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I nostri valori, rivisti
Authors: Gorman Michael
Published: January 2020

I nostri valori, rivisti is the profound reinterpretation, fifteen years after its first edition, of I nostri valori, which highly influenced the discussion on the present and future of libraries and librarians. The suggested professional values are: management skills, service, intellectual freedom, rationality, literacy and learning, equity of access to knowledge and information, privacy, democracy and, compared to the first edition, Michael Gorman adds the superior good. This is therefore an axiology of the library and even more than that, a defence of the library’s value, but also a treatise on the library and the librarians advocacy, of a system and a profession which must continually evolve to reaffirm and consolidate their centrality in the social and cultural context.
Inquietudine spettrale
Authors: Caprili Gian Luca
Published: January 2020

Inquietudine spettrale. Gli uccelli nella concezione poetica di Jacob Grimm covers a peculiar aspect of Jacob Grimm’s poetry: in the framework of a nature pervaded with spirituality, whose hard-to-reach secrets inspire fascination, birds, as inhabitants of the air, are perceived as ghostly creatures, capable of infusing the observer with a sense of restlessness. The individual references to the theme found in essays, letters and works all confirm a strong interest in these animals, and constitute analysis material in the context of Grimm’s vast production. Particular recognition is given to the famous collection entitled Kinder- und Hausmärchen (in its first and mostly unknown version), the capital book of the Romantic current in Germany, where the liminal role of birds can be attributed to archaic myths and popular beliefs.
Diario social di un Rettore 3
Authors: Dei Luigi
Published: January 2020

«Chemistry and fantasy, art and science, photography and music, education and play, technology and communicative desire, civic passion and didactic commitment did not formerly (or not only) create a nicely original and bizarre mixture, but rather a very original score, which invites you to reflect on the operation of objects looking trivial despite not being such; this makes us gaze into the depth of common things and shows them to us in a way which leads us to feel as if we saw them for the first time. The secret lies in the pen of a light-handed writer, a scientist-poet who is a school man and enthusiastically manages to weld inventive energy and scientific expertise together. The opportunity is not to be missed, because a new contact with the world can bring forth new emotions, new thoughts, new feelings. A light hand smudged with plaster »(Gino Tellini).
Le notti di Copacabana
Authors: Jacobbi Ruggero
Published: January 2020

Thanks to Gioia Benedetti’s careful philological work, a short, narrative and hitherto unknown text brings back the voice of one of the most original and brilliant Italian critics of the 20th century. After the trip to Brazil in his youth, in his single finished novel set in Rio de Janeiro in the Fifties, Notti di Copacabana, Ruggero Jacobbi conveyed not only the climate and atmosphere of a distant and in some ways mythical world such as Brazil, but also a significant track of the readings, meetings and influences of the great texts of Portuguese and South American literature, at the time mostly unknown in Italy. Jacobbi had an extraordinary talent at catching and interpreting the changes in the narrative code, and in this book, the author offers an incredibly intriguing experimental story with alternating voices and characters and intertwining events, contributing to the creation of a suspenseful atmosphere.
Cerebral Small Vessel Disease and Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
Authors: Valenti Raffaella
Published: January 2020

Sporadic cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) is considered to be among the most commonly known neuropathological processes in the brain, hosting a crucial role in stroke, cognitive impairment, and functional loss in elderly subjects. We investigated clinical (neuroimaging and cognitive) biomarkers in the SVD, through a series of analyses from our five studies. Sporadic cerebral SVD is a complex ‘micro-world’ to be globally considered. All the relevant lesion types and SVD neuroimaging burden should be taken into account. The cumulative effects of microangiopathy burden in the brain of patients affected by SVD are crucial. Cognitive rehabilitation could represent a promising approach to prevent vascular dementia or to improve cognitive performances in patients with cerebral SVD. Longitudinal studies may provide more robust information about the progression and prognostic significance of our findings.
Il dolo nella bancarotta
Authors: Minicucci Gherardo
Published: January 2020

This volume covers the role and policy efficacy of fraud within the system of bankruptcy crimes, focusing on the factual circumstances of the several indictments relating to it according to their their historical evolution; the traditional attention given to the declaratory judgement is replaced by the conceptual division between 'bankruptcy', 'insolvency' and 'financial difficulties', thus also enhancing the impact of the other insolvency procedures. The critical review of the individual criminal figures is oriented towards finding the minimum amount of fraud of each individual type of fraudulent bankruptcy, as a subjective typicality correction for the deficiencies of the offence. The investigation, which has turned into a broader reflection on the psychological aspect, aims at setting the coordinates for a possible reform of the volume’s subject.
Etnobotánica en el Alto Valle del Reno (Toscana y Emilia-Romaña, Italia)
Authors: Egea Molines Maria Teresa
Published: January 2020

