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Carbono azul almacenado en los bosques de manglar del Pacífico Norte de Nicaragua
Authors: González-Quiroz Oscar , Vanegas Manuel , Cerda Eugenia , Lezama Melvin , Dolmus Claudia , Quiroz Issamar , Paz María , Solís Carlos , Blanco Eleazar , Pérez Marling
Published: September 2024

El manglar se encuentra entre los ecosistemas más importantes del planeta, debido a los múltiples bienes y servicios ecosistémicos que brindan. El objetivo de esta investigación es determinar la cantidad de carbono azul almacenado en los bosques de manglar del Pacífico Norte de Nicaragua. Se establecieron 178 parcela en seis sistemas de manglar (Puerto Sandino, Reserva Natural Isla Juan Venado, Corinto, Aserradores, Reserva Natural Padre Ramos y Potosí). Se registró la diversidad, abundancia, altura total y diámetro a la altura del pecho. Posteriormente se calculó la biomasa aérea y biomasa subterránea, así como el carbono orgánico almacenado en el suelo a través de la técnica volumétrica. Se descargaron imágenes satelitales del sensor Sentinel 2B (15 m x 15 m) para calcular el índice de vegetación de diferencia normalizada. Con la biomasa total y el índice de vegetación de diferencia normalizada, se realizó una regresión exponencial, a partir del cual se crearon los mapas de carbono azul al multiplicar el resultado por el factor de conversión 0.475. Al resultado se sumó el valor del carbono azul almacenado en el suelo. La especie con mayor abundancia fue Rhizophora spp, a excepción de la Isla Juan Venado en la que prevaleció Avicennia germinans, y Laguncularia racemosa en Potosí. La mayor altura y el diámetro a la altura del pecho se identificaron en la zona de Potosí, seguida de la Isla Juan Venado. Hay diferencias significativas (p<0.05) entre las alturas de las cinco especies registradas. En los seis sistemas estudiados se identificaron 20 810.6 ha de manglar. Potosí presentó el valor más alto de biomasa total con 220.9 Mg ha-1. El sumidero de carbono total para el Pacífico Norte de Nicaragua es de 3 254 613.1 Mg C (mega gramos de carbono). Anualmente el manglar de la zona de estudio tiene el potencial de capturar aproximadamente 104 052 8 Mg C.
Examining the Effectiveness of Teaching Vietnamese Language among Ethnic Minority Primary Students in Son La Province
Authors:   The University of Architecture HCMC, Vietnam, Triet Nguyen Minh
Published: September 2024

The Vietnamese language is the common language of different ethnic groups and also it is the official language used in the education sector. The development of the language skills of ethnic minority children is a fundamental issue in the development of education in ethnic regions. The main research question is; how effective are the current strategies in teaching the Vietnamese language to the ethnic minority primary students in Son La province? The methods used are collecting secondary documents, analyzing, and evaluating the situation. Data from the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years show that ethnic minority students in primary schools in Son La province still face certain limitations in language proficiency when learning Vietnamese. The level of Vietnamese usage among ethnic minority students outside the classroom is 45%, and at home is only 5%. Based on the current situation, this article aims to propose some solutions to help ethnic minority primary school students in Son La province overcome language barriers, especially in light of the new requirements of the 2025 General Education Program, and to provide educators and teachers with guidance on building and selecting content as well as teaching methods that are more suitable for learners. Keywords: Ethnic Minorities, Primary Students, Language Barrier, General Education Program, Vietnamese Language, Son La Province.
APURAÇÃO DE HAVERES
Authors: Santos Vera Lorena de Barros Santos , Antunes Jerônimo
Published: September 2024

A apuração de haveres é necessária em processos judiciais de dissolução de sociedades para chegar ao valor a que cada sócio tem direito. Estudos da área indicam uma falta de padronização dos procedimentos empregados nas suas diversas etapas, dentre elas, a avaliação de empresas. Neste ponto, a literatura indica o uso da avaliação patrimonial ou da avaliação econômica de empresas, no entanto, não elucida detalhadamente os métodos aplicados pelos peritos para a apuração do goodwill, também conhecido como a parte intangível do fundo de comércio. Desse modo, este artigo buscou responder quais os métodos de avaliação de empresas adotados pelos peritos judiciais na apuração de haveres em processos de dissolução de sociedades. Para tanto, foi realizado um estudo de caso a partir de uma amostra de cinco processos judiciais iniciados entre os anos 2016 e 2018, em trâmite pelo TJSP. Como resultado, apenas um dos casos adotou a avaliação patrimonial em consonância com a sentença. Três dos cinco casos avaliaram economicamente as empresas a partir do método proposto por Pellegrino e Martins (1974) para apuração da parte intangível do fundo de comércio. O caso remanescente não adotou qualquer método conhecido de avaliação. Ressalta?se que a utilização do método proposto por Pellegrino e Martins (1974) implica no não atendimento ao conceito da parte intangível do fundo de comércio, ou goodwill, conforme criticado por Eliseu Martins (1990). Adicionalmente, em dois dos casos, os peritos utilizaram o termo “fluxo de caixa descontado”, porém, sem aplicar os procedimentos abordados na obra de referência sobre o tema, de Damodaran (2007), resultando em uma importante imprecisão conceitual. Os achados sugerem a necessidade de se aprofundar as discussões referentes aos métodos mais adequados para a avaliação econômica de empresas em contexto de litígio, considerando as incorreções e imprecisões de conceitos encontradas.
Prognósticos sobre o GECON para a Contabilidade Gerencial
Authors: Borges Filho Jaildo Sobreira , Carvalho Nunes Paulo Roberto de , Rodrigues Rubens
Published: September 2024

