141 research outputs found
Follie Mediterranee: confin(at)i, naufraghi e navi
No full textLa sessione muove «dalla tolda della Sea Watch 3» dove, secondo Franco Farinelli, «torna a manifestarsi l’elusivo sorriso della Follia, proprio quella di cui cinque secoli fa Erasmo tesseva l’elogio», ma che ormai non riconosciamo perché immemori del «senso degli “arcani maggiori” della nostra civiltà» (Farinelli, 2019). Basterebbe tornare sugli ultimi passi dell’Elogio di Erasmo per capire che Farinelli ha visto giusto, cogliendo esattamente il senso arcano, la portata critica, del colpo di timone sovversivo di Carola Rackete, che si compie sul mare ma sommerge le linee terricole dello spazio politico italiano. Conclude infatti Erasmo/Follia: «Dimentica di me stessa, ho passato da un pezzo i limiti [...] pensate che chi parla è la Follia, e che è donna». Comprenderne appieno il senso, significa in primo luogo richiamare la forza silenziosa di una simile donna che, come il suo silente doppio letterario, frantuma e irride le contemporanee geografie di uno spazio orizzontale dell’indifferenza e le rappresentazioni gerarchiche dell’organizzata ipocrisia dell’umanitarismo europeo (Cusumano, 2019). Dunque Follia naviga davvero sul Mediterraneo? Certo è che supera, o annienta, la radicale struttura del tragico che fonda la ragione del moderno. Perché Carola Rackete trasporta naufraghi, evitando la tragedia. Inevitabile e ovvio a questo punto, tradurre il Mediterraneo nella regione in cui, per Michel Foucault, (cartografo, come lo definisce Deleuze) si può rintracciare il primo gesto oscuro della nostra cultura, il respingimento dell’Esteriore (Foucault, 2006). E altrettanto ovvio e inevitabile è che Follia, legata al mare, incroci le foucaultiane Navi dei Folli. Insomma, «arcani maggiori» che si fanno avanti verso la fortezza dell’ordine, scavando lo spazio bianco degli «archivi indisciplinati» del Mediterraneo (Chambers, 2015: 249)
Biological degradation of phenol in a one-stage biofilter using different Pseudomonas strains
No full textA laboratory scaled set-up, consisting in a glass column, filled with a mixture of peat and glass beads and inoculated with a pure culture of Pseudomonas putida, has been employed as biological filter in this study to purify a waste gas contaminated with variable phenol concentrations
Controllo di emissioni gassose di fenolo dell'industria alimentare mediante sistema biologico di filtrazione
No full textNel presente lavoro sono presentati i risultati ottenuti dal trattamento biologico, utilizzando un ceppo puro di Pseudoonas putida, di una corrente gassosa contenente fenolo in concentrazioni variabili; tali risultanze evidenziano come il sistema utilizzato sia in grado di garantire elevate efficienze di rimozione
L'Animale è proverbiale. Le favole di Guillaume Haudent
No full textA study of the 367 aesopian apologues, in Middle French (1547), of the rouennais Guillaume Haudent.
Uno studio delle 367 favole di derivazione esopica, in francese medio (1547), del prete di Rouen Guillaume Haudent
Venere 'gaillarde Cyprienne', artefice del "Discours du voyage de Constantinoble" (1542) di Bertrand de La Borderie
No full textSomatostatin analogs for gastric carcinoids : for many, but not all
No full textGastric carcinoids (GCs) are classified as: type I, related to hypergastrinemia due to chronic atrophic gastritis (CAG), type II, associated with Zollinger-Ellison syndrome in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1, and type III, which is normogastrinemic. The management of type-I gastric carcinoids (GC1s) is still debated, because of their relatively benign course. According to the European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society guidelines endoscopic resection is indicated whenever possible; however, it is not often feasible because of the presence of a multifocal disease, large lesions, submucosal invasion or, rarely, lymph node involvement. Therefore, somatostatin analogs (SSAs) have been proposed as treatment for GC1s in view of their antisecretive, antiproliferative and antiangiogenic effects. However, in view of the high cost of this therapy, its possible side effects and the relatively benign course of the disease, SSAs should be reserved to specific subsets of "high risk patients", i.e. , those patients with multifocal or recurrent GCs. Indeed, it is reasonable that, after the development of a gastric neuroendocrine neoplasm in patients with a chronic predisposing condition (such as CAG), other enterochromaffin-like cells can undergo neoplastic proliferation, being chronically stimulated by hypergastrinemia. Therefore, definite indications to SSAs treatment should be established in order to avoid the undertreatment or overtreatment of GCs
Alena alena Gyulai & Saldaitis & Zilli 2019, sp. n.