The Upper Rhine Valley (AVR) is borderland between the Italian regions of Tuscany and Emilia Romagna. The natural and cultural heritage based upon ethnobotanical knowledge in the AVR area has been studied, documented and analysed using semi-structured interviews. The information is presented through an ethnological and floristic catalogue, including both cultivated and wild species known to the local community. Although there is evidence of a great biocultural richness in the old oral tradition, important erosion phenomena threatening the conservation of ethnobotanical knowledge (immaterial culture) and associated plants (material culture) have been highlighted. The reasons behind the phenomena are partly due to the abandonment of agro-pastoral practices, as well as to the significant changes in the management of the territory and in the life forms.
La scienza e i segreti della natura a Napoli nel Rinascimento
Authors: Verardi Donato
Published: January 2020

This volume deals with the 'hidden secrets of nature' in the natural magic of Giovan Battista Della Porta (1535-1615). The topic is analysed in relation to the internal debates of the Neapolitan Aristotelianism of the 16th century and to the proposals of the magic tradition of the Renaissance. This book also deals with the problem of witchcraft, a phenomenon which is not purely philosophical, but connected historically to Della Porta’s struggle against any form of superstitious explanation for natural secrets, including the roughest ones.
L'uomo tutto intero
Authors: Starnini Martina
Published: January 2020

This volume reconstructs Carlo Livi (1823-1877)’s biography, focusing on his medical and psychiatric work and on his path as a man and intellectual who lived during the Italian Risorgimento. Livi was a key figure in Italian psychiatry, halfway between the therapeutic optimism of the early 19th century and the pessimism of post-Darwinian psychiatry, both in the practical aspects and in the theoretical elaboration. The study highlights how, in this case, the moral treatment applied by 19th century psychiatry throughout Europe is linked to the events of the Italian Risorgimento. The moralizing and educational request, as well as the anthropological study of the human being, were aimed at the sick, the insane, at children, at criminals and the Italian people in order to carry out a national and secular project of social regeneration in Italy.
Milites elegantes. Le strutture aristocratiche nel territorio lucchese (800-1100 c.)
Authors: Tomei Paolo
Published: January 2020

Lucca occupies a special place in the history and historiography of the early Middle Ages in Italy and Europe. It was the heart of a political body of the Carolingian galaxy, namely the marque of Tuscia, which enjoyed exceptional success and remained vital throughout most of the 11th century. It is also one of the areas most accounted for in sources: the documentation on the Lucca area starting from the beginning of the 8th century is extraordinarily conspicuous and continuous. Hence the choice of this case study, to reflect again on overall historical transformations. This book starts from a systematic research on the documentary sources of Lucca, so wide that they are still largely unexplored, and aims at reconstructing the fundamental parameters that governed the functioning of a court society, and at following its transformation processes up to the noble and chivalric age. At the centre of the investigation lies the social segment which gradually assumed aristocratic features and a more defined profile of distinction, and promoted the foundation of castles in the countryside as well as the formation of territorial areas on which to exercise powers of command and coercion.
Maria Sklodowska Curie
Authors: Dei Luigi
Published: January 2020

In 1911, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Marie Curie, eight years after she had received the Nobel Prize for Physics. An extraordinary scientific adventure ended, and the deification of an iconic character and symbol of the amazing transformations of costume which would characterize the following decades began to take root. During the transfer of the Curies’ remains to the Pantheon, Pierre Gilles de Gennes wanted to underline Marie’s "beauty of self-denial". The Christmas Lecture pays tribute to the dual inheritance which she left us: the strength of scientific rationality against the obscurantism of beliefs and gender equality. The conference traces the most relevant aspects of Marie Curie's life, sharing her extraordinary scientific discoveries, but also underlining socio-cultural and customary aspects and highlighting the historical context of an era which was tumultuously changing.
Europe and problems of marketization: from Polanyi to Scharpf
Authors: Crouch Colin
Published: January 2020

The author uses the theory of the 'Great Transformation' of the industrialisation of England developed by Karl Polanyi to describe the current situation in Europe. There is a strong marketisation of the economy and also of social life, but what is missing is the social policy that needs to accompany this process, if there are not to be major problems. From this perspective marketization and social policy do not exist in a zero-sum game, but are mutually dependent. The emphasis on negative rather than positive integration (to use the terms conceived by Fritz Scharpf) in the development of Europe makes this interdependence more difficult to achieve. The division of competences between the European level (market policies) and the nation states (social policies) makes this situation even worse. The only way forward is a strengthening of the European social dimension.
Using the Patch-Clamp technique to shed light on ion channels structure, function and pharmacology
Authors: Gualdani Roberta
Published: January 2020

Ion channels are membrane proteins that selectively allow ions to flow down their electrochemical gradient across the cellular membrane. They localize in both plasma and intracellular membranes and regulate a variety of functions such as neuronal excitability, heartbeat, muscle contraction and hormones release. Thus, understanding the molecular mechanism of ion channels function and regulation is one of the key goals of modern Biophysics. During my PhD thesis, by combining patch-clamp measurements with site-direct mutagenesis, fluorophore labeling experiments and pharmacological assays, I explored some functional and structural properties of different ion transporters: the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger (NCX); the large conductance Ca2+-voltage activated K+ channel (BK) channel; the human Transient receptor potential, member A1 (TRPA1) channel.
Un poetico sonnambulismo e una folle passione per la follia
Authors: Cora Sieglinde
Published: January 2020