Este artigo analisa os prognósticos dos especialistas do Modelo de Gestão Econômica (GECON) e sua contribuição ao desenvolvimento da Contabilidade Gerencial. Com uma abordagem qualitativa e exploratória, realizou-se entrevistas semiestruturadas com professores, vinculados a programas de pós-graduação, que publicaram estudos sobre o GECON. Dentre os achados, está o reconhecimento da sua sólida fundamentação conceitual, sinalizando avanços na contabilidade, considerando-o como o mais apropriado para gestão das organizações, entretanto novas pesquisas deveriam ser realizadas para a identificação das necessidades de atualização do GECON às características atuais dos modelos de negócios. Reforçam o entendimento da sua aplicabilidade nas organizações, diante dos novos recursos tecnológicos existentes, mas também chamam atenção às restrições culturais, alimentadas pela formação de novos profissionais ainda focada na Contabilidade Financeira e do uso desta, pelas empresas, para fins gerenciais, mas sua retomada à pesquisa dependeria da ação de agentes de mudança, como a academia e grandes consultorias.
MAPPING THE COPOLYMER RESEARCH KNOWLEDGE DOMAIN IN LUNG CANCER
Authors:   Chitkara University School of Pharmacy, Chitkara University, Baddi, 174 103, Himachal Pradesh, India, Kumar Jatin , Singh Gurmeet ,   Chitkara Business School, Chitkara University, Rajpura - 140 401, Punjab, India
Published: September 2024

The present study examined current research trends on copolymers’ role in lung cancer by using bibliometric analysis and to identify the areas for further research. Through the use of the Scopus database, this study gathered 736 records that were published between 1974 and 2023. Based on the research findings, block copolymers emerged as a distinctive approach for the treatment of lung cancer and various other malignancies. However, since 1974, this industry has grown rapidly. No bibliometric studies have been done on this topic to analyse the research landscape and indicate research trends and hotspots. VOSviewer was used for bibliometric analysis and visualisation. Over the last 49 years, the results of the yearly publication and citation demonstrated substantial growing tendencies across the period. The United States of America and China have been the primary driving forces in this sector, and this has contributed to the total number of publications.
Appraisal of the Flooding Behaviour of Rotating Packed Beds
Authors: Garba Usman , ROUZINEAU David , Meyer Michel
Published: September 2024

Rotating packed beds (RPBs) enhances mass transfer processes because a centrifugal force which is several -times greater than gravity is used as the driving force. The complexity of fluid flow across  RPBs has made predicting and accurately determining their hydrodynamic behaviours difficult. The flooding point as a hydrodynamic characteristic is essential for the accurate design and scale-up of RPBs. However, variations in flooding point definitions and methodologies across the literature highlight the need for standardized approaches in studying RPB flooding phenomena. This study compared four approaches based on pressure drop fluctuations and the volume of liquid ejected from the RPB to determine the onset of flooding in RPBs using experimental results from a pilot-scale counter-current RPB. For rotational speeds of 300 -1500 rpm, gas flow rate of 100-300 Nm3/h, and liquid flow rates of 0.39-0.75 m3/h, the pressure drop varied from 314 to 2,100 Pa. Quantitative comparisons of the results based on different flooding point definitions showed wide variations with the values of the pressure drop at the onset of flooding differing by as much as 325 %. A quantitative approach based on virtual observations and the ejection of 8 % of the total liquid flow rate from the rotor’s eye is proposed as the standard method for identifying the onset of flooding in RPBs.
Low and High Gas Tungsten Arc Welding Heat Inputs Influence on Corrosion of Stainless Steel Weldments
Authors: Kutelu Bolarinwa Johnson , Oyetunji Akinlabi , Oloruntoba Daniel Toyin
Published: September 2024

In this study, influence of low and high heat inputs on corrosion susceptibility of 304L austenitic stainless steel (ASS) in simulated 0.5 molar solution of NaCl was investigated. Gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) was used to generate low and high levels welding heat input. Microstructures of the weldments were examined, using metallurgical optical microscope (OMM) (Olympus GX51), while the corrosion behaviours were evaluated by potentiodynamic polarization tests, and corrosion data were recorded, using a computer-based data logging system – Autolab PGSTAT 204N. From the results, the evolving microstructures of the weldments before corrosion were characteristically heterogeneous; austenite (γ) was the leading phase, while ferrite (α) grains were dispersed within the γ matrix. Fusion zone (FZ) and heat affected zone (HAZ) microstructures after corrosion were characterised by pits of varying sizes with different alignments. And at GTAW speed, current and voltage of 7.2 mm/s, 200A  and 40V, corresponding to low heat inputs, there were few number and size of pits relative to 1.7 mm/s, 200A and 40V, corresponding to high heat input. Shift in corrosion potentials (Ecorr) toward less negative direction, that is more nobility was observed at the low heat inputs induced GTAW parameters as compared to the corresponding high heat inputs induced GTAW parameters. In general,  corrosion susceptibility of 304L ASS in the simulated  0.5 molar solution of NaCl was heightened at high heat inputs induced GTAW parameters as compared to the corresponding low heat inputs parameters.
Design and Finite Element Analysis of a Thresher for Palm Oil (Elaies guineensis) Extraction Plant
Authors: Itabiyi Olukunle Elijah , Adeleke Kehinde Monsuru , Akangbe Samson Ayorinde , Ojetoye Abiodun Ayodeji , Buhari Fatai Ayofe
Published: September 2024

