378 research outputs found
Dove vanno i laici. Note sull’etica di Paolo Bonetti
No full textIl purgatorio dei laici, a book published by Paolo Bonetti in 2008, is an expression of the “restless laity” of its author. Composed of a series of meditations on the present stage of ethics, especially in its relations with the Catholic religion, that book appears to us today as a collection of “ethical fragments” from which we derive still useful reflections on the present stage of ethics in its relationships with bioethics and on the limits and paradoxes of a metaphysics and immutable "human nature". Reasonable claim to the authentic meaning of secularism and liberalism – keywords of Bonettian ethics –, this article was born from the attempt to trace a profile of the philosopher Bonetti before the challenges of contemporary world’s complexity
Contribution to epidemiological study of listeria infections as zoonosis by food cause
No full textPesquisa bibliográfica dos últimos vinte anos com o objetivo de identificar os dados disponíveis publicados na literatura técnica e científica sobre a composição biológica, médica, sanitária e epidemiológica da Listeria monocytogenes e listeriose.A bibliographic research was made in the last twenty years with the objective of identifying the available data published in the, technical and scientific literature about the biological, medical, health and epidemiological makeup of the Listeria monocytogenes and listeriosis. This research aims to demonstrate the importance and the inner-matters with involve the listeriosis such as zoonotic foodborne disease. Scientific aspects as well as of technical and administrative nature were approached. The author\'s conclusions portray the listeriosis as a warring and emerging health problem at a large scale. The knowledge of this disease is dimmed by the etiologic agent and diagnosis. The transmission by food supplied by animal resources is highlighted some precautions should be prescribed to the population in order to minimize the occurrence and consequences among the people
Future Foreign Language Teachers’ Intercultural Competence
No full textThere is a lack of research regarding the implications for foreign language study and intercultural competence. Scholars suggest that foreign language proficiency plays a role in cultivating intercultural competence, but agree that there is a lack of empirical evidence supporting this notion. Research also shows that foreign language teachers are ethnocentric. Many educators and foreign language programs use a framework developed by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language (ACTFL) to promote language learning. This framework also possesses key elements in promoting intercultural competence. This study addressed whether a pre-service, ACTFL-guided teaching component of the curriculum had an influence on the intercultural competence of seven student teachers from a master’s large institution in the Midwestern U.S. The intercultural competence was scored using the Cross Cultural Adaptability Inventory as an assessment tool. The findings revealed no significant differences in their levels, but did find differences in how the correlations within intercultural competence’s different dimensions interconnected. The conclusions indicate connections to student development theory and recommendations for further study
The Value of Openness in Scientific Problem Solving
No full textWorking papers are in draft form. This working paper is distributed for purposes of comment and discussion only. It may not be reproduced without permission of the copyright holder. Copies of working papers are available from the author
Annual UND Hagerty Lecture Series feature two journalists at separate events in Grand Forks and Bismarck
No full textLectureship series was established through an endowment to benefit the Communication Program
This year, for the first time, the University of North Dakota will present two lectures – in Grand Forks and another in Bismarck -- as part of its annual Hagerty Lecture Series.
The Grand Forks lecture, on March 24, will feature David Bjerklie, a UND graduate who writes about science for children. He will focus on responding to the profound questions about science that children ask at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, in the Community Room of the Grand Forks Herald, 305 Second Avenue North in downtown Grand Forks. Enter through the alley door.
The Bismarck event will feature Alexander Panetta, Washington, D.C., correspondent for the Canadian Press. He\u27ll discuss Canadian approaches to issues arising along the international border at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 21, at the North Dakota Heritage Center on the capitol grounds.
David Bjerklie:
Bjerklie grew up in Minot, N.D., and studied biology and anthropology at UND. As a lab and field assistant, he studied spotted sandpipers on a small island in a large lake in Minnesota.
He has written on a wide range of science, medicine, technology and environment topics for Time Inc., since 1984, serving as a science reporter at Time magazine, a writer at Time books and editor at Time for Kids. He is the author of children\u27s books on butterflies, agriculture and environmental justice.
In 1989-90, he spent a year as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2014, he attended the 65th annual Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting in Germany and spent three weeks in Antarctica as a National Science Foundation Media fellow.
Some of his recent stories for Time for Kids have been on wind sculpture, the global explosion of jellyfish and the mathematics of juggling.
He has also written chapters in recent Time books on the search for life in the universe, the use of DNA in the courtroom, artificial intelligence, the nature of collaborative genius and current research in child psychology.
Alexander Panetta:
A Montreal native, Panetta has worked for Canada\u27 national news agency -- the equivalent of the Associated Press in the United States -- for 16 years. He\u27s covered federal and provincial politics for most of that time. He\u27s also covered international news, including the war in Afghanistan and the disastrous earthquake in Haiti. Since the fall of 2013, he\u27s been in Washington, D.C., where he reports on U.S. stories for a Canadian audience, with a special emphasis on politics and cross boundary issues.
