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Musica, prisão e gênero: Uma leitura de Rita Segato para pensar decolonidade nas práticas musicais
No full textThroughout this work, we aim to reconsider Rita Segato’s contribution to decolonial turn in order to show what it involves when thinking about decolonization in music practices, particularly, in correctional institutions. As a turning point, we offer to rebuild the concepts based on Segato’s original thoughts intertwining Aníbal Quijano’s coloniality of power perspective together with a gender perspective. This provides the necessary elements to analyze gender/race in prison and to address the political and theoretical proposals of the author in terms of historical project of bonds and politics in a feminine key (Segato, 2018a, 2018b, 2019). Then, taking advantage of the categories and definitions Segato provides we analyze two musical experiences which took part in women’s prison no. 8 of the Penitentiary System of the province of Buenos Aires, showing the scope of the author\u27s developments when naming the experience —in this case, the musical experience in close connection with prison as an institution— as well as when identifying its politicity. Finally, we point out that Segato is not stranger to the music field and that her conceptualizations, as alternatives to the Eurocentric categorical grid, allow us to think about music practices in a situated mode and in a decolonial key. El siguiente trabajo propone retomar el aporte de Rita Segato al interior del giro decolonial para mostrar la contribución que dicho aporte implica a la hora de pensar la decolonialidad en las prácticas musicales y, en particular, al interior de la institución carcelaria. Como punto de partida, ofreceremos una reconstrucción conceptual que nos permita advertir el original aporte que Segato ofrece al entrecruzar la perspectiva de la colonialidad del poder de Aníbal Quijano con cuestiones de género. Esto nos brindará los elementos necesarios para pensar la cárcel en la intersección raza/género, y para abordar las propuestas teórico#políticas de la autora en torno al proyecto histórico de los vínculos y la política en clave femenina (Segato, 2018a, 2018b, 2019). Luego, pondremos en juego las categorías y definiciones que ofrece Segato para analizar dos experiencias musicales llevadas a cabo en la cárcel de mujeres n.° 8 del Sistema Penitenciario Bonaerense en el año 2017, mostrando los alcances de los desarrollos de la autora a la hora de nombrar la experiencia —en este caso, la experiencia musical, en estrecha vinculación con la cárcel— e identificar la politicidad de estas prácticas. Por último, señalaremos que Segato no es ajena al ámbito musical, y que sus conceptualizaciones, en tanto alternativas a la grilla categorial eurocéntrica (Segato, 2013), nos permiten pensar las prácticas musicales de un modo situado y en clave decolonial.O seguinte trabalho propõe retomar a contribuição de Rita Segato dentro da Virada decolonial, para mostrar a contribuição que essa contribuição implica ao pensar a decolonialidade nas práticas musicais, particularmente dentro da instituição prisional. Como ponto de partida, faremos uma reconstrução conceitual que nos permita perceber a contribuição original que Segato oferece ao cruzar a perspectiva da colonialidade do poder de Aníbal Quijano com as questões de gênero. Isso nos fornecerá os elementos necessários para pensar a prisão na intersecção raça/gênero e abordar as propostas teórico-políticas do autor em torno do projeto histórico dos laços e da política em perspectiva feminina (Segato, 2018a, 2018b, 2019). Em seguida, colocaremos em jogo as categorias e definições oferecidas por Segato para analisar duas experiências musicais realizadas na penitenciária feminina n.º 8 do Sistema Penitenciário de Buenos Aires em 2017, mostrando o alcance dos desdobramentos da autora no momento de nomear a experiência —neste caso, a experiência musical, intimamente ligada à prisão—, e identificar a natureza política dessas práticas. Por fim, apontaremos que Segato não é alheio ao campo musical, e que suas conceituações, como alternativas à grade categórica eurocêntrica (Segato, 2013), nos permitem pensar as práticas musicais de forma situada e a partir de uma perspectiva decolonial
CELL THERAPY IN INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE
No full textIn recent years, cell-based therapies have been explored in various immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Cell therapy is the process of introducing new cells into an organism or tissue in order to treat a disease. The most studied cellular treatment in IBD was “stem cells-based therapy”, which was explored according to different protocols in terms of type of donors, stem cells sources, study design and clinical endpoints. More recently, preliminary studies have also described the clinical use of “regulatory cells”, which include T-reg and Tr1 cells, and “tolerogenic” dendritic cells. Finally, induced pluripotent stem cells are the subject of an intensive preclinical research program on animal models, including those related to colitis
Effects of extruded corn on milk yield and composition and blood parameters in lactating dairy cows
No full textAccording to a 2x2 cross over design, fourteen Holstein dairy cows at 99±55 DIM were fed two diets containing 21.5% DM of either ground corn (GC) or extruded corn (EC). Performance and metabolic profile were detected during the third week of each experimental period. DMI and milk yield were not affected by dietary treatments. Milk fat and protein percentage of EC diet were significantly (P<0.10) lower than those of GC diet. Probably the higher rumen degradability of starch from EC thesis modified the synthesis of specific fatty acids leading to a milk fat depression event. Diets did not influence blood parameters, except for lower values of total protein and glucose content in EC diet-fed cows. Results suggested that the dietary inclusion of extruded corn should not be used at the tested level of substitution
Il consolidamento del marmo giallo di Siena: l'esperienza del primo campo prova nella cava della Granital S.R.L.
