183 research outputs found
Beyond Cultural Aphasia.
No full textA Conversation between Rossella Ciocca and the scholar and cultural activist G. N. Devy, author of the People's Linguistic Survey of India, about nomadic communities and their endangered languages and cultures
Author Spotlight: Rossella Palma
No full textDr. Rossella Palma ([email protected]) is a general surgeon who is currently a PhD student in the Section of
Experimental and Clinical Hepato-Gastroenterology at the
“Sapienza” University of Rome. She is primarily interested
in diagnostic and operative endoscopy for the treatment of
gastrointestinal diseases. She plans to pursue an academic
career following her PhD studies
Modeling and experimentation of through-the-body RFID links and application to smart prosthesis
No full textThe Internet of Things (IoT) is the natural evolution of the current concept of Internet in which even the common objects of our daily lives, uniquely identifiable and equipped with sensing capabilities
will be globally connected and able to communicate and cooperate each others to improve the quality of our life. In this scenario even the human body could become a sensing node of the
network, able to communicate its needs and health status to healthcare center, boosting the traditional medical model towards the new idea of Pervasive Healthcare. The practical implementation of such Smart-Health services requires an enabling technology, completely
transparent to the user and with high degree of pervasiveness as low cost, long lifetime and low power consumption. In this regard, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology can play a key
role in the development and implementation of IoT-based personal Healthcare systems. A RFID tag, together with its identification code is in fact able to carry information about the tagged objects
e.g. detecting the presence in the environment of gases or humidity when it is functionalized with special chemical compounds, or can be connected to sensors to monitor the temperature or other physical parameters. Moreover, these non-intrusive devices could be spread in the living environments, easily integrated inside clothes or embedded into implanted prosthesis, cardio-vascular stents, realizing in the latter case “augmented” devices able to take care of the human health “from the inside”. This Thesis, investigates the feasibility of passive UHF RFID implants
in the human body with particular regard to the area of the limbs in which, normally are implanted orthopedic prostheses, as a result of fractures or degenerative diseases of the musculoskeletal
system.
The structure of the Thesis is the following:
Part I (chapter 1) describes the key role of RFID technology in the implementation of a new model of healthcare in the frame of IoT with some examples of application in the monitoring of environmental parameters (temperature, presence of gases and humidity) and human behavior. The chapter 2 is devoted to the mathematical model to be applied for the analysis of the UHF-RFID radio channel consisting in a region of the human body wherein a passive tag is implanted.
Part II investigates the performance of through-the-body channel with reference to a human torso and limb simulators (chapter 3) introducing power budget indicators to determine the feasibility
and reliability of the wireless communications. In particular, with regard to implants in the limbs, the analysis will be enhanced by a campaign of measurements carried out on an experimental phantom
manufactured with meat and bovine bone, and using a loop antenna as a reference (chapter 4).
Part III of this work deals with the integration of a passive tag inside an orthopedic prosthesis (chapter 5). An intramedullary nail will be particularly considered in the analysis but the same considerations can be applied to other types of prosthesis. Also in this case the problem will be addressed either using both numerical simulations and experimental measurements on a prototype of the functionalized intramedullary nail inserted into a limb phantom
“Plurality, Identity, Democracy, Globalization…. A conversation with Sunil Khilnani” in Indiascapes. Images and words from globalized India
No full textRossella Ciocca interviews Sunil Khilnani author of the much appraised The Idea of India: one of the best non-fictional introductions to the complexities of politics in contemporary India. The strengths and weaknesses of present-day uneven modernity are discussed around a few strategic topics. First of all plurality, which in its linguistic, cultural, religious, ethnic variety has been vindicated since Independence as a foundational value, is seen as the quintessential resource for achosen practice of syncretism but also in danger of becoming the very source of fragmentation and implosion in a country increasingly maimed by fundamentalism and fanaticism. Democracy is then interrogated between the comfortable perspective of the firmly established and normally operating mechanisms of democratic routine, on the one hand, and the flawsof a still dramatically unjust system of distribution of rights and opportunities, on the other. Identity politics is in turn analysed both in its positive action of mobilizing society around the problem of social upgrading and in its unwelcome side effects of increasing practices of rigid and restricted classification fomenting division and violent sectarianism. In the end Indian growing cultural appeal upon the globalized scene is questioned in its complex relationship with the country’s quest for a role of protagonist in political as well as economic affairs upon a new multilateral international stage
Publisher Correction: Fe-functionalized paramagnetic sporopollenin from pollen grains: one-pot synthesis using ionic liquids (Scientific Reports, (2020), 10, 1, (12005), 10.1038/s41598-020-68875-6)
No full textIn the original version of this Article, F. Rossella was incorrectly listed as a corresponding author. The correct corresponding author for this Article is C.S. Pomelli. Correspondence and request for materials should be addressed to [email protected]. This error has now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the Article
Rossella Di Paolo y la novelización de la poesía
No full textIn this article, the purpose is twofold. I propose a model for poetic analysis with categories traditionally associated with narrative hermeneutics. In addition, I illustrate the application of the model to the book of poems La silla en el mar, by Peruvian author Rossella Di Paolo. I use central theoretical categories from the works of Bakhtin, Booth, general linguistics and the theory of Latin American literary systems. The results indicate that the book analyzed is inserted in the cultured system written in Spanish with a proposal of novelization of the lyrical procedures. It is concluded that the proposed exegetical model clarifies several aspects of the books of poems that could be obviated in other poetic analyses.En este artículo, el propósito es doble. Se propone un modelo para el análisis poético con categorías tradicionalmente asociadas a la hermenéutica narrativa. Además, se ilustra la aplicación del modelo en el libro de poemas La silla en el mar, de la autora peruana Rossella Di Paolo. Se utilizan categorías teóricas centrales de los trabajos de Bajtín, de Booth, de la lingüística general y de la teoría de los sistemas literarios latinoamericanos. Los resultados indican que el libro analizado se inserta en el sistema culto escrito en español con una propuesta de novelización de los procedimientos líricos. Se concluye en que el modelo exegético propuesto esclarece varios aspectos de los libros de poemas que podrían ser obviados en otros análisis poéticos
Le Leggi di Numa e la Ninfa Egeria: la manipolazione della tradizione pagana in S. Agostino.
