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Monumento a Cosimo Ridolfi a Firenze (1888)
No full textScheda relativa al monumento a Cosimo Ridolfi, opera di Raffaello Romanelli, inaugurato a Firenze nel 189
Una rilettura di Lochner v. New York ad oltre un secolo di distanza
No full textL'intervento ripercorre a 105 anni di distanza la celebre sentenza della Corte Suprema, LOCHNER v. NEW YORK, e il suo significato nell'ambito della storia costituzionale statunitens
Rappresentazioni e narrazioni della Repubblica
No full textNel volume ci si interroga su come la fondazione, le memorie e il “vissuto” della Repubblica siano entrati nelle narrazioni e nei linguaggi pubblici dell’Italia democratica, e si ripropone il tema dello sviluppo incompiuto del processo di nazionalizzazione e di acquisizione di un senso di cittadinanza.
Nel “farsi” della nazione repubblicana e di una possibile imagerie, vengono analizzate le narrazioni discorsiva e iconografica, audio-visiva e canora, mediatica e digitale, simbolica e rituale (in una reciprocità di sguardi tra Italia e Germania), confrontando le declinazioni di idee diverse di Repubblica. In un Paese attanagliato da “memorie divise” si indagano alcune tra le principali manifestazioni del “sentimento repubblicano” dal 1946 ad oggi
Hepatotoxicity of fast food?
No full textIn the dictionary, fast food is defined as any food which may be cooked easily, and is sold by restaurants to be eaten quickly or taken away. Changes in the dietary pattern of the last decades have made fast food a relevant component of western diet, but a diet largely based on fast food has detrimental effects on health, which have been a matter of discussion for 20 years.1 Two potential mechanisms have been suggested: a) fast feeding does not suppress appetite, leading to increased calorie consumption; b) fast food is usually richer in fats and saturated fats (and thus richer in calories), as well as in other components which may cause harm to several organs, namely widespread cardiovascular disease. Both mechanisms are likely to promote obesity, but is there evidence for a direct hepatotoxicity?
The issue came to public attention in the movie “Super Size Me”. After consuming three meals a day in a fast food restaurant for one month, Morgan Spurlock increased by nearly 10 kg, and liver enzymes peaked at 290 U/L (alanine aminotransferase - ALT) from baseline values of 20 U/L, accompanied by increased total cholesterol, uric acid and the onset of clinical features of the metabolic syndrome. No doubt that elevated aminotransferase levels are a marker of hepatic dysfunction, but are they related to any specific dietary component of fast food-based diet, or simply to weight gain and obesity-associated non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
Diabetes and chronic heart failure: from diabetic cardiomyopathy to therapeutic approach
No full textDiabetes and chronic heart failure are interrelated conditions with major medical and economic impact that have to be treated as a distinct entity. Several pathological mechanisms have been investigated and proposed to explain the structural and functional changes associated with diabetic cardiomyopathy. These mechanisms are likely to act synergically and may potentiate one the other. This review outlines recent advances in the pathophysiological mechanisms implicated in the development and progression of diabetic cardiomyopathy and in current therapeutic strategies
An entropy approach for evaluating the maximum information content achievable by an urban rainfall network
No full textHydrological models are the basis of operational flood-forecasting systems. The accuracy of these models is strongly dependent on the quality and quantity of the input information represented by rainfall height. Finer space-time rainfall resolution results in more accurate hazard forecasting. In this framework, an optimum raingauge network is essential in predicting flood events. <br><br> This paper develops an entropy-based approach to evaluate the maximum information content achievable by a rainfall network for different sampling time intervals. The procedure is based on the determination of the coefficients of transferred and nontransferred information and on the relative isoinformation contours. <br><br> The nontransferred information value achieved by the whole network is strictly dependent on the sampling time intervals considered. An empirical curve is defined, to assess the objective of the research: the nontransferred information value is plotted versus the associated sampling time on a semi-log scale. The curve has a linear trend. <br><br> In this paper, the methodology is applied to the high-density raingauge network of the urban area of Rome
Movimento e velocità istantanea. Alcune note sul concetto di infinitesimo, sul concetto di limite, e sul paradosso della freccia di Zenone
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