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Polo Scolastico Ariano Irpino
No full textdesvrizione delle ragioni del progetto per Ariano Irpino 5 classificato al “Concorso Internazionale di Progettazione per la realizzazione del polo scolastico di eccellenza alberghiero ed agroalimentare”
Transculturality in Ariano Suassuna’s theater: voices in dialogue
No full textThe text brings a dialogue between Auto da Compadecida, by the author Ariano Suassuna, and Auto da Barca do Inferno, by the author Gil Vicente, through the perspective of carnival literature. It presents a study on the Iberian influence in the theatrical production of the brazilian author, Ariano Suassuna, in the light of carnavalization. It proposes a reflection on the subordinate\u27s voice through laughter and on the author\u27s place in cultural production in Latin America
A Simple Homemade Apparatus for Real-Time Visualization of Nucleic Acid Electrophoresis That Saves Time, Optimizes Separation, and Reduces Chemical Risk
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Ceramiche invetriate dal castello di Ariano Irpino
No full textPrimi dati sulla ceramica invetriata dal castello di Ariano Irpino (Avellino
Differential effects of the phosphodiesterase inhibition in chronic heart failure depending on the echocardiographic phenotype (HFREF or HFpEF): A meta-analysis
No full textINTRODUCTION: According to 2015 ESC/ERS guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension (PH), no specific drug is currently indicated for PH related to left heart disease (PH-LDH), i.e., the one secondary to left chronic heart failure (CHF), which coincides with the group 2 of the PH classification endorsed by the above-mentioned guidelines. Indeed, adoption of therapies that specifically apply for so-called pulmonary arterial hypertension (group 1 of the PH classification) has been regarded as substantially contraindicated in patients with PH-LHD, according to current ESC/ERS guidelines. Nevertheless, based on some previous studies, phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitors (PDE5i) would seem to exert a beneficial effect in CHF patients, although the comparison between these studies shows quite inconsistent or heterogeneous findings. Thus, in order to better evaluate the effect of PDE5i therapy in CHF patients, we performed a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). EVIDENCE ACQUISITION: PubMed and EMBASE databases were searched for RCTs that compared PDE5i with placebo in CHF with reduced (HFREF) or preserved (HFpEF) left ventricular ejection fraction. The endpoints of interest were: A composite of all-cause death or hospitalization, adverse events, peak VO2, Six-Minute Walk Test (6MWT), left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), E/e' ratio, mean pulmonary arterial pressure (mPAP), pulmonary arterial systolic pressure (PASP) and pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR). EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS: Fourteen studies, enrolling a total of 928 patients, were comprised in the meta-analysis. Among these, 13 were RCTs and one was a subgroup analysis. Among patients with HFREF (N.=555), a significant benefit was conferred by PDE5i against the risk of the composite endpoint of death and hospitalization (OR=0.28; 95% CI: 0.10 to 0.74; P=0.03). Furthermore, among HFREF patients, therapy with PDE5i improved peak VO2 (difference in means [MD] 3.76 mL/min/kg; 95% CI: 3.27 to 4.25), as well as the 6MWT (MD=22.7 m; 95% CI: 8.19 to 37.21) and LVEF (MD=4.30%; 95% CI: 2.18% to 6.42%). For patients with HFREF, PDE5i therapy yielded a nonsignificant decrease in mPAP, while PASP was significantly reduced (MD=-11.52 mmHg; 95% CI: -15.56 to -7.49; P<0.001). By contrast, in the RCTs of patients with HFpEF (N.=373), no benefit ensued from PDE5i use regarding all of the investigated clinical, ergospirometric or hemodynamic endpoints. CONCLUSIONS: Therapy with PDE5i caused a statistically significant improvement of clinical outcomes, exercise capacity and pulmonary hemodynamics in patients with HFREF, but not in HFpEF. However, in view of the relatively small sample size of the HFpEF population recruited so far in the RCTs that investigated the effects of PDE5i treatment, further research in this field is required to clarify whether PDE5i are beneficial even in this subset
Learning 3DMM Deformation Coefficients for Action Unit Detection
No full textFacial Action Units (AUs) correspond to the deformation/contraction of individual or combinations of facial muscles. As such, each AU affects just a small portion of the face, with deformations that are asymmetric in many cases. Analysing AUs in 3D is particularly relevant for the potential applications it can enable. In this paper, we propose a solution for AUs detection by developing on a newly defined 3D Morphable Model (3DMM) of the face. Differently from most of the 3DMMs existing in the literature, that mainly model global variations of the face and show limitations in adapting to local and asymmetric deformations, the proposed solution is specifically devised to cope with such difficult morphings. During a learning phase, the deformation coefficients are learned that enable the 3DMM to deform to 3D target scans showing neutral and facial expression of a same individual, thus decoupling expression from identity deformations. Then, such deformation coefficients are used to train an AU classifier. We experimented the proposed approach in a difficult cross-dataset experiment, where the 3DMM is constructed on one dataset (BU-3DFE) and tested on a different one (Bosphorus). Results evidence that effective AU detection is obtained by SVM learning of deformation coefficients from a small training set
Lodi Declaration on Healthy Villages: adopted by the 16th International Congress of Agricultural Medicine and Rural Health, Lodi, Italy, 18 - 21 June 2006
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Sertãomundo: território mito-poético cultural de Ariano Suassuna
