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Images of hundreds of men gathering outside the former headquarters of the Italian post-fascist party (Movimento Sociale Italiano – MSI), giving the Roman salute in Acca Larentia (Roma) on the 8th of January 2024, have sparked numerous controversies in Italy. The Roman salute was paired with the Fascist ritual of the “roll call”, whereby a leader calls out the name of a fallen soldier and his comrades shout “presente!”. While one would expect the President of the Senate, facing an incident that stirred political controversy, to reason in more institutional terms rather than strictly legally, La Russa was partially correct in stating that the current Italian legal framework is (still) not sufficiently clear and coherent on the matter.

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Abstract Background Most Bayesian models for the analysis of complex traits are not analytically tractable and inferences are based on computationally intensive techniques. This is true of Bayesian models for genome-enabled selection, which uses whole-genome molecular data to predict the genetic merit of candidate animals for breeding purposes. In this regard, parallel computing can overcome the bottlenecks that can arise from series computing. Hence, a major goal of the present study is to bridge the gap to high-performance Bayesian computation in the context of animal breeding and genetics. Results Parallel Monte Carlo Markov chain algorithms and strategies are described in the context of animal breeding and genetics. Parallel Monte Carlo algorithms are introduced as a starting point including their applications to computing single-parameter and certain multiple-parameter models. Then, two basic approaches for parallel Markov chain Monte Carlo are described: one aims at parallelization within a single chain; the other is based on running multiple chains, yet some variants are discussed as well. Features and strategies of the parallel Markov chain Monte Carlo are illustrated using real data, including a large beef cattle dataset with 50K SNP genotypes. Conclusions Parallel Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms are useful for computing complex Bayesian models, which does not only lead to a dramatic speedup in computing but can also be used to optimize model parameters in complex Bayesian models. Hence, we anticipate that use of parallel Markov chain Monte Carlo will have a profound impact on revolutionizing the computational tools for genomic selection programs.

O artigo aborda as versões para o teatro e para a televisão da peça Não eu (1972) de Samuel Beckett. Levando-se em conta a autonomia de cada um desses meios artísticos, pretende-se mostrar como a peça coloca em cena dois aspectos transversais da produção tardia do autor: a redução do corpo a um fragmento do mesmo, no caso, à boca da personagem em fala contínua; e a constituição de uma experiência subjetiva pautada não mais pelo questionamento da primeira pessoa, tal como se observava em trabalhos anteriores de Beckett, mas por sua reiterada negação, com o consequente deslocamento da primeira para a terceira pessoa.

O artigo procura situar a interpretação proposta por Theodor W. Adorno para a peça "Fim de partida", de Samuel Beckett, no contexto de sua concepção de autonomia da arte. Segundo a hipótese do trabalho, o conceito de autonomia subjaz ao diagnóstico histórico de Adorno a respeito do gênero dramático, o qual justifica sua leitura da peça como uma paródia do drama. O artigo busca mostrar os acertos dessa leitura perante a recepção inicial da peça, e também seus limites, uma vez que resulta em uma abordagem da experiência teatral focada primordialmente na consideração do texto teatral, em detrimento da encenação.

Harmonium is a vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) photon source built within the Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS). Utilising high harmonic generation, photons from 20–110 eV are available to conduct steady-state or ultrafast photoelectron and photoion spectroscopies (PES and PIS). A pulse preserving monochromator provides either high energy resolution (70 meV) or high temporal resolution (40 fs). Three endstations have been commissioned for: a) PES of liquids; b) angular resolved PES (ARPES) of solids and; c) coincidence PES and PIS of gas phase molecules or clusters. The source has several key advantages: high repetition rate (up to 15 kHz) and high photon flux (1011 photons per second at 38 eV). The capabilities of the facility complement the Swiss ultrafast and X-ray community (SwissFEL, SLS, NCCR MUST, etc.) helping to maintain Switzerland's leading role in ultrafast science in the world.

