Arsinoe II come dea attraverso le sue epiclesi cultuali

in Athenaeum : Studii Periodici di Letteratura e Storia (in press), 101.II

Dopo una introduzione storica e storiografica sul significato dei culti regali ellenistici, l’intervento esamina alcuni dei nomi divini attribuiti ad Arsinoe II nelle fonti letterarie e documentarie, con ... [more ▼]

Dopo una introduzione storica e storiografica sul significato dei culti regali ellenistici, l’intervento esamina alcuni dei nomi divini attribuiti ad Arsinoe II nelle fonti letterarie e documentarie, con l’eccezione dell’epiclesi esclusiva Philadelphos. Scopo della ricerca è 1) una valutazione delle strategie di inserimento della nuova dea nel pantheon tradizionale; 2) una riflessione sull’autoconsapevolezza degli antichi in relazione alla propria tradizione religiosa, per come essa si manifesta attraverso l’oculata manipolazione di un elemento essenziale nella definizione della divinità, qual è il nome divino. Un’Appendice elenca, in tre tabelle, tutte le denominazioni greche di Arsinoe II (esclusa Philadelphos), fornendo indicazioni sulla fonte, la sua collocazione spaziale e temporale e sulla divinità tradizionale di riferimento. [less ▲]

A Bayesian Design Space for analytical methods based on multivariate models and predictions

in Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics (in press)

The International Conference for Harmonization (ICH) has released regulatory guidelines for Pharmaceutical Development. In the document ICH Q8, The Design Space of a process is presented as the set of ... [more ▼]

The International Conference for Harmonization (ICH) has released regulatory guidelines for Pharmaceutical Development. In the document ICH Q8, The Design Space of a process is presented as the set of factor settings providing satisfactory results. However, ICH Q8 does not propose any practical methodology to define, derive and compute Design Space. In parallel, in the last decades, it has been observed that the diversity and the quality of analytical methods have evolved exponentially allowing substantial gains in selectivity and sensitivity. However, there is still a lack for a rationale towards the development of robust separation methods in a systematic way. Applying ICH Q8 to analytical methods provides a methodology for predicting a region of the space of factors in which results will be reliable. Combining design of experiments and Bayesian standard multivariate regression, an identified form of the predictive distribution of a new response vector has been identified and used, under non-informative as well as informative prior distributions of the parameters. From the responses and their predictive distribution, various critical quality attributes can be easily derived. This Bayesian framework was then extended to the multi-criteria setting to estimate the predictive probability that several critical quality attributes will be jointly achieved in the future use of an analytical method. An example based on a high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method is given. For this example, a constrained sampling scheme was applied to ensure the modeled responses have desirable properties. [less ▲]

Item familiarity and controlled associative retrieval in Alzheimer's disease: An fMRI study

in Cortex : A Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System & Behavior (in press)

What do latest Famennian and Misissippian miospores from South American diamictites tell us?

in Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments (in press)

Lotze entre Angleterre et Amérique.

in Lotze et son héritage. Son influence et son impact sur la philosophie du XXème siècle (in press)

"Die Komödie muss aus werden". Schwellenbewusstsein und Selbstreflexivität bei Arthur Schnitzler: "Die kleine Komödie" von 1895

in Liebrand e.a., Claudia (Ed.) Vielheit und Einheit der Germanistik weltweit: Kongressakten. Sektionen 47, 60 und 34 (in press)

Reconstructing and Tracking Network State from a Limited Number of Synchrophasor Measurements

in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (in press)

A method is proposed to reconstruct and track network state from a limited number of Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) data. To deal with the resulting unobservability, the state with bus powers and generator ... [more ▼]