The work analyses the complex relationship between mental illnesses and curative medicine in the writings of E.T.A. Hoffmann, highlighting problems deriving from unsuitable practices, and shedding light on the overwhelming, asymmetric relationship between doctor/patient, man/woman. The work analyses the doubling phenomena arising from the diaries, which Hoffmann overcame determined not to fall into madness; moreover, the author highlights Hofmmann’s qualities as a man and a scholar, attentive to the limits of therapies, questioning doctors without understanding. The author summarises Hoffmann's ideas on the libertarian approach to illness, which includes the acceptance of the patient in their whole being, and presents his idea of therapy consisting of interpersonal dialogue and of listening to a story which reflects a similar case. The author also suggests the novelty of the “talking cure” method ante litteram, which was then successfully adopted by psychoanalysis: a method full of ideas, fruitful for literature, from Poe to Schnitzler, and for cinema, from Hitchcock to Kubrick.
Molecules of an author in search of memory
Authors: Dei Luigi
Published: January 2020

Loosely based on Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table, the play has a Fahrenheit 451 setting. In a world without books or memory appears a common man, the Man in the street, with some heets of writing that he cannot make out. With the help of the narrator, Science, Technology and Nature, and of two actors who remain offstage for a long while – Primo and his friend Alberto – this man is able to reconstruct the events of the chapter entitled Cerium. In this way, and thanks to this act of remembrance, lost identity – our history – is recreated.
Science, Technology and Nature free this man without memory from his state of not-knowing, by giving him scientific knowledge and understanding. The play finds its catharsis in a deeply moving passage, inspired by the chapter Carbon, which creates an atemporal connection between a carbon atom from the smoke of a crematorium chimney and one residing in the body of any one of us: a poetic parable of a science firmly anchored in the life and history of man.
Le prime opere narrative di Don DeLillo
Authors: Barbuscia Davide
Published: January 2020

This study deals with the first works by Don DeLillo, from Americana (1971) to Running Dog (1978), but it also extends its investigation horizon to his following works. The work deals specifically with the conception of time, and the way it is represented in the texts of the American author. By integrating the philosophy of time with narratology, the volume offers critical reflections aimed at identifying the type of poetics through which DeLillo articulates time in his work. In particular, the centrality of the perception of time in his novels and, more specifically, the concentration of the plots in certain moments, the oblique presence of the influence of Samuel Beckett's work in the representation of duration and the attention of the author to the double temporality of the cinematographic image and its hidden aesthetic potential are highlighted. Therefore, time becomes the conceptual context in which the textures of these texts, and the themes characterising them, find a resolution. In the representation of time, in the microscopic analysis and in the slow motion of some specific time segments, DeLillo's narrative traces the possibilities of an indefinable and mysterious perception of reality and history.
Nuovi paesaggi e aree minerarie dismesse
Authors: Burzi Ilaria
Published: January 2020

This work discusses the processes and dynamics of the landscapes of the mining industry, of the degraded areas, and of their possibilities for redevelopment through the creation of "new landscapes". The case of abandoned mining areas is seen in the context of the three phases of landscape transformation (previous, contemporary and subsequent to the mining activity), and in the context of the expanse of the regions affected by the phenomenon. The latter led to the hypothesis that the territory enhancement project should be placed within a complex system, whose main features are widespread interventions involving and intercepting both new and consolidated landscape networks.
Per l'edizione delle Elegantie di Lorenzo Valla
Authors: Marsico Clementina
Published: January 2020

Elegantie lingue latine is the masterpiece of Lorenzo Valla's reflection on language, through which the humanist gave birth to a real re-foundation of Latin. To date we still do not have a modern, scientifically based edition of the text characterising the various editorial phases of the work, on which the author worked for over ten years and which, arbitrarily and by the author’s own will, was in circulation long before its official publication. This research is part of a future complete edition of the text: the first complete edition of a book of the “Elegantie” is presented, limited to the fifth book on the “disputatio verborum”, based on the examination, albeit partial, of the handwritten tradition and on a global reconsideration of the editorial history work.
Educazione, cittadinanza, volontariato
Authors: Pieri Giulia
Published: January 2020

In a complex, global, multicultural and post-modern society such as the contemporary one, the concepts of "democracy", citizenship "and" training” are undergoing a more urgent and necessary rethinking, which is tracing more and more constant new variations, contaminations and interconnections. On the one hand citizenship has become today active and participatory, as today it can be exercised. On the other hand, volunteering can be a response to the need for participation claimed by contemporary societies: the donation of blood, a particular declination of the traditional concept of gift, is seen as an opportunity to participate in community life and to exercise active and responsible citizenship. From this point of view, the subject is the main actor and protagonist of contemporary processes, and must be trained in understanding the complexity of the notion of citizenship.
Fear Appeal e Message Framing
Authors: Romani Gianmarco
Published: January 2020

