In 1818 Laplace proposed that the Academie des Sciences in Paris set up a prize to be awarded to whoever succeeded in constructing lunar tables based solely on the law of universal gravity. In 1820 the prize was awarded to Carlini and Plana and Damoiseau by a committee of which Laplace was a member. But Laplace strongly criticized the Carlini-Plana approach to the lunar theory. A dispute ensued that is reconstructed on the basis of hitherto unknown letters exchanged between Carlini-Plana (...) and Laplace, and on the basis of papers published in Connaissance des temps and in Zach's Correspondance. After the exchanges, public and private, between Carlini-Plana and Laplace, the latter concluded that the results of the Italian astronomers and those arrived at by Damoiseau following the method of his Mecanique Celeste were fairly close, and that the purpose of the Academie in establishing the prize had been reasonably fulfilled. (shrink)

In this article we will study the pronominal system in Ortonese, which belongs to the central-southern Italo-Romance languages. The analysis we propose is contrastive: we will compare the data with the Italian to highlight their differences in terms of some morphosyntactic aspects. We will examine, the stressed and unstressed personal pronouns, emphasizing the placement of the combined pronouns with the compound tenses. Then, we will focus on the rest of the pronouns, such as demonstratives, possessives, quantifiers and indefinites, also pointing (...) out the uses of the clitics “ci” and “ne” and the presence of the pronoun “nome”, which does not exist in Italian. (shrink)

A partir de la reflexión de Foucault sobre el proceso de transformación y dislocación de la norma de la esfera del comando heterónomo y trascendente y su redefinición en términos de inmanencia y constitución social, el artículo propone repensar la definición de sujeto político y jurídico en las nuevas relaciones de poder que caracterizan la governance global. El objetivo específico es la definición del espacio público y el significado de la agency de subjetividad que ya no se puede referir al (...) sujeto pleno de la narrativa jurídico-política moderna. Se trata de reflexionar sobre la capacidad de los actores políticos para distanciarse de las áreas de normalidad y regularidad y, en consecuencia, para atribuir a las formas y a los espacios, definidos por el derecho y por la política, diferentes significados y nuevas direcciones. Por lo tanto, cuestionamos el ambiente tranquilizador y protegido del ejercicio de los derechos, como en las teorías de la democracia deliberativa basadas en el reconocimiento e inclusión del otro, para dirigir nuestra mirada a los efectos de las prácticas concretas de libertad que definen al sujeto como sujeto político. Una dialéctica, en última instancia, entre el momento normativo y la continua reelaboración de sus ámbitos que redefinen en términos de flexibilidad los modelos de subjetivación, clasificación e identificación, redirigiéndose a formas plurales de subjetivación política y jurídica producidas por la colocación heterogénea de individuos que cruzan el espacio público. (shrink)

In September 2003, we released the first results of a national community attitude tracking study about child abuse and child protection. At that time, we concluded that as a community, violence against children was tolerated. The community did not understand or appreciate the seriousness, size and cost of child abuse in Australia. There was evidence that child abuse was not viewed as an important challenge facing children in Australia. A second study conducted in 2006 found that nothing much had changed, (...) indeed community engagement with the issue of child abuse may have even deteriorated. A third study in 2010 found that the community actively avoids the problem of child abuse rating it less concerning than high petrol prices. In 2021, 18 years after the first report was published, we have concluded again that child abuse remains out of sight and out of mind as a community concern. This article describes the findings of this fourth iteration of our survey and analyses the implications for ensuring that individuals are more engaged and committed to taking action to preventing child abuse and/or protecting children from violation. (shrink)

Single and double meter simultaneous measurements of a harmonic oscillator are reviewed and compared. Naimark extensions are constructed and relevant projection properties are exhibited for both cases. The theory is extended to the simultaneous measurement of squeezed position and momentum measurements.

Measurements involving spin-1/2 meters which result in the simultaneous measurement of spin components are described. The spin analoge of the Arthur-Kelly experiment is contrasted with a simultaneous measurement which interacts with the system. Naimark extensions are constructed and Bloch state projection properties are discussed for each case. The theory is extended to squeezed angular momentum measurement.