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Architettura in terra
No full textAs a new way of approaching the utilization of the resources of this planet
earth, the Author proposes baked earth as a natural, ecological and widely available
building material, accessible everywhere and to everybody; starting from the Manifesto
for the Right to Build with Baked Earth, the Author cites several examples of contemporary
architecture built from this material
Il contributo delle discipline dell’Architettura per affrontare povertà e fame e garantire salute, benessere, istruzione di qualità ed equità di genere
No full textIl volume 17 di AGATHÓN inaugura una serie di pubblicazioni dedicata ai 17 Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile dell’Agenda 2030, affrontando – attraverso progetti, ricerche e sperimentazioni – i primi cinque SDG: Povertà, Fame, Salute e Benessere, Istruzione di Qualità ed Equità di Genere. L’editoriale evidenzia il ruolo strategico delle discipline del progetto nel contribuire al raggiungimento di questi obiettivi, promuovendo approcci sistemici, multidisciplinari e multiscalari capaci di valorizzare sinergie e ridurre compromessi. In un contesto globale segnato da ritardi, disuguaglianze e crisi, il progetto – inteso in senso ampio e transdisciplinare – si configura come dispositivo capace di attivare trasformazioni sociali, culturali e ambientali. I contributi selezionati dimostrano come la progettazione possa incidere su temi cruciali come l’abitare dignitoso, l’accesso all’acqua e all’istruzione, la sicurezza alimentare, la salute mentale e fisica, la rigenerazione urbana, l’inclusione sociale e l’equità di genere. Attraverso casi studio, modelli replicabili e strumenti operativi, il volume propone una lettura critica e propositiva della progettazione; in particolare emerge la necessità di una visione integrata che superi barriere disciplinari, normative e culturali e promuova un’accademia più porosa e una progettualità orientata alla giustizia spaziale. L’editoriale invita infine a un impegno collettivo della comunità scientifica nel riconoscere il progetto come atto trasformativo e responsabile, in grado di connettere sapere, spazio e diritti.Volume 17 of AGATHÓN marks the beginning of a new series dedicated to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda. This volume focuses on the first five goals – No Poverty, Zero Hunger, Good Health and Well-being, Quality Education, and Gender Equality – through projects, research, and experimental practices. The editorial emphasises the strategic role of design disciplines in contributing to the achievement of these goals, advocating for systemic, multidisciplinary, and multiscalar approaches capable of enhancing synergies and reducing trade-offs. In a global context marked by delays, inequalities, and interconnected crises, project – understood in its broad and transdisciplinary meaning – emerges as a tool capable of activating social, cultural, and ecological transformations. The selected contributions demonstrate how design can address crucial issues, including dignified housing, access to water and education, food security, mental and physical health, urban regeneration, social inclusion, and gender equity. Through case studies, replicable models, and operational tools, this issue offers a critical and forward-looking interpretation of the project. It emphasises the need for an integrated vision that transcends disciplinary, regulatory, and cultural boundaries, promoting a more open academic sphere and a project-oriented practice driven by spatial justice. The editorial calls for a collective commitment from the scientific community to recognise design as a transformative and responsible act, capable of connecting knowledge
“Introduction”
No full textThis paper is the combined outcome of the results of two research projects whose Principal Investigator was the first author1. The primary objective: to produce a model providing scientific support for the project development of retrofitting initiatives for public spaces and public constructions in Italian cities, with the first area of implementation being Rome, in order to achieve increased levels of resilience and capacity for climatic adaptation while also heightening ecosystem quality and all aspects of environmental performance, primarily to mitigate climate change, reduce CO2 levels and increase energy efficiency through initiatives of urban and environmental upgrading and renewal under the Green City Approach. The methodological approach is based, as determined in part through consultation of the scientific literature, on the following steps: establishment of a reference framework and identification of technological systems subject to experimentation; definition of working scenarios and development of alternative analyses to be applied to them with innovative instruments; focus on the most appropriate solutions, based on the results of dynamic simulations; formulation of a working model that adapts itself to different contexts
A possible tool for the choice of building materials: the environmental product declaration (EPD)
No full textThe paper, contribution to the international debate on the environmental matter, deals with a tool that can guide professionals and the users in choosing low environmental impact building materials with similar functional requirements, the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) or Type III Environmental Label, by highlighting strengths and limitations. The paper, besides describing the characteristics and contents of the EPDs and Product Category Rules (PCR), lists the main European EPD Programmes, analyzing two EPDs models in order to verify the comparability of the listed LCA data
High-rise timber architecture: an opportunity for the sustainability of the built environment
No full textBioeconomy, circular economy, land use reduction, sustainable use of natural resources, reduction of CO2 emissions in the atmosphere and recycling are the keywords which the building world must face in the near future, as the environmental emergency can no longer be postponed. In order to disseminate in the scientific community the different possibilities of timber as a sustainable building material throughout its whole life cycle and to provide the professionals with suitable decision-making tools for a conscious design, within the cultural and scientific scenario of the recent years, the paper serves as a moment of reflection highlighting how a closer integration between different sectors (forestry, building, energy, industrial and waste management) can find, in the use of timber, an opportunity to significantly reduce the overall impact of a built environment life cycle
Assessing Competing Risks for Death Following Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
No full textHepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) as an indication to liver transplant (LT) started as palliative treatment, then moved to potentially curative anti-cancer therapy and more recently entered the era of competition with non-cancer indications, consequent to the need of the society to target equal distribution of the limited resource of donated organs among different indications. Nowadays HCC is a leading indication to LT, currently representing up to 50% of the indications in most transplant Centers. The risk of post-transplant death and the causes of mortality significantly vary along the post-transplant follow-up. Overall, the main causes of death after LT are multiple organ failure and cerebrovascular, cardiovascular, pulmonary, and renal complications. However, after the first post-LT year, mortality for technical complications, infections and general complications significantly decrease, while recurrence of primary liver diseases (particularly malignancies) increase, turning to be the main causes of death. In studies with time-to-event or survival outcomes, a competing risk is an event whose occurrence precludes the occurrence of the primary event of interest. In the setting of LT for HCC, when the primary outcome of interest is death due to HCC recurrence, death due to causes different from this serves as a competing event because subjects who die from such different causes are no longer at risk of death due to HCC recurrence. The introduction of HCC-specific survival as a primary endpoint in studies assessing the outcomes of LT for HCC allows the identification of independent oncologic determinants of post-LT survival and their relative weight on patients’ prognosis. In this view, a continuous model based on level of AFP, tumor size and tumor number that allows to determine the risk of death from HCC-related factors after liver transplantation (www.hcc-olt-metroticket.org/) has been recently developed. Since the endpoint of HCC-specific survival is not influenced by the changes observed in short-term post-LT survival (thanks to advances in the clinical management) nor in long-term post-LT survival (thanks to the introduction of effective treatments achieving control of hepatitis B and C viruses), a model predicting HCC-specific survival will be an helpful prognostic tool in the context of the changing scenarios of LT for HCC
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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