507 research outputs found
Disciplinare e punire
No full textGeraldina Boni, oltre ad aver curato l’aggiornamento del volume, è Autrice esclusiva del Capitolo Ottavo “Disciplinare e punire”. In esso si ripercorre l’evoluzione del diritto penale canonico dal Codex Iuris Canonici del 1983 alla recente promulgazione di un nuovo Libro VI De sanctionibus poenalibus in Ecclesia. Si descrive quindi la normativa ora vigente, soffermandosi sulle sue specificità e sulle principali innovazioni introdotte, nonché su alcuni problemi ancora da risolvere. Peculiare attenzione è riservata allo sviluppo della disciplina dei delicta reservata al Dicastero per la dottrina della fede e in generale alla repressione degli abusi sessuali, di coscienza e di potere nella Chiesa.Disciplining and Punishing.
In addition to editing the updated version of the volume, Geraldina Boni is also the only Author of Chapter VIII “Disciplining and Punishing”. The Chapter retraces the evolution of Penal Canon Law from the 1983 Codex Iuris Canonici to the recent promulgation of the new Book VI De sanctionibus poenalibus in Ecclesia. The now in force legislation is therefore described, by focusing on its specificities and main innovations, as well as on some problems that are still to be solved. Particular attention is reserved to the development of the regulation of the delicta reservata to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and, in general, to the repression of sexual, conscience and power abuses in the Church
Il convivio comparato. Scritti per Stefano Tani
No full textVolume pubblicato in onore di Stefano Tani, già professore ordinario di Letterature Comparate all’Università di Verona. A cura di Donatella Boni e Silvia Monti. La prima parte contiene saggi critici, la seconda poesie, racconti, e ricordi. Contributi di: Paolo Spedicato, Paola Bellomi, Donatella Boni, Alfredo Buonopane, Andrea Chiurato, Claudio Gallo, Felice Gambin, Donatella Izzo, Alberto Maleci, Giovanna Mereu, Silvia Monti, Sergio Noto, Nicola Pasqualicchio, Carolina Pernigo, Francesca Petrocchi, Giulia Poggi, Claudia Salvatori, Alessandro Scarsella, Gherardo Ugolini, Cristina Anzilotti, Carlo Alberto Augeri, Stefano Benifei, Carlo Bordoni, Domenico De Martino, Nanni Delbecchi, Gary J. Freitas, Ariel Samuel Lewin, Riccardo Mazzeo, Franco Mormando, Sandra Petrignani, Matteo Rima, Michela Sanfelici, Walter P. Verschueren
Stele con iscrizione latina arcaica scoperta nel Foro romano.
No full textAuthor, Giacomo Boni and others.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet
Introduzione
No full textSi tratta dell’Introduzione ad una collettanea di saggi di notevole valore sull’intero ventaglio delle più attuali problematiche giuridiche relative ai beni culturali di interesse religioso. Alla voce di studiosi autorevoli e consolidati si affianca, nella seconda parte dell’opera, la voce di numerosi e brillanti giovani ricercatori, che testimoniano come il tema susciti un vivace interesse in chi è chiamato ad affrontare le sfide di domani.Introduction
The present text is an Introduction to a collection of valuable essays that concerns a comprehensive range of the most recent matters regarding religious cultural heritage. Along with the voice of authoritative and experienced scholars, the second part presents the contribution of many brilliant researchers, which proves how lively is the interest that is aroused by such theme in those who are called to face the challenges of tomorrow
Expression of urinary miRNAs targeting NLRs inflammasomes in bladder cancer
No full textAim of the study: Inflammasome, a large complex of NOD-like receptors (NLRs), drives tumor growth and progression. The present study aimed at exploring the alteration in expression of urinary inflammasome-related microRNAs (miRNAs) in bladder cancer (BC). Our previous report demonstrated the up-regulation of NLRs genes (NLRP3, NLRP4, NLRP9 and NAIP) in urine sediments of patients harboring BC. The expression levels of miRNAs targeting these NLRs (miR-146a-5p, miR-106a-5p, miR-17-5p, miR-223-3p, miR-141-3p, miR-19a-3p, miR-145-5p, miR-185-5p) were assayed in the same patient cohort. Materials and methods: Forty-six subjects affected by BC, 28 healthy controls (CTR0) and 31 subjects with histologically confirmed bladder inflammation (CTR1) were recruited. Total RNA was extracted from urine sediment and resulting cDNA was used for amplification by real-time polymerase chain reaction. MiRNA expression levels were evaluated and compared among selected groups. Patients were further stratified according to tumor stage, grade and risk of recurrence and progression. Moreover, non-muscle invasive low-grade and high-grade (HG) BC patients were compared. Results: MiR 141-3p and miR-19a-3p expression decreased in CTR1 with respect to both BC and CTR0. In contrast, miR-146a-5p was up-regulated in BC compared with CTR0. MiR106a-5p, miR17-5p and miR19a-5p were significantly up-regulated in HG, high-risk (HR) and non-muscle invasive HG BC patients, while miR-185-5p was significantly higher in muscle invasive tumors, according to T stage stratification. Conclusion: The increased expression of miRNAs targeting NLRs in HG and HR BC patients is in accordance with the decrease in NLR mRNAs observed in our previous report. These data corroborate the direct role of NLR genes and respective regulatory miRNAs in BC making these inflammasome-related molecules a reliable non-invasive tool for BC diagnosis
Can ACTH therapy improve the long‐term outcome of drug‐resistant frontal lobe epilepsy?
