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Marriage record of Leyets, Moses and Marti, Rosa
No full textMarriage license for Moses Leyets and Rosa Marti. T. Gurley was the officiant
Pervasive, disruptive, seductive, enabling: Designing technologies for learning and social innovation
No full text"There are no technological revolutions without cultural transformations." This is a quote from the book “The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society” by Manuel Castells, in which the author explores the complexity of the social problems generated by the spread of the Internet.
Nowadays the Internet is no longer simply a means for connecting people through computers. The digital components of the network have materialized in things. Information has ceased to travel exclusively on the computer screen and moved onto physical objects, now able to talk to each other and with the environment.
The challenge is that this technological innovation will become a social innovation, and that individuals, society, institutions and companies will appropriate it, modifying it, transforming it, and experimenting with it.
This paper is a reflection on the role of technology in supporting social innovation. We will approach this topic from the perspective of interaction design, a discipline that studies social practices connected with use of technologies, and imagines new possibilities as well as new activities enabled by them.
The reflection will develop by presenting the outcomes of Light through Culture, an international educational project that aims to create a meaningful context for learning in which students reflect on socio-cultural issues together by building interactive installations
Presentation by Salvador Levy at the 2017 Jose Marti Breakfast
No full textLecture by Salvador Levy, Cuban author, actor and political prisoner.
Introduction by Sebastian Arcos, Associate Director, FIU Cuban Research Institute.
This is the 17th annual José Marti Scholarship Breakfast held at the BBC Wolfe University Center Ballrooms. This annual event was founded and led by FIU Vice Provost Emeritus, Dr. Raul Moncarz and is organized by the BBC José Martí Scholarship Breakfast Committee
New Marti Headmaster Appointed; School is Reorganized, Renamed
No full textAn article from the Journal Herald discussing the reorganization of The Marti School to what would become The Miami Valley School. In the article, the author speaks with the new headmaster of the school, Walter Truslow, regarding the changes at the school, tuition, and the elimination of the high school
Mario Marti e gli studi su Ludovico Ariosto
No full textEnOver the course of thirty-five years, from the mid-1950s to 1989, Mario Marti devoted constant attention to Ludovico Ariosto, probing in depth and with the usual methodological rigor the vast production of the Emilian writer. In this contribution we retrace the salient phases of this constant and lasting research work, underlining the particular ideological-spiritual consonance between the critic and the poet, especially with reference not so much to the Furioso as to the author of the Satire.ItNel corso di trentacinque anni, dalla metà degli anni '50 del Novecento e fino al 1989, Mario Marti dedicò attenzione costante a Ludovico Ariosto, scandagliando in profondità e con il consueto rigore metodologico la vasta produzione dello scrittore emiliano. Si ripercorrono in questo contributo le fasi salienti di tale costante e duraturo lavoro di ricerca, sottolineando la particolare consonanza ideologico-spirituale tra il critico e il poeta, specie con riferimento non tanto al Furioso, quanto all'autore delle Satire
Marti\u27s Song for Freedom: Book Presentation by Author Emma Otheguy
No full textHe found freedom in the river that rushed to the sea and peace in the palmas reales that swayed in the wind. Freedom, he believed, was the inherent right of all men and women. But his home island of Cuba was colonized by Spain, and some of the people were enslaved by rich landowners. Enraged, Marti took up his pen and fought against this oppression through his writings. By age seventeen, he was declared an enemy of Spain and forced to leave his beloved island.
Marti traveled the world, speaking out for Cuba\u27s independence. But throughout his exile, he suffered from illness and homesickness. He found solace in New York\u27s Catskill Mountains, where nature inspired him once again to fight for independence. As he wrote in his seminal book Versos sencillos (1891),
Yo soy un hombre sincero De donde crece la palma, Y antes de morirme quiero Echar mis versos del alma.
I am a sincere man From where the palm tree grows, And before I die I want To say the verses of my soul.
Written in verse, Marti\u27s Song for Freedom is a beautiful tribute to a brilliant political writer and courageous fighter of freedom for all men and women.https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cri_events/1376/thumbnail.jp
Carotenoids, tocochromanols and chlorophylls in sea buckthorn berries (Hippophae rhamnoides) and Rose Hips (Rosa sp.)
