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Lettere sul dissidio. Filosofia e politica nel Carteggio Croce/Gentile
No full textL'intervento si focalizza sul dissidio come categoria centrale del Carteggio Croce/Gentile nonché del rapporto tra i due filosofi. Sono indagati diversi momenti, come il contrasto sulla relazione tra filosofia e storia della filosofia (1906/07), la "discussione tra filosofi amici" e il giudizio crociano sull'attualismo (1913), infine le ultime lettere sulla trasformazione del dissidio da mentale a pratico e politico (1924)
Vertical transmission of hepatitis B virus: challenges and solutions
No full textIvan Gentile, Guglielmo BorgiaDepartment of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, ItalyAbstract: More than 240 million people worldwide are chronically infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV). Mother-to-child transmission remains the most important mechanism of infection in countries with a high prevalence of HBV. Universal screening of all pregnant women, at-birth prophylaxis with specific anti-HBV immune globulin, as well as HBV vaccination for newborns of infected mothers are effective in reducing the risk of vertical transmission. However, in cases of a high viral load and hepatitis B e antigen positivity, there is a residual risk of HBV transmission to the newborn despite prophylaxis. This review focuses on the above-indicated strategies and on the efficacy and safety of antiviral drugs administered during the third trimester of pregnancy.Keywords: immune globulin, prophylaxis, telbuvidine, tenofovir, vaccine, viral loa
Paul, his apostleship, the collection, and the unity of Jews and gentiles
No full textIn this dissertation the author questions an assumed consensus in New Testament scholarship, ht the history of Pauline research Paul has always been treated as a systematic theologian. Thus e.g. the understanding of Paul's concept of the relationship between Jews and Gentiles has shaped views of scholars on Paul's under- standing of his apostleship and his collection of money for the Jerusalem church. And the views on his office as apostle and on his task of the collection influenced each other. Investigating these issues the author makes four observations, a) It is Paul’s basic conviction that the eschatological people of God is a unity of Jews and Gentiles with the Jews in the first place, b) This is the underlying concept of first Paul's apostleship: his role m God's plan of salvation is to proclaim among the Gentiles their final incorporation into the people of God, and, second, Paul's collection: it is a means of expressing unity between Paul's Gentile Christian churches and the mother church in Jerusalem. Thus, it is a sign of the Gentile Christians' recognition of the prime importance of the Jews and, at the same time, of Jerusalem's recognition of the incorporation of the Gentiles into the people of God. c) However, Paul does not elaborate this basic conviction when talking about his apostleship or his collection of money d) Paul does not bring his role as an apostle into specific connection with his role as a collector of money. Thus, the author concludes that in order to establish the points Paul wishes to make he argues not on the basis of one theological system, but on the basis of several considerations and reasons. Paul, therefore, is no perfect systematic thinker, but rather a pragmatic churchman
Gentile e Marx
No full textL'articolo esamina i due saggi che Giovanni Gentile dedicò alla filosofia di Marx. L'autore sostiene che questi scritti giovanili non presentano i germi del futuro attualismo, ma manifestano la forte influenza di Bertrando Spaventa. Analizzando le "Tesi su Feuerbach" di Marx, Gentile inaugurò una linea peculiare del marxismo italiano: la filosofia della prassi. Ma la sua lettura del "rovesciamento della prassi" smarrì ciò che in Labriola era essenziale, cioè la genesi storica delle idee. Anche per questo abbandonò gli studi su Marx, che ripubblicò nel 1937 nei "Fondamenti della filosofia del diritto".The article considers the twoo essays that Giovanni Gentile devoted to yhe philosophy of Marx. The author argues that these studiesdo not show the seeds of the future actualism, but they stress the strong influence of Bertrando Spaventa's philosophy instead
THE EMERGENCE OF GENTILE LEADERSHIP AND THE JERUSALEM CONFERENCE: A SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE GROUP DYNAMICS OF THE PARTICIPATION OF GENTILE BELIEVERS IN THE EARLY CHURCH
No full textThis thesis looks at the Jerusalem Conference and Antioch dispute as described by Paul in Galatians (2.1-14) and Acts (15). A new approach to the topics is used, that of using models derived from socio-psychological research. The Jerusalem Conference and Antioch dispute are concerned with group interactions and dynamics; socio-psychological research studies the behaviour of individuals in social groups and so is well suited to study this aspect of early church history.