The manipulation of the electronic properties of solids by light is an exciting goal, which requires knowledge of the electronic structure with energy, momentum and temporal resolution. Time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (tr-ARPES) is the most direct probe of the effects of an optical excitation on the band structure of a material. In particular, tr-ARPES in the extreme ultraviolet (VUV) range gives access to the ultrafast dynamics over the entire Brillouin zone. VUV tr-ARPES experiments can now be performed at the ASTRA (ARPES Spectrometer for Time-Resolved Applications) end station of Harmonium, at LACUS. Its capabilities are illustrated by measurements of the ultrafast electronic response of ZrSiTe, a novel topological semimetal characterized by linearly dispersing states located at the Brillouin zone boundary.

O artigo aborda a versão de Heiner Müller para o Material Fatzer, de Bertolt Brecht, a qual foi publicada com o título de O declínio do egoísta Johann Fatzer. Discute-se a relação do Fatzer com o gênero brechtiano da peça de aprendizagem (Lehrstück), bem como sua atualidade no contexto do ressurgimento do terrorismo na Alemanha dos anos 1970, com o intuito de verificar o alcance do questionamento dos pressupostos artísticos e históricos do teatro pedagógico encontrado por Müller no esboço de Brecht.

O artigo discute a encenação de Fim de partida realizada por Samuel Beckett no Schiller Theater de Berlim em 1967. O ponto de partida é o debate recente entre a autonomia do drama, proposta pela teoria da tragédia de Christoph Menke, a teoria do teatro pós-dramático de Hans-Thies Lehmann. O artigo sustenta que nenhuma das duas abordagens é suficiente para compreender o trabalho de Beckett como encenador, pois este exige tanto a análise da materialidade da cena, ausente no estudo sobre a autonomia do drama, quanto elementos dos gêneros épico e dramático, os quais são pouco discutidos pela teoria do teatro pós-dramático. O artigo busca demonstrar que o trabalho de Beckett como encenador, para além de sua relevância para os estudos sobre o autor, tem muito a contribuir para o debate sobre teatro contemporâneo.

O artigo aborda a peça Descrição de imagem, de Heiner Müller, como um exemplo de sua dramaturgia tardia. Pela análise dos diversos movimentos do texto, busca-se entender a qualificação, dada pelo próprio Müller em sua autobiografia, da peça como um autodrama, termo que remeteria, segundo a hipótese do artigo, a um confronto com o gênero brechtiano da peça de aprendizagem (Lehrstück).

The paper re-articulates the relation between immigration and citizenship in a gender perspective. The analysis of citizenship practices exercised by migrant women in the local context allows to make visible their mobilization and participation to the public sphere. The analysis, based on interviews with the presidents of the migrants associations in Campania, explores the reasons whereby migrants women undertake participatory activities within their associations, the ways in which they move from informal networks to formal associations and take leadership, as well as barriers and factors that can help to overcome them. The actions of migrant women engaged in the voluntary sector show their capacity to intervene politically and socially, even when they are not recognized as citizens, challenging our idea of citizenship and showing the growing importance of the practices of citizenship.

ENThe aim of this article is to analyze in which way and terms the incorporation of canonical attitudes and linguistic behaviors of the postmodern culture is included in the novel Por favor, rebobinar (1998), from the Chilean writer and filmmaker Alberto Fuguet. We will underline the modalities –sometimes merely descriptive, some others ironic or critical– according to which the urban and night scene of Santiago of Chile reflects the fragmentation in human exchanges and the fleetingness of the values of the present age. As theoretical frame, in the first part of our work we will survey the sociocultural dynamics that have determined the passage of the modernity to the postmodern epoch, by stressing the way that have been adopted from Fuguet's literature to includes and reflect the paradigms and speeches of the post modernity, which have been processed and expressed in the literary production of Latin America. In the second part of our essay we adapt the previous reflections to the novel, putting in evidence how - inside the plurality of the voices that tell the story – fiction protagonists demonstrate a loss of sensibility, that is related to a diminished aptitude to perceive the external sensations and to process the environment inputs. Keywords: Alberto Fuguet – Chilean literature – Narrative of post modernity – Metanarratives – Absence of centers.ESEl presente trabajo se propone analizar de qué manera y en que términos la presencia de actitudes y comportamientos lingüísticos canónicos de la cultura postmoderna se manifiesta en la novela Por favor, rebobinar (1998), del escritor y cineasta chileno Alberto Fuguet. Se subrayarán las modalidades, a veces meramente descriptivas, otras irónicas o críticas, según las cuales el escenario urbano y nocturno de Santiago de Chile refleja –en los diálogos articulados por Fuguet– la fragmentación de los intercambios humanos y la fugacidad de los valores de la época presente. Como marco teórico, en la primera parte del texto se pasará revista a las dinámicas socioculturales que han determinado el pasaje de la modernidad a la época postmoderna, poniendo de relieve la manera sesgada en que los paradigmas y discursos de la postmodernidad, que han sido procesados y expresados en la producción literaria de América Latina, han sido adoptados por la literatura de Fuguet. En al segunda parte del ensayo se adaptan las reflexiones anteriores a la novela poniendo en evidencia cómo –dentro de la pluralidad de las voces que relatan– se evidencia una pérdida de sensibilidad de los protagonistas ficcionales, que se acompaña de una disminuida capacidad para percibir las sensaciones y procesar los estímulos externos.Palabras clave: Alberto Fuguet – Literatura chilena – Narrativa de la postmodernidad – Metanarrativas – Desterritorialización.

