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Ashoka e le sue vittime: la Via della Pietà come cammino di riparazione
No full textAbstract: Ashoka, sovrano indiano della dinastia Maurya, deve la sua conversione al Buddhismo al profondo pentimento interiore seguito alla sanguinosa campagna di conquista del regno indiano di Kalingan(Orissa), che lo indusse ad un tentativo di riparazione spirituale e materiale durato un'intera esistenza e all'emanazione di una serie di norme (gli Editti) frutto della sua rielaborazione del Dharma in senso parenetico. Il suo precedente fungerà da modello per sovrani successivi, in primo luogo Menandro e Kanishka, che a tali norme si richiameranno più o meno direttamente.
Abstract (UK)
Ashoka, Indian ruler of the Maurya dynasty, owes his conversion to Buddhism to the profound inner repentance following the bloody campaign to conquer the Indian kingdom of Kalinga (Orissa), which led him to an attempt a spiritual and material reparation that lasted a whole life and to the issuing of a series of norms (the Edicts) a re-elaboration of the Dharma in a parenetic and exhortative sense. His precedent willnserve as a model for subsequent rulers, primarily Menander and Kanishka, who will refer more or less directly to these rules
Il trauma cranico da Abuso (Sindrome del bambino Scosso): Un vademecum per il Pediatra
Full text linkConstraint therapy nella forma emiplegica di paralisi cerebrale infantile: sperimentazione sulla efficacia e sicurezza del trattamento
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CAN in kilos - CAN Literature's "weight" in the major data-banks
No full textAim: This work aims at determining how widespread and heavy is the body of child abuse literature in the major available data-bases.
Materials and methods: 19 data-bases were selected. For each of them, information was collected on inventory of articles and books contained, number of articles and books obtained utilizing as filter the phrase “child abuse”, publication years’ interval, number of CAN articles per year. For every article selected information was collected on title, author/s, source and language, in a dedicated data-base (marking every reference per Db of origin in order to verify all the articles contained by more than a data-base). A descriptive analysis was carried out.
Results and Conclusion: In the inventory’s amount of 53271581 items stored (articles, books and reports on every issue) from 1872 to 2004, about 1‰ contains EXACTLY the phrase “child abuse”. 5605 are all the items published before 1984, while 33 in 2004. In the 20 years period 1984-2003 43341 were the items found. The most “fruitful” year is 2001: 7% of the entire period 1984-2003. Since 1993 the articles published were always more than 2000. Among all data-bases, the overlapping area (same article) is represented nearly by a 20%. CAN issue can be found in data banks of 4 macro-areas, that were subdivided into: medical area (i.e. Medline), psychological area (i.e. PsycINFO), educational area (i.e. Eric) and other (i.e. Econlit). Through this analysis, several increases were registered in different periods of time. The greatest general increase is findable between 1992 and 2000, with a subsequent mild decrease. 96% of the literature is written in English, and 2% in French. CAN is showed to be studied in different, and somehow unexpectable, cultural environments (Geobase for instance, dealing with earth sciences) and usually non comprised in the Scientific Societies dedicated to ill-treatment. The interest noticed in the different cultural settings is unbalanced and shows peaks and dips.
It seems fundamental to better connect all the different cultural sensibilities and create a more organic and coherent system in order to obtain more efficacious changes in social attitude towards children
A CFD hybrid approach to simulate liquid-phase chemical reactors
Full text linkDesign and safety assessments of chemical reactors can be done using Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) type equations. The averaging procedure of transport equations gives rise to unclosed terms, which must be properly modeled independently on the computational cell size. In particular, presence of chemical reactions leads to an additional source term in species equation. The averaged value of this term involves effects of both chemical kinetics and turbulence. Turbulence-kinetics interaction (TKI) models must be then developed in order to close species transport equations, so that Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) can be used to reduce the number of experiments required to design a chemical reactor.Many TKI models have been developed in the past, mainly for gaseous systems, while liquid-phase models have been less investigated because of demanding theoretical challenges. Therefore, the purpose of this work is the development of a new TKI model for liquid phase reactions, which combines the Laminar Rate model (for kinetic controlled systems) with the Multiple Time Scales model (for turbulence controlled systems) allowing its use also when kinetic and turbulent mixing characteristic times are comparable. An analysis of the influence of the turbulence model coupled with the proposed model was carried out to identify the most suitable turbulence model, and two different case studies were investigated to show the potentialities of the proposed approach
Disability: Cinderella of Public Health?
No full textBackground: Disability constitutes a major health problem due to both its high prevalence and to its considerable social and economic costs. Public Health can play a key role in reducing the global burden of disability by identifying, implementing, and evaluating population-based measures to prevent and control injuries and diseases. This task is precisely indicated in MeSH (PubMed database) definition of Public Health: “branch of medicine concerned with the prevention and control of disease and disability, and the promotion of physical and mental health of the population on the international, national, state, or municipal level”.
Objectives: Aim of the study is to weight the knowledge on disability topic in the worldwide literature highlighting the role of Public Health.
Method: A bibliometric analysis has been performed retrieving on PubMed database all articles containing the quoted phrase “disability evaluation”. Main outcome measures were the number of published articles and their distribution per year, language, country of publication and scientific field.
Results: Our research retrieved 17,735 articles published in the interval year 1949-2005. In this period 2,094 journals, referring to almost all branches of medicine, have published at least one article on this topics, with a mean number of 8,5 articles per journal.
The greatest part of manuscripts (16%) has been published by multidisciplinary journals. The subject area mostly involved is Neurology (15%), followed by Rehabilitation Medicine (9%) and finally Public Health (8%). The highest number of articles about “disability evaluation” has been published on Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (355 articles), followed by Spine and The Journal of Rheumatology, with 338 and 276 articles respectively. In Public Health field the greater publisher results a Russian journal, Sovetskoe Zdravookhranenie with 172 articles. Looking at languages, 60% of the manuscripts are written in English, 14% in German and 11% in Russian. Regarding to major subject areas, 88% of Neurology articles and 89% of Rehabilitation Medicine articles are published in English. On the contrary, only 31% of Public Health articles are in English and 37% are written in one of the Eastern-European languages (particularly Russian).
Conclusion:
During the last decades, many heterogeneous strategies to evaluate disability have been developed to assess disabled people and to collect data about disability burden. All medical disciplines have been involved in this challenge and also Public Health has given a non-negligible contribution. Nevertheless, the greatest part of Public Health articles are written in one of the Eastern-European languages and only a little part in English. Since English publications have the highest IF, the most influential Public Health journals do not seem to contribute very much to disability knowledge. We can suppose, therefore, that disability is perceived as a Public Health problem only in East European countries; on the contrary, in Western countries this topic is usually faced by clinical specialities like Neurology, Rheumatology or Rehabilitation Medicine, while Public Health seems to forget that “prevention and control of disease and disability” is, by definition, one of its leading aims
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