I argue that the emergence of Gentile leadership at Antioch precipitated the need for the Jerusalem Conference. Whereas ‘sympathizers’ to Judaism, lacking circumcision, were not fully integrated into Jewish communities, Gentile believers at Antioch underwent the initiation rite of baptism. Thus Gentile believers had a greater sense of belonging than did ‘sympathizers’ in Judaism. Also Gentiles entered the Antiochene church in numbers, forming a distinct subgroup within the community. These two factors provided ideal conditions for Gentile leadership to emerge. However, leadership inferred a certain status for Gentile believers. This was opposed by some Jewish believers who insisted on complete Torah observance, including circumcision, for full membership of the early church. The Jerusalem Conference met to resolve the issue.
Paul’s claim that nothing was added to his gospel implies that the Jerusalem Conference accepted Gentile membership of the church, including Gentile leadership, without circumcision. This would be unacceptable to the Law-observant Jewish believers. To avoid schism the Conference needed a compromise which appeased the Jewish believers. I suggest that the compromise was the ‘two missions’; Gentile believers were accorded the status of full membership as Gentiles, but provision was made for those Jewish believers, who experienced threats to their Jewish identity by associating with Gentile believers under these conditions, to avoid such Gentile contacts. The test of the ‘two missions’ came at Antioch. Peter, in eating with Gentiles, accepted their status as full members of the church. However, the ‘people from James’ did not accept the Gentile believers on equal terms and insisted on their right to avoid such contact with Gentiles. Peter and the other Antiochene Jews had to choose – offer hospitality to their fellow Jews and withdraw from Gentile contact or maintain table fellowship with Gentiles and isolate their fellow Jews. They opted to extend hospitality to the Jews, but this decision implied a rejection of the Gentiles’ status within the early church
No fermionic wigs for BPS attractors in 5 dimensions
No full textWe analyze the fermionic wigging of 1-2-BPS (electric) extremal black hole attractors in N=2, D = 5 ungauged Maxwell-Einstein supergravity theories, by exploiting anti-Killing spinors supersymmetry transformations. Regardless of the specific data of the real special geometry of the manifold defining the scalars of the vector multiplets, and differently from the D = 4 case, we find that there are no corrections for the near-horizon attractor value of the scalar fields; an analogous result also holds for 1-2-BPS (magnetic) extremal black string. Thus, the attractor mechanism receives no fermionic corrections in D = 5 (at least in the BPS sector). © 2014 Elsevier B.V.AICHELBURG PC, 1986, PHYS REV D, V34, P3006, DOI 10.1103-PhysRevD.34.3006; Balasubramanian V, 1999, PHYS REV D, V59; Bergshoeff E, 2004, CLASSICAL QUANT GRAV, V21, P3015, DOI 10.1088-0264-9381-21-12-013; Bergshoeff E, 2006, CLASSICAL QUANT GRAV, V23, P7149, DOI 10.1088-0264-9381-23-23-C01; Burrington BA, 2005, PHYS REV D, V71, DOI 10.1103-PhysRevD.71.105015; Cerchiai BL, 2010, PHYS REV D, V82, DOI 10.1103-PhysRevD.82.085010; Ceresole A, 2007, CLASSICAL QUANT GRAV, V24, P5651, DOI 10.1088-0264-9381-24-22-023; Ceresole A, 2000, NUCL PHYS B, V585, P143, DOI 10.1016-S0550-3213(00)00339-4; Chamseddine A, 1997, PHYS REV D, V55, P3647, DOI 10.1103-PhysRevD.55.3647; Chamseddine AH, 1999, PHYS LETT B, V460, P63, DOI 10.1016-S0370-2693(99)00761-3; DEWIT B, 1993, NUCL PHYS B, V400, P463, DOI 10.1016-0550-3213(93)90413-J; Elvang H, 2007, J HIGH ENERGY PHYS, DOI 10.1088-1126-6708-2007-05-050; Emparan R, 2002, PHYS REV LETT, V88, DOI 10.1103-PhysRevLett.88.101101; Ferrara S, 2006, NUCL PHYS B, V759, P1, DOI 10.1016-j.nuclphysb.2006.09.016; Ferrara S, 1997, NUCL PHYS B, V500, P75, DOI 10.1016-S0550-3213(97)00324-6; Ferrara S, 1996, PHYS REV D, V54, P1514, DOI 10.1103-PhysRevD.54.1514; FERRARA S, 1995, PHYS REV D, V52, pR5412; Ferrara S, 1996, PHYS REV D, V54, P1525, DOI 10.1103-PhysRevD.54.1525; GENTILE GC, ARXIV12070686; GENTILE LGC, 2013, J HIGH ENERGY PHYS, P65; GENTILE LGC, ARXIV13025060; Gentile LGC, 2011, PHYS LETT B, V703, P81, DOI 10.1016-j.physletb.2011.07.048; Gentile LGC, 2013, NUCL PHYS B, V871, P393, DOI 10.1016-j.nuclphysb.2013.02.009; GENTILE LGC, ARXIV13090821; GUNAYDIN M, 1984, NUCL PHYS B, V242, P244, DOI 10.1016-0550-3213(84)90142-1; Kallosh R, 1997, PHYS REV D, V56, P3509, DOI 10.1103-PhysRevD.56.3509; Kastor D, 1999, CLASSICAL QUANT GRAV, V16, P1265, DOI 10.1088-0264-9381-16-4-014; Kastor D, 1999, PHYS REV D, V60, DOI 10.1103-PhysRevD.60.025002; Kraus P, 2005, PHYS REV D, V72, DOI [10.1103-PhysRevD.72.024010, 10.1103-PhysRevLett.72.024010]; Strominger A, 1996, PHYS LETT B, V383, P39, DOI 10.1016-0370-2693(96)00711-3; VAN A, ARXIVHEPTH99100300
