13 research outputs found
The role of spitefulness in personality disorders: Toward a better comprehension of the cluster B
No full textIntroductionCluster B personality disorders (i.e., Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, and Narcissistic Personality Disorders), is characterized by a dramatic pattern of relating to others, with symptoms characterized by a difficulty regulating emotional states and behavior (APA, 2000). The desire to cause pain often characterized these disorders (i.e. borderline) involving vindictively harming another with serious and often negative interpersonal consequences. Nevertheless, there is a paucity of research about the nature of relationships between spitefulness and personality disorders.ObjectiveThis study aims to investigate the association between spitefulness and personality disorders in an offenders samples (N = 305).AimsTo investigate the associations among spitefulness and personality disorders. We hypothesized that spitefulness would be differently associated with emotional and impulsive personality disorders (cluster B: antisocial, borderline, histrionic and narcissistic).ResultsAs expected, spitefulness and some personality, disorders were positively associated. Specifically, ASPD and Borderline are strongly associated with high levels of spitefulness.ConclusionsSuch results confirm the theorization that the assessment of spitefulness improve the accuracy of diagnosing of these personality disorders.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.</jats:sec
The conundrum of control. Making sense through artistic practices
No full textEvery day we encounter situations in which “things spin out of control” or in which
our forms of life are subjected to increasingly stringent controls. Our daily lives seem
to oscillate between these two poles. However, the nature of control is a difficult
conundrum to probe. Art practices help us make sense of the paradoxes related to the
enhancing interplay between control and non-control by putting them on display. The
author argues that cooperation between these two poles is essential but is currently
hindered, leading to a sterile bipolarity. What happens if this interplay between the
two poles collapses?
The essay is structured into three parts: the first defines control and its relationship
with law, life, and art. The second part characterizes artistic practices based on
their functions in human experience. The third part delves into two exemplary cases:
Taiwanese artist Tehching Hsieh and Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn
La scelta di Danto
No full textL’autore sostiene che la proposta di Danto di arrivare a una definizione essenzialista di arte mediante una “filosofia dell’arte senza estetica” sia contraddittoria, e sottopone a Danto un dilemma: o Danto rovescia la sua posizione, e considera la riflessione estetica il presupposto necessario della sua filosofia dell’arte (rinunciando così a una definizione essenzialista di arte, ma ottenendo una caratterizzazione di ‘arte’ più sostanziale e informativa); oppure mantiene la sua ‘filosofia dell’arte senza estetica’, ma non riesce a distinguere una rappresentazione artistica da una rappresentazione qualsiasi. Danto’s Choice The author maintains that Danto’s attempt to reach an essentialist definition of art by way of a “philosophy of art without aesthetics” is contradictory, and puts Danto in front of a dilemma: either Danto subverts his position, considering an aesthetic reflection as the necessary presupposition of his philosophy of art (thus giving up an essentialist definition of art in favor of a weaker, but more substantive and informative, charachterization of art itself), or he sticks to his ‘philosphy of art without aesthetics’, but without being able to distinguish an artistic representation from a representation whatsoever
Per un giudizio estetico "thick". Steinberg, Johns e l'arte contemporanea
No full textL’autore sostiene che oggi la natura del giudizio estetico è ampiamente fraintesa e necessita un riesame. Propone tre tesi, di derivazione kantiana: 1. che le nozioni di "gusto" e di "giudizio estetico" sono ancora essenziali per comprendere e giustificare l’importanza e il valore che (talvolta) riconosciamo alle opere d’arte (sia del passato, sia contemporanee); 2) che il giudizio estetico non dipende da regole, da metodi o poetiche; 3) che il giudizio estetico non esprime preferenze individuali (thin), ma ha una struttura thick (concettuale e non-concettuale, culturale e transculturale). For a “Thick” Aesthetic Judgment. Steinberg, Johns, and Contemporary Art. The Author maintains that today the nature of aesthetic judgment is widely misunderstood, and that it needs a reappraisal. He proposes three theses, stemming from Kant: 1. That the notions of taste and aesthetic judgment are still essential for understanding and justifying the importance and value we (sometimes) acknowledge to (past and contemporary) works of art; 2. That aesthetic judgment does not depend on determinate methods, rules, poetics; 3. That aesthetic judgment is not a “thin” expression of individual preferences, but has a “thick” structure (conceptual and non conceptual, cultural and trans-cultural)
"Profanazione", gioco, eterotopia: come sottrarre il museo al cannibalismo
No full text“Profanazione”, gioco, eterotopia: come sottrarre il museo al cannibalismo
Secondo molte analisi, i musei contemporanei sembrano condannati a diventare centri polifunzionali, grandi shopping mall del consumo di massa, cittadelle autonome di spettacoli ed eventi “culturali”, parti della realtà fantasmatica e sensazionale a cui è ridotta la cultura. L’autore tenta di rileggere la funzione dei musei – e della cultura che essi rappresentano – come luoghi che devono e possono rimanere “altri” rispetto all’esperienza dominante della realtà, reinterpretandoli alla luce delle nozioni di profanazione, gioco, e a quella foucaultiana di eterotopia.