Our health is largely linked to our actions, habits and lifestyles. This implies greater personal and responsibility and, at an institutional level, the possibility and the obligation to act to prevent diseases and promote a healthy behaviour. Persuasive communication is one of the main tools for pursuing this goal. In fact, it has proven effective in promoting a change in attitudes, intentions and behaviours. Given these assumptions, the research investigates the possibility of simultaneously using two of the most effective communication strategies (fear appeal is message framing), evaluating which combination is more persuasive in promoting important preventive behaviour, such as the use of sunscreen.
Dal greco classico al greco moderno
Authors: Zinzi Mariarosaria
Published: January 2020

The Greek koinè shows a double development in the crystallised Greek language (intended for literary, administrative and ecclesiastical uses) and the language of everyday use subject to innovations that would lead to the birth neo-Greek, which was never the official language for written documents. This situation determined the almost absolute lack of documents that allow us to reconstruct the evolution of the Greek language from the late age to the early Middle Ages. This work contributes to the reconstruction of this gap by analysing the Greek language of the the private letters written on papyrus, a documentary typology probably close to the spoken register. The analysis isolated four peculiar phenomena of the morphosyntactic evolution of the Greek (genitive-dative syncretism, disappearance of the infinitive, replacement of the perfect tense with equivalent periphrases and disposition of the clitics), offering a renewed picture.
Wackenroder e Reichardt
Authors: Alcione Serena
Published: January 2020

Wackenroder's conception of music is strongly influenced by the musical thought of the composer Johann Friedrich Reichardt, who was a romantic music teacher, friend and mentor of Wackenroder, whom he introduced to the 'realm of sounds'. Reichardt was the author of numerous essays on music and of the unique Musikerroman from the Enlightenment period (Leben des berühmten Tonkünstlers Heinrich Wilhelm Gulden nachher genannt Guglielmo Enrico Fiorino, 1779). Wackenroder e Reichardt: musica e letteratura nel primo Romanticismo tedesco (“Wackenroder and Reichardt: music and literature in the first German Romanticism”) compares the literary works of the two authors and investigates the results of their influence. The work retraces the transition from the conception of music during the Enlightenment, linked to the social function of art, to the idea of an 'absolute' music of the Romantic era, determining the artist's problematic existence.
Through Partisan Eyes
Authors: Rosengarten Frank
Published: January 2020

Frank Rosengarten’s Through Partisan Eyes is a remarkably powerful antidote to the pervasive view of Italy as a museum. His memoir brings poignantly into relief a vibrant scene of intellectuals (in the capacious definition of the term that encompasses scholars, artists, and many others who help shape a society’s self-representation and its broader world view) grappling with urgent social and political issues of national and international import. From as far back as his graduate student years at Columbia University, through the decades he spent as a university professor, to his current activities as a remarkably productive independent scholar, Rosengarten’s thinking, research, and writing have always been ineluctably intertwined with a deep concern for social justice and what in today’s parlance one would term the plight of the subalterns. He has never adopted the stance of the scholar gazing at his/her object of study with aesthetic detachment or moral indifference — nor has he ever tried to. It is, precisely and paradoxically, because he views and engages the world around him “through partisan eyes” that Rosengarten’s recollections of and reflections on his life, career, friendships and encounters differ refreshingly and, often, strikingly from what one normally expects to find and frequently encounters in memoirs of scholars and academics. Whereas most Americans are drawn to Italy as a museum of past glories and masterpieces, for Rosengarten, the museum, the archive, the literary canon stimulate meditations on the living material situations and conditions of people hankering for social justice and equity.
Catalogue of books printed before 1801 in the legal historical section of the Biblioteca di Scienze Sociali dell’Università degli Studi di Firenze
Authors: Osler Douglas J.
Published: January 2020

The present catalogue is the second of three volumes which record the books printed before 1801 currently held by the legal historical section of the Biblioteca di Scienze Sociali of the Università degli Studi di Firenze. This volume encompasses 2,424 editions published between 1601 and 1700. The present Florence library is the successor to that of the Facoltà di Giurisprudenza, the nucleus of which is the historic collection of the Collegio degli Avvocati di Firenze acquired in 1924. Supplemented by further important acquisitions, including the library of the Corte d'Appello, the collection has come to be numbered among the foremost in its field in Italy. The 17th century volume reflects primarily the Jurisprudence of the Baroque, the vast production of the jurists of Spain and Italy, but is by no means lacking in editions of the foremost jurists of contemporary Northern Europe.
Il realismo teatrale nella narrativa del Novecento: Vittorini, Pasolini, Calvino
Authors: Ferrara Enrica Maria
Published: January 2020

