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Design for Graphicacy: The Case of Glocal Climate Change
No full textOn 26 May 2020, the European Union Council members agree on the central role that media literacy covers in the European population skillset. Among the various forms that make up media literacy, we also find graphicacy (Bhargava R. et al., 2015), defined as the ability to understand and present graphic-visual information such as sketches, photographs, diagrams, maps, plans, tables, graphs and other non-textual formats. A form of literacy necessary -if not fundamental - in the increasingly datafied western society (Van Es, & Schäfer, 2017), which increasingly relies on visual data mediated communication and information.
Indeed, new forms of information emerged, such as data and visual journalism, for instance (Bonegru, & Gray, 2021). These rely on analysing a vast amount of data and their visualisations to narrate today's complexity to a broader and more heterogeneous audience. Some of these projects also tend to enhance the graphicacy of readers, enabling them to understand better the charts that they feature, thus moving beyond their primary function of narrating the phenomenon dealt with.
In this context, the present paper presents and discusses a case of interest, designed by the author, which contribute to the ongoing research on data journalism from a design and visual storytelling perspective. It is a further and emerging form, hitherto little researched, and necessary, especially to tell and understand complex and global phenomena, such as climate change (Prasad, 2019)
Epicurus and the rejection of determinism : Epistle to Menoeceus 133
Full text linkThis article deals with a complicated philological problem in section 133 of Epicurus’ Epistle to Menoeceus. There is a lacuna in the text; various supplements have been proposed, but the resulting syntax remains anomalous. This article argues that the interpretation of the syntax which underlies all the most influential supplements proposed to date, from Usener to Sedley and beyond, should be rejected. A new suggestion is put forward, based on a different syntactical interpretation and on a careful new analysis of the readings preserved in MS P
PATHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF COVID-19 INFECTION: A POST-MORTEM APPROACH BASED ON AN EXTENSIVE AUTOPTIC SAMPLING PROTOCOL
Full text linkIntroduction: Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Due to the resultant serious public health crisis, the attention of the scientific community was turned towards COVID-19. Despite the importance of post-mortem studies in the understanding of pathophysiology, autopsies have been generally discouraged by government regulations. This study consists of the pathological analysis of samples of select organs obtained during autopsies of deceased COVID-19 subjects, performed by forensic pathologists of the Unit of Legal Medicine of Pavia.
Aims: to describe COVID-19 pathology across different tissues to clarify the disease’s pathophysiology.
Materials and methods: autoptic cases were selected based on the presence of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Lungs, kidneys, hearts, and brains from nine COVID-19 autopsies were compared by using antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, macrophages-microglia, T-lymphocytes, B-lymphocytes, and activated platelets. Alzheimer’s Disease pathology was also assessed. PCR techniques were used to verify the presence of viral RNA in brain.
Results and discussion: we selected 9 COVID-19 cases. They had a short clinical course (0–32 days) and their mean age was 77.4 y/o. Hypoxic changes and inflammatory infiltrates were present across all tissues. The lymphocytic component in the lungs and kidneys was predominant over that of other tissues (p < 0.001), with a significantly greater presence of T-lymphocytes in the lungs (p = 0.020), which showed the greatest presence of viral antigens. The heart showed scant SARS-CoV-2 traces, foci of activated macrophages, and rare lymphocytes. The brain showed scarce SARS-CoV-2 traces, prominent microglial activation, and rare lymphocytes. The pons exhibited the highest microglial activation (p = 0.017). Microthrombosis was significantly higher in COVID-19 lungs (p = 0.023) compared with controls. The most characteristic pathological features of COVID-19 were an abundance of T-lymphocytes and microthrombosis in the lung and relevant microglial hyperactivation in the brainstem. Data obtained in this study could potentially offer a better understanding of how this recently identified pathology affects the human body and specific organs, with the goal of improving clinical management of affected patients and improving strategies for disease prevention
Transforming the Transformer in a Time of Crisis. Marie Neurath’s Experience in the Time of the Web
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Orbital Forcing of Early Eocene dissolution events and Carbon Isotope Excursions from the Contessa Road-Bottaccione composite section (Gubbio, central Italy)
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