No full textConsumption of fruits and berries have positive effects on human health by reducing the risk of e.g. cardiovascular diseases, age-related macular degeneration and cataracts, and different forms of cancer. These positive effects are believed to be related to the high content of bioactive compounds such as different antioxidants in fruits and berries. Increased intake of bioactive compounds can be promoted by selecting species/cultivars with high contents and by harvesting at the optimal time. Recent interest for cultivating sea buckthorn berries and rose hips partly depends on their more or less well documented health related statements. Products containing sea buckthorn berries or rose hips are steadily growing in number on the market and there is a need for increasing the knowledge of the content of the bioactive compounds in the fruit and berry raw material. This thesis investigated the content of carotenoids, tocochromanols (tocopherols and tocotrienols) and chlorophylls in berries from different cultivars of sea buckhorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) and fruits from different species of roses (Rosa sp.) during the harvest period of three consecutive years. The carotenoid and tocopherol content were also investigated during processing and storage in juices with sea buckthorn berries and rose hips as ingredients. Carotenoids and tocochromanols are fat-soluble antioxidants, some of which have activity as pro-vitamin A and vitamin E. All analyses were carried out by HPLC on extracts made from lyophilised material. The concentration of carotenoids, tocochromanols and chlorophylls generally varied depending on cultivar/species and over the ripening period in both sea buckthorn berries and rose hips. This variation was not simultaneous for different compounds of the same type, e.g. all carotenoids did not show similar variation. For carotenoid content, harvesting time and choice of cultivar were more important than year of harvest, and a general increase occurred over the season. The tocochromanol content was mostly influenced by cultivar/species and year of harvest, although vitamin E activity generally decreased during ripening. The chlorophyll content decreased during ripening, when the fruits/berries changed colour from green to yellow-red, and proved suitable for use as a maturity marker of optimal harvesting time
Late Quaternary sedimentary geology of North Turkwel, Turkana County, Kenya
No full textSedimentary strata exposed in the region of North Turkwel, in the Lake Turkana Basin of northern Kenya, are described here in detail for the first time. Research undertaken here has 1) investigated the spatial distribution of facies through geologic mapping and sedimentary analysis, 2) documented a sequence of events through relative dating and radiocarbon age analysis of ostracods from two sections and 3) made comparisons between facies sequences in the study area and previously published lake level curves for the last 13,000 cal. yr BP in the Turkana Basin. Investigated strata from North Turkwel are comprised of deltaic and lacustrine deposits of the Galana Boi Formation that displays distinct characteristics when compared to previous research and Galana Boi deposits from the northeastern lake margin. These differences are attributed to each region’s fluvial system (Turkwel vs. Omo River), terrane of the drainage basin (metamorphic vs. volcanic), and wind patterns that affect lake currents and the distribution of sediment (high vs. low energy shoreline and wave vs. fluvial-dominated deltas). The majority of investigated deposits in this study formed during the latest Pleistocene to Holocene pluvials of the African Humid Period (AHP) in which the Turkana Basin experienced two lake highstand phases from 11,500 to 5,300 cal. yr BP. Facies analyses show grain size and sedimentary structure characteristics that correlate with a particular deltaic zone or lacustrine setting and are shaped by processes unique to this region. In North Turkwel, lacustrine and deltaic deposits have so far been located up to 70 meters above the present (2011) water surface of Lake Turkana and indicate transgression and regression episodes across the basin. In summary, this study reconstructs the paleoenvironment and paleogeography of North Turkwel during a humid climate of the Late Quaternary and evaluates the terrane, processes, and depositional patterns across a basin with vastly fluctuating lake levels.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Rosa Linda Marti
Oropharyngeal decontamination with antiseptics to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia : rethinking the benefits of povidone-iodine
No full textThe synthetic cathinones MDPHP and MDPV: Comparison of the acute effects in mice, in silico ADMET profiles and clinical reports
No full textThe 3,4-methylenedioxy-alpha-pyrrolidinohexanophenone (MDPHP) is a synthetic cathinone closely related to 3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV), one of the most common synthetic cathinones present in the “bath salts”. MDPHP has recently gained attention due to increasing seizures and involvement in human intoxications which occurred in Europe and Italy in the last years, but currently there is a lack of information about its pharmaco-toxicological effects. With the aim at filling this gap, the present study is endeavoured to (i) evaluate the effects of acute administration of MDPHP (0.01–20 mg/kg; i.p.) on behaviour, cardiorespiratory and cardiovascular parameters in CD-1 male mice, comparing them to those observed after administration of MDPV; (ii) predict the ADMET profile of the two analogues using the Plus ADMET Predictor®; (iii) present clinical data related to MDPHP and MDPV-induced intoxications recorded between 2011 and 2023 by the Pavia Poison Control Centre (PCC) − National Toxicology Information Centre (Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri, IRCCS Pavia, Italy). Our results substantiated that MDPHP and MDPV similarly affect sensorimotor and behavioural responses in mice, importantly increased locomotion and induced aggressive behaviour, and, at higher dosage, increased heart rate and blood pressure. These findings are in line with those observed in humans, revealing severe toxidromes typically characterized by Central Nervous System (CNS) alterations (behavioural/neuropsychiatric symptoms), including psychomotor agitation and aggressiveness, cardiovascular and respiratory disorders (e.g. tachycardia, hypertension, dyspnoea), and other peripheral symptoms (e.g. hyperthermia, acidosis, rhabdomyolysis).This research has been funded by the Anti-Drug Policies Department, Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Italy (project: \u201CEffects of NPS: development of a multicentre research for the information enhancement of the Early Warning System\u201D to M. Marti; project: \u201CImplementation of the identification and study of the effects of NPS: Development of a multicentric research to strengthen the database of the National Monitoring Centre for Drug Addiction and the Early Warning System\u201D to M. Marti), local funds from the University of Ferrara (FAR 2022, FAR 2023 to M. Marti)
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