245 research outputs found
Il primo fascismo e l’ebraismo italiano. dalla Marcia su Roma al r.d. n. 1731 del 1930
No full textIl saggio ricostruisce le vicende dell'ebraismo italiano nel periodo compreso dalla Marcia su Roma all'emanazione del R.D. 1731 del 1930, mettendo in luce il progressivo cambio di rotta del fascismo nei confronti dell'ebraismo propedeutico al successivo periodo caratterizzato dalla emanazione delle leggi razziali
Comparación de sistemas constructivos
No full textEn este trabajo final se abordará la problemática de una persona al momento de construir una vivienda, generando incertidumbre en el sistema de construcción a seleccionar, con la finalidad de facilitar la elección del mismo se abordarán y explicaran diferentes temáticas como lo son: La realización de la construcción de cada sistema paso a paso. Cálculo estructural del sistema de construcción, para que se den a conocer los parámetros y procedimientos a tener en cuenta a la hora del mismo. Análisis medio ambiental. Cómputo y presupuesto. Análisis social. Considerando todas estas temáticas se cierra al final con una conclusión para este caso en particular, y con los factores que se deberían tener en cuenta si se encuentra alguien en la misma disyuntiva o situación sé que plantea en este trabajo final.Fil: Viani, Carlos. Universidad Católica de Córdoba. Facultad de Ingeniería; Argentin
Lorenzo Viani : il visuale all’opera : Studi critici, semiotici e iconografici
No full textBroadly speaking, this work is framed within Cultural Studies. This current of thought, born in Great Britain in the 1960s from the works of R. Hoggart, S. Hall, and R. Williams, invites us to question the notion of culture in all its dimensions, evidencing political, ideological, and power issues. According to Cultural Studies, the concept of text designates not only that of written language, but all cultural production, including image.In keeping with this perspective, the object of study, that is Lorenzo Viani’s work, is undertaken through a transdisciplinary approach. The texts, or in this case images, are worked on aided by a crossover of contributions by different disciplines, such as Sociology, Philosophy, Aesthetics, Art History, Literature Theories, Mediology, and Semiotics.Because of this, the main corpus, as in all of Viani’s published works, once achieved the first stage of literal comprehension of the texts which required a philological approach, was analysed in an open manner, considering of society, history, and relationships with cultural phenomenons from which they originate. In first place, the thesis deals with an in-depth study of Viani’s biography. We have reconstructed in detail his intellectual education and the network of relationships which Viani, who was a very active character in the political and cultural scene of Versilia in his time, built and nurtured throughout his life.Taking into account the fact that Viani, one of many talents, began his artistic endeavors as painter and illustrator, and that he devoted himself to writing (journalistic and literary) in a subsequent phase, we have given weight to the dimension of image in our analyses of his texts. We use the concept of “spoken image”, going by W.J.T. Mitchell’s definition. That is to understand where these images come from, why Viani chose them, and if they have an aesthetic function or one of another nature. The objective is a comparative analysis between word/spoken image. We aim to examine if the general idea that Viani has of the meaning of art, that is of art as a tool that allows us to seize reality in terms of signs, already very defined in Figurative Arts, is present in Literature in the same manner or not.To this end the human body, in terms of a spoken image, was chosen as the main research category to conduct the analysis. The investigation thus covers a gap by focusing on an aspect of Viani’s work that has not yet been examined.Our work opens new investigative perspective that allow us to take into consideration Viani’s production through the contemporary Visual Studies approach by analysing the phenomenons of semiosis, that is to say hidden meanings behind the spoken image. Moreover, it allows us to deepen our knowledge of crossover modes of various semiotic spaces (Literature and Painting) which, despite the variety of signs, allows us to obtain powerful descriptive results.This research has allowed us to obtain important results. We have verified the presence of a constant trait in all of Viani’s work, namely the presence of a strong visual component, expressed, among other vectors, through representations of the human body. The in-depth analysis of his written, yet just as figurative, works, as well as the in-depth analysis of his writings and notations about Art, has allowed us to find this red string that gives Viani’s work a coherent and, most importantly, as of yet unheard of meaning.En termes généraux, le travail s’insère dans le cadrage théorique des Cultural Studies («études culturelles»). Ce courant de recherche, né en Grande-Bretagne dans les années 1960 à partir des travaux de R. Hoggart, S. Hall et, ensuite, de R. Williams invite à questionner la notion de culture dans toutes ses dimensions, mettant en évidence les enjeux politiques, idéologiques et de pouvoir. Selon les Cultural Studies le concept de texte ne désigne pas seulement le langage