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Emilia Musumeci, experta en la figura de Cesare Lombroso
No full textEn el marc del cicle de col·loquis de la Societat Catalana d'Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (SCHCT) del curs 2013-2014, i amb la col·laboració del Centre d'Història de la Ciència (CEHIC-UAB), la Dra. Emilia Musumeci (Università di Catania) va impartir una xerrada sota el títol "Cesare Lombroso and Villella's skull: from Museum of Criminal Anthropology to courtrooms". Musumeci és experta en Lombroso, una figura de finals del segle XIX i principis del segle XX molt coneguda en la història de la ciència i de la medicina per les seves idees sobre la determinació biològica del criminal. En aquesta entrevista, Musumeci ens parla de les teories de Lombroso, dels seus detractors, del seu museu, de la controvèrsia generada per l'estudi i exposició del crani del bandit calabrès Villella i del llegat lombrosià que ha arribat fins l'actualitat.En el marco del ciclo de coloquios de la Societat Catalana d'Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (SCHCT) del curso 2013-2014, y con la colaboración del Centre d'Història de la Ciència (CEHIC-UAB), la Dra. Emilia Musumeci (Università di Catania) impartió una charla bajo el título "Cesare Lombroso and Villella's skull: from Museum of Criminal Anthropology to courtrooms". Musumeci es experta en Lombroso, una figura de finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX muy conocida en la historia de la ciencia y de la medicina por sus ideas sobre la determinación biológica del criminal. En esta entrevista, Musumeci nos habla de las teorías de Lombroso, de sus detractores, de su museo, de la controversia generada por el estudio y exposición del cráneo del bandido calabrés Villella y del legado lombrosiano que ha llegado hasta la actualidad.As part of the colloquia series of the Catalan Society for the History of Science and Technology (SCHCT) for the 2013-2014 course, and in collaboration with the Center for the History of Science (UAB - CEHIC), Dr Emilia Musumeci (Università di Catania) gave a talk entitled "Cesare Lombroso and Villella 's Skull: from Museum of Criminal Anthropology to courtrooms". Musumeci is expert in Lombroso, a figure of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century who is famous in the history of science and medicine for his ideas about the biological determination of criminals. In this interview, Musumeci discusses the theories of Lombroso, his detractors, museum, the controversy generated by the study and exhibit of the Calabrian bandit Villella's skull and Lombroso's legacy today
Binocular probability summation inferred from fast and slow choice-Reaction Time (RTs) in pigeons
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Christillin (J.JJ. — Légendes et récits recueillis sur les bords du Lys. Aoste, Editions Musumeci, 1970
No full textJoisten Charles. Christillin (J.JJ. — Légendes et récits recueillis sur les bords du Lys. Aoste, Editions Musumeci, 1970. In: Le Monde alpin et rhodanien. Revue régionale d'ethnologie, n°1/1973. p. 100
The hercynian backthrust of eastern Iglesiente (SW Sardinia): an example of inversion tectonics
No full textSimple scheme for ultraviolet time-pulse shaping
No full textWe present a method to generate high-energy flat-top UV laser pulses such as the ones needed to optimally drive high-brightness radio-frequency photoinjectors. In this scheme we believe to be novel, the longitudinal profile of a laser pulse from a Ti:sapphire master oscillator power amplifier system is controlled using a mechanical mask in the Fourier plane of a 4f stretcher located after the harmonic conversion crystals. Such a scheme allows us to overcome many of the difficulties faced by current state-of-the-art pulse-shaping designs. These are in fact based on various versions of preamplifier infrared shapers and hence suffer from the limitations set by the nonlinearities of chirped-pulse amplification and harmonic conversion. Beyond the clear advantages of simplicity and robustness, the proposed solution offers the possibility to deliver a pulse with very short rise and fall times and to freely change the output pulse length. We also note that, after proper calibration between spectral and temporal profiles, the shaper optical setup offers the possibility to retrieve the longitudinal profile of the laser pulse on a shot-to-shot basis
Acidic mammalian chitinase in dry eye conditions
No full textPurpose: An acidic mammalian chitinase (AMCase) seems to be implicated in allergic asthma and allergic ocular pathologies. The aim of this work was to investigate the role of AMCase during Sjögren's Syndrome (SS) and Meibomian Gland Dysfunction (MGD) dry eye diseases.
