44 research outputs found
Patients diagnosed with low-risk thyroid cancer during COVID-19 pandemic. what did they ask surgeons?
No full textWhen the World Health Organization declared in March 2020 the pandemic of novel Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19),1 almost all world’s countries took health measures in response to the outbreak. One major measure was delaying nonurgent surgical procedures. In the thyroid field, the latter measure impacted on several diseases, such as benign goiter with compressive symptoms, hyperthyroidism and, importantly, low-risk differentiated carcinoma (LR-DTC)
Continuous Intraoperative Neuromonitoring (C-IONM) During Minimally Invasive Video-Assisted Thyroidectomy (MIVAT): A Preliminary Study
No full textLuoghi e geografie
No full textVia Catullo è una piccola strada pubblica nella periferia nord ovest di Milano, che collega viale Certosa e via Gallarate, a poca distanza dal cavalcavia delle autostrade e dal Cimitero Maggiore. Il contesto urbano si presenta frammentato e discontinuo. Lo sviluppo di questa parte di città è in gran parte esito di trasformazioni avvenute a partire dall’inizio del secolo scorso, e tuttora in corso, su piccola e grande scala. Un contesto come quello di via Catullo è luogo di sperimentazione di nuove forme di urbanità, espresse dalle recondite e minuscole fessure che si producono nel grande corpo della città in relazione a fenomeni di decadimento fisico e funzionale delle strutture urbane. Processi, questi, che talvolta generano fenomeni di abbandono e degrado, ma che assai spesso vedono anche prodursi i germi di una società nuova, multiculturale, multietnica, articolata nelle traiettorie di vita che, non senza difficoltà, sperimenta forme di compresenza e di coesistenza che si esprimono in pratiche dell’abitare talvolta innovative e capaci di reinventare le attività e gli spazi della residenza e del lavoro. Sono sincretismi esistenziali attraverso cui si esprimono forme di socialità e di cittadinanza in fieri in grado di promuovere una riarticolazione delle società urbane e una riconfigurazione dei loro spazi di vita nelle città
Pietro Verri’s Contribution to the Economic Theory of the 18th Century: Commercial Society, Civil Society and Governance of the Economy
No full text'Count Pietro Verri (1728-97) - Schumpeter writes (History, p. 178) - - would have to be included in any list of the greatest economists'. Within the Milanese school, he certainly stands out, alongside with Cesare Beccaria, during one of the most interesting periods from a history of analysis point of view. Luigi Cossa's famous introduction to the study of political economy rates Pietro Verri to be inferior to Beccaria in ingenuity and scientific cultivation, but greatly to be ahead of him as an economist.1 This judgement by Cossa, in particular, seems to echo the relative position of the two men in the history of ideas, particularly after Beccaria's rise to fame with a book - On crimes and punishments - which had in fact been largely inspired by Verri himself and defended by him.2 It is proposed in the present paper to revisit some of the basic tenets of Pietro Verri's political economy, with more in view than dwell on specific intuitions and theorems: namely relate those to Verri's own - quite original - conception of the economy. The scholarly work of Pietro Verri - with a special reference to his Meditazioni sulla economia politica of 1771 - provides the first systematic contribution stemming from the quarters of Lombard enlightenment in the field of political economy, especially so if one considers that Cesare Beccaria's parallel work - namely his Elementi di economia pubblica, conceived and drafted at the same time as Verri's Meditazioni - would only be published posthumously several years later. From the vantage point afforded by Verri's political economy, we gain a considerably attractive view of the most significant elements and characteristic concepts of Lombard enlightenment during the latter half of the 18th century; Verri, moreover, as we shall see, builds on a number of them in a new and original way. This paper is aimed at discussing Verri's political economy mainly along two distinct, but related, lines. In the first place the conception of commercial society is considered such as it is treated by the author particularly in his Meditazioni. In this perspective the analysis of such issues as competition and the market or money and taxation occupy a central place. Secondly it will be necessary to emphasise that Verri's approach has little to do either with forms of pure economics on one side - largely yet to be born throughout the 18th century - or, on the other side, with such conceptions of the polis - contrariwise well alive among his own contemporaries - as are founded on a sovereign authority conceived to be situated above the law. What Verri's political economy ultimately amounts to is an economic conception of civil society. The latter has natural strong connections with his own fact-mindedness - emphasised by Schumpeter - as well as with his deep practical involvement in administrative affairs and in the reforming process taking place during the latter half of the 18th century in Milan. In our view, a thorough investigation along the mentioned lines is the precondition for an understanding of the intellectual stature and of the scholarly contribution of Pietro Verri. His main ground is distinctly analytical and only by appreciating his analysis is it possible to shed light on the meaning and intellectual significance also of his practical contributions. Moreover Verri's pronouncements on the criticism of despotic government, the relevance of intermediate powers or bodies and on multiple levels of governance will be examined in a new and original light, showing how close they are to the gist of his analysis.
