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Conradus de Saxonia O. F. M. Speculum seu Salutatio beatae Mariae virginis ac Sermones mariani, ed. P. de Alcantara Martinez O. F. M. (Bibliotheca Franciscana Ascetica Medii Aevi, 11)
No full textGodet J.-F. Conradus de Saxonia O. F. M. Speculum seu Salutatio beatae Mariae virginis ac Sermones mariani, ed. P. de Alcantara Martinez O. F. M. (Bibliotheca Franciscana Ascetica Medii Aevi, 11). In: Scriptorium, Tome 32 n°1, 1978. p. 157
A Decade in Games Studies. Critical and reflexive interrogations on digital play and games research
No full textWith the present issue, GAME celebrates ten years of activity as an independent academic journal, one that is neither tied to a commercial publisher nor to a single institution. As a way of celebration, the journal will now be accepting submissions for rolling issues along with our traditional theme-based, monographic issues. This is also a chance to glance back at the history of the field of game studies, and of our journal’s place in the broader research communities, over the course of the past decade.
Table of Contents:
M. Benoit Carbone, F. Giordano, I. Girina, I. Mariani, M. Teti – Ten years of GAME – Games as Art, Media, Entertainment
B. Soderman, J. Keever – The Playful Turn and Critical Play
S. Caselli, K. Bonello Rutter Giappone, T. Z. Majkowski – Ten years of Historical Game Studies. Towards the intersection with memory studies
Z. Rizvi, S. Mukherjee – “Your Subaltern is not my Subaltern”. Intersectionality and the Dangers of a Single Game-story
M. O’Brien – The many facets of culture in digital games policy: the EU dimension
L. P. Bruno – Game Studies Meets Japanese Studies Ten Years of Research
D. Guay-Bélanger, M. Deslongchamps-Gagnon, F. Lavigne, B. Perron – Game(play) Archives: Quebec Video Gamesas Case Study
D. Cavallotti – Games and Cathode Rays. Discourses on a New Medium in the Italian Specialized Magazines (1981-1988)
G. Fantacci – Sovversioni Videoludiche. Dalle avanguardie alle pratiche performative in-game
The rich array of topics and diverse approaches that populate this issue represents an example of the intercultural, transdisciplinary research into games, play, and gaming that GAME has been welcoming and for which it will continue to represent a generous platform. In this issue, our authors grapple with a wide range of perspectives and conceptual frameworks that represent the interdisciplinary development of games studies as a field over the course of the past two decades. Overall, these contributions explore disciplines like media and games archaeologies, offer reflections on dimensions like agency and ownership, explore industrial and legislative frameworks, and interrogate the relations between art and avantgarde in and through gaming. While focusing on a variety of national and transnational contexts, this issue’s contributions offer theoretical and conceptual frameworks that address foundational questions for games studies, such as the notion of play and its ideological production in the late twentieth century, the sociocultural construction of games as object of investigation, and the nature and dynamics of national and global industrial formations
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No full textIl volume raccoglie nove saggi selezionati nell'ampia e qualificata produzione scientifica di Claudio Meldolesi relativa all'attore. E' corredato da una nota di M. De Marinis, da un'introduzione di F. Taviani e da una Nota bibliografica di L. Marian
Prevalence and clinical picture of celiac disease in Turner syndrome
No full textPrevalence and clinical picture of celiac disease in Turner syndrome.
Bonamico M1, Pasquino AM, Mariani P, Danesi HM, Culasso F, Mazzanti L, Petri A, Bona G; Italian Society Of Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology (SIGEP); Italian Study Group for Turner Syndrom (ISGTS).
Author information 1Department of Pediatrics, University of Rome La Sapienza, 00161 Roma, Italy.
Abstract
A multicenter study of Turner syndrome (TS) patients was carried out to estimate the prevalence of celiac disease (CD) and to detect clinical characteristics and laboratory data of affected patients. Three hundred eighty-nine girls with TS were screened by IgA antigliadin antibodies and/or antiendomysial antibodies. Intestinal biopsy was offered to positive cases. CD was diagnosed in 25 patients. In celiac subjects, anemia, anorexia, and delayed growth (with respect to Italian TS curves) were frequently present; whereas distended abdomen, chronic diarrhea, constipation, and vomiting occurred more rarely. In addition, low serum iron levels, hemoglobinemia, and high values of aminotransferases were observed. Ten patients showed classic CD, 8 showed atypical symptoms, and 7 showed a silent CD. In 11 symptomatic patients, the diagnosis of CD was made at the onset of symptoms, whereas 7 of them showed a median delay of 79 months in diagnosis. Other autoimmune disorders were observed in 40% of the patients. Our study confirms the high prevalence (6.4%) of CD in a large series of TS patients. Moreover, the subclinical picture in 60% of the cases, the diagnostic delay, and the incidence of other autoimmune disorders suggest that routine screening of CD in TS is indicated
La SPECT con 99m Tc-Tetrofosmina nella stadiazione del carcinoma squammoso della laringe
No full textHow to increase the power of the test in sparse contingency tables: a simulation study
No full textWhen analyzing categorical or ordinal data one often comes across sparse contingency
tables. One of the biggest problems with this situation is due to the low power of tests
for independencies between variables. In this paper, we propose a procedure, based on
context-specific independencies, to increase the power of tests. The idea is to focus on subtables
where the number of null cells is relatively low. In addition, including these kinds of
independencies in the Union-Intersection procedure can provide comforting results. These
results are shown in a simulative study of different scenarios
A (critical) look to composite indicator construction for European Regions
No full textThe universe of composite indicators is large and variegated, due to the multiple methods used to aggregate the individual components. The choice of the aggregation method is crucial for the construction of the composite indicator and affects the resulting ranking. In this paper we propose a comparison between five different aggregative methods with the purpose of investigating differences and similarities between them from a qualitative and quantitative point of view. To illustrate our proposal, we use five Eurostat variables at regional (NUTS2) level and we compute the correlation and the pairwise Euclidean distance between the composite indicators corresponding to the five aggregation methods considered. Moreover we identify, among the composite indicators, the one that is, respectively, most correlated and closest to the other ones. Results show that the composite indicators identified by the the correlation and distance criteria do not coincide. This suggests that the topological features of the composite indicator is quite affected by the aggregation method. Therefore the choice of the method must be the result of a well-determined objective
Transfer of tilted sample information in transmission electron microscopy
No full textWhen a transmission electron microscope is used in imaging mode, information carried by
the sample function is transformed by the optics of the instrument during the imaging process.