This book describes Realism in twentieth-century literature from an estranged and unpublished perspective, and explores the hypothesis that some Italian writers (Vittorini, Pasolini and Calvino) looked at the expressive techniques of theatrical language as a privileged tool for the narrative elaboration of their own personal "theatrical Realism". The individual approach to the theatrical culture by the narrators taken into consideration is part of a wider tendency towards interdisciplinarity, and towards a breakdown of gender barriers concerning the whole of 20th century culture, with specific references to theories by Szondi, Brecht, Lukács, Gramsci, Contini and Bachtin. The author completes her theoretical investigation with a critical analysis of narrative masterpieces of the 20th century, such as The baron in the trees by Calvino and Conversazione in Sicilia by Vittorini.
Clinical Embryology of Human Larynx for Conservative Compartmental Surgery
Authors: Rucci Lucio
Published: January 2020

The volume shows the morphogenesis and differentiation of the human larynx during the fetal period. This knowledge is relevant to understand laryngeal functions as well as the diffusion of cancer and the therapy of low stage cancer. Through embryological analysis, the anatomical basis of laryngeal functions may be best recognized and consequent indications may be given to perform conservative compartmental surgery. Each chapter of the volume describes a developmental step and compares the findings with the adult condition. Introductory remarks and comments to each chapter are completed by captions to individual figures, so that the text and images are offered to the reader as a single unit.
He has authored several full papers, including papers on journals with impact factor, and presentations at scientific meetings.
Il mondo ha bisogno dei poeti
Authors: Caproni Giorgio
Published: January 2020

The interview: intriguing and seemingly easy, yet it can sometimes be stressful. In any case, that is what Caproni thought. He was also convinced that only in the relationship with the reader could poetry find "its real value" and its possibility of existence. For this reason, by bending gracefully and reluctantly to questions, over the years he accepted to guide his interlocutors in the mysterious and elusive world of art, where ideas and emotions are produced only with the "music of words". To help us grasp that impregnable music, in this poignant and ironic book, Caproni tells the reader about vital dwellings (Genoa, Livorno), larch figures, youthful passions, immediate wounds (Olga, the war), the need to write, to translate and to know, and about Proust’s introjection of the past on the "tissue paper of memory". Many are the pieces which have been rebuilt and assembled for the first time thanks to Melissa Rota’s precious and accurate research work. For over one hundred and forty times, the interviews return (as Anna Dolfi underlines in the beautiful introduction) beyond any rhetoric and magnification, le grain de la voix, le grain de la vie of a 'heretical' intellectual, who was free in his choices and in determining his own destiny. So much so that subtle melancholy guides us in following these pages for too long, forgetting the signs of a vocation, and the 'tremor' that, by a career, left the violinist's nervous flicks to the unmistakable look of the verses to come.
Circostanze del reato: trasformazioni in atto e prospettive di riforma
Authors: Pellegrini Lorenzo
Published: January 2020

The circumstances of the crime contribute both to a best individualisation and definition of the case, and to the judicial assessment of the fine. This double “soul” makes the circumstances of the crime an elected ground for policies that are either legalitarian (policies of legal determination of the particular case and legal quantification of the fine), or of judicial discretion (judicial determination of the particular case and judicial assessment of the fine). The uncertain amendment has, however, delivered a magmatic and unbalanced system. The work tries to give rationality to the matter by affirming that a reform of the institute (no longer postponable) must first pass by the special part of the code, through a redefinition of the legal notes and then by the assessment system as a whole. However, such an intervention would make the institution of circumstances seem irrational, leading it to radical suppression.
Uno più uno può fare tre, se il partito lo vuole!
Authors: Zamperini Valentina
Published: January 2020

This work analyzes the evolution of the German Democratic Republic during 1971-1985, with particular attention to the economic sphere, relations with the Soviet Union and the Federal Republic of Germany, and the impact that changes in the international economic system have they had on these plans. The basic question concerns the actual degree of subordination of the GDR to the USSR: absolute for traditional historiography, which denies the possibility of an East German foreign policy, relative to the light of archival documents, which show a framework of bilateral relations constantly affected by tensions. In addition to analyzing the relationships in an unequal alliance between center and periphery, the study of the decision-making mechanisms internal to the GDR and the effectiveness of a system in which politics dictated the priority in terms of economic choices are at the center of this volume.
Evoluzione della scienza e giudizio di rimproverabilità per colpa
Authors: Valbonesi Cecilia
Published: January 2020

The growing complexity of production phenomena is causing a progressive expansion of culpable liability assumptions. In particular, the jurisprudence dealing with long-term diseases bases the culpable reproach on scientific knowledge gained in a later period, thus operating a destructuring of the constitutive profiles of the crimen culposum. The work intends to investigate the complex relationship between guilt and scientific progress, highlighting the continuous dialogue between doctrine and jurisprudence, with particular attention to the implications of risk criminal law and precautionism. The search for a new typicality of culpable reproach does not ignore the recent legislative developments aimed at giving meaning to guidelines and protocols.
Dall’amministrare all’amministrazione
Authors: Stolfi Giulio
Published: January 2020

