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Marvin Stone with Georgia Angelucci aboard ship Stella Solaris
No full textMarvin Stone with Mrs. Georgia Angelucci at Captain\u27s Dinner aboard the ship Stella Solaris, b&w. Back reads: Captain\u27s dinner aboard Stella Solaris, jan. 18, 1976 (Mrs. Georgia Angelucci of Rome).https://mds.marshall.edu/marvin_stone_collection/1120/thumbnail.jp
Dataset of Electoral Volatility in the European Parliament elections since 1979
No full textThis dataset provides data on electoral volatility and its internal components in the elections for the European Parliament (EP) in all European Union (EU) countries since 1979 or the date of their accession to the Union. It also provides data about electoral volatility for both the class bloc and the demarcation bloc. This dataset will be regularly updated so as to include the next rounds of the European Parliament elections.
How to cite this dataset?
Emanuele, V., Angelucci, D., Marino, B., Puleo, L., and Vegetti, F. (2019), Dataset of Electoral Volatility in the European Parliament elections since 1979, Rome: Italian Center for Electoral Studies, http://dx.doi.org/10.7802/1905
Immagine digitale e persistenza del cinema
No full textThe essay analizes the transformations suffered from the cinema with the advent of digital technology and the theories that hypothesize the disappearance of film (Baudrillard, Virilio, Debray). The author affirms that cinema resists as model for new media and as experience of the spectator, despite these transformations. Finally, the essay suggests to abandon the ontological question for a phenomenological description. This description allows to identify some similarity between digital cinema and painting
B cells in systemic sclerosis: A possible target for therapy
No full textSystemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune disease characterized by excessive extracellular matrix (ECM) deposition in the skin and other visceral organs and it is associated with immune activation characterized by autoantibody production, release of various cytokines and T-lymphocyte activation. Several recent lines of evidence in animal models and in SSc patients indicate a potential role for B cells in the SSc. B cells have arisen as a possible player in tissue fibrosis in some experimental models and, since IL-6 produced by B cells, along with TGF-β, may induce matrix synthesis and less collagen degradation, targeting B cells could be one way to reduce ECM deposition and reduce the inflammatory background. Both SSc patients and tight-skin mice, a genetic model of SSc, have intrinsic B-cell abnormalities characterized by chronic B-cell activation. SSc patients present an increased number of naïve B cells and an activation of memory B cells, despite a reduction in their number. B cells from SSc patients exhibit increased expression of CD19. Remarkably, CD19 loss or B-cell depletion using antimouse CD20 antibody suppresses the development of skin hyperplasia and autoimmunity in tight-skin mice. Additionally, recent studies revealed a possible beneficial effect of anti-human CD20 antibody (Rituximab) therapy on skin fibrosis and lung involvement in SSc patients. These studies reported also the safety of Rituximab in SSc patients. All these findings suggest a possible role of antiCD20 treatment in SSc patients. © 2011 Elsevier B.V
The congealing of a new cleavage? The evolution of the demarcation bloc in Europe (1979–2019)
No full textOver recent years, a new transnational conflict has been deemed to be structuring political conflict in Europe. Several scholars have posited the emergence of a new ‘demarcation’ vs. ‘integration’ cleavage, pitting the ‘losers’ and ‘winners’ of globalization against each other. This new conflict is allegedly structured along economic (free trade and globalization), cultural (immigration and multiculturalism), and institutional [European Union (EU) integration] dimensions. From an empirical viewpoint, it is still a matter of discussion whether this conflict can be interpreted as a new cleavage, which could replace or complement the traditional ones. In this context, the European Parliament (EP) elections of 2019 represent an ideal
case for investigating how far this new cleavage has evolved towards structuring political competition in European party systems. In this paper, by relying on an original dataset and an innovative theoretical and empirical framework based on the study of a cleavage’s lifecycle, we test whether a demarcation cleavage is structuring the European political systems. Moreover, we assess the evolution of this cleavage across the 28 EU countries since 1979 and the role it plays within each party system. The paper finds that the demarcation cleavage has emerged in most European countries, mobilizing over time a growing number of voters. In particular, this long-term trend has reached its highest peak in the 2019 EP election. However,
although the cleavage has become an important (if not the main) dimension of electoral competition in many countries, it has not reached maturity yet
La circoncisione non terapeutica in Italia, tra valetudo e religio: criticità e prospettive per un simbolo religioso nello spazio europeo della libertà religiosa
No full textDalla letteratura alla filosofia. Il Proust di Deleuze
No full textThe present paper traces some of the main articulations of the book Marcel Proust and the signs (1964), in which the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze affirms the superiority of literature on classical rationalist philosophy in the search for truth. Proust's work rivals the philosophy itself, since it brings into play the involuntary nature of memory and intelligence – a condition which lies at the beginning of every thought - which can grasp the truth only solicited and forced by chance encounters. Classical rationalist philosophy as a methodical exercise, induced by the good will of the thinker, can instead reach only abstract and conventional truths. The paper underlines how, according to Deleuze, Proust’s work will represent the model of authentic philosophy, the one that comes to produce with violence new concepts forced by problems and urgencies that impose themselves from outside. In fact, in Difference and Repetition (1968), the characteristics ascribed to the Proustian Recherche are explicitly attributed to a philosophy of Difference, which is posited by the author as the real need of his own time. In 1991, Deleuze and Félix Guattari posed the question: What is philosophy? The attributes previously assigned to the literature, reappeared in the answer to such a question. A paradoxical necessity - reached through contingent encounters on one side, and the involuntary nature of thought on the other side - will appear at the center of the book that closes the theoretical trajectory of Deleuze: such a paradox shows itself as the only condition for the “invention of concepts”, which is at the same time the definition and ultimate task of philosophical practice
Montaggi e concatenamenti. Deleuze e il movimento aberrante nel cinema e nel reale
No full textThe article establishes a connection between the aberrant movement of montage as discussed by Gilles Deleuze in his two-volume work on cinema and the concept of assemblage [agencement], as presented by the author in collaboration with Félix Guattari in their published works. Aberrant montage and assemblages are, first and foremost, modes of movement and production that inform the ways in which beings and thoughts emerge and unfold. Furthermore, and most significantly, the temporal dimension of the self as manifested in cinema through the “aberrant” dynamics of montage resonates with Deleuze’s explicit ontological explorations of intensive experience and pure qualities
Il fantasma di Anne-Marie. Duras e il cinema dell’immaginario
No full text"The art of cinema turns off the text, kills its own offspring: the imaginary. This is its virtue: to close. Blocking the imaginary. This block, this closure is called a film." These words by Marguerite Duras prelude to the attempt at a new, completely different way of making cinema, experimented by the author since the 1960s. The article aims to focus on the opening to the imaginary, to the possible, to the ghost, that is the typical opening of the cinematographic works of Duras. Particular reference will be made to India Song (1975) and to the character of Anne-Marie Stretter, the artist's childhood ghost who reappears in novels and films as a fatal figure
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