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Study of intracellular signaling pathways in Chronic Myeloproliferative Neoplasms
Authors: Martinelli Serena
Published: January 2020

A gain-of-function mutation in Janus kinase 2 (JAK2V617F) is at the basis of the majority of chronic myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN). Enhanced activation of other downstream pathways including the PI3K/mTOR pathway has been documented as well. In this study we evaluated the effects of JAK1/2 inhibitors, alone and in combination with mTOR, with a dual mTOR/PI3K inhibitor and with a pan PI3K inhibitor in in-vitro and in-vivo MPN models. Our findings of strong synergy between the JAK2 inhibitors and mTOR/PI3K inhibitor suggested that we might be able to administer these drugs at lower concentrations than when the drugs are used individually. This provides a framework for combination trials using compounds in patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms
Giovanni Raboni poeta e lettore di poesia (1953-1966)
Authors: Chella Anna
Published: January 2020

A poet, critic and translator, Giovanni Raboni is one of the most important figures in the literary panorama of the second half of the 20th Century. This volume sheds light on his twofold journey in the chaotic magma of the 50s and 60s: on the one hand the encounters and discoveries of a passionate and keen critic and reader, on the other the first steps of a young poet in search of his own voice . Young Raboni’s path arises from a courageous confrontation with the urgencies of his time, and is nourished by a profound dialogue with "poetry in flesh and blood", "poetry that is made". A path in which the pen of the "poetry reader" often accompanies, with his mild but severe firmness, the poet's free and autonomous hand.
Costituzionalizzare la Costituzione
Authors: Franza Teresa
Published: January 2020

In a context that may seem, to a fairly realistic pessimist, of forced choice between fanatic neo-fundamentalisms and trivializing single thought, a 'common cause' like the Italian Constitution offers itself as a reference to which to look at with motivated trust from different perspectives and situations, often conflicting. To constitutionalize means to make the Constitution more authentically itself by preserving what is to be guarded and creating what is yet to be created. The underlying theme and highly original contribution of this book is the concept of pléroma or fullness of being: a strategic concept that enhances the original personalism of the Constitution and absorbs - by unifying and orienting - the restoring, interpreting and integrating of the constitutional text, proposing a political-legal project in line with the current times.
Attori italiani alla corte della zarina Anna Ioannovna (1731-1738)
Authors: Pieroni Alice
Published: January 2020

As in a journey back in time, the stages of the first tournées of Italian actors in Russia in the 18th Century are retraced. By studying the translations of comedies and musical interludes, staged in St. Petersburg from 1731 to 1738, the practices of the first Italians who trod the stages of Tsarina Anna Ioannovna are rediscovered. Through the translation of the repertoire that has come down to us, the author reconstructs the traces of the Commedia dell'Arte and of the life and works of a handful of interpreters ready to face dangerous journeys in order to obtain gains and honors. The research, conducted on printed documents and primary archival sources, also based on the previous studies of Starikova and Ferrazzi, devotes particular attention to the biographies of the interpreters.
Il mercato non basta
Authors: Scalise Gemma
Published: January 2020

The volume presents the thesis of the social roots of the European crisis, supported by an empirical analysis that highlights the extent to which the inequality between EU citizens, which grew with the 2008 recession, determines the ideas of Europe circulating among Europeans, helping to influence their sense of belonging. The work develops an original theoretical approach that is experimented in the field through a study that shows, on the one hand, the boundless narrative heritage and the different identity forms that characterize Europe; on the other, the main factors that influence them: the experiences, the socio-economic and cultural characteristics of the individual and the context, the use of the media and the role played by the institutions on the territory.
Lezione di sguardi. Edoardo Detti fotografo
Authors: Lisini Caterina
Published: January 2020

This volume documents Edoardo Detti's photographic activity, perhaps a “side” aspect, yet a fascinating and essential one for understanding his personality and his work. Many things are known about Detti: the several works and projects created individually or during the long collaboration with Carlo Scarpa, the intense preservation of the Tuscan territory, the important political and cultural role as counsellor for urban planning of the Municipality of Florence and as president of the Italian National Urban Planning Institute. His peculiar poetic, which so deeply intertwines architectural sensitivity and intimate adherence to the measure and qualities of the Tuscan landscape, is less known and investigated, and it is an attitude of which this volume offers valuable interpretations. The selected images, all taken between the 1940s and 1950s with the famous 6x6 Rolleiflex, almost make up a parallel essay to his activity as a scholar and an architect, where a profound ability to read the settlements, resulting from a historical, structural and formal interpretation, manifests itself in a vision which is suspended between truthful documentation and poetic abstraction.
Recall Map
Authors: D'Auria Rosario
Published: January 2020

