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Trends in telehealth technologies have promoted a unique collaboration between nursing and biomedical engineering faculty in a training program at the Catholic University of America. The goalof the program is to prepare future nurses and biomedical engineers to collaborate in providing improved health care services for the elderly living at home. Nursing faculty provide graduate biomedical engineering students with information on nursing assessment, clinical foundations, and care of the elderly as a knowledge base to improve their designs of technology for this population. In return, undergraduate nursing students are given the opportunity to obtain a hands-on experience with new and emerging telehealth technologies in home care and to expand their therapeutic communication skills.

This descriptive study identified factors that influenced the receptiveness, use and acceptance of telehealth videophones by 21 family caregivers of stroke patients in the home setting. Potential obstacles to the receptiveness towards videophones included concerns by the caregiver about maintaining home security, limited need for health care support, very low or high degree of burden in caregiving, and discomfort or disinterest in using technology. Identification of possible impediments to the use of videophones is vital prior to developing and evaluating programs using telehealth as a method of rehabilitative technology.

Introduzione alla poesia neerlandese del Novecento, a partire dagli autori antologizzati nel volume.

Introduzione alla letteratura di migranti nei Paesi Bassi (1994-2010)

Il teatro nella Repubblica delle Province Unite.

Introduzione alla poesia rinascimentale "moderna" nei Paesi Bassi, tra 1565 e 1615.

Due poeti novecenteschi di scuola fenomenologica a confronto: l'uno, Sereni, si confronta con Amsterdam e la memoria dell'Olocausto, l'atro, Kopland, con lo scabro paesaggio pugliese e la vanità di qualsiasi narrazione mitica e possibilità di sovrainterpretazione della realtà.

Il contributo presenta la cosiddetta letteratura neerlandese di migranti, illustrando il dibattito critico sull'opportunità di questa definizione e analizzando l'opera di due narratori - Hafid Bouazza e Abdelkader Banali - nella prospettiva degli studi postcoloniali.

Studio dell'opera degli anni novanta del romanziere olandese Arnon Grunberg.

Il saggio esamina l’uso didattico delle canzoni nello studio della fonologia e del lessico della lingua finlandese. L'uso della musica nell'apprendimento delle lingue straniere è una pratica consolidata, trattata in numerosi contributi teorici e pratici. Nel nostro caso, il canto è stato inserito per sviluppare la competenza della fonologia finlandese con un approccio partecipativo e stimolante per gli studenti. Una buona competenza nella fonologia L2 favorisce, a sua volta, l’apprendimento del lessico: un’idea poco precisa della forma fonetica delle nuove unità lessicali rende più complessa la loro memorizzazione. Per gli studenti principianti le canzoni per bambini e i canti popolari si sono dimostrati utili nel sostenere l’apprendimento della pronuncia, della prosodia e del lessico base.

Lungi dall’essere un nazionalista ante litteram, un autore che con la sua attività letteraria divide e allontana, Maerlant, al contrario, facilita l’incontro tra mondi culturali e linguistici diversi. Il suo lavoro di adattamento e rielaborazione di fonti francesi e, soprattutto, latine permette la circolazione nell’area neerlandese di testi che fino a quel momento, nella grande maggioranza dei casi, non erano disponibili in lingua volgare. Maerlant, perciò, non solo arricchisce il patrimonio di una letteratura agli albori come quella neerlandese, scrivendo più di qualsiasi altro autore a lui contemporaneo, ma permette allo stesso tempo la fruizione in volgare di testi altrimenti inaccessibili ad un pubblico non colto, come la Bibbia, ad esempio.

