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LA PARAFRASI GRECA DELLE ISTITUZIONI DI GIUSTINIANO TRA METHODUS DOCENDI E MITO ̓́Εχε ταῦτα ὠς ἑν προθεωρία
No full textLa Parafrasi greca delle Istituzioni di Giustiniano, attribuita quasi unanimemente all’antecessor Teofilo, è un rompicapo storiografico, a partire dal nome. Chiamarla così è, per taluni, il frutto di un’infelice convenzione. Quanto a Teofilo, presunto autore, c’è ancora, con Ferrini, chi ritiene che a metterla insieme non sia stato il celebre professore costantinopolitano che visse ed operò sotto il regno di Giustiniano. Tutt’al più, si dice, uno studente o un suo collaboratore: non si spiegherebbero altrimenti, inter alia, certi svarioni dell’opera, che dovremmo altrimenti attribuire, non senza qualche perplessità, al primo dei professores legitimae scientiae.
Su questo piano, la Parafrasi c.d. ‘di Teofilo’ diventa – quasi inavvertitamente – ‘mito’, non come sinonimo di evento leggendario, ma come catalizzatore di fatti più o meno pulviscolari (accaduti nel VI secolo d.C, incerti ed incoerenti e oggetto di ipotesi opinabili), nel profilo di una figura leggibile (che è quella di un testo istituzionale in greco, di traduzione e commento alle Institutiones di Giustiniano, tramandato da una tradizione manoscritta di molto seriore all’epoca della probabile redazione).
Basterebbero queste osservazioni per una rinnovata discussione sul tema. Tra i tanti, il punto di vista della storia della storiografia servirà a mettere qualche punto sulle i. Quando vada male, sarà stato proficuo disseppellire qualche notizia inedita e rispolverare dati assodati, specie perché non risultano sempre tali, a confutarli in chiavi diverse dalle solite
STUDIO CRITICO-SISTEMATICO DEL DIRITTO DELLE PERSONE NELLA PARAFRASI GRECA DELLE ISTITUZIONI DI GIUSTINIANO
No full textIl presente lavoro riprende il filo di un discorso sulla Parafrasi greca delle Istituzioni di Giustiniano cominciato nel 2021 con la pubblicazione, per gli stessi tipi, di un volume dedicato alla sua storia esterna, al proemio e ai due titoli introduttivi. Dal commento, paragrafo dopo paragrafo, dei residui 24 titoli del primo libro, de iure personarum, l’autore ha inteso qui far emergere quel che c'è, nell’opera, di rilevante per lo studio della mentalità dei maestri bizantini, delle concezioni dottrinali e dei processi logici che si riflettono nella compilazione giustinianea, nel tentativo di conferire alla fonte un'identità autonoma, nonostante la subalternità insuperabile rispetto al manuale imperiale. Per prenderla sul serio, insomma, e non come il rudimentale e lontano embrione che, composto di soli casi dispersi e slegati, fatica ad emergere e a staccarsi di per sé, visibilmente, dall'involucro istituzionale del ῥητόν. Tale identità è quella singolarissima di un'opera scritta soprattutto per gli studenti, di un Gebrauchstext, il quale – attraverso uno stile decisamente meno convenzionale dell'originale e tramite esempi, metafore, espedienti retorici e scrupoli mnemotecnici – non a caso soppiantò praticamente da subito il testo-base latino, ingessato e curialesco, che un legislatore euforico pensava di aver scolpito sul marmo e che era invece di difficile uso, a scuola e nella pratica, soprattutto, ma non solo, per la lingua adottata. Col pretesto della traduzione in greco, l’antecessor trasformò le Institutiones (che erano, ibridamente, manuale e legge, quindi insieme anche didattica e propaganda) in un utilissimo prontuario per matricole, un vero e proprio livre de chevet, che divenne presto il referente (anche per i pratici del diritto) di tutte le citazioni dell'originale, e, soprattutto, come scrisse Contardo Ferrini, "il libro migliore per gli studenti incipienti di diritto romano"
The embodiment of assistive devices - from wheelchair to exoskeleton
No full textSpinal cord injuries (SCIs) place a heavy burden on the healthcare system and have a high personal impact and marked socio-economic consequences. Clinically, no absolute cure for these conditions exists. However, in recent years, there has been an increased focus on new robotic technologies that can change the frame we think about the prognosis for recovery and for treating some functions of the body affected after SCIs. This review has two goals. The first is to assess the possibility of the embodiment of functional assistive tools after traumatic disruption of the neural pathways between the brain and the body. To this end, we will examine how altered sensorimotor information modulates the sense of the body in SCI. The second goal is to map the phenomenological experience of using external tools that typically extend the potential of the body physically impaired by SCI. More specifically, we will focus on the difference between the perception of one's physically augmented and non-augmented affected body based on observable and measurable behaviors. We discuss potential clinical benefits of enhanced embodiment of the external objects by way of multisensory interventions. This review argues that the future evolution of human robotic technologies will require adopting an embodied approach, taking advantage of brain plasticity to allow bionic limbs to be mapped within the neural circuits of physically impaired individuals
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Don't look at my wheelchair! The plasticity of longlasting prejudice
No full textCONTEXT:
Scientific research has consistently shown that prejudicial behaviour may contribute to discrimination and disparities in social groups. However, little is known about whether and how implicit assumptions and direct contact modulate the interaction and quality of professional interventions in education and health contexts.
