Proposta di traduzione con analisi e commento del racconto El saltamontes verde di Ana María Matute

In questo elaborato viene presentata una proposta di traduzione del racconto "El saltamontes verde" della scrittrice spagnola Ana María Matute. Nella prima parte, vengono esposte brevemente la biografia e le opere dell'autrice, evidenziandone i temi ricorrenti e le influenze letterarie. L'attenzione si focalizza, in seguito, sul testo in lingua originale, che viene analizzato dal punto di vista narratologicoo (trama, tempo, spazio, personaggi e temi) e linguistico (lingua e stile). Le strategie utilizzate durante la traduzione e le scelte traduttive più rilevanti vengono descritte e motivate in un commento finale che si basa sul confronto tra la versione spagnola e quella italiana.

Optimisation of chemical lysis protocol for point-of-care leukocyte differentiation

The full blood cell (FBC) count is the most common indicator of diseases. At present hematology analyzers are used for the blood cell characterization, but, recently, there has been interest in using techniques that take advantage of microscale devices and intrinsic properties of cells for increased automation and decreased cost. Microfluidic technologies offer solutions to handling and processing small volumes of blood (2-50 uL taken by finger prick) for point-of-care(PoC) applications. Several PoC blood analyzers are in use and may have applications in the fields of telemedicine, out patient monitoring and medical care in resource limited settings. They have the advantage to be easy to move and much cheaper than traditional analyzers, which require bulky instruments and consume large amount of reagents. The development of miniaturized point-of-care diagnostic tests may be enabled by chip-based technologies for cell separation and sorting. Many current diagnostic tests depend on fractionated blood components: plasma, red blood cells (RBCs), white blood cells (WBCs), and platelets. Specifically, white blood cell differentiation and counting provide valuable information for diagnostic purposes. For example, a low number of WBCs, called leukopenia, may be an indicator of bone marrow deficiency or failure, collagen- vascular diseases, disease of the liver or spleen. The leukocytosis, a high number of WBCs, may be due to anemia, infectious diseases, leukemia or tissue damage. In the laboratory of hybrid biodevices, at the University of Southampton,it was developed a functioning micro impedance cytometer technology for WBC differentiation and counting. It is capable to classify cells and particles on the base of their dielectric properties, in addition to their size, without the need of labeling, in a flow format similar to that of a traditional flow cytometer. It was demonstrated that the micro impedance cytometer system can detect and differentiate monocytes, neutrophils and lymphocytes, which are the three major human leukocyte populations. The simplicity and portability of the microfluidic impedance chip offer a range of potential applications in cell analysis including point-of-care diagnostic systems. The microfluidic device has been integrated into a sample preparation cartridge that semi-automatically performs erythrocyte lysis before leukocyte analysis. Generally erythrocytes are manually lysed according to a specific chemical lysis protocol, but this process has been automated in the cartridge. In this research work the chemical lysis protocol, defined in the patent US 5155044 A, was optimized in order to improve white blood cell differentiation and count performed by the integrated cartridge.

Ana Filipa Batista: analisi delle opere di una delle promesse della letteratura portoghese

L'elaborato presenta le opere della giovane scrittrice portoghese Ana Filipa Batista, blogger e scrittrice portoghese di diciassette anni, che ha conosciuto il suo debutto editoriale a soli undici anni. L’elaborato è articolato in tre capitoli, nei quali si ripercorre in ordine cronologico la carriera della giovane scrittrice, proponendo un’analisi delle sue opere dal punto di vista dei temi, dello stile, del linguaggio. Ogni capitolo è corredato da opportune traduzioni dal portoghese in italiano per poter guidare meglio il lettore attraverso il percorso suggerito. Ogni citazione è accompagnata dalla mia traduzione in nota o a fronte, mentre nel caso di testi particolarmente lunghi, si troverà la mia traduzione nel corpo della tesi e la versione originale portoghese in appendice.