No full textFrontal lobe epilepsy is a common focal epilepsy in children and is often difficult to treat. Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) or steroids have been used for patients with several forms of medically intractable epilepsy. We evaluated the short, medium, and long-term evolution of patients with frontal lobe epilepsy and secondary bilateral synchrony on the EEG, who received ACTH treatment. Patients were recruited for an add-on trial during clinical practice, and data was retrospectively analysed. The study group comprised 6 patients treated with ACTH. The effects of ACTH were assessed in the short term (at the end of a 6-week period of ACTH treatment), medium term (at 6 months after the end of treatment), and long term (at 12 months after the end of treatment). At short-term follow-up, ACTH treatment was effective for all types of seizures in 5 of 6 patients and ineffective in 1 patient. All patients who were seizure-free at the end of ACTH treatment maintained an excellent outcome, remaining seizure-free at the end of follow-up. Our study demonstrates that ACTH may represent an effective treatment for frontal lobe epilepsy with secondary bilateral synchrony. Further double-blind prospective studies are required to confirm our initial findings
Effects of abiotic stress induced by a standard mix of atmospheric pollutants in Chlorella mirabilis (Chlorophyceae)
No full textThis study evaluates the level of oxidative stress induced by a mix of standard atmospheric pollutants in the green microalga Chlorella mirabilis. Genus Chlorella has been found as one of the most widespread among the phototrophic organisms occurring also in urban context, where it forms biofilms on monumental and building surfaces (1, 2). Aerial and sub-aerial algae are considered suitable bio-indicators to study the effects of pollutants because their species-specific sensitivity may be greater than in higher plants along with faster physiological responses. Furthermore, they are easy to handle and to maintain in controlled conditions (3). For these reasons, Chlorella mirabilis was used in the present study as testing organism to evaluate the response to atmospheric pollutants. With the aim to apply a lot of pollutants without increase the variability of the system, we chose a standard mix of atmospheric pollutants, i.e. ASTM D-7897-2015 (American Society for Testing and Materials International). As result of studies set up on urban surfaces depositions (4,5), used to stress building materials and evaluate their “accelerate ageing” (6), it consists in four kinds of atmospheric particles: soot (carbon), dust, salts, and particulate organic matter, which together represent a dark solution called “soiling mix” (7).
Chlorella mirabilis was firstly grown in a specific culture medium (Bold’s Basal Medium, BBM) in aseptic conditions at 23 °C, under 14 h photoperiod. To evaluate the effects of pollutants, algal cultures were carried out at the same time in a new medium (BBM-SM) obtained by mixing “soiling mix” with BBM (1:5 v/v).
Stress level in algae growing inside BBM-SM was assessed through the quantitative determination of photosynthetic pigments (Chlorophyll a, b and carotenoids) and malondialdehyde (MDA), this last considered as marker of lipid peroxidation. The extraction of photosynthetic pigments and oxidative metabolites was performed according with the methods of Lichenthaler (8) and Heath and Packer (9), respectively. Cell density was monitored during the experimental tests and the algal growth curve was described in both cultures conditions, after 15 day of algal growth.
Results of repeated tests on algae cultures stressed by pollutants underline an increase over 60% of MDA compared with control cultures, highlighting the occurrence of oxidative stress. At the same time the concentration of chlorophyll a and b and carotenoids decreases over 60%, 20% and 70%, respectively. Observation under light microscope shows shape and colour changes in algal cells during their growth in BBM-SM. Nevertheless, C. mirabilis proved to be able to survive in critical environmental conditions characterized by high concentration of pollutants and dark particulate. These results may represent an important first step to use this species in studies on cell response to different stress factors and moreover may have interesting effects on many fields of applied plant biology
Il contributo di Joaquín Llobell riguardo al giudizio penale nella Chiesa
No full textAttraverso la disamina delle approfondite trattazioni che Joaquín Llobell dedica al diritto processuale penale se ne disegna, con grande chiarezza, la parabola evolutiva all’interno dell’ordinamento giuridico della Chiesa: fino agli ultimi approdi. L’Autore, pure convinto sostenitore della priorità e della preferibilità della via giudiziaria, constata come si sia recentemente affermata una progressiva ‘amministrativizzazione’ del processo penale: soprattutto per affrontare celermente ed efficacemente gli abusi sessuali commessi dai chierici. Tuttavia non cessa, nei suoi sapienti scritti, di suggerire quanto possa essere emendato per rendere le procedure amministrative coerenti ai postulati irrinunciabili del giusto processo.Through the examination of Joaquín Llobell’s extensive treatises regarding Criminal procedure, its evolutionary parable within the legal system of the Church is outlined with great clarity up to the latest outcomes. Though a staunch supporter of the priority and preferabili- ty of the judicial way, the Author ascertain that a gradual ‘admini- strationalization’ of the penal trial has been recently asserted: especially in order to deal quickly and effectively with sexual abuses that were committed by clerics. In his wise writings, however, He does not cease to point out what could be improved so that administrative procedures can be consistent with the essential postulates of due process.
