Giacomo Costantino Beltrami e le sue esplorazioni in America.

Bibliography: p. [x]

Sintassi italiana nelle sue principali attinenze con la sintassi latina, compilata ad uso delle scuole secondarie /

Mode of access: Internet.

Storia di San Pietro in Casale e di tutte le sue frazioni

Mode of access: Internet.

Die Landenge von Suês. Zur Beurtheilung des Canalprojects und des Auszugs der Israeliten aus Aegypten.

Bibliography: p.vii-xi.

Making policy in theory and practice:by Hugh Bochel and Sue Duncan (eds)

Book review: Hugh Bochel and Sue Duncan (eds), Policy Press, 2007, 251 pp. (including references and index), £23 (pb), ISBN: 1861349033

"Unfair'' Restaurant Reviews:To Sue Or Not To Sue

In their discussion entitled - “Unfair” Restaurant Reviews: To Sue Or Not To Sue - by John Schroeder and Bruce Lazarus, Assistant Professors, Department of Restaurant, Hotel and Institutional Management at Purdue University, the authors initially state: “Both advantages and disadvantages exist on bringing lawsuits against restaurant critics who write “unfair” reviews. The authors, both of whom have experience with restaurant criticism, offer practical advice on what realistically can be done by the restaurateur outside of the courtroom to combat unfair criticism.” Well, this is going to be a sticky wicket no matter how you try to defend it, reviews being what they are; very subjective pieces of opinionated journalism, especially in the food industry. And, of course, unless you can prove malicious intent there really is no a basis for a libel suit. So, a restaurateur is at the mercy of written opinion and the press. “Libel is the written or published form of slander which is the statement of false remarks that may damage the reputation of others. It also includes any false and malicious publication which may damage a person's business, trade, or employment,” is the defined form of the law provided by the authors. Anecdotally, Schroeder and Lazarus offer a few of the more scathing pieces reviewers have written about particular eating establishments. And, yes, they can be a bit comical, unless you are the owner of an establishment that appears in the crosshairs of such a reviewer. A bad review can kneecap even a popular eatery. “Because of the large readership of restaurant reviews in the publication (consumer dining out habits indicate that nearly 50 percent of consumers read a review before visiting a new restaurant) your business begins a very dangerous downward tailspin,” the authors reveal, with attribution. “Many restaurant operators contend that a bad review can cost them an immediate trade loss of upward of 50 percent,” Schroeder and Lazarus warn. “The United States Supreme Court has ruled that a restaurant owner can collect damages only if he proves that the statement or statements were made with “actual malice,” even if the statements were untrue,” the authors say by way of citation. And that last portion of the statement cannot be over-emphasized. The first amendment to the U.S. Constitution does wield a heavy hammer, indeed, and it should. So, what recourse does a restaurateur have? The authors cautiously give a guarded thumbs-up to a lawsuit, but you better be prepared to prove a misstatement of fact, as opposed to the distinguishable press protected right of opinion. For the restaurateur the pitfalls are many, the rewards few and far between, Schroeder and Lazarus will have you know. “…after weighing the advantages and disadvantages of a lawsuit against a critic...the disadvantages are overwhelming,” the authors say. “Chicago restaurant critic James Ward said that someone dumped a load of manure on his yard accompanied by a note that read - Stop writing that s--t! - after he wrote a review of a local restaurant.” Such is a novel if not legally measurable tack against an un-mutual review.

Portrait of photographer Sue Rubinstein

Inscriptions: Verso: [stamped] Photograph by Freda Leinwand. [463 West Street, Studio 229G, New York, NY 10014].

Portrait of photographer Sue Rubinstein

Inscriptions: Verso: [stamped] Photograph by Freda Leinwand. [463 West Street, Studio 229G, New York, NY 10014].

