bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Impact of renal function on mid-term outcomes in heart failure patients treated with tolvaptan
Authors: Fujioka Kensuke , Mizuno Sumio , Ichise Taro , Matsui Takao , Hirase Hiroaki , Yamaguchi Masato , Aoyama Takahiko , Yamagishi Masakazu , Fujino Noboru , Kawashiri Masa-aki , Hayashi Kenshi
Published: January 2019

Background:

Although tolvaptan, an electrolyte-free water diuretic for congestive heart failure (HF), is reported to have no effect on long-term mortality or HF-related morbidity, there may exist some subgroups of patients who may receive beneficial effect of tolvaptan. The purpose of this study was to identify clinical factors associated with mid-term effect of tolvaptan on clinical outcomes of patients who discharged after acute HF.

Methods:

We retrospectively analyzed 140 patients (88 male; mean age, 77.1 ± 11.0 years) with acute HF who received tolvaptan (initial dose 8.6 ± 3.6 mg/day) during their hospitalization. They were divided into two groups according to how the tolvaptan was used at discharge; 77 in the tolvaptan-continued group and 63 in the discontinued group.

Results:

The Cox proportional hazards model revealed that eGFR was the only independent predictor for the occurrence of mid-term cardiac events (composite of re-hospitalization due to HF and all-cause death; aHR = 0.9870, p = 0.02597). The Kaplan–Meier survival curves of the two groups demonstrated no difference in cumulative event-free rates. In the subgroup with preserved renal function at admission (eGFR ⩾ 30 ml/min/1.73 m2), the continuous use of tolvaptan increased composite events (aHR = 2.130, p = 0.02549).

Conclusions:

The continuous use of tolvaptan after discharge did not affect mid-term cardiac events of HF overall but may be associated with increased cardiac events in the subgroup with preserved renal function. These findings suggest that the tolvaptan administration might need to be limited to treatment of in-hospital acute HF.
Inertial measurement unit-based pose estimation: Analyzing and reducing sensitivity to sensor placement and body measures
Authors: Kianifar Rezvan , Joukov Vladimir , Lee Alexander , Raina Sachin , Kulić Dana
Published: January 2019

Introduction

Inertial measurement units have been proposed for automated pose estimation and exercise monitoring in clinical settings. However, many existing methods assume an extensive calibration procedure, which may not be realizable in clinical practice. In this study, an inertial measurement unit-based pose estimation method using extended Kalman filter and kinematic chain modeling is adapted for lower body pose estimation during clinical mobility tests such as the single leg squat, and the sensitivity to parameter calibration is investigated.

Methods

The sensitivity of pose estimation accuracy to each of the kinematic model and sensor placement parameters was analyzed. Sensitivity analysis results suggested that accurate extraction of inertial measurement unit orientation on the body is a key factor in improving the accuracy. Hence, a simple calibration protocol was proposed to reach a better approximation for inertial measurement unit orientation.

Results

After applying the protocol, the ankle, knee, and hip joint angle errors improved to [Formula: see text], and [Formula: see text], without the need for any other calibration.

Conclusions

Only a small subset of kinematic and sensor parameters contribute significantly to pose estimation accuracy when using body worn inertial sensors. A simple calibration procedure identifying the inertial measurement unit orientation on the body can provide good pose estimation performance.
Conflicting Views in Narratives on HIV Transmission via Medical Care
Authors: Vance Michael A.
Published: January 2019

Molecular studies suggest that HIV arose in Africa between 1880 and 1940. During this period, there were campaigns by European colonial governments that involved unsterile injections of large numbers of Africans. That, along with other unsafe therapeutic interventions, may have propelled the evolution of HIV from SIV. Since subtype B in Africa may have been concentrated in white African homosexuals, it is possible that Westerners rather than Haitians introduced the virus to the New World. Amplification of HIV subtype B took place in Haiti, where transmission was facilitated by hazardous medical procedures including plasmapheresis. Representations in the media, however, largely ignore Western contributions to the spread of AIDS. This article focuses on the value of alternative narratives in fostering a balanced view that is less stigmatizing on developing nations.
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Probiotic assisted weight management as a main factor for glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes: a randomized controlled trial
Authors: Khalili Leila , Alipour Beitullah , Asghari Jafarabadi Mohammad , Hassanalilou Tohid , Mesgari Abbasi Mehran , Faraji Ismail
Published: January 2019

Objectives

To evaluate the effect of Lactobacillus casei 01 on dietary intake, body weight, and glycemic control in patients with T2DM.

Method

Forty patients with T2DM (n = 20 for each group) were assigned into two groups in present trial. The patients in the probiotic group received a daily capsule containing a minimum of 108 CFU of L. casei 01 for 8 week. The placebo group took capsules filled with maltodextrin for the same time period. Dietary intake questionnaires and anthropometric measurements were collected, and the participants were assessed by an endocrinologist at baseline and at the end of the trial.

Results

Lactobacillus casei 01 supplementation significantly decreased total energy, carbohydrate, fat, and protein intake compared with placebo (p = 0.001, p = 0.002, p = 0.009, p = 0.001; respectively). Moreover weight, BMI, and waist circumference were significantly decreased in intervention group compared with placebo group (p < 0.001; p < 0.001; p = 0.029; respectively). In comparison with placebo group serum fetuin-A level, fasting blood sugar, insulin concentration, and insulin resistance were significantly decreased (p = 0.023, p =0.013, p = 0.028; p = 0.007; respectively), and serum SIRT1 level was significantly increased (p = 0.040) in intervention group.

