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Oncological and Functional Outcomes of Radical Cystectomy and Orthotopic Bladder Replacement in Women. Editorial comment
No full textDuring the last decades, orthotopic bladder substitution (OBS) after radical cystectomy for bladder cancer in women has been increasingly proposed. Meanwhile, strict patient selection criteria, improved surgical techniques, long-term follow-up in large patient cohorts, and validated evaluation have defined the role of OBS in men. Several issues must be clarified in women: oncological outcome, complication rates, functional results, quality of life, and sexual function. As a matter of fact, the results of OBS in women are substantially unchanged in the last decade as stated in this paper.
From the oncological standpoint, the patient outcome seems objectively satisfactory but selection criteria are different in the published series. Fortunately, the problem of urethra recurrence seems less relevant in properly selected patients.
However several issues are still a matter of debate. Functional results in terms of continence and hypercontinence are still unsatisfactory because the optimal way to reconstruct the pelvic anatomy is still undefined. Early and late complication rates are poorly evaluated. Little data are also available about the quality of life and sexual function.
Validated evaluation criteria in a large patient cohort are needed to objectively evaluate the results and to improve the substantially unchanged results reported in last decade. It's time to move forward!!
Cutaneous Manifestation of COVID-19: A Short Clinical Case
No full textMuch is now known about the respiratory presentation of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) but it can also show up with clinical manifestations in other locations, such as on the skin. Herein, we describe a case with cutaneous symptoms that emerged during the recovery phase in a SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infected patient. It is important for the healthcare professionals as well as the patients to know about such scenarios, so that appropriate action can be readily taken
Crambus varii Bassi & I- & To 2012, n.sp.
No full textCrambus varii n.sp. Figs 10, 24, 26 HOLOTYPE: TMSA, without registration number; ♀; [RSA, Western Cape, 33°57’S, 22°32’E] Saasveld George, C [ape] P[rovince], South Africa, H. Geertsema; 26.8.1964; Holotype Crambus varii n. sp. G. Bassi det. 1995, TMSA, (not dissected). PARATYPES (all from RSA): TMSA, without registration number; 1♀; same data as holotype. - TMSA, without registration number; 1♀; idem, 2.2.[19]65 - TMSA, without registration number; 1♀; idem, 1-10.II.1965. - TMSA, without registration number; 1♀; idem, 5.I.1965. - TMSA, without registration number; 13; idem, 26.XII.1964. - TMSA, without registration number; 13; idem, 1.1.1965. - TMSA, without registration number; 1♀; idem, 16.9.1964, De Fin. - TMSA, without registration number; 13; Kogelberg C [ape] P[rovince], Nature Reserve; 6-13.III.1983; Kroon & Molekane, GS 3330 GB. - TMSA, without registration number; 13; Cape Prov[ince], Kogelberg (34 18 BD), 23 Mar[ch] 1981, D.M. Kroon, GS 4193 GB. - TMSA, without registration number; 13; Stellenbosch; 3.3.’[19]21; Ch. K. Brain. - TMSA, without registration number; 13; 1♀, Vyeboom, Caledon Distr[ict]; 10.II.1954; L. Vári, GS 3300 GB. - TMSA, without registration number; 1♀; Saasveld; 5.I.[19]65. - MFNB, without registration number; 2♀♀; RSA, Bontebok NP, Swellendam; 14. 16.XI.1993; leg. Mey & Ebert. - CB, without registration number; 13; Saasveld, C.P.; 23.XII.1964; H. Geertsema, GS 5235 GB. - CB, without registration number; 1♀; Algeria Forestry, Clanwilliam Distr.; 4-10.III.1969; Potgieter & Strydom, GS 5240 GB. - MHNG, without registration number; 1♀, Worcester, Amandel spruit; 18.X.1966; Vári & Potgieter. – TMSA and CB (13), without registration number; 233; 2♀♀, Tsitsikam[m]a Goesabos Forestry; 13-22.III.1979; Potgieter & Scoble. - TMSA, without registration number; 1♀; Cape Prov[ince], Tsitsikam[m]a forest, Goesabos, 33 23 DD; 13-22 Mar 1979; J. Potgieter & M. Scoble, GS 3850 GB. - TMSA, without registration number; 1♀; Tsitsikam [m]a, Ou-brug; 17.III.1979; Potgieter & Scoble. ETYMOLOGY: The species is dedicated to Lajos Vári of the TMSA, author of very valuable entomological collections in Southern Africa. DIAGNOSIS: The combination of forewings without separated submarginal area, male genitalia with fully developed uncus, phallus with dorsoapical tooth and strong cornuti, and female genitalia with very large and strongly sclerotized ostium characterize this species among African Crambus. DESCRIPTION (Fig. 10): Wingspan: male 20-21 mm, female 25-27 mm. Labial palpi 4 X longer than widest diameter of eye, with inner side white and outer side brown with upper margin and tip white. Maxillary palpi white with brown basis. Frons clearly produced, rounded, white. Antennae brown, with silvery costa, serrate in male, simple in female. Ocelli and chaetosemata moderately developed. Head white, with few chestnut brown scales in middle. Patagium laterally brown, white medially. Tegulae dark brown. Thorax white. Abdomen bronze brown to whitish, suffused brown. Forewings ground color bronze brown, lighter in dorsal area; costal area white, wide, and white suffused