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Ugo Bianchi e il mondo cattolico: un filo rosso dalla FUCI all’Università Cattolica
No full textL'articolo ricostruisce la biografia personale e scientifica di Ugo Bianchi, sottolineando lo stretto collegamente fra l'adesione dello studioso al cattolicesimo, la propria ricerca spirituale e le esigenze della scienza praticata in ambito accademico. Con ciò si cerca di spiegare perché Bianchi abbia desiderato fin dagli Anni '50 del '900 poter insegnare Storia delle religioni in Università Cattolica. L'appartenenza e la pratica religiose, se accompagnate da rigore metodologico e onestà intellettuale, non fanno ostacolo alla ricerca scientifica, anzi, nel caso soprattutto degli studi religiosi, possono rappresentare un aiuto.The article reconstructs the personal and scientific biography of Ugo Bianchi, underlining the close connection between the scholar's adherence to Catholicism, his spiritual research and the needs of science practiced in the academic field. With this we try to explain why Bianchi has wanted to teach History of Religions at Catholic University since the 1950s. Religious belonging and practice, if accompanied by methodological rigor and intellectual honesty, do not hinder scientific research, indeed, especially in the case of religious studies, they can represent a help
Low-signal intensity on MRI in the globus pallidus in children with long-term oral manganese exposure
No full textReligione e Storia. Omaggio a Ugo Bianchi nel centenario della nascita
No full textll volume trae origine dal Convegno scientifico internazionale tenutosi in Università Cattolica (Milano, 13.10.2022) per onorare la memoria dello storico delle religioni Ugo Bianchi (13.10.1922-14.4.1995) nel centenario della nascita. I contributi degli studiosi italiani e stranieri, ivi raccolti , ricostruiscono e percorrono – anche sulla scorta di testi e documenti inediti emersi dall’archivio scientifico domestico del Maestro romano - momenti e aspetti della sua lunga e feconda militanza accademica (Messina, Bologna, Milano, Roma) ed insieme della sua intensa esperienza intellettuale e scientifica. Allievo di Raffaele Pettazzoni, ne sviluppò in maniera originale la lezione metodologica, di tipo storico-comparativo, da Bianchi ritenuta come la sola capace di superare quei riduzionismi cui non di rado conducevano approcci altri e diversi al fatto religioso e ai fatti religiosi dell’umanità, e di rispettarne così la complessità ed irriducibilità a fronte di facili comparazioni o assimilazioni.
SOMMARIO. Introduzione (Maria Vittoria Cerutti); Ugo Bianchi: la coerenza di un itinerario scientifico (Giulia Sfameni Gasparro); Ugo Bianchi and the History of Religions (Peter Antes); Ugo Bianchi: il profilo di uomo e studioso dalle carte del suo archivio (Lorenzo Bianchi); Ugo Bianchi e il mondo cattolico: un filo rosso dalla FUCI all’Università Cattolica (Giuliano Chiapparini); Storia e comparazione; epistemologia relazionale (Giulio Maspero); L’eredità di Ugo Bianchi nella storiografia recente (Chiara Tommasi); Album fotografico, Testi inediti o poco conosciuti di Ugo Bianchi; Documenti e corrispondenza provenienti dall’Archivio di Ugo Bianchi; Pubblicazioni a stampa di Ugo Bianchi (a cura di Lorenzo Bianchi).The volume originates from the international scientific conference held at the Catholic University (Milan, 13.10.2022) to honor the memory of the historian of religions Ugo Bianchi (13.10.1922-14.4.1995) on the centenary of his birth. The contributions of Italian and foreign scholars, collected there, reconstruct and cover - also on the basis of unpublished texts and documents emerging from the domestic scientific archive of the Roman Master - moments and aspects of his long and fruitful academic militancy (Messina, Bologna, Milan, Rome) and together with his intense intellectual and scientific experience. A pupil of Raffaele Pettazzoni, he developed in an original way the methodological lesson, of a historical-comparative nature, considered by Bianchi as the only one capable of overcoming those reductionisms which often led to other and different approaches to the religious fact and the religious facts of humanity , and thus to respect its complexity and irreducibility in the face of easy comparisons or assimilations.
SUMMARY. Introduzione (Maria Vittoria Cerutti); Ugo Bianchi: la coerenza di un itinerario scientifico (Giulia Sfameni Gasparro); Ugo Bianchi and the History of Religions (Peter Antes); Ugo Bianchi: il profilo di uomo e studioso dalle carte del suo archivio (Lorenzo Bianchi); Ugo Bianchi e il mondo cattolico: un filo rosso dalla FUCI all’Università Cattolica (Giuliano Chiapparini); Storia e comparazione; epistemologia relazionale (Giulio Maspero); L’eredità di Ugo Bianchi nella storiografia recente (Chiara Tommasi); Album fotografico, Testi inediti o poco conosciuti di Ugo Bianchi; Documenti e corrispondenza provenienti dall’Archivio di Ugo Bianchi; Pubblicazioni a stampa di Ugo Bianchi (ed. Lorenzo Bianchi)
Disorders of peripheral nerves
No full textPeripheral neuropathies are heritable or acquired.