Il fenomeno dell'intraducibilita e le sue possibili soluzioni

L’elaborato ha come oggetto il fenomeno dell’intraducibilità, esaminando vari casi di lingue diverse, prendendo però in esame casi in cui si trova un evidente collegamento tra il termine intraducibile e la cultura a cui esso fa riferimento. In particolare vengono presi come esempio i termini e le relative immagini, provenienti dal testo Lost in translation e dall’articolo de LaRepubblica intitolato “Queste immagini spiegano il significato di 30 parole intraducibili”. In seguito vengono trattati alcuni metodi possibili di traduzione degli intraducibili, cioè i prestiti integrali, gli adattamenti, la parasinonimia, con riferimento al lavoro di Umberto Eco e riallacciandosi alle teorie di Jakobson e Peirce e la semiotica. La conclusione dell’elaborato consiste nella presa di coscienza del fatto che non esiste un metodo del tutto soddisfacente per rendere gli intraducibili in altre lingue se non quella di partenza, aprendo però la strada a nuovi metodi interpretativi, come appunto l’associazione della parola all’immagine.

Uno studio analitico ed algebrico della trasformata di Radon ed alcune sue applicazioni

Lo scopo di questa tesi si articola in tre punti. In primo luogo, ci proponiamo di definire, sia in ambito analitico che in un contesto più algebrico e geometrico, la trasformata di Radon, di discutere la possibilità di un'eventuale generalizzazione a spazi non euclidei, e di presentare le sue proprietà più caratteristiche. In secondo luogo vogliamo dimostrare, sfruttando un collegamento di questa con la trasformata di Fourier, che la trasformata di Radon è un'applicazione iniettiva tra spazi funzionali e che è dunque invertibile, per poi descrivere uno dei possibili metodi formali di inversione. Accenneremo anche alle problematiche che insorgono nell'utilizzare l'antitrasformata di Radon in situazioni reali, e alle relative soluzioni. Infine, concluderemo la trattazione con una breve ma, ottimisticamente, delucidatrice, introduzione ad alcuni esempi di applicazione della trasformata di Radon a vari ambiti fisici e matematici.

Why do Women Sue?

Statistics published by the National Health Service Litigation Authority relating to ten years of maternity claims provoke a sharp intake of breath. The total value of these claims over the first decade of the 21st century was £3,117,649,888 (NHS Litigation Authority 2012). The United Kingdom is not the only country to witness an astronomical increase in the level of litigation relating to maternity services. As far afield as Saudi Arabia (Henary et al 2012) and the United States (Berkowitz 2011), reports are being published of the demands on maternity budgets as a result of dissatisfaction with care received during pregnancy, labour and birth. The papers referenced above attribute adverse outcomes to negligence, misdiagnosis, surgical blunders and inefficient administration. Berkowitz(2011:7) suggests that what is needed is wholesale and whole-hearted adoption of ‘…electronic fetal monitoring [EFM] certification for all staff working on their Labor and Delivery floor, protocols for managing common clinical scenarios, simulation drills for dealing with uncommon dangerous events, and pre-procedure checklists’. The NHS Litigation Authority (2012:5) recommends that Trusts ‘…engage with the risk management process at all levels; provide suitable learning and training; ensure appropriate supervision and support; have in place up-to-date protocols and guidance with which staff are familiar; learn lessons from claims’. It is relatively easy to ensure that staff are sent on fetal heart rate (FHR) training days (although whether use of EFM produces better outcomes has, of course, never been clearly demonstrated (Alfirevic et al 2013) and that protocols for managing events during labour and birth are drawn up and even put into practice. It’s uncertain, however, whether doing so will make the problem of maternity litigation go away. There is something ‘rotten in the state of Denmark’ that is fuelling women’s dissatisfaction and which ‘the system’ has not been able to get its head round.

Den vandrande juden af Eugène Sue

Nimiösivulla myös: Öfversättning.

Den vandrande juden af Eugène Sue

Nimiösivulla myös: Öfversättning.