Recall Map is an innovative methodology for the collection, synthesis and representation of ideas and concepts in order to facilitate their learning and memorization. The structured use of images, symbols, colours, shapes and typographical fonts stimulates the individual eidetic memory, thus allowing you to learn and remember more quickly and effectively. Recall Map was developed for an audience of students and professionals of all levels and degrees, but also for anyone interested in deepening their knowledge on the subject. The book, written in a modern and fast style that does not sacrifice but rather enhances the contents, provides the reader with the theoretical basis of the processes of learning, storing and communicating information through the use of captivating and evocative graphics. The method is easy to assimilate and represents a practical tool to use in any context. This book was presented on TV at Mattina 9 - Libri: Imparare e ricordare con le immagini - 10.05.2018
Introduzione alla Statistica Computazionale con R
Authors: Bertaccini Bruno
Published: January 2020

Nowadays, the information transfer speed (on the web, but not only) requires the predisposition of ever more adequate analysis tools for working with data and increasingly faster algorithms, in order to allow the so-called decision maker to make decision based on information which can become obsolete very quickly with time. In the current situation, analysing this information in order to simulate complex decision-making scenarios could prove fundamental to secure an advantage over competitors. This text introduces the true art of Statistical Computing. In other words, it illustrates how computer programming skills in the development of algorithms can be used within Statistics for the virtual simulation and replication of realities and experiments of varying complexity. In order to do so, it uses the excellent development environment “R”.
Pedagogisti e educatori tra scuola e università
Authors: Cives Giacomo
Published: January 2020

Due to his firm belief in the value of a close cooperation between school and university, and also in the commitment to the creation of a form of emancipatory and democratic education, the author collected profiles and accounts relating to his personal meeting with educationalists (as well as philosophers who were interested in the topic of education) and scholars fighting together to create a liberating school accessible to everyone. Therefore, the pages on Raffaele Resta, Giovanni Calò, Franco Lombardi and Luigi Volpicelli (both former teachers of the author), Dina Bertoni Jovine, Remo Cantoni, Marco Olivetti, Angelo Broccoli, Dina Tomasi, Santoni Rugiu, Remo Fornaca are joined by those on the school principals Virgilio Zangrilli, Giacomo Santucci, Giustino Broccolini (who then became associate professor). All of these are generous people, engaged in wide prospects and constructive, educational and civil programs, without falling victim to the narrow technical specializations or lack of horizons.
Dal Terzo al Primo Mondo
Authors: Pannozzo Francesca
Published: January 2020

This volume offers an analysis of one of the most interesting contemporary political regimes, the Singapore 'case'. This extremely small island is devoid of natural resources and surrounded by two infinitely larger countries with feelings of hostility towards it. It represents an economic and political experiment which has given birth to a substantially authoritarian, hybrid and yet ‘happy’ regime, and which has started a rapid development process on whose results its legitimacy is based. Today, Singapore emerges in the world economy as the successful global city to which country leaders around the world look with admiration. However, its extraordinary economic successes have been explicitly accompanied by rather invasive and illiberal policies, thus posing a serious challenge to liberal and democratic Western political systems which, at present, are struggling to provide actual solutions for the same fields of intervention.
Ars poetica
Authors: Cazzola Claudio
Published: January 2020

Despite the many studies on the author and the wealth of data on his academic education, relatively little was known of the high school years of Giorgio Bassani and the decisive encounters during those years. This book, rich in data and discoveries, traces precisely that dark area, identifies in Francesco Viviani the first of the Masters who, well beyond the period spent in the classrooms, would have exerted a profound influence on the future writer. The Greek and Latin texts read in those distant times are among those indicated by Professor Guzzo in Dietro la porta (Behind the Door), confirming the profoundly educational role that classical culture had had for the genesis of the ethical commitment and the search for truth which is the basis of all the Bassanian writing. Catullo, Alceo and especially Orazio will become for Bassani, according to Claudio Cazzola's analysis, examples to be emulated with refined allusive art, suggesting a compositional method that sees in a tireless limae labor the secret and authentic justification for the existence not only of Ferrara novel but also of its author.
History/Histoire e Digital Humanities
Authors: Rebora Simone
Published: January 2020