Conclusions

Lactobacillus casei 01 supplementation affected dietary intake and body weight in a way that improved fetuin-A and SIRT1 levels and glycemic response in subjects with T2DM. Affecting the fetuin-A and SIRT1 levels introduces a new known mechanism of probiotic action in diabetes management.
1H and 13C NMR Studies on New Ionic Plastic Crystals Constructed by Ellipsoidal Cations with [BEt3Me] Anion
Authors: Kotani Yuka , Honda Hisashi
Published: January 2019

Two new ionic plastic crystals of [NEtMe2Pr][BEt3Me] and [NEt2MePr][BEt3Me] were found. In contrast, the highest-temperature solid-phase of [NEtMe2Bu][BEt3Me] and [NEt2MeBu][BEt3Me] were assigned to rotator phases. Solid-state 1H and 13C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements revealed that both the cations and anions perform isotropic reorientations in the plastic phase. Conversely, the cations of [NEtMe2Bu] and [NEt2MeBu] undergo rotation about an axis. Based on these results, it is revealed that ellipsoidal cations of [NEtMe2Pr]+ and [NEt2MePr]+ can form plastic crystalline phases with [BEt3Me]−. In the lower temperature solid-phase of the plastic phase, a rotator phase was also found in [NEtMe2Pr][BEt3Me] and [NEt2MePr][BEt3Me] salts. This is rarely reported in alkylammonium compounds with [BEt3Me]. 1H NMR spin-lattice relaxation time (T1) measurements showed that activation energies of isotropic reorientation were slightly large when compared to those reported in other ionic plastic crystals constructed with globular cations. This difference can be explained by assuming the aspect ratio. On differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) charts, small entropy changes were recorded at melting points of four compounds. These results support the observation that cations and anions have large degrees of freedom of motion in the highest-temperature solid-phases (plastic and rotator phases).
Isotropic Site-Site Dispersion Potential Constructed Using Quantum Chemical Calculations and a Geminal Auxiliary Basis Set
Authors: Yokogawa Daisuke
Published: January 2019

Dispersion interaction is one of the most important attractive intermolecular interactions. Because the dispersion interaction is always present, even for neutral molecules, and increases as the number of atoms in a molecule increases, accurate calculations with small computational costs are critical, especially for biosystems and condensed phase systems. In this study, we propose a site-site dispersion potential using a geminal auxiliary basis set that is local, isotropic, and free from empirical parameters. Our method correctly reproduced the Symmetry-Adapted Perturbation Theory (SAPT) data for C6 values and the dispersion energy surface between alkanes and alkenes.
Case Report: Three's a crowd: a case report examining the diagnostic and pharmacokinetic challenges in HIV-tuberculous meningitis-malaria co-infection
Authors: Ellis Jayne , Eneh Prosperity C. , Ssebambulidde Kenneth , Rutakingirwa Morris K. , Lamorde Mohammed , Rhein Joshua , Cresswell Fiona V. , Boulware David R. , Nicol Melanie R.
Published: January 2019

In 2016, 10.4 million cases of tuberculosis (TB) were reported globally. Malaria also continues to be a global public health threat. Due to marked epidemiological overlap in the global burden of TB and malaria, co-infection does occur.

An HIV-infected, 32-year-old male presented with a two-week history of headache with fevers to Mulago National Referral Hospital, Uganda. Five months prior, he was diagnosed with pulmonary TB. He endorsed poor adherence to anti-tuberculous medications. Mycobacterium tuberculosis in CSF was confirmed on Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra. On day 2, he was initiated on dexamethasone at 0.4mg/kg/day and induction TB-medications were re-commenced (rifampicin, isoniazid, ethambutol, pyrazinamide) for TBM. He continued to spike high-grade fevers, a peripheral blood smear showed P. falciparum parasites despite a negative malaria rapid diagnostic test (RDT). He received three doses of IV artesunate and then completed 3 days of oral artemether/lumefantrine. To our knowledge this is the first published case of HIV-TBM-malaria co-infection.

TBM/malaria co-infection poses a number of management challenges. Due to potential overlap in symptoms between TBM and malaria, it is important to remain vigilant for co-infection. Access to accurate parasitological diagnostics is essential, as RDT use continues to expand, it is essential that clinicians are aware of the potential for false negative results. Anti-malarial therapeutic options are limited due to important drug-drug interactions (DDIs). Rifampicin is a potent enzyme inducer of several hepatic cytochrome P450 enzymes, this induction results in reduced plasma concentrations of several anti-malarial medications. Despite recognition of potential DDIs between rifampicin and artemisinin compounds, and rifampicin and quinine, no treatment guidelines currently exist for managing patients with co-infection.

