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Recurrent emergency department visits for asthma in children: an opportunity for asthma care improvement?
No full textExamination of the relevance of emergency department visits as an opportunity to check the status of asthma treatment and follow-u
What you need for adaptable future
No full textRecycle the residential buildings. The case study of Zelazna Brama district in Warsaw (Poland). Project proposal: 'What you need for adaptable future'. Design team: Barbara Angi (team leader), Nadia Bertolino, Ioanni Delsante, Luca Fogliata, Emanuele Giorgi, Alessandra Peroni, Giorgio Davide Manzoni, Elisa Masserdotti, Alessandro Mensi, Giorgia Zurla.
'What you need' aims to adapt the existing residential neighborhoods on one side to the needs of the inhabitants and, on the other, to the wish to preserve the urban voids, intended as essential spaces for the development of innovative social activities. In the first instance we divided the adaptability level according to the sizes of the space and the time of use. This approach, from home to the city, helped us to define three design strategies that, in our view, can also be applied in other sites where there are linear residences. The strategies are: 'graft '- building between existing buildings - 'slab' - visual and functional connection between the new and existing - 'bay' - urban creeks accessible from a commercial front, which then tend to enlarge themselves in correspondence of residential areas. The project aims to improve the character of landmark of housing buildings observing as much as possible the existing green areas and intends to reactivate the district with economic processes of development thank to insertion of the commercial functions so from reducing the existing mono-functional nature
Lettera di Alessandra
No full textUn ritratto critico dell'opera di Alessandra Carnaroli, autrice fra le più apprezzate delle ultime generazioni della poesia di ricerca. La sezione a lei dedicata, nel numero della rivista, contiene inoltre saggi di Cecilia Bello Minciacchi, Andrea Cortellessa, e Ivan Schiavone; e vari inediti dell'autrice. Il saggio è pubblicato con lo pseudonimo di Tommaso Ottonieri.A critical portrait of the work of Alessandra Carnaroli, author of the most appreciated in the latest generations of italian research poetry. Published under the pseudonym Tommaso Ottonieri
Selected letters of Alessandra Strozzi
No full textThe letters of Alessandra Strozzi provide a vivid and spirited portrayal of life in fifteenth-century Florence. Among the richest autobiographical materials to survive from the Italian Renaissance, the letters reveal a woman who fought stubbornly to preserve her family's property and position in adverse circumstances, and who was an acute observer of Medicean society. Her letters speak of political and social status, of the concept of honor, and of the harshness of life, including the plague and the loss of children. They are also a guide to Alessandra's inner life over a period of twenty-three years, revealing the pain and sorrow, and, more rarely, the joy and triumph, with which she responded to the events unfolding around her.This edition includes translations, in full or in part, of 35 of the 73 extant letters. The selections carry forward the story of Alessandra's life and illustrate the range of attitudes, concerns, and activities which were characteristic of their author
Challenging the author: Gavin Douglas's Eneados
No full textGavin Douglas’s Eneados, a translation into the “Scottis” tongue of Virgil’s Aeneid, completed in 1513 and first published in London in 1553, presents, as well as the translation of the additional thirteenth book by Maphaeus Vegius, original prologues and marginal notes to the text, rubrics and articulate conclusive material. The present paper analyses this complex paratext as evidence of Douglas’s almost philological attention to the original and his preoccupation with a faithful reproduction; it is also suggested that the models for his organization of the commentary might be both medieval (i.e., manuscripts such as Petrarch’s Virgilius Ambrosianus) and early modern, as in the case of editions of classical works: the most apt example being Jodocus Badius Ascensius’ edition of the Aeneid, printed in 1501. The Eneados thus stands on the threshold between manuscript and print, and might have indicated new possibilities of use of the printing medium in Scotland, and of the value of the translation of a classical text, had history not intervened with the Scottish defeat at Flodden Fields in 1513, which put a temporary stop both to the circulation of the Eneados and to the development of Scottish printing
Functional Characterization of a new Lipid Transfer Protein With Antimicrobial Properties From Medicago truncatula
No full textNon specific lipid transfer proteins form a multigenic protein family in plants. They are able to bind in vitro different lipids but their function in vivo remains speculative. They have been suggested to participate to many aspects of plant physiology and cell biology, including assembly of extracellular hydrophobic polymers and involvement in stress and pathogen responses. To understand whether MtN5, a new LTP2 identified in Medicago truncatula roots, plays a possible role in the plant protection function, we investigated its antifungal and antibacterial properties. A cDNA sequence encoding the protein, without the signal peptide, was cloned in a prokaryotic expression system. The purified recombinant protein has been characterized for its lipid binding properties and for its in vitro antimicrobial properties. The results showed that the recombinant MtN5 is able to bind lipids, similarly to other members of the LTP protein family and possesses a selective action against specific pathogens, potentially due to interactions with microbe specific membrane structures
Giuristi e linguisti agli albori dell'Ateneo triestino: tracce di una genealogia comune
No full textAttilio Hortis was an important cultural and political figure in Trieste at the
turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The essay analyzes his speech, read in
the Parliament of Vienna, in 1902: a speech with which Hortis advocated the cause of the establishment of an Italian university in Trieste. In particular, in the geopolitical context of the time, Hortis’s idea of placing legal and linguistic studies at the center of university teaching is examined, as they are regarded as the most functional to the development needs of the most important port of the Habsburg Empire and of the connected economy
Alimentazione, obesità e patologia respiratoria
No full textIn questo articolo sono descritte lepossibili connessioni tra obesità e patologie respiratori
New threats for pediatric respiratory health: beware of vaping
Get PDFElectronic cigarette (EC) was proposed on the market about 15 years ago as a harmless alternative to traditional combustion cigarettes (CC). Since then, EC and other electronic devices that deliver nicotine by simulating traditional smoking without combustion have achieved unexpected success, with around 80 million users worldwide by 2023. Such devices are commonly felt to be safer than CC, especially among adolescents, who are also the main target for aggressive marketing from the tobacco industry. Increasing evidence shows that e-liquids and vape contain toxicants and irritants and that acute and chronic vaping causes airway inflammation and bronchoconstriction and reduces responses to infections. Moreover, some studies have shown that second- and third-hand smoke, as well as in utero exposure, may cause detrimental effects to the airways and to health in general. Notably, the recent E-cigarette or Vaping use-Associated Lung Injury (EVALI) epidemic in the USA has shown that EC has higher acute toxicity than CC, while long-term effects are still not known. Since adolescents and children are often completely unaware of the health risks associated with vaping or of the potential presence of nicotine in e-liquids, pediatricians play a crucial role in educating them, in order to prevent vaping, as well as smoking. Pediatricians should always consider the possibility of vaping as the cause of unusual respiratory diseases, especially in adolescents. This narrative review paper briefly outlines the most recent data on EC and their effects on the airways, focusing on childhood and adolescence
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