This volume reconstructs the birth and evolution of the Italian literary history in France and England during the 19th century. In the French context, a comparative reading of the works by Pierre-Louis Ginguené and Jean Charles Léonard Simonde de Sismondi confirms that the subject had already reached its maturity at the beginning of the century. On the other hand, in England, the path leading from Ugo Foscolo to John Addington Symonds passes through multiple genres and sources, including collections of biographies, anthologies of translations, travel books, histories of individual literary genres, histories from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. At the end of this path, a software pipeline is tested and developed with the aim of expanding the analysis through the computational tools of the Digital Humanities.
Breve storia della democrazia
Authors: Marchettoni Leonardo
Published: January 2020

The purpose of this volume is to retrace the history of democratic institutions, from their classical beginning in Athens in the 5th century BC, to the bourgeois revolutions; from the success of representative democracy to the affirmation of constitutional democracies in the 20th century and, finally, from the contemporary crisis to the rise of populist parties. This book aims at offering an overall picture which, while summarising a general overview, combines the history of institutions with the history of political thought, in the belief that such a point of view allows a better understanding of the dynamics underlying the sequence of events.
Costituzione e CEDU nell’evoluzione giurisprudenziale della sfera familiare
Authors: Masciotta Costanza
Published: January 2020

This volume analyses the judgement techniques and the substantial protection offered by the Italian Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights in the context of 'ethically sensitive' issues, such as medically assisted procreation and homo-affective unions. The investigation touches on different profiles of constitutional law: the multilevel protection between Rome, Strasbourg and common judges; the problematic emergence of 'new rights' in the face of scientific evolution and changing social sentiment; the dynamics between case and statutory law. The author proposes new judging techniques aimed at guaranteeing an effective protection of the interests at stake, as well as at reducing the distances between case and statutory power.
Conferimento della Laurea magistrale ad honorem in scienze archivistiche e biblioteconomiche a Michele Casalini / Award of the Laurea magistrale ad honorem in Library and information Science to Michele Casalini
Authors: Casalini Michele , Dei Luigi , Guerrini Mauro , Zorzi Andrea
Published: January 2020

On the 21st May 2019, the University of Florence awarded Michele Casalini an honorary degree for his dedication and his important contribution in the field of Library and Archival Sciences. The ceremony, which was held in the Rectorate's Aula Magna in Florence, represents the first recognition of merit for modern library science and the second for library and archival sciences to ever be granted by an Italian university. The text features the complete speeches by Luigi Dei, Rector, by Andrea Zorzi, Director of the SAGAS Department, the Laudatio by Mauro Guerrini, president of the Degree in Library and Archival Sciences and the Lectio Doctoralis by Michele Casalini, entitled La centralità delle biblioteche per il progresso e la democrazia.
All the texts are published in Italian and English.
«Si risponde lavorando». Lettere 1941-1992
Authors: Macrí Oreste , Spagnoletti Giacinto
Published: January 2020

«Si risponde lavorando». Letters between 1941 and 1992. In 1941, Macrí was a notorious scholar, while Spagnoletti only a debutant poet, but their knowledge of books and magazines brought them to an intense exchange of letters, which would be interrupted in 1956 due to profound disagreements on poetry and on the assessment of Hermeticism. This correspondence, fully transcribed and carefully enriched by Andrea Giusti’s notes, retraces that intellectual relationship in some decisive years of Italian history. With Fascism, war and reconstruction as a background, there is the rise of the ferment underlying cultural collaborations, of Spagnoletti's anthologist activity and of Macrí’s studies on comparative literature and Spanish, which led him to become more sensitive and open towards European culture.
Elegiarum Libri Quattuor
Authors: Kochanowski Jan
Published: January 2020

This volume contains the critical edition of the Latin elegies written by the most important poet of the Polish Renaissance, as well as a philological commentary . The comment, in particular, does not only refer to the collection of similia, but also analyses Jan Kochanowski’s ways of “imitatio” (imitation), underlining his extraordinary poetic skills as well as his vibrant and lively relationship with classical texts, which he reuses cleverly to satisfy his own needs for meaning.
Il ruolo di TAF12B e UVR3 nel ciclo circadiano dei vegetali
Authors: Pollastri Susanna
Published: January 2020

