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Advanced technology, new spatial dynamic and urban competition: a procedure for evaluating of the italian districts’ competitive potential
No full textThe global change of economy and production determined by the impact of advanced communication technology are re-launching the role of cities and regions from local to global scale. Global competition among cities induces new spatial dynamic, modifying the traditional territorial hierarchies and concentrating the management of economic, technological and cultural relationships in a few metropolitan areas.
Starting from this assumption, this paper gives a contribution for setting up strategies targeted to the promotion of competitive take-off of Italian districts –considered as the most suitable reference unit for this work– closely connected to the strategic resources of each district.
In order to pursue this aim, the research work has a twofold goal:
- to identify the strategic resources enabling regions to gain a competitive advantage at different territorial levels (international, national, local);
- to evaluate the Italian districts’ competitive potential in the international, national and local context.
The research work deals with the problem of the international competition among cities with a focus on the territorial aspect of the competition. Therefore, in order to set up a procedure for determining the competitive potential of the Italian districts, we consider apart from variables related to economy and production, also variables related to infrastructure equipment, settlement’s quality, human resources, etc.
The main finding of the research work is a subdivision of the 95 Italian “districts” into five classes, according to their present or potential role in the global, national or local competition
Proposte progettuali per la risoluzione, in chiave urbanistica, degli impatti generati dalla mobilità sul sistema urbano
No full textLa zonizzazione acustica nelle grandi aree urbane: problematiche, condizioni di incertezza e ipotesi di soluzione. Il contributo dell'urbanistica
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Helicobacter pylori. Benedetto il giorno che ti ho incontrato
No full textSolo in Italia circa venticinque milioni di persone sono affetti dall’infezione da Helicobacter Pylori.
L’unica via di trasmissione a tutt’oggi nota pare sia il contagio dalla mamma al piccolino, senza che questo contagio
sia “scontato”. In questo agile saggio, in un’alternanza di voci, il gastroenterologo Dino Vaira e il medico di base Carlo Gargiulo, rispondendo alle domande più ricorrenti dei pazienti e sfatando i luoghi comuni sul fenomeno, spiegano cos’è questo batterio, perché è così pericoloso e quanto si è “fortunati ad averlo”... in quanto una volta sconfitto si ha la quasi certezza che non insorgano “brutti mali” allo stomaco. L’ulcera e la gastrite sono state davvero le malattie del secolo, grazie alla scoperta dell’Helicobacter, che è valso un premio Nobel nel 2005, l’ulcera, in particolare è stata sconfitta definitivamente. I sintomi dell’ulcera (dolore, cattiva digestione, pancia gonfia, nausea) e le sue terribile complicanze (emorragia) scompaiono completamente, inoltre, altro dato assolutamente rilevante, non si è più costretti ad assumere farmaci per il resto della vita... come avveniva solo venti anni fa. Il destino o ancor meglio l’intuizione di chi studia una vita intera un determinato argomento ha portato a questa incredibile scoperta. Infatti, se uno dei due vincitori del Nobel non si fosse “dimenticato” le colture in ospedale (mentre faceva beatamente surf sull’Oceano Pacifico) ancora oggi il pensiero dominante identificherebbe nello “stress” la causa dell’ulcera e della cattiva digestione, così come è stato negli ultimi cento anni. D'altronde questo “incidente” è stato davvero l’evento scatenante per la scoperta di questo
batterio e non virus, che ha radicalmente cambiato la storia dell’ulcera migliorando in maniera “radicale” la qualità di vita
di milioni e milioni di pazienti. Grazie alla scoperta di una terapia “made in Italy” detta sequenziale di dieci giorni è
possibile sconfiggere questo batterio con la quasi certezza di non ammalarsi mai più di ulcera
Dynamis, the Object of a Philosophical Medicine: An Epistemological Analysis of the Treatise On Ancient Medicine
No full textIn this study, we propose to analyze the concept of dynamis in the treatise On Ancient Medicine that is part of the Corpus Hippocraticum. We will study it inasmuch as it constitutes a core concept on which a particular epistemological relationship between philosophy and medicine is resolved. There is an extensive hermeneutical tradition that presents this writing as the birth of a scientific medicine detached from all kinds of philosophical reflection. For the author of the letter would seem to behave like an empiricist who seeks as a doctor to get radically rid of philosophy or, at least, that ancient medicine that founds his medical practice in the philosophical theory of the elements. However, despite the partial success of this interpretive tradition, we believe that it runs the risk of offering a fragmentary and incomplete reading of the new epistemological statute that the author seeks to assign to medicine. In our opinion, the author, far from trying to expel the philosophy of practice and medical research, integrates it into a new model of scientific explanation.Fil: Gargiulo, María Teresa. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Centro de Estudios de Filosofía, Ciencia y Epistemología; Argentin
Planning, Nature and Ecosystem Services – Proceedings of the International Conference on Innovation and Urban and Regional Planning INPUT aCAdemy 2019