No full textAlena alena sp. n. (Figs 1–4, 9, 10, 14, 15) Type material. Holotype (Figs 1, 9): male, China, W Sichuan, Shaluli Shan, 40 km NW from Daocheng, 4060 m, N29°17.401′, E100°05.068′, 16–17.IX.2017, leg. Saldaitis, slide no. PGY4894, coll. PGM, later to be deposited in the HNHM. Paratypes (Figs 2–4, 10, 13, 14): 4 males and 9 females, same data as in the holotype, slide nos. PGY 4930m, PGY4899f (colls ASV, AFM & PGM / HNHM); 1 female, China, W-Sichuan, W. Bamei Mts., 3750m, 10.VIII.2005, leg. S. Murzin, slide no. AZ1854f (coll. PGM / HNHM). Diagnosis. As noted above under the generic description, all superficially similar species to Alena alena sp. n. are unrelated and can be promptly differentiated by their structural features (Figs 11–13, 16–18). In addition, Metopiora sanguinata (T.P. Lucas, 1893) also shows a pink band longitudinally crossing the forewing all through the middle (Fig. 8), which does not occur in the new species. Description (Figs 1–4). Wingspan 27–31 mm (holotypus 28 mm), length of forewing 13–15 mm (N = 14). Head and thorax whitish-pale straw-coloured, irregularly suffused with pink, particularly on legs; labial palpus pale brown-tipped, antenna pale ochre. Forewing with feebly acute apex, ground colour straw, with pink suffusion all along costal, anal and terminal edges, narrowest along the latter; fringe pink; hindwing straw-coloured also, with feeble brown irroration on disc and along veins, and fringe varying from straw to whitish-pale pink. Wing undersides patternless, with extensive dark grey suffusion on forewing. Male genitalia (Figs 9, 10). Overall configuration as in generic diagnosis. Tegumen dome-shaped, vinculum Vshaped with voluminous, broadly rounded saccus; valva of approximately uniform width, with distinctly concave costa, sacculus broad and elongated, clavus indistinct, costal plate broad, strongly sclerotized; clasper as in generic diagnosis; cucullus evenly rounded, its setae dense and long. Uncus as in generic description. Juxta rhomboid, slightly bilobed superiorly and irregularly sclerotised inferiorly. Aedeagus slightly reclinate at middle, broadly rounded distally on right side, where few minute carinal spines are present, vesica sub-quadrate, terminal cornuti field arranged into a narrow stripe. Female genitalia (Figs 14, 15). Segment A8 well sclerotised, truncate cone-shaped and relatively short, firmly linked with posterior section of ductus bursae, apophyses anteriores relatively long and robust, ductus bursae of uniform width, conspicuously ridged, with posterior edge representing anterior lip of ostium bursae, joining with corpus bursae ventrally on posterior third, corpus bursae broadly ellipsoid, appendix bursae rugose. Intersegmental membrane A8–A9 short. Papillae anales typical for " Apameina ", broad and flat, shortly setose, albeit without distinct midventral rods, apophyses posteriores longer than anteriores, slightly thinner and with feebly arcuate tips. Variability. Variation has so far been observed in the degrees of extension of pink suffusion along costal edge of forewing, dark irroration on hindwing, development of distal process of clasper, length of uncus and relative dimensions of female genitalic structures. Biology and distribution. Series of males and females were all collected at light in August-September in remote parts of West Sichuan chinese province near Daocheng and Ba-Mei mountains of the Shaluli Shan range (Fig. 19). The new species was collected at altitudes ranging from 3,700 to 4,100 m in mixed forests dominated by various conifer trees and shrubs such as Rhododendron spp. All individuals have been attracted before midnight, with ambient temperature between 3–5°C. Presence of at least two spermatophores in each of the dissected females shows that they mated more than once. Etymology. The new species is named in honour of Alena Kazakevich (Lida, Belarus), for her deep understanding and support of the entomological activities of the second author. The name is a feminine noun in apposition. Remarks. A correct systematic placement of Alena alena gen. n., sp. n. will only be achieved following a thorough reassessment of the concepts for Apameina and Sesamiina. In fact, its lyriform ovipositor appears to be typical for Apameina, although the absence of evident midventral rods between its lobes is a shared similarity with Sesamiina, which have a sharply pointed conical ovipositor. Other similarities between A. alena and most sesamiine groups are the rough, somewhat puffy thoracic vestiture concealing the boundaries between the patagium, tegulae and notum, the absence of notal crests, the broad costa of the valva distally dilated into a plate, and the cucullus without a neck or corona (cf. Moyal & Le Rü, 2005; Moyal et al., 2011a, 2011b; Le Rü et al., 2015).Published as part of Gyulai, Peter, Saldaitis, Aidas & Zilli, Alberto, 2019, A new genus and species of Apameini (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from Sichuan (China), pp. 593-600 in Zootaxa 4545 (4) on pages 595-599, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4545.4.10, http://zenodo.org/record/261826
Anti-icing using the heat recovered in the Lagoscuro tunnel
No full textIn the context of promoting local energy sources with low environmental impact, energy geostructures are more and more being explored. This paper will describe an example of a technological system able to achieve the anti-icing of the motorway pavement through the exploitation of heat from the adjacent tunnel. Taking advantage of the current motorway refurbishment plan fostered by Autostrade per l'Italia (ASPI) and the activities planned for the Lagoscuro tunnel, located along the A26 motorway in the Genova province, the opportunity for geothermal energy exploitation is being tested in a full-scale prototype. The details of the experimental site setup will be revealed together with the characteristics of the pavement anti-icing solution
Biological elimination of acetone in a one stage biofilter using P. fluorescens strains
No full textA laboratory-scale glass column, packed with peat containing a water phase inoculated with a mixed culture of Pseudomonas fluorescens, was employed as biofilter in this study to remove acetone vapors from air
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