with chestnut brown toward apex; female with more pointed apex; medial stripe wide, white, reaching outer margin; veins marked by white scales toward outer margin; outer margin with seven subterminal dots, more developed in female; fringes with both short and long scales white with silvery bronzed tip, thus appearing white with medial and terminal lines silvery bronzed. Hindwings white with brown suffusion; fringes white. Fore and midlegs bronze brown; hindlegs whitish, suffused bronze brown. MALE GENITALIA (Fig. 26): Uncus long, sinuous, pointed, moderately bent downward and sclerotized. Two large and spatulate socii cover up to two thirds of length of uncus. Gnathos one third longer than uncus, with apex rounded and bent downward. Tegumen with large base, partially fused with vinculum. Vinculum stout, with large subtriangular dorsal extension. Pseudosaccus small. Valva wide, with membranous cucullus, with well developed and pointed costal and saccular processes and small medial process lamellar. Phallus slightly shorter than whole apparatus, with large subapical tooth; vesica with 5 subtriangular cornuti. FEMALE GENITALIA (Fig. 24): Papillae anales divided into two lobes and apophyses posteriores of medium size. Apophyses anteriores absent. Abdominal segment VIII with narrow tergite and strong and complex sternite. Ostium bursae very large and sclerotized. Ductus bursae longer than corpus bursae, sinuous, sclerotized in proximal two thirds, then fibrous. Ostium and ductus bursae spiculate. Ductus seminalis opening in distal third of ductus bursae. Corpus bursae with two well developed signa. DISTRIBUTION: RSA, Western Cape and Eastern Cape at Tsitsikamma. REMARKS: The presence of socii and both costal and saccular processes relates this species to C. pascuella; female genitalia are also reminiscent of some other Crambus, such as heringiellus Herrich-Schäffer.Published as part of Bassi, Graziano, 2012, New Afrotropical species of the genus Crambus Fabricius, 1798 (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae, Crambinae), pp. 269-286 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 119 (3) on pages 284-286, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.150195, http://zenodo.org/record/611826
Verso una politica del limite? Note sul potere e l’azione nel lessico politico di Hannah Arendt
No full textThe starting point of this essay is the Arendtian critique of violence taken as the main interpretative key of the “immense polemic" entertained by the author with the Western philosophical-political tradition. Following this theoretical path, the paper intends to discuss some recurring terms in Arendt’s lexicon. Identifying in Montesquieu and then in Rosa Luxemburg two essential references for the author of The Human Condition, the essay analyzes the questions of the limit and the divisibility of power. The thesis is that, if inserted
in this interpretative frame, Arendt does not belong to the liberal tradition. The theory of action, the praise of the councils and the historical experiences of self-government along with a relational and non-violent conception of power and law are elements that allow us to identify clear radical and libertarian tendencies in Hannah Arendt's thought
Verso una politica del limite? Note sul potere e l’azione nel lessico politico di Hannah Arendt
No full textThe starting point of this essay is the Arendtian critique of violence taken as the main interpretative key of the “immense polemic" entertained by the author with the Western philosophical-political tradition. Following this theoretical path, the paper intends to discuss some recurring terms in Arendt’s lexicon. Identifying in Montesquieu and then in Rosa Luxemburg two essential references for the author of The Human Condition, the essay analyzes the questions of the limit and the divisibility of power. The thesis is that, if inserted in this interpretative frame, Arendt does not belong to the liberal tradition. The theory of action, the praise of the councils and the historical experiences of self-government along with a relational and non-violent conception of power and law are elements that allow us to identify clear radical and libertarian tendencies in Hannah Arendt's thought
Andrea Caffi e Hannah Arendt. Appunti per un dialogo postumo [Andrea Caffi and Hannah Arendt. Notes for a Posthumous Dialogue]
No full textThe current paper primarily compares Caffi’s essay Violence and Sociability (1946) to Arendt’s essay On Violence (1969). Starting from the historical context of «politics», the journal that published Violence and Sociability and for which Arendt was a contributor, I will reconstruct the common themes that emerge from their reflections. Through demonstrating the comparability of Caffi’s thought with Arendtian political theory, the aim is to argue that Caffi is an author unjustly condemned to oblivion
Ola Segnestam Larsson, Standardizing Civil Society: Interpreting organizational development in the tension between instrumentalism and expressivism, Santérus Academic Press, Stockholm, 2011, pp. 280
No full textThe author checks his hypothesis against three case studies of international cooperation in Nicaragua selected from the Sida database, which, in the period 2004–2010, had 500 worldwide projects focused on ‘‘organizational development’’.
