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Under Our Eye: Margaret Atwood's Variation on the Panopticon in "The Heart Goes Last"
2020
In her dystopian dark comedy The Heart Goes Last (2015), Margaret Atwood openly refers to Jeremy Bentham’s concept of the Panopticon. The future world depicted in her novel is filled with violence and deprived of both human bonds and hope. Hence, being contained, monitored and — after Foucault — disciplined and punished appears to be the characters’ last resort. Surveillance tempts both sexes as it is politically correct and universal, and it does not privilege one group of people over the other. The article discusses the dystopian vision of the near future as created by Atwood in her 2015 novel, with direct references to the conception of the Panopticon, both in its original meaning propos…
Monte Carlo simulation of high‐order harmonics generation in bulk semiconductors and submicron structures
2004
To qualify the feasibility of standard semiconductor materials and Schottky‐barrier diodes (SBDs) for THz high‐order harmonic generation and extraction, the harmonic intensity, intrinsic noise and signal‐to‐noise ratio are calculated by the Monte Carlo method when a periodic high‐frequency large‐amplitude external signal is applied to a semiconductor device. Due to very high signal‐to‐noise ratio heavily doped GaAs SBDs are found to exhibit conditions for frequency mixing and harmonic extraction that are definitively superior to those of bulk materials. (© 2004 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
Luminescence of gamma-radiation-induced defects in alpha-quartz
2004
Optical transitions associated with gamma-radiation-induced defects in crystalline a-quartz were investigated by photoluminescence excited by both pulsed synchrotron radiation and steady-state light. After a 10 MGy gamma-dose we observed two emissions at 4.9 eV (ultraviolet band) and 2.7 eV (blue band) excitable in the range of the induced absorption band at 7.6 eV. These two luminescence bands show a different temperature dependence: the ultraviolet band becomes bright below 80 K; the blue band increases below 180 K, but drops down below 80 K. Both emissions decay in a timescale of a few ns under pulsed excitation, however the blue band could also be observed in slow recombination processe…
Cambios en la activación electromiográfica de la musculatura de codo en sujetos sanos comparada con la activación muscular en sujetos con tendinopatí…
2021
La tendinopatía es uno de los problemas de tendón más frecuente de lesión en la actualidad. En el caso de miembros superiores, la alteración en los tendones es bastante significativa tanto en deportistas como en personas que no practican deporte. Sin embargo, hay pocos estudios que reflejen cómo repercute esto en las personas que lo padecen. Objetivos: el objetivo de este estudio es examinar y comparar la actividad electromiografia, la fuerza y la calidad de vida en personas con alteración tendinosa epicondílea del músculo extensor corto de carpo entre personas sanas, además de comprobar el efecto de la punción seca como rama de tratamiento en la actividad muscular, fuerza y dolor. Material…
Suppressive Efficacy by a Commercially Available Blue Lens on PPR in 610 Photosensitive Epilepsy Patients
2006
Purpose Photosensitivity can represent a serious problem in epilepsy patients, also because pharmacologic treatment is often ineffective. Nonpharmacologic treatment using blue sunglasses is effective and safe in controlling photosensitivity, but large series of patients have never been studied. Methods This multicenter study was conducted in 12 epilepsy centers in northern, central, southern, and insular Italy. A commercially available lens, named Z1, obtained in a previous trial, was used to test consecutively enrolled pediatric and adult epilepsy patients with photosensitivity. Only type 4 photosensitivity (photoparoxysmal response, PPR) was considered in the study. A standardized method …
Appeal against the Decision on the Application for a Declaration on enforceability. Procedure to Contest the Decision Given on Appeal. Refusal or Rev…
2016
Lo scritto è un commento agli articoli da 50 a 58 del Regolamento n. 650 del 2012 del Parlamento Europeo e del Consiglio del 4 luglio 2012, relativo alla competenza, alla legge applicabile, al riconoscimento e all’esecuzione delle decisioni e all’accettazione e all’esecuzione degli atti pubblici in materia di successioni e alla creazione di un certificato successorio europeo. Lo scritto affronta i temi relativi alla impugnazione avverso la decisione emessa in seguito alla istanza per il riconoscimento delle sentenze e dei provvedimenti stranieri nelle materie oggetto del regolamento; il procedimento per impugnare le sentenza emesse in seguito all'appello; il rifiuto o la revoca del riconosc…
The lexicon of community acquis: how to negotiate the non-negotiable
2009
In the context of the activities aimed to improve and develop the integration and cooperation of new Member States together with the states already belonging to the European Community, EU institutions have carried out a number of measures to increase the coherence of the body of common rights and obligations, binding all the Member States of the European Union (community acquis), for a long time. For this reason, the Commission of the European Community began in 2001 a process of consultation and discussion about the way in which problems resulting from the lack of a correspondence between national contract laws (and related terms) belonging to different legal systems should be dealt with a…
Storie dipinte. Gli ex voto di Dino Buzzati
2012
Dino Buzzati è stato uno scrittore, un giornalista, un drammaturgo, un poeta, un alpinista e anche un pittore. Noto al grande pubblico per Il deserto dei tartari e per le numerose raccolte di racconti, qui viene ricordato per la serie di “opere doppie”, come Il libro delle pipe, La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia e Poema a fumetti, composizioni di testo visivo e verbale, è frutto del doppio talento dell’autore che ne I miracoli di Val Morel sperimenta l’esempio più complesso di strategia iconotestuale. Si tratta di una riscrittura, in forma di parole e immagini, di trentanove ex voto ritrovati in un leggendario santuario dedicato a Santa Rita, la protettrice dei casi impossibili. «Un…
Siliceous spicules in marine demosponges (example Suberites domuncula)
2005
All metazoan animals comprise a body plan of different complexity. Since-especially based on molecular and cell biological data-it is well established that all metazoan phyla, including the Porifera (sponges), evolved from a common ancestor the search for common, basic principles of pattern formation (body plan) in all phyla began. Common to all metazoan body plans is the formation of at least one axis that runs from the apical to the basal region; examples for this type of organization are the Porifera and the Cnidaria (diploblastic animals). It seems conceivable that the basis for the formation of the Bauplan in sponges is the construction of their skeleton by spicules. In Demospongiae (w…
Data Transmission and Thermo-Optic Tuning Performance of Dielectric-Loaded Plasmonic Structures Hetero-Integrated on a Silicon Chip
2012
We demonstrate experimental evidence of the data capture and the low-energy thermo-optic tuning credentials of dielectric-loaded plasmonic structures integrated on a silicon chip. We show 7-nm thermo-optical tuning of a plasmonic racetrack-resonator with less than 3.3 mW required electrical power and verify error-free 10-Gb/s transmission through a 60-mu m-long dielectric-loaded plasmonic waveguide. We demonstrate experimental evidence of the data capture and the low-energy thermo-optic tuning credentials of dielectric-loaded plasmonic structures integrated on a silicon chip. We show 7-nm thermo-optical tuning of a plasmonic racetrack-resonator with less than 3.3 mW required electrical powe…