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Introdurre il problema. "Oltre l'inclusione", due anni dopo e più in profondità
No full textIn un tempo in cui l’intercultura e l’inclusione rischiano di svuotarsi in slogan rassicuranti o in una sterile retorica delle «buone intenzioni», questo volume propone una visione nuova e radicale. L’educazione non è mai un atto neutro, ma un campo di battaglia teorico e politico in cui si costruiscono gerarchie, visioni del mondo e reali possibilità di convivenza. Muovendo da una prospettiva pedagogica critica, il manuale invita a superare la tentazione di un’inclusione puramente simbolica — quella forma di visibilità che rassicura le istituzioni senza intaccare realmente il potere che discrimina — per riscoprire l’agire educativo come autentica pratica di emancipazione e giustizia sociale. Attraverso una scrittura corale e rigorosa, il testo interroga le condizioni materiali e simboliche che rendono possibile l’incontro con l’altro, decostruendo il paradigma eurocentrico che ancora abita i nostri sistemi formativi e smascherando le asimmetrie nascoste dietro il lessico umanitario di facciata. Dalla sfida delle frontiere postdigitali all’analisi dei pregiudizi algoritmici nella condizione onlife, queste pagine offrono strumenti teorici e operativi per professionisti e ricercatori che intendano trasformare l’aula in uno spazio di formazione e trasformazione.At a time when intercultural education and inclusion risk being emptied into reassuring slogans or a sterile rhetoric of “good intentions,” this volume advances a new and radical perspective. Education is never a neutral act; it is a theoretical and political battleground where hierarchies, worldviews, and concrete possibilities of coexistence are produced. From a critical pedagogical standpoint, the book urges readers to move beyond the temptation of purely symbolic inclusion—those forms of visibility that reassure institutions without truly unsettling the power that discriminates—and to reclaim educational action as an authentic practice of emancipation and social justice. Through a collective and rigorous voice, the text examines the material and symbolic conditions that make encounters with the Other possible, dismantling the Eurocentric paradigm that still inhabits our educational systems and exposing the asymmetries concealed behind a façade of humanitarian language. From the challenge of post-digital borders to the analysis of algorithmic biases within the onlife condition, these pages offer theoretical and practical tools for professionals and researchers committed to transforming the classroom into a space of formation and transformation
Inverse Virtual Try-On: Generating Multi-Category Product-Style Images from Clothed Individuals
No full textVirtual try-on (VTON) has been widely explored for rendering garments onto person images, while its inverse task, virtual try-off (VTOFF), remains largely overlooked. VTOFF aims to recover standardized product images of garments directly from photos of clothed individuals. This capability is of great practical importance for e-commerce platforms, large-scale dataset curation, and the training of foundation models. Unlike VTON, which must handle diverse poses and styles, VTOFF naturally benefits from a consistent output format in the form of flat garment images. However, existing methods face two major limitations: (i) exclusive reliance on visual cues from a single photo often leads to ambiguity, and (ii) generated images usually suffer from loss of fine details, limiting their real-world applicability. To address these challenges, we introduce TEMU-VTOFF, a Text-Enhanced MUlti-category framework for VTOFF. Our architecture is built on a dual DiT-based backbone equipped with a multimodal attention mechanism that jointly exploits image, text, and mask information to resolve visual ambiguities and enable robust feature learning across garment categories. To explicitly mitigate detail degradation, we further design an alignment module that refines garment structures and textures, ensuring high-quality outputs. Extensive experiments on VITON-HD and Dress Code show that TEMU-VTOFF achieves new state-of-the-art performance, substantially improving both visual realism and consistency with target garments. Code and models are available at: https://temu-vtoff-page.github.io/
Le traduzioni e la Cancel Culture: L’ultima e forse finale avventura di Tom Sawyer
