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Book Review of Donatella Di Cesare's "Resident Foreigners: A Philosophy of Migration"
No full textBook Review of "Resident Foreigners: A Philosophy of Migration"
Author: Donatella Di Cesar
Sulla critica del postmodernismo: spunti di riflessione
No full textThe aim of this contribution is twofold: in the first part the author tries to point out the distinctions between Postmodernity, Postmodernization and Postmodernism in Russia and to highlight the question of the applicability of the latter. In the second part of the article Donatella Possamai takes into consideration the influences of Internet on the development of a new Russian criticism, the possibility of fashioning a so-called ‘postmodernist criticism’, so drawing an overview of the general situation of criticism in contemporary Russia
Building Trust through Corporate Identity: An Analysis of CSR Reports and Webpages
No full textWithin the highly competitive scenario of the global economy, Donatella Malavasi investigates how the construction of identity and trust in some verbal resources is deployed by a sample of European leading companies in two different types of disclosures, CSR reports and websites. In particular, the author assumes that CSR reports are more technical and specialized documents, while webpages are rather ‘popularised’ disclosures targeted at a wider audience. Her analysis in "Building Trust through Corporate Identity: An Analysis of CRS Reports and Webpages" sets out to examine the variation in enterprises’ self-promotion as ‘impeccable’ and reliable corporate citizens in relation to the process of popularisation
Author Correction: Gluten consumption and inflammation affect the development of celiac disease in at-risk children
No full textThe original version of this Article contained an error in the spelling of the authors Renata Auricchio, Ilaria Calabrese, Martina Galatola, Donatella Cielo, Fortunata Carbone, Marianna Mancuso, Giuseppe Matarese, Riccardo Troncone, Salvatore Auricchio & Luigi Greco which were incorrectly given as Auricchio Renata, Calabrese Ilaria, Galatola Martina, Cielo Donatella, Carbone Fortunata, Mancuso Marianna, Matarese Giuseppe, Troncone Riccardo, Auricchio Salvatore & Greco Luigi. The original article has been corrected
The Roman Stock Exchange between the 19th and 20th Centuries. A History of the Italian Stock Market
No full textThe goal of the author, Donatella Strangio, consists of a serious and
documented analysis of the evolution of the city through a particular
observatory, that of the Stock Exchange, considered not so much as an
exclusive or absolute protagonist of the financial market, but rather as a
subject and object of the history, certainly economic, but also social and
political, of Rome and the Papal State. In addition, this singular observa tory, despite its atypical nature, seems to be valuable for the purposes of
an overall analysis of the behaviour of the local, national and international
executive and entrepreneurial classes.
Focussing on six key historical moments, the book starts from the
decline in the Pope’s temporal power—the aforementioned breach of
Porta Pia-: an epochal event, here linked to previous institutional and
social transformations as well as to the level of nineteenth–twentieth
century internal and external relations. As the subtitle of the work explic itly states (Structure and activity of the Rome stock market between the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries: a history of the Italian stockexchange),
the periodization adopted by the Author is also unconventional.
Starting from 1821—and nevertheless attentive to some important
pre-existing joints—Strangio examines the dynamics triggered by the
Commerce Regulations to clarify how the Roman stock exchange reacted
with respect to the Risorgimento and subsequently to the establishment
of the Kingdom of Italy. Embracing both the liberal period and that of
the “Belle époque”, the study finally reaches the First World War (as
the author recalls, it was with the Great War that the “long nineteenth
century” ended and a new system of contacts and of exchanges appeared,
thanks to which the Eternal City abandoned the welfare model that had
distinguished it most in previous centuries), and then proceeds to the
following decades. This long-term approach allows Donatella Strangio to
convincingly demonstrate how, far from confining it to a more restricted
space, becoming the Italian capital greatly facilitated the evolution of the urban development trends in Rome, finally released from the nefarious
effects of the papal public debt, from which it had suffered for some time,
aggravated by the “amputation” of the territory of the Patrimony of St.
Peter, after 1861. The rhythms imposed by being the capital influenced
all sectors and economic sectors of the city, from industry to the tertiary
sector.
Rome Capital City therefore traces the historical evolution of the
legislation that is the object of its investigation, the role of financial inter mediaries, and the functions of the decision-making and control bodies
that were part of the Rome Stock Exchange, in particular in light of the
consolidation of the British capitalist model and the Northern European
one.
An unusual picture emerges, a picture that portrays the complex finan cial mechanisms of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries but also the
broad world of Roman entrepreneurship, which, moreover, can benefit
from the in-depth analysis of stock exchanges between 1860 and 1870,
as well as share prices up to the Great War, the Depression and the
consolidation of the Fascist period
The interplay between PolyQ and protein context delays aggregation by forming a reservoir of protofibrils.
