457 research outputs found
The F factor: Modifications in the course of group psycho-therapy training
No full textThe author discusses the importance in group therapy training of the faith concept (F), brought into psychoanalysis by Bion who considered it as an essential component of any scientific approach. The act of faith, is the capacity of having faith in certain hypotheses and intuitions that surface during work and which correspond to facts, the existence of which are ignored by the more ordinary theories. He contends that the global result of the training will depend on the capacity of teachers, students and the school in general to cope with this task of managing the delegated F factor and then to promote the personal new appropriation in given time
Consideraciones sobre la poética de Claudio Rodríguez
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to study the poetics of Claudio Rodríguez, delimiting its components and trying to clarify them and to present them as a whole. The author left some pages written on his conception of poetry that encourage reflection and, in some cases, interpretation. So with his conception of poetry as a gift and inebriation, as an alliance and condemnation or celebration (giving title to his collections of poems), or with notions such as «participation», «living contemplation», «living expression » or «personal rhythm» that make up his way of understanding the poetic process.El propósito de este artículo es estudiar la poética de Claudio Rodríguez, deslindando sus componentes y tratando de clarificarlos y presentarlos en su conjunto. El autor dejó escritas algunas páginas sobre su concepción de la poesía que animan a la reflexión y, en algunos casos, a la interpretación. Así sucede con su concepción de la poesía como un don y una ebriedad, como alianza y condena o como celebración (que dan título a sus poemarios), o con nociones como las de «participación», «contemplación viva», «expresión viva» o «ritmo personal», que configuran su forma de entender el proceso poético
Recensiones
No full textINTERACADEMY COUNCIL/IAP- THE GLOBAL NETWORK OF SCIENCE ACADEMIES, 2012Responsible Conduct in the Global Research Enterprise: A Policy ReportFernando Lolas StepkePIETRO MAGLIOZZI, M.IEl arte de sanarMaría Isabel Cornejo PlazaLOLAS STEPKE, FERNANDO y DRUMOND, JOSÉ GERALDO DE FREITAS, editoresBioéticaJorge F. Aguirre SalasLOLAS STEPKE, FERNANDO y DRUMOND, JOSÉ GERALDO DE FREITAS, editoresBioéticaClaudio Lavados Monte
What is the function of faith and trust in psychoanalysis?
No full textUnlike other concepts such as 'illusion, 'capacity to tolerate frustration' and 'libidinal investment, the concept of faith has not yet found a well-defined position in psychoanalytic theory. Bion focused on faith and placed it in an unusual context: scientific work. Through the Act of Faith a researcher can give some consistency to certain ideas, hunches or intuitions that may appear during observation, though he cannot represent them by existing theory. Through the Act of Faith an analyst can 'see', 'hear' and 'feel' those mental phenomena, the reality of which leaves no practising psychoanalysts in doubt, even if they cannot represent them by current formulations. In this paper the author aims to expand Bion proposals into the clinical and therapeutic fields. In the first part, the author examines how faith and trust overlap, and how they depart from each other and he gives an example. Faith possesses an igniting and driving force which trust doesn't possess to the same extent. 117 the second part, the author looks at F as a psychic function of the analyst, which aids him in supporting a depressed and hopeless patient while waiting for the return of the patient desire to live. In the final part, he focuses on F from the patient point of view and studies the transformations of F that may occur during an analysis
A macroelement framework for shallow foundations including changes in configuration
No full textMacroelement plasticity models are being increasingly applied to study non-linear soil–foundation interaction (SFI) problems. Macroelement models are particularly appealing from a computational standpoint, as they can capture the essence of SFI by means of a few degrees of freedom. However, all the macroelement formulations available in the literature suffer from the same limitation, that is the incapability of accounting for changes in both geometry and loading/boundary conditions. Accordingly, macroelement models are usually calibrated to analyse a given boundary value problem, with no chance of handling situations with significant variations in embedment, lateral surcharge and/or phreatic level. The present work shows how standard soil modelling concepts can be exploited to reproduce relevant ‘configurational features’ of non-linear SFI. A macroelement framework is here proposed to simulate the drained load–settlement response of shallow footings on sand in the presence of varying surface/body forces. As a first step, the ideal case of a weightless soil layer is exclusively considered. The macroelement constitutive equations are conceived/calibrated on a minimal set of finite-element results; the satisfactory predictive capabilities of the macroelement model are finally demonstrated by retrospectively simulating selected finite-element tests.Geo-engineerin
Opening the Black-Box of Peer Review: An Agent-Based Model of Scientist Behaviour
No full textThis paper investigates the impact of referee behaviour on the quality and efficiency of peer review. We focused on the importance of reciprocity motives in ensuring cooperation between all involved parties. We modelled peer review as a process based on knowledge asymmetries and subject to evaluation bias. We built various simulation scenarios in which we tested different interaction conditions and author and referee behaviour. We found that reciprocity cannot always have per se a positive effect on the quality of peer review, as it may tend to increase evaluation bias. It can have a positive effect only when reciprocity motives are inspired by disinterested standards of fairness
Architecture that will be. A thesis on the Minet El Bassal District in Alexandria, between Tradition and Innovation, during the "Third Industrial Revolution"
No full textThe emerging impact on the planet of 3D printing, at all levels, doesn’t seem to limit itself to the simple modification of the traditional means of production, indicating a deeper and far more diffuse transformation, referred to by some as the “third industrial revolution”. 3D printing has become a process accessible to everyone. Up until a few years ago, in fact, those who built a company and produced, for example, spare parts for the automotive supply sector or for electronic devices, were considered the pioneers of their respective fields; while today, the true pioneers of modern craftsmanship are common people that, to fulfill their needs, autonomously build what they need. Those are the so-called makers. Once he has designed a tridimensional model, a maker can take advantage of 3D printing in different ways, some of which will be listed right now, while the others will be treated in deeper detail in the following paragraphs: the purchase and/or the building of a personal printer; the employment of share printing by non-profit associations like Fablab, Maker-spaces, Hacker; the use of Internet for direct contact with companies that develop personalized printing also for private production. “The true revolution is not the development of technology, but its democratization: to make it accessible to an enormous group of people who can experience it and improve it”, as said by Chris Anderson, former director of Wired magazine, author of the book “The Long Tail” and editor of the essay “Makers: The New Industrial Revolution”.
