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Migrant Children's Right to Education
No full textIn the light of the assessment that “Education is both a human right in itself and an indispensable means of realizing other human rights” (CESCR, General Comment No. 13, 1999), the paper focuses on the obligation imposed by human rights treaties to provide full access to education to migrant children, irrespective of their status or the status of their parents. After a comprehensive analysis of the European and international legal framework of the right to education, particularly dealing with positive obligations, the paper evaluate different practices of integration (or non-integration) of foreign students into primary and secondary school in Europe, assessing their conformity with human right obligations of states. Particula attention is payed to the role of human rights courts and bodies
"The love that made hell, paradise." Ouida re-writing the Paolo and Francesca theme in Held in Bondage
No full textThe bestselling Victorian author Ouida reveals in her novels, and, in particular, Held in Bondage, an extraordinary knowledge od Dante, by using characters and themes from the Commedia. The Paolo and Francesca theme actually constitutes part of the plot of the novel and is to be found in many of her other works, short stories and non-fiction writing
HERStory Makers 2023: Francesca Fotheringham
No full textFrancesca Fotheringham is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Edinburgh studying educational psychology with a focus on neurodiversity. She took part in HERStory Makers 2023.What is HERStory Makers?HERStory Makers is a social media competition for female-identifying early career researchers to share their research, their career journeys, and to inspire the next generation. Winners are selected by public vote. HERStory Makers is also part of EXPLORATHON, Scotland's contribution to European Researchers' Night.In 2022-23, EXPLORATHON Francescasupported by the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council [grant number EP/X020762/1].Author contributions to contentFrancesca conceived, planned, and recorded the video content. Kirsty Ross edited the video content to insert HERStory Maker credits, added subtitles, and reduce video length to below Twitter/X limit of 2 mins and 20 secs.</p
The neurobiology of dysautonomia in Parkinson's disease
No full textNeurodegenerative diseases (NDs) include a large variety of disorders that affects specific areas of the central nervous system, leading to psychiatric and movement pathologies. A common feature that characterizes these disorders is the neuronal formation and accumulation of misfolded protein aggregates that lead to cell death. In particular, different proteinaceous aggregates accumulate to trigger a variety of clinical manifestations: prion protein (PrPSc) in prion diseases, beta-amyloid (A beta) in Alzheimer's disease (AD), alpha-synuclein in Parkinson's disease (PD), huntingtin in Huntington's disease (HD), superoxide dismutase and TDP-43 in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), tau in tauopathies. Non-motor alterations also occur in several viscera, in particular the gastrointestinal tract. These often precede the onset of motor symptoms by several years. For this reason, dysautonomic changes can be predictive of NDs and their correct recognition is being assuming a remarkable importance. This peculiar feature led more and more to the concept that neurodegeneration may initiate in the periphery and propagate retrogradely towards the central nervous system in a prion-like manner. In recent years, a particular attention was dedicated to the clinical assessment of autonomic disorders in patients affected by NDs. In this respect, experimental animal models have been developed to understand the neurobiology underlying these effects as well as to investigate autonomic changes in peripheral organs. This review summarizes experimental studies that have been carried out to understand autonomic symptoms in NDs, with the purpose to provide appropriate tools for comprehensive and integrated studies.Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) include a large variety of disorders that affects specific areas of the centralnervous system, leading to psychiatric and movement pathologies. A common feature that characterizes thesedisorders is the neuronal formation and accumulation of misfolded protein aggregates that lead to cell death. Inparticular, different proteinaceous aggregates accumulate to trigger a variety of clinical manifestations: prionprotein (PrPSc) in prion diseases, β-amyloid (Aβ) in Alzheimer's disease (AD), α-synuclein in Parkinson's disease(PD), huntingtin in Huntington's disease (HD), superoxide dismutase and TDP-43 in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis(ALS), tau in tauopathies. Non-motor alterations also occur in several viscera, in particular the gastrointestinaltract. These often precede the onset of motor symptoms by several years. For this reason, dysautonomic changescan be predictive of NDs and their correct recognition is being assuming a remarkable importance. This peculi
Studio longitudinale della funzionalità tiroidea in bambini affetti da Sindrome di Down
No full textLongitudinal study evaluating the thyroid function in patients with Down Syndrome. Subclinical Hypothyroidism is often present in children with Down Syndrome and it is not always associated with documented positivity of thyroid autoimmunity
Medicina illuminata. La Biblioteca Lancisiana di Roma
No full textL'articolo presenta i codici miniati della Biblioteca Lancisiana di Roma. La prima parte, del coautore, è dedicata alla Biblioteca. La seconda parte, di F. Manzari, tratta dei manoscritti miniati, costituiti da due codici con le opere di Avicenna e dal Liber fraternitatis della Confraternita dell'Ospedale di Santo Spirito in Sassia a Roma.The article introduces the illuminated manuscripts of the Biblioteca Lancisiana in Rome. The first part of the article, by the co-author, is dedicated to the Library. The second part, by Francesca Manzari, illustrates the manuscipts; these are two manuscripts with the works of Avicenna and the Liber fraternitatis of the Confraternity of the Hospital of Santo Spirito in Sassia in Rome
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