26 research outputs found
Intellectual capital: a lever to achieve sustainability? Some evidences from Italian Healthcare Organizations
No full textThe present paper aims at investigating the role that Intellectual Capital plays in promoting healthcare organizations’ (HCOs) sustainability. Based on the conceptualization of “green intellectual capital” defined by Chen (2008) and on the literature of sustainability in the healthcare context, the author defined a model of “sustainable intellectual capital” for HCOs and conducted a survey on a sample of Italian healthcare organizations to assess the relevance IC had on the choice to adopt a sustainable strategy. A stochastic dominance test was thus conducted using the Non-Parametric approach, based on the comparison among HCOs adopting sustainable strategies, HCOs waiting for their approval or implementation, and HCOs not adopting sustainable strategies. The results showed ICT and advanced technologies as the only factor that may have helped the shift towards a stable commitment on sustainability. Despite technologies are actually depicted from Italian Healthcare Authorities to have a major role for the sustainability of the Italian healthcare system, issues connected to their correct implementation and use by patients and professionals should be deeply analyzed. Perhaps, further qualitative research can fill this important gap. The paper represents the first attempt to frame the relation on Intellectual capital and Sustainable Development in the Healthcare context, and hopes to incentivize the debate on IC in the under-investigated public sector
Adenocarcinoma in the intrathoracic transposed colon
No full textSi analizzano le possibilità di insorgenza di un tumore nel colon interposto nel torace dopo esofagectomia.Patients who had esophagectomy with colon interposition for benign disease have long survivals. Adenocarcinoma arising in the interposed colon is a possible event. We describe a 65 year old female in whom we performed 37 years ago esophagectomy with left colon interposition for lye-induced strictures. At endoscopy an obstructing adenocarcinoma in the interposed colon was detected. She underwent complete endoscopic removal of the tumor. The lady is in good general conditions, having a regular diet, and without evidence of recurrent disease, 5 years later
Musique pour Eros et Psyché au Palais du Te à Mantoue
No full textInternational audienceThis article analyses the role of music in the Psyche Room in the Palazzo Te in Mantua. In 1526 Federico II Gonzaga commissioned the realisation of this cycle of frescoes from the famous painter Giulio Romano. The idea to represent the mythological theme of Eros and Psyche derived from a humanistic tradition, also attested in contemporary poems, literature, plays and paintings. In these frescoes, Giulio Romano and his workshop depicted music exploiting different procedures of illustration. In fact music is characterised as having many functions: it plays a real role in the myth; it evokes the diachronic time of the narration, giving uniformity to the tale; it is represented as modernization of the ancient paradigm. Moreover, in contrast to the contemporary tradition, the author of the iconographical project conferred a Dionysian connotation to the music of the wedding banquet, which could be related to the Ferrarese paintings on Bacchanals’s theme
Innovation and Knowledge in Agri-food and Environmental Systems
No full textAs noted in the LVIII SIDEA Conference call for paper, in the challenging scenario of deep transformations, uncertainties and turbolences that the European and Italian agri-food and environmental systems are currently facing, the strong links between technological innovation, multi-sectoral sustainability, adaptability and resilience cannot be disregarded. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Economic crisis and the resilience of Italian regions: the case of Emilia-Romagna
No full textIn this paper the author refers to the concept of economic resilience of Italian regions after the crisis of 2007. Different approaches were analyzed to understand in a better way the distribution of the well-being and the vulnerability in Italy with a particular attention for the region of Emilia-Romagna and her reactions after the natural disaster caused by the earthquake of 2012
Philip Glass | Lecture
No full textThe local arts nonprofit FirstWorks brought Glass and violinist Tim Fain to Providence for a Wednesday evening concert Februrary 25th, 2015. The composer then stopped by RISD on Thursday afternoon, February 26th for an open discussion about his creative practice with Dean of Liberal Arts Dan Cavicchi, a cultural historian and author of several music-focused books. A large audience packed into the RISD Auditorium listened intently as Glass spoke about the process of producing emotionally charged soundtracks for The Truman Show, Notes on a Scandal, Hamburger Hill and many other moving films.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/visitingartistsandspeakers_video/1003/thumbnail.jp
