217 research outputs found
LORIA, PITRÈ, VILLARI: IMPERTINENZE, RESISTENZE, CORRISPONDENZE
No full textThis work explores the contradictory relationship of intense scientific rivalry between Giuseppe Pitré and Lamberto Loria. To do this, the author analyzes the correspondence collections of the Historical Archives of the “Giuseppe Pitrè” Ethnographic Museum of Palermo and of the National Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions in Rome, crossing them with other sources already analyzed in previous studies
Looking Through a Colored Lens: A Black Librarian’s Narrative
No full textOriginally published in:
Konata, La Loria. (2017). Looking Through a Colored Lens: A Black Librarian’s Narrative, In A.M. Deitering, R. Stoddart, and R. Schroeder (Eds.), The Self as Subject: Autoethnographic Research into Identity, Culture, and Academic Librarianship (pp. 115-128). Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries.
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Metodi molecolari al servizio della conservazione nel genere Alectoris
No full textRicerche di genetica di popolazione sulle pernici del genere Alectoris (Phasianidae), svolte dal Laboratorio di Genetica
della Conservazione ed Evoluzione Molecolare dei Vertebrati del Dipartimento di Biologia dell’Università di Pisa
Bacteriological, serological, pathological and immunohistochemical studies of Mycoplasma bovis respiratory infection in veal calves and adult cattle at slaughter
No full textMycoplasma bovis is an important cause of calf pneumonia worldwide. In this study, we examined 140 cattle at slaughter comprising 70 veal calves and 70 beef cattle; 115 animals with pneumonic lesions and 25 without. Lung samples were submitted for bacteriological, histological, and M. bovis-immunohistochemical analyses. Serology for M. bovis was positive in 76% of beef cattle and 100% of veal calves. M. bovis was isolated only from veal calves in 16 out of 64 pneumonic cases. M. bovis was detected by immunohistochemistry in seven bacteriologically positive cases. M. bovis antigen was associated with bronchogenic necrosuppurative or fibrinonecrotizing lesions. Bacteriologically positive and immunohistochemical negative cases were associated with catarrhal bronchointerstitial pneumonia. Results suggest that M. bovis infection may develop into a severe necrosuppurative bronchopneumonia or fibrinonecrotizing pneumonia when associated with a high number of intralesional organisms or, conversely, into a mild catarrhal bronchointerstitial pneumonia when associated with a low number of organisms
Effects of an inactivated vaccine for bovine mycoplasmosis on calves naturally affected with Mycoplasma bovis
No full textThree autogenous vaccine trials were carried out on farms where Mycoplasma bovis had been identified as a major pathogen. The first trial was carried on a veal farm in the Lombardia region of northern Italy. Vaccine, prepared by saponising an M bovis strain taken from the farm some months before, was given as single inoculation to 24 calves on arrival while 19 were left unvaccinated. Six months later calves were sent to the abattoir where lungs were examined for gross pathological lesions. The mean weight of the vaccinated group was higher though not significantly so and mean lesion scores were similar; however the percentage of vaccinated calves with severe lung lesions and pleuritis was lower than in the non vaccinates. A second trial was carried out in northern England on a farm where monthly batches of male calves from a nearby dairy herd were reared under a feedlot system. One group of 27 calves were vaccinated with a saponised strain of M bovis isolated from the lungs of a pneumonic calf on the farm prior to the start of the trial. A second batch of 25 calves was left unvaccinated. The groups of calves were monitored for nine months prior to slaughter and records kept of antibiotic usage and mortality. The mortality rates in the vaccinated calves were about 15% compared to 28% in unvaccinated calves; however there was no difference in the number of times calves were treated for respiratory disease. A third batch of calves, treated with oxytetracycline on arrival because a number were already showing respiratory signs, had a lower mortality rate and fewer subsequent treatments. A third trial was carried out on a milk veal unit in the Veneto region of Italy. A group of 19 calves were vaccinated on arrival with a saponised isolate taken earlier from the farm; a similar number of calves of the same batch were left unvaccinated. After 6 months animals were routinely processed at the abattoir and lungs inspected. Results showed that vaccinated calves had higher mean body weights and although similar mean lung scores there was a smaller percentage of vaccinated calves with severe lung lesions and pleuritis
The economic foundations of society, by Achille Loria ; translated from the second French edition by Lindley M. Keasbey with a new preface by the author.