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura, Florianópolis, 2010A arte de Ariano Suassuna está em estreita ligação com a sua vida pessoal, tal a indissociabilidade característica das duas. Pensar a sua produção escrita, poética, teatral, teórica, estética e política é pensar o Sertão nordestino, pois assim como o homem Ariano Suassuna, sua obra foi forjada ao sol abrasador do Sertão. Contudo, o Sertão suassuniano é um espaço idealizado, um universo mítico-poético de resistência a supostas influências descaracterizantes externas. Assim, o pensamento suassuniano dialoga com o passado e com as tradições estabelecidas no Sertão nordestino, primordialmente aquelas ligadas às raízes ibero-mouras, indígenas e negras da nossa formação. O presente estudo buscará localizar, num primeiro momento, a postura cultural suassuniana como resquício de um discurso mistificador próprio do período romântico, principalmente através da idealização de um espaço intocado, que preservaria uma suposta "essência de uma brasilidade incontaminada". Nesse sentido, a postura cultural de Ariano Suassuna ao falar de uma "nação" e um "povo" como sujeitos imanentes, que teriam na cultura popular seu estrato mais "autêntico", nega qualquer forma de negociação e diálogo com a diversidade cultural que existe dentro do próprio país. Hoje é inviável continuar a afirmar as culturas populares como imunes ao processo histórico e ao intrincado mapa das trocas culturais. Dessa forma, Ariano Suassuna caminha na contramão dos vários discursos da modernidade, que tentam apontar a impossibilidade, hoje, desse tipo de manifestação que visa à restauração nostálgica e utópica de uma tradição, de uma nação e de um povo. A obra de Suassuna ainda procura erigir um sentido de nação baseada em símbolos que constituem uma suposta identidade partilhada de povo e cultura, símbolos que povoam e animam a geografia imaginária suassuniana, e que dão sentido ao seu trabalho. Então, imerso no fabulário regional, Ariano Suassuna estabelece no Sertão nordestino o centro de gravidade de sua obra, desenvolvendo assim um mundo mítico único onde dominarão as imagens do Sertão. É a partir desse posicionamento dialético que de um olhar do massapê sonha o sertão, em que a presença simultânea de dois elementos, o popular e o erudito, erige-se o local consagrado pelo autor à defesa e à proteção de uma arte que se diz autenticamente brasileira. Aí os elementos simbólicos que constituem a paisagem da geografia imaginária de Ariano estão presentes em todo o conjunto de sua obra. Contudo, será nos trabalhos denominados pelo autor de iluminogravuras - uma forma de arte muito pessoal e ainda pouco conhecida do público - em que nos debruçaremos. Estas iluminogravuras são um tipo de poesia visual na qual o autor une o texto literário a imagens que exploram motivos da cultura brasileira, recolhidos da arte popular nordestina. Resgataremos, então, nas iluminogravuras, aqueles elementos que caracterizariam a visão suassuniana de mundo, expressa através de um universo regido pela recriação, reinvenção e pelo reencantamento dos mitos do reino do sertão.Ariano Suassuna's art is deeply related with his life, so that both can not be dissossiated. Think about his writing, his poetry, his plays, his theorical, stetical and politics productions is to think about the northweastern midland in Brazil, called Sertão Nordestino, because as the man Ariano Suassuna, his opus was shaped under de hot sun of this Midland. Although Suassuna's Midland is not the real one, but an idealized place, a poetic and mythical universe of staying power against abroad influences. So, the Suassuna's ideas are related with the past and the traditions stabished in northweastern midland, specially with those connected to the iberian-moors, indigene and black source of our building up. So, this essay intend to determinate firstly Suassuna's cultural posture as a remaining of the mythical discurse of the romantic period, specially throughout the idealization of an untouched space, that would preserve a suposed "essence of an untouched essential nature or character of Brazil". This way, the cultural posture of Ariano Suassuna while speaking about a "nation" or "people" as intrinsic actors, that would have in popular culture their most authentic layer, rejects any kind of negociation and diolog with cultural diversity lasting in his own country. Nowadays it is impossible to afirm popular cultures untouched by the historical course of the tangled map of cultural exchanging. In this way, Ariano Suassuna is pointing toward the opposite direction of the modernity discourses, that try to show the impossibility, for now, of that kind of manifestation that wants the nostalgic and visionary restauration of a tradition, of a nation and the people. Suassuna's opus still tries to build up a meaning for a nation based on simbols the make part of a suposed identity shared by people and culture, simbols that compose and encourage the fictional Suassuna's geography, and that give reason to his work. Than, imersed in the regional fables, Ariano Suassuna stablishes in northwestern midland the center of gravity of his writing, developing therefore a single mythical world where the overcoming images are the midland ones. It is from this dialetical positioning on of a view of a townsman that he dreams the midland , simultaneous presence of two elements, the popular and the erudite one, place consecrated by the author in the advocacy and protection of one art that is called authentically brazilian. There the simbolic elements that make part of the landscape in the fictional geography of Ariano are present in all his opus, nevertheless there are going to be just the works called by the author as iluminogravuras - a kind of very personal art and still unknown by the common people - that we are going to write about. These iluminogravuras are a kind of visual poetry in wich the author links the literary text and the pictures that look into the elements of brazilian culture, collected from the northwestern popular art. We are going to rescue, than, in this iluminogravuras, those ingredients that distinguish Suassuna's view of the world, expressed through an universe determined by the recriation, the reinventation and again the enchant by the myhs of the kingdom of northwestern
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