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Strategies to improve the performances of bakery products made from ancient wheat’s
No full textThe growing consumers’ attention regarding the inclusion of foods able to provide health benefits in one’s diet, is currently a theme of fundamental importance. Between these products, ancient wheat’s and whole wheat flours seem to be the most appealing in the cereal industry thanks to their nutritional content. Nevertheless, ancient wheat’s show worse rheological and technological performances compared to modern cultivars, in particular when using whole wheat flour. According to Migliorini, et al. (2016), the content of starch and protein is strongly influenced by annual variability and agronomic practices. This highlights the need for further investigation to understand the relationship between different agronomic practices and the rheological and technological properties of flours and dough’s made from ancient wheat’s. Furthermore, the greatest challenge for the bakery industry still remains the improvement of the technological properties of bakery products made from ancient wheat’s. In this paper, some of the strategies aimed to face this challenge are proposed. Starting from the improvement of the rheological properties of dough’s made from ancient wheat, Cappelli, et al. (2018) provided a rheological study which allows to identify the optimal water content to be added, through models represented by level curves diagrams. Moreover, regarding the improvement of bakery products based on ancient wheat, the sourdough fermentation (Saa, et al. 2017) and the reduction of free lipid in the doughs (Collar & Angioloni, 2014) seems to be the most interesting strategies. Finally, future strategies finalized to improve the technological properties of bakery products made from ancient wheat’s are related to the assessment of suitability and bread-making aptitude of ancient wheat flours blended with the most interesting and innovative sources of proteins, i.e. legume and insect flours
A imagem de Alessandro Baricco no Brasil
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução, Florianópolis, 2013.Com a intenção de delinear o modo pelo qual o escritor italiano Alessandro Baricco se inseriu no sistema literário brasileiro e os caminhos percorridos pelos seus livros traduzidos, esta dissertação dá voz às experiências tradutórias de seus tradutores. A inserção de Bariccono Brasil tem seu início em 1997, através de uma proposição da Profa. Dra. Roberta Barni à editora Iluminuras da tradução de Oceano Mare. A partir daí, outras sete obras foram publicadas no Brasil, sendo três delas traduzidas por Roberta Barni e as outras quatro por quatro tradutores diferentes. De um lado, considera-se o tradutor como figura principal namediação entre culturas, e, de outro, se analisa a realidade desta figuradentro do sistema literário, sua invisibilidade, seus limites e o exercíciode sua profissão. A pesquisa conta, ainda, com críticas e resenhas referentes ao autor italiano publicadas em jornais consagrados no Brasil, considerando estas como parte constituinte da imagem de Baricco refletida em território nacional. Abstract : Intending to delineate the way the Italian writer Alessandro Baricco has been inserted in the Brazilian literary system and the paths his translated books have followed, this thesis gives voice to the translating experiences of his translators. Baricco's insertion in Brazil began in 1997, through a personal project of Dr. Roberta Barni, with her translation of Oceano Mare. Since then, seven other of his works have been published in Brazil, three of which were translated by Roberta Barni and the other four by four different translators. On the one hand,the translator is considered as the main figure in mediation betweencultures and, on the other, this figure's reality is analyzed within theliterary system: its invisibility, its limits and its professional practice. Criticisms and reviews of this Italian author published in well established Brazilian newspapers are also considered, with the understanding that they are part of Baricco's image reflected here
Gene therapy for adenosine deaminase deficiency.
