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Prendre Dionysos par un détour. En hommage à Marcel Detienne
No full textMassa Francesco. Prendre Dionysos par un détour. En hommage à Marcel Detienne. In: ASDIWAL. Revue genevoise d'anthropologie et d'histoire des religions, n°14, 2019. pp. 31-37
Internet e minori: la repressione dei cybercrime a sfondo sessuale
No full textThe dissertation, which consists of four chapters, analyzes the important relationship between the minors and the Internet. In particular, it focuses on criminal protection of children against sexual cybercrimes.
In the first chapter, a preliminary analysis of the nature of the Internet, its specific characteristics and its impact on law is conducted. The risks for children associated with the use of the Internet and the new technologies are also investigated.
The second chapter is devoted to an overview of the regulation and key initiatives adopted both at the international and European Community level (in particular in the context of the so-called “third pillar”) in order to protect children against all types of sexual abuse and exploitation, including those through the Internet. The 1989 Convention of New York on the Rights of the Child, the 2001 Convention on Cybercrime and the 2007 Convention on Children Protection against Sexual Abuse and Exploitation promoted by the European Council, the Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA, and the recent Proposal for a Council Framework Decision on Combating the Sexual Abuse, Sexual Exploitation of Children and Child Pornography that should repeal the Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA are some of the initiatives analyzed.
The third chapter provides a detailed analysis of the political-criminal choices made by the Italian legislator on the matter of children protection against sexual exploitation perpetrated also through the Internet through the adoption of Laws 269/21998 and 38/2006. In particular, the chapter focused on the new crimes introduced in the Italian Penal Code among the crimes against the individual personality at Paragraphs 600-bis and subsequent, the main interpretative issues related to these, the sanctions, the overcoming of the territoriality principle in the prosecution of some of such crimes when committed abroad, the exacerbation of some process measures, and the further measures introduced by the legislator to protect children. A brief analysis is also provided on Law 48/2008, which has implemented in the Italian legal system the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime, and has partially updated the Italian Penal Code and Penal Procedure Code to the new technologies, without however introducing any change or provision in order to implement Paragraph 9 of the Convention (Offences related to child pornography). Indeed, the content of Paragraph 9 has been considered as already covered by Paragraphs 600-ter, 600-quater and 600-quater.1 and subsequent of the Italian Penal Code.
The fourth and last chapter deals with the controversial issue of the rationales behind and limits of the providers’ criminal responsibility. The analysis starts with an overview on the categorization of the Internet service providers and their current obligations set forth by D. Lgs. 70/2003, Laws 269/1998 and 38/2006, Gentiloni Decree, and Law 48/2008. Then, the different opinions of the Doctrine on the feasibility of the assignment to providers of a criminal responsibility in particular for omission according to Paragraph 40, Section 2, of the Italian Penal Code and for concurrent action or omission according to Paragraphs 110 and subsequent of the Italian Penal Code for crimes committed by third parties using the technological platforms and services offered by the providers themselves are examined. Finally, a brief analysis of the orientations of Jurisprudence on the issue in Italy compared to the United States, Japan and other European countries is provided.La tesi, che si articola in quattro capitoli, indaga il delicatissimo rapporto tra i minori e Internet, e, in particolare, la problematica della tutela penale dei minori dai c.d. “cybercrime” a sfondo sessuale.
Nel primo capitolo si svolge un’analisi preliminare circa la natura e le peculiari caratteristiche di Internet e la sua influenza sul diritto, nonché circa i rischi che l’utilizzo della Rete può comportare per gli utenti minori d’età, i quali diventano sempre più spesso vittime di reati di sfruttamento sessuale perpetrati sfruttando le nuove tecnologie.
Nel secondo capitolo si fornisce un quadro della normativa e delle principali iniziative adottate a livello internazionale e comunitario (in particolare nell’ambito del c.d. “terzo pilastro”) per promuovere la tutela dei fanciulli quali soggetti con esigenze peculiari e diverse rispetto a quelle degli adulti contro ogni forma di abuso e sfruttamento sessuale, anche via Internet. La fondamentale Convenzione di New York del 1989 sui diritti del fanciullo, le convenzioni sul cybercrime del 2001 e sulla protezione dei bambini contro lo sfruttamento e gli abusi sessuali del 2007 promosse dal Consiglio d’Europa, la Decisione quadro 2004/68/GAI e la recentissima proposta della Commissione di decisione quadro del Consiglio relativa alla lotta contro l’abuso e lo sfruttamento sessuale dei minori e la pedopornografia che dovrebbe abrogare la predetta Decisione quadro 2004/68/GAI sono alcuni dei provvedimenti esaminati.