No full textPolyglutamine (polyQ) diseases are inherited neurodegenerative disorders caused by the expansion of CAG codon repeats, which code for polyQ in the corresponding gene products. These diseases are associated with the presence of amyloid-like protein aggregates, induced by polyQ expansion. It has been suggested that the soluble aggregates rather than the mature fibrillar aggregates are the toxic species, and that the aggregation properties of polyQ can be strongly modulated by the surrounding protein context. To assess the importance of the protein carrier in polyQ aggregation, we have studied the misfolding pathway and the kinetics of aggregation of polyQ of lengths above (Q41) and below (Q22) the pathological threshold fused to the well-characterized protein carrier glutathione S-transferase (GST). This protein, chosen as a model system, is per se able to misfold and aggregate irreversibly, thus mimicking the behaviour of domains of naturally occurring polyQ proteins. We prove that, while it is generally accepted that the aggregation kinetics of polyQ depend on its length and are faster for longer polyQ tracts, the presence of GST alters the polyQ aggregation pathway and reverses this trend. Aggregation occurs through formation of a reservoir of soluble intermediates whose populations and kinetic stabilities increase with polyQ length. Our results provide a new model that explains the toxicity of expanded polyQ proteins, in which the interplay between polyQ regions and other aggregation-prone domains plays a key role in determining the aggregation pathway
L’autovalutazione delle scuole VALeS: il punto di vista degli attori
No full textLa valutazione delle scuole nell'ambito delle politiche pubbliche è considerata sia una leva per il miglioramento interno, sia uno strumento per sviluppare la qualità dei sistemi scolastici e sostenere l'apprendimento degli studenti. Considerato il contributo che la valutazione può offrire al miglioramento delle scuole, si stanno sviluppando studi metavalutativi per comprendere l'affidabilità del processo di valutazione. Il contributo presenta i risultati di uno studio di metavalutazione delle scuole coinvolte nel progetto VaLes promosso dal MIUR e realizzato in collaborazione con l'INVALSI e l'INDIRE. Lo studio ha considerato il processo di implementazione dell'autovalutazione da parte delle scuole e l'efficacia e utilità percepita degli strumenti e del protocollo previsto dal progetto
La narrativa di Donatella Mascia dagli esordi al 2023
No full textIn the contribution I scan the so far published texts written by this original writer. Texts that confirm her ability to maintain a pleasant, funny, light but thoughtful narrative tone. Donatella Mascia is currently the author of the following five novels: Magnifica Visione, 2013, Lo spione di Piazza Leopardi, 2015, Quel gran signore del gatto Aldo, 2016, Una Giulietta rossa, 2021, L’urlo nella notte, 2023. Donatella Mascia in also the author of two collections of stories: Di uomini e di animali, 2019, and Racconti in famiglia con qualche meraviglia, 2020 and of other narrative and plays.Nel contributo scandaglio i testi scritti da questa originale scrittrice che sinora ha pubblicato. Testi che confermano la sua capacità di mantenersi su un tono narrativo piacevole, divertente, leggero ma insieme pensoso. La Mascia è autrice ad oggi di cinque romanzi (Magnifica Vis(i)one, 2013; Lo spione di Piazza Leopardi, 2015; Quel gran signore del gatto Aldo, 2016; Una Giulietta rossa, 2021 e L’urlo nella notte, 2023 e di due raccolte di racconti Di uomini e di animali e Racconti in famiglia con qualche meraviglia, 2020), nonché di altri testi narrativi e teatrali
A METHOD TO EVALUATE THE HILBERT TRANSFORM ON (0,∞)
No full textThe author proposes a method to approximate the Hilbert transform on the real positive semiaxis by a suitable Lagrange interpolating polynomial. The method employs truncated Gaussian rules and uses the interlacing properties of the zeros of generalized Laguerre polynomials. The error estimate in a weighted uniform norm is proved and some numerical tests show the efficacy of the proposed procedure
Морфология современного русского романа: что изменилось?
No full textIn Morphology of modern Russian Novel: what has changed? the author focuses on the dynamics characterizing the Russian literary field of the new millennium, and particularly on the changes undergone by an extremely metamorphic genre like that of the novel. Stemming from the Global Novel theory conceived by S. Calabrese, the author identifies in uchronian novels, analyzed through the prism of Magical Historicism — in A. Etkind’s formulation — one of the salient features of contemporary Russian literature
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