This study presents the design and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) of a thresher used in palm oil (Elaeis guineensis) extraction plants. The FEA was performed to ensure safe and cost effective of the thresher before fabrication. The analytical design of the threshing shaft and drum of the thresher was validated using SolidWorks (2021) CAD software for static simulation, employing plain carbon steel as the material. For the threshing shaft, forces of  and  were applied at strategic points, resulting in a maximum bending stress of   , significantly below the yield strength of . The shaft's diameter of 50 mm was confirmed as adequate with a factor of safety (FOS) ranging from 3.17 to 142.42, validating the shaft design's safety for fabrication. Similarly, the drum unit, supported by a spider arm and cylindrical bars, was subjected to an equivalent twisting moment of 861.25 Nm and a batch weight of 1226.25 N. The maximum von Mises stress of   was well within safe limits, indicating robustness under operational loads. The maximum resultant displacement and equivalent strain were  respectively which can be said to be minimal, reinforcing the drum's structural integrity. A minimum FOS of 20.45 further highlighted the drum's durability and resistance to fatigue. These results confirm the reliability and safety of the designed thresher components, ensuring efficient and sustainable palm oil extraction.
Evaluating the Ethical Practices in Developing AI and Ml Systems in Tanzania
Authors: Kumbo Lazaro Inon , Nkwera Victor Simon , Mero Rodrick Frank
Published: September 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) present transformative opportunities for sectors in developing countries like Tanzania that were previously hindered by manual processes and data inefficiencies. Despite these advancements, the ethical challenges of bias, fairness, transparency, privacy, and accountability are critical during AI and ML system design and deployment. This study explores these ethical dimensions from the perspective of Tanzanian IT professionals, given the country's nascent AI landscape. The research aims to understand and address these challenges using a mixed-method approach, including case studies, a systematic literature review, and critical analysis. Findings reveal significant concerns about algorithm bias, the complexity of ensuring fairness and equity, transparency and explainability, which are crucial for promoting trust and understanding among users, and heightened privacy and security risks. The study underscores the importance of integrating ethical considerations throughout the development lifecycle of AI and ML systems and the necessity of robust regulatory frameworks. Recommendations include developing targeted regulatory guidelines, providing comprehensive training for IT professionals, and fostering public trust through transparency and accountability. This study underscores the importance of ethical AI and ML practices to ensure responsible and equitable technological development in Tanzania.
IMPLEMENTASI MANAJEMEN KEUANGAN SYARIAH PADA PONDOK PESANTREN MUSLIMAH SEJATI
Authors: Apriyanti Riyka , Billah Wahidin Musta'in
Published: September 2024

Pondok Pesantren Muslimah Sejati, as an Islamic educational institution, seeks to implement sharia financial management. This study aims to identify the challenges faced in the implementation. This research analyzes the internal and external factors that influence the implementation of sharia principles in the financial management of Islamic boarding schools. The results of the study are expected to provide recommendations for solutions to overcome existing obstacles and improve the effectiveness of the implementation of Islamic financial management. This research method uses qualitative research methods that produce data that cannot be achieved using statistical procedures. The type of research is descriptive qualitative, where the data generated are descriptions and images. The result of this study indicates that by implementing good financial practices, the boarding school can ensure that all educational and operational activities run smoothly, resources are used efficiently, and the goals of the boarding school are achieved.
Biofortification-enabled strategies to mitigate the challenges of malnutrition
Authors: Muhammad Adeel Hassan
Published: September 2024

Scientific and technological intervention have significantly contributed to global food security, especially due to the enabling technologies during the so-called Green-revolution era. However, ending all kinds of hunger poses a daunting challenge to fulfill the food and nutritional demands of the ever-growing human population. Hidden hunger also referred as malnutrition is very common problem in the developing countries in Sub-Sahara Africa and South Asia. Consistent with malnutrition, an associated challenge is to improve the health-benefits of food crops to overcome the problems of obesity, type II diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and some types of cancer by developing functional foods. Biofortification of food crops, especially staple crops like rice, wheat and maize by using innovative genomics and breeding technologies should be given priority to overcome this formidable challenge.
Effect of Shell Cover Color on Solar Absorptance and Environmental Heating of Cricket Helmets: A Pilot Study
Authors: F Rowe Michael
Published: September 2024

The objective of this pilot study was to quantify and describe the effect of shell cover color on solar absorptance, a1 (%; mean ± SD) and the temperature of the cricket helmet shell covers, Thsc (°C; mean ± SD) during exposure to a hot outdoor environment (WBGT 32.5 ± 1.9 °C; ACSM Heat Index Black; Extreme Danger STOP). We measured and recorded a1 in yellow, red and black cricket helmets using a micro-solarimeter. Thermographic imaging was used to quantify differential Thsc . Variations in shell cover color had a statistically significant (p<0.0002) 2-fold effect on a1 . At the end of 30-minute trials, variations in color and a1 resulted in 3.6 to 6.0 °C difference in Thsc between helmets. Although speculative, the color of cricket helmet shell covers may have a functionally significant effect of exertional heat illnesses, EHIs (ranging from dehydration to heat stroke). Incorporating reflective nanocomposites particles into the material used in the construction of the Lycra® shell covers and XENOY™ shells may facilitate passive cooling of cricket helmets and ultimately reduce EHIs.
Research Progress in Preparation and Modification Strategies of Graphitic Carbon Nitride for Efficient Photocatalysis: A Mini Review
Authors: Liu Shikai
Published: September 2024

