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Un anello ebraico in bronzo da Porto Torres (sec. IV-V e.v.), e l'epigrafe di Anabatia rinvenuta a Gerace (sec. XIV), con una nota su una lucerna funeraria ebraica da Licata (secc. IV-V e.v.)
No full textThe study presents a number of new archaeological discoveries of Jewish artifacts and proposes a new reading of an already known inscription. Perani, author of Part I, describes a recently discovered Jewish bronze ring from Porto Torres, Sardinia, dating to late antiquity (4th-5th centuries e.v.), relating to similar Jewish rings, discovered in Sicily and Sardinia in the past. Colafemmina, author of Part II, presents his reading of the inscription of Anabatyya found in 1990 in Gerace, province of Reggio Calabria. Finally, M.S. Rizzo and A. Toscano Raffa describe a recently discovered Jewish funerary lamp with menorah from late Roman period (4th-5th centuries), just found in Licata (Sicily)
The Corpus Epitaphiorum Hebraicorum Italiae (CEHI): A Project to Publish a Complete Corpus of the Epitaphs Preserved in Italian Jewish Cemeteries
No full textPerani introduces the Corpus Epitaphiorum Hebraicorum Italiae (CEHI), a project founded by him to publish a complete corpus of the epitaphs preserved in Italian Jewish cemeteries of the sixteenth-nineteenth centuries. In the Barocco period and later, the art of writing Hebrew epitaphs, true or fictitious, commissioned by relatives or written for himself as a personal after-death-memory, became a discrete literary genre, formulated in rhyme and rhythm by rabbis and learned scholars. This poetical feature is typically Italian, and the epitaphs often constitute a true diwan of poetry, as well as an important source for historical and genealogical study. Perani also illustrates the evolution, language and style of Italian Jewish epitaphs as well as their palaeographical development and stylistic characteristics. This source, testifying to the concept of the death in the Italian Jewish communities, may be integrated with other manuscript evidence such as personal records or the statutes of charitable fraternities charged with burying the dead
I Morpurgo a Udine
No full textIl saggio riguarda la storia della presenza della famiglia Morpurgo a Udine. Il libro fa parte di una prestigiosa collana diretta dal prof. Mauro Perani, docente di ebraico all’Università di Bologna, che dal 2008 presenta la storia e la realtà dei luoghi di inumazione delle Comunità ebraiche nel «Corpus Epitaphiorum Hebraicorum Italiae». L’attuale pubblicazione è dedicata ai cimiteri ebraici del Friuli-Venezia Giulia per l’area delle provincie di Udine e Pordenone, storicamente appartenute a Venezia. E’ un contributo rilevate alla cultura del Friuli in quanto, oltre alla storia degli ebrei nelle singole località, presenta la catalogazione completa, la traduzione e lo studio di tutte le epigrafi superstiti dei rispettivi cimiteri, offrendoci un prezioso spaccato della cultura e della mentalità ebraica tra il XV e il XXI secolo, dall’età medievale all’epoca contemporanea
Edizione del testo ebraico e versione italiana di tutti gli epitaffi
No full textQuesta pubblicazione inaugura una nuova collana dedicata alla pubblicazione di tutto il patrimonio degli epitaffi dei cimiteri ebraici d'Italia. Il volume presenta, dopo una breve nota introduttiva, una descrizione dettagliata dei cimiteri di ogni località ad ognuno dei quali segue una sezione contente la riproduzione fotografica delle epigrafi, l'edizione del testo ebraico e la relativa versione italiana
Foreign vs. domestic multinationals in R&D linkage strategies
No full textThis paper examines how foreign multinationals (FMN) and domestic multinationals (DMN) differ in R&D outsourcing and cooperation. We argue that the propensity of DMN and FMN to create such R&D linkages reflects their specific balance between advantages and challenges of multinationality. On the one hand, both FMN and DMN rely on a combination of home-base advantages and learning capacities, which positively affect their R&D linkages with national and international counterparts. On the other hand, the costs and risks associated with unfamiliar contexts reduce the propensity of FMN to create R&D linkages with local counterparts; while they will not penalise DMN, which do not suffer any liability of foreignness when dealing with local counterparts in their country of origin. This interpretive framework is tested using data on R&D investors active in Italy over 2003–2010, controlling for firms’ internal R&D efforts, internationalisation, age and regional distribution of R&D
Smart modular architecture for supervision and monitoring of a 4.0 production plant
No full textThe paper presents a smart modular architecture that allows for a traditional production plant to be transformed into a supervised, fully integrated, and monitored system. The proposed approach is based on using commercial devices to create an industrial Internet of Things network connected to PLCs, CNCs, and sensors on every single plant machinery. The novelty is in the smart architecture, software implementation of the supervision, and monitoring. A base software code, easily adaptable to different applications, allows for highly innovative man-machine interfaces to be created. Therefore, the monitoring of the embedded systems can be obtained through multiple remotable interfaces. The effectiveness of the proposed methodology is demonstrated experimentally on a case study during a mechatronics industry exhibition
