213 research outputs found
Pia Piccoli Addoli
No full textLa scheda ricostruisce la vita e l'apporto della scrittrice Pia Addoli alla letteratura per l'infanziaThe headword explains the biography and the contribution of the author Pia Addoli to the children's literatur
Proceedings of the LREC 2020 workshop on Resources and Techniques for User and Author Profiling in Abusive Language (ResT-UP 2020)
No full textThis volume documents the Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Resources and Techniques for User and Author Profiling in Abusive Language (ResT-UP), held online on 12 May 2020 as part of the LREC 2020 conference (International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation).
The workshop aimed at bringing together researchers and scholars working on author profiling and automatic detection of abusive language on the Web, e.g., cyberbullying or hate speech, with a twofold objective: improving the existing LRs, e.g., datasets, corpora, lexicons, and sharing ideas on stylometry techniques and features needed for profile information extraction and classification. ResT-UP targeted Profiling scholars and research groups, experts in Statistic and Stylistic Analysis of texts as well as computational linguists who investigate author profile and personality both in short texts (social media posts, blog texts and email) and in long texts (such as pamphlets, (fake) news and political documents). ReST-UP represented an opportunity to share profiling experiments with the scientific community and to show automatic detection techniques of abusive language on the Web. Despite the cancellation of LREC 2020 due to the COVID-19 international emergency, ResT-UP was organized online on Microsoft Teams on May 12th 2020 and the programme included three oral presentations and featured an invited talk by Paolo Rosso. ResT-UP was attended by about fifty representatives of academic and industrial organisations
Molecular analyses on HPV infections in semen
No full textIntroduction: Human Papillomaviruses (HPVs) are non-enveloped double stranded DNA viruses classified in different genera and several different genotypes. Depending on the genotypes, HPV infections can be asymptomatic or can cause from warts to malignant tumours. Some genotypes, such as HPV18 and HPV16, are considered high risk (HR) HPVs and they are the major cause of cervical cancer. HPV is highly tissue-tropic and infects epithelial cells, but it can also binds other cell types. It is known that HPV can be found in semen but its effects on spermatozoa and male reproductive system are not completely clarified.
Materials and Methods: In order to study the HPV infection in semen, we developed a new molecular approach, based on a differential cell lysis step and DNA extraction, which allows to evaluate virus localization in the different semen components. Samples are genotyped by reverse hybridization assay and DNA presence and quantity in sperms, somatic cells and semen plasma are evaluated by nested PCR and type-specific real time PCR. Moreover, RNA is also extracted from the separated semen fractions and the expression of selected genes is assessed by RT-qPCR. Seminal parameters are also carefully analysed.
Results: Results show that HPV can be identified in every fraction of semen. Different samples can contain the virus in different fractions and more than one HPV genotype can be found in the same fraction. Additionally, our data suggest that only when HPV DNA is detected in spermatozoa can cause a reduction of sperm cell motility that resulted proportional to the viral load. Moreover, preliminary results suggest that samples infected by HR-HPVs show a low viral load. Interestingly, the viral load of the low risk (LR) mucosal HPVs is often much higher. RT-qPCR results suggest that HPV infection could modify sperm maturation pathway causing the impairment of motility, altering the expression of some maturation genes. Indeed, in LR-HPV infected samples the
Discussion and Conclusions: Our results highlight the heterogeneity of semen infections: all semen components can contain viral DNA and viral load can be very different for HR- and LR-HPVs; some samples may carry HPV either in cells or in sperms and other samples in both. Only when viral DNA is localized in the sperm fraction, sperm motility is impaired, otherwise, the infection of ductal cells exfoliating in the semen could influence the expression of genes important for sperm maturation. Therefore, these data confirm that HPV infection in semen, even if asymptomatic in the man, can decrease male fertility and prompt new possible consequences of the viral infection in semen
Trasmissione intergenerazionale ed esperienze migratorie. Verso nuove forme della funzione genitoriale
No full textQuel che resta del mito. La traccia di Euripide nell'Alcesti di Samuele di Alberto Savinio
No full textAnalysis of the drama Alcesti di Samuele by Alberto Savinio, staged in 1950 at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, under the direction of Giorgio Strehel. It is the declination of the myth of Alcestis according to the exi¬stential pessimism of the author, who made the reflection on death one of the landmarks of his theater. The genesis of the drama, according the author himself, is to be found in a true story, happened in Vienna at the time of the Nuremberg racial laws: to an important music publisher was imposed the choice between work and divorce from his Judish wife, and the latter, in order to prevent him from taking such a painful decision, killed herself. The play is set in Monaco, where Savinio lived, and Teresa-Alcestis dies by drowning in the river Isar. In the first part of the drama Savinio is concerned to emphasize the correspondences between myth and history (Teresa/Alcesti, Admeto/Paul, Eracle/ the US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, etc.), but, with the progress of the dramatic action, the distances from Euripides increase more and more, until the final reversal: Teresa returns to life just to bring Paul with her in death. The essay analyzes and comments the numerous echoes and allusions to Euripides (and their variations) that Savinio introduces in his rewriting
Ottoman Diplomats in the West: the Sultan’s Ambassadors to the Republic of Venice
No full textList of Ottoman ambassadors and envoys to the Republic of Venice. On the basis of their functions the author distinguishes between real ambassadors and diplomatic envoys
Le "Commissioni in Este" ed il loro archivio (1850-1856)
No full textOn the basis of the papers kept in the archives she put in order, the author explains the functions of the Austrian court ‘Commissioni in Este’ (1850-1856)
Il governo del Lombardo Veneto dal 1849 al 1866. Note archivistiche.
No full textOn the basis of some archives she put in order the author explains the institutional changes which had place in the Austrian province Lombardo Veneto in the period 1849-1866
Fabbrica e peculio: il caso del convento dei Carmini a Venezia.
No full textOn the basis of the archives of the Venetian Carmini monastery, the author stresses the importance of some friars who used their own money (peculio) to rebuilt or embellish their own church
“Exemplum litterarum tartarorum”: Ghazan Khan and Venice at the turn of the XIII century
No full textNew information about the relations which had place between the ilkhanid ruler Gazan and the Republic of Venice at the end of the 13th c., on the basis of two documents which have been recently discovered by the author
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