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LORIA, PITRÈ, VILLARI: IMPERTINENZE, RESISTENZE, CORRISPONDENZE
No full textThis work explores the contradictory relationship of intense scientific rivalry between Giuseppe Pitré and Lamberto Loria. To do this, the author analyzes the correspondence collections of the Historical Archives of the “Giuseppe Pitrè” Ethnographic Museum of Palermo and of the National Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions in Rome, crossing them with other sources already analyzed in previous studies
EUJAP’S SPECIAL ISSUE “THE BOUNDS OF RATIONALITY” EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION
Get PDFWe thought it appropriate for a philosophical reflection on the concept of rationality and irrationality to start out with this excerpt from Nietzsche’s The Gay Science (1882). The idea that error may be an intrinsic part of
life—surely a Baconian echo—appears particularly useful to zoom in on all the difficulties that arise whenever we focus on the boundaries surrounding rationality. In our everyday experience of the world, as well as of ourselves and our minds, our capacity for rational judgment proves staggeringly unsuccessful in carving out a stable dominion for itself. We delude ourselves to be rational even when we employ apparently solid a posteriori arguments. Confabulation is part and parcel of our mental life: it comes in the form of the explanations that we provide to ourselves and others for actions or thoughts that we are unable to authentically understand (Hirstein 2009)
Review Article Myeloperoxidase: A New Biomarker of Inflammation in Ischemic Heart Disease and Acute Coronary Syndromes
No full textMyeloperoxidase (MPO) is an enzyme stored in azurophilic granules of polymorphonuclear neutrophils and macrophages and re-leased into extracellular fluid in the setting of inflammatory process. The observation that myeloperoxidase is involved in oxidative stress and inflammation has been a leading factor to study myeloperoxidase as a possible marker of plaque instability and a useful clinical tool in the evaluation of patients with coronary heart disease. The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of the pathophysiological, analytical, and clinical characteristics of MPO and to summarize the state of art about the possible clinical use of MPO as a marker for diagnosis and risk stratification of patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Copyright © 2008 Valentina Loria et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1
Looking Through a Colored Lens: A Black Librarian’s Narrative
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Konata, La Loria. (2017). Looking Through a Colored Lens: A Black Librarian’s Narrative, In A.M. Deitering, R. Stoddart, and R. Schroeder (Eds.), The Self as Subject: Autoethnographic Research into Identity, Culture, and Academic Librarianship (pp. 115-128). Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries.
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Myeloperoxidase: A New Biomarker of Inflammation in Ischemic Heart Disease and Acute Coronary Syndromes
Get PDFMyeloperoxidase (MPO) is an enzyme stored in azurophilic granules of polymorphonuclear neutrophils and macrophages and released into extracellular fluid in the setting of inflammatory process. The observation that myeloperoxidase is involved in oxidative stress and inflammation has been a leading factor to study myeloperoxidase as a possible marker of plaque instability and a useful clinical tool in the evaluation of patients with coronary heart disease. The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of the pathophysiological, analytical, and clinical characteristics of MPO and to summarize the state of art about the possible clinical use of MPO as a marker for diagnosis and risk stratification of patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS)
The economic foundations of society, by Achille Loria ; translated from the second French edition by Lindley M. Keasbey with a new preface by the author.
No full text"First edition, February, 1902; Reprinted, April 1904."Bibliographical footnotes.Mode of access: Internet
EVASIONI ALLO SPECCHIO: EVOLUZIONE E ASPETTI DELLA NARRATIVA DI ARTURO LORIA DAI PRIMI INEDITI A "LA SCUOLA DI BALLO"
Get PDFThe stories written by Arturo Loria (1902-1957) in the first half of the Twenties are mostly inedited and little studied. Through their analysis, therefore, I aim at presenting the first comprehensive research on the development of his narrative from his debut until the publication of his third and last volume, “La scuola di ballo”.
The first of the three periods in which I have divided his oeuvre comprises seventeen stories written between the end of 1920 and the middle of 1922. Displaying homogeneous characters and situations and a pervasive rhetoric of excess and delirium that connects Loria's work to the melodrama and the Gothic tales, these stories reveal in their succession a conscious design of the writer. Since the very beginning his art seems to be retreated into itself thus mirroring its condition in society.
Between 1922 and 1926, Loria develops his narrative in a coherent way. His stories are characterized by a growing process of desublimation that eventually leads to the picaresque tales of “Il cieco e la Bellona”. At the same time, he also experiments new solutions and different narrative genres.