Biogeochemical and contaminant cycling in sediments from a human-impacted coastal lagoon – Introduction and summary
No full textFrom 2001 to 2003, the Microbent project (‘‘Biogeochemical processes at the water sediment interface in eutrophic environment’’) was carried out within the framework of the Programme National Environnement Coˆtier, the French contribution to LandeOcean Interaction in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ). The Microbent programme was focused on the study of
sediment biogeochemical cycles of carbon, oxygen, sulphur, iron, nitrogen, and phosphorus in relation to the faunal activity in the sediment and their relation with the mobility of metallic contaminants at the sedimentewater interface (SWI) in a Mediterranean coastal lagoon (Thau lagoon, France; Fig. 1). The aim of Microbent was to set up an interdisciplinary study bringing together geochemists, sedimentologists, and biologists in order to understand and quantify the main reaction pathways, and the fluxes of contaminants at the SWI, including those related to benthic fauna. Work was focused on the processes which generate contaminant fluxes: (1) early diagenetic processes, which generate the chemical conditions of the environment; (2) processes leading to the transfer of contaminants from particles toward biofilms, water column, and organisms; and (3) processes of sediment mixing by organisms and sediment accumulation
Blood Metabolite Profiling of Antarctic Expedition Members: An 1H NMR Spectroscopy-Based Study
No full textSerum samples from eight participants during the XV winter-over at Concordia base (Antarctic expedition) collected at defined time points, including predeparture, constituted the key substrates for a specific metabolomics study. To ascertain acute changes and chronic adaptation to hypoxia, the metabolic profiles of the serum samples were analyzed using NMR spectroscopy, with principal components analysis (PCA) followed by partial least squares and orthogonal partial least squares discriminant analyses (PLS-DA and OPLS-DA) used as supervised classification methods. Multivariate data analyses clearly highlighted an adaptation period characterized by an increase in the levels of circulating glutamine and lipids, mobilized to supply the body energy needs. At the same time, a reduction in the circulating levels of glutamate and N-acetyl glycoproteins, stress condition indicators, and proinflammatory markers were also found in the NMR data investigation. Subsequent pathway analysis showed possible perturbations in metabolic processes, potentially related to the physiological adaptation, predominantly found by comparing the baseline (at sea level, before mission onset), the base arrival, and the mission ending collected values
System Transfer, Education, and Development in Mozambique
No full textIn this study the author used conceptual historical method to assess the phenomenon of system transfer and the association between education and development in Mozambique. The assessment was administered through critical analysis of documents pertaining to the Salazar (1924-1966), Machel (1975-1986), and Chissano (1986-2005) administrations. The findings were that (a) the colonial government created economic and educational systems for colonizing Mozambique, whereas the Machel and Chissano administrations adapted foreign systems of government and education (i.e., Socialism, Soviet, Democracy, Portuguese, etc.), to their particular context without altering the inherent theoretical basis of the systems transferred; (b) the Machel and Chissano administrations, implicitly or explicitly, perceived the relationship between education and development as circular causality rather than a unidirectional linear causality, while the Salazar administration perceived it as unidirectional linear causality; and (c) while the Machel and Chissano administrations focused on primary education, literacy campaigns, and education of women and girls, they differed in the reasons for such focus
African Renaissance and Globalization: A Conceptual Analysis
No full textThis article explores the interaction between Globalization and the African Renaissance. Its main concern is twofold: to engage the intellectual and policy communities in further reflection about the intricacy and complexity of this interaction; and, consequently, to challenge these communities to exercise more caution when creating and adopting policies and action plans for Africa under the pressure of globalization. The paper (a) employs a conceptual analysis to tackle questions of adequacy, or inadequacy, of the term African Renaissance, (b) discusses connections between language, education, and freedom in post-colonial Africa; and, (c) suggests a response that Africans can adopt in their effort to position Africa as an equitable player amidst the influence of globalization. The author also challenges conceptions of knowledge and cognition, research practices and what constitutes valid research, publication culture and what constitutes publishable material, and the overrated celebration of cosmopolitanism by intellectuals
Quanti erano i santini del polittico Griffoni?
No full textAttraverso un dettagliato studio del disegno tratto da Stefano Orlandi nel 1715 da polittico eseguito da Agostino de' Marchi e dipinto da Francesco del Cossa e Ercole Roberti per l'altare di Floriano Griffoni in San Petronio a Bologna e della lettera che gli si accompagna, viene proposta una più plausibile disposizione degli elementi sopravvissuti alla sua distruzione
Seawater carbonate chemistry and mortality, growth, and net calcification rates of sea urchin Echinus esculentus
No full textHere we evaluate the biological response (mortality, growth and net calcification rates) of a marine calcifier, the larvae of the sea urchin Echinus esculentus, to different levels of variability of pCO2/pH imposed in the absence or presence of seagrass and under 4 different pHs, relevant in the context of present natural variability and future ocean acidification.
This dataset is included in the OA-ICC data compilation maintained in the framework of the IAEA Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre (see https://oa-icc.ipsl.fr). Original data were provided by the author of the related paper (see Related to) to the OA-ICC data curator. In order to allow full comparability with other ocean acidification data sets, the R package seacarb (Gattuso et al, 2024) was used to compute a complete and consistent set of carbonate system variables, as described by Nisumaa et al. (2010). In this dataset the original values were archived in addition with the recalculated parameters (see related PI). The date of carbonate chemistry calculation by seacarb is 2024-06-14
