Search results for "Siren"

Miti mediterranei: un viaggio millenario

2020

Ha osservato Sebastiano Tusa: «Al di là delle immense e svariate risorse materiali che il mare ha offerto ed offre all’uomo, ve ne sono altre che attengono alla sfera sovrastrutturale che hanno nei millenni rifornito ed animato l’immensa enciclopedia dei miti, delle leggende e dei culti ad esso ispirati o, comunque, connessi». Distesa senza confini e abisso insondabile, il mare, con le sue repentine mutazioni di stato, le sue furiose tempeste e le sue mortifere bonacce, si è sempre imposto a chi lo solcava per raggiungere altri luoghi o per ricavarne da vivere come spazio del pericolo e del mistero, generando e sostenendo un ampio e polimorfo immaginario e divenendo attore e scenario al con…

D’Andersen a Carme Riera: una veu pròpia per a la sirena

2020

La veu de la sirena (2015), de Carme Riera, adopta com a text de referència —o hipotext— el conte tradicional de «La sireneta», fixat per Hans Christian Andersen (1837). Aquest estudi caracteritza la relació dialèctica que estableixen sengles obres des del punt de vista de les teoritzacions de Gérard Genette (1982) sobre la hipertextualitat. Riera reconeix obertament el text d’Andersen com a referent alhora que en canvia el sistema de valors subjacent. S’apropia del conte cla ssic per a subvertir-lo i sotmetre’l així a una alteració ideolo gica interessada. El text resultant esdevé un títol original dins de l’àmplia trajectòria de l’escriptora mallorquina i projecta, així mateix, moltes …

Rentoutusta sekä salissa että vedessä

2006

Sirenomelia, case report and review of the literature.

2020

We present a case of sirenomelia diagnosed in the first trimester of pregnancy. The ultrasound examination showed fused lower extremities and an anechoic structure in the lower abdomen that is clue in the early diagnosis. The postmortem study showed the existence of a single umbilical artery (vitelline artery), with an origin in the abdominal aorta. This finding not only explained the presence of a vascular steal with subsequent underdeveloped of pelvic organs, but also differentiated this condition from caudal regression syndrome.

THE ARGONAUTICA ORPHICA VERSION FOR THE VOYAGE OF THE ARGONAUTS: A GEO-ANALYSIS

2017

This study traces and analyzes the itinerary followed by Argo and her crew, according to the unknown author of Argonautica Orphica: The voyage of the Argonauts from Iolcos to Colchis and their return following a different path, from Phasis River through central Europe to the Atlantic Ocean and then through the Mediterranean Sea. Conclusions are drawn about whether such a voyage could be possible in the remote antiquity and the “problematic” points of the description are pointed out.

Developments in many-body theory of quantum transport and spectroscopy with non-equilibrium Green's functions and time-dependent density functional t…

2015

The problem of quantum dynamics in open systems has gained attention in recent decades and not the least due to the advances made in quantum transport in molecular systems. The main motivation behind quantum transport and molecular electronics is the futuristic goal to be able at some point to replace, or to complement, the silicon-based technology and to make the electronic devices faster. On a fundamental level, one has to deal with time-dependent processes where electron-electron or electron- phonon interactions are of great importance, and they can cause profound quantitative and qualitative changes on the physical and dynamical properties of electronic systems compared to the non-inter…

Muikun (Coregonus albula) suomun kasvuun ja kasvurenkaiden muodostumiseen vaikuttavia tekijöitä

2016

Muikun kasvunopeudessa on suurta vaihtelua, mikä voi heijastua myös sen luutuvien osien rakenteeseen. Veden lämpötila vaikuttaa ravinnonottoon sekä aineenvaihduntaan ja sitä kautta myös kasvuun. Jos gametogeneesin aikana naaraiden ja koiraiden käyttäytyminen sekä energiankäyttö poikkeavat toisistaan, sukupuolten välisiä eroja voidaan mahdollisesti havaita myös suomun kasvurytmiikassa. Tämän tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli selvittää, miten kasvurenkaiden muodostuminen eroaa sukupuolten ja ikäryhmien välillä sekä millaisia vaikutuksia lämpötilan vaihteluilla on kasvurenkaiden määrään. Näytekalat saatiin Etelä-Konnevedeltä avovesikaudella 2013. Kaikilta kaloilta laskettiin suomun kasvurenkaiden lu…

Odyssey Towards a Sirenic Thinking: An Attempt at a Self-Criticism of the Listening Paradigm Within Sound Studies

2021

Abstract This text departs from a contradictory claim in deaf studies and sound studies: both disciplines describe a hierarchical regime of the sensible – visuocentrism and audiocentrism – which they try to counter with conceptualisations as “acoustemology” or “deaf gain.” However, as we argue, they both thereby erect what they claim to overcome: a sensual regime that privileges one sense over another and a restricted conception of subjectivity deriving from it. First, we draw a philosophical line in the critique of sensual regimes. Then we propose a figure for the transcendence of the separation of the sensible: in re-reading of the myth of Odysseus and the sirens, we engage various exampl…

Singing to the Wind

2021

Abstract This paper focuses on a passage of Himerius’ Oration 47 (Simon. fr. 251 Poltera = 535 PMG + p. 157 SLG), where Simonides is cited for a song that leads a ship with favourable winds, and on a passage in Plutarch’s Quaestiones Convivales (722b–c) quoting a Simonidean fragment (17 Poltera = 595 PMG) on the propagation of sounds through still air. I argue that they both can be linked with the Argonautic myth of Orpheus. In fact, the former might have some connections with the myth of Oreithyia and Boreas, parents of Zetes and Kalaïs, involved in the Argonautic expedition; moreover, it has some similarities with a fragment from Euripides’ Hypsipyle (752g Kannicht) representing Orpheus o…

Sirene nell'Ade. L'aulo, la lira e il lutto

2016

Although music might seem to have nothing to do with death and the grief caused by it (to ban any music making from one’s house is a distinctive feature of mourning), yet dirges (threnoi) bestow upon the deceased both praise and the possibility to be remembered, and soothe the grief of his family and friends, and of the community as a whole. Thus the living accompany the soul of the dead in its descent to the Underworld by means of music, that seems to be the last connection with life. On a mythical-religious level, such an accompaniment is brought about by the Sirens, prayed by Helen so that they could join her in mourning the loss of the many warriors who have died because of her (Eur. He…