Nel terzo capitolo si svolge un’approfondita analisi delle scelte politico-criminali operate dal legislatore italiano con le Leggi 269/1998 e 38/2006 in materia di tutela dei minori dallo sfruttamento sessuale, anche via Internet. Nello specifico, si esaminano le nuove fattispecie incriminatrici introdotte tra i delitti contro la personalità individuale nel corpo del Codice penale agli artt. 600-bis e seguenti, le principali questioni interpretative sorte in relazione ad esse, il trattamento sanzionatorio, il superamento del principio di territorialità nella perseguibilità di alcuni di tali delitti quando commessi all’estero, l’inasprimento di alcuni istituti processuali e le ulteriori misure introdotte dal legislatore a tutela dei minori. Si procede inoltre ad una breve analisi della Legge 48/2008, che ha recepito nell’ordinamento italiano la Convenzione di Budapest sul cybercrime e che ha parzialmente aggiornato il Codice penale ed il Codice di procedura penale alle nuove tecnologie, senza tuttavia introdurre alcuna modifica o nuova previsione al fine di recepire l’art. 9 della Convenzione relativo alle “offences related to child pornography”, ritenendo quanto previsto da tale disposizione “coperto” – se non addirittura superato – dalla tutela approntata dagli artt. 600-ter, 600-quater e 600-quater.1 e seguenti del Codice penale.
Il quarto ed ultimo capitolo tratta della controversa problematica del fondamento e dei limiti della responsabilità penale dei provider. L’analisi muove da un inquadramento della categoria degli operatori su Internet e dall’esame degli obblighi finora posti a carico degli stessi (dal D. Lgs. 70/2003, dalle Leggi 269/1998 e 38/2006, dal c.d. “decreto Gentiloni”, nonché dalla Legge 48/2008). Si procede, quindi, all’esame delle diverse opinioni dottrinali elaborate in merito alla percorribilità di un’attribuzione di responsabilità in particolare a titolo di omesso impedimento dell’evento ai sensi dell’art. 40 cpv., c.p., nonché a titolo di concorso, in forma commissiva od omissiva, ai sensi degli artt. 110 e seguenti, c.p. nei reati realizzati da terzi sfruttando le piattaforme tecnologiche ed i servizi messi a disposizione dai provider. Infine, si fornisce una breve disamina circa gli orientamenti giurisprudenziali formatisi in materia in Italia ed alcuni cenni di comparazione con riferimento all’esperienza giuridica statunitense, giapponese ed a quella di alcuni ordinamenti giuridici europei
Polymnia Athanassiadi, Vers la pensée unique. La montée de l’intolérance dans l’Antiquité tardive, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 201
No full textMassa Francesco. Polymnia Athanassiadi, Vers la pensée unique. La montée de l’intolérance dans l’Antiquité tardive, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 201. In: ASDIWAL. Revue genevoise d'anthropologie et d'histoire des religions, n°6, 2011. pp. 195-196
Entre la vigne et la croix. Dionysos dans les discours littéraires et figurés chrétiens (IIe-IVe siècles)
No full textMassa Francesco. Entre la vigne et la croix. Dionysos dans les discours littéraires et figurés chrétiens (IIe-IVe siècles). In: ASDIWAL. Revue genevoise d'anthropologie et d'histoire des religions, n°6, 2011. pp. 153-160
Polymnia Athanassiadi, Vers la pensée unique. La montée de l’intolérance dans l’Antiquité tardive, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 201
No full textMassa Francesco. Polymnia Athanassiadi, Vers la pensée unique. La montée de l’intolérance dans l’Antiquité tardive, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 201. In: ASDIWAL. Revue genevoise d'anthropologie et d'histoire des religions, n°6, 2011. pp. 195-196
Corinne Bonnet, Laurent Bricault, Quand les dieux voyagent. Cultes et mythes en mouvement dans l’espace méditerranéen antique, Genève, Labor et Fides (Histoire des religions 4), 2016
No full textMassa Francesco. Corinne Bonnet, Laurent Bricault, Quand les dieux voyagent. Cultes et mythes en mouvement dans l’espace méditerranéen antique, Genève, Labor et Fides (Histoire des religions 4), 2016. In: ASDIWAL. Revue genevoise d'anthropologie et d'histoire des religions, n°11, 2016. pp. 205-207
Implicit Discontinuous Galerkin methods with efficient time integration for incompressible variable density and compressible turbulent flows
No full textWith this research work we want to investigate the use of the state of art implicit high-order time integration schemes to integrate in time high-order Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) space discretization of compressible and incompressible flow model equations.
The final goal is to demonstrate the capabilities of an high-order accurate, both in space and time, simulation of turbulent flows.
DG methods proved to be very well suited for the Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) and the Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of turbulent flows thanks to good dissipation and dispersion properties.
However, accurate turbulent flow simulations imply long term and stiffly stable time integrations.
Explicit Singly Diagonally Implicit Runge-Kutta (ESDIRK) schemes, linearly implicit Rosenbrock-type Runge-Kutta (Rosenbrock) schemes and linearly implicit two-step peer (Peer) methods are implicit time integration schemes that provide very high accuracy combined with excellent stability properties.
Nevertheless, since they are implicit schemes they entail the solution of several systems on linear or non-linear equations by means of iterative methods and thus can require an high computational cost.
In order to reduce this cost we developed, implemented and validated the automatic step-size control, the initial guess approach and the stopping criterion for iterative methods.