There is both an urgent need for the development of new anti-malarial drugs which do not interact with rifampicin and for pharmacokinetic studies to guide dose modification of existing anti-malarial drugs to inform clinical practice guidelines.
CONTENT AND REMOVAL OF MINERAL NUTRITION ELEMENTS OF WINTER TRITICALE DEPENDING ON THE SEEDING NORMS
Authors: Шашкаров Леонид , Shashkarov Leonid , Толстова Светлана , Tolstova Svetlana
Published: January 2019

The article deals with the issues of maintenance and removal of mineral nutrition elements by plants of winter triticale on gray forest soils of the south-eastern part of the Volga-Vyatka zone, depending on the seeding rate and variety. The question of establishing the optimum density of sowing, the area of food for grain crops served as the object of study by many researchers [2,3,4,5,6]. The urgency of the issue of creating optimal sowing density is explained by the fact that the factors that determine the magnitude of the yield are constantly changing. Therefore, the study of patterns of formation of yield and removal of nutrients in connection with seeding rates remains an eternally new research topic. With a good harvest, winter triticale consumes and alienates a large amount of nutrients from the soil. With an increase in the seeding rates, respectively, the removal of mineral nutrients increases, and the seeding rate is important for the formation of a given density of productive stalk and removal of mineral nutrients. In production, these elements of technology are often underestimated and often unjustifiably overestimate the seeding rate, which is not necessary, since the really possible yield is achieved at an optimum seeding rate with minimal seed consumption.
DYNAMICS OF STARTING MACHINES
Authors: Мудров Александр , Mudrov Aleksandr
Published: January 2019

The operation of any machine includes three periods of operation: start and acceleration, steady motion, braking and stopping. During periods of start-up and braking, large dynamic loads occur, adversely affecting the strength of machine elements and the overloading of the drive source. The purpose of the study is to determine the dynamic loads during the start-up of the machine and to find options for reducing them. The mathematical values of dynamic loads are determined by the example of a spatial mixer from rotating elements of the drive. It has been established that the dynamic moments from the rotating elements of the drive are several times greater than those from static loads. Practical methods are shown to reduce these loads using an elastic coupling, removing the coupling from the structure, manufacturing it from composite materials, and increasing the start-up time of the electric motor. The significance of the results obtained for machines using transmissions through couplings consists in a substantial reduction of the influence of dynamic loads during start-up on the elements and source of the drive and an increase in the service life and productivity of the machines as a whole.
ADOPTION OF MANAGEMENT DECISIONS: MECHANISMS AND FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
Authors: Остаев Гамлет , Ostaev Gamlet , Клычова Гузалия , Klychova Guzaliya , Некрасова Елена , Nekrasova Elena
Published: January 2019

In modern agriculture with its own technical needs, it is practically impossible without effective management measures and attraction of borrowed capital. Sustainable development of agriculture, including the plant industry, of course, depends on the technical equipment of agricultural enterprises. The use of financial instruments and management mechanisms is an opportunity for agricultural producers to improve their potentials, including improving and maintaining agricultural equipment at the proper level, since the activity involves the implementation of a large amount of mechanized work in order to produce strategically important products. All this contributes to increasing the efficiency of the production system and provides for the renewal and formation of the technical and technological potential of the plant growing industry, and this in turn leads to the development of the agro-industrial complex as a whole.
DEVELOPMENT OF IMPORT SUBSTITUTION AND EMPLOYMENT OF THE POPULATION IN THE MODERN ECONOMY OF RUSSIA
Authors: Бодрикова Светлана , Bodrikova Svetlana , Клычова Гузалия , Klychova Guzaliya , Бодрикова Александра , Bodrikova Aleksandra
Published: January 2019

The employment of a country’s population depends on many factors and conditions, the main ones being the availability of labor resources, possessing a combination of physical and spiritual (intellectual) abilities allowing work, and the creation of a sufficient number of jobs in all spheres of activity of the national economy. Most of all, the solution to the problem of employment in our country depends on the state of the industrial sphere of activity of all sectors of the national economy (industry, agriculture, etc.), as well as on the required volume of domestic production, the level of supply and demand for it within the country and foreign markets. Therefore, the development of import substitution by our own production of products (production, industrial, equipment, etc.) will contribute to the formation of an expanded reproduction process in organizations and, accordingly, to provide employment for the working population. The article substantiates the theoretical provisions, criteria and factors for the development of import substitution and employment growth. The prerequisites for the success of import substitution, as well as the trends in Russia's export and import capacity of Russia's GDP, the parameters of import dependence and overall foreign economic dependence of Russia, its barriers to the development of import substitution and measures to overcome these barriers are identified.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE METHOD OF OPERATIONAL EVALUATION OF THE WINTER CROPS CONDITION IN THE EARLY CURRENT PERIOD WITH THE APPLICATION OF UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES
Authors: Логинов Николай , Loginov Nikolay , Сабирзянов Алмаз , Sabirzyanov Almaz
Published: January 2019

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for agriculture is an excellent planner and controller for multiple stages of agricultural operations. UAVs cope with monitoring and assessing the quality of land and forecasting future yields, as well as monitoring the condition of crops, processing them faster and with a minimum of costs - the economic benefit of using machines for large agro-industrial holding companies and individual farmers is on the face. The basis for this kind of work to determine the NDVI index is the reflection of solar radiation by agrocenoses, which is related to the amount of chlorophyll in the plant's phytomass. There is a close correlation between these two factors - the larger the phytomass, the higher the reflection of solar radiation.
The article presents some of the results of research on the processing of aerial photographs obtained with UAV Geoscan 201 Agro. According to the results of the analysis of aerial photographs, a method of scoring the state of winter crops in the early spring period is proposed with recommendations for further response to preserve the future harvest in each field.
INFLUENCE OF THE LINKS OF FIELD CROP ROTATION ON THE AGROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF THE SOIL
Authors: Данилец Екатерина , Danilec Ekaterina
Published: January 2019