“Profanation”, play, etherotopia: how to save the museum from cannibalism
According to many analyses, contemporary museums are doomed to become multifunctional centers, large shopping malls for mass consumption, freestanding citadels for “cultural” shows and events, part of the phantasmatic and sensational reality to which culture is reduced. The author tries to reinterpret the function of the museums – and of the culture they represent – as sites which ought and can preserve their “otherness” in relation to the dominant experience of reality. In order to do so, he reads them in the light of notions like profanation, play, and etherotopia (Foucault)
Tullio De Mauro e Emilio Garroni
No full textA study of the relationship between the work of Tullio De Mauro and that of Emilio Garroni would require lengthy research on their respective texts, in-depth theoretical reflection, and constant comparison with the Italian and international philosophical-cultural debate contemporary to them, with which they maintained a constant dialogue. Such investigation would also constitute an important chapter in the history of Italian culture from the second half of the 20th century to the present. Of this rich and articulated mosaic, a few individual tiles are considered here. To begin probing the “distance in proximity” that I believe characterizes the relationship between the two scholars, the essay in fact takes its cue from the different way of reading a passage from an author dear to both, paragraph 90 of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations. A theoretical knot from which a dialogue unravels, sometimes explicit, sometimes subterranean, centered on the nature of “sense” in human experience and that of linguistic and philosophical (mis)understanding. Two often divergent perspectives emerge, but rooted in a deep ethical consonance
Cities’ Mind: Some Lessons Learnt from the Mediterranean
No full textThe city is not made up only of stones, buildings, roads, bridges or gates. The city is also a mental place that hosts ways of life, practices, perceptions, rituals, movements, moods and feelings. This distinction between the built territory on the one hand, and the way in which people inhabit and live in a city on the other, does not seem to be sustainable anymore, above all in the light of the technological transformations which over the last few decades have contributed to reconfiguring the urban space as a hybrid space. This essay, in a dialogue with the concepts of Gilbert Simondon's philosophy, offers a general picture of the evolution processes of the city, which the author considers the first and oldest example of "artificial intelligence"
The AWAKE Run 2 programme and beyond
No full textAutores: Edda Gschwendtner, Konstantin Lotov, Patric Muggli, Matthew Wing, Riccardo Agnello, Claudia Christina Ahdida, Maria Carolina Amoedo Goncalves, Yanis Andrebe, Oznur Apsimon, Robert Apsimon, Jordan Matias Arnesano, Anna-Maria Bachmann, Diego Barrientos, Fabian Batsch, Vittorio Bencini, Michele Bergamaschi, Patrick Blanchard, Philip Nicholas Burrows, Birger Buttenschön, Allen Caldwell, James Chappell, Eric Chevallay, Moses Chung, David Andrew Cooke, Heiko Damerau, Can Davut, Gabor Demeter, Amos Christopher Dexter, Steffen Doebert, Francesa Ann Elverson, John Farmer, Ambrogio Fasoli, Valentin Fedosseev, Ricardo Fonseca, Ivo Furno, Spencer Gessner, Aleksandr Gorn, Eduardo Granados, Marcel Granetzny, Tim Graubner, Olaf Grulke, Eloise Daria Guran, Vasyl Hafych, Anthony Hartin, James Henderson, Mathias Hüther, Miklos Kedves, Fearghus Keeble, Vadim Khudiakov, Seong-Yeol Kim, Florian Kraus, Michel Krupa, Thibaut Lefevre, Linbo Liang, Shengli Liu, Nelson Lopes, Miguel Martinez Calderon, Stefano Mazzoni, David Medina Godoy, Joshua Moody, Kookjin Moon, Pablo Israel Morales Guzmán, Mariana Moreira, Tatiana Nechaeva, Elzbieta Nowak, Collette Pakuza, Harsha Panuganti, Ans Pardons, Kevin Pepitone, Aravinda Perera, Jan Pucek, Alexander Pukhov, Rebecca Louise Ramjiawan, Stephane Rey, Adam Scaachi, Oliver Schmitz, Eugenio Senes, Fernando Silva, Luis Silva, Christine Stollberg, Alban Sublet, Catherine Swain, Athanasios Topaloudis, Nuno Torrado, Petr Tuev, Marlene Turner, Francesco Velotti, Livio Verra, Victor Verzilov, Jorge Vieira, Helmut Vincke, Martin Weidl, Carsten Welsch, Manfred Wendt, Peerawan Wiwattananon, Joseph Wolfenden, Benjamin Woolley, Samuel Wyler, Guoxing Xia, Vlada Yarygova, Michael Zepp, Giovanni Zevi Della Porta. ::: Publisher: [MDPI] ::: Location: [
Сравнение алгоритмов для шумоподавления изображений оптической когерентной томографии меланомы кожи
