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Preditores de compreensão de leitura em adultos Europeus
2021
Research on the predictors of reading comprehension has been largely focused on school-aged children and mainly in opaque orthographies, hindering the generalization of the results to adult populations and more transparent orthographies. In the present study, we aim to test two versions of the Simple View of Reading (SVR): the original model and an extended version, including reading fluency and vocabulary. Additional mediation models were analyzed to verify if other reading comprehension predictors (rapid automatized naming, phonological decoding, phonological awareness, morphological awareness, and working memory) have direct effects or if they are mediated through word reading and readin…
Verso una dimensione narrativa delle mappe
2021
Tra il pensiero e la costruzione dell’architettura il disegno ha un ruolo baricentrico per connettere i diversi protagonisti di una realizzazione e per coinvolgere la collettività facendo percepire inedite prospettive. La scrittura si rivela utile per esplicitare ciò che nella grafica è sotteso e per stabilire un ordine nuovo nel ragionamento progettuale. I rapporti fra segni e significati si moltiplicano nei sistemi informativi recenti in cui si ha la sensazione di poter dire moltissimo (dati numerici e spaziali) ma a volte sfugge quella sintesi indispensabile per una interpretazione concreta, finalizzata alla costruzione di possibili esperienze fisiche. Per l’esplorazione dell’uso di dive…
‹‹Una scherma amorosa››: Bufalino e il lettore
2011
Il saggio indaga le modalità con cui Bufalino indirizza e controlla a distanza il processo di lettura delle proprie opere, Congegnando un intrigante gioco di specchi, di rifrazioni e di mise en abyme, l’autore inserisce all’interno della narrazione episodi e apologhi allegorici, che compendiano in sé l’intero senso del racconto e mettono in scene figure di lettori. L’attenzione del lettore, messa in allerta dalle spie disseminate a bella posta nel testo, è convogliata spesso su una traiettoria per certi versi ‘obbligata’: muovendo dagli indizi predisposti con avvedutezza dal narratore l’interpretazione si concentra giocoforza su certi nodi significativi, mettendo da parte gli altri, eventua…
Reader Comments Agentive Power in COVID-19 Digital News Articles: Challenging Parascientific Information?
2022
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has triggered an enormous stream of information. Parascientific digital communication has pursued different avenues, from mainstream media news to social networking, at times combined. Likewise, citizens have developed new discourse practices, with readers as active participants who claim authority. Based on a corpus of 500 reader comments from The Guardian, we analyse how readers build their authorial voice on COVID-19 news as well as their agentive power and its implications. Methodologically, we draw upon stance markers, depersonalisation strategies, and heteroglossic markers, from the perspective of discursive interpersonality. Our findings unearth that stan…
Commenting on Historical Writings in Medieval Latin Europe : A Reconnaissance
2015
Modern scholarship seems to undervalue medieval commentaries on historical writings. This article intends to bring this phenomenon to scholars’ attention by providing a preliminary overview of the forms and subjects of such commentaries. It examines various types of evidence including not only a few commentaries proper (Nicolas Trevet’s on Livy and John of Dąbrówka’s on Vincent of Cracow), but also different apparatus consisting of more or less systematic interlinear and marginal glosses and commentary-like additions to vernacular translations, mostly of Italian and French origin. It begins by considering various consultation-related signs and annotations, such as cross-references. Then, it…
“C’est la vie, c’est la narration”: The Reader in Christine Brooke-Rose’s Textermination and David Lodge’s Small World
2016
Abstract This article considers two metafictional academic novels from the reader’s point of view. It argues that this critical vantage point is suggested (if not imposed) by the fictional texts themselves. The theoretical texts informing this reading pertain either to reader response or to theories of metafiction, in an attempt to uncover conceptual commonalities between the two. Apart from a thematic focus on academic conferences as pilgrimages and the advocacy of reading as an ethically valuable activity, the two novels also share a propensity for intertextuality, a blurring of the boundaries between fictional and critical discourse, as well as a questioning of the borderline between fic…
Solid glucose biosensor integrated in a multi-well microplate coupled to a camera-based detector: Application to the multiple analysis of human serum…
2018
Abstract In the present work, a biosensor adapted in a 96-well microplate has been coupled with a smartphone-based photometer in order to develop a low-cost colorimetric multi-sample dispositive. The strength of this biosensing system is based on the integration of the biosensor into the 96-well microplate and the use of a smartphone and free image analysis software as a microplate reader. The performance of the proposed biosensor has been demonstrated to determine glucose in several human serum samples. This method is simple, cost-effective, sensitive and selective for the determination of glucose in serum, with detection limits of 1.8 mg/dL and a good linearity over the range 6–88 mg/dL. …
Comprensión de textos expositivos académicos en e-book Reader y en papel: influencia del conocimiento previo de dominio y la aptitud verbal
2018
espanolResumen: En un estudio del que participaron 102 estudiantes universitarios, se comparo la comprension en la lectura de textos expositivos academicos impresos versus en formato de e-book Reader. Se examinaron los efectos del soporte, del conocimiento especifico de dominio previo del lector y la aptitud verbal. Asimismo se indagaron las actitudes de los estudiantes hacia los soportes textuales antes y despues de la experiencia. Los resultados sugieren que el e-book Reader beneficiaria a los lectores competentes, y/o que podria promover mayor actividad metacognitiva en los procesos de comprension. Asimismo, las opiniones hacia el e-book Reader cambiaron despues de la experiencia, aunque…
Tietokoneavusteinen tunneanalyysi : uusi näkökulma merkitykselliseen dialogiin
2014
Tutkimuksemme tavoitteena oli tarkastella tietokoneavusteisen tunneanalyysin mahdollisuuksia ja rajoitteita osana “The Relational Mind in Events of Change in Multi-actor Therapeutic Dialog” -tutkimusprojektia. Tunneanalyysissa käytimme Facereader -kasvojentunnistusohjelmistoa, jolla analysoimme nelinkeskisestä terapeuttisesta tilanteesta suoraan kuvattua videomateriaalia. Aiemmin tietokoneavusteista tunneanalyysia on hyödynnetty tutkimusprojektissa vain terapian jälkihaastattelussa. Keskityimme analyysissa terapiaistunnon toiseen asiakkaaseen, sekä erityisesti tämän relationaalisiin hymyhetkiin suhteessa muihin terapiatilanteessa oleviin henkilöihin. Luokittelimme hymyhetket niiden ilmiasun…
‘Too interconnected to fail’ financial network of US CDS market: Topological fragility and systemic risk
2012
A small segment of credit default swaps (CDS) on residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS) stand implicated in the 2007 financial crisis. The dominance of a few big players in the chains of insurance and reinsurance for CDS credit risk mitigation for banks' assets has led to the idea of too interconnected to fail (TITF) resulting, as in the case of AIG, of a tax payer bailout. We provide an empirical reconstruction of the US CDS network based on the FDIC Call Reports for off balance sheet bank data for the 4th quarter in 2007 and 2008. The propagation of financial contagion in networks with dense clustering which reflects high concentration or localization of exposures between few parti…