The influence of the links of field crop rotation on the agrophysical properties of the soil in the zone of unstable moistening is relevant. The practical significance of the study lies in the possibility of using the obtained recommendations by enterprises in the cultivation of crops in order to obtain stable yields in the zone of unstable moisture. The experiment was conducted in the zone of unstable moisture in 2015-2018 on the plots of “Yurchenko” farm. The cultivation of winter wheat in a clean pair, leguminous crops, flax and in re-sowing in the zone of unstable moistening of Stavropol territory is analyzed. A study was conducted of the effect of the links of field crop rotation on the aggregate composition, water resistance and soil moisture. During the years of research, flax as a precursor of winter wheat showed a decrease in the coefficient of soil structure and the formation of a lumpy fraction. Pea is a favorable predecessor that increases the agrophysical properties of the soil. Improving the crop rotation in the “Yurchenko” peasant farm in the Aleksandrovsky district will improve the agrophysical indicators of soil fertility, therefore, to get higher yields and cultivate winter wheat profitably.
The effect of dietary protein levels on body weight gain, carcass production, nitrogen emission, and efficiency of productions related to emissions in thin-tailed lambs
Authors: Prima Ari , Purbowati Endang , Rianto Edy , Purnomoadi Agung
Published: January 2019

Aim: This study was aimed to evaluate dietary crude protein (CP) level on performance of body weight (BW) gain, carcass production, and nitrogen emission on lambs.

Materials and Methods: A total of 12 male thin-tailed lambs (15.2±1.8 kg initial BW and aged 3-4 months) were assigned to completely randomized design for 84-day feeding trial. The animals were divided into three different levels of CP (i.e., 14%, 16%, and 18% with isocaloric diets and 60% total digestible nutrients) with four replications.

Results: Increasing CP level was not significantly affected on average daily gain (ADG), carcass production, N and N2O emissions, and efficiency of emissions related to the productions. The average of ADG, carcass production, meat production, meat protein production, N emission, and N2O emission was 141.4 g, 11.6 kg, 6.8 kg, 0.9 kg, 53.1 g/day, and 0.3 g/day, respectively. The efficiency of ADG, carcass production, meat production, and meat protein related to N emissions were 119.7 g/kg, 4.4 g/kg, 2.5 g/kg, and 56.6 g/kg, respectively, while N2O emissions related to ADG, carcass production, meat production, and meat protein were 2.4 g/kg, 0.027 g/kg, 0.36 g/kg, and 0.34 g/kg, respectively.

Conclusion: It can be concluded that the increase of CP level up to 18% did not affect productivity, N emissions, and efficiency of emissions per unit product because the increase of CP was not balanced by energy content in feed.
Determining effective criteria on sustainable development of fluting paper making industry
Authors: Azizi Majid , Mohebbi Nemat , Azadfallah Mohammad
Published: January 2019

Fluting paper industry seems to be significant from environmental view point. Accordingly, study on sustainable development criteria in this sector of Iran’s industry is regarded as a national necessity. The intent of the current study is to determine and prioritize the indices affecting sustainable development of Iran’s fluting paper industry by benefiting from Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method. After the conducted investigations, 55 indices were identified and categories in eight general groups namely, technical & human, cultural-social, economic, materials & products, rules and regulations, environmental, infrastructure and sale & marketing . Analytical Hierarchy Process was applied in the form of adjusting and distributing questionnaires among professional experts. Results show that the highest priorities for attaining sustainable development in this industry respectively belong to sub-criteria of economic stability increase in the country, a continuous relation between university and industry, privatization, training man force, paper recycling, foreign investment, increasing productivity and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Tax rates effects on the risk level of listed Viet Nam real estate firms during global economic crisis 2007-2009
Authors: Ngoc Huy Dinh Tran
Published: January 2019

The emerging stock market in Viet Nam has been developed since 2006 and affected by the financial crisis 2007-2009. This study analyzes the impacts of tax policy on market risk for the listed firms in the real estate industry as it becomes necessary. First, by using quantitative and analytical methods to estimate asset and equity beta of total 45 listed companies in Viet Nam real estate industry with a proper traditional model, we found out that the beta values, in general, for many institutions are acceptable. Second, under 3 different scenarios of changing tax rates (20%, 25% and 28%), we recognized that there is not large disperse in equity beta values, estimated at 0.750, 0.762 and 0.769. Third, by changing tax rates in 3 scenarios (25%, 20% and 28%), we recognized both equity and asset beta mean values have positive relationship with the increasing levels of tax rate. Finally, this paper provides some outcomes that could provide companies and government more evidence in establishing their policies in governance.
Same river same rules? – Administrative barriers in the Danube countries
Authors: Pfoser Sarah , Jung Eva , Putz Lisa-Maria
Published: January 2019

The Danube River Basin is shared by 19 countries, which makes it the world’s most international river basin. More than 81 million people of different cultures and languages live in the Danube Basin and they all are interconnected through the widely ramified water system of the Danube. The cultural variety is not only a valuable attribute of this region, but it also causes barriers related to the transport of goods and passengers on the Danube waterway and its navigable tributaries. The abundant existence of administrative barriers in Europe limits the economic and environmental potentials of inland waterway transport (IWT) as a sustainable mode of transport. These administrative barriers consist for example in reporting requirements that vary considerably among fairway authorities and Danube countries. Most often, reports or data provided cannot be re-used across countries or is not available requiring additional input or additional reporting activities by the barge operator. The objective of this paper is to identify administrative barriers for IWT on the Danube and develop solutions for improved procedures and processes.
Data is collected from a dense network of stakeholders operating along the Danube. National focus groups were held to analyse the procedures and administrative processes in inland waterway transport and identify barriers. Further, an online-survey has been set up to collect data. Potential solutions are developed in a cooperative way together with involved operators and authorities.
The philosophy of lean administration suggests that non-value added activities (“waste”) must be identified in a first step to make processes more efficient. A diverse number of non-value added administrative barriers were therefore identified in the countries along the Danube. Afterwards, Port Community Systems are introduced as a possible solution to overcome administrative barriers.
Estimation of inter-city travel demand for public road transport in Nigeria
Authors: Dike Declan Ndukauba , Ibe Callistus Chigozie , Ejem Ejem Agwu , Erumaka Onyinyechi , Chukwu Oluchi Ebere
Published: January 2019

