366 research outputs found
La società del risentimento. Alle origini del malessere contemporaneo
No full textQuanto e come il risentimento condiziona la nostra vita collettiva? Negli ultimi anni il risentimento ha attirato su di sé l’attenzione degli studiosi delle scienze politiche e sociali quale elemento cruciale di quella che è stata descritta come l’“era dell’odio”. È unicamente espressione di una cultura della rivendicazione fine a sé stessa, figlia di un sentimento di frustrazione e di impotenza? Oppure è indicativo di un desiderio di cambiamento e di giustizia sociale? Scopo di Stefano Tomelleri è l’esplorazione dei presupposti antropologici e sociologici costitutivi del risentimento. A partire dalla riflessione di Friedrich Nietzsche e attraverso l’opera di René Girard, l’autore delinea un modello sociologico del risentimento essenziale per gli esperti di scienze sociali: una risorsa preziosa per tutti coloro che sono impegnati nella ricerca dei profondi legami esistenti tra la nostra vita affettiva e le grandi trasformazioni storiche e sociali.How much and how does ressentiment affect our collective life? In recent years, ressentiment has drawn the attention of scholars in the political and social sciences as a crucial element of what has been described as the “age of hatred.” Is it an expression of a culture of vindication for its own sake, the child of a feeling of frustration and powerlessness? Or is it indicative of a desire for change and social justice? Stefano Tomelleri's aim is to explore the anthropological and sociological assumptions constitutive of ressentiment. Beginning with the reflections of Friedrich Nietzsche and through the work of René Girard, the author outlines a sociological model of ressentiment that is essential for social scientists: a valuable resource for all those engaged in researching the deep links between our affective lives and major historical and social transformations
Il "raddoppiamento dell'oggetto" in Bulgaro: tra descrizione e prescrizione (2)
No full textThe so-called Celtic Doubling in Bulgarian: Between a descriptive and a prescriptive analysis
The article deals with the problem of the C(litic) D(oubling) in the modern Bulgarian language from a didactic perspective. The mean point can be formulated as the following question: How is the syntactic construction under discussion described and/or explained in the grammars and handbooks of Bulgarian? The results of the investigated material and presented examples clearly show that CD, as a syntactic device which is more common in the spoken language, cannot receive an useful and valuable treatment in the traditional, written language oriented literature devoted to the Bulgarian language
Il canone comune per Cirillo e Metodio. Questioni di studio e problemi di edizione
No full textThe paper gives a brief overview of some relevant aspects, relating to both the form and content of the common canon for Cyril and Methodius, which is preserved in East Slavic manuscripts. This text poses several challenges, pertaining to its provenance, author and relationship to other works of the Cyrillo-Methodian tradition. A short history of the editions, translations and publications of this text (§ 1) is followed by a thorough analysis of the hirmoi and the hymns to the Mother of God (theotokia), contained in the canon, with additional evidence from the rest of the Slavic liturgical tradition (§ 2-3); here special attention is devoted to the liturgical work by Kliment Ohridski. The next sessions discuss certain passages of the text, referring to the life of the saints or taken from the Holy Writing (§ 4), and show an interesting intertextual connection between the common canon and the Paneg yric in honour of Cyril and Methodius, which is also believed to have been written by Kliment (§ 5). The collected material can be used as a starting point for further research work on a text which still remains, in many respects, quite marginal and at the same time somehow enigmatic
Riboflavin-responsive multiple acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency: delayed hypersensitivity reaction and efficacy of low-dose intermittent supplementation
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The Transmission of Racial Attitudes Within the Family
No full textPrevious literature based on self-report measures has not found a clear relationship between the ethnic attitudes of White parents and those of their children. In particular, no study has evidenced such a relationship in the case of preschool children. In the present study, the authors measured parents’ implicit and explicit racial attitudes as well as the racial attitudes of their 3- to 6-year-old children. They found that parents’ explicit attitudes were not related to children’s responses. In contrast, mothers’ implicit attitudes (but not fathers’ implicit attitudes) were significant predictors of children’s attitudes. Results demonstrate that early racial attitudes might develop within the family
Poor Outcome in a Mitochondrial Neurogastrointestinal Encephalomyopathy Patient with a Novel TYMP Mutation: The Need for Early Diagnosis.
No full textMitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy (MNGIE) is a devastating autosomal recessive disorder due to mutations in TYMP, which cause loss of function of thymidine phosphorylase (TP), nucleoside accumulation in plasma and tissues and mitochondrial dysfunction. The clinical picture includes progressive gastrointestinal dysmotility, cachexia, ptosis and ophthalmoparesis, peripheral neuropathy and diffuse leukoencephalopathy, which usually lead to death in early adulthood. Therapeutic options are currently available in clinical practice (allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and carrier erythrocyte entrapped TP therapy) and newer, promising therapies are expected in the near future. However, successful treatment is strictly related to early diagnosis. We report on an incomplete MNGIE phenotype in a young man harboring the novel heterozygote c.199 C>T (Q67X) mutation in exon 2, and the previously reported c.866 A>C (E289A) mutation in exon 7 in TYMP. The correct diagnosis was achieved many years after the onset of symptoms and unfortunately, the patient died soon after diagnosis because of multiorgan failure due to severe malnutrition and cachexia before any therapeutic option could be tried. To date, early diagnosis is essential to ensure that patients have the opportunity to be treated. MNGIE should be suspected in all patients who present with both gastrointestinal and nervous system involvement, even if the classical complete phenotype is lacking
Modeling the carbon cycle and its interactions with management practices in grasslands
No full textThe world-wide geographical extension of grasslands consist in 20% of the land and in Europe of about 8% (EU-15). The annual sink of this kind of ecosystem is estimate to be about 0.5 Gt C y−1. The carbon accumulated in the soils of temperate grasslands was estimated to be between 150 and 300 Gt C. This quantity is about double the carbon stocked in the soils of temperate forests.
