Images from the Past. Intertextuality in Japanese Premodern Literature

This volume brings together scholars from different backgrounds and career stages to rethink the role and scope of intertextuality in the context of premodern Japan. From antiquity to the rise of modernity, originality through repetition persists as a staple in the literary, performative, and artistic traditions of this country. Nonetheless, rather than slavish recycling of pre-existing tropes, the redeployment of familiar motifs by patterns of borrowing, allusion, and imitation would become a means to explore untrodden creative pathways and craft a shared sense of cultural belonging. Stemming from an international symposium hosted at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in 2021 with the generous support of The Japan Foundation, the papers in this collection offer a thoughtful contribution to this debate by engaging texts from different historical periods, media, and genres – be it poetic, narrative, theatrical, visual, or religious. Although intertextuality may not be a new topic, the essays that follow attest to the enduring appeal of a concept whose explanatory power proves most effective when combined with other methods of inquiry, such as discourse analysis, social sciences, gender studies, and material culture. Thus, while opening new windows onto Japan’s literary worlds, these cross-disciplinary approaches provide further insights into the uses (and abuses) of the past in a non-Western non-modern society

Il rapporto capitale/lavoro nel capitalismo cognitivo

Nel passaggio dal capitalismo industriale al capitalismo cognit ivo, il rapporto capitale/ lavoro é segnato da una trasformazione radicale. Essa riguarda in maniera indissociabile il modo di produrre, la composizione di classe sulla quale poggia la valorizzazione del capitale ed infine le forme di dist ribuzione del reddito fra salario,rendita e profitto. L'obiet t ivo di questo articolo è di ricostruire le caratteristiche essenziali e la posta in gioco di questa grande trasformazione. Per farlo, procederemo in tre tappe. Dopo aver ricordato l'origine e il senso storico del processo che hacondotto all egemonia del lavoro cognit ivo, analizzeremo i principali stilemi chepermettono di definire l'attuale mutazione del rapporto capitale/ lavoro. Per finire,mostreremo perché il ruolo sempre più centrale della rendita spiazza i termini del conflitto tradizionale fondato sull opposizione salario/ profitto d'impresa

Il rapporto capitale/lavoro nel capitalismo cognitivo

Nel passaggio dal capitalismo industriale al capitalismo cognit ivo, il rapporto capitale/ lavoro é segnato da una trasformazione radicale. Essa riguarda in maniera indissociabile il modo di produrre, la composizione di classe sulla quale poggia la valorizzazione del capitale ed infine le forme di dist ribuzione del reddito fra salario,rendita e profitto. L'obiet t ivo di questo articolo è di ricostruire le caratteristiche essenziali e la posta in gioco di questa grande trasformazione. Per farlo, procederemo in tre tappe. Dopo aver ricordato l'origine e il senso storico del processo che hacondotto all egemonia del lavoro cognit ivo, analizzeremo i principali stilemi chepermettono di definire l'attuale mutazione del rapporto capitale/ lavoro. Per finire,mostreremo perché il ruolo sempre più centrale della rendita spiazza i termini del conflitto tradizionale fondato sull opposizione salario/ profitto d'impresa.rapporto capitale/lavoro, Welfare, salario, rendita profitto, composizione di classe

Sex and age differences in health expenditure in Northern Italy

BACKGROUND: Little is known about the health care spending distribution across the age and sex gradient in European systems. The aim of the present study is to examine gender and age differences in health care utilization in Lombardy, Italy. METHODS: We analysed administrative data for the year 2010 in Lombardy (the largest Italian region, with about 10 million inhabitant) including spending for inpatient and outpatient services and pharmaceuticals. Data were aggregated across age and sex. RESULTS: Lombardy in 2010 spent around 10.2 billion €, 51% of which for women. Age-standardized per-patient expenditure was however 5% lower for females than for males on average. Per-patient spending on elderly women (>65) was around 75% of the spending on men of the same age group. Further, health expenditure was higher for men for the treatment of chronic diseases. Importantly, the difference persisted after allowance of history chronic conditions. CONCLUSIONS: Our results are in sharp contrast with the US based literature showing that health expenditure in women is greater than in men. This may reflect inadequate attention to health care of women in Ital