This paper models an intercity travel demand which uses the principal structural variables that have been identified in the literature. This research develops an urban public travel demand model for 19 directional O-D city-pair network originating from Owerri Urban. Using revealed preference data from the period of 2014 to 2016 which was filtered into 207 observations operated by the 16 transport companies in Owerri, Imo State. The empirical analysis explicitly modelled the pattern of correlations among service variables by a log-linear model using OLS. The estimates yield better demand elasticities than those of direct linear models. Other empirical findings include that; overall fares elasticities are low, so that increases in fare levels will almost always lead to increases in revenue. However, it is possible for any would-be operator determine the expected patronage on any route of operation using the derived models from this paper. Thus this paper has come up with empirical model to assess the viability of intercity passenger transport operation in Nigeria. However, it will also help the operators in business to do a sensitivity analysis based of changes in the intercity passenger travel markets in Nigeria.
“Introduzione” au numéro 1 de Mnemosyne.
Authors: Barbalato Beatrice
Published: January 2019

«  Je ne suis pas une source »  ha scritto Philippe Lejeune . Questa affermazione costituisce la linea portante della rivista Mnemosyne, un luogo dove riflettere in modo interdisciplinare sui documenti autobiografici non considerandoli solo come materiale utile per storici, antropologi, linguisti, ma come testi a parte intera. Per perseguire questo progetto la nostra attenzione si rivolge alla maniera con la quale un documento autobiografico sia strutturalmente congegnato.
Vittorino e Susane, i figli di nessuno.
Authors: SEBBEN Vania
Published: January 2019

Storie di due emigrati bellunesi in Belgio nel secondo dopoguerra in cerca di rivalsa : codici diversi, sguardi diversi, medesimo sradicamento.
teatralizzazione dell’io, Narciso sul web.
Authors: Barbalato Beatrice
Published: January 2019

«’Cosa succede – scrive nel suo blog Vincent Olivier - digitando il mio nome su un motore di ricerca?’ Se non appare nulla, non esisto. Se ciò che appare è costituito dalle mie tracce numeriche (partecipazione a un colloquio, pubblicazione, firma di una petizione in linea...) il rischio è grande, perché questi dati possono dare un’immagine non conforme a quella che desidero. Da qui l’imperativo sempre più pressante di una gestione della mia extimité, concetto lacaniano mi dicono». http://lewebpedagogique.vincent/com/mon-extimite-sur-internet/, 19 gennaio 2007.
Michel Tournier definisce il blog autobiografico Journal extime, cioè un diario personale sottoposto al vaglio altrui. Il termine ‘extime’, è un neologismo di Jacques Lacan, ripreso da Jacques-Alain Miller, sta ad indicare ciò che l’io spera di trovare fuori di sé stesso nel campo dell’Altro (1969): l’«extime, conjoignant l’intime à la radicale extériorité ». Un concetto che precede la nascita dei blogs, ai quali questo termine si adatta perfettamente. Il blog mette in luce ed estremizza un aspetto che nei diari personali resta implicito: l’attesa e il fantasma di un lettore che interagisca con lo scrivente.
costruzione dell’ Etos nell’imposizione di scrittura autobiografica in seno alla costellazione familiare.
Authors: Meurice Francine
Published: January 2019

Deux constats semblent s’imposer au terme de cette analyse – non exhaustive – de la construction de l’éthos au sein de la constellation familiale : l’incidence, sur la réception des textes autobiographiques du dispositif communicationnel de l’APA et des ateliers d’écriture et l’incidence, sur la textualisation du récit autobiographique, de la médiation du déposant qui rend les frontières entre texte et paratexte moins étanches. Dans certains cas, la lisibilité autobiographique du texte livré aux archives du patrimoine autobiographique n’est possible qu’au prix de cette mise en scène inhérente au geste d’alimenter ce patrimoine autobiographique.
Intervista a Luciano Cifaldi
Authors: Meliciani Alessandro
Published: January 2019

L’intervista permette a Luciano Cifaldi di raccontare come è nata la sua passione per il restauro.
Nato in un piccolo paese della Daunia Irpinia, Montaguto in provincia d’Avellino, pur non avendo seguito un apprendimento specifico, recatosi giovane a Firenze per lavorare in una falegnameria, viene impressionato dalla cura dei volontari accorsi per l’alluvione a Firenze per salvare il salvabile: libri, mobili, quadri. Comprende in quella occasione il valore dell’arte e dell’artigianato e dell’importanza della sua conservazione.
Espatriata
Authors: Frau Ombretta
Published: January 2019

Il titolo che Mantea scelse per l’edizione del suo diario hawaiiano, Espatriata: da Torino a Honolulu, racchiude una duplice funzione: da una parte, il sostantivo ‘espatriata’ rimanda alla dimensione privata dell’autrice, all’angoscia legata all’abbandono della terra natale e al senso di solitudine provocato da un esilio quasi forzato; d’altra parte l’inciso ‘da Torino a Honolulu’ svela un altro volto del libro, la sua dimensione pubblica, rappresentata dal viaggio straordinario che porterà Mantea attraverso l’Europa, gli Oceani e l’America del Nord in una terra remota e quasi completamente ignota al viaggiatore (e al lettore) italiano dell’epoca.
Cesure e continuità nelle autobiografie ‘armate’ in Italia
Authors: De Sabbata Lorenzo
Published: January 2019