No full textOn the basis of the exegesis of pagan and christian texts the author proposes
some considerations on the image of Numa as legum auctor. The author in particular
notes the manipulation of the myth of Numa and Egeria by Augustine with the intent to
deny the divine origin of the laws of the Roman rex to reserve it only for Mosè
Rossella Di Paolo y la novelización de la poesía
No full textIn this article, the purpose is twofold. I propose a model for poetic analysis with categories traditionally associated with narrative hermeneutics. In addition, I illustrate the application of the model to the book of poems La silla en el mar, by Peruvian author Rossella Di Paolo. I use central theoretical categories from the works of Bakhtin, Booth, general linguistics and the theory of Latin American literary systems. The results indicate that the book analyzed is inserted in the cultured system written in Spanish with a proposal of novelization of the lyrical procedures. It is concluded that the proposed exegetical model clarifies several aspects of the books of poems that could be obviated in other poetic analyses.En este artículo, el propósito es doble. Se propone un modelo para el análisis poético con categorías tradicionalmente asociadas a la hermenéutica narrativa. Además, se ilustra la aplicación del modelo en el libro de poemas La silla en el mar, de la autora peruana Rossella Di Paolo. Se utilizan categorías teóricas centrales de los trabajos de Bajtín, de Booth, de la lingüística general y de la teoría de los sistemas literarios latinoamericanos. Los resultados indican que el libro analizado se inserta en el sistema culto escrito en español con una propuesta de novelización de los procedimientos líricos. Se concluye en que el modelo exegético propuesto esclarece varios aspectos de los libros de poemas que podrían ser obviados en otros análisis poéticos
Motor towns
No full textThe book originates from a project by ISMEL, Institute for the Memory and Culture of Work, Business and Social Rights. The study looks at architectural, constructive, productive, economic, design, social conditions in the historic motor towns. Turin is compared to Motor Valley, Wolfsburg, Stuttgart, Paris and Boulogne-Billancourt, London and Coventry, Gothenburg, Detroit. The benchmarking uses three main macro-indicators: the regenerative potential, the enhancement of historical heritage, and the promotion of automotive tourism. The author makes her expertise in the technologies of architecture the fulcrum on which to pivot the complex of factors.
Rossella Maspoli is professor of Architectural Technology at the Polytechnic of Turin. She develops research in construction history, post-industrial regeneration and public art. Member of the Aipai Board, Ticcih and Sitda, director of Turin Automotive Heritage Network. She is the author of more than 160 publications
Early life exposure to 2.45GHz WiFi-like signals: Effects on development and maturation of the immune system
No full textThe development of the immune system begins during embryogenesis, continues throughout fetal life, and completes its maturation during infancy. Exposure to immune-toxic compounds at levels producing limited/transient effects in adults, results in long-lasting or permanent immune deficits when it occurs during perinatal life. Potentially harmful radiofrequency (RF) exposure has been investigated mainly in adult animals or with cells from adult subjects, with most of the studies showing no effects. Is the developing immune system more susceptible to the effects of RF exposure? To address this question, newborn mice were exposed to WiFi signals at constant specific absorption rates (SAR) of 0.08 or 4 W/kg, 2h/day, 5 days/week, for 5 consecutive weeks, starting the day after birth. The experiments were performed with a blind procedure using sham-exposed groups as controls. No differences in body weight and development among the groups were found in mice of both sexes. For the immunological analyses, results on female and male newborn mice exposed during early post-natal life did not show any effects on all the investigated parameters with one exception: a reduced IFN-γ production in spleen cells from microwaves (MW)-exposed (SAR 4 W/kg) male (not in female) mice compared with sham-exposed mice. Altogether our findings do not support the hypothesis that early post-natal life exposure to WiFi signals induces detrimental effects on the developing immune system
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