No full text"First edition, February, 1902; Reprinted, April 1904."Bibliographical footnotes.Mode of access: Internet
The sicilian rock partridge: latest data on genetic integrity from four different relict areas
No full textSicily (Italy) hosts a “relict”, endemic population of the birds Alectoris graeca whitakeri commonly known as Sicilian Rock Partridge. In the last decades, due to the risk of restocking with other European and Asiatic species for hunting purpose, a study was carried out to investigate the potential risk of hybridisation. The mtDNA control-region and nuclear microsatellites were genotyped. Due to the importance of the species, samples were mainly characterized by feather and stool samples, and rarely by carcasses found in the environment, from year 2011 to 2012. A panel of 7 microsatellite loci was validated. Three multiplexes that allowed the simultaneous amplification of 3 microsatellites, and 2 for other two microsatellites, for a total of 7 markers, were utilized. Results showed the occurrence of hybridization both towards the Middle Eastern species, A. chukar and the Northern European species, A. rufa. A total of 18.5% of the samples were collected from the wild environment showed a high degree of hybridization. This fact, even if linked to a small number of samples, highlights a potential risk of hybridization in 4 Sicilian provinces and underlines the importance of further investigations to understand the entity of the problem
EVASIONI ALLO SPECCHIO: EVOLUZIONE E ASPETTI DELLA NARRATIVA DI ARTURO LORIA DAI PRIMI INEDITI A "LA SCUOLA DI BALLO"
No full textThe stories written by Arturo Loria (1902-1957) in the first half of the Twenties are mostly inedited and little studied. Through their analysis, therefore, I aim at presenting the first comprehensive research on the development of his narrative from his debut until the publication of his third and last volume, “La scuola di ballo”.
The first of the three periods in which I have divided his oeuvre comprises seventeen stories written between the end of 1920 and the middle of 1922. Displaying homogeneous characters and situations and a pervasive rhetoric of excess and delirium that connects Loria's work to the melodrama and the Gothic tales, these stories reveal in their succession a conscious design of the writer. Since the very beginning his art seems to be retreated into itself thus mirroring its condition in society.
Between 1922 and 1926, Loria develops his narrative in a coherent way. His stories are characterized by a growing process of desublimation that eventually leads to the picaresque tales of “Il cieco e la Bellona”. At the same time, he also experiments new solutions and different narrative genres.
The second chapter, divided into three parts, is dedicated to the analysis of the genesis and structure of the collections: “Il cieco e la Bellona” (1928), “Fannias Ventosca” (1929) and “La scuola di ballo” (1932). The study of archive material (edited and inedited) gives information on the volumes that is largely unknown. The analysis of the structure, for example, demonstrates that Loria aimed at creating a cohesive work: “books of stories”, and not simple anthologies. This hypothesis seems to find evidence in the transformation that the texts undergo in the passage from review to volume. Building up thick plots of connections among the different stories and giving importance to their disposition, Loria uses the structure of his work as a rhetoric device to direct the attention of the reader towards certain aspects of his narration. He also uses it to multiply and deepen the symbolic scope of his stories. Moreover, the study on the genesis of the publications leads to the identification of two distinct phases of the Lorian narrative in “Il cieco e la Bellona” and in “La scuola di ballo”, with “Fannias Ventosca” being the collection of transition.
The object of the third chapter is the in-depth analysis of the evolution of the narrative and of the poetics of the author. In it I consider the way in which similar situations and characters, in particular the meeting between the protagonist and an old lady, are repeated over and over again. The comparison of analogous elements in texts belonging to different phases highlights that this repetitive duress is referable only in part to an obsessive matrix. Indeed, the reiteration of elements often reveals the high degree of awareness with which Loria reflected on his stories and on himself through them. It is a stratagem to enshrine in his volumes both his autobiography and the “biography” of his writing technique. This incessant reflection is related ultimately to the modern conscience of the crisis of the subject and of reality: a crisis that in the first half of the Twenties manifests itself mainly in the refusal of it, while in the second phase it assumes the form of an unsolved dialectic between enchantment and disenchantment.
It is possible to find Utopian nostalgia and cruel observation of the evil especially in the ambiguous relationships that the narrators build with the grotesque characters and with the eccentric events that involve them. At a certain point, however, the adventurous plots of “Il cieco e la Bellona” disappear and the author focuses his attention on the sensations and the impressions of characters paralyzed by a castrating awareness of their own self.
In the fourth and last chapter I ponder some aspects of the evolution of his narrative mode to show how over the three volumes the voice of the narrator becomes less and less audible and how the diegesis shifts decisively into mimesis. Additionally, I underline how the modernity of contents is not mirrored in the forms of expression. Unable to conceive his own art if not in ways which Loria himself perceived as non-topical, with his stories the author seems to have constantly given life to metaphors of crisis
Electrochemotherapy for "in vivo" experimental trial of new promising anti-melanoma therapy
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