53 research outputs found
Healing gardens : the garden on the terrace of the National Oncology Institute in Milan (Italy)
No full textObjectives. It has been widely described in the literature that gardens and interaction with natural elements can increase the quality of life in health-care facilities. The former terrace of the National Oncology Institute in Milan (Italy) was used by patients, relatives and medical staff as well, as an environment where to find peace and restoration from pain and stress. The goal of the project was realize a garden specifically-designed for the users of the Institute.
Methods. The method used for the design process was based on the understanding of the user needs (patients, visitors and staff) through interviews, direct observations and the application of the findings of environmental psychology on the interaction among nature and people.
Results. The new healing garden on the terrace of the National Oncology Institute was designed and realized recovering everything possible and trying to increase as much as possible the richness in natural elements (bio-diversity) and the possibilities of interactions among people and nature.
Discussion. Involving people is the key. Staff is planning ever new activities for involving patients in using in different ways and time of the year the garden. They are also trying to involve patients and relatives in a very base maintenance (watering, cleaning, etc.)
Healing Gardens: promoting health quality in a specialized intensive rehabilitation hospital
No full textObjectives. A growing amount of evidences suggests that nature elements can increase health quality of hospitalized patients (1). The aim of the study is to investigate the relationship between the characteristics of an intensive rehabilitation hospital environment and the recovery processes of patients in a post-acute phase.
Methods. The present study involves two phases. In the first one, now concluded, we attempted to determine the characteristics of the exterior spaces that best fits with needs of our patients: a group of landscape architects visited the site, met the hospital staff, and realized the project of the garden. At the same time, we collected data from 95 neurologic, orthopedic, and pneumologic patients who were hospitalized before the construction of the garden. This group will be considered as a control group for the second phase of the study, in which we will compare patients who did not use garden and patients who will have access to it. The outcome measures are: level of disability, quality of life (QOL) and depression symptoms.
Results. Some characteristics of the garden that are thought to be salient for our clinical population have been identified. We are able to show some master plans of the project. Moreover, we found a significant difference in QOL and depression between the three groups of patients.
Discussion. The benefits from a garden should be considered to reducing the disability in post-acute patients in an intensive rehabilitation hospital
Rorschach SC : una investigación exploratoria en la ciudad de Resistencia
No full textEl test de Rorshcach es conocido universalmente como un test psicológico proyectivo que ha basado su incuestionable validez, sensibilidad y confiabilidad en una fuerte estructura estadística. Considerando la falta de información
estadística para el Sistema Comprehensivo en la ciudad de Resistencia, comenzamos una investigación exploratoria para la zona. Metodología: Hemos aplicado el Rorschach Sistema Comprehensivo a un total de 70 personas de ambos sexos, nacidos en Resistencia, Provincia del Chaco, Argentina, entre los 25 y 45 años de edad, pacientes de nuestra institución, entre los meses de enero y junio de 2009.
Resultados: Hemos hallado resultados en muchas variables que muestran una importante diferencia entre la información oficial del sistema comprehensivo para los Estados Unidos y Resistencia
Foreword
No full textThree intemational Meetings have been beld in the past four years under the aegis (or with the cooperation) of the International Plato Society: the Meeting at Piacenza in 2003, whose title was 'Plato Ethicus' (the proceedings were published the following year by Academia Verlag, and edited by Maurizio Migliori and me); the Vll Symposium Platonicum about 'Gorgias' and 'Meno', in Wurzburg in 2004 (the proceedings, edited by Luc Brisson and Michael Erler, bave been publisbed in 2007 by Academia Verlag) and this Meeting beld in Como at the beginning of 2006, and whose object was Platonic psyche, therefore interiority and soul. The Platonic scholar that, like the author of this Foreword, has been fortunate enough to take part in all three of these Meetings could not refrain form a fairly marked impression: that of a growing ferment in Platonic studies, to the extent that the more amateurs -be they philosophers or not
-regard some readings as consolidated, or take them even for granted, the less these readings are taken for granted by the specialists, who obdurately continue the play (a most arduous one) of confronting with the Platonic text as well as with a monumental critical literature, in order to verify what can actually be called 'doctrine' with regard to one of the unquestionable fathers of Western culture. What is curiously stunning is that such remediation and reassess ment are in no way concemed, as one might believe, only with marginal aspects of the dialogues, but involve -as I am here, in this Foreword, laboriously trying to prove - the most important themes, those on whose certain content a non-specialist, an historian of general philosophy, a theoretician, a high-school philosophy teacher, or a mere lover of Plato would be ready to swear.