With the acceleration of industrialization, energy shortage and environmental pollution are becoming more and more serious. It is urgent to develop green and sustainable new energy. Photocatalytic technology, especially the use of solar energy to convert chemical energy, has attracted much attention due to its environmental friendliness and sustainability. As an excellent photocatalyst, graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3 N4 ) has emerged rapidly in the field of photocatalysis due to its low cost, simple preparation and nontoxicity. However, g-C3 N4 has some limitations in practical applications, such as small specific surface area, weak photogenerated carrier transport capacity and narrow visible light response range. To overcome these challenges, researchers have modified g-C3 N4 through various strategies to improve its photocatalytic performance. In this paper, the synthesis methods and modification strategies of g-C3 N4 are summarized from the structural characteristics of g-C3 N4 , and its research focus and application prospect in the field of photocatalysis are prospected.
Programa saúde na escola: significados, experiências e interações sociais vivenciados na estratégia saúde da família
Authors: Dias Renata Flávia Nobre Canela , Reis Leonardo Nunes dos , Escobar Fabíola Lima , Gomes Rafael Fernandes , Abreu Letícia Lima Silva de , Carvalho Renata Di Pietro , Teixeira Nadine Antunes , Tibães Hanna Beatriz Bacelar , Ornelas Yanca Curty Ribeiro Christoff , Lazarini Flaviane Mello , Souto Daniella Fagundes , Abrahão Neto Alexi , Nascimento Mariana Stefany Cardoso , Ramos Lavínia Verdade Gonçalves , Quadros Joice Fernanda Costa
Published: September 2024

Objetivo: conhecer os significados, experiências e interações sociais vivenciados pela equipe de saúde da família no desenvolvimento do Programa Saúde na Escola. Método: pesquisa de abordagem qualitativa com suporte técnico-conceitual a partir do interacionismo simbólico conduzida com 13 profissionais que compunham a equipe mínima de saúde da família e saúde bucal. Foi realizado um grupo focal para coleta de dados, os quais foram analisados por meio da análise de conteúdo, segundo Bardin, na modalidade análise temática. Resultados: no processo de análise dos discursos dos profissionais, observou-se que os profissionais conheciam parcialmente o programa e seu escopo, sendo conduzidas ações pontuais e hierarquizadas que foram direcionadas por meio da gestão. Embora as experiências possam ser promotoras de efetiva promoção à saúde, algumas barreiras como a ausência de interdisciplinaridade com a comunidade escolar e outros saberes, escassez de materiais e estrutura física foram relatadas. Conclusão: constatou-se a execução de um programa saúde na escola desfragmentado, assistemático e burocratizado, confrontando a concepção do programa e limitando seus resultados à comunidade escolar e à sociedade.
“Carissima cara”: la lingua delle scritture private di emigranti italiani in Brasile. Uno studio diacronico
Authors: Amenta Luisa , Ferroni Roberta
Published: September 2024

In questo contributo si analizzano attraverso la comparazione di due corpora di scritture private, uno risalente al secolo scorso e l'altro contemporaneo, le trasformazioni stilistiche e linguistiche in atto nella corrispondenza personale di emigrati italiani in Brasile. L'analisi dei dati tende ad evidenziare che dal punto di vista stilistico la cornice testuale si mantiene stabile, confermando il modello epistolare tripartito. Per quanto riguarda i topoi trattati si distaccano degli addensamenti tematici che transitano parallelamente nei corpora. L'analisi linguistica ci ha permesso di osservare come nelle scritture più recenti, in cui le interferenze con il portoghese-brasiliano sono frutto di una scelta consapevole degli scriventi, si recupera un registro di italiano medio assente in quelle del Novecento che oscillavano tra l'italiano popolare e l'italiano formale/burocratico e in cui si evidenzia un maggior numero di calchi. Inoltre, le scritture digitali comportano una enfatizzazione della prossimità della scrittura all'oralità.
In principio erat verbum? Tullio De Mauro e le riflessioni americane di educazione linguistica democratica
Authors: Casini Simone
Published: September 2024

Il contributo si pone l'obiettivo di rileggere la lezione di Tullio De Mauro attraverso il concetto di educazione linguistica democratica, proposto come fondamento teoretico della ricerca linguistica e semiotica non solo in riferimento ai processi generalmente educativi, ma entro le stesse dinamiche di uso simbolico attraverso le lingue e i linguaggi. Partendo dalla analisi dei principi semiotici e teorici che alimentano l'educazione linguistica, il contributo sviluppa una riflessione che considera come le implicazioni dell'educazione linguistica democratica siano, nei fatti, a fondamento dei principi ispiratori delle attuali politiche educative globali, sia nord americane che europee, e degli stessi riferimenti di politica linguistica che hanno dato esiti, da entrambe le sponde dell'Atlantico, alle attuali linee guida della Educational Linguistics e del Translanguaging.
L'umorismo nella glottodidattica
Authors: Mollica Anthony
Published: September 2024

Il saggio si basa sulle lectiones magistrales, in versioni diverse, tenute a Fieritals, Università di Venezia, Ca’ Foscari e all'Università della Calabria, rispettivamente nel luglio 2018 e nel marzo del 2019. Espande suggerimenti didattici tratti da varie pubblicazioni dell'Autore che propone una serie di attività glottodidattiche per l'insegnamento della lingua capaci di rendere l'apprendimento più accattivante. Non mancano i riferimenti al valore salutare dell'umorismo né descrizioni e ed esempi di umorismo visivo e verbale.
From Passio to Compassio: Marian Beatrice and Dante in the Vita Nuova
Authors: Kim Jieon
Published: September 2024

