65 research outputs found
Copper and ceruloplasmin levels in synovial fluid and serum in rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis treated with NSAID
No full textObservations sur le comportement de quelques signes inflammatoires dans le rhumatisme psoriasique en traitment par benfluorex.
No full textPharmacokinetics of piroxicam in rheumatoid arthritis:relationship between plasma and synovial levels.
No full textThe gendered nature of academic institutions: a gender-analysis of Italian Universities
No full textThe academic fields are highly gendered, with men being overrepresented in the highest academic positions, while women tend to occupy the lower and more precarious positions, which indicates the existence of an academic ‘glass ceiling’. Most Italian academic institutions have policies on gender equality and/or diversity, but a common problem is a lack of transparency and gender-disaggregated data. Information such as sex-disaggregated data is essential to carry out gender- equality analysis and to analyse important decision-making processes from a gender perspective. In this paper, we assess the gendered nature of Italian universities by investigating the structure of academic positions by gender at both public and private universities from 2011 to 2017, with the help of gender-disaggregated statistics. Furthermore, we also analyse the gender segregation patterns in the data by geographical area. We document the persistence of a gender gap in a typical Italian academic career. Indeed, the empirical investigation finds that in 2017, while the proportion of women academic staff was 40.2%, women made up only 37.5% of associate professors and 23% of full professors. The results indicate that gender segregation in Italian universities has been reduced over time but is far from eliminated. Despite positive changes achieved in recent years, the study reveals a prevailing vertical segregation in Italian universities, i.e., a significant under- representation of women in the higher ranks of academia
Behaviour and statistical study of some inflammatory parameters in the blood and synovial fluid in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
No full text’Utopia della realtà’ e immagine dell’abbandono: il Corviale nel cinema / ‘Utopia of Reality’ and Imagine of Abandonment: Corviale in Movies and Documentaries
No full textDiscusso e criticato come la maggioranza delle megastrutture, il Corviale di Roma (1975-1982) rappresenta da un lato la chiara testimonianza di una stagione del pensiero architettonico, fondata sull’impegno sociale, sulla ricerca disciplinare e su vasti piani di edilizia residenziale, e dall’altro l’emblema delle periferie disagiate. Lo stesso autore Mario Fiorentino ha riconsiderato alcuni aspetti del progetto, suscitando la reazione di Franco Purini, che definisce il Corviale “utopia della realtà” con intenti del tutto benevoli. I diversi film ambientati nell’“edificio lungo un chilometro”, invece di utilizzarlo come puro sfondo scenografico, ne fanno quasi un protagonista della vicenda, se non lo spunto stesso della trama. Da Sfrattato cerca casa equo canone, del 1983, fino a Scusate se esisto del 2014 e a Zeta del 2016, il cinema ha percorso un itinerario critico parallelo a quello del sentire comune, passando dalla ridicolizzazione del progetto alla denuncia sociale e ai tentativi di riabilitazione.
The Corviale building in Rome (1975-1982) has been discussed and criticized as most of the realized Italian megastructures. It represents on one hand the expression of the architectural thought of its time, which was based on the social engagement, on in-depth research and on a broad residential program; on the other hand it is the symbol of uncomfortable and impoverished peripheries. The author himself, Mario Fiorentino, has partly revised some ideas of the project, causing the reaction of Franco Purini, who defines the building an “utopia of reality” with a fully positive intention. In all the movies that have been shot at the Corviale, the “one kilometer long building” is not used just as a scenic backdrop, but it becomes protagonist of the story ad perhaps the starting point for the plot. Since Sfrattato cerca casa (1983) up to Scusate se esisto (2014) and Zeta (2016), movies and popular opinion have a parallel approach, at first ridiculing the project, then with a socially critical content and then showing the renewal tries
Laparoscopic total mesorectal excision for ultralow rectal cancer with transanal intersphincteric dissection as a first step: a single-surgeon experience
No full textLaparoscopic intersphincteric resection (ISR) after neoadjuvant chemoradiation is helpful in the management of patients with low rectal cancer. With the advent of this technique, the need for performance of abdominoperineal resection seems to have decreased in patients with very low rectal tumors. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the feasibility of laparoscopic ISR preceded by transanal rectal dissection low rectal cancer. Between December 2009 and June 2011, we performed laparoscopic ISR for 30 patients with very low rectal cancer. Patients received preoperative concurrent chemoradiation (5 days a week for 5 weeks). The surgical procedure was performed 6 weeks after radiotherapy and included total mesorectal excision, ISR, transanal coloanal anastomosis with coloplasty and loop ileostomy. Clinical data of 30 patients were analyzed retrospectively. Thirty patients (21 men, nine women) had a median age of 65 years (range, 37 to 75 years), a median body weight of 67 kg (range, 43 to 96 kg), and body mass index of 24 kg/m(2) (range, 19 to 33 kg/m(2)). The distance of the tumor from the anal verge was 5 cm (range, 2 to 11 cm). The operative time was from 240 to 360 minutes, and estimated blood loss was 100 to 520 mL. There were no conversions and no postoperative mortality. This procedure is feasible and has favorable short-term results for radical treatment of very low rectal disease while preserving anal function
