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Sorelle d'Italia. Scrittrici e identità nazionale. Introduzione
No full textSorelle d'Italia offre una riflessione critica sul contributo che poetesse e scrittrici di diverse epoche hanno dato alla costruzione del discorso identitario nazionale. I saggi raccolti nello studio tracciano una linea d'indagine che mostra come la scrittura delle donne si sia confrontata con una materia comunemente ritenuta di pertinenza maschile, dialogando talvolta in modo conflittuale con il discorso dominante, e restituendo prospettive formali e culturali alternative
Dima raineri Wurst 1997
No full textDima raineri Wurst, 1997 Figs 96–100, 154–155, 165, 210–213, 244. Dima raineri Wurst, 1997: 4; Cate 2007: 184; Schimmel & Platia 2008: 589; Platia 2013: 98. Dima pindosensis Schimmel & Platia, 2008: 587. syn. nov. Type depositories. Holotype of D. raineri, ♂ (SMNS); paratype of D. raineri, ♀ (SMNS); holotype of D. pindosensis, ♂ (PCJM); 2 paratypes of D. pindosensis, ♂♂ (PCJM, PCRS). Type locality. GREECE, Macedonia, Kozáni, Pass 8 km W Pendálofos, 1400 m (D. raineri); Greece, Pindos Mts., Metsovo to Anilio, 950–1500 m (D. pindosensis). Redetermined material. ALBANIA: Tomor, 1 ♂ (paratype of D. macedonica) (PCGP); GREECE: Epiro, Pentalofos, 1400 m, 22. VII.1990, 1 ♂, 1 ♀, P. Cavazzuti leg. (as D. macedonica in Schimmel & Platia 2008) (PCGP); Passo Katara, 10. VII.2001, 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀, leg. L. Saltini (as D. macedonica in Schimmel & Platia 2008) (PCGP); Pindus, Col de Katara, m 1600, VI.1990, 2 ♂♂, B. Lassalle leg. (as D. macedonica in Schimmel & Platia 2008) (PCGP). Two specimens recorded under D. raineri in Schimmel & Platia (2008) were redetermined as D. assingi (Stilia) and D. parnonensis (Ag. Petros). New material. GREECE: distr. Kozáni, Vório Bóïo Mts., 4.5 km WNW of Pentálofos, beechwood, 1350 m (40°12'42.01"N, 21°5'24.59"E), 28. V.2014, 26 ♂♂, 16 ♀♀, J. Mertlik leg. (PCJM); dtto, 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀ (PCRK); dtto, 16 ♂♂, 16 ♀♀, B. Zbuzek leg. (PCBZ); dtto, 19 ♂♂, 14 ♀♀, P. Brůha leg. (PCPB); Grammos, Aetomilitsa env., 1300 m, 14. VI.1996, 1 ♀, under Fagus bark, G. Kakiopoulos leg. (PCGK); Grammos, Aetomilitsa env., 1700 m, 6.–7. VII.2005, 1 ♀, Heinz leg. (PCGP); Grammos Mts., Aetomilitsa env., 1800 m, 7. VI.2008, 1 ♂, Orszulík leg. (PCTS); Epirus, Smolikas Mts., 5 km NW Samarina, 1974 m, 8. VI.2011, 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Tomáš Staněk leg. (PCJM); Pindos Mts., Kiatra Broastra pass, 1400 m, 3 km SW Amarandos vill., 3. VI.2012, 13 ♂♂, 11 ♀♀, Tomáš Sitek leg. (PCTS); distr. Ioánina, Smolikas Mts., 4.5 km SE of Foúrka env., beechwood, 1728 m (40°07'46.06"N, 20°58'52.94"E), 11.VI.2012, 90 ♂♂, 21 ♀♀, J. Mertlik leg. (PCJM); dtto, 2 ♂♂ (PCRK); dtto, 16 ♂♂, 49 ♀♀, V. Dušánek leg. (PCVD); dtto, 57 ex., P. Brůha leg. (PCPB); 47 ♂♂, 10 ♀♀, B. Zbuzek leg. (PCBZ); dtto, 24 ♂♂, 6 ♀♀, M. Samek leg. (PCMS); distr. Ioánina, Notía Pindos Mts., 3.15 km NW of Metsovo env., beechwood, 1400 m (39°47'16.86"N, 21°08'49.31"E), 12. VI.2012, 25 ♂♂, 15 ♀♀, J. Mertlik leg. (PCJM); dtto, 1 ♂ (PCRK); dtto, 57 ♂♂, 11 ♀♀, V. Dušánek leg. (PCVD); dtto, 22 ♂♂, 16 ♀♀, P. Brůha leg. (PCPB); dtto, 40 ♂♂, 25 ♀♀, B. Zbuzek leg. (PCBZ); dtto, 8 ♂♂, 12 ♀♀, M. Samek leg. (PCMS); Epirus, Pindos Mts., Milia, 1360 m, 20. VI.2014, 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀, fagetum, Tomáš Sitek leg. (PCTS); Trikala, Kastania [dint. Castanea], 10–15. VII.2010, 1 ♀, Padovani & Malmusi leg. (PCGP); Pindo, 7 km Est Kastania, 1200 m, VI.2011, 2 ♀♀, C. Sola leg. (PCGP); Ioanina, Metsovo, 1400 m, VI.1997, 22.VI.1997, C. Busi leg. (PCGP); Col de Katara, 15. V.2000, 1 ♂, G. Dubault leg. (PCGP); Pindos, Col Kathara, 15. V.2000, 1 ♂, no further data (PCGP); Ipiros, pref. Joannina, 2.5 km NE Metsovo, 39°46'58.94"N, 21°9'7.27"E, 1430 m, beech forest, singled at night, 3. VII.2012, 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, leg. A. Kotán, A. Márkus, P. Nemes & T. Németh (HNHM); dtto, 3 ♂♂, 6 ♀♀ (PCRK); dtto, 14. VI.2014, 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀, leg. A. Kotán, Gy. Németh, B. Szelenczey & V. Szénási (PCRK); dtto, 10 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀ (PCBS); Ipiros, pref. Joannina, 7 km NW Metsovo, edge of a beech forest, singled at daytime, 39°48'51.53"N, 21°8'28.16"E, 1360 m, 3. VII.2012, 2 ♂♂, leg. A. Kotán, A. Márkus, P. Nemes & T. Németh Németh (PCRK); Ipiros, pref. Joannina, 2 km Fourka, 40°8'11.60"N, 20°57'37.40"E, 1450 m, beech forest, singled at night, 4. VII.2012, 2 ♀♀, leg. A. Kotán, A. Márkus, P. Nemes & T. Németh (HNHM); dtto, 7 ♀♀ (PCRK). Diagnosis. Dima raineri is a medium-sized species (body length: 9.0– 13.5 mm) with a more convex, suboval body and shiny elytral intervals with very sparsely distributed thin setae (Figs 9 6–100). This species is characterized by the pubescence of the pronotal sides, which is short decumbent in anterior third or half