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No full textWe, the People of the United Europe: Reflections on the European State of Mind. Atti del Convegno internazionale Udine 28/29 giugno 2022
No full textPrefazione di Laura Montanari, Coordinatrice del Progetto Jean Monnet “We, the People of the United Europe: Reflections on the European State of Mind”: Il presente Volume raccoglie gli atti del Convegno internazionale che si è svolto a Udine il 28-29 giugno 2022 nell’ambito del Progetto Jean Monnet “We, the People of the United Europe: Reflections on the European State of Mind”, da cui trae il titolo e che coinvolge, oltre al Dipartimento di Scienze giuridiche dell’Università di Udine, l’Institute of Social Sciences di Belgrado, il Department of Ethnology and Anthropology dell’Università di Belgrado e il Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development (CCSDD) di Bologna. Lo stesso gode, altresì, del sostegno del Progetto di ricerca L’identità europea: cultura e cittadinanza, sub Identità europea e paesaggio, di cui è responsabile la prof.ssa Alessia-Ottavia Cozzi, che si inserisce nel Progetto interdipartimentale Identità europea e sfide globali, Piano strategico del Dipartimento di Scienze giuridiche 2023-2025, Università degli studi di Udine. Le attività del Progetto Jean Monnet hanno preso avvio con la Presentazione generale nel novembre del 2019, ma pochi mesi dopo la pandemia ha cambiato completamente il quadro di riferimento e ha condizionato la programmazione dei lavori. Grazie alla proroga concessa dalla Commissione è stato possibile realizzare tutte le iniziative previste, anche se in molti casi online, ed aggiungere ulteriori incontri che hanno permesso di arricchire la riflessione comune, con il coinvolgimento di numerosi colleghi italiani e stranieri, studenti e rappresentanti della società civile. Non è possibile in questa sede citare tutto ciò che è stato fatto in questi anni, ma mi preme ricordare l’incontro con le realtà sociali “Cittadini per l’Europa: dal dibattito accademico alle politiche culturali”, con la pubblicazione dei relativi atti (M. Daicampi, F.E. Grisostolo (cur.), Cittadini per l’Europa. Dal dibattito accademico alle politiche culturali, Udine, ed. Forum, 2022), e il laboratorio Law and Memory, dedicato agli studenti. Diverse attività sono state organizzare in collaborazione con il Modulo Jean Monnet “EU Enlargement and Constitutional Transitions in the Western Balkans”, attivo nel medesimo periodo sempre presso l’Università di Udine, perché il Progetto prevede come focus proprio i Balcani occidentali. Lo studio di questi Paesi, con le complesse vicende che hanno vissuto dopo il crollo dello Stato socialista e il difficile percorso di avvicinamento all’UE, costituisce infatti un’occasione privilegiata per riflettere sui temi dell’identità e della memoria e sui valori dell’Unione, che proprio la definizione dei criteri di condizionalità in vista dell’adesione impone di mettere in luce. Anche in questo caso si è giunti alla pubblicazione di un Volume con il medesimo titolo, che raccoglie gli interventi svolti durante le lezioni, integrati da ulteriori contributi di esperti (L. Montanari (cur.), L’allargamento dell’Unione europea e le transizioni costituzionali nei Balcani occidentali. Una raccolta di lezioni, Napoli, Editoriale Scientifica, 2022). Quest’anno il quadro di riferimento è cambiato di nuovo, drammaticamente, con la guerra in Ucraina. Il Seminario organizzato a febbraio dai colleghi di Belgrado – in collaborazione con il Modulo Jean Monnet “Anthropology of the European Union” (coordinato da Miloš Milenković) – e dedicato a “Nationalism, Memory and Democratic Decay in the New EU Member States and Candidate Countries” si è aperto proprio in coincidenza con l’attacco della Russia. L’incontro di cui questo Volume raccoglie gli atti si è svolto pochi giorni dopo il Consiglio europeo in cui è stata attribuita la posizione di Paese candidato ad Ucraina e Moldavia e, nello stesso tempo, si è nuovamente riproposto un atteggiamento “attendista” – per non usare termini più duri – nei confronti dei Balcani occidentali. Non va poi dimenticata