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    Riparare, tra confine e follia

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    Partendo dal doppio significato che il verbo riparare ha in italiano, aggiustare e proteggere, si mettono a confronto l’architettura, che da sempre ha il compito primario di offrire un rifugio e che oggi si propone di riaggiustare preesistenze e tessuti urbani riportandoli alla funzionalità, e la psichiatria, che nella sua storia ha preteso di riparare la mente del folle, proteggendo lui, e al tempo stesso la società, attraverso l’internamento. Il confronto tra architettura e psichiatria è utile se si intendono progettare interventi di riuso in un ex manicomio, ma diventa indispensabile se il manicomio in questione è quello in cui, nel 1961, nasce la rivoluzione della psichiatria italiana, che porterà al riconoscimento dei diritti delle persone con disturbi mentali e, con la legge Basaglia del 1978, alla messa “fuori legge” di una tipologia architettonica, quella dell’ospedale psichiatrico, divenuta simbolo della negazione di quei diritti. La storia di questo ospedale, marginale e al tempo stesso sempre al centro di travagliati incroci e spostamenti di confini, governi, identità e lingue, ne fa un luogo emblematico per il contemporaneo. In questa sua complessità è stato proposto alla riflessione di più saperi e di diverse pratiche progettuali

    High IgE levels in patients affected by psoriasis: review of the literature and personal observations

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    The concomitance of psoriasis and high IgE levels in the same patient, possibly associated to allergies, should not come as a surprise anymore, because both diseases are characterised by an immunological disorder, involving cytokines and other infl ammatory mediators, with massive activation of the cell-mediated immunity. Materials and Methods. During a period of 18 months, using a radio-immunologic method, we assessed the level of IgE in patients with severe psoriasis who were not responding to the common therapy. Results. Patients with severe psoriasis had high levels of IgE. Conclusions. IgEs have an important role in pathogenesis of psoriasis and atopic dermatitis, but the mechanism is not yet clear

    Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011

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    This video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer

    "Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.

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    "Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states. By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement. To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

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    We conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more sophisticated methods

    Dr. Glendon Swarthout

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    Hosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
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