‘We’ the people—Collective lyric self in twenty-first-century poetry

Questions of positionality permeate 21st-century poetics—and seem to come to a head around the intentional inclusion/exclusion of the reader in the speaker’s pronoun of choice, especially when the pronoun in question is “we.” This essay contrasts the fragmented lyric self of modernism with current approaches to a lyric “we” and puts three contemporary poets in conversation: Nathaniel Mackey, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and Solmaz Sharif. Their voicings of a lyrical “we” are each presented as particularly fluid, complex, and distinct from the fragmented plurality of modernism: 1) Mackey’s jazzy and serial “we” in the “Song of the Andoumboulou”; 2) Gumbs’s “we” of summoned haunting voices; and 3) Sharif’s political “we” that is implicated in the layered relationships between speaker and a specific “you.” In putting these poets in conversation, the paper questions the supposed neutrality of a lyrical poetry without political stakes and gestures towards a poetics of entanglement

João de Alemquer: o mistério de um drama em inglês no espólio pessoano

Num dos envelopes do espólio pessoano, encontram-se 56 folhas dactilografadas, quase sem emendas, com o que aparenta ser boa parte de uma peça teatral em inglês. O problema: não há indicação de título, nem de autor. Será um inédito de Fernando Pessoa? Uma tradução inglesa de uma peça olvidada de outro dramaturgo português? Num momento em que o teatro pessoano ganha as suas primeiras edições crítico-genéticas, este trabalho investiga o misterioso texto, estabelecendo a sua autoria e sugerindo uma série de relações intertextuais entre Pessoa e dramaturgos portugueses com quem o poeta colaborou e/ou a quem desejou traduzir, incluindo: Victoriano Braga, Antonio Patricio, João da Câmara, José Castello de Moraes e Affonso Gayo

Tradições, Transcrições, Traduções: Por um Entendimento Rizomático do Fausto Pessoano

This article invites the reading of Fernando Pessoa’s Fausto as a rhizomatic work, via three different critical lenses that lead to plurality: Traditions, Transcriptions, and Translations. Regarding different Faustian traditions, instead of seeing Pessoa’s Fausto merely as a competition with Goethe (as proposed by Eduardo Lourenço in his preface to the 1988 edition), we argue for a broader intertextual network, supported by recent research that invokes the poet’s literary estate and private library. Concerning different transcriptions and instigated by the 2018 critical edition—that reclaims Manuel Gusmão’s idea of the “impossible poem” and forsakes an arrangement in 5 Acts—we discuss several ways in which the four printed editions of Fausto differ and how those differences entail diverging interpretations. In the last section, we explore the translation projects of multiple Faustian works that Pessoa both planned and undertook, and how those translations may have influenced the poet’s recreation of the Faustian legend

A Dielectric Loaded Resonator for the Measurement of the Complex Permittivity of Dielectric Substrates

A new configuration of dielectric-loaded resonator (DR), particularly versatile for the complex permittivity measurement of substrates for microwave circuits, even in the presence of back metal plates, is shown here. To test this technique in a wide interval of the values of the complex permittivity, the versatility of 3-D printing is exploited to print samples with different densities, thus artificially changing the effective permittivity in the interval (1.7-3.1) for the real part and (0.02-0.06) for the imaginary part. The designed resonator, tuned at -12 GHz, is experimentally validated by the comparison of measurements obtained on these samples with a split ring resonator (SRR) and standard transmission/reflection waveguide methods. Then, the versatility of the designed resonator is shown in the characterization of FR4-fiberglass and Kapton polyimide samples