This volume questions the hinges of modern statehood, through the reconstruction of the institutional story of subalpine companies. During the chronological period examined (1717-1853), the companies characterised the administrative structure of the Kingdom of Sardinia. Born as an original solution, part of a still complex and polycentric system of public powers, the companies - and with them the whole Savoy bureaucratic structure - were confronted with the progressive affirmation of the new categories of a 'closed', monadic, vertical state. The long path was marked by sharp accelerations (the revolution, the Napoleonic occupation, the affirmation of constitutionalism), but was also pervaded by strong affirmations of legal spontaneity.
Lettere alla figlia Caterina de' Medici Gonzaga duchessa di Mantova (1617-1629)
Authors: Di Lorena Cristina
Published: January 2020

The correspondence between Christina and her daughter Caterina represents a unique case in the epistolary panorama preserved in the House of Medici, for its breadth, for the variety of discusses topics, for the intimate and confidential tone transpiring from the letters. In the ten years spent in Mantua by Caterina, the two women exchanged advice, recommendations and fears which now allow us to follow and outline the broader scenario in which they both moved. With this edition, we have recreated the unity of a dense exchange of letters, which established itself as an unicum in the writer’s will, but then separated into two distinct nuclei during the events of its transmission. This volume presents the letters sent by Grand Duchess Christina of Lorraine to her daughter Caterina de’ Medici Gonzaga, which were included in the 6110 file of the Mediceo del Principato fund, preserved in the State Archives of Florence, and in the envelopes 1095, 1096 and 1097 of the Archivio Gonzaga of the State Archives of Mantua.
Figure
Authors: Gulli Riccardo
Published: January 2020

Four friends, in a given place, at a given time, discuss on the transmission of knowledge in the fields of architectural theory and practice, following the maze of paths unfolding within that neutral space where the world of images and the world of concepts, theArs and the Ratio. coexist. The narrative formula is therefore endowed with a double value: on the one hand, the expedient is what allows the conveyance of the transfer of knowledge, using the didactic model based on dialectical confrontation; on the other, it represents the metaphor of the cognitive process which dominates the designing action. The figures are the stepping stone of this process, and the assumption based on which an alternative approach to design theory takes shape. This volume is accompanied by a large repertoire of sources and resources that are available online.
Progetto ABC. Achieved Best Cholesterol
Authors: Perrone Filardi Pasquale , Urbinati Stefano , Zaninelli Augusto
Published: January 2020

The ABC project is based on the drafting of 130 clinical cases on the theme of dyslipidemia in men and women, coming from university and hospital Internal Medicine and/or Diabetology Operating Units. The cases are selected with the aim of clearly representing the Italian reality. The drafting of the cases is articulated in the compilation of mandatory and free text fields, within a pre-established form: this has allowed a global analysis of the aggregated data, making it possible to obtain a real picture of the clinical features, risk factors, diagnostic investigations and therapeutic setting of patients who usually address the Italian clinical lipidologist for the problems of hypercholesterolaemia and of the target values to achieve in primary prevention, in high-risk patients, as well as in secondary prevention.
Italo Calvino
Authors: Mario Anna
Published: January 2020

Climatologists have been warning that "we have little time left", but in the meantime, energy resources are running out and whole populations flee in search of food and security, while in capitalist financial systems the resources are held by a few. If this is today's picture, what should we do? Italo Calvino, the greatest Italian intellectual and writer of the second half of the 20th century, wondered about these issues in the mid-Seventies, summarizing them in one question: what must be done to limit the 'catastrophe'? This volume examines the way Calvino discusses the said problem in newspaper articles, interviews and stories, and the intellectual and human solutions he offers. The writer works on texts by great authors (Gogol', Montale, Pirandello) from which he retrieves other themes and problems, and represents the catastrophe in the last short story of If on a winter’s night a traveller, entitled What story down there awaits its end?: a tough controversy against approximations, cultural and mental disorders, incompetence, lack of planning and blindness in front of the positive data of the world that can be seen even in the everyday disturbances (by those who know how to see them).
Squarci nell'avorio
Authors: Gherardini Alberto
Published: January 2020

The university has long appeared as an ivory tower, poorly integrated with the rest of society and, in particular, with the economic sphere. This perception, however, is in contrast with the changes which have been introduced by universities since they embraced a 'third mission': transferring knowledge to the production system. This volume tries to clarify the said function of universities, and it does so by questioning the spread of these practices in Italy, the effectiveness of the different transfer channels and, more generally, the contribution given by universities in the social construction of innovation. Therefore, through case studies and a comparative reading of national innovation systems, the text opens a window on the interaction between public research, business world and governments, showing the characteristics and troubles of difficult relationships, especially in Italy.
Capitalism is not democratic and democracy not capitalistic
Authors: Kocka Jurgen
Published: January 2020

