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Five autopsy reports of rib fractures in the mental hospital of Reggio Emilia (1874–5): pathogenesis proposal in defence of the ‘non-restraint’ system
No full textAt the end of the nineteenth century, recurrent cases of rib fractures were recorded in psychiatric asylums, opening a long chapter of discussions about the application of the ‘non-restraint’ system. Here we present a brief discussion of an article written by Enrico Morselli about five cases of rib fractures in the mental asylum of Reggio Emilia, in 1874–5. Morselli, a supporter of the ideas of ‘non-restraint’, suggested a common pathological cause. His analysis proposed the osteomalacic condition as the possible cause of fractured ribs, rejecting the accusations of violence by asylum attendants. The discussion also examines similar cases of the same period, making rib fractures the means through which the issue of management of the insane was addressed
Didattica e Architettura, tesi in composizione architettonica
No full textPresentazione del libro Didattica e Architettura, tesi in composizione architettonica, contenente oltre 120 tesi di laurea.
Presentano: L. SACCHI, T. BUCCIARELLI, C. PRESTA, F. PURINI, M. REBECCHINI, F. STORELL
Five brains of alienated criminals. Neurological investigations of early twentieth century criminal anthropology
No full textBackground: For the followers of criminal anthropology, during the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, the association “anatomical anomaly – psyche anomaly” represented an immediate diagnostic tool to identify mental illness and consequently the tendency to become a criminal. In this article, we analyse a clinical report published in 1900 in which the author, Dr. Saporito, described five brains of alienated criminals from the Aversa asylum. Methods: Through the observations of Dr. Saporito's autoptic evaluations and the literature of the times, the beliefs of the positivist science of that time are highlighted. Results: The identification of multiple physical anomalies focused on the brains, with particular attention to the alteration at the level of some fissures, could lead to identify psychiatric disorders and criminal tendency. Conclusions: From the observations presented here, the author reiterated that several anomalies recorded in these five brains reproduced atavistic characteristics, which disappeared in the ontogenetic and phylogenetic evolution of the human brain
Labelled sequent calculi for Lewis’ non-normal propositional modal logics
No full textC. I. Lewis’ systems were the first axiomatisations of modal logics. However some of those systems are non-normal modal logics, since they do not admit a full rule of necessitation, but only a restricted version thereof. We provide G3-style labelled sequent calculi for Lewis’ non-normal propositional systems. The calculi enjoy good structural properties, namely admissibility of structural rules and admissibility of cut. Furthermore they allow for straightforward proofs of admissibility of the restricted versions of the necessitation rule. We establish completeness of the calculi and we discuss also related systems
Paleopathological evidence of Legg-Calve’-Perthes from the medieval cemetery of St. Agostino in Caravate, Northwestern Italy
No full textLegg-Calvé-Perthes (LCPD) is a rare childhood disorder that induces the osteochondrosis of the femoral head. Almost all authors agree that the condition involves the obstruction to the bloody supply of the growing femoral head. The etiology is debated, as some authors claim that the triggering process of LCPD is unknown. Others argue that the onset of this affection can be prompted by several factors such as exogenous causes, trauma, metabolic issues, hematological disease, infections. LCPD has been recognized in archaeological material for nearly a century. The signs of the pathology are well described in the literature, but few paleopathological cases have been described. Here we report morphologic analyses of a skeleton retrieved during the archaeological investigations of the medieval cemetery of the church of St. Agostino in Caravate (Varese, Italy, 12th, and 13th centuries). After an accurate differential diagnosis, the observed features suggest a conclusion of avascular necrosis of the right femoral head and unilateral evidence of LCPD
Efficient computation of frequency response for systems with interval plants
No full textFrequency domain properties of uncertain rational functions depending on two independent interval polynomials are investigated. Several simplifications for efficient computation of the envelope of the Nyquist plots of the uncertain family are reported. Stronger computational reduction results are given for the Bode magnitude and phase plots of an interval plant-controller family of transfer functions. These results allow for a clear understanding of the extremality properties of several frequency domain performance specifications commonly used in control system design
Vertices and segments of interval plants are not sufficient for step response analysis
No full textInterval plants are of interest in control theory as models of uncertain systems. They are useful because many worst-case analyses of these models are simple to carry out. For example, robust stability of an interval plant can be determined by investigating only the four Kharitonov vertices of the denominator polynomial. Also, the maximum peak of the Bode magnitude plot can be found using just 16 special plant vertices. These 16 vertices are connected by 32 special line segments. Most stability and frequency domain analyses that cannot be done using only the special vertices can be carried out using just the segments. From these results, it is tempting to conjecture that the 16 vertices or at least the 32 segments are adequate for step response analyses. This paper presents examples showing that these conjectures are not true
Bernini e la Toscana da Michelangelo al barocco mediceo e al neocinquecentismo
No full textautori: F. Borsi, M. Fagiolo, A. Rinaldi, S. Tuzi, G. Morolli, K. Guthlein, S. Roberto, F. Quinterio, S. Colucci, F. Rotundo, R. Pagliaro, S.C. Cusman
Henry Tonks and the true face of war
No full textWounded faces, deformed, sewn up, assembled. This is the most visible legacy and at the same time the one that no one wants to see of every conflict. Reconstructive plastic surgery was born one hundred years ago during the First World War. Millions of people died, but millions more were severely injured. The trenches of World War I protected the bodies from shrapnel, but not faces. Thus was born the need to reconstruct faces using other parts of the body. Surgeon D. Gillies applied his knowledge of reconstructive surgery in a creative and innovative way to treat severely mutilating facial injuries. Alongside him, the painter and physician Henry Tonks was tasked with making pastel drawings of the facial injuries of wounded soldiers before and after surgery. Through this collaboration with Gillies, Tonks produced a series of portraits of facial injuries that remains unsurpassed to this day for emotional impact, scientific interest, and subtlety of representation
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