In this essay on the Vita Nuova, I will first analyze both the resemblance of the person of Beatrice to that of Mary and the likeness between two actions of Beatrice and Mary. Second, I will observe the resemblance and likeness of the person and action of Dante-actor and Mary. After recognizing Dante-actor reenacting in part Mary at the Incarnation and the Passion, I will thirdly point out the resemblance and likeness between Dante-author and Marian commentators of the Song of the Songs such as Honorius Augustodunensis (1080-1154), who comments on the Gospels, Epistles, and verses of the Song selected for the Feast of the Assumption, and Rupert of Deutz (c. 1075-1129), who was inspired by dream visions and produced the first commentary that interprets the entire mystical and prophetic Song of Solomon in relation to the historia Mary should have fulfilled.1
Dentro la lingua avita. La nominazione in Viaggio terrestre e celeste di Simone Martini
Authors: Luzi Alfredo
Published: September 2024

Nell'ampia produzione saggistica e poetica di Mario Luzi, che spazia per più di mezzo secolo nella storia letteraria d'Italia, la questione teoretica e pragmatica della nominazione è una costante, pur nel variare delle posizioni assunte, che vanno dal neoplatonismo delle prime opere all'apertura fenomenologica presente negli scritti all'altezza degli anni ’90. In Viaggio terrestre e celeste di Simone Martini porsi il problema di dare il nome alle cose equivale ad approssimarsi ad una raffigurazione dell'uomo e del mondo nella compresenza di fisica e metafisica, attraverso gli emblemi della natura, della creatura, della preghiera, della speranza.
Una nuova testimonianza in volgare della fortuna umanistica di Boccaccio (Decameron X, 8)
Authors: Scardicchio Andrea
Published: September 2024

Opera di Giovanni Giustiniani da Candia pubblicata nel 1553, la Risposta di Carmide ateniese a Tito Quinzio Fulvio è ispirata alla celebre novella decameroniana di Tito e Gisippo. È una dotta orazione con la quale il protagonista Carmide, padre della quindicenne Sofronia, rimprovera a Tito il raggiro della figliola eseguito con la complicità di Gisippo. Il discorso autoassolutorio pronunciato da Tito nel Decameron non trovava d'accordo Giustiniani. Letterato umanista fedele alla lezione degli antichi, fervente cattolico sensibile alla dottrina erasmiana, maestro di grammatica incline all'insegnamento morale, con la sua operetta egli intende piuttosto celebrare l'amicizia onesta, l'agire virtuoso, la sacralità del vincolo coniugale. Lo sfondo è quello dell'età a cavallo tra Riforma e Controriforma, con i sopraggiunti indirizzi censori culminati nella condanna all'Indice del capolavoro boccacciano e nel successivo ciclo di rassettature a debellarne la licenziosità.
The First Italian Microhistory: Primo Levi and Postwar Representations of Alterity
Authors: Pucci Julia Claire
Published: September 2024

In the final chapter of his not-quite-autobiography, Il sistema periodico, Primo Levi claims that the work “È, o avrebbe voluto essere, una microstoria” (229), the implications of which are vast. According to Carlo Ginzburg, it is in this passage that “the word microstoria appears in Italian for the first time in an autonomous manner” (“Microhistory: Two or Three Things That I Know about It” 15). This article explores the microhistorical tenets manifest in Levi's writing, the history of the term itself, and Italian microhistory's ostensible ties to Italian neorealism. Indeed, the composition of Il sistema periodico represents an important moment in the progression of popular and scholarly representations of alterity, re-contextualizing Levi in a milieu of partisans and survivors keen on rewriting history.
Experiencing Panismo in Sorrentino's The Great Beauty, Youth and Loro
Authors: Mariani Annachiara
Published: September 2024

This paper aims to disavow the widespread argument that many of Sorrentino's films are set in what Marc Augé would call non-spaces. Non-place or nonplace is a neologism coined by this French anthropologist to refer to anthropological spaces of transience, where human beings remain anonymous and do not hold enough significance to be regarded as places. However, through an approach inspired by psychogeography and ecocriticism, I will argue that in Sorrentino's films The Great Beauty (2013), Youth (2015), and the diptych Loro 1 and Loro 2 (2018), these non-places undergo a profound ontological transformation. They become significant because their powerful energy becomes a synergy that enters the characters, helping them to overcome their meaningless existence, to transform their lives, and find their lost inspiration. Sorrentino's characters use cityscapes (in The Great Beauty), landscapes (in Youth), and domestic spaces (in Loro 1 and Loro 2) as tools to heal their malaise, artistic aridity, and psychological discontent. They achieve this through a sort of Dannunzian Panismo, which entails an intense fusion between humans and the environment. What is atypical from a Dannunzian perspective is the hypothesis of possibly attaining a panic fusion in a natural and in an urban context, cityscape or domestic space.
“Due icone della Shoah”: Primo Levi, Anne Frank, and the “peccato della finzione”
Authors: Marcus Millicent
Published: September 2024

