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Il trionfo dell' umiltà : canti quattro pel glorioso ingresso di Sua Eccellenza il signor cavaliere d. Aurelio Rezzonico alla dignità di procuratore di San Marco per merito.
No full textSignatures: pi² A-B⁸ C¹⁰.Etched frontispiece. Four full-page etched ports.: Clement XIII Rezzonico by A. Guera, Cardinal Carlo Rezzonico by F. Vollter(?), Aurelio Rezzonico by Guera, Ludovico Rezzonico by Magnini.Letterpress text on each page printed within etched border. That on t.p. signed by G. Leonardis after F. Fontebasso. Eight etched head- and tail-pieces, that on C7r signed G. Magnini.Dedication signed by Gasparo Gozzi, the author.Mode of access: Internet.Binding: 19th-century blind-stamped red morocco-grained bookcloth. Author & title on spine in gilt.Laid in Getty copy are the original front and back etched paper wrappers, printed in blue-green ink
Toward a scientific framework for the Personal Meaning Organization (PMO) paradigm: neuroimaging and genetic studies.
No full textIntroduction: Reciprocity with primary care-givers drives subjects’ adaptive abilities towards
the construction of the most useful Personal Meaning Organization (PMO) with respect to their
developmental environment.
Materials and methods: We analyzed the post-rationalist approach over the last ten years focusing
on the construction of a specific framework for distinguishing immediate experience from
explanations of the experience, the moviola technique, and the analysis of awareness and
resistance. Functional neuroimaging (fNI) was used to conduct a scientific in vivo study of PMO.
Results: Predictable, invariable care-giver behaviors allow an inward focus and a physical view
of reciprocity: when reciprocity is high, a controller-type inward PMO develops; when it is low,
the inward PMO develops in a detached manner. The Controller PMO is focused on the need for
protection/exploration; the Detached PMO is focused on need for expression during isolation.
Variable, non-predictable care-giver behavior allows an outward focus and a semantic view of
reciprocity: when reciprocity is high, a contextualized outward PMO develops; when it is low,
a principle-oriented outward PMO develops. The former interprets changes in the relational
environment one by one; the latter focuses on the management of antithetical aspects of reality.
Discussion: Focusing on the PMO promotes the emergence of adaptive individual resources,
thereby improving skills needed for the control of perturbing emotions and more flexible
behavior strategies
Global transcriptional profiling of Bifodbacterium longum grown under different conditions
No full textPsychotherapies in Europe. A set of instruments for a comprehensive research (DG XII Biomed Project Psychotherapy in Europe)
No full textI viaggi nell'Italia meridionale del nobile comasco Carlo Castone della Torre di Rezzonico (1742-1796)
No full textIl conte Carlo Gastone della Torre di Rezzonico non è certo sconosciuto nel panorama degli studi dedicati al tema del viaggio; i suoi diari, infatti, pubblicati quasi tutti postumi, sono abbastanza noti dalla letteratura odeporica. Poeta e scrittore, nato a Como nel 1742 da una delle più importanti famiglie della nobiltà locale, egli fu infatti una delle figure più versatili dell’Illuminismo tardo settecentesco e conosciuto come importante viaggiatore già dai suoi contemporanei.
Tuttavia, nell’analisi del personaggio, sono rimaste ancora in ombra le ragioni, tutte politiche, che lo portarono a viaggiare nell’Italia meridionale, alla ricerca di importanti legami, sia di natura politica (con il ministro Acton ad esempio) che economica (con la colonia di mercanti e banchieri inglesi presenti in Sicilia).
Il suo coinvolgimento nell’affaire Cagliostro nel 1789 fu una delle ragioni principali che lo videro giungere dapprima a Napoli e poi in Sicilia e a Malta. Suddito di Ferdinando di Borbone duca di Parma, Piacenza e Guastalla, venne sospettato di essere coinvolto nelle trame dell’avventuriero e, per tale ragione, bandito dal Ducato e spogliato di tutte le cariche e degli emolumenti accumulati nel corso della sua lunga attività di cortigiano presso quella corte. Egli cercò invano di riabilitarsi, ma morì a Napoli nel 1796 dopo essere riuscito a farsi accettare nell’Ordine di Malta.