Atractides pavesii Maglio 1905
No full text<i>ATRACTIDES PAVESII</i> MAGLIO, 1905 (FIG. 85A–I) <p> <i>Type series:</i> Missing (D. Benfatti, pers. comm.). <i>Locus typicus</i>: River Ticino near Pavia, September/October (Maglio, 1906).</p> <p> <i>Material examined:</i> SMF 7199, ♀, Italien, Vomano Fl. Moretti coll. 24.6.51; SMF 3698, ♀, Spanien, Zaragoza, Huerva-Fluss, 30.4.1917; SMF 5875, ♂ (Germany) Wümme b. Oberneuland, 27.7.1907, Viets coll.; SMF 1528, ♀ (Russia) Ost-Preussen, Alle–Fluss b. Heilsberg X.1902 Protz leg.</p> <p> <i>Rejected identifications:</i> SMF 6011 ♀ Griechenland Yliki See b. Theben, 7.9.42 Laskar coll. (K. Viets, 1950 = <i>A. acutirostris</i>]; SMF 7204 ♀ Italien, Iesi, Esino Fl., 30.7.1951 Moretti coll. (K. Viets, 1954 partim = <i>A. acutirostris</i>); SMF KOViets 7246 ♀ Israel Nahal Ortal 26.7.1979 IES 1627 Aca 1148 (unpubl. = <i>A. acutirostris</i>); SMF KOViets 2353 ♀ (Germany) Grosser Stechlin See Westbucht, 80 cm, 29.10.1960 Mothes leg. (= <i>A. moniezi</i>).</p> <p> <i>Description:</i></p> <p> <i>General features</i> dorsal integument: thick, inner layer with a regular pattern of fine crossing lines, locally like a knitting pattern, but laterally parallel centrifugal lines prevailing, upper integument layer finely striated; muscle attachments: smooth coxal field: posterior margin of Cx-1 strongly curved or truncated, apodemes of Cx-2 forming an acute angle</p> <p>I-L: I-L-5 with S-1/2 little distanced, with rounded tips, I-L-6 with a regular row of ventral hairs, claws strong genital field: Ac in triangular arrangement excretory pore: smooth; Vgl-1: sexual dimorphism? (fused to Vgl- 2 in males, but separate in females)</p> <p>palp: weak sexual dimorphism; anteroventral hair of P-4 shifted to the lateral side, sword seta distally from distal hair, very fine, nearly hair-like, P-5 with cheeks</p> <p> <i>Male</i></p> <p>SMF 5875:</p> <p>genital field: indentation at anterior margin very weak, at posterior margin deep; genital setae: 46</p> <p>palp: P-4 slightly thickened and with dense cover of dorsal hairs idiosoma L/W 740/600; glandularia 45</p> <p>coxal field L 430; Cx-3 W 450; Cx-1 + 2 mL 160, IL 280, W 330</p> <p>I-L-5 dL 208, vL 163, dL/vL 1.28, HA-HC 32, 42, 56, dL/HB 4.95</p> <p>S-1 L 75, L/ W 15.0, S-2 L 72, L/ W 10.3, interspace 15, L S-1/2 1.04</p> <p>I-L-6 L 144, HA-HC 32, 28, 35, dL/HB 5.14; L I-L-5/6 1.44</p> <p>genital field L/W 140/180, Ac-1–3 L 40, 42, 45</p> <p>gnathosoma vL 230; chelicera L 330, L/H 8.25, bS/claw 2.0</p>Published as part of <i>Gerecke, Reinhard, 2003, Water mites of the genus Atractides Koch, 1837 (Acari: Parasitengona: Hygrobatidae) in the western Palaearctic region: a revision, pp. 141-378 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 138</i> on page 327, DOI: 10.1046/j.1096-3642.06-0.00051.x, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5433518">http://zenodo.org/record/5433518</a>
The PNPLA3 I148M variant and chronic liver disease: When a genetic mutation meets nutrients
No full textAbstractThe isoleucine to methionine substitution at position 148 in the patatin-like phospholipase domain containing 3 protein (PNPLA3; I148M variant, rs738409) is associated with liver fat accumulation and an increased risk of chronic liver disease ranging from hepatitis to hepatocellular carcinoma. This review discusses the interaction between the PNPLA3 I148M variant and obesity/intake of specific nutrients in determining the susceptibility to liver disease. We present the results of several studies showing that obesity or alcohol abuse enhances the effect of the PNPLA3 I148M variant on the liver. We also show that specific nutrients interact with the PNPLA3 I148M variant in modulating liver disease susceptibility
Sabaudia e le città nuove degli anni Trenta
No full textThe paper examines the foundation project of the city of Sabaudia, Italy, in
the 1930s. In order to better comprehend the project, the following text presents
a general overview on a wide range of new cities examples of the period: from
the other Fascist projects for Italy and Italian colonies in Libya, Somalia and
Eritrea, to the German company towns; from the Russian new cities massive
program to the American expansions or foundations in the English garden city
style. The author underlines similarities and differences among these urban
experiences, contextualizing them in the national and international geo–political
strategies.
During the first half of the XX century thousands of new towns were
designed and built worldwide. The reasons of the new foundations are mainly
economic and political: the urban projects played, indeed, a pivotal role in the
government propaganda and they were related both to domestic policies and
colonial expansions overseas.
Sabaudia is part of the Fascist project of reclamation of Agro Pontino, a
marshland in Lazio Region.
The Italian project of reclamation and foundation of new cities can be
easily compared to a similar plan in Holland: they both share a large scale
reclamation, as well as the intention to give a territorial and civic role to the
new towns. In both the plans, main cities and secondary towns are provided, the
latter considered as service centres for the rural homes spread in the agrarian
territory.
In Italy the new cities are designed as strongly independent urban towns.
This is due to the Fascist rhetoric which wanted each urban project invested by
a big amount of political meaning and heroic references.
The project of Sabaudia does not show a severe geometric plan, but the
urban shape is quite open. This is due to the will of Luigi Piccinato, the main
architect and urban designer of the city, to involve the landscape elements in its
plan by both physical and visual connections.
Aware of the territorial and civic role demanded to the city, Piccinato wrote:
« Sabaudia has to be considered strictly connected to its own territory. . . and
the most beautiful and exceptional views can go deep into the life of the city
centre »
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