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La pittura romana nella VIII Regio. Studio e ricomposizione degli intonaci dipinti
Full text linkIl quadro offerto dalle testimonianze pittoriche di età romana dell'VIII Regio augustea si presentava fortemente condizionato dalla limitata conservazione degli edifici di provenienza, nonché dalla frammentarietà dei reperti. Nonostante l’edizione di alcuni nuclei significativi di intonaci dipinti, mancava, difatti, uno studio di sintesi che permettesse di valutare in maniera organica la documentazione pittorica del territorio. Date queste premesse, nell’ambito del progetto TECT, avviato con l’obiettivo di realizzare una banca dati che raccogliesse le attestazioni pittoriche dell’area cisalpina, sono stati intrapresi il censimento e la documentazione sistematica dei contesti emiliano-romagnoli, lungo un arco cronologico compreso tra il I sec. a.C. e il III sec. d.C., con una particolare attenzione per il comparto meridionale della regione e la città di Ariminum. Fasi principali del lavoro, interessato da un lato al riesame di quanto già pubblicato, dall’altro allo studio di una parte delle pitture inedite, sono state l’analisi autoptica e la documentazione fotografica dei frammenti, la ricerca d’archivio finalizzata a ricostruirne il contesto di provenienza e le modalità di rinvenimento, e la ricostruzione informatizzate dei motivi/sistemi decorativi. Attraverso lo studio stilistico, tecnico e cronologico dei rivestimenti parietali, è stato quindi possibile delineare lo sviluppo della produzione pittorica della regione in relazione al comparto centro-italico e al resto della Cisalpina.The overall picture of the surviving evidence of Roman wall painting from the Regio VIII has been influenced heavily both by its fragmentary state and the poor condition of preservation of the buildings which yielded the evidence. Despite some remarkable groups of materials had been already published, a comprehensive study on the painting production of the region was still lacking. With this purpose, within the TECT project, aiming to create a database of the evidences from the Cisalpine area, a survey of this less known heritage was undertaken between the I century BC and the III century AD, focusing on the South of the region and the city of Ariminum. Both published and unknown sites and materials have been taken into consideration in a research entailing first-hand examination of paintings, new photographic and photogrammetric documentation, the study of archive records, integrative graphic reconstruction of the decorative systems. The study of stylistic, chronological and technical features of the painting evidence has enabled to define the evolution of the local painting production, in comparison with the evidence known from the Central and Northen Italy
A primer on human birth theory
No full textIn the 1970s Massimo Fagioli (1931–2017) proposed a new theory of mind that he called the Human Birth Theory, based on a healthy conception of the baby and of the nonconscious mind. Fagioli made significant contributions to the understanding of mental dynamics at birth, the pathophysiology of mental illness, and the nonconscious identity of psychiatrists and psychotherapists. His original contributions to psychodynamic psychotherapy included variations on the setting and understanding of transference and dream interpretations that deviated from classical psychoanalytic techniques. This article introduces the basic tenets of Human Birth Theory, its neuropsychiatric correlates, and clinical applications
Ariminum e la Regio VIII. Gli affreschi riminesi nel contesto della produzione pittorica cisalpina.
No full textRicerche sulle pitture della villa romana di Russi (RA). Da una nuova documentazione alla revisione dei dati d’archivio . . . . . . . . . .
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
The Newborn's Reaction to Light as the Determinant of the Brain's Activation at Human Birth
Full text linkDevelopmental neuroscience research has not yet fully unveiled the dynamics involved in human birth. The trigger of the first breath, often assumed to be the marker of human life, has not been characterized nor has the process entailing brain modification and activation at birth been clarified yet. To date, few researchers only have investigated the impact of the extrauterine environment, with its strong stimuli, on birth. This ‘hypothesis and theory' article assumes the role of a specific stimulus activating the central nervous system (CNS) at human birth. This stimulus must have specific features though, such as novelty, efficacy, ubiquity, and immediacy. We propose light as a robust candidate for the CNS activation via the retina. Available data on fetal and neonatal neurodevelopment, in particular with reference to retinal light-responsive pathways, will be examined together with the GABA functional switch, and the subplate disappearance, which, at an experimental level, differentiate the neonatal brain from the fetal brain. In this study, we assume how a very rapid activation of retinal photoreceptors at birth initiates a sudden brain shift from the prenatal pattern of functions to the neonatal setup. Our assumption implies the presence of a photoreceptor capable of capturing and transducing light/photon stimulus, transforming it into an effective signal for the activation of new brain functions at birth. Opsin photoreception or, more specifically, melanopsin-dependent photoreception, which is provided by intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs), is considered as a valid candidate. Although what is assumed herein cannot be verified in humans based on knowledge available so far, proposing an important and novel function can trigger a broad range of diversified research in different domains, from neurophysiology to neurology and psychiatry
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