la situazione che caratterizza alcuni dei Paesi membri, con le resistenze rispetto al principio di rule of law e, più in generale, all’idea di democrazia di cui l’UE si fa portatrice. Proprio la complessità degli avvenimenti più recenti, e più in generale di questa fase del processo di integrazione europea, è stata alla base della scelta di articolare il Convegno in tre tavole rotonde, con il coinvolgimento di numerosi colleghi, con formazione e specializzazioni diverse, ma accomunati dal comune interesse per le vicende europee. In particolare, le prime due – in lingua italiana – sono dedicate alla riflessione sull’identità e sul futuro dell’Unione europea messe sempre più spesso alla prova dalle posizioni assunte dagli Stati membri: “Identità (costituzionale) europea: una sfida culturale?” e “Il rispetto del principio di rule of law e il futuro dell’UE”. La terza – in lingua inglese – è intitolata “Mapping challenges of EU enlargement to the Western Balkans – From memories to current conflicts e vede la partecipazione di colleghi di diversi Paesi dei Balcani occidentali, chiamati a riflettere sulle criticità del processo di allargamento. Le resistenze dell’Unione, spesso legate a ragioni politiche interne agli Stati membri o a conflitti bilaterali, da un lato, e le contrapposizioni identitarie che condizionano il consolidamento democratico dei Paesi candidati (e potenziali candidati), dall’altro, sono lo specchio che riflette le sfide che l’Unione deve affrontare. A distanza di mesi non si vedono soluzioni praticabili per il conflitto in Ucraina e l’Unione europea fatica a mantenere (e prima ancora a definire) una posizione condivisa; situazione che si verifica anche rispetto ad altre questioni fondamentali, come il rafforzamento dei populismi/nazionalismi a livello statale o l’evoluzione del fenomeno migratorio. Da qui la necessità di ritornare alle radici e ai valori che uniscono, come indicato nel titolo del Progetto “We, the People of the United Europe: Reflections on the European State of Mind”. Ai relatori – anche se sono stati indicati i titoli degli interventi, ripresi nell’indice del Volume – è stato chiesto di sviluppare brevi riflessioni che potessero offrire spunti per ulteriori approfondimenti e lasciare spazio al dibattito. Nonostante si collochi al termine “formale” del Progetto, infatti, insieme agli altri organizzatori dell’evento – e curatori del presente Volume, Alessia-Ottavia Cozzi, Marko Milenković e Irena Ristić, che ringrazio in questa sede per la preziosa collaborazione – abbiamo pensato questo Convegno internazionale come un “incontro di lavoro”, destinato ad ulteriori sviluppi. Mai come oggi, infatti, le domande che avevano ispirato il Progetto: Che cosa è l’Europa? In che cosa consiste l’identità europea? Si può parlare di memoria condivisa? sono determinanti per il futuro dell’Unione europea
Objects as pedagogical mediators. A proposal of an ecological design in kindergarten
No full textStarting from the first days of life, the child is placed in the world as a subject intentionally interacting with individuals and with the environment that surrounds them, capable of generating meanings and knowledge through activities of playful and active learning.
The kindergarten - the first broader social context that the child attends - is a privileged place for the development of project proposals aimed at the development of learning pathways to support the child in their growth and promote reflections on and participation in the topic of early childhood education at multiple levels.
The article gives an account of the experience related to a personal research survey conducted at some public kindergartens (age 0-3) of the city of Rome in order to verify the replicability and effectiveness of a design methodology used in my work as a pedagogical coordinator.
The methodology considers the use of elements present in the world of children and adults as mediators in the development of educational proposals that actively involve children, families and professionals that can generate a universe of shared meaning and promote a research-action perspective in educational services.
