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A MUSE OF FIRE: A brief historical and thematic anthology of British Drama from the Middle Ages to the Restoration
No full textThe aim of the present work is to make students aware of the relevance and power of theatrical production in general, of the multiplicity and topicality of the themes proposed and their close adherence to our personal lives as well as of the fascination created by the fictional action on the stage, to which we easily surrender, thanks to our voluntary ‘suspension of disbelief’, to use one of Coleridge’s expressions. Special attention will be paid to British Renaissance drama and to all the classical influences on it over the centuries
Keywords in UNESCO websites: The Role of Image in Destination Marketing
Full text linkOnline communication plays a vital role in tourist image formation and travel choices in the digital era. In this way, institutional communication performs a central role in tourism, influencing the market through text and keywords choice on websites. This study aims to analyse online communication by focusing on tourism discourse, i.e. English language as a specialised and promotional discourse in tourism, with a special emphasis on Dann’s rhetorical strategy of keywords. The present study explores the communication used in UNESCO websites and its contribution to tourist destination image formation through corpus-based Discourse Analysis. The focus on a selected number of Sicilian and Maltese UNESCO websites highlights the differences in online communication and the potential influence on tourist image formation. A combined methodological approach, both qualitative and quantitative, is adopted. Specifically, the Corpus Linguistics approach is utilised to extract quantitative data; a qualitative analysis is derived from the data interpreted from a linguistic perspective. The data emphasise that the two sub-corpora of UNESCO Sicilian and Maltese websites communicate different destination images. Findings can contribute to a further reflection on tourism discourse used for institutional communication, to influence the tourist impact on UNESCO sites and potentially influence destination image formation and consumer purchase behaviour
Is diabetes mellitus a risk factor for pancreatic cancer?
No full textThe relationship between diabetes mellitus and the risk of pancreatic cancer has been a matter of study for a long period of time. The importance of this topic is due to two main causes: the possible use of recent onset diabetes as a marker of the disease and, in particular, as a specific marker of pancreatic cancer, and the selection of a population at risk for pancreatic cancer. Thus, we decided to make an in-depth study of this topic; thus, we carried out an extensive literature search in order to re-assess the current knowledge on this topic. Even if diabetes is found a decade before the appearance of pancreatic cancer as reported in meta-analytic studies, we cannot select those patients already having non detectable pancreatic cancer, at least with the imaging and biological techniques available today. We believe that more studies are necessary in order to definitively identify diabetes mellitus as a risk factor for pancreatic cancer taking into consideration that approximately 10 years are needed to diagnose symptomatic pancreatic cancer. At present, the answer to the as to whether diabetes and pancreatic cancer comes first similar to the adage of the chicken and the egg is that diabetes is the egg. © 2013 Baishideng. All rights reserved
Endoscopic mucosal resection-endoscopic submucosal dissection: Do we really need endoscopic ultrasonography assistance?
No full textEndoscopic mucosal resection has become the standard of care for early gastrointestinal cancer. The application of this new treatment requires an accurate stadiation of the neoplasia. The exclusion of nodal involvement and the evaluation of the depth of tumor penetration within the gastrointestinal wall is essential to select patients who can benefit from this approach. Echoendoscopy allows endoscopists to evaluate subde changes in the layers of the gastrointestinal wall giving an important aid to local tumor staging and planning the adequate treatment
A Cross-Cultural Experience in Tourism Studies
No full textThe present article is the result of a joint teaching experience carried out by Giovanni Ruggieri, lecturer of Tourism Economics at the University of Palermo, and Ninfa Pagano, lecturer of English language, University of Palermo; the experience was addressed to our students of Tourism Studies at the Department of Economics, University of Palermo.
The rationale at the basis of this teaching experience was to provide Italian students with extra language practice applied to more than one of their main fields of study in order to show how two different subjects, i.e. Tourism Economics and the English language, can be linked, thus working as a reinforcement for students in both areas.
Prof. Ruggieri suggested proposing to our students the reading of an article in English which focused on a comparative analysis of tourism in the Mediterranean islands; the article took into consideration aspects such as bed-place capacity and occupancy rates, strategies to develop sustainable tourism and tourism policies.
Students were asked to analyse it and parallelly to deepen the understanding of the English text through a series of language activities aiming to improve comprehension, lexis expansion and aspects of English syntax.
The objectives we set were thus twofold: improving our students’ knowledge about aspects concerning Tourism Economics while increasing their linguistic competence in English. Such cross-cultural experience has recently been introduced in Italian schools as well with the name of CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning). However, it had seldom been proposed at university level, so we carried it out on an experimental basis
Integrated Use of Geomatic Methodologies for Monitoring an Instability Phenomenon
No full textThe growing exposure of the Italian territory to hydrogeological risk, also worsened by the influence of climate change, has made the occurrence of catastrophic phenomena, such as landslides and floods, always more impactful. In this frame, geomatic methodologies can provide a crucial support in properly characterizing a potentially critical instability phenomenon, both from the spatial and kinematic view. In this work, the integrate use of geomatic methodologies, i.e., Multi-temporal Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (MTInSAR) technology and structural sensors, namely biaxial tiltmeters, were employed to kinematically investigate the behavior of an urban area affected by a landslide, located in the Apulian territory. The MTInSAR analysis carried out on Sentinel-1 SAR acquisitions showed a strong non-linear behavior in the displacement-time trends, also highlighting the presence of differential motions constituting a threat for buildings. As regards the main retaining structure, currently damaged by the landslide, automatic measurements provided by the tiltmeters confirmed the presence of more active areas, as detected by the SAR observations. The outcomes of this work provided key information to the structures responsible for the management of the risk connected with the instability and allowed to address the proper design of the mitigation works. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Endoscopic submucosal dissection technique
No full textESD represents an efficient solution for the endoscopic treatment of neoplasia limited to the mucosal layer, its technique is complex and mimicks a "surgical" resection. ESD diffusion in our endoscopic structures will significantly increase our options for treatment of early neoplasms of the digestive tract
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