759 research outputs found
The radical right in Europe, between slogans and voting behavior. IHS Political Science Series No. 123, July 2011
No full textThe paper analyzes the radical right‘s attitudes toward the EU focusing in particular on the level of congruence between the programmatic statements of the central office and the voting behavior of their MEPs. It shows that although radical right parties represent a source of opposition to the EU, within the EP they express their dissent making use of the rules of the game, voting with the opposition more than the other forces do, but voting almost as much with the majority. The party public office in the EP is inserted in the legislative process and even more collusive with the other parties of both sides of the political spectrum than the Eurosceptical rhetoric and statements of central office makes the public believe
"Il ‘fuoco giorgionesco’ da Angelo Conti a d’Annunzio"
No full textThe friendship between Gabriele d’Annunzio and Angelo Conti is particularly intense in the years 1894-1900, in the context of Venice. Both of them reflect about Venetian painters and especially Giorgione, whose picture they interpret as an expression of Venetian magnificent life. I analyze the meaning of the form fuoco giorgionesco, also used by Walter Pater in his well-known essay The School of Giorgione. I examine in particular Conti’s references to this text, in order to verify their accuracy. I put forward the hypothesis that, when Conti wrote the monograph Giorgione, his knowledge of the English author was incomplete and came largely from articles published in magazines, from conversations with friends, and from the translation into Italian of only short extracts. I argue that it was unlikely that Conti (and d’Annunzio) had read Pater’s whole work in English, which at the time was little known in Italy
Going in Style: Audio Backdoors Through Stylistic Transformations
No full textThis work explores stylistic triggers for backdoor attacks in the audio domain: dynamic transformations of malicious samples through guitar effects. We first formalize stylistic triggers – currently missing in the literature. Second, we explore how to develop stylistic triggers in the audio domain by proposing JingleBack. Our experiments confirm the effectiveness of the attack, achieving a 96% attack success rate. Our code is available in https://github.com/skoffas/going-in-style.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Cyber Securit
Giusto de' Conti da Valmontone (ca. 1403/4-1449)
No full textGiusto de' Conti fu l'autore del più imitato canzoniere del Quattrocento, noto col titolo "La bella mano". Questo studio sintetizza e anticipa i risultati finora raggiunti, sia sul piano filologico che su quello dell'analisi critica, nel percorso di avvicinamento alla pubblicazione dell'attesa edizione critica dell'opera.Giusto de' Conti was the author of the most imitated songbook of the fifteenth century, known by the title "La bella mano". This study summarizes and anticipates the results achieved so far, both in terms of philology and critical analysis, in the approach to the publication of the expected critical edition of the work
SHeLA: Scalable Heterogeneous Layered Attestation
No full textsponsorship: This work was supported in part by EU LOCARD Project under Grant H2020-SU-SEC-2018-832735, in part by the Central Europe Leuven Strategic Alliance under Grant CELSA/17/033, and in part by the Flemish Government under Grant G0E0719N. The work of M. M. Rabbani was supported by Fondazione Bruno Kessler Fund. The work of M. Conti was supported by the Marie Curie Fellowship through European Commission under Agreement PCIG11-GA-2012-321980. (Corresponding author: Md Masoom Rabbani.) (EU LOCARD Project under Grant H2020-SU-SEC-2018|832735, Central Europe Leuven Strategic Alliance|CELSA/17/033, Flemish Government|G0E0719N, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Fund, Marie Curie Fellowship through European Commission|PCIG11-GA-2012-321980)status: Publishe
An Open, Randomised, Multicentre, Phase 3 Trial Comparing the Efficacy of Two Tamoxifen Schedules in Preventing Gynaecomastia Induced by Bicalutamide Monotherapy in Prostate Cancer Patients
No full textBACKGROUND:
Bicalutamide monotherapy is a valuable option for prostate cancer (PCa) patients who wish to avoid the consequences of androgen deprivation; however, this treatment induces gynaecomastia and mastalgia in most patients. Tamoxifen is safe and effective in preventing breast events induced by bicalutamide monotherapy without affecting antitumor activity, but possible interference between bicalutamide and tamoxifen remains a matter of concern. To reduce the exposure to tamoxifen, we considered the putative advantages of weekly administration.