This article also intends to highlight some design aspects of the curriculum (age 0-3) that could encourage the development of the kindergarten as a place that supports the child to be a protagonist of their growth pathways and the environment in which they live and contribute positively to their first experiences of citizensh
Fractional De Giorgi classes and applications to nonlocal regularity theory
No full textWe present some recent results obtained by the author on the regularity of solutions to nonlocal variational problems. In particular, we review the notion of fractional De Giorgi class, explain its role in nonlocal regularity theory, and propose some open questions in the subject.</p
Aproximació a la Síntesi Total de la Baulamicina A Anna Yin Zheng June
No full textTreballs Finals de Grau de Química, Facultat de Química, Universitat de Barcelona, Any: 2017, Tutors: Pier Giorgio Cozzi, Fèlix UrpíBaulamycin A and B are a new structural class of antibiotics. They come from marine microbial-derived natural product extracts collected in Costa Rica, Panama and Papua New Guinea.
From the two types of Baulamycin, Baulamycin A is the one that we are going to synthesize because it is able to inhibit microorganisms resistant to Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), the main cause of serious hospital infections. Furthermore, it has been found that Baulamycin is also able to inhibit the dangerous and deadly bacterium Anthrax, a bio-terrorist potential agent that is cured with extreme difficulty by common antibiotics.
Unfortunately, Baulamycin A was isolated in a very small quantity and its potential antibiotic capacity has not been studied nor has done activity studies. Its structure has been proposed only by the analysis of its spectroscopy data. However, the main problem to synthesize this molecule is that it owns 7 stereocenters. In order to confirm the structure and test its effectiveness in a comprehensive manner as possible drug, the total synthesis is essential.
My research team in Bologna embarked on the total synthesis of this antibiotic and they have identified two possible precursors for the total synthesis. Synthon B can be prepared through the execution of three consecutive organocatalytic reactions developed in our laboratories.My research in this project is to scale up the reactions to synthon B, try to synthesize synthon A and control the relative configuration of the newly formed stereogenic centers.
Also, we will try to increase the yield obtained in each step in order to get more product. However, very recently a research group of the Department of Organic Chemistry of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science of Jadavpur in Kolkata (India) have published in the Journal of Organic Chemistry an article on the Total Synthesis of Reported Structure of Baulamycin A and its Congeners. This paper disclosed that the reported structure of Baulamycin A needs to be revised, as the spectroscopic data described for the
synthetic compound are not identical with the real Baulamycin A
Artificial intelligence for digital breast tomosynthesis: Impact on diagnostic performance, reading times, and workload in the era of personalized screening
No full textThe ultimate goals of the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) are the reduction of reading times, the increase of diagnostic performance, and the reduction of interval cancer rates. In this review, after outlining the journey from computer-aided detection/diagnosis systems to AI applied to digital mammography (DM), we summarize the results of studies where AI was applied to DBT, noting that long-term advantages of DBT screening and its crucial ability to decrease the interval cancer rate are still under scrutiny. AI has shown the capability to overcome some shortcomings of DBT in the screening setting by improving diagnostic performance and by reducing recall rates (from -2 % to -27 %) and reading times (up to -53 %, with an average 20 % reduction), but the ability of AI to reduce interval cancer rates has not yet been clearly investigated. Prospective validation is needed to assess the cost-effectiveness and real-world impact of AI models assisting DBT interpretation, especially in large-scale studies with low breast cancer prevalence. Finally, we focus on the incoming era of personalized and risk-stratified screening that will first see the application of contrast-enhanced breast imaging to screen women with extremely dense breasts. As the diagnostic advantage of DBT over DM was concentrated in this category, we try to understand if the application of AI to DM in the remaining cohorts of women with heterogeneously dense or non-dense breast could close the gap in diagnostic performance between DM and DBT, thus neutralizing the usefulness of AI application to DBT
Literary Collaboration in Late Victorian Britain
No full textThe focus of the present thesis is the phenomenon of literary collaboration for fiction-writing during a period when it was particularly widespread: from 1870 to the end of the Victorian age. Collaboration in novel writing had been practised sporadically since the eighteenth century, but the late nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented expansion, probably as the result of an increasingly composite and competitive literary market. Around 1890, it became a literary fashion, so much so that almost all popular novelists of the time experienced it at least once. However popular, virtually all coauthored novels soon plunged into oblivion. The present research seeks the causes for such decline in the very context of these novels' production and reception, exploring how coauthorship was a controversial practice since its very beginning. Indeed, the sharing of textual spaces and the dispersion of authority complicated deep-seated, post-Romantic notions of authorship and textuality; within collaborative writing, the author turned into something different from what Victorians were accustomed to imagining.