Methods: Six patients with MGD dry eye (20-58 years, median 40) and six patients with dry eye associated to SS (32-60 years, median 47) were enrolled in this study. AMCase activity was measured in tears and AMCase mRNA expression was evaluated by real-time polymerase chain reaction from RNA extracted from epithelial cells of the conjunctiva. Six healthy adult subjects of the same age (34-44 years, median 39) were also studied as the control group.
Results: AMCase activity was significantly increased in patients affected by MGD dry eye (18.54 ± 1.5 nmol/ml/h) and SS dry eye (8.94 ± 1.0 nmol/ml/h) respectively, compared to healthy controls (1.6 ± 0.2 nmol/ml/h). AMCase activity was higher in the tears of subjects with MGD dry eye (P < 0.001). AMCase mRNA was detected in conjunctival epithelial cells and the expression was significantly higher in MGD dry eye than SS dry eye. A significant correlation between AMCase activity in the tears and mRNA in conjunctival epithelial cells was found.
Conclusion: AMCase may be an important marker in the pathogenesis of dry eye, suggesting the potential role of AMCase as a therapeutic target in these frequent pathologies
Scantu, cantu e cuntu in Maruzza Musumeci: un’analisi etnodialettologica
No full textLo scopo di questo contributo è verificare se la scrittura di Andrea Camilleri possa essere sottoposta a una lettura etnodialettologica attraverso il riferimento ad alcuni elementi documentari ed evocativi della tradizione
cultura siciliana. Così, il primo romanzo della cosiddetta trilogia fantastica, Maruzza Musumeci (2007), sarà preso come caso di studio per valutare attraverso alcuni indizi linguistici la connessione tra paura, canto e
racconto orale, che costituiscono un contesto unitario nell'immaginario popolare siciliano. Grazie all'analisi dell'ipotesto etno-dialettale, Maruzza – piuttosto che essere assimilata esclusivamente ad una Sirena – appare con
i lineamenti delle figure femminili che tradizionalmente incutono timore nei bambini siciliani e che certamente hanno spaventato l'autore stesso durante la sua infanzia. Tranne ad essere poi "salvati" dalle canzoni e narrazioni delle madri. In base a questo contesto unitario, si propone una etimologia della parola "scantu".The aim of this paper is to verify whether Andrea Camilleri’s writing can be subjected to an ethnodialectological
reading by means of references to some documentary and evocative elements of traditional
Sicilian culture. As such, the first novel of the so-called fantasy trilogy, Maruzza Musumeci (2007), will
be taken as a case study to evaluate through some linguistic clues the connection between fear, song and
story which constitute a unitary context in Sicilian popular imagination. Thanks to the analysis of the
ethno-dialectal hypotext, Maruzza – rather than being assimilated exclusively to a Siren – appears with
the features of the female figures who traditionally cause fear in Sicilian children and who certainly
frightened the author himself during his childhood. Except, they were then ‘saved’ by the Sicilian mothers’ songs and fairy tales
Giovanni Michetti, Introduzione alla blockchain: una guida per archivisti. Napoli: Editoriale scientifica, 2020. 292 p. (Impronte culturali; 5). ISBN 9788893918862.
No full textNella recensione si evidenzia come l'autore, abbia sapientemente offerto ai lettori una vera e propria guida per orientarsi nella comprensione di un’innovazione tecnologica dal carattere potenzialmente dirompente, mai cui ambiti di applicabilità futura sono ancora in gran parte da valutare. Nell’attenta lettura dell’autore la blockchain è, infatti, ben lontana dal collocarsi in posizione neutra rispetto al contesto culturale in cui essa nasce, è recepita ed è fruita. Risponde invece a una ben precisa visione del mondo e della società ed è a sua volta destinata ad agire come dispositivo culturale, operando profonde trasformazioni nella prassi di gestione delle informazioni e inducendo un drastico riorientamento rispetto ai modelli consolidati in tale ambito
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