Anyway there are many uncertainties in these fluxes and stocks estimates. This uncertainties can in part be connected with the lack of knowledge in the applied and historical management. Frequently, these factors are only marginally accounted in ecosystem carbon budget while its importance was repeatedly stressed in literature. From this the importance of getting better insight in the interactions between carbon cycle and management practices in this type of ecosystem.
The process ecosystem model Biome-BGC is frequently used for simulating carbon cycle in forest ecosystems but its application to grasslands is uncommon.
This is linked to missing routines for simulating management. A first aim of the present work is to fill this lack. For this reason a module for simulating mowing and a module for simulating nitrogen fertilisation were implemented and tested.
A reason why there are uncertainties in ecosystem carbon budgets is that frequently the model input parameters are defined by literature without taking in consideration the uncertainties associated with the model and the characteristics of the single sites. This project aimed to suggest a solution to this problem by mean of sensitivity analysis and parameter optimisation. By mean of the mentioned aims this work is a contribution for gaining a better insight in the relationships between carbon cycle and management practices.Gli ecosistemi prato-pascolivi occupano il 20% della superficie terrestre e circa l’8% dell’Europa (EU-15). L’assorbimento globale di carbonio per questa tipologia ecosistemica `e stimato essere di 0.5 Gt y−1. Il carbonio accumulato nei suoli delle praterie nella fascia temperata `e stato quantificato tra i 150 ed i 300 Gt di C, questa quantit`a consiste in circa il doppio rispetto al carbonio contenuto nei suoli delle foreste temperate. Tuttavia, associate a queste stime, esistono diverse incertezze alle quali contribuisce una lacuna nella conoscenza delle modalit`a di gestione. Talvolta questa viene marginalmente considerata ai fini del calcolo di bilanci ecosistemici, mentre `e stato ripetutamente evidenziato che essa `e un fattore fondamentale nel determinare il ruolo di assorbimento o di emissione di una prateria gestita. Da questo emerge l’importanza dell’approfondimento della
conoscenza delle interazioni tra componenti del ciclo del carbonio e gestione in questo ecosistema.
Il modello ecosistemico Biome-BGC `e stato usato in numerosi casi per simulare il ciclo del carbonio in ecosistemi forestali ma la sua applicazione ad ecosistemi erbacei `e meno frequente. Questo `e dovuto all’assenza di routine che simulino le pratiche gestionali. Un primo obiettivo di questo progetto `e quello di colmare questa lacuna. Per questo motivo un modulo per simulare lo sfalcio ed un modulo per simulare la fertilizzazione sono stati implementati e testati.
Un altra causa nelle incertezze nei bilanci ecosistemici `e connessa al fatto che spesso i parametri di input di un modello sono definiti da valori medi di letteratura senza considerare la specificit`a del sito e del modello utilizzato.
Con il presente progetto si `e voluta colmare anche questa seconda lacuna attraverso un’analisi di sensitivit`a ed un’ottimizzazione dei parametri di input del modello pi ́u importanti. Con l’implementazione delle suddette routine e dell’ottimizzazione dei parametri si `e voluto contribuire ad una migliore comprensione delle interazioni tra pratiche gestionali e le diverse componenti del ciclo del carbonio
Le metafore in opera nelle pratiche mediche
No full textThis article presents the results of an interdisciplinary research based on the study of metaphors at work during the medical visits of 5 oncologists – 3 males, (respectively 41, 43, and 60 year old), 2 females (respectively 41 and 58 year old) – for a total of 61 clinical talks that have been videotaped at an hospital in Northern Italy. The choice to study metaphors at work in medical practice greatly depends on our research experience and the realization that both doctors and patients had recourse to them during clinic talks and the use of such metaphors played a complex role that could not merely be referred to the exemplification of clinic concepts and words. From the analysis of recorded conversations we have discovered that the use of metaphors favoured: a) the contextualization of clinic conversations within wider macro-social structures; b) the definition of behaviours, roles, and decisional processes linked to social representations; c) the creative solution for the often irreconcilable tension between the subjective and bodily aspects of what we can call illness, the objective and impersonal character of its clinic definition (disease), and its social dimension (sickness)
Automatic segmentation of chromosomes in Q-band images
No full textKaryotype analysis is a widespread procedure in cytogenetics to assess the possible presence of genetics defects. The procedure is lengthy and repetitive, so that an automatic analysis would greatly help the cytogeneticist routine work. Still, automatic segmentation and full disentangling of chromosomes are open issues. We propose an automatic procedure to obtain the separated chromosomes, which are then ready for a subsequent classification step. The segmentation is carried out by means of a space variant thresholding scheme, which proved to be successful even in presence of hyper- or hypo-fluorescent regions in the image. Then a greedy approach is used to identify and resolve touching and overlapping chromosomes, based on geometric evidence and image information. We show the effectiveness of the proposed method on routine data: 90% of the overlaps and 92% of the adjacencies are resolved, resulting in a correct segmentation of 96% of the chromosomes
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