The book goes over the studies carried out on the circadian oscillators in plants, performed using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. The plant's oscillators seem to include similar components to those described for other model organisms. A bioinformatic analysis on the Arabidopsis genome found the genes TAF12b, At1g17440 and UVR3, At3g15620. Both the genes were cloned with the GFP green fluorescent protein in order to locate this protein at cell level. Furthermore, Arabidopsis SALK line plants were grown and selected, mutating the genes in question, and in parallel gene expression tests were performed on the main circadian rhythm genes in order to monitor their expression both in conditions of alternating light and dark, and in constant conditions. From the data that has emerged to date it seems that both genes are involved in the Arabidopsis's circadian rhythms.
Lettere ad Angelico Aprosio (1665-1675)
Authors: Cavana Giovanni Nicolò
Published: January 2020

The critical edition of the correspondence (1665-1675), today housed at the University of Genoa library, between the Genoan patrician Nicolò Cavana and the bibliophile Fra' Angelico Aprosio di Ventimiglia includes an introduction and transcription of the letters, with both bibliographical and (where possible) explanatory notes on some now outdated terms. In consideration of the private nature of the 286 letters, reading them gives an interesting and informal view of seventeenth-century life, as well as much information on the variegated world of the Baroque book culture providing a constant backdrop to the relationship of collaboration and friendship between the two figures.
L'informazione finanziaria price-sensitive
Authors: Amato Gioacchino
Published: January 2020

When a company decides to provide equity capital, thus acquiring the status of public company, it also agrees to submit to rules of maximum transparency regarding not only their corporate governance but, in general, every aspect related to corporate life, including relevant events affecting their own financial position. Therefore, the issuer must disclose to the public the price-sensitive information concerning them. The incomplete or untimely disclosure, or failure to disclose to the public the relevant information concerning the listed issuer, can facilitate market abuse, in the form of information manipulation of the financial markets or abuse of privileged information. This volume deals with all the aspects falling within the sphere of continuous information which listed issuers are required to provide to the public.
In abstracto
Authors: Pireddu Alberto
Published: January 2020

In abstracto is an in-depth study of the work of Giuseppe Terragni's illustrious genius, seen in the analytical vision of an accurate research on abstraction in architecture. Abstraction presents itself as a paradigm of a path towards essence, a form sought by Terragni as "limpid, elementary and perfect" and, therefore, universal. «This book is more than just another book on Terragni. It is a careful look at that abstraction which is necessary and essential nowadays. Understanding the way Pireddu does in this beautiful text that abstract architecture, in abstracto architecture, is an essential architecture, means understanding everything in one go. It means understanding that abstraction, far from being coldness, is wealth. The wealth of freedom. Understanding that abstract architecture, in abstracto, is based on truth. And that beauty, the sought-after beauty, is the splendour of truth. As Plato taught and Sant'Agostino then explained. Understanding that beauty, truth and freedom are the basis of architecture means having understood everything about Terragni». From Alberto Campo Baeza’s Foreword.
Sistemi locali ed imprese: un’analisi dello scenario evolutivo italiano
Authors: Falorni Alessio
Published: January 2020

This study focuses on the main evolutionary dynamics which affected the Italian local employment systems (SLL) between 2001 and 2010, while examining their main economic and socio-demographic characteristics. The goal is to understand whether the reality of small and medium-sized manufacturing companies and their districts is truly heading towards an 'epochal decline', with a hierarchy of competitive advantages being established by urban contexts rather than by district or peripheral ones. Therefore, if the territory is still the protagonist of the events of local economies, and not a mere recipient, it makes sense to promote a territory-study perspective while dealing with the themes of economy and development in its multiple dimensions.
Considerazioni sul credito di ultima istanza all’indomani della crisi
Authors: Sparacino Antonio
Published: January 2020

What is the lender of last resort? Why has this category become overwhelmingly topical? From these questions arises a discussion focused on the issues of the 2007-08 financial crisis, on the measures taken by Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank to deal with it, on the developments of the even more recent sovereign debt crisis. A critical reflection traced in the wake of the contributions of some of the most eminent economists - balancing between theory and practice - aimed at opening a glimpse into the understanding of events which are felt as distant from the perception of non-professionals, but which strongly influence the life of the community with fundamental consequences.
La ‘scoperta’ dei disoccupati
Authors: Alberti Manfredi
Published: January 2020

