238 research outputs found
Vicende private e vicende aeronautiche nella carte di Mario Ajmone-Cat. Inventario dell’archivio personale
No full textThe Multidimensionality of Child Poverty: Evidence from Afghanistan
No full textThis paper examines multidimensional poverty among children in Afghanistan using the Alkire-Foster method. Several previous studies have underlined the need to separate children from their adult nexus when studying poverty and treat them according to their own specificities. From the capability approach, child poverty is understood to be the lack of freedom to do and to be what children themselves value and have reason to value. The case of Afghanistan is particularly relevant as years of conflict aggravated by several severe droughts, political insecurity, bad governance and ongoing violence have significantly increased poverty in the country. The paper discusses the relevant dimensions when analysing child poverty and uses data from a survey carried out by Handicap International which contains information on dimensions of children's wellbeing that is typically missing in standard surveys. Ten dimension are considered in this paper: health, care and love, material deprivation, food security, social inclusion, education, freedom from economic and non-economic exploitation, shelter and environment, autonomy, and mobility. Our results show that younger children, those living in rural areas, girls and disabled children are the most deprived. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
"Fogarty-like" removal of large coronary thrombus.
No full textIn order to avoid distal embolization in patients undergoing emergency percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-elevation myocardial infarction, both thrombectomy and distal protection devices have been evaluated with conflicting effects on myocardial perfusion. However, the removal of massive coronary thrombus is always problematic, and failure of standard approaches might result in severe microvascular damage. We report a case of the unusual use, in a "Fogarty-like" fashion, of the Spidertrade mark filter to trap and remove a large thrombus that was refractory to aspiration and balloon dilatation before stent implantation in a proximal, infarct-related coronary artery
Merging black hole binaries with the SEVN code
No full textStudying the formation and evolution of black hole binaries (BHBs) is essential for the interpretation of current and forthcoming gravitational wave (GW) detections. We investigate the statistics of BHBs that form from isolated binaries, by means of a new version of the
SEVN population-synthesis code. SEVN integrates stellar evolution by interpolation over a grid of stellar evolution tracks. We upgraded SEVN to include binary stellar evolution processes and we used it to evolve a sample of 1.5 x 10(8) binary systems, with metallicity in the range [10(-4); 4 x 10(-2)]. From our simulations, we find that the mass distribution of black holes (BHs) in double compact-object binaries is remarkably similar to the one obtained considering only single stellar evolution. The maximum BH mass we obtain is similar to 30, 45, and 55 M-circle dot at metallicity Z = 2 x 10(-2), 6 x 10(-3), and 10(-4), respectively. A few massive single BHs may also form (less than or similar to 0.1 per cent of the total number of BHs), with mass up to similar to 65, 90, and 145 M-circle dot at Z = 2 x 10(-2), 6 x 10(-3),
and 10(-4), respectively. These BHs fall in the mass gap predicted from pair-instability supernovae. We also show that the most massive BHBs are unlikely to merge within a Hubble time. In our simulations, merging BHs like GW151226 and GW170608, form at all metallicities, the high-mass systems (like GW150914, GW170814, and GW170104) originate from metal-poor (Z less than or similar to 6 x 10(-3)) progenitors, whereas GW170729-like systems are hard to form, even at Z = 10(-4). The BHB merger rate in the local Universe obtained from our simulations is similar to 90Gpc(-3)yr(-1), consistent with the rate inferred from LIGO-Virgo data
Problematiche di gestione e manutenzione degli edifici: il fascicolo “adattato” dell’opera
No full textThe effectiveness of community-based rehabilitation programmes: an impact evaluation of a quasi-randomised trial.
No full textAbstract
Background Community-based rehabilitation (CBR) programmes have been described as highly effective means of promoting the rights and opportunities of persons with disabilities (PwD). Although CBR is often the main way in which PwD in low-income and middle-income countries access rehabilitation services, there is little literature providing rigorous evaluation of their impact on people's well-being.
Methods Data were collected in the Mandya and Ramanagar districts (Karnataka state, India), between December 2009 and May 2010. In total 2540 PwD were interviewed using stratified random sampling: 1919 CBR beneficiaries (who joined the programme between 1997 and 2009) and 621 persons who were living in villages not covered by the programme. We controlled for the systematic differences between people joining and not joining the programme using the propensity score matching method controlling for covariates at individual and village level. We evaluated the impact of the programme on the subgroups of PwD who are disadvantaged on the dimensions of interest: access to pensions, use of aid appliances, access to paid jobs and improvement in personal-practical autonomy after 4 and 7 years of joining the CBR.
Results We observed a positive and significant impact of the programme on access to services, rights and opportunities of PwD. The results indicate that compared with the control group access to pensions and allowances, aid appliances, access to paid jobs and personal-practical autonomy increased by 29.7%, 9.4%, 12.3% and 36.2%, respectively, after 7 years.
