Per l’edizione del Primo dei Libri medicinales di Aezio Amideno

La ricerca è dedicata allo studio propedeutico ad una nuova edizione critica del primo dei Libri medicinales di Aezio Amideno, medico vissuto nel VI secolo e attivo alla corte di Costantinopoli. Sono stati oggetto principale di studio 35 manoscritti contenenti, in parte o integralmente, il primo libro di Aezio; la collazione ha permesso di individuare numerosi codices descripti e soprattutto di procedere ad una nuova classificazione dei codici. Riguardo alla modalità di utilizzo delle fonti da parte di Aezio si è potuto non solo accertare l’uso indiretto del testo galenico ed escludere la mediazione di Oribasio, ma sono state individuate nuove fonti, oltre a quelle tradizionalmente conosciute. Per la prima volta sono stati presi in esame sia il commento di Cristobal de Horozco ai sedici libri di Aezio che la traduzione latina di Giovanbattista Montano. Presente è infine un saggio di edizione dei capitoli 1-10 e 124 dell’edizione Olivieri, il testo proposto presenta significative differenze rispetto a quello edito nel CMG.

MongoDB: analisi e prototipazione su applicazioni di social business intelligence

L’ultimo decennio ha visto un radicale cambiamento del mercato informatico, con la nascita di un numero sempre maggiore di applicazioni rivolte all’interazione tra utenti. In particolar modo, l’avvento dei social network ha incrementato notevolmente le possibilità di creare e condividere contenuti sul web, generando volumi di dati sempre maggiori, nell’ordine di petabyte e superiori. La gestione di tali quantità di dati ha portato alla nascita di soluzioni non relazionali appositamente progettate, dette NoSQL. Lo scopo di questo documento è quello di illustrare come i sistemi NoSQL, nello specifico caso di MongoDB, cerchino di sopperire alle difficoltà d’utilizzo dei database relazionali in un contesto largamente distribuito. Effettuata l'analisi delle principali funzionalità messe a disposizione da MongoDB, si illustreranno le caratteristiche di un prototipo di applicazione appositamente progettato che sfrutti una capacità peculiare di MongoDB quale la ricerca full-text. In ultima analisi si fornirà uno studio delle prestazioni di tale soluzione in un ambiente basato su cluster, evidenziandone il guadagno prestazionale.

Traduzione per il web nelle istituzioni europee. Proposta di localizzazione di una sezione di sito della dg azione per il clima

The aim of this dissertation is to provide an adequate translation from English into Italian of a section of the European Commission's site, concerning an environmental policy tool whose aim is to reduce the EU greenhouse gas emissions, the Emissions Trading System. The main reason behind this choice was the intention to combine a personal interest in the domain of sustainability development with the desire to delve deeper into the knowledge of the different aspects involved in the localisation process. I also had the possibility to combine these two with my interest in the universe of the European Union. I therefore worked on the particular language of this supranational organisation and for this reason I had the opportunity to experience a very stimulating work placement at the Directorate-General for Translation in Brussels. However, the choice of the text was personal and the translation is not intended for publication. The work is divided into six chapters. In the first chapter the text is contextualised within the framework of the EU, and its legislation on multilingualism. This has consequences on the languages that are used by the drafters of the official documents and on the languages used by translators. The text originates from those documents, but it needs to be adapted to different receivers. The second chapter investigates the process of website localisation. The third chapter offers an analysis of the source text and of the prospective target text. In the fourth chapter the resources created and used for the translation of the text are described. A comparison is made between the resources of the translation service of the European Commission and the ones created specifically for this project: a translation memory, exploited through the use of a CAT tool, and two corpora. The fifth chapter contains the actual translation, side-by-side with the source text, while the sixth one provides a comment on the translation strategies.

Natural Language Checking with Program Checking Tools

Written text is an important component in the process of knowledge acquisition and communication. Poorly written text fails to deliver clear ideas to the reader no matter how revolutionary and ground-breaking these ideas are. Providing text with good writing style is essential to transfer ideas smoothly. While we have sophisticated tools to check for stylistic problems in program code, we do not apply the same techniques for written text. In this paper we present TextLint, a rule-based tool to check for common style errors in natural language. TextLint provides a structural model of written text and an extensible rule-based checking mechanism.

