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Filosofinfluencer
No full textBisogna comprendere il fenomeno dei filosofinfluencer non solo come espressione del loro patologico narcisismo, ma anche di condizioni materiali d’esistenza che hanno precarizzato il lavoro intellettuale
Between Futurism and Anthropology. Tranculturation and Postcolonialism
No full textThis chapter aims to show how Futurist and modernist European movements, which in the Old World represented the cultural substratum of the war spirit, were understood, absorbed, cannibalized, and swallowed from those Brazilian movements that were looking for an identity for Brazil since independence a century before. Paradoxically, Italian Futurism was fully projected as the martial spirit of progress, which was used to claim a “native” identity. Starting from these points, the chapter will analyse the issue of the relationship among different cultures in the light of the anthropophagical dialectic
External Control in Process Algebra for Systems Biology
Full text linkA critical aspect in the modeling of biological systems is the description view point. On the one hand, the Stochastic π-calculus formalism provides an intuitive and compact representation from an internal perspective. On the other hand, other proposed languages such as Hybrid Automata and Stochastic Concurrent Constraint Programming introduce in the system description an external control and provide more structured models. This work aims at bridging the above discussed gap. In particular, we propose a different approach for the encoding of biological systems in Stochastic π-calculus in the direction of introducing an external control and comparing different formalisms. We show the effectiveness of our method on some examples
Stem Cells for the Treatment of Muscular Dystrophy
No full textThis chapter focuses on stem cell-based therapies to treat
muscular dystrophy. It reviews previous attempts of cell
therapy in animal models and patients by the use of donor
myoblasts, explaining the likely reasons for poor clinical
results. It also reports the identification of myogenic
progenitors in the bone marrow and the related trials, this
time in mice only, to treat dystrophy by bone marrow
transplantation. It then proceeds to describe recently identified
stem/progenitor cells, either resident or able to home
in dystrophic muscle and to differentiate into skeletal
muscle cells. Different features of the various stem cells are
compared in this perspective and the few available examples
of their use in preclinical models of muscular
dystrophy reported. Finally, current clinical trials are discussed.
On the basis of current knowledge and waiting for
a rapid advance in stem cell biology, a prediction of the
initial outcome of currently running trials and further
development in the field will be presented
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