174 research outputs found
The Pizzi Holistic Wellness Assessment
No full textThis paper describes the Pizzi Holistic Wellness Assessment tool. Using theory from the field of health promotion and expertise gained in his private home health practice, the author developed and pilot tested this assessment on a variety of individuals. The assessment is designed to be used with different populations in a variety of settings to help clients self assess their health and well-being
Pricing Rainfall Derivatives by Genetic Programming: A Case Study
No full textIn this contribution we consider a genetic programming approach to price rainfall derivatives and we test it on a case study based on data collected from a meteorological station in a city in the northeast region of Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy), characterized by a fairly abundant rainfall
Teatro sociale in Italia: linee di sviluppo, ricorrenze metodologiche e istanze valutative
No full textil Capitolo intende offrire un quadro introduttivo del teatro sociale in quanto oggetto specifico della ricerca riportata nel presente Rapporto nonché pratica applicativa che si sta dimostrando particolarmente efficace nei contesti della salute
Successful Treatment of Refractory Seizures with Rufinamide in Children with Schizencephaly: Report of 3 Cases
No full textSchizencephaly is an uncommon malformation of cortical development. Patients with schizencephaly present with a broad range of severe neurologic symptoms including pharmacoresistant epilepsy. Rufinamide is a new antiepileptic drug approved for use as adjunctive therapy of seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome and it is also effective for refractory partial seizures. We report 3 cases of pediatric patients aged 7.2, 8.1, and 10.1 years, respectively, with intractable epilepsy associated with bilateral open-lip schizencephaly and septo-optic dysplasia. The follow-up ranged from 3.8 to 4.1 years. In our patients, the introduction of rufinamide as adjunctive drug led to a dramatic decline in the number of seizures and an improvement in EEG epileptic activity without side effects. Rufinamide seems to be efficacious and safe in patients with epileptic encephalopathies associated with pharmacoresistant epilepsy; further and larger clinical reports and controlled studies could confirm the usefulness of this anticonvulsant drug
La propensione all’export: un’analisi a livello di impresa in Veneto
No full textIn una fase di crisi economica, in cui la domanda domestica si contrae, un ruolo
importante per la sopravvivenza delle aziende può essere giocato dalla domanda
internazionale. Essa appare come un sostegno per le aziende esportatrici abituali e
un'opportunità per le dinamiche di vendita delle aziende che ancora non operano
sui mercati esteri o il cui coinvolgimento è molto limitato.
Il presente contributo cerca di verificare questa affermazione con riferimento
alle imprese manifatturiere venete, considerando i singoli comportamenti aziendali,
piuttosto che le appartenenze settoriali, come suggerito dalla più recente letteratura
economica sull’internazionalizzazione (Melitz, 2003).
L’analisi a livello di singola azienda è stata possibile grazie all’integrazione di
due fonti distinte: l’Indagine Congiunturale Unioncamere del Veneto (dati
trimestrali dal 2006 al 2011) e i micro-dati sul commercio estero (fonte Istat)
relativi alle esportazioni a livello d’impresa (dati annuali dal 2009 al 2010)
Omelia di San Giacomo di Sarugh in Lode di San Simone Stilita
No full textJacob of Sarug’s eulogy of Simon the Stylite had received some attention from scholars before, but in this slim volume Pizzi simply offers an Italian translation of the poem. He based his work on the Syriac text given in Brockelmann’s grammar, and his aim is to familiarize new readers with something exemplary from Syriac literature.Translated into Italian from the Syriac text
EVALUATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON CANINE REPRODUCTION AND FERTILITY: INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES
No full textFertility assessment is challenging both in human and canine species because it is defined by a combination of numerous genetic and environmental factors. In recent decades, a decline in humans fertility occurred and was related to environmental pollutants, such as endocrine disruptor chemicals (EDCs), that increased dramatically as result of technological development. Living close to their owners, dogs are exposed to similar risks whose impact on their reproduction is still unclear. Many widespread compounds may interfere with canine reproductive health from embryonic development up to conception.
Since environmental hazards in dogs are poorly understood, this PhD thesis comprises four studies devoted to exploring their consequences on canine reproduction and fertility.
The first two projects were centered on the exposure of breeding dogs to cigarette smoke. Cotinine was applied as marker of nicotine intake in male dogs and pregnant bitches belonging to smoking and non-smoking owners. Significant differences were highlighted between exposed and non-exposed dogs, however measurable levels of this metabolite were detected in serum, semen, hair, and amniotic fluid of all enrolled patients. Despite nicotine metabolites increase seminal oxidative stress, in our caseload the level of total antioxidant capacity (TAC) in ejaculate didn’t correlate with male dogs’ exposure to tobacco smoke. Albeit the practical effects of passive smoke should be investigated on a larger sample size, results obtained demonstrated a non-negligible exposure that could interfere with dogs’ reproductive performance.