Anna Vertua Gentile
No full textThe headword explains the biography and the contribution of the author Anna Vertua Gentile to the children's literatur
Gentile e Gioberti
No full textL’articolo prende in considerazione il rapporto di Giovanni Gentile con l’o-pera di Vincenzo Gioberti, dai primi componimenti giovanili del 1894 fino agli ultimi scritti sul “realismo politico”. Un largo uso di materiale d’archivio consente all’autore di ridefinire (anche con riferimento all’influenza di Bertrando Spaventa) i diversi passaggi della composizione del libro su Rosmini e Gioberti e di ricostruire i rapporti di Gentile con altri protagonisti della così detta “rinascita giobertiana”, come Edmondo Solmi e Valentino Piccoli. L’opera filologica di Gentile, dalla pubblicazione di undici volumi dell’epistolario alla Nuova Protologia del 1912, viene considerata alla luce della più recente critica giobertiana. L’autore si sofferma, in particolare, sull’uso che, nel corso degli anni, Gentile fece del modello giobertiano della “poligonia”, fino al discorso fiorentino del 1943 su La mia religione. Anche sul piano del pensiero politico, la successiva scoperta di Giuseppe Mazzini complicò il giudizio su Gioberti, ma Gentile continuò sempre a interrogarsi sulla sua figura.The article takes into account the relationship between Giovanni Gentile and Vincenzo Gioberti’s work, from the early compositions to the last writings on "political realism". A wide use of archival resources allows the author to redefine (also with reference to Bertrando Spaventa’s influence) the different steps in the composition of Rosmini and Gioberti and reconstruct the Gentile’s relations with other authors of the so-called "Giobertian revival", as Edmondo Solmi and Valentino Piccoli. The work of Gentile, from the publication of eleven volumes of the epistolary to the Nuova Protologia (1912), is considered in light of the recent results of the Giobertian philology. The author analyses in particular the extensive use that, for years, Gentile made of the Giobertian "poligonia", until the Florentine speech "La mia religione" (1943). In the political thought, the successive discovery of Giuseppe Mazzini complicated the judgment about Gioberti, but Gentile always continued his reflection on this thinker
Conolophus marthae Gentile & Snell, 2009, new species
No full textConolophus marthae new species Galápagos pink land iguana Figs. 2–5 Holotype. A free-ranging adult male permanently branded with the number 117. A Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) with the number 091- 601 - 303 was hypodermically inserted in one of the posterior legs. The individual was captured and released approximately four km north of the Equator on the top of Volcan Wolf, Isla Isabela, Galápagos National Park, Ecuador (0.03792 ° N; 91.36324 °W, datum WGS 84, as recorded by a Garmin 12 CX handheld GPS). The individual was captured by A. Jaramillo on June 8 th 2006, blood was drawn by G. Gentile. Photos were shot by G. Gentile. Blood in lysis buffer voucher n. MCZRR 450 (as reported in the Genbank records FJ 716129 and FJ 716130) is hosted in the reptile collection (as specimen n. R 450) of the Civic Museum of Zoology (MCZR, Rome, Italy,). Original photo files, named as “Morphobank_m 27772.jpg” (Figure 2), “Morphobank_m 27773.jpg, Morphobank_m 27774.jpg, M o r p h o b a n k_m 2 7 7 7 5. j p g, M o r p h o b a n k _m 2 7 7 7 6. j p g, M o r p h o b a n k _m 2 7 7 7 7. j p g, a n d Morphobank_m 27778.jpg” (Figures 3 A, 3 B, 3 C, 3 D, 3 E, and 3 F, respectively), and the movie “Morphobank_m 27779.wmv” are included in a project titled as the present paper, hosted in Morphobank (http://www.morphobank.org). Such photos and video form a basis of the description and should be considered also as illustrating the type specimen, for purposes of Article 73.1. 