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L'afrofuturismo tra Stati Uniti e Italia. Dalla memoria storica ai viaggi intergalattici per re-immaginare futuri postumani
No full textIn this article the author explores the cultural movement called Afrofuturism, tracing its origins, features, simbology, and its historical and political meanings. Starting from the (supposed) discoursive gap between African and African American people on one side and technology and science fiction on the other, this paradigm addresses themes related to the intersection of African Diaspora and African cultures with technology and science fiction, with the aim to recover the history of slavery and racism through the projections into alternative space-time contexts. In particular, the author explores the feminist afrofuturism perspective in order to examine the specific oppression and cultural production of African and African American women. In doing so, the author analyzes the development of afrofuturism in Italy, focusing on the work of the singer and beatmaker Karima 2G
Problems of empathy. Difficulties of emotive understanding and social complexity.
No full textThe Author analyses certain problems concerning the transformation of styles in educational experience. Refering also to neuroscientific studies, more radical model of empaty, that enable the interpretation of historical change, are proposed
Genetic and Environmental Contribution to Major Depressive Disorder and Self-declared Depression
No full textAesthetical outcome after breast reconstruction using deep inferior epigastric perforator flap: Personal techniques
No full textBackground: Now-a-days, deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap breast reconstruction is widespread throughout the world. The aesthetical result is very important in breast reconstruction and its improvement is mandatory for plastic surgeons. Materials and Methods: The most frequent problems, we have observed in breast reconstruction with DIEP flap are breast asymmetry in terms of volume and shape, the bulkiness of the inferior lateral quadrant of the new breast, the loss of volume of the upper pole and the lack of projection of the inferior pole. We proposed our personal techniques to improve the aesthetical result in DIEP flap breast reconstruction. Our experience consists of more than 220 DIEP flap breast reconstructions. Results: The methods mentioned for improving the aesthetics of the reconstructed breast reported good results in all cases. Conclusion: The aim of our work is to describe our personal techniques in order to correct the mentioned problems and improve the final aesthetical outcome in DIEP flap breast reconstruction
Deepithelialized reverse pedicled forearm flap: a technical modification useful in hand and wrist reconstruction
No full textReverse pedicled forearm flap is a reliable and
easy option for hand and wrist reconstruction. Between
2000 and 2009, eight patients underwent elective
reconstruction of an upper extremity using a pedicled
reverse radial forearm flap with a modified technique; a
retrospective chart review of the results is presented. The
surgically modified procedure is described. The flap
donor area is deepithelialized with a dermatome and the
split-thickness skin graft obtained is left on the donor site
pedicled proximally; the deepithelialized flap is then
elevated and rotated with the standard technique and the
forearm donor site is covered by repositioning and
suturing the skin previously harvested with the dermatome.
This useful and easy technical modification allows prevention
of post-operative pain and long-term dyschromia in the
split-thickness skin graft donor site, making the reverse
pedicled forearm flap an even better option in hand and
wrist reconstruction
The Pedagogy of the Gift between treatment and complessity
No full textA variety of Anthropological studies characterising the conception of the gift consider it to be one the most interesting and evolved forms of exchange between humans and the social, natural and supernatural environment. In this article the author wishes to investigate to what extent there are representations of making gifts and exchanges in our society and how they can be linked to educational experience
Historic Climate in Heritage Building and Standard 15757: Proposal for a Common Nomenclature
No full textResearch on the relationship between microclimate and heritage buildings or historic buildings has increased dramatically in the last few decades. Research has focused on indoor climate or indoor microclimate or the environment or micro-environment, and the field of these studies regards several variables, physical—air temperature, air speed, relative humidity—or chemical, dust, CO2, pollution, etc., all of which can have an effect or damage buildings or artifacts inside buildings. Moreover, all these variables should be monitored in a monitoring campaign following the standard EN 15757; in spite of this, scientific literature contains mistakes with regard to the words and objects of study. In this short contribution, the author proposes a common nomenclature in the research field of climate and microclimate in heritage buildings and heritage artifacts. A new nomenclature should be useful for the community of heritage scientists working on preventive measures to distinguish between climate and environment, or the object of study, e.g., the room (wall, wood structure, fresco, etc.) where the artifacts are or the air around them (painting, canvas, statue, piece of furniture, documents, books, etc.)
Essere madre tra bambole e rete: il caso delle Winx
No full textThe “Winx world”- made up of tv shows and cinema, dolls, and different gadgets- at the beginning was an Italian phenomenon. But now, because of its spread– in 131 Nations and about to widen in America- can be accounted as a multinational one. This paper deals with the behaviour of adults, educators and parents towards this phenomenon, through the analysis of participations posted on the internet forums and blogs. This analysis brings out different positions of cultural strictness and strong differences of pedagogical awareness. Through this complex analysis the author could find three dominant directions: the “apocalyctics”, who consider Winx phenomenon toxic and poisonous, something their children should be defended from in order to avoid educational and sociocultural corruption; the “conformers”, who consider the phenomenon just one of the many recreational and mediatic products without any dangerousness; the “dialectician” who see the phenomenon as something real and present in children daily universe and who think that a “critical balance” is the best way solve the problem. These different positions have been organized in a systematic and problematic proposal, with the aim of giving a picture of the possible educative interventions. The proposed model includes both preventive actions and alternative management of the problem. Preventive actions should be aimed to making children feeling comfortable, providing them with instrument of critical thinking and personal enterpreneurship. Alternative management instead could be focused on finding game modes different from that proposed by trade, with the aim of making the two typologies coexisting. The proposed actions refuse prohibitionist perspectives in order to encourage child’s critical and competent thinking, through game experiences which uderline his/her critical thinking
New Concept of Historical Indoor Microclimate - Learning From the Past for a More Sustainable Future
No full textAbstractHistorical architecture is a long time studied subject in Europe. We know building techniques, materials and problems linked to the decay about most of it, and even solution for the restoration project, depending on the goal of the restoration itself and the intended usage. A less studied aspect of Historical architecture is their historic microclimates: researches currently carried on in the Department of Architecture of Università di Bologna aim specifically to study this field of architecture, considering it highly relevant to accomplish the goals of any restoration intervention. Thanks to monitoring campaigns, we have data related to three distinct buildings, different in their construction times, typology, location and techniques used. These data show that historical microclimates guaranteed by these architectures are surprisingly overlapping to the parameters considered, nowadays, appropriate to conserve them and the historical patrimony they contain
Analytic quasinormal frequencies of the Casadio-Fabbri-Mazzacurati black hole
No full textWe present analytic approximations for the quasinormal modes of scalar, Dirac, and electromagnetic perturbations of brane-world black holes, specifically those described by the widely-known Casadio-Fabbri-Mazzacurati (CFM) solution. We compare these analytical approximations with results obtained through time-domain integration and the 6th order WKB method with Padé approximants. Our analysis reveals that for , the derived concise analytic expressions align well with the aforementioned computational methods. In the eikonal limit we show that the correspondence between the null geodesics and high frequency quasinormal modes holds. The obtained analytic formulas are further used to test the Hod's upper bound on the damping rate of the fundamental frequency.The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the pdf file of the accepted manuscript may differ slightly from what is displayed on the item page. The information in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript reflects the original submission by the author
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