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Does municipal fiscal distress hinder inter-municipal cooperation?
Full text linkPurpose: Inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) has been increasingly adopted worldwide to tackle issues of size and cost reduction in the provision of public services. Although the determinants of cooperation among municipalities have been widely investigated in the prior literature, little is known about the link between a municipality's financial health and that of the supra-municipal entity formed under IMC. The purpose of this study is to fill this research gap by analyzing the case of municipal unions (MUs) in Italy. Design/methodology/approach: A quantitative approach has been used, applying OLS and quantile regression on financial information and other variables of municipalities and their MUs. Findings: The study finds that the most important condition of operation for IMC, that is, financial sustainability, is directly linked to the financial health of member municipalities and the functional integration reached with the supra-municipal entity. Originality/value: The study analyses all MUs in Italy, focusing on the factors affecting their financial sustainability. In doing so, it sheds light on the factors that influence the financial sustainability of second-tier governments, which rely on external funding
The challenge of diagnosing interstitial lung disease by HRCT: state of the art and future perspectives
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Biochemical and enzymatic characteristics of bronchial secretions and their changes under treatment with mucolytic drugs
No full textSwianiewicz, P. and Teles, F. (eds., 2018), Intermunicipal Cooperation in Europe. Institutions and Governance, New York, NY, Palgrave Macmillan.
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"Nihil aliud... quam actio completa”. Le fonti performatiche delle materie narrative, poetiche, letterarie
No full textL’inventario delle più o meno recenti contaminazioni tra l’opera dantesca e le arti performative (teatro, danza, musica) è impresa non facile né veloce, dato il considerevole numero di titoli da considerare, che alimentano peraltro una parallela proliferazione di interessanti studi che criticamente si interrogano sulle mutate condizioni di produzione e circolazione dei contenuti culturali nel contesto dell’odierna società delle comunicazioni tecnologicamente mediate. Gli attuali apparati tecnici di registrazione e comunicazione da un lato rivitalizzano la dimensione orale, ma dall’altro producono anche un formidabile rafforzamento della scrittura, dal momento che hanno la capacità di fissare su supporti stabili (come fa la scrittura con la parola) qualcosa che è per sua natura transitorio, dinamico, temporalmente impermanente come il suono (verbale o musicale) e il movimento (cioè a dire i “materiali di costruzione” delle arti performative). Il saggio intende allora fornire una cornice teorico-metodologica appunto centrata sulla nozione di performance che si sta progressivamente ritagliando una decisa centralità negli studi umanistici. Perché? I motivi sono molteplici e diversificati, ma uno dei più importanti va rinvenuto nel fatto che pensare le arti in termini performativi/performatici consente di cogliere e comprendere, in una prospettiva originale e fertile, la base comune alle arti che un tempo chiamavamo “sceniche” (teatro, danza, musica), alla letteratura e anche ai nuovi formati narrativi mediali/digitali. Si tratta dunque di mettere a fuoco quella che propongo di chiamare la dimensione performatica delle arti
Massive haemoptysis from an aberrant bronchial artery in a patient with cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis
No full textMassive haemoptysis is a life-threatening emergency requiring prompt and highly specialized intervention to identify the site of haemorrhage, protect the airways and stop bleeding. A wide variety of lung diseases may cause haemoptysis, including tuberculosis. The most common sources of pulmonary bleeding are bronchial (90%) and non-bronchial systemic arteries (5%). Aberrant bronchial vessels have also been described. We report the case of a patient affected by cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis who presented with massive haemoptysis from an aberrant bronchial artery originating from the sovrascapular branch of the left thyrocervical trunk. Successful embolization was performed by means of superselective arteriography. © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
Immunogenetics of severe respiratory infections: Models for the development of new therapeutic strategies
No full textInnate and adaptive immunity plays a critical role in the defence of the lung and other mucosal surfaces exposed to micro-organisms. Anti-microbial peptides and proteins, cytokines and chemokines are important immune weapons as they build up the protective front for the respiratory tract. The notion that susceptibility to infectious diseases may be inherited is widely accepted and, as it is the failure to activate adaptive immunity that may allow infection to become established and progress toward invasion and dissemination, the recognition of specific gene defects affecting the ability of the immune system to overcome invading pathogens may shed light upon those mechanisms of immune regulation that are playing the most critical roles. The aim of the present review is to discuss some of the advances in infection immunogenetics that may lead to identify new strategies in the development of new anti-infectious and anti-inflammatory drugs. Copyright © 2005 S. Karger AG
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
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