Apart from tobacco smoke consequences, within other two studies we focused on cryptorchidism. Through the application of immunohistochemical techniques and miRNomics, we found precancerous lesions and molecular dysregulation in both retained and scrotal gonads of affected patients. Interesting implications have emerged from this outcome especially concerning testicular neoplastic predisposition and the appropriate therapeutic approach in unilateral cryptorchids. In addition, molecular pathways suggested an abnormal expression of estrogen receptors that, as assumed in humans, may justify a greater sensitivity to EDCs even in cryptorchid dogs.
Regardless some limitations, the overall outcomes of the present doctoral dissertation pointed out the environmental role on canine reproduction. Although pollutants’ effects can’t be completely eliminated, greater awareness should be placed on common bad habits like cigarette smoke which could impair fertility potential even in “man’s best friend”
Varieties of Cubes of Opposition
No full textThe objects called cubes of opposition have been presented in the literature in discordant ways. The aim of the paper is to offer a survey of such various kinds of cubes and evaluate their relation with an object, here called "Aristotelian cube", which consists of two Aristotelian squares and four squares which are semiaristotelian, i.e. are such that their vertices are linked by some so-called Aristotelian relation. Two paradigm cases of Aristotelian squares are provided by propositions written in the language of the logic of consequential implication, whose distinctive feature is the validity of two formulas, A ->\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}\end{document} B superset of\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}\end{document} (A ->\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}\end{document}\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}\end{document} B) and A ->\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}\end{document} B superset of\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}\end{document} (\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}\end{document} A ->\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}\end{document} B), expressing two different forms of contrariety. Part of section 1 is devoted to define the notions of rotation and of r-Aristotelian square, i.e. a square resulting from some rotation of an Aristotelian square. In section 2 this notion is extended to the one of a r-Aristotelian cube, i.e. of a cube resulting from some rotation of some square of an Aristotelian cube. This notion is used in the sequel to analyze various cubes of oppositions which can be found in the literature: (1) the one used by W. Lenzen to reconstruct Caramuel's Octagon; (2) the one used by D. Luzeaux to represent the implicative relation among S5-modalities; (3) the one introduced by D. Dubois to represent the relations between quantified propositions containing positive predicates and their negations; (4) the one called Moretti cube.None of such cubes is strictly speaking Aristotelian but each of them may be proved to be r-Aristotelian. Section 5 discusses the assertion that Dubois cube was anticipated in a paper published by Reichenbach in 1952. Actually Dubois' construction was anticipated by the so-called Johnson-Keynes cube, while the Reichenbach cube, unlike Dubois cube, is an instance of an Aristotelian cube in the sense defined in this paper. The dominance of such notion is confirmed by J.F. Nilsson's cube, representing relations between propositions with nested quantifiers, and also by a cube introduced by S. Read to treat quantifiers with existential import. A cube similar to Read's cube, introduced by Chatti and Schang, is shown to be r-Aristotelian. In section 6 the author remarks that the logic of the formulas occurring in the cubes of Chatti-Schang and Read have the drawback of not satsfying the law of Identity. He then proposes a definition of non-standard quantifiers which satisfies Identity, are independent of existential assumptions and such that their interrelations are represented by an Aristotelian cube
Promozione della salute e del benessere tramite laboratori di teatro sociale: un’esperienza di ricerca partecipata
No full textIl Rapporto descrive un’esperienza di ricerca partecipata su laboratori di teatro sociale e promozione della salute e del benessere maturata nell’ambito dell’Accordo Quadro dal titolo “Sinergie tra epidemiologia ambientale e sociale e discipline artistiche, in particolare il teatro sociale, nella promozione della salute”, stipulato tra l’Istituto Superiore di Sanità e l’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano. Quanto documentato è frutto di attività che hanno visto lacollaborazione di ricercatrici e ricercatori nei settori
dell’epidemiologia, della psicologia, delle humanities, e operatrici e operatori di teatro sociale. La prima parte del Rapporto descrive il razionale e gli aspetti teorici che sono alla base della ricerca, la seconda riporta le attività di ricerca realizzate e si conclude con la discussione critica dell’esperienza al fine di identificarne le lessons learned
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