In Primo Levi e Anna Frank: tra testimonianza e letteratura, Maria Anna Mariani undertakes a doubly formidable challenge: to break new ground in the scholarship on these exhaustively studied “icone della Shoah;” and to do so by using a juxtapositional strategy without lapsing into a schematic and reductive drawing of comparisons between the two. Instead, Mariani's book is shaped by the deeper logic announced in its subtitle. What interests this author is the over-riding problem of the so-called “’peccato’ della finzione” – the perceived threat posed by any aesthetic tampering with the authenticity of Holocaust witness within the writings and the constructed public personae of Levi and Frank. In the case of Levi, who believed that he had usurped the testimony of the only true Holocaust witnesses – those who had experienced the fatal logic of the Final Solution – Mariani traces the literary strategies needed to “espiare il proprio debito di presenza”. In the case of Anne Frank, the “peccato” – the aesthetic manipulation of the Diary – is attributable to both the writer herself, and to the interventions of her father, Otto. In a striking final move, Mariani compiles examples of the imaginative appropriations of these “icone della Shoah” within the literary and pop-cultural spheres of their afterlives.
Death of a Stateswoman: Elizabeth Tudor and the Critique of Female Rule in La regina statista d'Inghilterra (1668)
Authors: Battista Fabio
Published: September 2024

This paper examines the fictional reception of Queen Elizabeth I in 17th-century drama by connecting it to coeval debates on the legitimacy of female political power. Specifically, it focuses on Niccolò Biancolelli's La regina statista d'Inghilterra (Bologna, 1668) and its re-writing of the supposed love affair between the Queen and the Earl of Essex as a way of showing the ultimate failure of the woman ruler. Biancolelli's operation is contextualized and contrasted with preceding works that exploit the same subject, including its source, the Spanish El Conde de Sex by Antonio Coello (1633-1638), and Italian commedia dell'arte scenarios based on this play. The originality of La regina statista, this paper argues, lies in the overlapping of love and politics in the triangle already introduced by Coello, which turns into a struggle between the Queen and her rival Florisbe for power over the Earl of Essex and England alike.
“Le catene dell'identità che ci portano alla rovina”. Gadda e Lakhous, stranieri e basta
Authors: Marchesini Manuela
Published: September 2024

Delle catene identitarie non si fa a meno, eppure liberarsene è necessario (Appiah 2018). Oggetto del saggio sono Scontro di civiltà (2006) di Lakhous e il Pasticciaccio di Gadda (1957), in cui Lakhous vede un modello. Ci si chiede: che luce retrospettiva getta il romanzo del nuovo italiano sul classico Pasticciaccio? La tesi avanzata è che l'avvertita semplicità del primo renda accessibili aspetti insoliti del notoriamente complesso Pasticciaccio. Ambedue esaminano il mito identitario, insufficiente sono come allora. Ma la mitografia espansa di Gadda e Lakhous non è nostalgica né reazionaria. Essa non restaura un ordine conservatore né dissolve nel frisson dell'irrazionale. Per Lakhous il punto sono identità e memoria etniche, nazionali e culturali; per Gadda è il loro enigma in accezione psicologica ed erotica, di genere queer. Ecco il loro carattere non-binario, antiromantico e antidealistico, cui Contini forse alludeva insinuando l'eventualità d'un “Gadda narratore” “persino più temerario del Gadda stilista”.
Questo il luogo assegnato. Poesie inedite di Luigi Fontanella
Authors: Aglieco Sebastiano
Published: September 2024

Testi inediti di poesia di Luigi Fontanella, facenti parte del volume Monte Stella di prossima pubblicazione presso Passigli, Firenze. Nell'Introduzione di Sebastano Aglieco vengono rintracciati i motivi dominanti della poesia di Fontanella: innanzi tutto il tempo, rivisitato fra passato e proiezione futura; il viaggiare – tematica costante della sua poiesi – gli affetti familiari, la memoria spesso coniugata con l'immaginazione e la visionarietà, la dimensione onirica e ipnagogica. Emblematico, in questo senso, il titolo della raccolta, ancora inedita, da cui queste poesie sono tratte: Monte Stella, ch’è il nome della montagna che si staglia poco lontano dalla sua abitazione a Salerno, dove l'autore ha vissuto dal 1949 al 1956; una montagna, reale e simbolica insieme, mai scalata (se non con gli occhi) sulla quale l'autore-ragazzino, affacciato al suo balcone, fantasticava a lungo.
La narrativa di Aldo Nove tra morbo della temporalità e desiderio bulimico
Authors: Picchione John
Published: September 2024

Le condizioni materiali e antropologiche generate dal capitalismo globalizzato comportano l'accelerazione del vissuto, la precarietà del lavoro, e la colonizzazione emozionale di desideri mercificati. La narrativa di Aldo Nove si inserisce in queste problematiche e ne denuncia la temporalità malata (atomizzazione del tempo, presentismo), lo sconvolgimento identitario, la reificazione dei rapporti umani, e l'atrofizzazione della vita tutta.
New Messaging and Intercultural Competence Training in Response to Falling Enrollments in World Languages
Authors: Aski Janice M. , Weintritt April D.
Published: September 2024

The trend in declining enrollments in world language courses demands investigation into likely causes and thoughtful solutions to resolve the crisis. We explore common negative attitudes form the general public toward world language study, and conclude that frustration stems from speaking proficiency as the perceived sole measure of success – a skill that takes time to achieve and may be lost without consistent practice. We propose new messaging that highlights the development of intercultural competency that evolves by interacting in full-immersion language courses and through explicit instruction in the attitudes and qualities of the interculturally competent global citizen. Suggestions for implementation at the course, program, university and community levels are provided.
Constructing a Community: The Italian Press in São Paulo from 1880 to 1920
Authors: Pecorelli Joseph Dominic
Published: September 2024