No full textIntroduction. Optical coherence tomography (ОКТ) is a non-invasive instrument for studying optically heterogeneous media with micron precision, including skin cancer. However, ОКТ tissue images are very noisy. It complicates both expert and automated image evaluations. There are almost no systematic comparisons of noise reduction algorithms in the literature.Objective. To obtain comparative test results on a set of ОКТ images of skin melanoma using various noise reduction algorithms.Materials and methods. A number of noise reduction algorithms were described, which include two relatively simple classical algorithms: Wiener and median, and more complex ones: a Complex Diffusion Filter (CDF), an Interval type-II Fuzzy Anisotropic Diffusion Filter (ITTFADF) and an Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) filter, previously proposed by the author for visualizing of mesh implants. Quantitative metrics were determined: a Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) metrics, an Effective Number of Looks (ENL) metrics, Structural Similarity Index Metrics (SSIM) and a correlation coefficient χ, reflecting two main principles of improving image quality: to reduce noise and to save the borders of tissue layers and heterogeneities.Results. The results of a comparative testing on a set of images, consisting of 10 melanomas (to which various noise reduction algorithms were applied) were obtained.Conclusion. The study did not reveal the best algorithm for all four metrics. According to the SNR metric, the EMD and the CDF filters perform the best depending on the type of area. At the same time, the EMD filter is either the best in all respects, or is inferior in SNR in heterogeneous areas and takes the second place in ENL. Taking as the correct hypothesis that the border preservation is more important before an integral noise estimate, it is possible to make an unambiguous conclusion about the need to use the EMD filter. As an alternative to the EMD filter, Wiener filter (which wins on the border preservation metrics) should be used or the ITTFADF, which ranked third in all used metrics.Введение. Оптическая когерентная томография (ОКТ) – неинвазивный инструмент для исследования оптически неоднородных сред с микронной точностью, включая онкологию кожи. Однако ОКТ-изображения тканей сильно зашумлены, что усложняет как экспертную, так и автоматическую оценку изображений. В литературе почти отсутствуют систематические сравнения алгоритмов шумоподавления.Цель работы. Получить результаты сравнительного тестирования на наборе ОКТ-изображений меланомы кожи с помощью различных алгоритмов шумоподавления.Материалы и методы. Описан ряд алгоритмов шумоподавления, в которые входят как 2 относительно простых классических алгоритма – винеровский и медианный, так и более сложные: комплексный диффузионный фильтр (Complex Diffusion Filter – CDF), нечеткий анизотропный диффузионный интервальный фильтр второго типа (Interval Type Two Fuzzy Anisotropic Diffusion Filter – ITTFADF) и фильтр на основе эмпирической модовой декомпозиции (Empirical Mode Decomposition – EMD), предложенный ранее автором для визуализации сеточных имплантов. Определены количественные метрики: отношение сигнал/шум (Signal-to-Noise Ratio – SNR), эффективное число наблюдений (Effective Numberof Looks – ENL), индекс структурного сходства и коэффициент корреляции χ, отражающие 2 основных выбранных принципа улучшения качества изображения: уменьшение шума и сохранность границ слоев ткани и неоднородностей.Результаты. Получены результаты сравнительного тестирования на наборе изображений, состоявшем из 10 меланом, к которым были применены различные алгоритмы шумоподавления.Заключение. Исследование не выявило лучший алгоритм по всем четырем метрикам. По метрике SNR лучше всего работают EMD-фильтр и CDF в зависимости от типа области. EMD-фильтр при этом либо лучший по всем признакам, либо уступает на неоднородных областях по SNR и занял второе место по ENL. Приняв за верную гипотезу о большей значимости сохранности границ перед интегральной оценкой шума, можно сделать однозначный вывод о необходимости использования именно EMD-фильтра. В качестве альтернативы EMD-фильтру можно рекомендовать использовать винеровский фильтр (выигрывающий на индексах сохранности границ) или ITTFADF, который занял третье место по всем используемым метрикам
Correction to: Practice of proctology among general surgery residents and young specialists in Italy: a snapshot survey
No full textThe originally published article the collaborators of ProctoSurvey Group has not been included. The original article has been updated