Questo articolo nasce da una lettura problematizzata di due scritti autobiografici prodotti da ex-militanti di organizzazioni armate di sinistra attive in Italia durante gli ‘anni di piombo’. Attraverso questi dispositivi letterari, gli ex-militanti intervengono in un processo di memorializzazione pubblica stratificato e corale. Prendendo posizione in un ‘dialogo’ con altre raffigurazioni - memorialistiche, giornalistiche e scientifiche - questi ex militanti (ri)producono rappresentazioni esistenziali, storiche e politiche della propria traiettoria personale e di quella dell’organizzazione di appartenenza.

L’obiettivo di questo articolo è di analizzare come i diversi autori abbiano individuato, narrativamente svelato e contestualizzato i punti di rottura e di continuità delle loro esperienze, concentrandosi in particolare sull’allontanamento dalla strategia armata. Se, in entrambi i casi, questo è descritto come un processo, l’analisi si concentra sulle diverse scelte evenemenziali che lo scandiscono temporalmente e sulla loro articolazione sul piano pubblico e personale.
“You” Reconstructing the Past
Authors: Schoenberger Christina
Published: January 2019

Autobiographical writing has been an integral part of literary research for decades. Which innovations does contemporary life writing contribute to the narration of the past? This paper focuses on the impact of narratological characteristics on the reconstruction of memory and self in Paul Auster’s Winter Journal (2012), an innovative autobiographical work which deviates from traditional life writing in that it is written in the second person. Considering Lejeune’s and Genette’s takes on second-person autobiography, this paper examines how the narrative situation in Winter Journal shapes subjectivity and temporality. As both protagonist and observer, the narratee oscillates between a distanced state of (critical) self-reflection and intimacy. This paper argues that by « reliving » the past through a dynamic dialogue with the self and the simultaneously addressed reader, the appellative function and the predominant use of the present tense enable a telescopic encounter with the past.
Indicible ravissement – une vie (Comment écrire ?)
Authors: Viennet Denis
Published: January 2019

Ces quelques notes de lecture traversent trois champs principaux : la philosophie (Badiou, Wittgenstein), la psychanalyse (Laplanche) et la littérature (Mandelshtam, Proust, Thoreau). L’hypothèse vers laquelle elles tendent est que la philosophie n’est pas discernable de la vie. L’existence ne peut ni se dire ni se taire, elle s’écrit. Elle est plus que peuvent les langues. L’art commence à partir d’une expérience sensible, un sentiment où l’on entrevoit comment le langage est peu, au regard de ce qui le dépasse. L’inscription artistique cherche à se tenir au moment de naissance de la sensation, sans bavarder, s’aventurant à en traduire les signes presque invisibles de béance.
Testimonianze, racconti di sé, memorie
Authors: Barbalato Beatrice
Published: January 2019

Il n. 2 di Mnemosyne tratta da differenti punti di vista disciplinari quanto il non-detto, i silenzi, le assenze siano significanti all’interno di un testo sia esso scritto, orale, iconografico.
L’analisi dei graffiti di prigionieri franchisti, ad esempio, nel campo di detenzione Camposancos fa comprendere come molte informazioni siano omesse in questi graffiti, per impedire di identificare la propria famiglia il proprio entourage. E se nel luogo di prigionia tutto viene operato per creare un clima domestico, ogni rinvio concreto vi è negato.
Cosa ha voluto indagare questa monografia ? Ha sostenuto che l’interprete gioca un ruolo importantissimo nel poter decodificare i significati espressi e quelli più nascosti in ogni atto non esplicitato di scrittura autobiografica.
teatralizzazione della memoria.
Authors: Barbalato Beatrice
Published: January 2019

Celebrare, ritualizzare il passato spesso svuota di senso l’atto di ricordare. Facendo ricorso ad antiche tecniche di trasmissione orale Ascanio Celestini declina dei fatti verificabili, ‘oggettivi’ con l’interpretazione che degli stessi eventi la gente ha elaborato. Celestini, unico interprete in scena, trasforma il suo monologo in struttura drammaturgica: reiterando i temi della narrazione in una spirale discorsiva, creando un dialogo immaginario col fingere di parlare con un altro, e introducendo degli handicap che, inceppando la narrazione, sottolineano dei punti chiave. Inoltre l’uso stravolto di immagini correnti fa rivisitare il senso comune delle parole (vorrei che fosse sbranato dalle lumache, merda cosmica, ecc.). Celestini ricorrendo ad un vasto serbatioio di sapere condiviso e posizionandolo in una prospettiva di deautomatizazione interpretativa, allerta il pubblico a non assopirsi, l’accentuando ironicamente versioni scontate di eventi sociali e storici.
Tra romanzo e autobiografia
Authors: Santoro Elisabetta
Published: January 2019