Hagerty Lecture Series:
The lecture series is named for Jack Hagerty, longtime editor of the Grand Forks Herald. When Hagerty retired in 1984, The Herald established the lectureship through an endowment to the University\u27s Communication Program.
Hagerty was the husband of Marilyn Hagerty, the Herald\u27s food writer, whose reviews have been an Internet sensation
Incentives through the cycle: microfounded macroprudential regulation
No full textFollowing a decline in the fundamental risk of assets, the ability of banks to expand the balance sheet under a Value-at-Risk constraint in- creases (as in Adrian and Shin (2010)), boosting the bank’s incentives to provide costly monitoring effort that prevents asset deterioration. On the other hand, high asset demand and prices, eventually, raise the bank’s pay- off in the event of liquidation associated to asset deterioration, jeopardiz- ing incentives. This paper shows that a microprudential regulatory regime that disregards the equilibrium effect of macro variables (asset prices) on micro behavior (effort), performs poorly as low fundamental (exogenous) risk reduces bank’s effort and induces high (endogenous) deterioration risk. This analysis calls for a macroprudential regulatory regime in which the equilibrium feedback effect is fully taken into account by the author- ity in designing incentive compatible capital requirements, providing a theoretical foundation to the countercyclical buffer of Basel III.Macroprudential regulation, financial stability, capital requirement.
The Probability Density Function of Interest Rates Implied in the Price of Options
No full textThe paper contributes to the stochastic volatility literature by developing simulation schemes for the conditional distributions of the price of long term bonds and their variability based on non-standard distributional assumptions and volatility concepts; it illustrates the potential value of the information contained in the prices of options on long and short term lira interest rate futures for the conduct of monetary policy in Italy, at times when significant regime shifts have occured.stochastic models, statistical analysis, interest rates, financial market
Mesalazine in the initial management of severely acutely malnourished children with environmental enteric dysfunction : a pilot randomized controlled trial
No full textBackground:
Environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) is an acquired syndrome of impaired gastrointestinal mucosal barrier function that is thought to play a key role in the pathogenesis of stunting in early life. It has been conceptualized as an adaptive response to excess environmental pathogen exposure. However, it is clinically similar to other inflammatory enteropathies, which result from both host and environmental triggers, and for which immunomodulation is a cornerstone of therapy.
Methods:
In this pilot double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial, 44 children with severe acute malnutrition and evidence of EED were assigned to treatment with mesalazine or placebo for 28 days during nutritional rehabilitation. Primary outcomes were safety and acceptability of the intervention.
Results:
Treatment with mesalazine was safe: there was no excess of adverse events, evidence of deterioration in intestinal barrier integrity or impact on nutritional recovery. There were modest reductions in several inflammatory markers with mesalazine compared to placebo. Depression of the growth hormone – insulin-like growth factor-1 axis was evident at enrollment and associated with inflammatory activation. Increases in the former and decreases in the latter correlated with linear growth.
Conclusions
Intestinal inflammation in EED is non-essential for mucosal homeostasis and is at least partly maladaptive. Further trials of gut-specific immunomodulatory therapies targeting host inflammatory activation in order to optimize the growth benefits of nutritional rehabilitation and to address stunting are warranted. Funded by The Wellcome Trust
A Robust Design for Cellular Vehicles of Gold Nanorods for Multimodal Imaging
No full textAuthors Dr. Marisa Benagiano and Prof. Mario Milco D’Elios were not included when this article was originally published. The corrected list of author of this manuscript is: F. Ratto,* S. Centi, C. Avigo, C. Borri, F. Tatini, L. Cavigli, C. Kusmic, B. Lelli, S. Lai, M. Benagiano, M. M. D’Elios, S. Colagrande, F. Faita, L. Menichetti, and R. Pini The affiliation for Dr. Benagiano and Prof. D’Elios is: Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine University of Florence, Largo Brambilla 3, 50134 Florence, (FI), Italy Ref. [82] was not included in the originally published version of this article. It should be added to the second paragraph on page 7179, which then reads as follows: “More recently, the notion to exploit the natural tropism of cells, such as tumor-associated macrophages,[35–39] T cells,[40,82] mesenchymal stem cells,[41–43] and neural stem cells,[44,45] has begun to emerge as a radical alternative.” Ref. [82] is: G. Baldi, C. Ravagli, M. Comes Franchini, M. M. D’Elios, M. Benagiano, M. Bitossi (Colorobbia Italia S.p.A.) WO 104664, 2015. The Acknowledgements should be corrected to read as follows: “This work was in part supported by the Projects of Tuscan Region “NANOTREAT” and “SYNERGY” and by the ERANET+ Project of Tuscan Region and European Community “LUS BUBBLE”. The authors wish to thank Dr. Daniele Panetta for his expertise in X-ray micro imaging and Dr. Giovanni Baldi of CERICOL Research Center of Colorobbia Group for his expertise and knowledge on cellular nano-engineering.” The authors apologize for any inconvenience or misunderstanding that these errors may have caused. © 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinhei
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