écrit, mais toute production culturelle, image comprise.Conformément à cette perspective, l’objet d’étude, c'est-à-dire l’œuvre de Lorenzo Viani est appréhendée à travers une approche transdisciplinaire. Il s’agit donc de travailler sur les textes ou, le cas échéant sur les images, à l’aide du croisement des apports de disciplines différentes telles que la sociologie, la philosophie, l’esthétique, l’histoire de l’art, les théories de la littérature, la médiologie et la sémiotique. Pour cette raison, pour le corpus primaire, c’est-à-dire toutes les œuvres publiées de Viani, une fois achevée la première étape de compréhension littérale des textes, qui a nécessité une approche philologique, a été analysé de façon ouverte, attentive à la société, à l’histoire et aux relations avec les phénomènes culturels dont ils tirent leur origine. En premier lieu, la thèse dresse une étude approfondie de la biographie de Viani. Nous avons reconstruit en détail sa formation intellectuelle et le réseau des relations que Viani, personnage très actif sur la scène politique et culturelle de son époque dans la Versilia, a construites et cultivées au cours de son existence.Compte tenu du fait que Viani, talent pluriel, a commencé son activité artistique comme peintre et dessinateur et qu’il se consacré à l’écriture (journalistique ainsi que littéraire) dans une phase successive, dans nos analyses des textes nous avons donné poids à la dimension de l’image. Nous utilisons le concept d’ «image verbale», selon la définition qu’en donne W.J.T. Mitchell. Il s’agit de comprendre d’où viennent ces images, pourquoi Viani les choisit, si elles ont une fonction esthétique ou d’une autre nature. Le but est une analyse comparée mot/image verbale. On vise à examiner si l’idée générale que Viani a du sens de l’art, à savoir art comme instrument qui permet de saisir la réalité en termes de signes, déjà assez définie dans les arts figuratifs, se présente dans la littérature de la même façon ou pas. À ce propos le corps humain, en termes d’image verbale, est choisi comme catégorie d’investigation principale pour conduire l’analyse. La recherche comble ainsi une lacune en s’intéressant à un aspect non encore examiné de l’œuvre de Viani. Notre travail ouvre de nouvelles perspectives d’investigation qui permettent de prendre en considération la production de Viani selon l’approche contemporaine des Visual Studies en analysant les phénomènes de sémiosis, c’est-à-dire de signification qui se cachent derrière l’image verbale. Encore, elle permet d’approfondir la connaissance de modalités d’utilisation croisée de plusieurs espaces sémiotiques (littérature et peinture) qui, malgré la diversité du signe, permettent d’obtenir des résultats descriptifs puissants.La recherche a permis d’obtenir des résultats importants. Nous avons vérifié la présence d’un trait constant dans toute l’œuvre de Viani, c'est-à-dire la présence d’une forte composante visuelle, s’exprimant, parmi les autres vecteurs, à travers les représentations du corps humaine. L’analyse approfondie de sa production écrite premièrement, mais également figurative, ainsi que l’étude approfondie de ses écrits et notes d’art ont permis de trouver ce fil rouge qui donne un sens à l’œuvre de Viani cohérente et, chose la plus importante, inédite
Three-dimensional electromagnetic imaging of dielectric targets by means of the multiscaling inexact-Newton method
No full textA novel approach for three-dimensional electromagnetic imaging is presented. This technique is a combination of an iterative multiscaling approach with an inexact-Newton method. The multiscaling procedure allows one to iteratively focus the region of interest on the detected target, whereas the inexact-Newton method provides an efficient regularized solution of the nonlinear electromagnetic inverse scattering problem for each scaling step. The proposed method is validated against numerical data with different configuration settings. A preliminary experimental validation is also reported
Occupational Therapy Within an Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Program: Outcomes for People Living With Chronic Stroke
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 4/1/2017
This poster presents findings from a study that supports inclusion of occupational therapy in an intensive, comprehensive aphasia program to increase performance of and satisfaction with valued occupations focusing on instrumental activities of daily living, leisure, work, and social participation for people with chronic stroke and aphasia.
Primary Author and Speaker: Anne Escher
Additional Authors and Speakers: Aditi Amlani, Angela Viani, Sue Berger</jats:p
Relationship between postoperative complications and survival after gastrectomy for cancer
No full textMATERIALS AND METHODS: We've analyzed patients treated for gastric cancer at our Operative Unit of ent, extent of lymphadenectomy and survival. General Surgery and Organ Transplantation of the University Hospital of Parma from January 2006 till December 2010, relating the occurrence of eventual complications to sex, age at diagnosis, definitive histological examination, type and duration of surgical treatment.
BACKGROUND: Surgical resection remains the main curative treatment for gastric cancer but is still affected by high postoperative morbidity and mortality rates, especially in Western countries.