No full textIn the last decade, gene therapy for adenosine deaminase deficiency has been developed as a successful alternative strategy to allogeneic bone marrow transplant and enzyme replacement therapy. Infusion of autologous hematopoietic stem cells, corrected ex vivo by retroviral vectors and combined to low-intensity conditioning regimen, has resulted in immunologic improvement, metabolic correction, and long-term clinical benefits. These findings have opened the way to applications of gene therapy in other primary immune deficiencies using novel vector technology
PISA: A measure of Preference In Selection of Arguments to model verb argument recoverability
No full textOur paper offers a computational model ofthe semantic recoverability of verb arguments,tested in particular on direct objects and In-struments. Our fully distributional model isintended to improve on older taxonomy-basedmodels, which require a lexicon in addition tothe training corpus. We computed the selec-tional preferences of 99 transitive verbs and173 Instrument verbs as the mean value of thepairwise cosine similarity between their argu-ments (a weighted mean between all the argu-ments, or an unweighted mean with the top-mostkarguments).Results show that ourmodel can predict the recoverability of objectsand Instruments, providing a similar result tothat of taxonomy-based models but at a muchcheaper computational cost
La maturità di Alessandro Fei del Barbiere, in bilico tra Maniera e Riforma
No full textThis article studies the mature career of the Florentine painter Alessandro Fei del Barbiere (1537-1592), beginning with the rediscovery of the 'Ascension' altarpiece formerly in the Albizi Chapel in the destroyed church of San Pier Maggiore, Florence. Studying this painting and others recorded in 1584 by the biographer Raffaello Borghini, such as the two altarpieces for Santa Maria delle Grazie and the Madonna dell'Umiltà in Pistoia, the author reconstructs a body of works showing how in the 1580s Fei gradually went beyond the archaic style of his apprenticeship - he had been trained by Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio and Pierfrancesco Foschi, but was also marked by the Maniera of Vasari - evolving towards naturalism in both mimesis and pictorial handling. In Florence, his development partly parallels that of Santi di Tito and his circle, but Fei was also influenced by a probable sojourn during the early part of that decade in Rome, where he could have been inspired by Girolamo Muziano and the painters working for Pope Gregory XIII. Among other proposals, the author suggests that the artist was responsible for decorating the chancel of Fiesole Cathedral (c. 1584-1589), which consisted of an altarpiece, only rarely discussed by scholars, and a cycle of frescoes hitherto attributed to Nicodemo Ferrucci
La valutazione dei crediti tra dottrina, normativa e prassi: elementi per un confronto alla luce dei principi contabili internazionali IAS/IFRS
No full textIl processo di armonizzazione contabile in atto a livello europeo ha subito in questi ultimi anni una considerevole accelerazione, per effetto, da un lato, dell’introduzione dei Principi Contabili Internazionali IAS/IFRS, rivolta, però, ad una ristretta cerchia di imprese, e, dall’altro lato, in conseguenza dell’avvio di un processo di modernizzazione delle Direttive Contabili, finalizzato a limitare quanto più possibile l’esistenza di un consistente gap informativo a discapito delle imprese non rientranti nell’ambito di ap-plicazione dei suddetti principi contabili.
A fronte di un simile processo, si ha chiara la percezione che la strada intrapresa da-gli organismi che si occupano di normazione contabile segni un deciso scarto rispetto al passato: infatti, la necessità delle imprese di predisporre un’informazione economico-finanziaria che soddisfi le diverse esigenze conoscitive di una platea di destinatari ben più numerosa ed in possesso di maggiori competenze rispetto al passato, ha comportato il ripensamento delle finalità dei bilanci, dei principi che ne informano la redazione e, di conseguenza, dei criteri di valutazione che guidano la determinazione dei valori da ri-portare al loro interno.
Prendendo spunto da questi aspetti, il presente contributo intende analizzare in chia-ve evolutiva il tema della valutazione e rappresentazione dei crediti nei bilanci delle im-prese, ponendo a confronto i presupposti e le risultanze del pensiero economico-aziendale in materia, con quelli che animano, secondo un’ottica attuale e prospettica, lo scenario normativo del nostro Paese. L’obiettivo è quello di evidenziare gli elementi fondamentali su cui poggia il suddetto processo evolutivo, anche per coglierne la portata e giudicarne la coerenza rispetto al fine perseguito.