and longer semi-erect posteriorly (Figs 154–155). This type of pubescence is present also in D. dusaneki sp. nov. but it differs in the more robust body and the shape of pronotum (wide, evenly convex, more rounded laterally; Figs 20–21). Similar species, D. macedonica, has the scutellum raised above the plane of the elytra (Figs 164–165), more distinctly double-sized pronotal punctation (punctures more like each other in size in D. raineri, larger differences between the size of punctures in D. macedonica; Figs 141–143, 154–155), head and pronotum surface in most cases more densely covered with pubescence, and the pubescence on the pronotal sides semi-erect along the whole margin length (although shorter at anterior half; Figs 141–143), and D. florinensis has also the punctures on pronotum of two distinct sizes and longer pubescence on the pronotal sides, which is of about the same length along the whole margin length (Fig. 129). Male genitalia is as in Figs 210–213. Intraspecific variability. The striae on the elytra are variable in this species. The holotype and some specimens are distinctly striate, but usually the striae are weakly developed and in some cases they are replaced by the rows of punctures, mainly in the posterior half. Some smaller specimens with the rather smooth elytra with sparse punctures (i.e. those from Grammos) may resemble D. elateroides but they can be easily distinguished by the almost smooth pronotum and oval scutellum. Additionally, the shape of antennomeres II and III is variable. Most specimens of D. raineri have antennomeres II and III elongate, but in some specimens they are more subtriangular (or at least antennomere III), similarly as in typical D. macedonica (see Wurst 1997). This variability led to the several misidentifications between these species (Schimmel & Platia 2008). Distribution. Albania (Mt. Tomorr), Greece (Vório Bóïo Mts., Grammos Mts., Pindos Mts.) (Fig. 244). First record for Albania. Remarks. Schimmel & Platia (2008) did not study the holotype of D. raineri described from the northern part of Pindos Mts. (deposited in the SMNS). Instead, they used a pale specimen of the another (but Peloponnesian) species as a representative of D. raineri and the diagnosis and all conclusions are based on that specimen (Fig. 84). Unfortunatelly, the specimen from the Peloponnese, which Schimmel & Platia (2008) thought was D. raineri, actually represented a species described newly in the same study from several other specimens as D. parnonensis (Schimmel & Platia 2008). What is more, as a result of the above mentioned confusion, specimens of the real D. raineri were newly described in the same study as D. pindosensis (Schimmel & Platia 2008; Fig. 99). Therefore, we herein synonymize Dima pindosensis Schimmel & Platia, 2008 under Dima raineri Wurst, 1997. The specimen from Mt. Tomorr, Albania, which was originally described as a part of the type series in D. macedonica, is definitely more like D. raineri than to D. macedonica (e.g. in the shape of the scutellum and in the pronotal punctation; Fig. 100), however, its pubescence of the pronotal sides is almost missing (Fig. 100). This specimen represents the northernmost known population of this species (Fig. 244). Additionally, we studied a dark brown female from the Elbasan county, Albania (locality label as follows: Albania, Librazhd, Shebenikut Qarishte env., 1500 m, 3.VII.2001, leg. P. Moravec; PCJM), which was identified as D. macedonica by Schimmel & Platia (2008) (Fig. 101). This specimen is much more like D. raineri in the pronotal punctation and pubescence of pronotal sides (Fig. 155). However, it is about 70 km farther north from the known D. raineri distributional range, closer to the area of D. macedonica (Fig. 244). This female might be a teratological specimen; it has the strongly transversely convex pronotum in the posterior half, distinctly convex basal and central parts of elytra and only weakly developed elytral striae (Fig. 101). Unfortunately, we are not able to properly determine this specimen to a species level until more material from that area is available for study.Published as part of Mertlik, Josef, Németh, Tamás & Kundrata, Robin, 2017, Revision of the flightless click-beetle genus Dima Charpentier, 1825 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dimini) in the Balkan Peninsula, pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 4220 (1) on pages 30-31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4220.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/467078
An adaptive gait planner for a lower-limb exoskeleton ascending staircases of unknown geometry