The second chapter, divided into three parts, is dedicated to the analysis of the genesis and structure of the collections: “Il cieco e la Bellona” (1928), “Fannias Ventosca” (1929) and “La scuola di ballo” (1932). The study of archive material (edited and inedited) gives information on the volumes that is largely unknown. The analysis of the structure, for example, demonstrates that Loria aimed at creating a cohesive work: “books of stories”, and not simple anthologies. This hypothesis seems to find evidence in the transformation that the texts undergo in the passage from review to volume. Building up thick plots of connections among the different stories and giving importance to their disposition, Loria uses the structure of his work as a rhetoric device to direct the attention of the reader towards certain aspects of his narration. He also uses it to multiply and deepen the symbolic scope of his stories. Moreover, the study on the genesis of the publications leads to the identification of two distinct phases of the Lorian narrative in “Il cieco e la Bellona” and in “La scuola di ballo”, with “Fannias Ventosca” being the collection of transition.
The object of the third chapter is the in-depth analysis of the evolution of the narrative and of the poetics of the author. In it I consider the way in which similar situations and characters, in particular the meeting between the protagonist and an old lady, are repeated over and over again. The comparison of analogous elements in texts belonging to different phases highlights that this repetitive duress is referable only in part to an obsessive matrix. Indeed, the reiteration of elements often reveals the high degree of awareness with which Loria reflected on his stories and on himself through them. It is a stratagem to enshrine in his volumes both his autobiography and the “biography” of his writing technique. This incessant reflection is related ultimately to the modern conscience of the crisis of the subject and of reality: a crisis that in the first half of the Twenties manifests itself mainly in the refusal of it, while in the second phase it assumes the form of an unsolved dialectic between enchantment and disenchantment.
It is possible to find Utopian nostalgia and cruel observation of the evil especially in the ambiguous relationships that the narrators build with the grotesque characters and with the eccentric events that involve them. At a certain point, however, the adventurous plots of “Il cieco e la Bellona” disappear and the author focuses his attention on the sensations and the impressions of characters paralyzed by a castrating awareness of their own self.
In the fourth and last chapter I ponder some aspects of the evolution of his narrative mode to show how over the three volumes the voice of the narrator becomes less and less audible and how the diegesis shifts decisively into mimesis. Additionally, I underline how the modernity of contents is not mirrored in the forms of expression. Unable to conceive his own art if not in ways which Loria himself perceived as non-topical, with his stories the author seems to have constantly given life to metaphors of crisis
Erasmus Project BeEmTel – “Advancing Telemedicine for Non-Communicable Diseases: Simulation-Based Approaches and e-Learning Platform Evaluation”
Get PDFThe key topics of e-health are education and training. The European Erasmus project BeEmTel aimed to create an innovative European curriculum dedicated to Telecare for chronic diseases and emergencies through educational tools based on an e-learning platform and on remote simulation techniques. To describe the experience regarding the introduction of online telemedicine and telesimulation course applied to chronic diseases on some degree and academic career courses. Methods. The online course has lasted from May 15, 2023 to January 15, 2024, on the e-learning Moodle platform managed by Simnova. The students’ population came from the nursing and medical faculties or departments of the four Partner Universities. The ecourse has been structured into three sections: NonCommunicable Disease & Emergency, Health Simulation & Telecare, and New Forms of Proximity, with video lessons and resources, and a quiz area. Two immersive weeks have been reserved for a selected group of students. For the evaluation of the e-learning platform and the simulation method, we have referred to the first two levels of Donald Kirkpatrick’s model: user feedback, linked to the student’s reaction and level of satisfaction with the educational activity, and learning content, concerning learning and knowledge assessment. The BeEmTel Erasmus+ Project has emerged as an innovative educational experience, effectively introducing the concept of telemedicine to healthcare students across different countries and academic disciplines, irrespective of their previous background or attitudes
Regulatory T cells, Cytotoxic T lymphocytes and TH1 cytokine profile in dogs naturally infected by Leishmania infantum
No full textCanine leishmaniasis caused by the protozoan parasite Leishmania infantum is a chronic systemic disease endemic in Mediterranean basin. The aim of the study is to investigate the immune profile of dogs naturally infected by Leishmania infantum. In order to address such issue, CD4+ and CD8+ lymphocyte T cell subsets, peripheral CD4+CD3+Foxp3+ (Treg) levels and the presence of pro-inflammatory T cells have been assessed, in 45 infected dogs and in 30 healthy animals, by using immunofluorescence and flow cytometry detection. Animals were categorised according to their clinical-pathological status and their antibody titer at diagnosis. Results showing a significant increase of CD8+CD3+ T lymphocytes, a reduced percentage of the T regulatory CD4+CD3+Foxp3+ subset and a significant increase of TH1 cells, characterise the infected dogs, regardless of their antibody titer or the occurrence of clinical symptomatic disease. These data may provide new insights into the pathogenesis of immune-mediated alterations associated with canine leishmaniasis
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