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Polyphenols, methylxanthines, fatty acids and minerals in cocoa beans and cocoa products
2019
In this study, the nutritional profile and some health benefit of three cocoa bean samples of different origins, including Perù, Ecuador (Criollo) and Ghana (Hybrid) and five samples of cocoa products from Criollo variety at different percentage of cocoa solids (from 70 to 100%), are investigated. The Ecuadorian beans were of the same batch used to obtain the chocolate samples (70% cocoa solids) by processing without conching. All samples were analyzed for their proximate composition, mineral content, fatty acids, total polyphenols, catechin, epicathechin theobromine and caffeine. Fatty acid profiles of the cocoa products were quite similar to those obtained in cocoa beans. The atherogenici…
Recensione a: Gesta Berengarii. Scontro per il regno nell’Italia del X secolo, a cura di Fr. Stella, Pisa 2009 (in «Maia», n.s., 64,2, 2011)
2011
Recensione all'ediz., con trad. ital. a fronte e commento, dei «Gesta Berengarii imperatoris», poemetto epico-storico del sec. X, curata da Francesco Stella e pubblicata nel 2009 dalla casa editrice Pacini di Pisa.
Glasgow ou l’Écosse urbaine dans les poèmes de Hugh MacDiarmid
2012
Hugh MacDiarmid is sometimes still thought a parochial poet, mostly interested in the depiction of rural Scotland. However, in the 1930s, he wrote several poems about the city of Glasgow but his work on urban predicaments has been largely forgotten. In his Glasgow sequence, MacDiarmid, along with many other writers in the 30s, redefines Scotland as an urban nation. Post-industrial Glasgow urges the whole country to ‘re-write’ itself and the canonical representation of rural Scotland to fade away. Scotland is mercilessly deconstructed in Glasgow 1938: Glasgow is no longer ‘a dear green place’, Scotland no longer a land of peasants but urban hell where filthy disease and dirty capitalism spre…
Relevance of Interactions between Starch-based Coatings and Plum Fruit Surfaces: A Physical-Chemical Analysis
2019
In order to extend the shelf life of the fruit, improve appearance, and to keep all nutrition properties of the plum from diminishing, edible coatings comprised of wheat starch and wheat starch&ndash
The relativity experiment of MORE: Global full-cycle simulation and results
2015
BepiColombo is a joint ESA/JAXA mission to Mercury with challenging objectives regarding geophysics, geodesy and fundamental physics. In particular, the Mercury Orbiter Radio science Experiment (MORE) intends, as one of its goals, to perform a test of General Relativity. This can be done by measuring and constraining the parametrized post-Newtonian (PPN) parameters to an accuracy significantly better than current one. In this work we perform a global numerical full-cycle simulation of the BepiColombo Radio Science Experiments (RSE) in a realistic scenario, focussing on the relativity experiment, solving simultaneously for all the parameters of interest for RSE in a global least squares fit …
On the second book of Quintus of Smyrna (in light of a recent comment)
2018
This paper aims to examine some textual problems in the second book of Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica, taking the cue from the recent commentary of Alessia Ferreccio. In the first part some assumptions of Ferreccio's work are discussed, while in the second part other passages are taken into account.
Questioni cronologico-attributive e tecnica compositiva del «Carmen de Hastingae proelio» di Guy d’Amiens
2018
In questo studio il «Carmen de Hastingae proelio» assegnato a Guy d’Amiens viene sottoposto a una lunga disamina, con la rassegna delle principali questioni cronologiche e attributive susseguitesi dalla prima metà dell’Ottocento fino ai nostri giorni, l’analisi e la discussione dei più rilevanti problemi storico-letterari e interpretativi e, nella seconda e più ampia parte, l’esame di tre passi del poemetto a loro modo altamente significativi (il proemio, la geste di Taillefer e l’incoronazione di Guglielmo il Conquistatore). Tale disamina mira, in primo luogo, a rimettere in discussione un’impostazione e un livello di lettura dell’opera vòlti, in maniera preponderante se non esclusiva, a …
The Word in the Image: an Epiconographic Analysis of Reformed Mosaics in Rome (Twelfth-century)
2011
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Alan Moore's America: The Liberal Individual and American Identities in Watchmen
2011
core is an ensemble of diverse characters that explores fundamental issues for American national identity during the second half of the twentieth century. Moore’s work performs thi st ask in two ways, fi rstly, by presenting a group of diverse ideologically contingent American figures in the individual characters, and secondly, by highlighting a sacrosanct element of America’s image of itself, the primacy of the ‘‘liberal individual’’ not just as an American type but as the naturalized core of the national ethos. This article maps this subject identity into a national identity such as that typified in Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities ,as mall-n nationalism as a successor to kinship …
Singing the News of Punishment
2021
Abstract This article explores the pan-European phenomenon of the execution ballad, songs that told the news of true crimes and their punishment by public execution. Looking at examples across nine languages, from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century, this comparison reveals that these ballads share multiple features in textual content and format: a recognisable, formulaic narrative; sensationalist and emotive language; and a conservative perspective that confirms that the condemned is guilty and that ‘justice’ is being served. We also note key regional differences, such as in the use (or not) of contrafactum, the setting of new lyrics to familiar melodies, in the use of the first v…