128 research outputs found
HCV prevalence and treatment outcomes among drug users in an outpatient center for drug addiction in Northern Italy
No full textIntroduction: We aimed at evaluating hepatitis C virus (HCV) prevalence and treatment referral outcomes in a large population of drug users in Northern Italy. Material and methods: Each participant underwent a quick capillary blood test. Positive participants underwent HCV RNA quantification. HCV RNA positive subjects were referred to treatment and evaluated immediately at the end of treatment and at 3 and 6 months after treatment. Results: Of the 636 participants tested, 244 were positive. Intravenous drug use was more frequent among subjects who tested positive for HCV antibodies (99%). Among subjects who tested positive, 68% were HCV-RNA positive while 32% were negative. Among people referred to treatment, nearly 30% did not show up while 70% completed the treatment with success. Over 99% of people who started direct-acting antiviral agent (DAA) have a sustained response. Discussion: We observed a significant higher prevalence of HCV positive subjects among people who inject drugs (99%) and we observed a high success rate for HCV treatment engagement. Conclusions: Rapid testing for HCV represents a potential tool for HCV screening among high-risk groups
El diario de Augusto Monterroso: La letra E
No full textIn El diario de Augusto Monterroso: La letra E (in Assunta Polizzi, Parole discorsi testi nelle culture ispaniche, a cura di, Palermo, Flaccovio, 2007, pp.21-36) the author reflects on the genre of the journal within the framework of the ‘modern’, halfway between the existential testimony and an exercise in writing; fiction and confession.
The paper examines the journal of Augusto Monterroso, La letra E, a text focusing on the image of a writer continually searching for adequate forms of expression and his doubts on the very act of writing. La letra E thus ends up being a further testimony to the commitment of the writer to the written word and –at the same time- to his clear intention to pinpoint the modalities of the literary journal as genre, and consequently one of the forms, whether sophisticated or not, of lie, fiction and masking
Appendix D. Archaeobotanical Analyses: Pollen, NPPs and seeds/fruits.
No full textThe archaeobotanical investigation on selected samples of Fattoria Fabrizio (6th-4th cent. BC, Chora of Metaponto, Southern Italy) was carried out with the primary aim of improving knowledge of the past flora of the area and focusing on plant growing in and around the site. The sampling strategy, laboratory treatments, and analytical tables resulting from analyses of pollen, NPPs, seeds and fruits has enabled a reconstruction of the archaeoenvironment and the agrarian context of Fattoria Fabrizio
Chapter 7. Archaeobotany at Fattoria Fabrizio. In: E. Lanza Catti, K. Swift, J.C. Carter (Eds.), The Chora of Metaponto 5: A Greek Farmhouse at Ponte Fabrizio, pp. 113-138. University of Texas Press, Austin. ISBN: 9780292758643.