No full textThis article opens with a reflection on the impact of Cancel Culture on the reception and circulation of literary texts, using The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as a case study. It explores how such cultural dynamics may shift the text’s status—from a vibrant work of children's literature to a mere historical document employed primarily in academic discussions within the social sciences. The core of the study consists of a comparative analysis of selected Italian translations of Twain’s novel. Anchored in Antoine Berman’s theoretical framework—particularly his notion of "deforming tendencies," such as the destruction or exoticization of vernacular networks and linguistic registers—the article investigates the translators’ strategies in rendering the stylistic and linguistic complexity of the source text. Special attention is given to how each translation negotiates Twain’s use of oral, informal, and rhythmically cadenced language, marked by idiomatic expressions, local similes and metaphors, and intentional deviations from standard grammar
Espressioni di insofferenza lavorativa sui social network: tra libertà di manifestazione del pensiero e limite dei doveri civivi del lavoratore
No full textIn tema di licenziamento disciplinare, l’illecito consistente nella diffusione, tramite social network
(nella fattispecie, TikTok), di un breve video recante espressioni inurbane e colloquiali che esprimono
noia, stanchezza o insofferenza verso la prestazione lavorativa, ma non contengono specifiche frasi
denigratorie o di disprezzo nei confronti del datore di lavoro, non integra una “grave violazione”
degli obblighi di condotta conforme ai doveri civici, tale da legittimare il recesso per giusta causa ex
art. 2119 c.c., dovendo residuare, in un’ottica di proporzionalità, l’applicazione di una sanzione conservativa, eventualmente riconducibile a condotte minori (come il ritardo nell’inizio della prestazioneWith regard to disciplinary dismissal, the misconduct consisting in the dissemination, via social networks (in the case at hand, TikTok), of a short video containing colloquial and uncouth expressions that convey boredom, tiredness, or impatience with respect to the work performance, but which do not include specific derogatory or contemptuous remarks toward the employer, does not amount to a “serious breach” of the obligations of conduct consistent with civic duties such as to justify termination for just cause pursuant to Article 2119 of the Italian Civil Code. In light of the principle of proportionality, the appropriate response remains the application of a conservative sanction, potentially referable to lesser forms of misconduct (such as delay in commencing the work performance)
First Report of Epicoccum italicum Causing Postharvest Rot on Pear Fruits in Italy
No full textIn February 2025, diseased pear fruits (cvs. Max Red Bartlett and Williams) were collected during surveys in a storage facility located in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. The affected fruits had circular, brown and soft lesions covered with whitish mycelium. Pear fruits of cvs. Max Red Bartlett (A) and Williams (B) showing brown circular lesions and whitish mycelium. Diseased tissues from both cultivars were surface sterilised using 1% sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) for 1 min and rinsed in sterile distilled water. The sterilised fragments were placed onto potato dextrose agar (PDA) and incubated at 27◦C in the dark for 7 days. The mycelium growing from the diseased tissues was aerial and floccose, with yellow pigmentation and a white margin on the upper side, while the reverse side was orange with a yellow margin. Microscopic observation of conidia showed their multicellular-phragmosporous, subglobose-pyriform struc- ture, with a brown colouration. Colony morphology and single spores of two representative isolates, DLS2379 (from cv. Max Red Bartlett) and DLS2381 (from cv. Williams), showed characteristics consistent with the description of the ascomycete Epicoccum sp. (Chen et al. 2017 ). Single-spore cultures of DLS2379 and DLS2381 were used for DNA extraction. The internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region, β-tubulin ( TUB ), and second largest subunit of nuclear RNA polymerase II ( RPB2 ) genes were amplified and sequenced with the primer pairs ITS1/ITS4 (White et al. 1990 ), Bt2a-Bt2b (Glass and Donaldson 1995 ) and 5F2/7cR (Liu et al. 1999 ), respectively. Sequences were deposited in GenBank under Accession Nos. PX470109 and PX470110 (ITS), PX552162 and PX552163 ( TUB ), and PX505262 and PX505263 ( RPB2 ) for DLS2379 and DLS2381 isolates, respectively. BLAST analysis showed that both strains DLS2379 and DLS2381 were identical to each other, and they exhibited 100% sequence identity with E. italicum ex-type strain LC 8150T for ITS (NR_158264.1), TUB (KY742341.1) and RPB2 (KY742172.1) regions. The phylogenetic tree constructed from concatenated ITS, TUB and RPB2 gene sequences of both isolates DLS2379 and DLS2381, using the maximum-likelihood method, placed isolates within the E. italicum clade, confirming the BLAST results. To fulfil Koch’s postulates, 10 detached pear