The soul is one of such capital subjects of the Dialogues, so essential and well-known that one might wonder whether it was worth while coming back again on it. However, as can be seen in this Foreword, traditional and well-established topoi about Platonic soul are no longer such after a thorough enquiry; many subjects can be profitably discussed again, just as many questions - brought about by new answers to those first questions - must still be dealt with. Numerous subjects are commonly regarded as certain and well-established in Platonic psychology: that the Platonic soul has three 'parts', corresponding to reason, will, and desire; that it is immortal, as can be proved in many ways, and that, having parted with the body through death, it ascends to the hyperuranian seat of ideas with all such three 'parts'; that it is personal and capable of comprehension and moral action through its rational component (the other two 'parts' simply ought to be 'repressed' and would not only be useless, but even harmful in this activity); that in the Dialogues a sharp opposition of body and soul is found, with all the rigorous ascetic consequences that have flown into subsequent tradition.
The 21 speeches delivered at the Como meeting have proved that the things are by no means so: the scholars have raised various questions and have tackled them with different hermeneutic methods and instruments. The problerns, however, manifest themselves over again, echo one another beyond the single speech, in a problematic tune that, given a certain rhythm and perspective, arouses consonant appeals from many - often different and distant - places; the solutions suggested are often similar, found through different and complementary paths, and time and again capable of reinforcing one another. In some cases the perspective or the solution appears incompatible with the others; on further thinking, however, a new perspective is rising, a new question that remained previously unclear or down right unseen, calling for radical discussion starting from the very basic terms that enable Plato to deal with it, or from the method we nowadays choose to analyse it. The formation and personal inclination of each scholar allow to investigate Plato in different manners and, interestingly enough, to reach different answers. This is, however, one of the reasons of the lasting charm of our philosopher, which none of the authors of this book would be ready to renounce.
ever, a new perspective is rising, a new question that remained previously unclear or down right unseen, calling for radica! discussion starting from the very basic terms that enable Plato to deal with it, or from the method we nowadays choose to analyse it. The formation and per sonal inclination of each scholar allow to investigate Plato in different manners and, interest ingly enough, to reach different answers. This is, however, one of the reasons of the lasting charm of our author, which none of the authors of this book would be ready to renounce
Ritorno all'Ellade: Hans Jonas e alcuni spunti di riflessione sulla tradizione filosofica antica
No full textIt seems undeniable, that in reconstructing the conceptual universe of Hans Jonas's oeuvre a privileged place can, or indeed must, be reserved for his relationship with the classical heritage. Certainly, it is far from easy to provide a clear and detailed outline of this relationship with the ancient philosophical past. Jonas is not the kind of author who peppers his writing with quotes, references, and footnotes. Often his engagement with such a past is a silent one, and only a painstaking approach can reveal the presence of this or that ancient author. In the light of this premiss, I will endeavour to garner some data in a clear and orderly fashion. I believe it may be possible to identify some philosophers and themes particularly dear to Jonas, without making any claim to absolute and systematic completeness (or necessarily establishing a rigorous chronological sequence)
Wavy graphene sheets from electrochemical sewing of corannulene
No full textThe presence of non-hexagonal rings in the honeycomb carbon arrangement of graphene produces rippled graphene layers with valuable chemical and physical properties. In principle, a bottom-up approach to introducing distortion from planarity of a graphene sheet can be achieved by careful insertion of curved polyaromatic hydrocarbons during the growth of the lattice. Corannulene, the archetype of such non-planar polyaromatic hydrocarbons, can act as an ideal wrinkling motif in 2D carbon nanostructures. Herein we report an electrochemical bottom-up method to obtain egg-box shaped nanographene structures through a polycondensation of corannulene that produces a new conducting layered material. Characterization of this new polymeric material by electrochemistry, spectroscopy, electron microscopy (SEM and TEM), scanning probe microscopy, and laser desorption-ionization time of flight mass spectrometry provides strong evidence that the anodic polymerization of corannulene, combined with electrochemically induced oxidative cyclodehydrogenations (Scholl reactions), leads to polycorannulene with a wavy graphene-like structure
