210 research outputs found
Quality principles for cultural Web sites: a Handbook
No full textprinted and on-line versions, co-author with Eelco Bruinsma, Christophe Dessaux, Ciaran Clissman, Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, David Dawson, Isabelle Dujacquier, Axel Ermert, Pierluigi Feliciati, Fedora Filippi, Muriel Foulonneau,
Antonella Fresa, Monika Hagedorn-Saupe, Annette Kelly, Brian Kelly, Daniel Malbert, Andrea Mulrenin, Stefan Rhode-Enslin, Marius Snyders, Gert Van Tittelboom, Frank von Hage
Erosion de la nature, stratification de l'humain. Tournant ontologique et écologie sémiotique
No full textThe article “Érosion de la nature, stratification de l’humain: Tournant ontologique et écologie sémiotique” by Pierluigi Basso Fossali explores the interplay between ecological thought and semiotics, emphasizing the ontological challenges posed by the relationship between nature and culture. The author critiques the oversimplification of nature as a static regulatory principle, advocating instead for a dynamic semiotic ecology that acknowledges the interdependence of cultures, environments, and symbolic systems. The text highlights the necessity of rethinking environmental discourse through a multi-layered perspective that transcends traditional dichotomies, such as nature versus culture, while embracing the epistemological contributions of diverse civilizations. By integrating the notions of resistance, translation, and intersubjectivity, the article argues for a pluralistic understanding of ecological frameworks as both cultural constructs and practical paradigms for addressing global environmental challenges
Playing with autism. Encountering Simona Concaro by her music. Vol. 1.1
No full textPlaying with Autism contains twenty-four original pieces for piano, recorded and carefully transcribed in current music notation by Pierluigi Politi and Hanna Shybayeva. Simona Concaro, the author, is a young woman suffering of low-functioning autism. She lives in Cascina Rossago, a farm-community, designed to meet the needs of people with autism, in Oltrepo pavese (Italy).
Since she was three, Simona Concaro has created original compositions on piano, instrument she learned by herself, refusing any kind of musical education. In everyday life, Simona does not use verbal language and has low autonomy. Her music, on the contrary, contains interesting features – melodic, rhythmic and harmonic –, even in the presence of some iterative elements, typical of the autistic spectrum
The Italian trial of endovascular AAA exclusion using the Parodi endograft
No full textPURPOSE: To report the outcome of the prospective 11-center Italian Parodi Trial using straight and tapered endografts for the endovascular exclusion of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA). METHODS: From April 1994 to July 1995, 27 patients were evaluated and selected for endovascular AAA exclusion. The Parodi devices were delivered through femoral arteriotomies using 18 to 22F introducers and deployed by balloon expansion of the terminal stents. RESULTS: Of 27 cases attempted, 24 endografts (15 tube, 9 aortomonoiliac) were implanted (1 deployment and 2 access failures [11.1%] were converted). Three endoleaks (12.5%) were treated intraoperatively with covered stents, two successfully, and the third sealed within 30 days. Three (12.5%) of the 24 treated patients died in-hospital of device-(n = 2) and procedure-related (n = 1) causes; the remaining 21 patients were discharged within 8 days. Of the 8 aortomonoiliac grafts in follow-up, only 1 (12.5%) failed in the mean 23-month (range 18 to 30) follow-up: however, 4 (31%) of 13 tube graft patients were converted to surgery within 18 months. Of the 16 (66.7%) surviving endografts at 2 years, 6 (38%) showed no change in the AAA diameter, while 10 (62%) had shrunk. CONCLUSIONS: The tube graft was applicable in only about 5% of cases, and accurate endograft sizing and distal fixation were problematic. The aortomonoiliac design was not appealing to surgeons but fared better in the long term. Given the advent of newer endograft models, the Italian Parodi Trial has been terminated
Chiassoni, Pierluigi. El análisis económico del derecho. Lima: Palestra Editores, 2013
No full textThe book The Economic Analysis of Law, published by Palestra Editores in 2013 and written by Pierluigi Chiassoni, is a translation of the original Italian work Law and Economics. L’analisi economica del diritto negli Stati Uniti (Turin: Giappichelli, 1992). The author holds a law degree from the Università di Genova, an LL.M. from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. in Analytical Philosophy and General Theory of Law from the University of Milan.El libro El análisis económico del derecho, publicado por Palestra Editores en 2013 y escrito por Pierluigi Chiassoni, constituye la traducción de la obra original en italiano, Law and Economics. L´aalisi economica del diritto negli Stati Uniti. Turín: Giappicheli, 1992. El autor es licenciado en Derecho por la Università di Genova, magíster en Derecho por la Universidad de Cornell y doctor en Filosofía Analítica y Teoría General del Derecho por la Universidad de Milán