The Lecture Capitalism is not democratic and democracy not capitalistic. Tensions and opportunities in historical perspective regards the relationship between capitalism and democracy; to discuss whether and in which sense capitalism and democracy are compatible. Whether they reinforce or impede each other, and, if so, in which sense.
The text moves from a historical perspective, but it gets to the present time.
The Author concludes that historically and systematically the relationship between capitalism and democracy is ambiguous. In other words, it is not fully determined. Much depends on the kind of capitalism and the kind of democracy. Changes are possible. Much depends on agency, on collective actions, on politics and policies. They are not fully determined by the economic system, but can certainly influence it.
Comunanze urbane
Authors: Belingardi Chiara Franca Maria
Published: January 2020

The volume explores the category of urban spaces that are self-managed by the inhabitants and can be recognized as common goods: urban communities. These are defined as third spaces (neither public nor private) and recognized on the basis of seven characteristics. Furthermore, some proposals are made on how planning can adequately treat these places, through the comparison with some municipal policies and on the basis of the self-determination of experiences in order to build a city really in the hands of its inhabitants. In fact, urban communities can be seen as a strategic place for testing new relationships between citizens and between them and institutions.
Il grande eclettico
Authors: Gjata Adela
Published: January 2020

Renato Simoni was a playwright, theatre critic, librettist for opera seria and opera buffa, screenwriter, speaker, author of magazines, ballets, essays, costume articles, epigrams, anacreontics and rhymed jokes, but also one of the first Italian directors. In the 1930s and 1940s, he was at the head of important installations for the Venice Biennale and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Using unpublished archival documents, this volume reconstructs the portrait of a multifaceted and authoritative man of the theatre, whose artistic experience has often been neglected by historiography, and yet refers to a decisive historical moment of theatre in Italy, marked by the progressive dissolution of the chief-comedian-and-showman structure in theatrical troupes and by the need for aesthetic and productive renewal.
Single molecule magnets sublimated on conducting and magnetic substrates
Authors: Malavolti Luigi
Published: January 2020

Single Molecule Magnets (SMMs) showing bistability and quantum phenomena are promising candidates for spintronic applications. In recent years, the study of hybrid surfaces composed of SMMs on conductive and magnetic surfaces has attracted increasing interest. In this work the preparation of hybrid surfaces made by terbium bis(phthalocyaninato) and Fe4 SMMs is reported. The surfaces were structurally and magnetically characterized by means of laboratory and large scale facility techniques. This investigation has provided interesting hints towards their application in spintronic devices and has paved the way for the magnetic characterization of Fe4 at the single molecule level.
Diario social di un Rettore
Authors: Dei Luigi
Published: January 2020

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Listen to the interview on Radio Treccia Ischia TV Is it possible to disseminate science through social networks? Facebook was created to share thoughts, ideas, sensations and anything mild and fleeting; certainly not for the dissemination of scientific and academic knowledge. On the contrary... by combining the obligatory conciseness of a post, the taste for fantasy at the service of the dissemination of scientific knowledge, and the socialization of such a widespread means of communication, there is a metamorphosis turning the irreversible, ineffable volatility of a social network into the lapidary and realistic fixity of this book of digital cameos, dedicated to many aspects of chemistry, a science which is so inextricably enveloped in our daily life. A “chemical” Rector disguises himself as Alice and ventures into a land, the Facebook land, where the wonders coming from imaginative journeys in matter, in its laws and in its imponderable enigmatic nature, take shape.
HUBUNGAN DEPRESI DENGAN STATUS GIZI PADA LANSIA DI UNIT PELAYANAN TERPADU PANTI SOSIAL TRESNA WERDHA KHUSNUL KHOTIMAH PEKANBARU TAHUN 2019
Authors: Ayuningtiyas Ratih , Rezeki Mudia Sri
Published: January 2020

Populasi warga lanjut usia (lansia) di Indonesia semakin bertambah setiap tahun. Hal ini karena keberhasilan pembangunan di berbagai bidang terutama bidang kesehatan. Salah satu faktor yang mempengaruhi derajat kesehatan lansia adalah kesehatan jiwa lansia. Masalah kesehatan jiwa pada lansia yang terbesar adalah gangguan depresi. Lansia dengan depresi berisiko sangat tinggi mengalami gangguan status gizi. Unit Pelayanan Terpadu Panti Sosial Tresna Werdha (UPT PSTW) Khusnul Khotimah Pekanbaru merupakan panti sosial di Pekanbaru yang menampung lansia yang berasal dari berbagai daerah di Kota Pekanbaru dan sekitarnya. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan depresi dengan status gizi pada lansia di UPT PSTW Khusnul Khotimah Pekanbaru tahun 2019. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain studi observasional analitik, dengan rancangan penelitian cross sectional. Penelitian dilakukan di UPT PSTW Khusnul Khotimah Pekanbaru pada bulan Januari 2019. Teknik pengambilan sampel total sampling dengan sampel 38 responden dan diuji secara statistik menggunakan uji Spearman Rank. Hasil dari penelitian diperoleh p-value 0,210 yang menunjukkan bahwa tidak terdapat hubungan antara depresi dengan status gizi pada lansia di UPT PSTW Khusnul Khotimah Pekanbaru. Kesimpulan penelitian yaitu tidak terdapat hubungan antara depresi dengan status gizi pada lansia di UPT PSTW Khusnul Khotimah Pekanbaru tahun 2019.
phacomulsification in senile white mature cataracts;its safety and efficacy
Authors: Gull Ambreen , AHMED SAIRAM , ALI SAMANA , RAZA ALI
Published: January 2020