Conclusions The CBR programme analysed has a positive impact on access to services and the well-being of PwD who are particularly deprived on outcomes of interest
Rito societario e udienza immediatamente richiesta dal convenuto
No full textnota a Corte cost. 24 luglio 2007, n. 321, e a Trib. Trani 27 marzo 200
Description, Representation and Knowledge: the Èkphrasis of the Trani Swabian Castle / Descrivere, rappresentare e conoscere: l’èkphrasis del Castello Svevo di Trani
No full textThe study illustrates the methodological and applicative aspects of digital representation workflows to describe analyses and reconstructions of transformations of historical architectural heritage. These visual descriptions, aimed at implementing knowledge and facilitating the interpretation of built her-itage, can be considered as expressions of èkphrasis. Through the case study of the Trani Swabian Castle, a representative example of the architecture built under Emperor Frederick II of Swabia, the research focused on the inner courtyard of the castle, proposing, through reconstructive digital modelling, the visualisation of its layout in the medieval period. These reconstructions are based on a careful analysis and interpretation of bibliographical, archival and iconographic sources, wooden mod-els and existing surveys. The research, which is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between two academic institutions and a museum, illustrates the advantages of the adopted operational meth-odology for several fields of application relating to conservation and restoration, cultural dissemination and communication in museums
L’illusione di uno spazio cupolato nel palazzo nobiliare Broquier d’Amely a Trani
No full textA Trani, al primo piano del palazzo Broquier d’Amely, la volta a schifo di uno dei saloni è decorata con un dipinto che gli storici attribuiscono al quadraturista napoletano Filippo Pascale. Risalente alla seconda metà del XVIII secolo, l’immagine adorna l’intera volta a partire dal suo piano di imposta, dove sono collocate una cornice dorata, reale, ed una balaustra, virtuale. Al di là di questa, la quadratura raffigura una dilatazione verso l’alto dello spazio ottenuta con l’innalzamento delle pareti e la reiterazione di solai piani a varie quote, poggiati su archi e sovrastati da cupole e semicupole. Si tratta di un’architettura multipla, protagonista assoluta di una rappresentazione in cui sono assenti figure umane, ad eccezione di quattro clipei con l’immagine di un busto a bassorilievo. Uno degli aspetti singolari è l’assenza di un legame visivo tra le strutture dipinte, come i mensoloni di appoggio degli archi trasversali, e la struttura formale del salone, un vano rettangolare con muri privi di pilastri.
La serie di figure in prospettiva che si susseguono nel dipinto non sono realizzate con rigore geometrico, bensì calcolando la corretta posizione nell’immagine prospettica solo di alcuni elementi e adattando pragmaticamente alla rappresentazione costruita tutte le altre parti, in uno spazio dalle dimensioni contenute.
Alle indagini sugli aspetti geometrici si legano considerazioni sulla realizzazione del dipinto -incisioni rilevate con l’osservazione ravvicinata della superficie denunciano l’uso di cartoni-, sul contesto in cui si colloca la quadratura e il suo valore simbolico -ci troviamo di fronte ad un’opera realizzata per un palazzo nobiliare e non per un’architettura religiosa-, e infine sulla necessità di documentare un patrimonio iconografico piuttosto diffuso in Puglia, studiato nell’ambito della storia dell’arte, ma non della scienza della rappresentazione
The cult of St Nicholas in medieval Italy
No full textSt Nicholas was one of the most popular saints in medieval Italy. His cult attracted the attention
of popes, kings and emperors, and his shrine at Bari became an important international pilgrimage
destination. This thesis asks how the cult of St Nicholas came to be so widespread and popular in
Italy, and why the saint attracted the attention of diverse groups and individuals.
This thesis is structured around four chapters. The first demonstrates that through a
process of Latinisation the cult of St Nicholas became integrated within Italian literary traditions
and within a new spiritual era. Chapter Two reveals that this Latinisation also occurred within the
saint’s iconography. Chapters Three and Four are case studies of the cult in Puglia and Venice,
locations which claimed possession of the saint’s relics. These case studies show that the general
developments that the cult of St Nicholas underwent in Italy, identified in Chapters One and Two,
did not apply universally. Instead, the presence of the saint’s relics resulted in a different profile
of the saint in Bari and Venice. Through the process of Latinisation, the cult of St Nicholas
became updated and remained relevant for its new Italian audience; Chapters Three and Four
show alternative ways that the cult of St Nicholas gained widespread popularity.
This thesis presents for the first time an iconographical study of St Nicholas in Italian art,
which develops existing research of the saint’s Byzantine iconography. Chapter Four presents a
profile of the cult of St Nicholas in Venice in the Middle Ages, which is a significant oversight in
the literature. The thesis uses a variety of visual and textual sources, in particular fresco and
altarpiece representations, archival documents from Venice and Rome (including the Apostolic
Visitations), and under-exploited contemporary and antiquarian Venetian sources
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