Noninvasive patch resonator-based measurements on cultural heritage materials

In this work, a noninvasive microwave-based system for monitoring water content in stone materials used in Cultural Heritage structures is presented. By placing a planar resonator in contact with the considered stone sample, through reflection scattering parameter measurements, it is possible to associate the resonant frequency of the resonator to the moisture content of the stone sample. In this way, an experimental relationship between resonant frequency and moisture content can be obtained. Experimental tests are carried out on two types of materials, namely gentile and carparo stones: which are typically found in Cultural Heritage structures in Southern Italy and they are particularly affected by deterioration and decay phenomena. Measurements were performed for five levels of water content of the stone samples, and the empirical relationship between each considered level of water content and the corresponding measured quantity were derived. The obtained results demonstrate that this solution appears robust

A wearable heart rate measurement device for children with autism spectrum disorder

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by early impairment in social and communication domains and autonomic nervous system unbalance. This study evaluated heart rate (HR) as a possible indicator of stress response in children with ASD as compared to children with language disorder (LD). Twenty-four patients [mean age = 42.62 months; SD = 8.14 months,12 with ASD (10 M/2F) and 12 with LD (8 M/4F)] underwent clinical [Leiter International Performance Scale-Revised, Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, second edition (ADOS-2)] and physiological evaluation (HR monitoring) during five interactive activities, while wearing an HR measurement device. IQ (ASD:IQ = 103.33 ± 12.85 vs. LD:IQ = 111.00 ± 8.88, p = 0.103) and fluid reasoning on the Leiter-R Scale were within the normal range in all subjects. Increased HR during the third activity (ADOS-2 bubble play) significantly correlated with autistic symptoms (r = 0.415; p = 0.044), while correlations between ADOS-2 total score and HR during the first activity (ADOS-2 free play; r = 0.368; p = 0.077), second activity (Leiter-R figure ground subscale; r = 0.373, p = 0.073), and fifth activity (ADOS-2 anticipation of a routine with objects; r = 0.368; p = 0.076) did not quite reach statistical significance. Applying a linear regression model, we found that the ADOS-2 total score significantly influenced HR variations (p = 0.023). HR monitoring may provide a better understanding of the stress-provoking situations for children with ASD. Furthermore, it could help clinicians detect the impact of the stressful condition on the autistic core and adress treatment strategy

Health determinants in italian type 2 diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) patients : a critical gender differences analysis

Different studies described the important role of wellbeing, self-care and self-efficacy (i.e. health determinants) to achieve best health outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) patients. However, literature has paid little attention to highlight the possible gender differences related to the T2DM perception of those health determinants. For these reason, the aim of this study was to describe T2DM patients' gender differences related to their wellbeing, self-care and self-efficacy. This study was performed by a secondary analysis of data from a cross-sectional research, conducted in an outpatient setting in Northern Italy. Data was collected from March 2014 and July 2016 in a cohort of 115 T2DM outpatients, aged from 60 to 91 years (mean = 69.78 \ub1 7.11). Our results showed that men perceived more general wellbeing than women, and more diabetes specific self-efficacy. No differences seemed to be related to self-care. Indeed, the stratification by gender of the bivariate analysis allowed to identify many peculiarities related to wellbeing domains and self-efficacy. This study had a pioneering nuance in Italian assessment of T2DM health determinants, and it could have a number of future implications. Further empirical researches should provide more information to deeply understand the T2DM patients' peculiarities, which could help nurses to improve a personalized care delivery

Measurement results and improvements on an open EPR system

Electron spin resonance (ESR) is a spectroscopic method that allows to measure stable radicals induced by ionizing radiation. The EPR measurements can help to estimate the dose absorbed by people exposed during a nuclear disaster, detecting the number of radicals induced in their mobile phones due to the exposition [1]. Using conventional closed microwave cavities, the phone display must be fragmented in order to be introduced inside the resonator, becoming no more usable. The aim of this work is to develop a system, compatible with the spectrometer Bruker Elexys E500, able to preserve the sample integrity. The system uses an X-band resonant metallic cavity with a slit, realized on one side, for the leak of the excitation magnetic field and a Helmotz coil pair. The resonator allows measuring a sample lodged outside the cavity, while the coils produce a 100 kHz modulated field that encodes the output signal at a particular frequency and increases the SNR