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[New techniques in childbirth assistance. Experience and results of theoretical and practical training
No full textIn 1995, the Course on Integrated Obstetrical and Gynaecological Techniques was added to the training program of the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Clinic and to the Midwife Diploma School, at the Faculty of Medicine of the "A. Avogadro" University of East Piemonte. This addition was due to the demand to create a service to train young medical doctors and student midwives on the basis of the requirements of the World Health Organisation, concerning a more natural way of giving birth. In this paper the results obtained after a four years' practical application of these clinical techniques are presented. The factors considered were the type of assistance offered in correlation with different outcomes for both mother and child. The study demonstrates a general improvement in the quality of assistance and a decrease of costs for the National Health Service. The data have been compaired with those of the neighbour Hospital Division, where deliveries are assisted with traditional techniques
"Come aquila vola". Vilfredo Pareto, Machiavelli e i machiavellismi
No full textIl contributo prende in analisi le diverse fasi del confronto con le opere machiavelliane condotto da Pareto nell’arco di circa venti anni. Si mostra così come Machiavelli, presentato da principio soprattutto come irriverente autore della Mandragola, divenga con il Trattato di sociologia generale lo scienziato sociale che «come aquila vola sulla moltitudine degli storici etici» e il predecessore autorevole per tesi e snodi teorici fondamentali nel pensiero paretiano. La rilettura degli scritti posteriori al Trattato mostra poi due ulteriori esiti di questa appropriazione del Fiorentino: da un lato, un realismo politico che, contrastando gli ideali di pace e democrazia proclamati dalle potenze vittoriose nella guerra mondiale, sa mostrarsi comunque attento a una futura limitazione del conflitto tra nazioni, dall’altro, con l’ascesa del fascismo, la declinazione del principio oligarchico a sostegno di un Mussolini identificato come possibile incarnazione del Principe nuovo.
Successivamente, l’attenzione si sposta sulle voci più significative del dibattito novecentesco intorno alla presenza di Machiavelli nel pensiero paretiano. Sono in tal modo individuate due opposte posizioni: la sostanziale liquidazione di Pareto come teorico di un totalitarismo spietato che si vorrebbe già espresso in nuce nel Principe e nei Discorsi e la lettura, oggi largamente prevalente, di chi invece ascrive il sociologo a un machiavellismo fatto matrice del liberalismo occidentale. Se il primo punto di vista trovava spiegazione principalmente nell’opposizione politica e ideologica ai fascismi, il secondo non rende conto dell’insistenza con cui l’autore del Trattato ha ribadito il proprio elitismo e, per di più, sottintende l’antistorico ritratto di un Machiavelli che anticiperebbe le concezioni di libertà e di democrazia così come sono oggi comunemente intese.The first section of the contribution analyzes the different phases of the twenty years long confrontation of Pareto with Machiavelli's works. It shows that Machiavelli, at the beginning presented above all as the irreverent author of the "Mandragola", in the "Treatise on General Sociology" appears as the social scientist who «like eagle flies over the multitude of ethical historians» and the authoritative predecessor for theses and theoretical articulations that are fundamental in Paretian thought. Then, through the rereading of the writings following the "Treatise", the contribution highlights two further outcomes of the Paretian appropriation of Machiavelli: on the one hand, a vision inspired by political realism, which stands against the ideals of peace and democracy proclaimed by the victorious powers in the World War, though attentive to future limitations of the conflicts between nations, on the other hand, after the rise of Italian fascism, on the other hand, with the rise of fascism, the declination of the oligarchic principle in support of Mussolini (identified as a possible incarnation of the new Prince).
The final section is focused on the most significant opinions in the twentieth-century debate on the presence of Machiavelli in Paretian thought. Two opposing positions are thus identified: 1. the substantial liquidation of Pareto as a theorist of a ruthless totalitarianism that would already be expressed in nuce in the "Prince" and in the "Discourses"; 2. the now largely prevalent reading which ascribes Pareto to a Machiavellism which is conceived as a fundamental aspect of the Western liberalism. While the first point of view ban be explained mainly by the political and ideological opposition to fascism, the second one does not take into account the insistence with which the author of the "Treatise" reaffirmed his elitism and, moreover, implies the anti-historical portrait of Machiavelli as a thinker who would anticipate the concepts of freedom and democracy as they are commonly understood in our times
Absolute points of correlations of PG(4 , qn)
No full textThe sets of the absolute points of (possibly degenerate) polarities of a projective space
are well known. The sets of the absolute points of (possibly degenerate) correlations,
different from polarities, of PG(2, qn), have been completely determined by B.C.
Kestenband in 11 papers from 1990 to 2014, for non-degenerate correlations and
by D’haeseleer and Durante (Electron J Combin 27(2):2–32, 2020) for degenerate
correlations. The sets of the absolute points of degenerate correlations, different from
degenerate polarities, of a projective space PG(3, qn) have been classified in (Donati
and Durante in J Algebr Comb 54:109–133, 2021). In this paper, we consider the
four dimensional case and completely determine the sets of the absolute points of
degenerate correlations, different from degenerate polarities, of a projective space
PG(4, qn). As an application, we show that some of these sets are related to the
Kantor’s ovoid and to the Tits’ ovoid of Q(4, qn) and hence also to the Tits’ ovoid of
PG(3, qn)
Absolute points of correlations of PG(5,qn)
No full textThe sets of the absolute points of (possibly degenerate) polarities of a projective space
are well known. The sets of the absolute points of (possibly degenerate) correlations,
different from polarities, of PG(2, qn), have been completely determined by B.C.
Kestenband in 11 papers from 1990 to 2014, for non-degenerate correlations and
by D’haeseleer and Durante (Electron J Combin 27(2):2–32, 2020) for degenerate
correlations. The sets of the absolute points of degenerate correlations, different from
degenerate polarities, of a projective space PG(3, q^n) have been classified in (Donati
and Durante in J Algebr Comb 54:109–133, 2021). The sets of the absolute points of
degenerate correlations, different from degenerate polarities, of a projective space PG(4, q^n) have been classified by Durante and Grimaldi in J. Algebraic Combin. 56 (2022), no. 3, 873–887. In this paper the authors classify the set of absolute points of degenerate correlations, different from degenerate polarities of PG(5,q^n)
Multiple repeated units in Drosophila melanogaster ribosomal DNA spacer stimulate rRNA precursor transcription
No full textTransient expression of Drosophila melanogaster rDNA promoter into cultured Drosophila cell
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Milano, Modena, Londra: infrastrutture di mobilità per i figli di migranti
No full textBreve saggio di analisi basate su ricerche etnografiche sul rapporto tra reti sociali, seconde generazioni e loro aspirazioni
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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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