"Mono No Aware" di Ken Liu: proposta di traduzione

Il lavoro consiste della traduzione di "Mono No Aware", racconto breve fantascientifico scritto da Ken Liu, vincitore degli Hugo Awards 2013, e dell'analisi della stessa. Nelle prime due sezioni dell'elaborato ho presentato l'autore, parlando dei suoi studi e dei suoi lavori, e il testo, parlando dei suoi temi e delle sue particolarità. Ho poi proseguito presentando la traduzione, ovvero i criteri su cui mi sono basato affinché il lavoro fosse di buona qualità. In seguito ho inserito la traduzione già corretta e revisionata e dopo di essa il commento, in cui ho evidenziato i punti problematici e le soluzioni trovate, corredate di esempi. Nelle conclusioni ho scritto le mie riflessioni sul lavoro eseguito, e infine ho aggiunto la sitografia e la bibliografia, seguite dal testo originale in appendice.

Yokohama-shi & Kanagawa-ken Region, Japan, 1868 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Descriptive map, shewing the Treaty limits round Yokohama : including the Province of Sagami & portions of Kai, Idzu, Musasi & Suraga, compiled and drawn by Lieut. A.G.S. Hawes, 1865-67. It was published by James Wyld in 1868. Scale [ca. 1:57,217]. Covers the Yokohama-shi & Kanagawa-ken region, Japan. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Tokyo Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 54N projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as cities and towns, roads, railroads and stations, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortification, district and province boundaries, temples, baths, ruins, battle sites, and more. Relief shown by shading. Includes notes.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Yokohama-shi & Kanagawa-ken Region, 1879 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: The environs of Yokohama, compiled and drawn by A. Farsari ; engrd. by Engr. Cy. Tokio. It was published by Sargent, Farsari & Co. in 1879. Scale [ca. 1:280,486]. Covers the Yokohama-shi & Kanagawa-ken region, Japan. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Tokyo Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 54N projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as cities and towns, roads, railroads, drainage, built-up areas, district and province boundaries, and more. Relief shown pictorially.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Tectonic geomorphology assessment of the Ken River catchment near Panna, Madhya Pradesh, India

This thesis focuses on tectonic geomorphology and the response of the Ken River catchment to postulated tectonic forcing along a NE-striking monocline fold in the Panna region, Madhya Pradesh, India. Peninsular India is underlain by three northeast-trending paleotopographic ridges of Precambrian Indian basement, bounded by crustal-scale faults. Of particular interest is the Pokhara lineament, a crustal scale fault that defines the eastern edge of the Faizabad ridge, a paleotopographic high cored by the Archean Bundelkhand craton. The Pokhara lineament coincides with the monocline structure developed in the Proterozoic Vindhyan Supergroup rocks along the Bundelkhand cratonic margin. A peculiar, deeply incised meander-like feature, preserved along the Ken River where it flows through the monocline, may be intimately related to the tectonic regime of this system. This thesis examines 41 longitudinal stream profiles across the length of the monocline structure to identify any tectonic signals generated from recent surface uplift above the Pokhara lineament. It also investigates the evolution of the Ken River catchment in response to the generation of the monocline fold. Digital Elevation Models (DEM) from Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) were used to delineate a series of tributary watersheds and extract individual stream profiles which were imported into MATLAB for analysis. Regression limits were chosen to define distinct channel segments, and knickpoints were defined at breaks between channel segments where there was a discrete change in the steepness of the channel profile. The longitudinal channel profiles exhibit the characteristics of a fluvial system in transient state. There is a significant downstream increase in normalized steepness index in the channel profiles, as well as a general increase in concavity downstream, with some channels exhibiting convex, over-steepened segments. Normalized steepness indices and uppermost knickpoint elevations are on average much higher in streams along the southwest segment of the monocline compared to streams along the northeast segment. Most channel profiles have two to three knickpoints, predominantly exhibiting slope-break morphology. These data have important implications for recent surface uplift above the Pokhara lineament. Furthermore, geomorphic features preserved along the Ken River suggest that it is an antecedent river. The incised meander-like feature appears to be the abandoned river valley of a former Ken River course that was captured during the evolution of the landscape by what is the present day Ken River.

University of Michigan Men's Basketball Team, 1968

Back Row: coach Dave Strack, Willie Lee Edwards, Dennis Stewart, Mike Lawson, Rudy Tomjanovich, Scott Montross, asst. coach John Orr

Middle Row: asst. coach George Pomey, Bob Sullivan, Bill Fraumann, Jim Pitts, Rick Bloodworth, Dave McClellan, asst. coach Dick Honig

Front Row: Henry Weiland, Tim Hayes, Steve Fishman, Ken Maxey, Mark Henry, Mike Maundrell

University of Michigan Men's Basketball Team, 1969

Back Row: asst. coach George Pomey, mngr. Bill Lyle, Mark Berg, Richard Carter, Bob Bruns, Mike Rafferty, Rodney Ford, Tim Nicksic, Tom Lundstedt, Richard Bloodworth, Dan Fife, Mark Henry, Rex Emerick, Steve Fishman, asst. coach Fred Snowden, asst. coach Dick Honig

Front Row: Dave McClennan, Bill Fraumann, Rudy Tomjanovich, captain Ken Maxey, coach John Orr, Dennis Stewart, Willie Lee Edwards, Bob Sullivan