Gli strumenti della scrittura: un confronto metapoetico tra Valerio Magrelli e Pierluigi Cappello
No full textThis article compares the metapoetic works on the act of writing by Valerio Magrelli (Roma, 1975) and by Pierluigi Cappello (Gemona del Friuli, 1967 – Cassacco, 2017). After studying and sampling the metapoetic vocabulary of each author, I selected specific terms that occurred in both authors’ poems about the act of writing by hand: paper, rubber, pencil, page, and notebook. Therefore, this corpus consists of poems that include at least one of these nouns. The metric and rhetorical analysis of these poems allowed me not only to identify specific features for each author, but also to observe some analogies, such as the creation of a world existing “inside the poem” – a world that shelters and at the same time imprisons the “poetic I” of the authors.Il contributo confronta i testi metapoetici di Valerio Magrelli (Roma, 1957) e di Pierluigi Cappello (Gemona del Friuli, 1967 – Cassacco, 2017) che riguardano l’atto della scrittura. A partire dalla campionatura del lessico metapoetico nella produzione di ciascun autore, sono stati selezionati i termini della scrittura a mano risultati comuni a entrambi: carta, gomma, matita, pagina, quaderno. Il corpus è perciò costituito da componimenti che presentano almeno un’occorrenza di uno di questi sostantivi. L’analisi metrico-retorica dei testi ha permesso di individuare, oltre alle peculiarità individuali, alcune analogie, tra cui la costruzione di un mondo al di qua della pagina che protegge e imprigiona l’io poetico
Scientists, Democracy and Society. A Community of Inquirers
No full textThis monograph examines the relationship between science and democracy. The author argues that there is no clear-cut division between science and the rest of society. Rather, scientists and laypeople form a single community of inquiry, which aims at the truth.
To defend his theory, the author shows that science and society are both heterogeneous and fragmented. They display variable and shifting alliances between components. He also explains how information flow between science and society is bi-directional through “transactional” processes. In other words, science and society mutually define themselves. The author also explains how science is both objective and laden with values.
Coverage includes a wide range of topics, such as: the ideal of value-free science, the is/ought divide, “thick terms” and the language of science, inductive risk, the dichotomy between pure science and applied science, constructivism and the philosophy of risk. It also looks at the concepts of truth and objectivity, the autonomy of science, moral and social inquiry, perfectionism and democracy, and the role of experts in democratic societies.
The style is philosophical, but the book features many examples and case-studies. It will appeal to philosophers of science, those in science and technology studies as well as interested general readers
Le Faussaire et la Ville : la correspondance entre Sénèque et l’apôtre Paul mise à l’épreuve de l’archéologie
No full textIn this article the author provides new external evidence demonstrating
that the correspondence between the philosopher Seneca and the apostle
Paul is a forgery. The author compares archaeological data offered
by inscriptions, graffiti and regionarii with information conveyed by the
apocryphal letters. The setting of the epistles, as well as information
about the duration and damages of the Neronian fire, contrast with
the archaeological data, indicating that the text should be considered
a forgery. The contribution shows that the forger worked rather in a
literary mode. Conversely, the only archaeological date (CIL XIV 566)
that scholars have brought to support authenticity is probably not a
Christian inscription and does not prove anything regarding a meeting
between Seneca and Paul or Seneca’s conversion. The origin of the
correspondence should instead be traced to the cult of the apostles
Paul and Peter during the 3rd and 4th centuries
Handbook for quality in cultural Web sites: improving quality for citizens
No full textprinted and online versions, co-author with Giancarlo Buzzanca, David Dawson, Chiara De Vecchis, Mario Di Domenicantonio, Sara Di Giorgio, Isabelle Dujacquier, Fedora Filippi, Franca Garzotto, Maria Teresa Natale, Maria Pia Guermandi, Cary Karp, Emmanouil Karatzas, Sofia Karagiorgoudi, Oleg Missikoff, Maurizio Vittoria, Andrea Vituzz
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