OBJECTIVE:
To compare the efficacy of two different schedules of tamoxifen in preventing breast events. Toxicity, prostate-specific antigen behaviour, and sexual-functioning scores were also evaluated.
DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS:
This was a noninferiority trial. From December 2003 to February 2006, 80 patients with localised/locally advanced or biochemically recurrent PCa who were also candidates for bicalutamide single therapy were randomised to receive two different schedules of tamoxifen: daily (n=41) and weekly (n=39). Median follow-up was 24.2 mo.
INTERVENTION:
Daily bicalutamide (150 mg) plus daily tamoxifen 20mg continuously (daily group) or the same but with tamoxifen at 20mg weekly after the first 8 wk of daily treatment (weekly group). Three patients in the weekly group and one in the daily group were discontinued for adverse events.
MEASUREMENTS:
For gynaecomastia, we used ultrasonography. For mastalgia and sexual functioning, we used questionnaires.
RESULTS AND LIMITATIONS:
Gynaecomastia developed in 31.7% of patients in the daily group and in 74.4% of patients in the weekly group (p<0.0001), and it was more severe in patients who switched to weekly tamoxifen (p=0.001). Mastalgia occurred in 12.2% and 46.1% of patients, respectively (p=0.001). There were no major differences among treatment schedules relative to sexual functioning scores and incidence and severity of adverse events. No differences between groups in PSA behaviour and disease progression have been detected so far.
CONCLUSIONS:
This study demonstrated that tamoxifen 20mg/wk is inferior to tamoxifen 20mg/d in preventing the incidence and severity of bicalutamide-induced breast events. The safety and efficacy of tamoxifen at the common daily dose of 20mg for the prophylaxis of bicalutamide-induced breast events were confirmed
Recensione a R. Conti, La convenzione europea dei diritti dell’uomo. Il ruolo del giudice
No full textL’autore commenta criticamente l’opera di Conti in materia di Convenzione europea sui diritti dell’uomo e sul ruolo del giudice.The author comments critically Conti's issue regarding the European Convention on Human Rights and the role of the judge
L'elezione del Parlamento europeo del 2014 e il processo di consolidamento dei partiti politici europei
No full textL'articolo descrive l'evoluzione del sistema partitico europeo attraverso un'analisi storica della strutturazione dei gruppi parlamentari europei, alla luce della nuova disciplina istituzionale introdotta con il Trattato di Lisbona ed in particolare il nuovo metodo per l'elezione del Presidente della Commissione europea.The Author describes the evolution of both European political parties and European parliamentary groups through a historical approach
Le elezioni politiche italiane del 2013 e lo spettro belga
No full textL'articolo analizza i risultati delle elezioni politiche italiane del Febbraio 2013 e descrive il passaggio verso un sistema partitico tripolare, comparando pertanto il nuovo assetto partitico con quello belga.This article focuses on the results of the Italian general elections held on February 2013. The Author highlights the transition toward a tripolar political party system
Diagnostic imaging to detect and evaluate response to therapy in bone metastases from prostate cancer: current modalities and new horizons
No full textDifferent therapeutic options for the management of prostate cancer (PC) have been developed, and some are successful in providing crucial improvement in both survival and quality of life, especially in patients with metastatic castration-resistant PC. In this scenario, diverse combinations of radiopharmaceuticals (for targeting bone, cancer cells and receptors) and nuclear medicine modalities (e.g. bone scan, SPECT, SPECT/CT, PET and PET/CT) are now available for imaging bone metastases. Some radiopharmaceuticals are approved, currently available and used in the routine clinical setting, while others are not registered and are still under evaluation, and should therefore be considered experimental. On the other hand, radiologists have other tools, in addition to CT, that can better visualize bone localization and medullary involvement, such as multimodal MRI. In this review, the authors provide an overview of current management of advanced PC and discuss the choice of diagnostic modality for the detection of metastatic skeletal lesions in different phases of the disease. In addition to detection of bone metastases, the evaluation of response to therapy is another critical issue, since it remains one of the most important open questions that a multidisciplinary team faces when optimizing the management of PC. The authors emphasize the role of nuclear modalities that can presently be used in clinical practice, and also look at future perspectives based on relevant clinical data with novel radiopharmaceuticals
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