Si intitola madrelingua (Besa Editore, 2005) l’ultimo romanzo pubblicato da Julio Monteiro Martins, uno scrittore brasiliano che vive e scrive in Italia e in italiano. Oltre ai personaggi che danno vita al romanzo, entrano in scena nel libro un primo e un secondo narratore. Quest’ultimo compare sempre tra parentesi quadre e fa commenti in prima persona che per molti aspetti ricordano dati biografici dello scrittore, ‘confondendo’ in tal modo il lettore che finisce per non sapere chi sta parlando e per
sovrapporre la figura di questo secondo narratore e quella dell’autore. In questo testo ci proponiamo di riflettere sul significato che una tale scelta può avere da un punto di vista ‘autobiografico’, visto che l’io si rivela e si nasconde e che una tenue linea separa e, al tempo stesso, permette um attraversamento che offre la possibilità di andare oltre i confini di un solo genere letterario.
interpretação do ilegível e do ininteligível na edição da correspondência privada
Authors: Tavares Leonor , Gomes Mariana , Guilherme Ana
Published: January 2019

O projecto CARDS é um instrumento para investigação tanto em Linguística como em História, que tornará acessível um arquivo em linha de cartas portuguesas es-critas entre meados do século XVI e o final do XIX. Os documentos-fonte são cartas originais privadas escritas por falantes de todos contextos sociais (incluindo falantes populares) e os temas mais comuns são os da família, amor, amizade, extorsão e política. Este artigo apresenta uma breve sinopse do projecto, o seu método de edição e as suas ferramentas, juntamente com uma reflexão sobre os desafios encontrados pelos investigadores quando trabalham na edição da escrita privada, sempre incompleta sob um ponto de vista informacional.
Tra il dire e il non dire
Authors: Pelillo-Hestermeyer Giulia
Published: January 2019

Lo studio muove dalla descrizione della zona d’ombra compresa tra il detto e il non detto, ossia dallo spazio occupato dall’implicito in un corpus di lettere della Missione Cattolica Italiana di Mannheim, nella Germania meridionale. In contrasto con lo stile ‘semplice’, che si propone di coinvolgere il destinatario, è l’analisi del significato implicito che rivela squarci di quotidianità, problemi della comunità, e la percezione dell’identità della Missione nel contesto socio-culturale tedesco. La descrizione delle strategie comunicative impiegate nelle lettere testimonia inoltre la diffusione, anche nella lingua della predicazione, di una nuova forma di semplicità linguistica che, superato il conflitto fra italiano e dialetto, fa dell’espressività il proprio mezzo stilistico privilegiato, senza distinzione tra oralità e scrittura.
«Mon frère François, il habitait à Ménilmontant»
Authors: Patrizio Marie-Ange
Published: January 2019

Cet article n'est pas disponible au téléchargement en raison du refus de publication de l'auteur en open access

Il est toutefois disponible à la commande au format papier dans la version complète de la revue sur le site des Presses universitaires de Louvain
Théâtre otobiographique*. Entendre le récit de soi sur les scènes au XXe siècle
Authors: Saraczynska Maja
Published: January 2019

À partir des théories d’Antonin Artaud, en passant par la mise en scène directe de Tadeusz Kantor et par le récit de soi d’Evguéni Grichkovets, jusqu’aux adaptations scéniques (Vis au long de la vie de Michèle Albo)… Autant d’exemples pour illustrer le phénomène paradoxal du théâtre autobiographique. Mon étude s’interrogera sur la place de l’oralité, de la voix du comédien et de l’ouïe du spectateur, de la musique et des effets sonores dans les spectacles réalisés à l’ère du théâtre visuel caractérisé par le rôle prépondérant de l’image. Je m’intéresserai à cet espace scénique particulier afin de démontrer l'impact des éléments sonores (voix, enregistrements, musique, sons, amplifications, figures de style, choralité, silence), sur la création d'un spectacle autobiographique, sur l’importance de la mémoire sensorielle (auditive), ainsi que sur le rôle que jouent des souvenirs sonores dans la reconstitution de l’histoire (personnelle et générale) sur scène.
Il destino di Medea tra Euripide e Alvaro
Authors: Mesirca Margherita
Published: January 2019

Cet article n'est pas disponible au téléchargement en raison du refus de publication de l'auteur en open access

Il est toutefois disponible à la commande au format papier dans la version complète de la revue sur le site des Presses universitaires de Louvain
La figura di ribelle, ‘un ribelle-modello’ in base alle autobiografie e memorie risorgimentali.
Authors: Tylusińska-Kowalska Anna
Published: January 2019

Nel primo Ottocento si nasceva ribelli, come afferma Giuseppe Ricciardi nella sua autobiografia Memorie di un ribelle, si ovunque, e la conseguenza di essere ribelli era carcere o esilio per chi era più fortunato. Il saggio mette a fuoco le figure di giovani ribelli, alcuni carbonari, altri affiliati alla ‘Giovine Italia’, altri ancora ‘cospiratori indipendenti’, che nel ‘primo Risorgimento’ diedero l’importante contributo alla lotta per l’indipendenza e per l’identità nazionale. Saranno tra di essi figure meno note, eppure senza di loro non si sarebbe compiuta la grande opera risorgimentale. Si sottopone ad un’analisi il loro atteggiamento verso la realtà in cui vissero, i loro ideali, le loro speranze per dipingere un ritratto del ‘ribelle-modello’ dando uno sguardo ai modi espressivi che adoperarono. Grazie alle autobiografie e memorie lasciate ai posteri, oggi possiamo ricostruire e commemorare al contempo le varie fasi del faticoso eppur vincente cammino italiano verso la libertà.
The role of scientific language in Philip Pulman’s ‘His Dark Materials’
Authors: Bonomo Annalisa
Published: January 2019

Philip Pullman’s epic is a ‘dark matter’ made up of religious and scientific underpinnings which challenge his readers’ knowledge of the world, making them ‘intellectually adventurous’.