Pancreatic cancer mortality in Europe: the leveling of an epidemic

Mortality rates from pancreatic cancer have increased throughout Europe between the late 1950s and the 1980s. Trends in 22 European countries, the European Union (EU) and 6 selected eastern European countries have been updated using official death certification data for pancreatic cancer abstracted from the WHO database over the period 1980 to 1999. In EU men, a rise from 7.2 to 7.5/100,000 was observed between the early and the late 1980s, followed by a leveling off in the 1990s. For women, rates tended to rise up to the early 1990s, and to level off thereafter around 4.7/100,000. In eastern countries, rates for both sexes rose between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s, and leveled off thereafter around 8.5/100,000 men and 5/100,000 women. Thus, rates for men only were higher in Eastern Europe than in the EU. This analysis first documents a leveling of pancreatic cancer mortality in Europe, after decades of steady rises. This is partly or largely attributable to the decline in smoking, at least in men, but other factors, including mainly nutrition and diet, may also have played some role on these trends. [Authors]]]> Mortality ; Pancreatic Neoplasms oai:serval.unil.ch:BIB_F326E20D1607 2022-05-07T01:30:01Z openaire documents urnserval <oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"> https://serval.unil.ch/notice/serval:BIB_F326E20D1607 Mouse Grueneberg ganglion neurons share molecular and functional features with C. elegans amphid neurons. info:doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00193 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00193 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pmid/24367309 Brechbühl, J. Moine, F. Broillet, M.C. info:eu-repo/semantics/article article 2013 Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, vol. 7, pp. 193 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/eissn/1662-5153 urn:issn:1662-5153 <![CDATA[The mouse Grueneberg ganglion (GG) is an olfactory subsystem located at the tip of the nose close to the entry of the naris. It comprises neurons that are both sensitive to cold temperature and play an important role in the detection of alarm pheromones (APs). This chemical modality may be essential for species survival. Interestingly, GG neurons display an atypical mammalian olfactory morphology with neurons bearing deeply invaginated cilia mostly covered by ensheathing glial cells. We had previously noticed their morphological resemblance with the chemosensory amphid neurons found in the anterior region of the head of Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans). We demonstrate here further molecular and functional similarities. Thus, we found an orthologous expression of molecular signaling elements that was furthermore restricted to similar specific subcellular localizations. Calcium imaging also revealed a ligand selectivity for the methylated thiazole odorants that amphid neurons are known to detect. Cellular responses from GG neurons evoked by chemical or temperature stimuli were also partially cGMP-dependent. In addition, we found that, although behaviors depending on temperature sensing in the mouse, such as huddling and thermotaxis did not implicate the GG, the thermosensitivity modulated the chemosensitivity at the level of single GG neurons. Thus, the striking similarities with the chemosensory amphid neurons of C. elegans conferred to the mouse GG neurons unique multimodal sensory properties

Wide flat minima and optimal generalization in classifying high-dimensional Gaussian mixtures

We analyze the connection between minimizers with good generalizing properties and high local entropy regions of a threshold-linear classifier in Gaussian mixtures with the mean squared error loss function. We show that there exist configurations that achieve the Bayes-optimal generalization error, even in the case of unbalanced clusters. We explore analytically the error-counting loss landscape in the vicinity of a Bayes-optimal solution, and show that the closer we get to such configurations, the higher the local entropy, implying that the Bayes-optimal solution lays inside a wide flat region. We also consider the algorithmically relevant case of targeting wide flat minima of the (differentiable) mean squared error loss. Our analytical and numerical results show not only that in the balanced case the dependence on the norm of the weights is mild, but also, in the unbalanced case, that the performances can be improved