37 research outputs found
Paolo Caccia Dominioni’s work for the Italian embassy at Ankara
No full textBased on research carried out at the Caccia Dominioni family archive, this contribution tells the intriguing story of the Italian Embassy at Ankara (1938-1940), a project involving Paolo Vietti Violi (1882-1965), Florestano di Fausto (1890-1965) and Paolo Caccia Dominioni (1896-1992).
The main point of our paper is assessing Caccia Dominioni’s role, from a construction manager to the author of a “variant” which actually introduced a completely new layout. He was working at the site from April 1938 to 1940, running day-to-day operations, taking care of the financial management, hiring and looking after workers, maintaining official relations with Italian and Turkish authorities, supervising the supply of materials, and developing Di Fausto’s drawings, which arrived rarely and mostly incomplete. Caccia Dominioni’s “variant” introduced a completely new layout, resulting from a thorough understanding of the landscape potential, fully exploiting the opportunities provided by the diagonally sloping ground. Rather than a single group of monumental buildings, Caccia Dominioni envisaged a variety of structures, each dedicated to a specific function, sized and shaped accordingly. Altogether, the Embassy looked like a village, a “city within a city” so common for foreign legations in the Levant
Fertility in post-partum dairy cows in winter or summer following estrus synchronization and fixed time A.I. after the induction of an LH surge with Gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) or human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG)
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The distribution of ovulations from the ovaries of Merino and Border Leicester × Merino ewes and its effect on the survival of their embryos
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Accuracy and errors about the human ovary; the good, bad and the ugly
No full textThis collection is dedicated to the memory of Professor Ken McNatty and Professor Rex Scaramuzzi, both of whom made outstanding contributions to the understanding of reproductive, and particularly ovarian, biology. In fact, the impetus for this commentary began when the authors questioned why some textbooks continued to print an earlier theory of ovarian development by Haward Sawyer and Ken McNatty (Sawyer et al. 2002), when important additional findings were published in 2013 (Hummitzsch et al. 2013). The authors question why textbooks, websites and YouTube videos continue to present misinformation about the ovary with statements and illustrations that are patently inaccurate or incorrect. We are aware that medical and science textbook publishers may take no responsibility for the accuracy of content by printing a disclaimer to this effect. Webpages and YouTube videos, in the main, exist with no such caveat. Do authors of textbooks accept responsibility to publish up-to-date factual material and avoid demonstrably incorrect information? In some cases, apparently not. Here we will show examples from the ovarian biology that we encounter regularly, that authors often do not check nor update content for the multiple book editions published over decades. If original sources are not consulted by authors, where are they getting their information? Erroneous statements and dogma continue to be represented in scientific literature as established facts. Textbooks, in particular, are supposed to be reliable sources of information. Unfortunately, too many mislead students and scholars and promulgate misinformation. If the contributions of Professor Ken McNatty, Professor Rex Scaramuzzi and others are to be truly valuable, then knowledge amplified by textbooks and the web must at least be accurate.Raymond J. Rodgers and Jeffrey B. Ker
Nutrition et métabolisme : quel lien avec le développement folliculaire et embryonnaire ches les mammifères ?
No full textOvulation rate and the concentrations of LH, FSH, GH, prolactin and insulin in ewes infused with tryptophan, tyrosine or tyrosine plus phenylalanine during the luteal phase of the oestrous cycle
No full textImmunization against polyandroalbumin leads to increases in lambing and tailing percentages
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