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Vietnam-western e detective-cowboy. Note su due casi di ibridazione nel cinema americano degli anni Sessanta e Settanta
No full textUno dei segnali di crisi ideologica che accompagnò l'escalation della guerra del Vietnam fu la revisione radicale dei tre più importanti generi cinematografici hollywoodiani del secondo dopoguerra: il western, il crime movie e, soprattutto, il combat movie.
Durante la Seconda guerra mondiale gli studios hollywoodiani, al loro picco di efficienza produttiva, furono mobilitati per sostenere con i propri film lo sforzo bellico del governo. Di conseguenza, l'industria cinematografica sviluppò uno dei generi cinematografici più distintivi, il combat movie. La risposta di Hollywood alla guerra in Vietnam, invece, fu assai diversa: con l'eccezione di The Green Berets, non furono prodotti combat movie hollywoodiani sul Vietnam mentre la guerra era in corso. La scelta di Hollywood di evitare il soggetto rifletteva la paura di affrontare un tema sul quale il pubblico americano era così intensamente diviso. In realtà, l’industria cinematografica affrontò la crisi di valori sollevata dalla guerra del Vietnam ma indirettamente, proiettando personaggi e storie della guerra indocinese nello spazio mitico del western. Il mucchio selvaggio di Peckinpah, ad esempio, rappresenta una chiara metafora del conflitto indocinese.
John Carpenter, con Distretto 13: le brigate della morte, ha compiuto un processo simile ma attraverso modalità differenti: inserendo la struttura narrativa di un film western classico all’interno di un crime movie, il regista è riuscito a parlare di temi sgraditi riguardanti la società americana degli anni Settanta
Studies on the retina of the diabetic db/db mouse. I. Endothelial cell-pericyte ratio.
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The genetically diabetic db/db mouse is a model of type-2 diabetes, where nephropathy and neuropathy, but not retinopathy were observed. The authors studied the retinas (trypsin digestion technique) of 16 db/db mice and 16 age-matched litter mates (db/m; controls), divided into five age groups. They noted a marked increase in the ratio of endothelial cells to intramural pericytes in diabetic mice compared to controls. This increase resulted from a selective and highly significant loss of pericytes in db/db mice (p less than 0.05). Some strand-like and relatively acellular capillaries were also observed. The db/db mouse may represent an adequate model for studies on the pathogenesis of retinopathy
Beyond customer satisfaction: designing patient-centred services
No full textBackground: Western Countries are looking for more effective models of healthcare delivery, by structuring them around the patients’ needs, in order to minimize the waste of resources and to increase the patients’ quality of life. Nevertheless, looking at the practice, most of the services labeled as “patient-centred” have been designed and implemented without the patients’ direct involvement.
Aim/s: The aim of the study is to answer to the following research questions:
What is the patients’ use and opinion about services designed without their involvement?
Are the patients available and ready to contribute proactively to the design of healthcare services?
Which are the drivers that better explain the patients’ proactive participation?
Method: We selected two services offered by a General Practitioners’ cooperative to its patients: the definition of a personal care plan and the activation of a call center. We set, validated and distributed a survey to 515 patients. The questions were about: the interviewees’ personal details and background; the use, opinion and satisfaction about the new services; the perceived usefulness with respect to their expectations; the interest and availability to be involved in the service re-organization or improvement. We also collected the eventual patients’ suggestions.
Results: Although the two services had been implemented to better respond to the predicted patients’ needs, a substantial misalignment with the patients’ necessities emerges from the data.
Around half of the interviewees declared interest toward contributing proactively to the redesign of the service. The more they are satisfied with the service, the more they are keen to participate. The availability is not linked with the patients’ age or educational level.
Conclusion: Our study suggests that designing services without the patients’ involvement creates inefficiencies instead of solving them. It shows also that patients are keen to collaborate proactively to the service design or enhancement, regardless of their age and educational qualification.
Possible applications or implications: This study provides an interesting contribution about how to maximize the value created in times of resources constraints, since involving patients and designing the services around them is not expensive, and prevents from the inefficiencies related to the implementation of useless services
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