No full textNatural and human environments are intimately interlaced on archaeological sites. Fattoria Fabrizio (4th-6th cent. BC; farmahouse in the chora of Metaponto, Basilicata, Southern Italy) is an excellent example of the continuous interaction between humans and environmental setting. Different types of land use can coexist, and their 'botanical traces', both micro- and macrobotanical remains, are recognizable in the same layers. Pollen and Non-Pollen Palynomorphs (NPPs) are especially useful in discerning these types of actions. The pollen samples of Fattoria Fabrizio were collected from two rooms of the farmhouse, and from a black-gloss kantharos found inside one of the two rooms. Pollen analyses showed evidence for cultivation and animal husbandry
"Innovative" Techniques of Static Reinforcement of Masonry Vaults
No full textSommario: Le tecniche di rinforzo statico delle volte in muratura sono oggi orientate all’impiego dei nuovi materiali come ad esempio i fibro-rinforzati, racchiudendo tra i nuovi materiali anche l’impiego di calcestruzzo armato o strutture in acciaio. L’intervento che si vuole presentare in questa breve nota riguarda il consolidamento della volta del presbiterio della Chiesa di Nostra Signora Assunta in Rossiglione (Genova). La tecnica di rinforzo della volta ha privilegiato l’impiego di materiali compatibili con quelli esistenti; poiché si tratta di una volta in muratura, si è operato introducendo un sistema di sotto-archi in muratura di mattoni a sostegno della volta in muratura esistente, seriamente lesionata. La volta esistente diventa collaborante con i nuovi archi in muratura e il nuovo sistema strutturale ha la funzione di collaborare al sostegno del pesante altare barocco; l’analisi statica è stata eseguita seguendo la teoria sviluppata da Jacques Heyman nei suoi scritti sugli archi in muratura [J. Heyman, The masonry Arch, 1982]. Il risultato ottenuto configura una tecnica che noi azzardiamo dire “innovativa” rispetto alla pratica corrente di rinforzo statico delle strutture voltate. Questa tecnica di riabilitazione statica di strutture esistenti ha la caratteristica di essere compatibile, reversibile e non invasiva con la struttura esistente e in continuità geometrica e statica con l’esistente.Abstract: The techniques of static reinforcement of masonry are today oriented to the use of new materials such as fiber-reinforced (FRP), enclosing between the new materials also the use of concrete or steel structures. The intervention that we want to present in this brief note is about the reinforcement of the vault of the presbytery of the Church of Nostra Signora Assunta in Rossiglione (Genova). The technique of reinforcement of the vault has privileged the use of materials compatible with the existing ones; because it is a masonry vault is operated by introducing a system of sub-arcs of brick masonry in support of the masonry vault existing, seriously damaged. The masonry vault becomes cooperating with the new masonry arches and the new structural system has the function to cooperate to support the heavy baroque altar; static analysis was performed according to the theory developed by Jacques Heyman in his writings on masonry arches [J. Heyman, The masonry Arch. 1982]. The result constitutes a technique that we dare say “innovative” versus the current practice of static reinforcement of vaulted structures. This technique of static rehabilitation of existing structures has the feature of being compatible, reversible and non-invasive with the existing structure and in continuity with the existing geometric and static
IL DIRITTO DEL LAVORO NELLE IMPRESE SOCIALMENTE RESPONSABILI
No full textThe author starts from CSR definition as it is set by the Green Paper of the European Commission, where great importance is given to labour issures, in order to examine how it affects labour law and if, how and how much labour relationships may change in companiers voluntarily involvede in it. The expert in labour law is conscious of the importance of the change takin place, especially when the tespect of rules is connected to social and environmental sustainability targets, but he/she is also conscious of the risk of bargaining a lowe workers' protection
Preliminary evaluation of the tomographic performance of the MediSPECT small animal imaging system
No full textWe report on the tests of a prototype (MediSPECT) system developed at University & INFN Napoli, for Single Photon Emission
Computed Tomography (SPECT) imaging on small animals with a small Field of View (FoV) and high spatial resolution. MediSPECT is
a SPECT imaging system based on a 1-mm-thick CdTe pixel detector, bump-bonded to the Medipix2 CMOS readout circuit operating in
single-photon counting. The CdTe detector has 256X256 square array of pixels arranged with a 55 micron pitch, for a sensitive area of
14X14mm^2. In its present version, this system implements a single detector head, mounted on a rotating gantry. For preliminary testing
and calibration of the acquisition equipment and image reconstruction algorithms, 90 projections of a gamma-ray point source (109-Cd) through