The present article focuses on the Italian-language press in São Paulo in the early twentieth century. I establish that the press served as a tool that unified Italian immigrants through the development of a collective identity that transcended regional differences: that of social class. In addition to functioning as a binding factor among the Italians residing in the rapidly evolving urban and ethnic landscape of São Paulo of the era, the newspapers incentivized Italians to invest in their communities through education, thereby enforcing a shared goal of collaboration and community empowerment. Ultimately, this literary genre played a role in the unification of São Paulo's Italian residents and, subsequently, in their upward social mobility.
Musica, amore e pallottole in Ammore e Malavita dei fratelli Manetti
Authors: Brizio-Skov Flavia
Published: September 2024

Dopo un excursus sulle nuove commedie sulla Mafia, il capitolo si concentra su Ammore e Malavita dei Manetti, considerandolo un prototipo del genere, in quanto i due registi – posti davanti alla scelta di un realismo spesso mistificato e mistificante, che in ultima analisi contribuisce a solidificare nel pubblico il mito della mafia come entità invincibile e affascinante – decidono di non sacrificare coloro che si ribellano al potere mafioso sull'altare dell'eroismo e della glorificazione, bensì di farli vincere. Lo spettatore è sempre consapevole che, al di là delle risate, le morti violente e i soprusi dello schermo hanno un referente nella realtà. Il pubblico può, attraverso l'ironia e il black humor, cominciare a ridere della Camorra, e vederla in storie che, seppur fittizie, contribuiscono a decostruire il mito dell'invincibilità di questa organizzazione nell'immaginario collettivo.
Italian Grammatical Gender: A Corpus Study from a Second Language Acquisition Perspective
Authors: Ayoun Dalila , Maranzana Stefano
Published: September 2024

The three objectives of this corpus study are first to describe how the gender of inanimate nouns is morphologically expressed in Italian, then determine the extent and reliability of contextual cues to Italian gender by analyzing 5,038 contextualized determiner phrases (DPs) drawn from 40 current newspaper and magazine articles and finally, consider learnability implications for Anglophone learners of Italian as a second language. A detailed descriptive account of gender morphology characterized by vocalic endings as portmanteau morphemes reveals several idiosyncrasies and complexities while the results of the written corpus showing that 33.4% of ambiguous feminine nouns and 31.0% of ambiguous masculine nouns are not gender-marked at all are argued to present significant difficulties for second language learners particularly for those who have a low tolerance for ambiguity.
L'italiano, lingua di cultura
Authors: Campa Riccardo
Published: September 2024

Il contributo delinea una riflessione sulla condizione delle lingue nel mondo contemporaneo, rifiutando la prospettiva di un uso strumentale del codice semiotico talvolta legato ad una visione elitaria, ma recuperando la sua capacità di proporre valori di senso al mondo globale attraverso presupposti della ricerca filosofica e scientifica. Dall'italiano allo spagnolo, dal latino all'inglese, le lingue sono vive grazie al contatto e alla creatività (inventiva), che trova le sue radici nelle diverse dimensioni dello scenario apprensivo e connotativo della condizione umana.
Frammenti, rovine, “immaginazione ermeneutica”: Mantegna e il Novecento
Authors: Mirabile Andrea
Published: September 2024

Molti autori del Novecento apprezzano Andrea Mantegna, il cui amore per l'antichità classica, rappresentata nella sua veste frammentaria e in rovina, trova echi e paralleli nella cultura del secolo scorso, affascinata dall'estetica del frammento. Dagli ultimi prodotti della Decadenza alle rivoluzioni formali delle Avanguardie artistiche e letterarie, dalle severe poetiche del Modernismo fino alle ibridazioni del Postmoderno, Mantegna seduce scrittori anche assai diversi fra loro, dentro e fuori i confini italiani: un poeta come Pound, americano ma per tutta la vita profondamente legato all'Italia, ne è un esempio paradigmatico. In particolare la città di Mantova, dove il pittore quattrocentesco trascorre la maggior parte della sua esistenza e in cui lascia alcune delle testimonianze maggiori della sua arte, ispira alcune delle pagine novecentesche più significative sul Mantegna. È il caso di Viaggio in Italia di Piovene, di cui si analizzano qui alcuni elementi, alla luce degli interessi figurativi dello scrittore veneto.
A Word Is Worth a Thousand Pictures: A Discourse on the Role of Poetry in Our Times
Authors: Ballerini Luigi
Published: September 2024

Poetry has always come in many forms and shapes and served different purposes. A radical and, quite possibly, irreversible shift occurred in the second half of the Nineteenth Century when the art of poetry began to de-pragmatize and to concern itself mainly with the creation of messages whose cognitive and emotional powers were rooted in the material ingredients and the orchestration of its linguistic medium. The message could only surface if the readers contributed to its manifestation. Examples focusing on both the dictatorial power of language and the role of the reader are drawn from Guido Cavalcanti, Dante Alighieri, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound, Antonella Anedda, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Wallace Stevens, and Amelia Rosselli.
Queering the Italian Classroom: A Course on Gender and Society in Italy
Authors: Scapolo Andrea
Published: September 2024

In this article, the author discusses their experience designing and teaching a course on “Gender and Society in Italy” at Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw (GA) in the academic year 2018-2019. The goal of this contribution is to discuss the pedagogical value of adopting a gender and queer studies approach in guiding students’ exploration of Italian culture(s). In doing so, the author also argues for the importance of using Italian culture courses taught outside Italy as a laboratory for translating and merging research and pedagogical methodologies well established in the anglophone world into and with the Italian tradition. The idea is, on the one hand, to benefit students interested in learning about Italian history and society by adopting a framework of analysis already familiar to them, while, on the other hand, to develop teaching practices and comparatist analysis that can be adopted across different educational systems.
Per una “mitografia dell'uomo” nella letteratura: i Saggi di Guido Pugliese
Authors: Di Marzo Salvatore
Published: September 2024