The first project—‘‘Strengthening an organization of people with disabilities’’— consisted of an organizational mixture including an organization in Sweden, a federative civil society organization in Sweden, a Danish intermediate organization,
a consortium of Nicaraguan civil society organizations and a civil society organization in Nicaragua. The main aim was to enhance the ‘‘administrative, organizational, labour and technical capacity’’ of the Nicaraguan organization. The
second project—‘‘Supporting an independent, democratic trade union’’—involved two labour organizations for teachers (one Swedish and one Nicaraguan), and a policy organization in Sweden. The focus was on institutional support to the
Nicaraguan organization in order to improve its capacity of recruiting members, affiliating more local labour organizations and strengthening the role of women. The third project—‘‘Empowering a Christian youth organization’’—aimed at training youth leaders. It was based on the collaboration between two Christian youth organizations: one from Sweden and the other from Nicaragua. A Swedish policy organization was also involved
External versus Internal Self-Determination: A Plea for the Full Implementation of the Ethiopian Constitution
No full textThis article contributes to the Ethiopian debate on self-determination, considering the current multinational federal constitution as well as international understandings of the concept. The article suggests that the Ethiopian Federal Constitution provides for internal self-determination and that shortcomings in terms of ethnic conflict should be attributed to failure to properly implement it. The author recommends full respect of human rights, both political rights and minority and indigenous rights, in line with the international best practices
Per la dignità della politica. Hannah Arendt nella lettura di Richard J. Bernstein
No full textStarting from the suggestions offered in his essay Why Read Hannah Arendt Now (2018), this paper aims to review the main aspects of Richard Bernstein’s interpretation of Arendt. This is particularly interesting in the light of Bernstein’s philosophical background primarily characterized by the influence of Deweyan pragmatism and Marxism. Within this theoretical framework, the paper argues how Bernstein can provide Arendt Studies with original, yet unexplored, point of view on the work of the author of The
Human Condition
Paradigmi dello Sviluppo e Approccio Relativista
No full textIn this article the author builds on the notion of “paradigm of development” to provide analytic instruments for the institutional analysis of international development. He identifies the following four main paradigms, each rooted in different disciplines and ethical foundations:1) economic growth; 2) social equity; 3) environmental sustainability; 4) beneficiaries’ active role. Each paradigm implies different and measurable objectives, to be achieved by specific methodological approaches. The various paradigms give different consideration to relevance of specific articulations of culture, formal or informal norms and local conditions. It is accordingly possible to classify them based on their relativist attitude. The economic growth paradigm assumes generalized positive gain for the public. The beneficiaries of development are not really defined: they are an imagined community that cannot take any direct role in the design and implementation of programmes and project. As such, this paradigm stands in opposition to the highly relativist fourth paradigm that instead requires specific communities to take an active decisional role on the development process.
Equally diverging along the relativist gradient are the priorities defined by different sets of human rights, that on the whole provide the internationally agreed ethical dimension of international development. The transversal responsibilities for the application and promotion of the internationally agreed human rights have over the last two decades facilitated a process of hybridization of the development paradigms. Hybridization and inhomogeneity thus pervade the organizational culture of each international organisation, opening up space for both manipulations and negotiations. Throughout the paper, the author argues for the methodological and theoretical relevance of anthropology and the relativist approaches to development for mitigating the negative and, in some cases, devastating impacts that the first paradigm may produce on the most disadvantaged, “invisible” human communities
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