fruits (cv. Williams) per isolate were surface disinfected with 1% NaOCl for 1 min and rinsed with sterile distilled water. The fruits were wounded and inoculated with a conidial suspension (10E05 conidia mL− 1 ) of DLS2379 and DLS2381. Fruits were then placed in plastic boxes to maintain high humidity (RH > 90%) and incubated in the dark under controlled conditions (22 ± 2°C). After 7 days’ incubation, inoculated pear fruits showed rot symptoms, similar to those observed initially. No symptoms occurred on the control fruits inoculated with sterile water. Epicoccum italicum was reisolated from symptomatic fruits and identified through sequencing of the ITS region. To our knowledge, this is the first report of E. italicum as a post- harvest pathogen on pear fruits worldwide. The limited current understanding of the infection biology of E. italicum during long-term pear storage, combined with the lack of commercially approved fungicides or biocontrol products for its management in Italy, highlights the significant challenge faced by growers and postharvest operators in controlling this pathoge
Implications of Yarn Impregnation in the Bond and Tensile Behaviour of Textile-Reinforced Mineral-Bonded Composites: An Overview
No full textIn the development of textile reinforced composites with inorganic matrices, the interfacial bond between the yarns and the mineral matrix, regardless of its nature (e.g. cementitious, natural hydraulic lime, geopolymer) and application, plays a key role. Depending on the intended application of the composite system (Textile Reinforced Concrete (TRC) is generally devised for new lightweight structures, whereas Textile Reinforced Mortar (TRM) is intended for retrofitting purposes), the tensile performance of the composites is governed by the formation and development of diffuse crack patterns, which ultimately control the ductility. In this paper we review the experimental approaches, mainly developed in the last decade, to improve the interfacial bonding between multifilament yarns and mineral matrices while maintaining the inorganic nature of the composite. The most effective solutions consisted of silica coating of AR glass yarns in TRM systems, which induced a significant improvement of the bond due to fibre functionalisation. In the field of TRC, a promising technique is the impregnation of carbon yarns with cementitious or geopolymer suspensions, which could simultaneously improve the monolithic behaviour of the yarns and the chemical bond with the cementitious matrix. These techniques compete against the more established polymer impregnation, i.e. epoxy, which, while improving the bond with mineral-bonded matrices (e.g. cement or lime based fine-grained concrete) in TRC/TRM and preventing telescopic failure, has the significant disadvantage of degrading at moderate temperatures, exposing the structural element to the risk of premature failure
Lonp1 expression and correlation with mitophagy and immune infiltration markers in colon adenocarcinoma
No full text: LONP1, a mitochondrial ATP-dependent protease, plays a crucial role in mitochondrial homeostasis by regulating protein turnover and mitophagy. Recent studies have highlighted its upregulation in various cancers, including colorectal cancer (CRC). This study investigates the expression of LONP1 in colon adenocarcinoma (COAD) and its correlation with mitophagy-related proteins and immune infiltration markers. Using publicly available databases and immunohistochemical analysis of 50 COAD patient samples, we confirmed that LONP1 expression is significantly elevated in COAD compared with normal tissue. High LONP1 levels were associated with tumor progression, TP53 mutation status, and poor prognosis. Correlation analyses revealed that LONP1 is closely linked to mitochondrial dynamics, mitophagy regulators (PINK1, AMBRA1, FUNDC1), and metabolic reprogramming. Additionally, LONP1 expression positively correlated with tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, particularly CD8+ T cells, suggesting a potential role in immune evasion. Immunohistochemical analysis distinguished two patterns: high LONP1/low TOMM20 expression associated with aggressive tumors and low LONP1/high TOMM20 expression linked to better outcomes and stronger immune infiltration. These findings suggest that LONP1 contributes to tumor progression through mitochondrial regulation and immune modulation, highlighting its potential as both a prognostic biomarker and a therapeutic target in COAD
Prefazione
No full textLo scritto richiama il ruolo di garanzia che la Corte dei conti esercita attraverso la funzione di controllo ad essa intestata dall'art. 100 Cost. per soffermarsi sulle novità principali della legge n. 1 del 2026, evidenziando il contributo che il volume apporta al dibattito critico sulla riforma