The international scene and Latin America's external debt

Includes bibliography

Scene di violenza, esperienze emotive e condotte aggressive

The aim of this research is to estimate the impact of violent film excerpts on university students (30 f, 30 m) in two different sequences, a “justified” violent scene followed by an “unjustified” one, or vice versa, as follows: 1) before-after sequences, using Aggressive behaviour I-R Questionnaire, Self Depression Scale and ASQ-IPAT Anxiety SCALE; 2) after every excerpt, using a self-report to evaluate the intensity and hedonic tone of emotions and the violence justification level. Emotion regulation processes (suppression, reappraisal, self-efficacy) were considered. In contrast with the “unjustified” violent scene, during the “justified” one, the justification level was higher; intensity and unpleasantness of negative emotions were lower. Anxiety (total and latent) and rumination diminished after both types of sequences. Rumination decreases less after the JV-UV sequence than after the UV-JV sequence. Self-efficacy in controlling negative emotions reduced rumination, whereas suppression reduced irritability. Reappraisal, self-efficacy in positive emotion expression and perceived emphatic selfefficacy did not have any effects.

Integrazione di elementi sintetici in scene reali mediante Photoshop 3d e Maya

Lo scopo di questa tesi è dimostrare che è possibile integrare elementi sintetici in scene reali, producendo rendering realistici, avvalendosi di software come Autodesk Maya e Adobe Photoshop. Il progetto, infatti, consiste nella realizzazione di cinque immagini ottenute assemblando in fotografie reali, oggetti 3D, generati usando il software di modellazione Maya, con l’obiettivo di produrre immagini finali altamente fotorealistiche, per cui l’osservatore non riesce a distinguere se l’immagine è reale o sintetica.

Scene Reconstruction And Understanding By RGB-D Sensors

This thesis investigates interactive scene reconstruction and understanding using RGB-D data only. Indeed, we believe that depth cameras will still be in the near future a cheap and low-power 3D sensing alternative suitable for mobile devices too. Therefore, our contributions build on top of state-of-the-art approaches to achieve advances in three main challenging scenarios, namely mobile mapping, large scale surface reconstruction and semantic modeling. First, we will describe an effective approach dealing with Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) on platforms with limited resources, such as a tablet device. Unlike previous methods, dense reconstruction is achieved by reprojection of RGB-D frames, while local consistency is maintained by deploying relative bundle adjustment principles. We will show quantitative results comparing our technique to the state-of-the-art as well as detailed reconstruction of various environments ranging from rooms to small apartments. Then, we will address large scale surface modeling from depth maps exploiting parallel GPU computing. We will develop a real-time camera tracking method based on the popular KinectFusion system and an online surface alignment technique capable of counteracting drift errors and closing small loops. We will show very high quality meshes outperforming existing methods on publicly available datasets as well as on data recorded with our RGB-D camera even in complete darkness. Finally, we will move to our Semantic Bundle Adjustment framework to effectively combine object detection and SLAM in a unified system. Though the mathematical framework we will describe does not restrict to a particular sensing technology, in the experimental section we will refer, again, only to RGB-D sensing. We will discuss successful implementations of our algorithm showing the benefit of a joint object detection, camera tracking and environment mapping.

Progettazione e realizzazione di un editor grafico per il rendering di scene tridimensionali mediante opengl

L'obiettivo di questo elaborato è quindi quello di progettare e realizzare un editor grafico per la modellazione di oggetti tridimensionali, di consentire ad un utente di costruire scene complesse curandone il rendering. Il progetto è stato realizzato facendo uso del linguaggio C++ e degli strumenti messi a disposizione dalle librerie OpenGL

No(i)rthern Ireland: Crime fiction and the northern-irish scene. Proposed translation into italian of two short stories from "belfast noir"

The present thesis aims at proving the importance of cultural and literary contexts in the practice of translation: I shall show that, in the case of Northern Irish crime fiction, knowledge of both Northern Irish history and culture as well as of the genre of crime fiction are essential prerequisites for the production of a “responsible” translation. I will therefore offer a brief overview of the history of crime and detective fiction and its main subgenres; some of the most important authors and works will be presented as well, in an analysis that goes from the early years of the genre to the second half of the 20th century. I will then move the focus to Northern Ireland, its culture and its history, and particular attention will be paid to fiction writing in Ireland and Northern Ireland, with a focus on the peculiar phenomenon of “Troubles Trash”. I will tackle the topic of Northern Irish literature and present the contemporary scene of Northern Irish crime fiction; the volume from which the texts for the translation have been taken will be presented, namely Belfast Noir. Subsequently the focus will move on the theoretical framework within which the translations were produced: I will present a literary review of the most significative developments in Translation Studies, with particular attention to the “cultural turn” that has characterised this subject since the 1960s. I will then highlight the phenomenon of “realia” in translation and analyse the approaches of different scholars to the translation of culture-bound references. The final part represents the culmination and practical application of all that was presented in the previous sections: I will discuss the translation of culture-bound references according to the strategies presented in Chapter 4, referring to the proposed translations of two stories. Such analysis aims to show that not only expert linguistic knowledge, but also cultural awareness and a wide literary background are needed in order to make conscious choices in translation.

Proposta di doppiaggio di alcune scene della serie televisiva "Penny Dreadful"

Nella tesi viene proposto il doppiaggio di alcune scene della serie "Penny Dreadful", complete di trascrizione di dialoghi e analisi del doppiaggio.

Proposta di traduzione di quattro scene dell'opera teatrale La souffrance d'Alexandre di Jean Louvet

Con questo elaborato intendo presentare la mia proposta di traduzione delle scene 1, 5, 7 e 9 dell'opera teatrale La Souffrance d'Alexandre di Jean Louvet e il relativo commento. L'elaborato si divide in tre capitoli: nel primo introduco l'autore Jean Louvet, parlando del suo teatro e del suo stile. Nel secondo capitolo presento l'opera La souffrance d'Alexandre, e nel terzo propongo la mia traduzione accompagnata dal relativo commento in cui illustro ogni problematica traduttiva incontrata e motivo ogni mia scelta traduttiva.