Nuove acquisizioni sulla pittura marchigiana del Settecento. I pittori Ricci e Gilberto Todini nel monastero di Santa Chiara a Fermo / New discoveries about Marche painting in the 18th Century. The painters Ricci and Gilberto Todini in the monastery of Santa Chiara in Fermo
No full textIl contributo presenta un consistente gruppo di inediti dipinti del XVIII secolo conservati nel monastero di Santa Chiara a Fermo. Il rinvenimento di alcune firme, l’analisi stilistica e un approfondito esame delle tecniche esecutive ha portato ad attribuirne complessivamente ben trentacinque alla famiglia di pittori fermani Ricci, solo tre dei quali erano già noti; spiccano ventisette tele dipinte da Natale Ricci, risalenti in gran parte al quarto decennio del Settecento. Si tratta di un vero e proprio unicum poiché mai, in un solo luogo, era stata finora registrata una così alta concentrazione di loro opere, in particolare riferibili a Natale. Il nucleo del monastero offre non solo un inedito spaccato del mondo artistico nella Fermo del Settecento ma anche del modus operandi e delle tecniche esecutive adottate da Natale Ricci e dalla sua bottega negli anni ’30 del Settecento, ponendosi dunque come un nuovo imprescindibile capitolo sulla produzione pittorica della famiglia Ricci.
This paper introduces a considerable amount of previously unknown eighteenth-century paintings, stored in Santa Chiara’s Monastery in Fermo. Based on the rediscovery of their signatures, and on the analysis of both their stylistic features and executive techniques, we can ascribe a total of thirty-five paintings to the Ricci family, from Fermo, only three of which were previously known; Natale Ricci is the author of twenty-seven of them, and they mostly date back to the fourth decade of the eighteenth Century. It is a real unicum, because such a high concentration of paintings by the Ricci family had never been recorded in a single place, (particularly of Natale’s works). Not only does the nucleus of the monastery provide us with a new glance on the artistc world in eighteenth-century Fermo, but it also shows us the modus operandi and the executive techniques adopted by Natale Ricci and his workshop during the third decade of the eighteenth Century, thus becoming a new pivotal chapter on the output of the Ricci family
Il largo mare del bello (Platone, Simposio, 209 d 4)
No full textThe author finds a dialectical nature in the beauty, according what Plato says about true in the dialogue Republic. This dialectics is developed through the link between eros and beauty that appears in the dialogue Symposium
Stearate-Coated Biogenic Calcium Carbonate from Waste Seashells : A Sustainable Plastic Filler
No full textWaste seashells from aquaculture are a massive source of biogenic calcium carbonate (bCC) that can be a potential substitute for ground calcium carbonate and precipitated calcium carbonate. These last materials find several applications in industry after a surface coating with hydrophobic molecules, with stearate as the most used. Here, we investigate for the first time the capability of aqueous stearate dispersions to coat bCC powders from seashells of market-relevant mollusc aquaculture species, namely the oyster Crassostrea gigas, the scallop Pecten jacobaeus, and the clam Chamelea gallina. The chemical–physical features of bCC were extensively characterized by different analytical techniques. The results of stearate adsorption experiments showed that the oyster shell powder, which is the bCC with a higher content of the organic matrix, showed the highest adsorption capability (about 23 wt % compared to 10 wt % of geogenic calcite). These results agree with the mechanism proposed in the literature in which stearate adsorption mainly involves the formation of calcium stearate micelles in the dispersion before the physical adsorption. The coated bCC from oyster shells was also tested as fillers in an ethylene vinyl acetate compound used for the preparation of shoe soles. The obtained compound showed better mechanical performance than the one prepared using ground calcium. In conclusion, we can state that bCC can replace ground and precipitated calcium carbonate and has a higher stearate adsorbing capability. Moreover, they represent an environmentally friendly and sustainable source of calcium carbonate that organisms produce by high biological control over composition, polymorphism, and crystal texture. These features can be exploited for applications in fields where calcium carbonate with selected features is required.publishe
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