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Relazioni familiari e alienazione genitoriale
No full textL'articolo espone una critica alla concettualizzazione della Sindrome di Alienazione Genitoriale (PAS) e propone una lettura psicodinamica del rifiuto che i figli di genitori separati possono proporre ad uno dei genitori.The article is focused on a critical view of the Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) and proposes a psycodynamic analysis of the withdraw that children in divorced families can show to a paren
Fertility transition and social stratification in the town of Alghero, Sardinia: 1866-1935
No full textBackground: Despite the large amount of research on European fertility transition, the mechanisms of this demographic process are still poorly understood. This is particularly true in the Italian demographic experience, especially for some regions.
Objective: We wish to improve the knowledge of the determinants of fertility transition in Sardinia, a region situated in the heart of the Mediterranean but paradoxically one which is the least „Mediterranean‟ region of the country. The analysis of SES differentials and their evolution over the transition process is the core purpose of this paper.
Methods: We use a complex individual database deriving from the combination of civil and religious sources of Alghero, a large costal town in north-western Sardinia. Our analysis is focussed on the reproductive history of Alghero marriage cohorts (1866-1905), followed through the mid-1930s. A micro-level statistical analysis is performed on legitimate births of parity 2+.
Results: We find that, in the period under examination, the process of fertility decline already underway in the northern and central regions, was almost absent in Alghero. However we did prove significant socio-economic differentials in marital fertility. The "elite" group shows the first clear signs of deliberate marital fertility control.
Conclusions: The results testify to a new and more conscious attitude towards birth control adopted by the elite minority, while no significant change is detectable for the rest of the population until the 1930s. This is the first research carried out at the individual level related to an urban population in Southern Italy
Comportamento riproduttivo in Sardegna: evidenze microanalitiche dal censimento del 1961
No full textGiuliano Vanghetti and the innovation of "cineplastic operations"
No full textObjective: Developing functional artificial limbs for amputees has been a centuries-old challenge in medicine. We review the mechanical and neurologic principles of “cineplastic operations” and “plastic motors” used to restore movements in prostheses, with special attention to the work of Giuliano Vanghetti.
Methods: We evaluated original publications describing cineplastic operations, biographic information, writings, drawings, and unpublished letters from the Vanghetti library, preserved in Empoli, Italy, and performed a bibliographic search and comparison for similar procedures in the literature.
Results: Vanghetti’s method for cineplastic operations differs from similar previous methods, being the first aimed at exploiting natural movements of the remnant muscles to activate the mechanical prosthesis, and the first to do so by directly connecting the prosthesis to the residual muscles and tendons. This represented a frame-changing innovation for that time and paved the way for current neuroprosthetic approaches. The first description of the method was published in 1898 and human studies started in 1900. The results of these studies were presented in 1905 and published in 1906 in Plastic and Kinematic Prosthesis. A German surgeon, Ferdinand Sauerbruch, often acknowledged as the inventor of the method, published his first results in 1915.
Conclusions: Vanghetti was the first to accurately performand describe cineplastic operations for patients following an upper arm amputation. He considered the neurologic implications of the problem and, perhaps in an effort to provide more appropriate proprioceptive feedback, he intuitively
applied the prostheses so that they were functionally activated by the muscles of the proximal stum
Analisi e valutazione dei rischi connessi al packaging per bottiglie di acqua minerale
No full textLa scelta e la gestione dei materiali, delle tecnologie e degli impianti di confezionamento alimentare incidono in modo determinante sulla sicurezza del prodotto confezionato. Recenti fatti di cronaca (si pensi all’ITX o al Bisfenolo A nei prodotti destinati ai bambini) hanno portato il mercato a considerare in modo più critico i rischi per la sicurezza del consumatore finale, anche in seguito a contaminazioni causate dalle possibili interazioni con i materiali di confezionamento. Al fine di identificare, analizzare e gestire i rischi connessi con i materiali di confezionamento, in questo articolo si presenta un approccio metodologico innovativo per la gestione dei materiali, delle tecnologie e degli impianti di confezionamento primario di prodotti alimentari. L’approccio proposto consiste nell’implementazione delle tecniche tradizionali del processo decisionale di risk management al packaging e agli impianti di confezionamento di beni alimentari. Infine, si riportano i risultati ottenuti applicando la metodologia su tre distinti impianti di imbottigliamento di acqua minerale naturale
Provenance studies of obsidian artefacts from the Tell Afis site(Syria) using the fission-track dating method
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