Il testo si propone di riflettere sull'importante figura dell'italianista cosentino, naturalizzato in Canada, Guido Pugliese, attraverso la lettura dei saggi raccolti nel volume postumo Saggi di letteratura italiana. Da Dante a Manzoni (2017). In tali interventi, rivisti dall'autore e che ricoprono l'intero arco della sua carriera accademica, emerge con forza l'idea di una letteratura mai svincolata dall'esperienza umana legata a un tempo e in uno spazio ben precisi; in tal senso, nell'esegesi di Pugliese, il metodo crociano è profondamente e implicitamente intriso del concetto di geografia letteraria espresso da Carlo Dionisotti, per cui il documento letterario (la Commedia, il Decameron, I promessi sposi, I Malavoglia, etc.) è inteso come prodotto immanente rispetto all'entità storicamente circoscritta della vita umana.
Emanuela Piovano autora del cinema al femminile. Intervista con la regista
Authors: Laviosa Flavia
Published: September 2024

Emanuela Piovano, regista sperimentale, fondatrice della casa di produzione KitchenFilm e promotrice di piattaforme online di distribuzione di film internazionali, in questa intervista illustra la sua carriera a partire dagli anni Ottanta, durante i quali fonda l'associazione Camera Woman, fino ad oggi. Piovano racconta le sue esperienze di autora impegnata nella realizzazione di documentari e film al femminile e di imprenditrice aperta a nuove iniziative per produrre e divulgare un cinema di impegno sociale e civile.
A Tribute to Edoardo A. Lebano: Scholar, Mentor, Colleague, and Friend
Authors: Mastri Augusto
Published: September 2024

For several decades the figure of Edoardo A. Lebano held a prominent place in the field of Italian Studies in North America. A tireless worker promoting Italian language and culture, he was an inspiring teacher, a serious scholar, an organizer and administrator of uncommon talent and civility. A dedicated supporter of the AATI at all levels and admired Director of Middlebury College's Italian School, he left an indelible mark with his work, his humor, and his humanitas.
Film as Mythobiography: Federico Fellini, Ernst Bernhard and the Great Mother Complex in La dolce vita and 8
½
Authors: Ariano Raffaele
Published: September 2024

This article studies the representations of gender and gender relationships in La dolce vita and 8½ through the lens of the influence exerted on Fellini by the Jungian psychoanalyst Ernst Bernhard in the early 1960s. A brief summary of Bernhard's Mitobiografia, especially the short essay “Il complesso della grande madre,” and remarks on the biographical circumstances of Fellini's encounter with Bernhard will suggest that a comparison between Fellini and Bernhard could provide a fruitful complement to the existing scholarship on Fellini and Jung. A close back-to-back analysis of the aforementioned films – the first released immediately before and the second immediately after the start of Fellini's analysis with Bernhard – will then show the great importance not only of the implementation in 8½ of specific Jungian concepts, but of Fellini's more general attempt to translate Bernhard's conception of psychoanalysis as “mythobiography” into (meta)cinematic terms.
Amarcord/Am'l'arcord. Fascism, Memory, and the Visual in Federico Fellini and Renzo Renzi
Authors: Minghelli Giuliana
Published: September 2024

This essay reflects on questions of visibility and invisibility in the representation of Fascism through a study of the visual memory of Fascism in Amarcord and the photo-essay “Il Fascismo involontario,” which Renzo Renzi, Bolognese critic and longtime friend of Fellini, wrote in 1975 in direct response to the film. After retracing the roots of Amarcord to Fellini's collaboration with Renzi, the essay maps their contrasting stances toward memory: for Fellini, a delivery from the past; for Renzi, a practice of working-through. The essay explores the optics of Fascism in Amarcord through an analysis of the influence of photography and television on the filmic image and a reflection on the relation between visibility and invisibility in Fellini's cinematic spectacle. These visualities of Amarcord are then discussed in dialogue with the photographs accompanying Renzi's text, thus bringing to the fore the differing status of the trace in the two authors. While in Fellini's film the trace is an embodiment of cinematic pathos, in Renzi's critical reflection with photography, the trace becomes the site of what Roland Barthes defined as the “mad” encounter with the past, the site where Fascism is confronted as the “intractable,” a stubborn point of (in)visibility in Italy's past.
Fellini Today? Some Observations on Fellini's Films and Commercials:
From Postwar to Postmodern and A Companion to Federico Fellini
Authors: Rabissi Francesco
Published: September 2024

What does Federico Fellini's cinema tell us today, in the 100th anniversary year of its author's birth and 28 years after his death? What remains undiscovered in the critical response to the work of one of the most celebrated Italian filmmakers of the 20th century? What is the influence of that work on contemporary cinema and what methodological approaches are better suited to make meaning of its heterogeneity and not infrequent thorniness on important issues such as sexual and gender politics? These are some of the questions posed by two books published in 2020 (Frank Burke, Fellini's Films and Commercials: From Postwar to Postmodern and A Companion to Federico Fellini. Edited by Frank Burke, Marguerite Waller, and Marita Gubareva) whose goal is to revive a debate that, at least in the Anglo-Saxon world, has been quiet for too long. Taking the two books as a point of departure, this essay focuses on the current state of Fellini studies, addressing matters such as the Fellinian “subject,” individualism, authenticity, self-reflexivity, dream, the sociopolitical, and gender in an effort to understand the role played in film history by one of the most influential Italian filmmakers.