OBJECTIVES:
This study was designed to examine implicit and explicit attitudes towards wheelchair users.
METHODS:
We investigated implicit and explicit attitudes towards wheelchair users in three different groups: patients with traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI); health professionals with intense contact with wheelchair users, and healthy participants without personal contact with wheelchair users. To assess the short-term plasticity of prejudices, we used a valid intervention that aims to change implicit attitudes through brief direct contact with a patient who uses a wheelchair in an ecologically valid real-life interaction.
RESULTS:
We found that: (i) wheelchair users with SCI held positive explicit but negative implicit attitudes towards their novel in-group; (ii) the amount of experience with wheelchair users affected implicit attitudes among health professionals, and (iii) interacting with a patient with SCI who contradicts prejudices modulated implicit negative bias towards wheelchair users in healthy participants.
CONCLUSIONS:
The use of a wheelchair immediately and profoundly affects how a person is perceived. However, our findings highlight the dynamic nature of perceptions of social identity, which are not only sensitive to personal beliefs, but also highly permeable to intergroup interactions. Having direct contact with people with disabilities might foster positive attitudes in multidisciplinary health care teams. Such interventions could be integrated into medical education programmes to successfully prevent or reduce hidden biases in a new generation of health professionals and to increase the general acceptance of disability in patients
Dataset in support of the article 'Large-scale density functional theory simulations of defects and hydrogen incorporation in PuO2'
No full textThis dataset hosts computational data supporting the findings in the paper: Large-scale density functional theory simulations of defects and hydrogen incorporation in PuO2, Nabeel Anwar, Robert M. Harker, Mark T. Storr, Marco Molinari, and Chris-Kriton Skylaris, Phys. Rev. B, 2024, 109, 224102. Available from https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.109.224102.
The data is located at: Anwar, Nabeel (2024), “Data for: Large-Scale DFT Simulations of Defects and Hydrogen Incorporation in PuO2”, Mendeley Data, V1, doi: 10.17632/7v6gc7bz34.1
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The overlooked outcome measure for spinal cord injury: use of assistive devices
Get PDFAlthough several outcome measures are used to assess various areas of interest regarding spinal cord injuries (SCIs), little is known about the frequency of their use, and the ways in which they transform shared knowledge into implemented practices. Herein, 800 professionals from the International Spinal Cord Society, especially trained for caring in patients with SCI, were invited to respond to an Internet survey collecting information on the use of standardized measures in daily clinical practices. We asked both clinicians and researchers with different areas of interest about their use of functional outcome measures, and, in particular, which scales they habitually use to assess various aspects of clinical practice and rehabilitation. We selected a set of rating scales, which were validated for measuring SCIs (http://www.scireproject.com/outcome-measures). The results show that the areas of interest assessed by most of the participants were neurological status, upper limb, lower limb gait, pain, spasticity, self-care, and daily living. The most widely used rating scales were the spinal cord independence measure, the functional independence measure and the International Standards for Neurological Classification of Spinal Cord Injury. Instead, the majority of respondents did not evaluate the use of assistive technology. Despite the availability of several outcome scales, the practice of evaluating SCIs with standardized measures for assistive technologies and wheelchair mobility is still not widespread, even though it is a high priority in the rehabilitation of SCI patients. The results emphasize the need for a more thorough knowledge and use of outcome scales, thus improving the quality of assistive device evaluation
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