Through the examination of Joaquín Llobell’s extensive treatises regarding Criminal procedure, its evolutionary parable within the legal system of the Church is outlined with great clarity up to the latest outcomes. Though a staunch supporter of the priority and preferability of the judicial way, the Author ascertain that a gradual ‘administrationalization’ of the penal trial has been recently asserted: especially in order to deal quickly and effectively with sexual abuses that were committed by clerics. In his wise writings, however, He does not cease to point out what could be improved so that administrative procedures can be consistent with the essential postulates of due process
Il cardinale Giovanni Soglia Ceroni e lo jus publicum ecclesiasticum
No full textIl saggio analizza la figura e l’apporto al diritto canonico del cardinale Giovanni Soglia Ceroni, il quale in particolare scrisse, negli anni Quaranta del 1800, l’opera Institutionum juris publici ecclesiastici libri tres, più volte ampliata e pubblicata, anche all’estero. Ci collochiamo agli esordi della rinascita romana di quel ramo della scienza canonistica identificato come jus publicum ecclesiasticum. Esso ebbe origine il secolo precedente nelle regioni tedesche, in particolare intorno all’Università di Würzburg. Lo scopo principale dei giuspubblicisti cattolici consisteva nel reagire agli attacchi demolitori dei protestanti e nel resistere alle pretese giurisdizionalistiche di intromissione dei poteri secolari: ciò soprattutto sottolineando la natura della Chiesa come societas juridice perfecta, società dunque visibile, gerarchicamente ordinata, soggetto pubblico di diritti e di poteri indipendente dallo Stato perché ha ricevuto da Dio un ordine proprio, delle finalità e dei mezzi esterni per perseguirle. Soglia rimane all’interno di questo orizzonte apologetico e controversistico, ma procede oltre. Infatti, nonostante tale Autore sia stato per lo più trascurato, lo studio dimostra l’originalità del contributo di Soglia ed anche, in qualche modo, il suo anticipare sviluppi ecclesiologici che solo molti anni dopo sarebbero maturati nella Chiesa. Si coglie l’occasione per interrogarsi sulle ragioni attuali della sussistenza e sulla possibile configurazione odierna della disciplina dello jus publicum ecclesiasticum.
The paper analyzes the figure and the contribution to the canon law of Cardinal Giovanni Soglia Ceroni. In particular, he wrote, in the forties of 1800, the work Institutionum juris publici ecclesiastici libri tres, which was expanded several times and published abroad. With this Author we are at the beginning of the Roman rebirth of that branch of canonical science identified as jus publicum ecclesiasticum, originated in the previous century in Germany, in particular around the University of Würzburg. Two were the main purposes of these catholic jurists: to react to attacks destroyer of Protestants and to resist to intrusion of secular powers into the ecclesiastical affairs. They thought to achieve this result especially emphasizing the nature of the Church as societas juridice perfecta: society therefore visible, hierarchically organized. The Church’s rights and powers are, in their opinion, independent of the State, because the Church received its own order from God. Cardinal Soglia, while remaining within this apologetic and disputant horizon, moves on. In fact, despite this Author has been largely overlooked, this study demonstrates the originality of his contribution and also, in some way, his role as a forerunner of ecclesiological developments that many years later would have accrued in the Church. The article is also an opportunity to wonder about the reasons for the possible continued existence and eventual current configuration of the discipline of jus publicum ecclesiasticum
Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes Anode in Lithium-Ion Battery with LiCoO<sub>2</sub>, Li[Ni<sub>1/3</sub>Co<sub>1/3</sub>Mn<sub>1/3</sub>]O<sub>2</sub>, and LiFe<sub>1/4</sub>Mn<sub>1/2</sub>Co<sub>1/4</sub>PO<sub>4</sub> Cathodes
No full textMultiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) are studied for the first time as the anode in lithium-ion batteries using LiCoO2, Li[Ni1/3Co1/3Mn1/3]O2, and LiFe1/4Mn1/2Co1/4PO4cathodes. The anode material has a partially graphitic structure and nanotube morphology, which ensure stable cycling, Coulombic efficiency exceeding 99% as well as remarkable rate-capability in lithium half-cell, and suggest the compatibility for full-cell application. The performance of each lithium-ion array appears strongly related to the different structural, morphological and electrochemical features of the positive electrodes. The study in full-cell of the MWCNTs anode, to date mostly investigated in lithium half-cell, is therefore performed under various conditions. The MWCNTs/Li[Ni1/3Co1/3Mn1/3]O2combination reveals promising behavior in terms of cycling stability, reversible capacity and Coulombic efficiency, which well demonstrates the potential suitability of MWCNTs as anodes in lithium-ion cell
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