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‘Fusing Morals and Aesthetics’. The Aesthetic Foundations of the Cosmopolitan Social Bond in Durkheim’s Vision of Ritual and Religious Life
No full textThe essay aims to show how, in the cosmopolitan vision of social reality that runs through Durkheim’s work, a properly aesthetic dimension, together with a moral dimension, finds space. The aesthetic dimension emerges from the understanding of ritual that Durkheim elaborates in The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912) and, in particular, from the analysis of those intertribal ritual practices that the author places at the foundation of religious internationalism, typical of Australian Aboriginal societies. What I will try to show is that, from the representation that Durkheim offers of ritual and religious life, it is possible to draw a principle at the basis of the formation of cosmopolitan bonds, that is, forms of ‘extended solidarity’ beyond the narrow confines of a social group: the more the social bond becomes cosmopolitan, the more it requires a fusion between morality and aesthetics
Funding Theatre in Italy: Central State and Local Authorities in the Turmoil of the "Performing Arts Reform"
No full textStarting from the 2001 Constitutional reform, the Italian performing arts system have been experiencing an articulated series of legislative initiatives on several levels of government, that over two decades deeply reshaped the funding system in the country. The chapter analyses the impact of the reform through extensive use of quantitative data
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Segesta. Scavi 1989. Lo scavo dell'area 4000 (SAS 4)
No full textRelazione delle prime indagini condotte nella terrazza centrale dell'agorà di Segesta, appena individuata
Technical Note: Artificial insemination in rabbits: laboratory and field trial with three different semen extenders
Full text link[EN] Today a great deal of research is focused on the development of new extenders that allow the refrigeration and maintenance of rabbit semen for a longer period of time. In this study, semen diluted with 3 different extenders (A, B, and C) and stored at two different temperatures (4°C and 38°C) were evaluated using both laboratory and in vivo tests. The best results were obtained with extender C (INRA 96) which, in the first 10 h of the test at 4°C, displayed about 80% higher motility compared to the other two extenders and preserved optimal seminal fluid motility for over 34 h after dilution. In the test at 38 °C, the motility of semen diluted with extender C was 52% in the fifth h vs 21% of the semens diluted with extenders A (Lepus) and B (Verdunnungsmischung). Another test involved artificial insemination (AI) of 1800 lactating does using refrigerated semen diluited with the extenders under study. The fertility rate and litter size obtained with semen diluted with extender C was higher (78.1% and 8.65, respectively) than those obtained with extenders A (71.2% and 8.15, respectively) and B (71.05% and 8.13, respectively) in both parallel and sequential tests. In conclusion, extender C offers greater vitality and motility to rabbit spermatozoa, thus higher fertility rates to rabbits does.Carluccio, A.; Robbe, D.; De Amicis, I.; Contri, A.; Tosi, U.; Russo, F.; Paoletti, M. (2004). Technical Note: Artificial insemination in rabbits: laboratory and field trial with three different semen extenders. World Rabbit Science. 12(2):65-79. https://doi.org/10.4995/wrs.2004.580SWORD657912
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