: In CSC, FAF and AO, changes could be shown in the macula even two years after the subretinal fluid resorption, as opposed to a normal OCT. The improvement of FAF and co…
Venuto al mondo di Margaret Mazzantini: dal testo al paratesto, e ritorno
2015
The paratext on the back cover of Margaret Mazzantini's Venuto al mondo (published in 2008, winner of Campiello Award 2009, a film in 2012, a serial tv in 2014) reports the 'prize motivation' written by the jury of Campiello, formed by important professors and literary critics. Comparing the text of the novel with the paratext of the book, the article analyses some sure results of the paratext, and also some strategic gaps and reticences.
Tramping the Dirt Down: The Real and Imagined Death of Margaret Thatcher
2018
The Death of Margaret Thatcher (2008) is a play written by British playwright, Tom Green. The play, debuting at The Courtyard Theatre, London, received unsurprising criticism mainly due to its controversial and prophetic subject matter. Notably the main grievance was that Margaret Thatcher was not dead. The playwright’s prophetic and imagined version of events touched the nerves of those who supported Thatcher, and also those who derided her. This paper takes into account the preoccupation with imagining Thatcher’s death and also considers the events which took place surrounding the real death of Margaret Thatcher. Curiously, the real and the imagined are closely entwined. The paper aims to…
Jokihelmisimpukan (Margaritifera margaritifera) glokidium-toukkien kehittyminen ja lukumäärät kalaisännässä kahdessa Iijoen alueen taimenpurossa
2012
Jokihelmisimpukan (Margaritifera margaritifera L.) elämänkierron eri vaiheiden ajoitus tunnetaan heikosti, mikä vaikeuttaa mm. suojelutoimien suunnittelua. Tämän tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli havainnoida jokihelmisimpukan glokidium-toukkien kehittymistä ja lukumääriä kahdessa Iijoen alueen taimenpurossa. Erityisesti pyrimme saamaan tietoa siitä, milloin toukat kiinnittyvät kaloihin ja milloin ne irtoavat niistä. Lisäksi tavoitteena oli saada tietoa toukkien kasvunopeudesta loisvaiheessa. Tutkimus kohdistettiin kahteen lämpötiloiltaan erilaiseen puroon Iijoen alueella 9.6. ja 7.9. välisenä aikana. Tutkimuskalana käytettiin purotaimenta (Salmo trutta m. fario L.), joka on puroissa luonnostaan e…
Pulsed flow-through cultivation of Margaritifera margaritifera : effects of water source and food quantity on the survival and growth of juveniles
2020
AbstractConservation of the endangered freshwater pearl mussel (FPM) includes artificially rearing juveniles, but the pulsed flow-through (PFT) method, enabling the continuous renewal of water and food in culture containers, has not been applied to FPM. This study tested the PFT method in culture of FPM juveniles, and the effect of water source (tap vs well water) and food concentration (mixture of commercial phytoplankton products) on the survival and growth of juveniles. Beaker-specific survival rates varied from 0 to 100% (mean: 34%) and from 0 to 58% (mean: 16%) in the 1st (2-week) and 2nd (10-week) experiment, respectively. In the 1st experiment, juveniles attained statistically signif…