A mathematical description of this physical process (the so-called imaging function)
is a requirement for an accurate analysis and the interpretation of electron microscopy
experimental data. When the sample is not imaged in tilted geometry (no defocus gradient
is present across its extent), the imaging function has a well-known and extensively
studied form : the Contrast Transfer Function (CTF) (Reimer, 1997). Several
electron microscopy techniques, however, require the sample to be tilted to fully
explore its 3-dimensional structure. Only recently a rigorous mathematical description
for the imaging process under these conditions, derived from physical
first principles, has been made available: the Tilted Contrast Imaging Function
(TCIF) (Philippsen et al., 2006).
The present work discusses in depth the nature and the characteristics of the TCIF model,
expanding it to include astigmatism. A robust and efficient software implementation is
presented, developed with the context of the IPLT software development framework
(Philippsen et al., 2007). Computer simulations of images of tilted samples are then
used to qualitatively and quantitatively analyze features of experimental images.
No computationally-feasible analytical method for the inversion of the TCIF model
is currently available, and its effects on experimental images are usually corrected using
a number of heuristic methods that involve some approximations of the imaging parameters.
Using computer simulations of tilted images, this work estimates the errors introduced
by these approximations, and suggests optimal correction strategies for electron tomography
and crystallography imaging conditions. Furthermore, this work describes possible approaches
for the determination of the imaging parameters through the analysis of the experimental images,
and for a non-analytical inversion of the effects of the TCIF model, showing preliminary
results of their implementation applied to computer simulated-images.
References:
Reimer, L. (1997). Transmission Electron Microscopy. Physics of Image Formation
and Microanalysis. Springer-Verlag GmbH, 4. A. edition.
Philippsen, A., Engel, H. and Engel, A. (2006). The contrast-imaging function
for tilted specimens. Ultramicroscopy, 107(2-3):202–12.
Philippsen, A., Schenk, A. D., Signorell, G. A., Mariani, V. and Berneche, S.et al.
(2007). Collaborative EM image processing with the IPLT image processing
library and toolbox. Journal of Structural Biology, 157(1):28–37
How to design taskification in video games. A framework for purposeful game-based crowdsourcing
No full textWhen it comes to citizen science, games can play an important role encouraging voluntary engagement of the public in activities contributing to scientific investigation. This considering that, on the one hand, what appears as an interesting and challenging scientific topic may not be seen as captivating and engaging for the general public; on the other, that to address a scientific challenge it is often required a level of knowledge that acts a barrier to access. Consequently, it comes the necessity to develop projects with scientific tasks that can be accomplished by novices, while ensuring the interest of experts. In this context, game-based crowdsourcing approaches and taskification in particular can serve as powerful motivation systems. By integrating seamlessly the task into an established game experience, it is possible to target players and direct them to perform the crowdsourcing activity. Situated at the intersection of the three theoretical domains of gamification, serious games, and crowdsourcing game systems, this paper presents a framework to taskify games with crowdsourcing activities. Considering the role that coherently built story-worlds, narrative, and game mechanics play, the framework aims at providing designers with clear guidance for building purposeful crowdsourcing activities within video games
Erratum to: Effect of moderate red wine intake on cardiac prognosis after recent acute myocardial infarction of subjects with Type 2 diabetes mellitus (Diabetic Medicine, (2006), 23, 9, (974-981), 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2006.01886.x)
No full textIn an article by Marfella et al, the author name C. Saron is incorrect and should be listed as C. Sardu. Therefore the correct author list is: R. Marfella, F. Cacciapuoti, M. Siniscalchi, F. C. Sasso, F. Marchese, F. Cinone, E. Musacchio, M. A. Marfella, L. Ruggiero, G. Chiorazzo, D. Liberti, G. Chiorazzo, G. F. Nicoletti, C. Sardu, F. D'Andrea, C. Ammendola, M. Verza and L. Coppola.In an article by Marfella et al, the author name C. Saron is incorrect and should be listed as C. Sardu. Therefore the correct author list is: R. Marfella, F. Cacciapuoti, M. Siniscalchi, F. C. Sasso, F. Marchese, F. Cinone, E. Musacchio, M. A. Marfella, L. Ruggiero, G. Chiorazzo, D. Liberti, G. Chiorazzo, G. F. Nicoletti, C. Sardu, F. D'Andrea, C. Ammendola, M. Verza and L. Coppola
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