4 of the Code (ICZN, 1999), but see also the paragraph “Notes added in proofs”. All material refers to the same individual (free ranging, with PIT number 091- 601 - 303), elected as Holotype. Diagnosis. Conolophus marthae sp. nov. is distinguished from C. pallidus and C. subcristatus by the following color pattern: pinkish head, pinkish and black (dark) body and legs, with a typical black-striped pattern on the mid to posterior dorsal body; stripes are along the dorsal-ventral axis, may be irregular and their number variable; stripes may join to form a more complex pattern; stripes occur on the ventral body, but are less evident; dark tail. Other distinctive, but slightly variable morphological traits co-occur in males: i) adipose nuchal crest with small or reduced conic scales, ii) poorly elevated (pyramid-shaped) or almost flat dorsal head scales. Conolophus marthae sp. nov. is also distinguished from the other two congeneric species by a distinctive pattern of head-bob behavior (Fig. 6, see Morphobank accession code: p 241). The new species is unequivocally distinguished from C. pallidus and C. subcristatus by the several diagnostic sites in the sequence of the control region and cytochrome b gene of the mtDNA, reported in Table 1, and by a completely different, non overlapping, size-range of alleles at the microsatellite locus CS 7 (Tzika et al., 2008; Gentile et al. 2009). Alleles at locus CS 7 range between 245 and 333 bases (as defined in Gentile et al. 2009). Description of Holotype in life. Sex: Male Age: Adult Weight: 5.0 Kg. Morphological measurements: SVL: 47.0 cm; VTL: 61.4 cm; head length: 78.22 mm; head width: 63.76 mm; internostril distance: 17.89 mm; eye-eye distance: 35.19 mm. Control region 786 465 12 24 795 471 51 25 796 474 69 63 C. subcristatus and C. pallidus G 807 T T A C T C T 492 T A T C T G C 75 A G A C G G T C 85 T C. marthae sp. nov. C 814 C A T T G T C 498 A G C T A A A 117 G A C T A A C T 92 C 831 525 135 93 847 528 147 167 Cytochrome b 867 536 171 168 868 547 207 179 873 550 249 198 C. subcristatus C 889 C C C C C C C 553 C C A T T T C 255 A A A G C C T 204 C G C. pallidus. 890....... 561....... 267....... 205.. C. marthae sp. nov. T 891 T T T T T T T 573 A T C C C C T 291 G T T A T T C 247 T A 914 600 295 318 948 633 315 335 967 666 321 338 1014 683 363 508 C. subcristatus C Y R T C C C T G A C C T C T C T A A G T T G A 1053 693 369 509 C. pallidus. T G..................... 1059 700 372 512 C. marthae sp. nov. T G C C T T T C A G A T C T C A C G G C C C A C 1062 702 408 651 1068 706 411 696 1071 721 417 834 1081 723 426 850 1087 747 463 1098 C. subcristatus A T T C C C T C C T C T C C T G C G C A T A G C C. pallidus.... A................... C. marthae sp. nov. G C C T T T C T T C T C T G C A T A T G C G T A Meristic characteristics: N. supralabial scales: 7 (left side) and 9 (right side); n. infralabial scales: 10 (left side) and 9 (right side); n. scales around the parietal scale: 8; n. scales around the mental scale: 9; n. scales around the rostral scale: 8; n. scales along the middle-dorsal line: 17; n. scales around the inguinal scar: 46. Number of femoral pores: 19 (left leg) and 18 (right leg). Morphological characteristics: Snout elongated, not shortened. Tympanum taller than wide. Scales flat or almost flat above the tympanum, in the post-orbital region. Slightly more elevated pyramid-shaped scales occur in the dorsal head. Nuchal crest pronounced, adipose, with small conic scales which are reduced or almost flat along the ridge of the anterior half of the crest. Conic scales are more prominent, but not spinose, along the ridge of the posterior half. Dorsal crest less developed, with small conic scales along the ridge. Caudal crest poorly developed. Round-cross-section tail, not laterally compressed. Fingers of fore and hind legs with short claws, not recurved. Coloration: pinkish head, pinkish and black (dark) body and legs, with a black-striped pattern on the mid to posterior dorsal body. On both sides, five vertical black stripes occur between forelimb and hind limb, along the dorsal-ventral axis. The first stripe is interrupted. Stripes 2–5 are joined horizontally, describing a complex pattern. Stripes are present but less evident on the ventral body. Dark tail. Behavioral characteristics: The head-bob display (nodding behavior) consists of repeated modules. Each module comprises three series of multiple head movements (“ups and downs”; Fig. 6 a–c) and is completely executed within a time interval of 4–5 seconds. Frequency of movements performed in each series is high, with 4 to 6 movements per second. Two sub-series, separated by a few deciseconds, may be recognized within series 2. A fourth, additional series, similar to series 3, may be observed occasionally (Fig. 6 d). Etymology. The new species is named in memory of Martha Rebecca Gentile, second daughter of the first author. Martha prematurely