Abstract

Purpose

To evaluate the intraoperative difficulty, complications and post operative outcome in patients with white mature cataracts undergoing phacomulsification and foldable intraocular lens implantation and to develop a strategy for achieving continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis in these cases.

Study design

Descriptive case series

Place and duration

Ophthalmology department of Holy family hospital, Rawalpindi in six months interval since January 2017 to June 2017

Material and Methods

 50 Patients who had senile white mature cataract were enrolled in this prospective study .Detailed preoperative and intraoperative notes were made. A small capsulorhexis was attempted initially after staining capsule with trypan blue .An initial cut was made with cystotome and it was enlarged with utrata forceps. Endophacomulsification was done with stop and chop technique. Intraoperative difficulties related to continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis, phacomulsification and post operative visual outcomes were analyzed.post operative examinations were done at day 1,1st week,1st month and 3rd month.

Results

There were 28 males (56%) and 22 females (44%).The mean age was 63.18±7.997 standard deviation years(48-78).The mean preoperative best corrected visual acuity BCVA was 0.0276±0.013 (SD)Snellen, decimal(0.01-0.05)  and the mean post operative BCVA was 0.638±0.305 (SD) Snellen, decimal(0.1-1.0) .Mean phaco time was 4.08±1.03 (SD)mins(2.08-6.66).The mean preoperative intraocular pressure IOP was 15.90±1.799 (SD)mmHg (12-22) and mean post op IOP was 11.98±2.035 (SD) mmHg(10-18) .Posterior capsular rupture occurred in 3 (6%) , vitreous loss occurred in 1 (2%) patients. 5 (10%) cases were converted to  extra capsular cataract extraction (ECCE). Postoperatively 10 (20%) patients had transient corneal edema, 3 patients (6%) had persistent corneal edema and corneal burn treated with steroids and hyper osmotic agents.

Conclusion

The intraoperative and postoperative complications rate is higher in white mature cataracts. White mature cataract is a challenge for cataract surgeon, yet by means of additional dyes and proper techniques and expertise, the rate of complications can be reduced.

Keywords

 Phacomulsification, continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis, senile mature cataract, trypan blue, posterior capsular rupture, persistent corneal edema
Tree Sap Induced Corneal and Lens Crystals
Authors: Nadeem Sana
Published: January 2020

This is a peculiar case of localized, silvery, iridescent crystal deposition in the cornea and lens, discovered twenty seven years after injury with an overhanging tree branch with sap exposure. The corneal tear at the time of injury was self sealing and there was also associated lens trauma, both managed conservatively on an inpatient basis, and leading subsequently to a corneal scar and localized cortical cataract, respectively, both demonstrating fine, silver, interspersed crystals. This is the first case to be reported in the world, of corneal crystal deposition in conjunction with lenticular crystals as a result of a tree branch injury.
long term follow up of cases of uveal effusion syndrome treated with partial thickness sclerectomies
Authors: Riaz Sidrah , Khan Muhammad Tariq , Tayyab Haroon , Malik Abdul Majeed
Published: January 2020

LONG TERM FOLLOW UP OF CASES OF UVEAL EFFUSION SYNDROME TREATED WITH PARTIAL THICKNESS SCLERECTOMIESPurposeTo report our experience with partial thickness sclerectomy in patients diagnosed as idiopathic uveal effusion syndrome.Study Design: prospective quasi experimentalPlace and duration of study: multicentre study, duration of study is five yearsMaterial and methodsA prospective study conducted in multi centre hospitals including LRBT eye hospital, Medicare hospital and Myo hospital, Lahore, over the period of five years from January 2010 to august 2015.Total six eyes of four patients (two males and two females) with bilateral idiopathic uveal syndrome were included in study. The diagnosis was clinical confirmed on B scan ultrasonography which confirmed relatively short axial length, exudative retinal detachment and scleral thickening.

ResultsAll six (6) patients showed improvement clinically in visual acuity and in fundoscopy in term of retinal reattachment on B scan after partial thickness sclerectomies.

ConclusionPartial thickness sclerectomy is treatment of choice for patients of uveal effusion syndrome. It didn’t respond to medical treatment.

Key wordsUveal effusion syndrome, quadrantic sclerectomy, exudative retinal detachment (RD), intraocular pressure (IOP), visual acuity (VA), light perception (PL).

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