“Today we have instruments like the world wide web to help us: the inventor of today isn’t an isolated genius anymore, as he can make use of the joint effort of other individuals. In its workshop, instead of a plane, a buzz saw and a drill, we would see the inevitable computer, on whose screen the item takes shape, and a three-dimensional printer”.
In this sense, 3D printing is revolutionizing not only the world of fashion and design, but also the universes of the construction industry and of architecture.
In fact, one of the most respected “contemporary masters”, Norman Foster, won an international contest launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) to design, through the use of a 3D printer, a lunar outpost capable of hosting four people, employing regolith as a construction unit, that is, dust, soil, broken rock, and other related materials present on the Moon. In China, the creations of the multinational corporation WinSun are causing quite a sensation: after realizing in recent years “10 houses in 24 hours”, and printing an 1100 square meters villa.
The incredible feat has been achieved with a giant 3D printer – 32 meters of length, 10 of width and 6,6 of height – in which, as a construction unit, has been employed a mix of recycled dumping materials, like fiberglass, steel, concrete and special additives.
Allowing a saving of materials between 30% and 60%, and a saving of building time between 50% and 70%. Holland is today the main European innovator of 3D architecture. Dutch architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars has devised a system that will allow the production of base elements of approximately 9×13,5 meters that will constitute the model of residential buildings. For its manufacturing, a sand compound will be employed as construction unit, mixed to a bonding agent of new conception that will make it sturdier than concrete. In Italy, the company WASP (acronym of World's Advanced Saving Project), has realized printers that operate through a process of additive manufacturing. The aim of these devices, called BigDelta, is to realize echo-compatible houses with a limited power consumption, with available natural materials like clay.
Besides the advantages of reduction of energetic consumption and emissions, of fast building times, contained costs and easy adaptability to different situations, the research is also moving in the elaboration of new materials to substitute concrete, that are more ecological and sustainable.
The thesis project, carried out by Valentina Sapio, with the relation of the Prof. Arch. Claudio Gambardella (SUN “Luigi Vanvitelli” –Aversa), the correlation of the Prof. Arch. Fabio Naselli (UNI Kore – Enna) and the referee of the Prof. Mohamed Assem Hanafi (Dep. of Architectures, Faculty of Engineering, University of Alexandria), concentrates on the requalification of the industrial district of Minet El Bassal in Alexandria. The proposal of project focuses, besides the urban intervention project to redevelop the surrounding district, on a tower, placed inside one of the seven buildings that comprise the area that accommodates the Fablab. Realized entirely with the use of 3D printing, the tower, that recalls the ancient lighthouse of Alexandria, and in line with the already existing skyline formed by the minarets, is conceived with materials that are typical of the Egyptian buildings on the rivers of Nile (with fire-bricks in straw and clay), that is a natural paste made up of clay, straw and adhesives. Intervening both from an evocative volumetric point of view, and in the use of materials in the full respect of the pre-existent, melting tradition and innovation. Ideally, the same Fablab, recalling another important concept, that is, the concept of self-building, and another value intrinsic of Egyptian culture, realizes the tower. Examining the study, the works and the thought of Egyptian architect, Hassan Fathy: “The quality and the values inherent the traditional answer of the man to the atmosphere (on the environmental challenges), should be preserved without renouncing to scientific progress. Science can be applied to several aspects of our job, if, at the same time, it is subordinated to philosophy, faith and spirituality”.
Editorial: Image-based computational approaches for personalized cardiovascular medicine: improving clinical applicability and reliability through medical imaging and experimental data
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Correction to: Nutrition behaviour and compliance with the Mediterranean diet pyramid recommendations: an Italian survey‐based study
No full textThe article “Nutrition behaviour and compliance with the Mediterranean diet pyramid recommendations: an Italian survey‐based study”, written by “Renata Bracale, Concetta M. Vaccaro, Vittoria Coletta, Claudio Cricelli, Francesco Carlo Gamaleri, Fabio Parazzini and Michele Carruba” was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal on 8th November 2019 without open access. With the author(s)’ decision to opt for Open Choice the copyright of the article changed on 23rd December 2019 to © The Author(s) 2019 and the article is forthwith distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https ://creat iveco mmons .org/licen ses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The original article has been corrected
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