left this world. She was born dead, as consequence of a medical doctor’s negligence, on August 20 th 2003. Distribution. Thus far, this species is known to occur only on Volcan Wolf (Fig. 1), the northernmost volcano of Isla Isabela (Galápagos National Park, Ecuador). Remarks. The new species is easily distinguished from the other two congeneric species. The color pattern is typical of the new species and was never observed in any of the populations of the other two named species. The origin and the nature of the pink pigmentation deserve further investigation. Nevertheless, it is instructive to note that when we surgically removed one pink scale, blood flowed out of the tissue of the removed scale, which immediately lost its pink color. Traits i) and ii) in the diagnosis are more evident in males, whereas they are variable and generally less pronounced in females. Although in the Plaza Sur population of C. subcristatus almost flat dorsal head scales may be observed, such a trait never co-occurs in combination with the other traits characteristic of C. marthae sp. nov. Although the “head-bob” pattern is slightly different between C. subcristatus populations in different islands (Gentile, unpublished data), the nodding behavior of C. marthae sp. nov. is very distinctive and characteristic. This is particularly relevant since it is exhibited in sympatry (syntopy) with C. subcristatus. None of the other species of land iguanas or any marine iguanas show a similar pattern (see Carpenter, 1982, for a comparison). Conolophus marthae sp. nov. is distinct from the other two congeners by about 7 % mtDNA genetic divergence, much higher than genetic divergence between C. pallidus and C. subcristatus (less than 2 %, Gentile et al. 2009). Twenty-four nucleotide sites of the control region and seventy-two nucleotide sites in cyt b gene sequences are diagnostically different and allow distinguishing between the new species and the other congeneric ones. The deep divergence is estimated to have started in a period when the Galápagos did not have their current configuration (Gentile et al. 2009). The absence of alleles shared with the other two species at the microsatellite locus CS 7 and the presence of several private alleles at other loci (Tzika et al., 2008; Gentile et al., 2009) indicate genetic isolation, even with the syntopic population of C. subcristatus. Occasional hybridization between marine (Amblyrhynchus cristatus Bell, 1825) and land iguanas (C. subcristatus) may still occur on Isla Plaza Sur, generating a black, brow-striped F 1 hybrid (Rassmann et al., 1997). Conolophus marthae sp. nov. lacks in any of the adaptive traits exhibited by marine iguanas (shortened snout; laterally compressed tail; developed caudal crest; long, recurved claws) and genetic data (Gentile et al. 2009) provide strong evidence that C. marthae sp. nov. did not originate by hybridization between marine and land (yellow) iguanas. A total of 120 individuals of Conolophus marthae sp. nov. were observed and sampled in three field trips, in 2005, 2006, and 2009 (see the paragraph “Notes added in proofs”). Besides the taxonomic implications, C. marthae sp. nov. is very important as it is the only evidence of deep divergence within the Galápagos land iguana lineage. In fact, the new species carries an ancient evolutionary legacy, being the only remnant of a lineage originated when the Galápagos archipelago did not have its present configuration. Conolophus marthae sp. nov. is a narrow endemism and its population size is small. Its inclusion in the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as "critically endangered" has been recommended (Gentile et al. 2009).Published as part of Gentile, Gabriele & Snell, Howard, 2009, Conolophus marthae sp. nov. (Squamata, Iguanidae), a new species of land iguana from the Galápagos archipelago, pp. 1-10 in Zootaxa 2201 on pages 2-8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18962
Actualism and its author. Prospects for the future of Gentile studies
No full textThis article describes the recent reception of Giovanni Gentile and his doctrine of actualism, describing the philosopher's rehabilitation as a major Italian thinker and actualism as a provocative account of socially situated consciousness. The discussion then turns to the future of Gentile studies, focusing on ways in which the ahistorical methods of analytic philosophy might help restore actualism and its author to their proper place in the philosophical canon
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