We present the results from a $\sim500$ ks Chandra observation of the $z=6.31$ QSO SDSS J1030+0524. This is the deepest X-ray observation to date of a $z\sim6$ QSO. The QSO is detected with a total of 125 net counts in the full ($0.5-7$ keV) band and its spectrum can be modeled by a single power-law model with photon index of $\Gamma = 1.81 \pm 0.18$ and full band flux of $f=3.95\times 10^{-15}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$. When compared with the data obtained by XMM-Newton in 2003, our Chandra observation in 2017 shows a harder ($\Delta \Gamma \approx -0.6$) spectrum and a 2.5 times fainter flux. Such a variation, in a timespan of $\sim2$ yrs rest-frame, is unexpected for such a luminous QSO powered by a $> 10^9 \: M_{\odot}$ black hole. The observed source hardening and weakening could be related to an intrinsic variation in the accretion rate. However, the limited photon statistics does not allow us to discriminate between an intrinsic luminosity and spectral change, and an absorption event produced by an intervening gas cloud along the line of sight. We also report the discovery of diffuse X-ray emission that extends for 30"x20" southward the QSO with a signal-to-noise ratio of $\sim$6, hardness ratio of $HR=0.03_{-0.25}^{+0.20}$, and soft band flux of $f_{0.5-2 \: keV}= 1.1_{-0.3}^{+0.3} \times 10^{-15}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$, that is not associated to a group or cluster of galaxies. We discuss two possible explanations for the extended emission, which may be either associated with the radio lobe of a nearby, foreground radio galaxy (at $z \approx 1-2$), or ascribed to the feedback from the QSO itself acting on its surrounding environment, as proposed by simulations of early black hole formation., Comment: 13 pages, 9 figures, A&A accepted

On May 23, 1641 the play Herdoopers anslagh op Amsterdam ( Anabaptists' attack on Amsterdam ) was performed at the Amsterdam Schouwburg. It was written by the physician and theatre regent P.A. Codde. In this article I question the potential of the play to claim legitimation and recognition for the ancient Catholic elite of the city and to contribute to contemporary debates about city identity, the role of Catholics in this, and the reconsideration of the narrative of the Dutch Revolt.

Introduzione al volume "Minatori di memorie". Storia e importanza delle miniere nella cultura, nella pittura, nella musica europea.

Il saggio analizza gli sconfinamenti tra generi, testi e identità nella scrittura del finlandese Mia Kankimäki, scrittrice contemporanea. Nella sua opera d'esordio l'autrice si muove nel confine tra autobiografia, biografia storica e fiction, e si sposta dal saggio al racconto della propria ridefinizione identitaria.

In the last years considerable research had been carried out on Loukaris’ international networks. Thanks to the first Dutch ambassador to the Ottoman Emire, Cornelis Haga, the patriarch became more and more connected to the Dutch foreign policy and to the Gomarist wing of the Dutch reformed Church, like the Huguenot André Rivet, which operated to spread calvinism among the Greek Orthodox. As a result, Arminians like Uytenbogaert or Grotius – whose interest in Eastern Christianity during his last years, when he devoted himself to the irenicist struggle, has been underestimated – became growingly estranged from him. In this article I will discuss the way in which the patriarch was used as argumentative weapon by André Rivet and Hugo Grotius in their theological disputation between 1642 and 1646.

In this article I analyse the evolution of Ramsey Nasr (Rotterdam 1974) from neo-romantic to committed “political” poet. I particularly focus on the way he positioned himself, poetically and mediatically, during the years 2009-2013 – a period of economic crisis and social and political unrest – in his capacity of Poet Laureate of The Netherlands, a highly symbolic function. Supposed to represent the “nation”, in public lectures/performances he fully engaged in the polarised debate around the boundaries of historical and contemporary Dutchness. Being self half-allochtonous (Dutch-Palestinian) with a transcultural background, in his poetry he performed a multiple, plural, instable personal and collective identity, questioning any essentialistic and seemingly stable definition of the Dutch cultural identity, as of any other identity construction: the Christian, the Calvinist, the European etc. Nasr did not hesitate to provoke the political establishment, by topicalizing and investigating traumas in Dutch history and in contemporary society (Holocaust, multiculturalism and integration of Muslim migrants, Israeli-Palestinian conflict etc). Instead of erasing these traumas from collective memory, or turning them into museum-pieces, he stated the necessity for everyone to meditate on them in new, daring, hybridized forms., LEA - Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente, Vol 2 (2013)

In this contribution I focus on the poet Albert Verwey (1865-1937) and on his activity as literary historian, in particular for what concerns his role in Jan van der Noot's canonization as a forerunner of the Golden Age.

Introduzione alla letteratura della migrazione nei Paesi Bassi contemporanei: contesto storico-culturale, presentazione di autori e questioni, stato dell'arte, studi, traduzioni e ricezione in Italia.

Analisi dei meccanismi memoriali e delle loro rese letterarie in una raccola di racconti di F. Pointl e un romanzo di M. Minco.