O artigo examina a abordagem feita por Walter Benjamin da concepção de modernidade apresentada pelo poeta e crítico de arte Charles Baudelaire. Após o exame da ideia de beleza moderna nos textos de crítica de Baudelaire, são abordados os motivos da preferência de Benjamin pela apresentação da modernidade na poesia de Baudelaire, particularmente no poema alegórico "Le cygne". Por fim, o texto enfoca a relação entre a poesia moderna de Baudelaire e a concepção de experiência de Benjamin.The paper investigates the approach made by Walter Benjamin of Charles Baudelaire's conception of modernity. After examining the idea of modern beauty in Baudelaire's critical texts, the reasons of Benjamin's preference for the presentation of modernity in Baudelaire's poetry are analized, particularly, in the allegorical poem "Le cygne". At last, the paper focuses on the relation between Baudelaire's modern poetry and Benjamin's concept of experience.

Dieser Aufsatz präsentiert einen Überblick über die Korpuslinguistik und stellt einige Untersuchungsmöglichkeiten mit Korpora dar. Er gibt Ratschläge zum Aufbau eines Korpus und berichtet über die Verwendung der Korpuslinguistik in verschiedenen Bereichen der linguistischen Forschung.

Für Lernende des Portugiesischen bzw. des Deutschen als Fremdsprache stellt der Konjuntiv eine Lernschwierigkeit dar. Ausgehend von syntaktischen und pragmatischen Kategorien wird hier versucht, eine Klassifikation des Konjunktivs durchzuführen, die seinen Gebrauch beschreibt und einen Vergleich des portugiesischen subjuntivo mit dem deutschen Konjunktiv ermöglicht.

Disulfoxides with atropisomeric backbones are introduced as readily available chiral ligands for the rhodium-catalyzed 1,4-addition of arylboronic acids to unsaturated carbonyl compounds. The ligands are obtained in pure form from either commercially available or easily synthesized starting materials. Precatalysts with general formula {(disulfoxide)RhCl}2 were prepared in high yield and were fully characterized. Preliminary results on the influence of steric and electronic modifications of the ligand structure and their impact on the catalytic behavior are presented.

Obesity is a major risk factor for the development of conditions such as hypertension, hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia, coronary artery disease and cancer. Several pieces of evidence, including data in primates, have demonstrated the beneficial effects of histamine-3 receptor (H3R) inverse agonists in the regulation of food intake and body weight. A pharmacophore model based on selected published H3R ligands and validated by previous investigations, was used to identify the 5-oxy-2-carboxamide-indole core as a novel series of H3R inverse agonists. Extensive structure–activity relationship (SAR) investigations were rewarded by the identification of several compounds reversing (R)-?-methyl-histamine-induced water intake increase and reducing food intake/body weight in rodent models of obesity. Among those compounds, (4,4-difluoro-piperidin-1-yl)-[1-isopropyl-5-(1-isopropyl-piperidin-4-yloxy)-1H-indol-2-yl]-methanone, selected as a lead compound, was exhibiting a promising profile, including excellent pharmacokinetic properties, good in vitro safety profile and high efficacy in a chronic rodent model of obesity.