Although scientific language seems to sound uncomfortable to his younger readers, he builds on myth and physics a new dimension of « stark realism dealing with matters that might normally be encountered in works of realism, such as adolescence, sexuality, and so on; and they are the main subject matter of the story - the fantasy is there to support and embody them, not for its own sake ».

Pullman’s heroes (Lyra, Lord Asriel, Mrs Coulter and Mary Malone) are all scientists involved in a new political opinion of the world and in the role to be played in a universe which seems to be ‘probabilistic’.
La costruzione dell’identità dello scienziato nel graphic novel.
Authors: Greco Cristina
Published: January 2019

Negli ultimi anni si è assistito allo sviluppo di una produzione di graphic novel sempre più attenta alle narrazioni del sé e al fumetto come luogo di valorizzazione della memoria individuale e collettiva. In Logicomix, che racconta la storia di Bertrand Russell, la costruzione dell’identità dello scienziato si fonda su una forma di narrazione a metà strada tra finzione autobiografica e racconto biografico. La prospettiva semiotica ci ha permesso di indagare le modalità di costruzione dell’Io dello scienziato adoperate dal testo. Emerge in maniera significativa il rinvio alla dimensione di affettività del soggetto narrativo, che si intreccia al tema della ricerca della verità, tra genio e follia. Si potrebbe parlare, allora, di una fusione tra romanzo biografico e autobiografico, tra documento e finzione, tra passato e presente. Il testo sembrerebbe, dunque, in grado di produrre nuovi ambiti di senso e, per mezzo del dispositivo dell’immaginazione, ridefinire significati già noti.
Ion Vianu’s Autobiographical Account.
Authors: Popa Catrinel Mădălina
Published: January 2019

Ion Vianu (b.1934, Bucarest), Romanian psychiatrist and writer, son of a famous professor of comparative literature (Tudor Vianu), becomes recognized also for his positions against the communist authorities’ attempt of using psychiatry as a political weapon. In 1977 he chooses the path of exile, continuing his psychiatric research and practice in the Western world (Switzerland). Starting from the assumption that our scholar represents a paradigmatic example of what may be called an “in-between” identity, this paper intends to analyse the image(s) that the narrator gives of himself through a discourse which continuously tries to harmonize memory and forgetfulness, testimony and evidence, authenticity and rhetorical devices.
L’ écriture autobiographique de Charles Juliet
Authors: Rakotobe D’Alberto Noro
Published: January 2019

Charles Juliet découvre à sept ans qu’il est un enfant adopté. Il a une autre mère dont il ne verra jamais le visage. Il en a été séparé à l’âge de trois mois et elle meurt avant qu’il ne puisse jamais la revoir. Il ne verra que son cercueil lors de l’enterrement et ultérieurement, on lui montrera des photographies. Les premières failles dont rendent compte des œuvres comme Lambeaux ou La Fracture proviennent de cette rupture première avec la mère. De nombreuses questions vouées à rester sans réponse en découlent. Chaque question est vécue comme une déchirure. C’est l’écriture autobiographique qui est chargée de faire renaître la mère. Cette accession à une parole propre, à la reconstruction et à la reconquête imaginaire de l’origine fait de Juliet un écrivain. Accoucher de la mère le fait naître à son tour puisqu’il engendre une œuvre centrée autour de cette quête de l’absente insaisissable. Cette production marquée par la fragmentation et le désir du neutre se caractérise par sa modernité.
Genèse du roman « Bubelè »
Authors: Nysenholc Adolphe
Published: January 2019

L’autobiographie, Bubelè l’enfant à l’ombre, a été écrite dans une intertextualité plus ou moins consciente. Le titre se réfère à celui du film « L’enfant au ballon rouge.» Je me souviens par ailleurs du déclic d’idées. Celle de l’ombre, dont la métaphore rythme le livre, m’est venue, …à l’ombre de Notre-Dame de Paris, où je m’étais assis dans le square. De fait, ce roman, commencé en 1980 et terminé en 2007, est une synthèse de quasi tous mes écrits. Ainsi mon premier essai, L’âge d’or du comique (1979), où je montre que Chaplin exploite la petite enfance pour faire rire, sera un galop d’essai avant la rédaction du roman sur ma propre enfance.

Mais l’événement déclencheur de tout le processus de composition sera la mort de mes sauveurs. C’était à moi à les sauver. Le travail d’écriture pour les rendre vivants se fera comme le travail de rêve, avec sa part d’inconnu.
Nascita e sviluppo di un’idea
Authors: Benelli Caterina
Published: January 2019

L’obiettivo dell’articolo è di rintracciare la valenza formativa dei laboratori autobiografici e promuovere la cultura della memoria e dell’autobiografia in carcere: contesto di storie difficili che necessitano, sempre più e con maggiore attenzione, di essere ascoltate e comprese attraverso proposte di percorsi formative sempre più mirate ai nuovi bisogni. D’altra parte anche l’Ordinamento penitenziario raccomanda l’inclusione del detenuto in percorsi trattamentali in carcere finalizzati ad un migliore reinserimento sociale. Ed è per questo che, all’interno del Piano pedagogico degli Istituti penitenziari sono sempre più presenti laboratori autobiografici che permettono ai partecipanti di ripercorrere la propria vicenda esistenziale,di riflettere su di sé per una ri-progettazione in vista del «fine pena» e con l’accompagnamento di esperti in metodologie autobiografiche.