A method is proposed to reconstruct and track network state from a limited number of Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) data. To deal with the resulting unobservability, the state with bus powers and generator voltages closest to previously estimated values is computed. Those values, treated as pseudomeasurements, are obtained from the last reconstructed state, in a recursive manner. The method involves solving an optimization problem with linear constraints. It is scalable insofar as it accommodates from a few PMUs up to configurations ensuring full network observability. Reconstruction of only a region is possible. These and other features are demonstrated on the Nordic32 test system, with synchronized phasors obtained from detailed time simulation of a situation evolving towards instability. Suitable choices of PMU location and pseudo-measurements are also discussed. [less ▲]

Compte-rendu de PRANGE (Mélanie) . Der Konstanzer Domschatz. Quellentexte zu einem verlorenen Schatzensemble des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit. Stuttgart, W. Kohlhammer Verlag, 2012 ; un vol. 16 X 24 cm, LXXII-149 p. , ill. ( VERÖFFENTLICHUNGEN DER KOMMISSION FÜR GESCHICHTLICHE LANDESKUNDE IN BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG, Série A, Quellen, t. 56) - ISBN 978-3-17-022536-7.-rendu de

in Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire (in press)

Depths and type of substrate influence the ability of Nasonia vitripennis Walker (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) to encounter host

in Journal of Insect Science [=JIS] (in press)

The foraging behaviour of a parasitoid insect species includes the host’s habitat and subsequent location of the host. Habitats-substrate, substrate moisture and light levels can affect the host location ... [more ▼]

The foraging behaviour of a parasitoid insect species includes the host’s habitat and subsequent location of the host. Habitats-substrate, substrate moisture and light levels can affect the host location made by different species of parasitoids. However, the depth at which parasitoids concentrate their search effort is an another important ecological characteristic and play an important role on the host location. Here, we have investigated the ability of a pupal parasitoid, Nasonia vitripennis Walker, to penetrate and kill fly pupae located at different depth of the substrate. Three different types of substrate were tested: loam soil, compost and vermiculite substrate. In both loam soil and compost, all of the parasitism activity was restricted to pupae placed directly on the surface. Parasitism activity in vermiculite showed that the average number of pupae parasitized was decreased with depth. These results suggest that fly pupae situated deeper in the substrate are less subjected to parasitism by N. vitripennis. [less ▲]

Three-dimensional orbits of the triple-O stellar system HD 150136

in Astronomy and Astrophysics (in press)

Context. HD 150136 is a triple hierarchical system and a non-thermal radio emitter. It is formed by an O3-3.5 V + O5.5-6 V close binary and a more distant O6.5-7 V tertiary. So far, only the inner orbital ... [more ▼]

Context. HD 150136 is a triple hierarchical system and a non-thermal radio emitter. It is formed by an O3-3.5 V + O5.5-6 V close binary and a more distant O6.5-7 V tertiary. So far, only the inner orbital properties have been reliably constrained. Aims. To quantitatively understand the non-thermal emission process, accurate knowledge of the physical and orbital properties of the object is crucial. Here, we aim to investigate the orbital properties of the wide system and to constrain the inclinations of the inner and outer binaries, and with these the absolute masses of the system components. Methods. We used the PIONIER combiner at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer to obtain the very first interferometric measurements of HD 150136. We combined the interferometric observations with new and existing high resolution spectroscopic data to derive the orbital solution of the outer companion in the three-dimensional space. Results. The wide system is clearly resolved by PIONIER, with a projected separation on the plane of the sky of about 9 milli-arcsec. The best-fit orbital period, eccentricity, and inclination are 8.2 yr, 0.73 and 108 degr. We constrain the masses of the three stars of the system to 63 +/- 10, 40 +/- 6, and 33 +/- 12 Msun for the O3-3.5 V, O5.5-6 V and O6.5-7 V components. Conclusions. The dynamical masses agree within errors with the evolutionary masses of the components. Future interferometric and spectroscopic monitoring of HD 150136 should allow one to reduce the uncertainties to a few per cent only and to accurately constrain the distance to the system. This makes HD 150136 an ideal system to quantitatively test evolutionary models of high-mass stars as well as the physics of non-thermal processes occurring in O-type systems. [less ▲]