a single pinhole (diameter 0.4 mm; radius of rotation about 2.5 cm; focal length about 4.5 cm) were acquired for 20 min each in a stepand-
shoot mode. Capillaries, 800 mm in diameter, were arranged in a Y-shape to form a more complex phantom (125-I, 1mm pinhole
diameter, 45 projections, each acquired for 25 min). Images were reconstructed with a custom algorithm implementing standard OS-EM
with center of rotation correction and spatial resolution of 0.2mm over a FoV of 2mm was obtained
"Vuoti" e "pieni": la retribuzione e la parità di trattamento nell'ordinamento dell'Unione europea
No full textThe Author envisages the topic of pay from an Eu perspective by verifying how the exclusion of competence, which is still stated by the Treaties, combines with the principle of equal pay for women and men, which was already enshrined in the Treaty of Rome. The analyseis leads to interesting considerations. Firsto of all, the issue seems to run the blind track of competence exclusion not only beacause of a choice of non interfering with its determination, except for the equality principle, but also because the issue reaches an European dimension when referring to trans-national phenomena (such as, posting of workers and right to minimum wage). Most of all, this highlights the key role of equal tratment and of the prohibitions of discriminations, which have been progressively extended to a plurality of factors protected by the legal system and to the so called atypical jobs. The analysis of the proposal for a directive on GPG raises the critical aspects that collective bargaining implies. In fact, if pay is the typical subject of collective bargaining and if the systems of classification and professional placement are ones of its closest corollaries, the GPG is its direct outcome. This perspective necessarily implies the topic of the limits to contractual autonomy stemming from fundamental principles. The general rehearsals on this matter can be found in the "contracto on inserimento", as the law itself permits an exemption from the equal treatment principle. The point of arrival, at the moment, is represented by the omnivorous exception of art. 8 of the financial act of September 2011
Galdós, el periodismo y la escritura. Reflexiones a partir del cuento "El artículo de fondo"
No full textGaldós was experiencing in his formation and in his first stage of production the narrative space of the press. The short story “El artículo de fondo” was published in 1871 in Revista de España, in 1879, in three installments in El Océano and reappears in 1889 in a collection of brief narrative texts that accompany his Torquemada en la hoguera. This study tries to focus, on the one hand, the variants introduced by the author, especially in the last edition, in order to evaluate the process of maturation of galdosian writing. On the other hand, taking into account the essentially heterotextual consistency of this short story, it try to put it in relation to the pluritextual narrative texture, which the newspaper macrotexts emblematically reflects.Galdós da a conocer por primera vez el cuento “El artículo de fondo” en 1871 en la publicación periódica Revista de España (XIX, 3, 427-440). Bastante años después, volverá a editarlo en una colección de textos de narrativa breve que acompañan su Torquemada en la hoguera (Madrid, La Guirnalda y Episodios y Episodios Nacionales, 1889), advirtiendo a su amigo Clarín en una carta que las «antiguallas» que presentaba el volumen, sacadas del olvido por voluntad ajena al autor, no merecían la pena de una lectura. Sin embargo, Galdós tuvo que empeñarse en la revisión, por lo menos del texto que aquí nos interesa, si consideramos las variantes introducidas, las elisiones y las ampliaciones que la segunda edición del cuento presenta ya sólo a través de una rápida collatio y a partir del incipit. Siguiendo esta pista, no mencionada en los escasos estudios que la crítica galdosiana ha dedicado a “El artículo de fondo” y que hemos podidos consultar, y enfocando la consistencia esencialmente heterotextual del cuento, se ha ido hilvanando una serie de reflexiones acerca del interés de Galdós por los procesos de construcción del texto, del tejido narrativo pluritextual, conjunto de piezas da variada naturaleza verbal y genérica, que el macrotexto del periódico emblemáticamente refleja. Galdós iba experimentando en su formación y en su primera etapa de producción precisamente el espacio narrativo de la prensa, instalado en lo sustancial de la narración diversificada por registros y dispositivos informativos, entre los cuales los visuales, de la actualidad. De ahí, la hipótesis de este estudio que intenta enfocar, más allá de la incontrovertible parodia del periodista costumbrista o serial que el cuento elige come sujeto, las estrategias de trasvase de la realidad en el texto, una realidad siempre multifacética que necesita la yuxtaposición de piezas verbales y de perspectivas singulares, según los rasgos del discurso periodístico y del periódico como sistema textual complejo
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