No full textThe staircase ascent motion is a physical activity which is very common in everyday life, but it is very challenging for people who suffer for Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). Active exoskeletons can help patients to regain a certain degree of mobility, but their design require facing some difficult problems: smart exoskeletons need to perceive the environment and, in turn, adapt the gait, so as to guarantee a smooth and safe motion. In such a context, this work proposes a solution for a staircase ascending problem. It exploits low cost ranging sensors for the environment reconstruction and a real-time trajectory planner for the generation of an adaptive gait which accounts for the steps geometry. The strength of the proposed technique is represented by the continuous update method -- adopted for both the environment reconstruction and the path planning -- which allows for a safe ascent. The proposed method was tested through simulations and real experiments
Unconventional Practice Placements: Creativity, Partnership, and New Professional Opportunities in an Italian Experience of Social Work Field Education
No full textBackground
Non-traditional practice placements are a type of field education based on an innovation-oriented approach, in which students are expected to develop new activities or new projects that would not be realized without them. So, it is not a requirement to reproduce the work of other professionals but rather to experience something new. This “new” experience could be a program built along the lines of an existing program that has already been successful elsewhere, or it could include activities that an agency omitted due to insufficient staff to engage in them. In some case, students must venture on paths that are not beaten at all.
Similar non-traditional placements are documented in the UK (Scholar et al., 2014) and in the USA, where they are sometimes developed according to a service-learning approach (Petracchi et al., 2016).
In Italy, this type of practice placement is called Unconventional Practice Placement (UPP) to distinguish it from traditional ones. Such experiences currently exist in the Social Work Course of three Italian universities (Dellavalle, 2011; Cola, 2015; Calcaterra and Raineri, 2015).
Chapter’s aims
After a brief presentation about the general characteristics of these atypical practice placements, the chapter will present the Italian experience conducted in the Catholic University of Milan. The description will be based on first-hand knowledge of authors who have directly contributed towards the development of this model, informal information from practice teachers involved in UPPs supervision, and on data from a larger study about UPPs during ten academic years from 2008/9 to 2018/19.
Quantitative and qualitative data were gathered through a self-administered questionnaire. 515 students answered about 450 UPPs. Qualitative data were analyzed to map the contents of various interventions, and a frequency distribution analysis of quantitative data was carried out.
Main results from a survey
Thanks to UPPs, many local communities could benefit from creative small community work programs and various groupwork initiatives, generally not widely practised by Italian social workers employed in statutory services.
In ten years, UPPs engaged more that 900 people, who collaborated in planning and implementing programs: about 12% were service users, 9% were users’ family members or informal carers; 17% volunteers and 15% active citizens.
70% of programs continued after the end of the placement, and 22% of students said they found a job as social workers thanks to their UPPs.
Conclusion
While further studies would be needed to assess students' learning from UPPs, the survey seems to confirm that UPPs are effective in involving communities and offering new initiatives and services. Interestingly, sometimes UPPs open the way for new spaces of professional social work practice and new jobs
Independent professional advocacy in daycare centers promoting young people's participation in Italy
No full textIn Italian child protection system, children participation is still challenging and needs to be improved according to the law. The importance of giving a voice to children is unanimously recognized, but there is still a long way to go to understand how this can be concretely achieved. This chapter discusses the use of advocate support to improve participation for young people in daycare centers for looked-after children, based on action-research projects in Italy. The primary aim of the study is to gain a better understanding of independent advocacy support. Case studies will be presented to explore the effectiveness of the advocate’s support in representing young people’s voice to define their care plan regarding activities, school support and contact with parents. The cases were selected from those known to one of the authors as a supervisor and researcher in the action pilot projects. Interviews have been conducted with young people who had access to an advocate support. At the end of the chapter, a critical reflection on the functions of the advocate’s support in promoting young people participation in daycare centers is presented
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