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Gli edifici autostradali a ponte di Angelo Bianchetti. Sopravvivenza o riforma di un tema architettonico
No full textThe motorway bridge buildings of Angelo Bianchetti. Survival or reform of an architectural theme.
The first, and perhaps the only, authentic architecture for motorway mobility is the service and refreshment station building with a "bridge" typology, with its first prototype inaugurated in 1959 during the construction of the Autostrada del Sole: the Autogrill Pavesi in Fiorenzuola d'Arda, built by the architect Angelo Bianchetti, among the first in the world (or at least contemporary to the bridge station in Des Plains near Chicago by architects Wilbur Binford and Charles Genther, of 1956-59).
An exceptional typology, replicated in Italy in a dozen of bridge restaurants built between 1959 and 1972, gradually spread throughout the world of motorways until it stopped in conjunction with the first oil shock of 1973
Introduzione
No full textIl testo introduce il volume che presenta la situazione di emergenza sanitaria in cui si è venuta a trovare la città di Brescia nei cento giorni della prima ondata da COVID 19. Brescia, laboriosa e solidale, ricca di tradizioni e con ambiziosi progetti per il futuro, ha dovuto, all'improvviso, fare i conti con l'imprevedibilità, la precarietà, il limite, la malattia, la morte. Il volume indaga gli aspetti sanitari, assistenziali, economici, culturali, educativi del fenomeno
Immaginare un futuro possibile
No full textL'epidemia da Covid-19 ci ha posto di fronte ad una realtà che che finora non avevamo voluto vedere: viviamo in una società globale del rischio. Per far fronte alla situazione di emergenza che attraversa il Paese è necessario investire sulle risorse migliori e progettare il futuro facendo leva sulla capacità di resilienza
Epidemie e spedalità a Brescia: parallelismi e itinerari nella storia
No full textIl saggio affronta il tema della storia della spedalità a Brescia in età contemporanea, soprattutto in relazione agli eventi epidemici che hanno coinvolto il territorio tra XIX e XXI secolo
Predictors of 6-month mortality in elderly patients with mild chronic obstructive pulmonary disease discharged from a medical ward after acute nonacidotic exacerbation.
No full textOBJECTIVES: To identify clinical outcomes and variables associated with 6-month mortality in very elderly patients admitted for nonacidotic acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD). DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: General medicine acute care ward. PARTICIPANTS: Two hundred forty-four elderly patients with COPD (mean age+/-standard deviation 82+/-7, 55.7\% female) admitted to the hospital because of non-acidotic AECOPD. MEASUREMENTS: Cognitive and mood status and physiological variables were measured. Self-reported comorbidities were assessed using the Charlson Comorbidity Index. In-hospital and long-term mortality and clinical outcomes were recorded. RESULTS: At admission, this elderly population with AECOPD had low cognitive performance (mean Mini-Mental State Examination score 21+/-5), no presence of significant depressive symptoms (Geriatric Depression Scale score 4+/-3), good nutritional status (body mass index (BMI) 25.1+/-5.5), moderate comorbidity (Charlson Comorbidity Index 4.0+/-1.9), high functional disability (Barthel Index (BI) 52+/-34), and moderate severity of acute exacerbation (Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II score 9.7+/-4.2). Two hundred twenty-five inpatients with AECOPD were successfully discharged, whereas 15 were transferred to the intensive care unit, and four died in the hospital. The 6-month cumulative mortality rate in discharged patients with AECOPD was 20\%. Multivariate Cox analysis shows that lower BMI (beta=-0.16; 95\% confidence interval (CI)=0.73-0.99), higher APACHE II score (beta=0,17; 95\% CI=1.03-1.36), and lower BI at discharge (beta=-0.02; 95\% CI=0.96-0.99) were independently associated with 6-month mortality. CONCLUSION: Malnutrition, severity of exacerbation and disability status could be identified as risk factors associated with 6-month mortality of elderly patients admitted for nonacidotic AECOPD
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Caroselli autostradali. Ponte e Padiglione autogrill lungo l'A4
No full textInterpretazione dei progetti di Angelo Bianchetti per il padiglione (1955 poi distrutto) e il ponte (1972) autogrill Pavesi lungo l'A4. Le letture di architetture autostradali confluiranno nella mostra "49 km viti dall'autostrada" in corso di realizzazione con Triennale nell'ambito dell'iniziativa T Xtra, in viaggio con Triennale
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