L’analisi svolta pone in evidenza le molteplici criticità connesse all’adozione di un sistema di regole che, al fine di realizzare gli obiettivi suesposti, apporta sostanziali mo-difiche ai criteri di rilevazione, valutazione e rappresentazione in bilancio delle opera-zioni creditizie, e chiede alle imprese non soltanto di reindirizzare la prassi fino ad ora seguita, ma di ripensare ai propri sistemi gestionali, soprattutto quelli a supporto del controllo e della misuraizone dei rischi che, quand’anche già in uso, potrebbero rivelarsi non in grado di rispondere in maniera soddisfacente al nuovo e più elevato livello di in-formativa da offrire all’esterno.The harmonisation project of the accounting rules in the European Union has been receiving a strong acceleration due, on the one hand, to the adoption of International Accounting Standards – that was addressed to a limited whole of European companies – and, on the other hand, to the modernisation of the Accounting Directives in order to enhance the comparability between the annual and consolidated accounts of Community companies which apply IAS and those which do not.
As a result of this process, there is a clear awareness of the significant gap from the best practice: companies need to prepare and present their financial statements in order to satisfy the common needs of a whole of external users that is much wider and owns more financial competences than in the past. This fact involves thinking over the objective of financial statements, the characteristics that determine the usefulness of information given and the the definition, recognition and measurement of the elements from which financial statements are constructed.
Taking its cues from these themes, this study analyzes the recognition, measurement and presentation issues about loans, throughout the comparison between the fundamentals of the Italian Accounting Studies and the ones underlying the national legislative scenario, on a present and perspective viewpoint. The aim is to show the fundamental elements the evolutionary process rests upon and valuate their consistency with the purpose of harmonisation.
The analysis carried out in this study shows the various problems related to the adoption of a new system of rules that will demand companies not only to modify their practice of accounting for loans in their annual and consolidated financial statements, but also to reconsider their risk management policies, in order to satisfy the higher level of disclosure required by the International Accounting Standards
Tra socialdemocrazie e Perestrojka. Le relazioni internazionali del Pci attraverso le carte di Alessandro Natta
No full textThis essay reconstructs the foreign policy of the Italian Communist Party during the four
years of Alessandro Natta’s secretariat (1984-1988) through largely original archival documentation,
from the Alessandro Natta Fonds of the Historical Archive of the Chamber of
Deputies. Natta’s papers are also cross-referenced with those kept in the PCI Archive at the
Gramsci Foundation. The author analyses the relationship that the PCI establishes with
Gorbachev’s Perestroika, Deng’s China, and European social democracies during the last
years of the Cold War
Healthcare-associated infections and nursing leadership: A systematic review
No full textHealthcare-associated infections are strictly related to healthcare practices. A head nurse stimulates and motivates nurses, boosts nurses’ job performance and satisfaction, and can influence adverse event development.
To explore the relationship between healthcare-associated infections and head nurse leadership style.
A systematic review was conducted. The search was conducted from 1973 until March 2022 on PubMed, Cochrane Library, Scopus, CINAHL, Web of Science, Embase, and APA PsycInfo databases. The review followed the Joanna Briggs Institute Manual for Evidence Synthesis and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses. A thematic synthesis and critical appraisal of the included studies have been conducted.
Eight articles were included in this review. Head nurses’ leadership, supported by the organization, can positively influence the job performance and job satisfaction of nurses by reducing infection rates associated with vascular access and urinary catheters.
Authentic and transformational nurse leadership styles can foster targeted interventions and improvements tailored to preventing and controlling healthcare-associated infections. Even if there is limited evidence, the results support that the occurrence of infections can be reduced by leadership strategies implemented by head nurses
Reply to External validation of an individual prognostic calculator after trans-arterial chemo-embolization for hepatocellular carcinoma
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Trans-arterial embolization for hepatocellular carcinoma: with or without epidoxorubicin?
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