No full textThis e-book contains the Proceedings of the INPUT aCAdemy 2019 Conference held at the University of Cagliari on 24-26 June 2019, titled “Planning, nature and ecosystem services.” Input aCAdemy follows the tenth INPUT Conference, held in September 2018 at Tuscia University, in Viterbo and, in some way, it breaks the biennial tradition of the INPUT Conferences. The reason for the frequency increase of the INPUT Conferences is that the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture of the University of Cagliari is involved in a project funded by the Programme INTERREG Marittimo–Italia France–Maritime 2014–2020, Axis 2. In the context of the project, entitled “GIREPAM–Integrated Management of Ecological Networks through Parks and Marine Areas”, the Department and the Office for Nature Protection and forest policies of the Regional Autonomous Administration of Sardinia are studying and defining an experimental methodology to integrate conservation measures concerning Natura 2000 Sites into marine protected areas regulations. The methodology is implemented to build the new regulations of two marine protected areas of Sardinia, namely the Island of Asinara and of the Island of Tavolara and Cape Coda Cavallo. Since GIREPAM allocates a considerable amount of funds to the organization of an international conference on protection of nature and natural resources, ecosystem services and their relationship with spatial planning processes and practices, green infrastructure, and integrated management of protected areas and Natura 2000 Sites, and these funds must be spent by December 2019, the research group at the Department proposed to the INPUT Community, during the 2018 Viterbo Conference, a 2019 INPUT Conference focussing on these themes. The INPUT Community responded enthusiastically and, that being so, the research group has made every effort to make the event come true. The Conference develops through plenary sessions and parallel tracks. The scope of the plenary sessions is to propose distinguished points of view concerning research and implied planning ideas and policies on important and significant issues which feature the ongoing scientific and technical debate on nature and natural resources. The questions proposed and discussed in the Conference are three central topics which are characterized by several studies available in contemporary literature, and by vibrant debates as well, both from the theoretical and technical points of view. These questions are presented and discussed in the three plenary sessions which are the starting points of the three days of the Conference. Each plenary session is organized as follows: first, a speaker, a distinguished scholar, proposes the findings of his theoretical and/or applied research work and derived implications for spatial policy; secondly, a discussant, a distinguished scholar as well, critically analyzes the positions expressed in the first place and identifies open or unresolved questions and outstanding issues; thirdly, the public enters the discussion, through questions, observations, critical positions. Finally, the speaker replies to the discussant’s and to the public’s statements. The first plenary session is on “Valuing ecosystem services in money: A necessary evil for protecting biodiversity?”; the speaker is Erik Gomez-Baggethun (Faculty of Landscape and Society, Norwegian University of Life Sciences); the discussant is Andrea Arcidiacono (Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Polytechnic University of Milan). The second plenary session concerns “Managing urban ecosystems for goods and services”; the speaker is Kevin Gaston (Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter); the discussant is Bernardino Romano (Department of Civil, Building-Architecture and Environmental Engineering, University of L’Aquila). The third plenary session is related to “Mapping and modeling ecosystem services: A cascade ES modeling approach applied to the Flemish Natura 2000 Network”; the speaker is Jan Staes (Department of Biology, University of Antwerp); the discussant is Beniamino Murgante (School of Engineering, University of Basilicata at Potenza). The topics presented in the plenary sessions are the background of the discussions which characterize the parallel tracks. These tracks are featured by studies which consider protection of nature and natural resources, ecosystem services and their relationship with spatial planning processes and practices, as regards the following topics: 1. Ecosystem services and spatial planning; 2. Integrated management of marine protected areas and Natura 2000 sites; 3. Rural development and conservation of nature and natural resources; 4. Geodesign, planning and urban regeneration; 5. Green and blue infrastructure; 6. Smart city planning; 7. Water resources planning, ecosystem services and nature-based solutions in spatial planning; 8. Conservation and valorisation of architectural and cultural heritage; 9. Accessibility, mobility and spatial planning; 10. Tourism and sustainability in the Sulcis area; 11. Ecological networks and landscape planning. The closing plenary session of the Conference proposes a roundtable discussion on “Planning Nature 2000 Network and protected areas: The integration of conservation measures into regulations.” The roundtable will involve panelists from several institutions who participate in the GIREPAM Project
Per le Occasioni: una lettera inedita di Montale ad Alfredo Gargiulo
No full textSi pubblica una lettera inedita di Eugenio Montale ad Alfredo Gargiulo del 6 aprile 1940. Si tratta della prima testimonianza di spiegazione delle Occasioni da parte dell'autore. La lettera è una risposta alle critiche di Gargiulo pubblicate sulla Nuova Antologia.Editon and commentary of an unpublished letter by Eugenio Montale to Alfredo Gargiulo (April 6, 1940) in which it is contained the first explanation by the author about the way Le occasioni have to be read
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