A.Heritable defects, among others:
1.Chronic hereditary motor-sensory neuropathies (HMSN alias Charcot-Marie-Tooth), hereditary motor-sensory neuropathies (HMSN), hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathies (HSAN), hereditary neuralgic amyotrophy (HNA)
2. Relapsing/progressive motor-sensory polyneuropathies (i.e., Refsum disease)
3. Chronic, progressive, motor-sensory polyneuropathies with early small-fiber involvement (e.g., familial amyloid polyneuropathies)
4. Painful neuropathies (e.g., Fabry disease)
5. Acute generalized polyneuropathies (porphyrias)
6. Chronic sensory neuronopathies associated with ataxias
7. Chronic sensory (and motor) neuropathies due to mitochondrial disorders
8. Recurrent focal neuropathies/plexopathies [hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies (HNPP); hereditary neuralgic amyotrophy (HNA)]
Outcome and disability – Most patients with CMT1A and CMT1X do not require ambulation aids. FAP, if untreated, has a relentless fatal course. HNPP has normal life expectancy and good quality of life in most patients.
Acute intermittent porphyria: the long-term prognosis depends on successful prevention of attacks.
B. Acquired forms, among others:
Immunomediated neuropathies: acute inflammatory polyradiculoneuropathies (AIDP), chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP), multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN)
Outcome and disability – AIDP: 5 % of patients die. CIDP: age <45 years predicts a better outcome; axonal loss forecasts poorer prognosis. MMN: very uncommon spontaneous remissions. Anti-MAG: 25 % of patients disabled after 10 years. POEMS: chronic and invalidating; 50 % of patients are bedridden; mean survival ranges 12–165 months.
Non-systemic vasculitic neuropathy (NSVN): usually not fatal; NSVN may become systemic in 10 % of patients.
Diabetic Neuropathies
Distal symmetric polyneuropathy (DSP): slowly progressive; can stabilize or improve with tight control of diabetes. Autonomic neuropathy: increases the risk of adverse cardiovascular events. Radiculoplexopathy: monophasic, self-limiting evolution.
Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS): pain tends to decrease with time. One-third of patients have spontaneous improvement.
Bell palsy: healing occurs within 6 months in 80 % of patients.
Peripheral nerve injury (PNI) – Neurapraxic lesions usually recover within a few months. Surgery: the sooner the nerve is repaired the better the functional recovery will be
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Epileptic and imaging findings in perinatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy with ulegyria
No full textHypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy due to fetal or neonatal asphyxia is a major cause of acute mortality and chronic disability involving cerebral palsy, seizures, and mental retardation. The gestational age of the infant is one of the main variables determining the neuropathological picture of hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, and ulegyria (one of its neuropathological correlates) typically affects full-term infants. The damage usually involves the deeper sulcal portion of the convolutions while sparing the crowns, and includes subcortical white matter atrophy and gliosis. The aim of this study was to characterize the electroclinical features of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy when ulegyria is one of its main neuropathological features. To this end, nine patients with MRI-proven ulegyria and epilepsy underwent a complete neurological work-up. The ulegyric lesions were mainly distributed in the parasagittal watershed areas and frequently associated with other hypoxic-ischemic lesions. The neurological picture was characterized in most patients by mental retardation, motor deficits, and drug-refractory partial epilepsy. The ulegyria in our patients was associated with a complex clinical picture: epilepsy was a prominent component, and its severity directly correlated with the extent of the ulegyria and the associated hypoxic-ischemic lesions. Drug refractoriness was an almost constant correlate of this form of symptomatic epilepsy
Square Dancing with the Stars to Enhance Dynamic Hirschman Linkages?
No full textIn this Presidential Address, the author takes the reader on a reconnaissance of his life and time as a regional scientist. He points out scenery he found scintillating along the way, hoping that some may pick up the banner and chew on a few of the ideas for a while. He suggests a revisit to Albert O. Hirschman’s notion of key sectors and more empirical analysis related to Marcus Berliant’s and Masahisa Fujita’s notion of knowledge creation and transfer.Presidential Address, San Antonio, Texas, March 29, 2014 (53rd Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Chiari malformation-related headache: outcome after surgical treatment
No full textThe outcome of headache in a series of 135 operated CM1 is presented. Favorable results were obtained in 85% of atypical and 93% typical headache with the support of a multidisciplinary approach that restricted the indications for surgery
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