Il mio intervento cercherà di chiarire anche il determinante ruolo che il padre di Carlo Gastone Della Torre di Rezzonico, Anton Gioseffo, ebbe nella scelta del figlio di viaggiare per tutta l’Europa e nella sua formazione politica nella Parma del ministro Du Tillot
Experimental Investigation of Helicopter Noise While Approaching an Elevated Helipad
No full textThe present paper describes a test campaign performed to investigate the noise footprint emitted by a helicopter in an idealised urban context, reproducing the approach to an elevated helipad. The test campaign was performed in Politecnico di Milano’s anechoic chamber and was finalised to investigate the effects produced only by helicopter noise. The set up consisted of a two-blade main rotor helicopter model and an aluminium rectangular prism model reproducing the landing building. Ground observer perceptions were recorded by means of a surface microphone and a realistic landing trajectory was approximated as a succession of fixed point measurements. Collected data were analysed through acoustic spectra and sound maps. Spectra were used to comprehend physical phenomena, such as reflection, diffraction and shielding, and to analyse the different contributions of helicopter noise. A sound map analysis enabled us to obtain a global perspective of the involved phenomena and to understand th extent to which people close to a building are stressed by a helicopter approaching an elevated urban helipad. Moreover, the experimental database, obtained over a free geometry, can be considered a useful tool for the validation of aeroacoustic solvers with different levels of fidelity
Extensive rhabdomyoma of the head and neck region : a case report and a literature review [Rabdomioma del distretto testa-collo : caso clinico e revisione della letteratura]
No full textRhabdomyomas are rare mesenchymal benign tumors of striated muscle origin that can be classified into cardiac and extracardiac types. Cardiac rhabdomyomas are considered as hamartomatous lesion because of their association with phacomatosis. Extracardiac type is further classified into adult, fetal and genital form, depending on the individual tumor's degree of differentiation. Adult head and neck rhabdomyomas are rare pathologies of adult patients, with a male predominance. The occurrence of multifocality is a rare manifestation of this uncommon lesion. Presenting symptoms are related to the location and dimension of the tumors and they include upper airway obstruction, Eustachian tube dysfunction, dysphagia and mucosal and neck mass. Because of their high rate of recurrence, radical resection is the treatment of choice of this kind of tumors. In this article is reported a rare and particularly large case of head and neck adult rhabdomyoma, presenting with an history of sleep apnea and night-time stridor
MECHANISMS OF HDL REDUCTION AFTER PROBUCOL - CHANGES IN HDL SUBFRACTIONS AND INCREASED REVERSE CHOLESTERYL ESTER TRANSFER
No full textTreatment with probucol, a widely used lipid-lowering agent, is associated with a significant reduction of high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels, but with an apparently improved removal of cholesteryl esters from tissues (e.g., from tendon xanthomas). The effects of probucol (500 mg twice daily) on HDL subfraction distribution and cholesteryl ester transfer activity were tested in 12 patients with stable type II hyperlipidemia [low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol > 180 mg/dl] after a placebo-controlled cross-over trial. Probucol significantly lowered total cholesterol (-13.8%), LDL cholesterol (-9.1%), and HDL cholesterol (-30%). By rate zonal ultracentrifugation, a marked reduction of HDL2 cholesterol (-68%) was shown, whereas changes in HDL, were less signficiant (-21%). These findings were confirmed by polyacrylamide gradient gel electrophoresis, typically showing a reduction or disappearance of HDL(2b) particles and the prevalence of particles in the HDL(3a) range. Cholesteryl ester transfer from HDL to lower density lipoproteins was significantly increased (30%) in all patients. These findings suggest that, in addition to the well-documented in vitro changes (prevention of LDL peroxidation and macrophage uptake), probucol characteristically modifies HDL particle distribution in vivo, and is associated with a significant increase of cholesteryl ester transfer activity
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