Furthermore, we derived a new starting procedure able to preserve the accuracy order of non self-starting multi-step Peer schemes.
The potential of the proposed high-order coupling between DG method and implicit temporal schemes has been exhaustively examined on compressible and incompressible benchmark test cases and demonstrated by computing the implicit Large Eddy simulation of massively separated compressible flows over periodic hills at Re = 10595, a challenging and deeply analysed turbulent test case that is part of the test case repository defined inside the EU project TILDA (Towards Industrial LES/DNS in Aeronautics - Paving the Way for Future Accurate CFD) at which the Computational Fluid Dynamics group of Università degli Studi di Bergamo is engaged.
In this work we present, in addition, a high-order Discontinuous Galerkin approach for the simulation of variable density incompressible (VDI) flows developed inside the International Research Training Group project DROPIT (Droplet Interaction Technologies). The purpose of this project is the development of an high accurate and efficient method for the thorough investigation of interface problems for incompressible flows.
The method is fully implicit and applies to the VDI Navier–Stokes equations.
More in particular, the density is treated as a purely advected property tracking possibly multiple (more than two) fluids. Furthermore, the fluids interface is captured in a diffuse fashion by the high-degree polynomial solution thus not requiring a geometrical reconstruction and preserving the mass conservation.
Density over/undershoots, spurious oscillations at flows interfaces and Godunov numerical fluxes at inter-element boundaries are numerical issues investigated during the development of the present approach.
Promising results on numerical experiments involving high-density ratios (water-air) and the possible interaction of more than two fluids have been obtained using a very high-order polynomial representation of the solution on relatively coarse grids
Entre la vigne et la croix. Dionysos dans les discours littéraires et figurés chrétiens (IIe-IVe siècles) / Between the Vine and the Cross. Dionysus in Christian Literary and Figurative Discourses (IInd-IVth centuries)
No full textMassa Francesco. Entre la vigne et la croix. Dionysos dans les discours littéraires et figurés chrétiens (IIe-IVe siècles) / Between the Vine and the Cross. Dionysus in Christian Literary and Figurative Discourses (IInd-IVth centuries). In: ASDIWAL. Revue genevoise d'anthropologie et d'histoire des religions, n°6, 2011. pp. 153-160
Indium-111 pentetreotide scintigrapy in the detection of insulinomas: importance of SPECT imaging
No full textJ Nucl Med. 2000 Mar;41(3):459-62.
111In-pentetreotide scintigraphy in the detection of insulinomas: importance of SPECT imaging.
Schillaci O, Massa R, Scopinaro F.
SourceDepartment of Sciences and Biomedical Technologies, University of L'Aquila, Rome, Italy.
Abstract
The aim of this study was to determine whether the systematic use of SPECT can increase the reported low sensitivity of somatostatin receptor scintigraphy (SRS) in detecting insulinomas.
METHODS: Fourteen patients were evaluated. After 111In-pentetreotide injection (approximately 250 MBq intravenously), abdominal SPECT images were obtained at 4 h and multiple planar images were obtained at 4 and 24 h. MRI and CT were performed within 1 mo of SRS. Sixteen tumors were histologically verified after surgery in 14 patients.
RESULTS: SPECT revealed 14 lesions in 12 patients (sensitivity, 87.5%), both planar SRS and MRI revealed 7 tumors in 7 patients (sensitivity, 43.8%), and CT revealed only 5 lesions in 4 patients (sensitivity, 31.3%). Moreover, in 4 patients SPECT was the only examination with positive findings.
CONCLUSION: SPECT at 4 h is mandatory for preoperative detection of insulinomas using SRS because the images are more sensitive than planar images and are superior to images from other conventional methods.
PMID:10716319[PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Free full tex
Sacrifices humains. Définitions, enjeux politiques, représentations identitaires. À propos de deux ouvrages récents : Àgnes A. Nagy, Francesca Prescendi éds., Sacrifices humains. Dossiers, discours, comparaisons, Turnhout, Brepols (BEHE, Sciences religieuses 160), 2013 Pierre Bonnechère, Renaud Gagné éds., Sacrifices humains. Perspectives croisées et représentations – Human sacrifice. Cross-cultural Perspectives and Representations, Liège, Presses Universitaires de Liège (Religions. Comparatisme, Histoire, Anthropologie 2), 2013
No full textMassa Francesco. Sacrifices humains. Définitions, enjeux politiques, représentations identitaires. À propos de deux ouvrages récents : Àgnes A. Nagy, Francesca Prescendi éds., Sacrifices humains. Dossiers, discours, comparaisons, Turnhout, Brepols (BEHE, Sciences religieuses 160), 2013 Pierre Bonnechère, Renaud Gagné éds., Sacrifices humains. Perspectives croisées et représentations – Human sacrifice. Cross-cultural Perspectives and Representations, Liège, Presses Universitaires de Liège (Religions. Comparatisme, Histoire, Anthropologie 2), 2013. In: ASDIWAL. Revue genevoise d'anthropologie et d'histoire des religions, n°8, 2013. pp. 200-205
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