THE EXPERIENCE OF RESEARCH, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND LEADERSHIP OF THE MiTEP PROGRAM

Chapter 1. The Action Research in this report was to focus on improving the reading comprehension of students with expository text in relation to identifying the main idea and supporting details. Students were given an expository text to read and identify main idea and 2 -3 supporting details as a pre assessment. Students were provided instruction and support in DRTA (Directed Reading Thinking Activity) and SQ3R (Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review) methodology to identify the Main Idea and supporting details of a selected expository text for both pre & posttest. Results were compiled and analyzed on the effectiveness of the strategies by overall student growth in accurately identifying the Main Idea and being able to state at least 2 supporting details. Analysis of the data will show that the methods were effective in middle school students’ ability to read and extrapolate the necessary information from expository text. Chapter 2 is a reflective essay on the MiTEP Michigan Teacher Excellence Program and its impact on my teaching practices, lesson delivery and leadership development.

Legal Translation and the Bilingual Publication of Roman Imperial Constitutions

The present paper aims at investigating translation techniques and publication methods of Roman imperial constitutions published in Greek in the eastern provinces of the empire, where the official Latin was not well-established. Language, being a tool for normative communication must be comprehensible to the addressees of the norm, therefore publication of a normative text in a multilingual society brings along difficulties related in particular to the translatability of legal terminology. Language problems appear, however, not only in the level of communication, but also in those of implementation and interpretation of norms. Linguistic diversity, which currently afflicts legislators in the EU, has already been a challenge for the legislators in the Roman Empire. Major difficulty was the necessity of expressing Roman legal concepts in Greek language. Centralized translation system and consequent use of terminology helped to adapt Greek for the purposes of Roman legislator creating new technical vocabulary.

Architektura a ideologie. Výchovné instituce Adolfa Hitlera v protektorátu Čechy a Morava a v Říšské župě Sudety

This article examines the architecture of the Nazi regime in two occupied cities of Czechoslovakia, Praha/Prag and Jihlava/Iglau (the latter being one of the traditionally German-speaking island in the bohemia country), and focuses specifically on the process by which Hitler youth organisations (Hitlerjugend) in case of ‘education’ and indoctrination of youth were or were not successfully established in these cities. As comparison, he takes the political-administrative centres of the Sudeten Reichsgau, Ústí/Aussig, Opava/Troppau, Karlovy Vary/Karlsbad and Liberec/Reichenberg. Drawing on Czech and German archive materials, the extensive body of modern analytical literature, and propagandist literature from the period studied, the author examines the extent to which architecture served as a projection screen for Fascist propaganda in the Occupied Eastern territories. He describes the role played by the Reichsstelle für Raumordnung and shows how the Reich’s propagandist objectives came to be reflected in a high specific typology and stylistic lexicon/configuration for the architecture of Hitler youth hostels and homes He examines the process by which these organisations were powerful implanted into the space of occupied Czechoslovakia (and Sudeten) too, a topic that has not yet been addressed in (art) history too. The building projects developed for the Protectorate (published here for the first time) and managed by the Reich’s Hitler Youth Leadership in Berlin (Kulturamt, Reichsjugendführung, RJF, Abteilung HJ) reveal the ties that existed between the construction authorities in the Reich and the Protectorate, including the Planning Committee for the City of Prague. The author asks how many German and Czech architects participated for their own profit in the Nazi system, and for future research raises the hitherto taboo question of guilt and collaboration with the Nazis and the perception of this phenomenon in art history, i.e. the measure of active cooperation of not just German but also Czech architects who contributed to the planning and implementation of projects and thereby unequivocally had a hand in consolidating the totalitarian regime and de facto in the forced „Germanification” of their own people under occupation.

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me-et Mosheh Leyb ben-Tsevi Lilienblum