sj-docx-1-tam-10.1177_17588359211059873 – Supplemental material for PANHER study: a 20-year treatment outcome analysis from a multicentre observational study of HER2-positive advanced breast cancer patients from the real-world setting
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-tam-10.1177_17588359211059873 for PANHER study: a 20-year treatment outcome analysis from a multicentre observational study of HER2-positive advanced breast cancer patients from the real-world setting by Laura Pizzuti, Eriseld Krasniqi, Isabella Sperduti, Maddalena Barba, Teresa Gamucci, Maria Mauri, Enzo Maria Veltri, Icro Meattini, Rossana Berardi, Francesca Sofia Di Lisa, Clara Natoli, Mirco Pistelli, Laura Iezzi, Emanuela Risi, Nicola D’Ostilio, Silverio Tomao, Corrado Ficorella, Katia Cannita, Ferdinando Riccardi, Alessandra Cassano, Emilio Bria, Maria Agnese Fabbri, Marco Mazzotta, Giacomo Barchiesi, Andrea Botticelli, Giuliana D’Auria, Anna Ceribelli, Andrea Michelotti, Antonio Russo, Beatrice Taurelli Salimbeni, Giuseppina Sarobba, Francesco Giotta, Ida Paris, Rosa Saltarelli, Daniele Marinelli, Domenico Corsi, Elisabetta Maria Capomolla, Valentina Sini, Luca Moscetti, Lucia Mentuccia, Giuseppe Tonini, Mimma Raffaele, Luca Marchetti, Mauro Minelli, Enzo Maria Ruggeri, Paola Scavina, Olivia Bacciu, Nello Salesi, Lorenzo Livi, Nicola Tinari, Antonino Grassadonia, Angelo Fedele Scinto, Rosalinda Rossi, Maria Rosaria Valerio, Elisabetta Landucci, Simonetta Stani, Beatrice Fratini, Marcello Maugeri-Saccà, Michele De Tursi, Angela Maione, Daniele Santini, Armando Orlandi, Vito Lorusso, Enrico Cortesi, Giuseppe Sanguineti, Paola Pinnarò, Federico Cappuzzo, Lorenza Landi, Claudio Botti, Federica Tomao, Sonia Cappelli, Giulia Bon, Fabio Pelle, Flavia Cavicchi, Elena Fiorio, Jennifer Foglietta, Simone Scagnoli, Paolo Marchetti, Gennaro Ciliberto and Patrizia Vici in Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology</p
Professor Bryan Harris Remembered: Volez to a Pierce Law Friend
No full textBryan Harris, MA (Oxon), passed away recently in his beloved native England, after a brief illness. His wife Mary, two sons and a daughter survive him. Bryan Harris had a long and distinguished career as an author, educator, barrister, diplomat, publisher and lobbyist. He was a consultant on European Union policies and laws to commercial and professional firms and associations. For almost three decades he was a Member of the Board of Trustees and Adjunct Professor of European Union Law at Pierce Law. Pierce Law President and Dean, John Hutson summed up what many members of the Pierce Law community expressed to me as I prepared this tribute saying, I think of Bryan mostly in single words ... jovial, cheerful, humble, dignified, diplomatic, caring ... Dean Huston shared that Professor Harris will be recognized during the 2004 Commencement
Functional Characterisation of Alpha-Galactosidase A Mutations as a Basis for a New Classification System in Fabry Disease
No full textThis is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.The study has been supported partially by an unrestricted scientific grant from Shire Human Genetic Therapies (Germany
“At Sea”: Reversibility in Teaching and Learning
No full textAbstract
An equal-armed balance at equilibrium—the bar is horizontal—tips into disequilibrium upon displacing a weight. Equilibrium is restored by reversing that move—putting the weight back where it was, or doing the same on the other side. Piaget adopted the idea of equilibration to describe how the intellect, in relating to the world, develops. Equilibrium arises as: our mind adjusts its structures in response to the outer world (accommodation), so our internalized views can take in this outer world (assimilation). That is the process Piaget calls equilibration. Upon undergoing disequilibrium, the intellect employs these equilibrating moves, changing its structures in the process. When the intellect resolves a disturbing problem no matter how it is encountered, the intellect tries to reverse the disturbing feature: how did the familiar situation get to this disturbing one; how might that change be reversed? These equilibrating processes are encouraged as means of teaching and learning in this paper’s math and science examples. The clinical interviewing methodology of Piaget and Inhelder, as adapted by Eleanor Duckworth in the research pedagogy of clinical exploration in the classroom, provides the neutral, safe conditions requisite for these learners and teachers in undergoing disequilibrium, struggling with uncertainty, and constructing new understandings. In beginning to teach through exploration, the author and an undergraduate experimented with free fall motion. Experiencing disequilibrium, the student reconstructed her understanding of time as concurrently continuous and divisible. Seeking to enact methods of Piaget and Duckworth while engaging her, the teacher also experienced disequilibrium
