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L'afrofuturismo tra Stati Uniti e Italia. Dalla memoria storica ai viaggi intergalattici per re-immaginare futuri postumani
No full textIn this article the author explores the cultural movement called Afrofuturism, tracing its origins, features, simbology, and its historical and political meanings. Starting from the (supposed) discoursive gap between African and African American people on one side and technology and science fiction on the other, this paradigm addresses themes related to the intersection of African Diaspora and African cultures with technology and science fiction, with the aim to recover the history of slavery and racism through the projections into alternative space-time contexts. In particular, the author explores the feminist afrofuturism perspective in order to examine the specific oppression and cultural production of African and African American women. In doing so, the author analyzes the development of afrofuturism in Italy, focusing on the work of the singer and beatmaker Karima 2G
Problems of empathy. Difficulties of emotive understanding and social complexity.
No full textThe Author analyses certain problems concerning the transformation of styles in educational experience. Refering also to neuroscientific studies, more radical model of empaty, that enable the interpretation of historical change, are proposed
Genetic and Environmental Contribution to Major Depressive Disorder and Self-declared Depression
No full textThe Pedagogy of the Gift between treatment and complessity
No full textA variety of Anthropological studies characterising the conception of the gift consider it to be one the most interesting and evolved forms of exchange between humans and the social, natural and supernatural environment. In this article the author wishes to investigate to what extent there are representations of making gifts and exchanges in our society and how they can be linked to educational experience
Historic Climate in Heritage Building and Standard 15757: Proposal for a Common Nomenclature
No full textResearch on the relationship between microclimate and heritage buildings or historic buildings has increased dramatically in the last few decades. Research has focused on indoor climate or indoor microclimate or the environment or micro-environment, and the field of these studies regards several variables, physical—air temperature, air speed, relative humidity—or chemical, dust, CO2, pollution, etc., all of which can have an effect or damage buildings or artifacts inside buildings. Moreover, all these variables should be monitored in a monitoring campaign following the standard EN 15757; in spite of this, scientific literature contains mistakes with regard to the words and objects of study. In this short contribution, the author proposes a common nomenclature in the research field of climate and microclimate in heritage buildings and heritage artifacts. A new nomenclature should be useful for the community of heritage scientists working on preventive measures to distinguish between climate and environment, or the object of study, e.g., the room (wall, wood structure, fresco, etc.) where the artifacts are or the air around them (painting, canvas, statue, piece of furniture, documents, books, etc.)
Outbreak of Ampicillin/Piperacillin-Resistant Klebsiella Pneumoniae in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU): Investigation and Control Measures
No full textKlebsiella pneumoniae is a frequent cause of infectious outbreaks in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs). The aim of this paper is to describe an outbreak occurred in a 13-bed NICU and the control measures adopted in order to interrupt the chain of transmission. We described the microbiological investigations, the NICU staff compliance to the infection control measures by means of a specifically designed check-list and the control measures adopted. Six cases of primary bloodstream infections sustained by ampicillin/piperacillin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae were observed over a two-month period. One culture obtained from a 12% saccarose multiple-dose solution allowed the growth of Klebsiella pneumoniae. During the inspections performed by the Hospital Infection Control Team, using the check-list for the evaluation of the NICU staff compliance to the infection control measures, several breaches in the infection control policy were identified and control measures were adopted. In our case the definition of a specific check-list led to the adoption of the correct control measures. Further studies would be helpful in order to develop a standard check-list able to identify critical flows in the adhesion to the guidelines. It could be used in different NICUs and allow to obtain reproducible levels of infection control
Essere madre tra bambole e rete: il caso delle Winx
No full textThe “Winx world”- made up of tv shows and cinema, dolls, and different gadgets- at the beginning was an Italian phenomenon. But now, because of its spread– in 131 Nations and about to widen in America- can be accounted as a multinational one. This paper deals with the behaviour of adults, educators and parents towards this phenomenon, through the analysis of participations posted on the internet forums and blogs. This analysis brings out different positions of cultural strictness and strong differences of pedagogical awareness. Through this complex analysis the author could find three dominant directions: the “apocalyctics”, who consider Winx phenomenon toxic and poisonous, something their children should be defended from in order to avoid educational and sociocultural corruption; the “conformers”, who consider the phenomenon just one of the many recreational and mediatic products without any dangerousness; the “dialectician” who see the phenomenon as something real and present in children daily universe and who think that a “critical balance” is the best way solve the problem. These different positions have been organized in a systematic and problematic proposal, with the aim of giving a picture of the possible educative interventions. The proposed model includes both preventive actions and alternative management of the problem. Preventive actions should be aimed to making children feeling comfortable, providing them with instrument of critical thinking and personal enterpreneurship. Alternative management instead could be focused on finding game modes different from that proposed by trade, with the aim of making the two typologies coexisting. The proposed actions refuse prohibitionist perspectives in order to encourage child’s critical and competent thinking, through game experiences which uderline his/her critical thinking
New Concept of Historical Indoor Microclimate - Learning From the Past for a More Sustainable Future
No full textAbstractHistorical architecture is a long time studied subject in Europe. We know building techniques, materials and problems linked to the decay about most of it, and even solution for the restoration project, depending on the goal of the restoration itself and the intended usage. A less studied aspect of Historical architecture is their historic microclimates: researches currently carried on in the Department of Architecture of Università di Bologna aim specifically to study this field of architecture, considering it highly relevant to accomplish the goals of any restoration intervention. Thanks to monitoring campaigns, we have data related to three distinct buildings, different in their construction times, typology, location and techniques used. These data show that historical microclimates guaranteed by these architectures are surprisingly overlapping to the parameters considered, nowadays, appropriate to conserve them and the historical patrimony they contain
Analytic quasinormal frequencies of the Casadio-Fabbri-Mazzacurati black hole
No full textWe present analytic approximations for the quasinormal modes of scalar, Dirac, and electromagnetic perturbations of brane-world black holes, specifically those described by the widely-known Casadio-Fabbri-Mazzacurati (CFM) solution. We compare these analytical approximations with results obtained through time-domain integration and the 6th order WKB method with Padé approximants. Our analysis reveals that for , the derived concise analytic expressions align well with the aforementioned computational methods. In the eikonal limit we show that the correspondence between the null geodesics and high frequency quasinormal modes holds. The obtained analytic formulas are further used to test the Hod's upper bound on the damping rate of the fundamental frequency.The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the pdf file of the accepted manuscript may differ slightly from what is displayed on the item page. The information in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript reflects the original submission by the author
Johann Besicken o Bartholomäus Guldinbeck? Nuova ipotesi attributiva per due esemplari di ‘Solennissimo vocabolista’
No full textThe essay deals with a very rare edition of an Italian-German lexicon from the end of the fifteenth century, which belongs to the popular series of the Solennissimo vocabolista, whose first printed edition was the one published in 1479 in Bologna by Domenico de’ Lapi. The described edition was published without printing notes and was attributed to Johann Besicken, who should have printed it in Rome at the end of the fifteenth century. A careful analysis of the mise en texte and of the types used in the edition led the author to the conclusion that it should have been published in Rome in the same years by the German printer Bartholomäus Guldinbeck, rather than by Besicken. Only two items of the edition survive and both are incomplete. The essay contains the detailed bibliographical description of both surviving items, the one held at State Archive in Rome, the other one, coming from the Himmelgartenbibliothek in Nordhausen (Germany), belongs to the St. Blasii-Kirchenbibliothek of that city and is now held in the city museum in Nordhausen, the Flohburg. The essay also includes a detailed description of life and activity of the German printer Johann Besicken, accompanied by a rich and updated bibliography
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