During the first, crucial years of the Dutch Revolt against Spain, Amsterdam was the only major town in Holland that did not join Orange's side. In 1637 the tragedy Gysbreght van Aemstel by Joost van den Vondel alludes to these events in the recent history of the town. A closer analysis of this play shows how daring and stimulating Vondel's undertaking is. In the staged plot the Amsterdam audience see not only the fall of their city, but also its heroic resistance. The tragedy is a subtle attempt to rewrite, or rather to restage, the history of the Revolt from the perspective of Amsterdam and its middle-class elite. A tragedy like Gijsbreght van Aemstel , which continued a tradition of staging history plays in Amsterdam, created through its final prophecy a direct link between past and present, the present of the public to whom a direct appeal is made. Keywords:Amsterdam; Dutch Revolt; Gysbreght van Aemstel ; staging history plays

Introduzione alla poesia di Albert Verwey (1865-1937) di Marco Prandoni e traduzione di una scelta antologica (Cara Terra) di Giorgio Faggin

Analisi del romanzo 'Alleen maar nette mensen' di R. Vuijsje.

The term 'intertextuality' (intertextualite) emerged halfway through the 1960s, as a product of the so-called antihumanistic project of French-speaking (post)structuralism. With his Gysbreght van Aemstel , the fift y-year-old Joost van Vondel made his comeback to theatre after a long absence. With this play he rediscovered his theatralische Sendung (theatrical mission). In terms of premonitions, it is remarkable that Badeloch's dream spoke the truth. The priest Peter runs into the castle to announce that Amsterdam is collapsing. Gijsbreght immediately climbs a tower to get an impression of the situation. The audience is confronted and seduced, then, by the staging of a daring model of femininity. In the beginning, this model appears to be well-embedded in intertexts that propagate determining cultural conventions, but it eventually outgrows them or breaks through them. Keywords:Amsterdam; Gijsbreght; Gysbreght van Aemstel ; intertextuality; Joost van Vondel; theatre

Traduzione di raccola di racconti.

Alla luce del dibattito teorico sul ritorno dell'engagement nella letteratura del tardo postmodernismo, il contributo analizza l'opera di tre scrittori olandesi-marocchini.

Un anno di poesia in neerlandese.

Description of the Herla Project and its future potentialities to investigate the network of connections, concerning every kind of spectacular events, between the Gonzaga's en the Low Countries in the Early Modern period. Els Stronks introduces the project; Simona Brunetti describes its history and aim and focuses on one specific case-study; Marco Prandoni analyses the diplomatic and politic aspects of Vincenzo Gonzaga's first visit to the United Provinces in 1608, at the time when they were involved in the negociatons with Spain that would lead to the Twelve-Year Truce. Prandoni's sources are documents which are archieved in the Herla database and Dutch historiographers.

Recensione

l contributo presenta l’opera più celebre degli incisori olandesi Luyken, Specchio delle attività umane, andata incontro a una travagliata vicenda editoriale sullo scorcio del XVII secolo, nella quale sono illustrate cento atti- vità umane.

La poesia performante in Olanda.

Analisi della tragedia storica Mas Anjello di Thomas Asselijn.

Presentazione della figura del patriarca ortodosso calvinisteggiante Cirillo Lukaris e dei dibattiti interconfessionali in cui fu coinvolto e che suscitò.

Een mozaïek van stemmen handelt over een topper uit het Nederlandse culturele erfgoed: Vondels Gysbreght van Aemstel, in 1637 geschreven voor de opening van de eerste officiële Nederlandse schouwburg en daarna eeuwenlang op de planken gebleven. De Italiaanse classicus en neerlandicus Marco Prandoni belicht de interpretatiegeschiedenis van deze klassieker op kritische wijze. In een intertekstuele benadering voert hij de lezer naar de verschillende werken en genres die in Gysbreght meeklinken, bijvoorbeeld Vergilius’ epos Aeneis, tragedies over de moord op Willem van Oranje en geschiedschrijving over een vergeten aanslag op Amsterdam in 1577, het Reynaertverhaal en de picareske roman Lazarillo de Tormes. In deze vernieuwende studie over een canoniek toneelstuk combineert de auteur de traditionelere filologie met instrumenten uit de actuele literatuurwetenschap. Vondels drama wordt zo in al zijn beeldende kracht geïllustreerd.

Traduzione di romanzo.

Il personaggio tragico femminile nel teatro neerlandese del Seicento.

L'imagery della tragedia Gysbreght van Aemstel.

Analisi intertestuale di un passo della Tebaide di Stazio.