57 research outputs found
Fedeli alla conversazione. Rosa Calcaterra e la contingenza di Rorty
No full textRileggere Rorty oggi, in Italia, è un'operazione culturale dal significato ben preciso. Rosa Calcaterra, nel suo Contingency and Normativity (2019), ricolloca Rorty nell'alveo del pragmatismo a pieno titolo, mettendo al centro la categoria della conversazione come orizzonte di pratica filosofica
Sovrani sulla malattia. A proposito di un’etica del patire
No full textThe article reviews Gernot Böhme’s theory of an ethics of suffering. While being among the very few attempts to suggest a positive and immanent role for suffering, the author signals its paternalist view. According to Böhme’s conception, the patient «owes to herself» to be cured in the first place and to comply with medical efforts. This partly baffles the most interesting notion of Böhme’s proposal, that of Souveränität over suffering, meaning the capacity of acceptance of suffering, not out of indifference but out of freedom from despair. The acquisition of such a capacity is an art that can be learnt and taught
Multivariate Gini-type discrepancies
No full textMeasuring distances in a multidimensional setting is a challenging problem, which appears in many fields of science and engineering. In this paper, to measure the distance between two multivariate distributions, we introduce a new measure of discrepancy which is scale invariant and which, in the case of two independent copies of the same distribution, and after normalization, coincides with the scaling invariant multidimensional version of the Gini index recently proposed in [P. Giudici, E. Raffinetti and G. Toscani, Measuring multidimensional inequality: A new proposal based on the Fourier transform, preprint (2024), arXiv:2401.14012 ]. A byproduct of the analysis is an easy-to-handle discrepancy metric, obtained by application of the theory to a pair of Gaussian multidimensional densities. The obtained metric does improve the standard metrics, based on the mean squared error, as it is scale invariant. The importance of this theoretical finding is illustrated by means of a real problem that concerns measuring the importance of Environmental, Social and Governance factors for the growth of small and medium enterprises
Value of autopsy in renal malformations: Comparison of clinical diagnosis and post-mortem examination.
No full textAbstract
Background and aim:
This 6-year retrospective study reports 14 cases of renal malformations, observed in foetuses and newborns. The objective was to evaluate the usefulness of post-mortem examination in cases of renal malformations by a comparison of the post-mortem findings with clinical diagnosis.
Methods:
This study included laboratory tests, ultrasonography, karyotype and detailed pathological evaluation of
the foetuses and newborns by external, macroscopic, microscopic and placental examination.
Results:
The resultsof post-mortem examination were of paramount importance: they disclosed renal malformations escaped on prenatal studies (42,86%), provided extensive additional informations (50%), or confirmed the diagnosis hypothesis (7,14%).
Conclusions:
Thus, this study confirmed the need of pathological examination forfoetuses and newborns, after medical abortion and neonatal death. The pathologist’s contribution to the multidisciplinary management of prenatal or postnatal abnormalities is important in particular for further genetic counseling
Relazioni della Campagna Glaciologica 2014 Report of the Glaciological Survey 2014
No full textCampagna glaciologica del 201
Scenari attuali, dibattiti in corso. Le discipline filosofiche alle soglie del XXI secolo
No full textLe tendenze attuali della ricerca filosofica: logica e intelligenza artificiale, epistemologia, metafisica, ontologia, estetica, modernità e postmodernita
Nonlinear Dirichlet forms, energy spaces, and calculus rules
No full textWe review recent contributions on nonlinear Dirichlet forms. Then, we
specialise to the case of 2-homogeneous and local forms. Inspired by the theory
of Finsler manifolds and metric measure spaces, we establish new properties of
such nonlinear Dirichlet forms, which are reminiscent of differential calculus
formulae
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