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Computational and experimental investigation of intermolecular states and forces in the benzene-helium van der Waals complex
2003
A study of the intermolecular potential-energy surface (IPS) and the intermolecular states of the perprotonated and perdeuterated benzene–He complex is reported. From a fit to ab initio data computed within the coupled cluster singles and doubles including connected triples model for 280 interaction geometries, an analytic IPS including two- to four-body atom–atom terms is obtained. This IPS, and two other Lennard-Jones atom–atom surfaces from the literature, are each employed in dynamically exact (within the rigid-monomer approximation) calculations of J = 0 intermolecular states of the isotopomers. Rotational constants and Raman-scattering coefficients for intermolecular vibrational trans…
The Display of Royal Ecclesiastical Power: The Palatine Chapel of Palermo (1586–1713)
2021
Any study of the Palatine Chapel in Palermo should take into account the two contexts of Spanish Caesaropapism in Sicily, namely a Church established by Habsburg rulers with the monarch at its head, and international relationships between the Spanish Monarchy, France, and the Holy See. This chapel, situated right at the heart of the Royal Palace – seat of both the Viceroy and the tribunals of the Kingdom – was actually a sort of miniature cathedral for the Spanish king-pope (as ecclesiastical patron and papal legate), and the fact that it was dedicated to Saint Peter clearly evoked the papal Basilica of the same name in Rome. The Palatine Chapel was indeed one of the main issues associated …
Phylogenetic relationship among genera of Polymorphidae (Acanthocephala), inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences.
2013
Abstract Acanthocephalans of the family Polymorphidae Meyer, 1931 are obligate endoparasites with complex life cycles. These worms use vertebrates (marine mammals, fish-eating birds and waterfowl) as definitive hosts and invertebrates (amphipods, decapods and euphausiids) as intermediate hosts to complete their life cycle. Polymorphidae has a wordwide distribution, containing 12 genera, with approximately 127 species. The family is diagnosed by having a spinose trunk, bulbose proboscis, double-walled proboscis receptacle, and usually four to eight tubular cement glands. To conduct a phylogenetic analysis, in the current study sequences of the small (18S) and large-subunit (28S) ribosomal RN…
On Simon Nelson Patten’s Progressivism: A note
2020
This article is an attempt to offer an assessment of the main coordinates of Simon Nelson Patten’s views on democracy and biological determinism. This will allow us to better delineate the differences—as well as the affinities—between Patten and the core of progressives discussed by Thomas C. Leonard in a series of path-breaking contributions, culminating in his Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era. It is our contention that even within the persisting intricacies, ambiguities, and contradictions of Patten’s expository style, it is possible to trace a shift in some aspects of his ideas—a gradual evolution that makes his peculiar brand of progress…
Il discorso sui 'metalla' fra ideologia, poetica e retorica. Da Cicerone a Prudenzio
2002
L'articolo mira a ricostruire, attraverso un percorso per sondaggi e campioni, l'ampio dibattito sviluppato dalla cultura latina intorno al tema dello sfruttamento delle risorse minerarie in un arco di tempo che va dalla tarda repubblica al V secolo d. C. Analizzando una serie di testi appartenenti ad epoche, generi ed autori diversi (Cicerone, Ovidio, Manilio, Seneca, Lucano, Silio Italico, Tiberiano, Prudenzio) si pone in luce la natura eminentemente etico-culturale, e assai spesso moralistica, dell'interesse mostrato dagli scrittori latini per questo tipo di tematiche. Al contempo, tuttavia, si segnala un significativo slittamento prospettico nelle varie fasi della storia culturale roman…
Interdisciplinarity in The Second Sex: Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis
2015
This chapter analyzes Simone de Beauvoir’s way of combining different theoretical frameworks, in particular, those of phenomenology and psychoanalysis. To elucidate the nature of Beauvoirian interdisciplinarity, I will examine Beauvoir’s discussion of penis envy and her application of Helene Deutsch’s views. I will argue that the combination of psychoanalysis and phenomenology in The Second Sex brings about an inner tension, of which those interested in applying Beauvoir’s interdisciplinary approach should be aware. nonPeerReviewed
Quantum versus classical query complexity of relation
2011
This paper investigates the computability of mathematical relations in a quantum query model. The important task in complexity theory is to find examples with a large gap between classical and quantum algorithm complexity of the same computational problem. We present new results in quantum query algorithm design that allow achieving a large separation between classical and quantum query complexity of a specific relation. We demonstrate an example where quantum query algorithm for a finite relation needs more than two times fewer queries than the best possible classical analogue. We also show that relation can be extended to infinite family of relations with an input of general size N.
Salvatore Quasimodo e le traduzioni dai testi antichi: il laboratorio del traduttore
La tesi propone uno studio sulle traduzioni di Salvatore Quasimodo dagli autori antichi greci e latini, a partire dall’analisi delle carte inedite dell’autore conservate al “Centro di ricerca della tradizione manoscritta di autori moderni e contemporanei” dell’Università di Pavia. Tenuto conto della cospicua documentazione conservata al Fondo pavese, ci si sofferma su alcune varianti manoscritte e dattiloscritte delle carte di lavoro che testimoniano un profondo lavorio sui testi della selezione quasimodiana, in vista anche di una efficace resa metrica dei testi. Infine, esemplificati alcuni stilemi tipici di tali versioni di Quasimodo, si tenta di far luce sul modus operandi del poeta di M…
A proposito di Quintillo: considerazioni sulla tradizione storiografica
2009
L’articolo analizza i problemi di cronologia del breve regno d Quintillo, fra Claudio ed Aureliano, secondo i diversi filoni della storiografia (EKG e Zosimo) e della versione più ampia presente della Historia Augusta.
Cuore, anima e mente. Un esempio di circolarità lessicale tra tradizione islamica e cristiana
2018
The starting point of this article is a topic that features in the synoptic Gospels (Mt 22, 37; Mc 12, 29-31; Lc 10, 27) and is presented as the most essential among Jesus’ precepts: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind”. The three terms that are mentioned here – heart, soul, and mind – are of prominent importance both in the Christian and Islamic spiritual traditions. We compare them and the respective traditions of commentary both on a lexicographical and exegetical level. The analysis of similarities and differences issued from a comparison of the contexts of the exegeses, and the respective reactions to the common Biblical background,…