Gender differences in dopaminergic system dysfunction in de novo Parkinson's disease clinical subtypes
No full textParkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by heterogeneity in clinical syndromes, prognosis, and pathophysiology mechanisms. Gender differences in neural anatomy and function are emerging as fundamental determinants of phenotypic variability. Different clinical subtypes, defined as mild motor predominant, intermediate, and diffuse-malignant, have been recently proposed in PD. This study investigated gender influence on clinical features, dopaminergic dysfunction, and connectivity in patients with de novo idiopathic PD stratified according to the clinical criteria for subtypes (i.e., mild motor, intermediate, and diffuse-malignant). We included 286 drug-naïve patients (Males/Females: 189/97, age [mean ± standard deviation]: 61.99 ± 9.67; disease duration: 2.08 ± 2.21) with available [123I]FP-CIT-SPECT and high-resolution T1-weighted MRI from the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative. We assessed gender differences for clinical and cognitive features, and dopaminergic presynaptic dysfunction in striatal or extra-striatal regions using molecular analysis of [123I]FP-CIT-bindings. We applied an advanced multivariate analytical approach – partial correlations molecular connectivity analyses – to assess potential gender differences in the vulnerability of the nigrostriatal and mesolimbic dopaminergic pathways. In the mild motor and intermediate subtypes, male patients with idiopathic PD showed poorer cognitive performances than females, who – in contrast – presented more severe anxiety symptoms. The male vulnerability emerged also in the motor system in the same subtypes with motor impairment associated with a lower dopamine binding in the putamen and more severe widespread connectivity alterations in the nigrostriatal dopaminergic pathway in males than in females. In the diffuse-malignant subtype, males showed more severe motor impairments, consistent with a lower dopamine uptake in the putamen than females. On the other hand, a severe dopaminergic depletion in several dopaminergic targets of the mesolimbic pathway, together with extensive altered connectivity in the same system, characterized females with idiopathic PD in all the subtypes. The anxiety level was associated with a lower dopaminergic binding in the amygdala only in females. This study provides evidence on gender differences in idiopathic PD across clinical subtypes, and, remarkably, since the early phase. The clinical correlations with the nigrostriatal or mesolimbic systems in males and females support different vulnerabilities and related disease expressions. Gender differences must be considered in a precision medicine approach to preventing, diagnosing, and treating idiopathic PD
IX Congresso Sindem: Italian Association for the study of Dementia linked to the Italian Neurological Society (SIN)
No full textAbstracts of the IX Congresso SindemItalian Association for the study of Dementia linked to the Italian Neurological Society (SIN)Firenze, Palazzo dei Congressi, Villa Vittoria March 13-15, 2014Comitato Scientifico: Vincenzo Bonavita, Alessandro Padovani, Amalia Bruni, Leonardo Pantoni, Carlo Caltagirone, Lucilla Parnetti, Francesca Clerici, Daniela Perani, Monica Di Luca, Sandro Sorbi, Gianluigi Forloni, Francesco Tagliavini, Giovanni Frisoni, Marilu Gorno Tempini, Claudio Mariani, Annalena Venneri, Massimo Musicco
R&D endowments at home driving R&D internationalisation: Evidence from the Italian business R&D survey
No full textThis study aims at unpacking the internal R&D determinants spurring a firm to invest in R&D abroad, that is owning R&D performing affiliates abroad. Differently from previous literature – mainly focusing on country level determinants as well as on motivations for the location choice of foreign R&D – we make a shift in the observation point. In particular, we dig deeper into the characteristics of firms' intra-mural R&D and the different types of R&D outsourcing to assess their association with R&D internationalisation. On the one hand, we account for the different types of R&D employees (share of researchers and technicians on R&D employees) and R&D performance (basic versus applied research; R&D performed in laboratories rather than in production facilities); on the other hand, we focus on a specific type of R&D outsourcing (to non-affiliated foreign partners, that is the “contract offshoring R&D”). The analysis is performed on an unbalanced panel of 33,476 observations referring to all Italian R&D performers over the 2003–2010 period. Our findings reveal that a more structured organisation of R&D at home (e.g. performing R&D in dedicated laboratories) and the propensity to outsource R&D to foreign non-affiliated partners are associated with a higher share of R&D internationalisation
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