Chapter 1 presents a survey of the phenomenon's importance and of its impact on the late Victorian literary marketplace. The following chapter discusses the ten-year long literary partnership of the two English friends Walter Besant and James Rice, who made collaboration popular and whose alliance remained an influential model for the subsequent decades. Chapter 3 analyses another pair of long-term coauthors, the Anglo-Irish cousins Edith Somerville and Violet Martin, who signed their works Somerville and Ross. They coauthored fiction for thirty years, and their complex emotional relationship shaped their literary partnership in meaningful ways. Chapter 4 investigates some examples of one-time collaborative experiences of the 1890s, when the practice was at its peak: H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang; Rhoda Broughton and Elizabeth Bisland; and the collaboration of twenty-four novelists on the sensational 'The Fate of Fenella.' Chapter 5 looks at the discourse that developed in the British press around collaboration: drawing on a corpus of original late Victorian articles and reviews, it tries to shed some light on how the Victorian public reacted to, perceived and represented the act of coauthoring a work of fiction. Some trends are identified, in order to understand which aspects of collaboration particularly struck the Victorian imagination. The heated debate on coauthorship spurred further discussion on wider issues connected with authorship and copyright, both questions of paramount importance in the Victorian age, which are explored in chapter 6. This last part considers the ways in which the author figure emerging from the collaborative process challenged and subverted - even if only temporarily - hegemonic conceptions of author-ity.The focus of the present thesis is the phenomenon of literary collaboration for fiction-writing during a period when it was particularly widespread: from 1870 to the end of the Victorian age. Collaboration in novel writing had been practised sporadically since the eighteenth century, but the late nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented expansion, probably as the result of an increasingly composite and competitive literary market. Around 1890, it became a literary fashion, so much so that almost all popular novelists of the time experienced it at least once. However popular, virtually all coauthored novels soon plunged into oblivion. The present research seeks the causes for such decline in the very context of these novels' production and reception, exploring how coauthorship was a controversial practice since its very beginning. Indeed, the sharing of textual spaces and the dispersion of authority complicated deep-seated, post-Romantic notions of authorship and textuality; within collaborative writing, the author turned into something different from what Victorians were accustomed to imagining.
Chapter 1 presents a survey of the phenomenon's importance and of its impact on the late Victorian literary marketplace. The following chapter discusses the ten-year long literary partnership of the two English friends Walter Besant and James Rice, who made collaboration popular and whose alliance remained an influential model for the subsequent decades. Chapter 3 analyses another pair of long-term coauthors, the Anglo-Irish cousins Edith Somerville and Violet Martin, who signed their works Somerville and Ross. They coauthored fiction for thirty years, and their complex emotional relationship shaped their literary partnership in meaningful ways. Chapter 4 investigates some examples of one-time collaborative experiences of the 1890s, when the practice was at its peak: H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang; Rhoda Broughton and Elizabeth Bisland; and the collaboration of twenty-four novelists on the sensational 'The Fate of Fenella.' Chapter 5 looks at the discourse that developed in the British press around collaboration: drawing on a corpus of original late Victorian articles and reviews, it tries to shed some light on how the Victorian public reacted to, perceived and represented the act of coauthoring a work of fiction. Some trends are identified, in order to understand which aspects of collaboration particularly struck the Victorian imagination. The heated debate on coauthorship spurred further discussion on wider issues connected with authorship and copyright, both questions of paramount importance in the Victorian age, which are explored in chapter 6. This last part considers the ways in which the author figure emerging from the collaborative process challenged and subverted - even if only temporarily - hegemonic conceptions of author-ity
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