RESULTS: The surgically treated cases were 152 (30.4 gastrectomies per year on average). 62 patients developed at least one adverse event during the postoperative period, reaching 108 total events. Among these, 71 were minor complications (grade I-II in Clavien-Dindo's classification), while 26 were major ones (grade III). Postoperative mortality affected 8 patients (5.3%). Data analysis did not stress any statistically significant correlation between the valued variables and the global incidence of complications. For severe ones, some risk factors emerged such as the type of gastrectomy, the execution of a multi-visceral resection and the operative time. Five-year overall survival has been 36.7%, lower in patients with severe complications (29%) when compared to patients without severe complications (38%). Radicality of operation, the lymph node involvement and the occurrence of severe complication emerged as significant prognostic factors for five-year overall survival.
CONCLUSIONS: Surgery is still the mainstay of treatment for gastric cancer and the only one able to grant a curative therapy. When performed in high-volume centres, with more than 20 gastrectomies per year, it represents a safe treatment, affected by low mortality. Attention must be paid to careful preoperative selection, to treatment of pre-existent comorbidities, to plan a therapeutical strategy to minimize surgical stress, to postoperative monitoring and to managing complications', as they're able to impact not only low-term outcomes but also overall and disease-free survival. The poor prognosis for these patients is mainly related to advanced stage at presentation, thus confirming the need to increase early diagnosis in order to detect in larger percentages the tumor in its early stage
Correlation between cytological and histological findings in patients who underwent thyroidetomy.Predictive value and confounders
No full textBACKGROUND: Solitary thyroid nodules are the most common endocrine occurance in general population. With the introduction of Bethesda system for reporting thyroid cytopathology (BSRTC) to fine-needle aspiration (FNA) specimens we found a reliable standard method to evaluate malignancy risk in thyroid neoplasms. This study evaluates the correlation between BSRTC and real results in our center investigating the role of several factors as confounding factors for cytological diagnosis. The study has been designed as a retrospective study conducted on 637 patients that underwent thyroid surgery in a single center (Unit of General Surgery, Parma University Hospital, Italy). METHODS: We reviewed 637 files of patients who underwent thyroid surgery with a definitive histological finding from surgical specimen. The collected data include: cytological findings from FNA when performed, histological findings after surgery, sex, age, thyroid hyperfunction and the possible presence of thyroiditis. Cytological findings have been evaluated from our institution's pathologists after FNA performed in collaboration with clinical endocrinologists. Thyroid Hyperfunction has been evaluated through a blood test panel for thyroid functionality including reflex TSH, FT3, FT4 and thyreoglobulin. Blood tests' results and patients have been evaluated by clinical endocrinologists before being addressed to surgery. Thyroiditis have been confirmed as an ultrasound scanning (US) finding or as a corollary from histologic results. All patients have been evaluated by the surgeon and underwent different intervention as total, thyroidectomy, near total thyroidectomy or emithyroidectomy depending on cythology, US findings and symptoms in case of benignancy. Histological findings have been evaluated only by our center pathologists. RESULTS: In our experience the percentage of malignancy in Thyr 2 Thyr 3 and Thyr 4 Bethesda's classes seeems to be higher then those predicted by BSRTC. We also found a high rate of false positive considered as patients included in categories of suspected malignancy (Thyr 3-4-5-6) and subsequently resulted with benign pathology. This happens specially in those patients affected by thyroiditis. CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that we need more studies to evaluate real BSRTC predictive value in single centers. Meanwhile we found out that thyroiditis may be a confounding factor in cytological examination wich would lead to an overstating of thyroid nodules
Heterogeneous dynamics in aging phosphate-based geopolymer
No full text: The time-evolution of dynamics as well as microstructure and mechanical response of phosphate-based geopolymers was probed using x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy and rheological tests. The analyzed relaxation processes in the freshly prepared geopolymer mixes evidenced a q-independent mode of the autocorrelation function, ascribed to density fluctuations of the already established molecular network, undergoing reconfiguration without significant mass transport. Upon curing, the detected motions are localized and depict a system evolving toward structural arrest dominated by slower hyperdiffusive dynamics, characterized by a compressed exponential regime, pointing to a structural relaxation process subjected to internal stresses, in a context of marked dynamical and structural heterogeneity. The system ages through a "densification" process producing declining small angle scattered intensity, as two finely intermixed gel-like reaction products, namely, one hydrated aluminophosphate and one hydrated silica, form a percolated network possessing surface fractal scaling of progressively shorter average correlation length. In this scenario, the nominal Al/P molar ratio of the mix, being an index of network-forming ability, is positively correlated with the dynamic viscosity and the overall kinetics, whereas the contrary occurs for the fraction of water
The prognostic role of metastatic lymph node ratio in colon cancer: a retrospective cohort study on 241 patients in a single center
No full textThe detection of nodal status is based on examination of lymph nodes (LN) after the tumor surgical resection and the current guidelines recommend to examine atleast 12 regional LN. An inadequate number of examined LN may lead to a lower N stage or to a false-negative nodal disease. To overcome these issues, many authors proposed to consider the metastatic lymph node ratio (mLNR). MLNR is the ratio of the number of metastatic LN to the number of examined LN
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