Archaeology and archaeological discourse in pre-Independence Malta

This paper argues that the institution of the Missione Archeologica Italiana a Malta in 1963 is the offspring of the archaeological policies endorsed by the Nationalist Party (PN) that guided Malta to Independence. By looking at the archaeological debate in 1950s - early 1960s Malta this paper suggests that the revival of post-prehistoric studies by the Italians suited the cultural aspirations of the PN government and provided an effective answer to the colonial control of the discipline set out earlier by the British with the Malta Ancient Monuments Survey.peer-reviewe

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Effect of extrusion, espansion and toasting on the nutritional value of peas, faba beans and lupins

An assessment was made of the effect that different treatments (toasting, expansion, extrusion) have on the nutritionalvalue of protein plants (pea, faba bean, lupin). In a randomized block design, feeds were screened for enzymaticdigestibility of starch and protein, N solubility and in vitro protein degradability. Expansion and extrusion cause increasedstarch enzymatic degradability while toasting produced virtually no effects. In peas this value increased from 11.80% inmeal to 39.70% in the extruded product; 85.37% is the percentage for the expanded product, while 10.90% is the starchdigestibility value for toasted peas. In faba beans the extrusion process increased starch digestibility from 11.39% to85.05%, while in extruded lupins a complete starch hydrolysis was obtained, while in the meal the polysaccharide digestionwas 54.48%.The expansion and extrusion processes significantly decreased rumen degradability during the first 8 hours of incubation.Toasted peas had lower degradability if compared with controls but not with the other treatments. The onlypotentially alternative source to soybean is the extruded faba bean. In spite of its lower protein content, this feed ischaracterized by a considerably lower in vitro protein degradability than soybean. This implies that the digestible foodprotein content is comparable (124.90 g/kg DM) to that of soybean (109.78 g/kg DM) and definitely higher than thatof all other protein plants

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Il raggio di luce e la mitezza: una lettura del Paradiso dantesco

La metafora della luce è considerata fra quelle “metaforiche” che Blumenberg definisce “assolute”, in quanto capaci di rappresentare il “tutto” del mondo, altrimenti inesprimibile. La luce e i termini ad essa correlati costituiscono forse il campo semantico più prolifico nella costruzione simbolica dell’immaginario umano e si configura come un archetipo fondamentale, a cui la lingua attinge fin dagli albori della letteratura universale.  Nel suo libro Come un raggio nell’acqua. Dante e la relazione con l’altro, La Porta compie una lettura originale del Paradiso di Dante, percorrendo un viaggio, che a tratti può apparire temerario ma sempre brillantemente giustificato, attraverso le immagini metaforiche che attingono al campo semantico della luce e che innervano la Terza Cantica, con uno sguardo attento a ciò che possono comunicare al nostro mondo post-contemporaneo.

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