In Italy, the problem of involuntary unemployment, although known to the working classes and public authorities at least since the age of the Risorgimento, only became the subject of specific attention at the end of the nineteenth century. It is only at that time that a political and economic debate arises on the lack of work and on the means to contrast it, on the scenario of the end-of-century depression and simultaneously to the development of the workers and peasants movements. Those years saw the foundations for the experimentation of a pioneering statistical measurement of the phenomenon, which, however, would only come to light during the Giolittian age, in a political context more open to the demands of work. This research reconstructs for the first time the “focus” of a typical problem of capitalism, which also proves itself of great interest central also in the contemporary debate.
Development of novel ultrasound techniques for imaging and elastography. From simulation to real-time implementation
Authors: Ramalli Alessandro
Published: January 2020

Ultrasound techniques offer many advantages, in terms of ease of realization and patients’ safety. The availability of suitable hardware and software tools is condicio sine qua non for new methods testing.
This PhD project addresses medical ultrasound signal processing and seeks to achieve two scientific goals: the first is to contribute to the development of an ultrasound research platform, while the second is introducing and validating, through this platform, non-standard methods. During the thesis, the capabilities of the system were improved by creating advanced software tools, such as acoustic field simulators, and by developing echo-signals elaboration programs. In particular, a novel technique for quasi-static elastography was developed, in-vitro tested and implemented in real-time.
Cronache epistolari. Lettere 1476-1508
Authors: Vespucci Amerigo
Published: January 2020

After Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci was the most important navigator and explorer of all time, so much so as to deserve the esteem not only of his contemporary geographers, but also that of historians like Francesco Guicciardini who, in one of the most important chapters of his history of Italy, raised him to the rank of protagonist of universal history. The originality of this collection - bringing together for the first time all known letters of Amerigo Vespucci - consists in having considered (and demonstrated) the special nature of such correspondence as a “chronicle” of the daily life of Renaissance Tuscany and Florence, deeply marked by Humanism, with its taste, lifestyle, ideas, interests (including geographical interests), creations (printed books and their typographical workshops) from which Vespucci drew many suggestions. Once he moved first to Seville and then to Lisbon, Vespucci gained a new human experience that pushed him, following the mysteries of the Atlantic Ocean, in search of the “fame” suggested to him by the humanistic culture. After the “wonder” of the New World discovered, the result of this “intellectual chemistry” moved him to recount daily life on the Spanish and Portuguese caravels, and to describe with ethnological passion the new lands and their inhabitants in a unique and unrepeatable frame in the history of humanity.
L’archeologia del graphic novel
Authors: Brandigi Eleonora
Published: January 2020

The archaeology of the graphic novel does not shed light on the historical origins of the comic book; on the contrary, it tries to discover the conceptual genesis of this narrative form. If the research methodology is archaeological, in fact, the theoretical approach is the same as neuro-narratology, in the light of which four important stages are suggested. These stages define the comic novel as a "natural" literary genre, a mimesis of the process transposing reality into images and constituting the basis of thought. The figure of Rodolphe Töpffer is not excluded from this process. Thanks to his theories and his work, he leads us to hypothesize that the comic book was more "novelistic" at its origin than it is in its current forms: the path to the novel, then, would not be so much of an evolution, but rather a return to the origins.
Capitoli autobiografici
Authors: Manigrasso Leonardo
Published: January 2020

Leonardo Manigrasso has made use of the most up-to-date tools made available by stylistic criticism and translation studies to offer a series of intense “debates” and comparisons between the greatest poets-translators born in Italy between the 1910s and the early 1920s. The choice to cross multiple versions of the same source text allows the reader to verify the multiple ways of implicit reading and rewriting during the translation process, establishing distances, documenting unexpected dialogues, exposing the bonds between the translated work and the “creative” work of each author. The interaction between different and remarkable textual features has the goal of reconstructing a fundamental chapter in the history of twentieth century poetry, from the birth of hermetic koinè to a notion of translating as a predominantly empirical and individual process.
Le biografie di Stefan Zweig tra Geschichte e Psychologie: Triumph und Tragik des Erasmus von Rotterdam, Marie Antoinette, Maria Stuart
Authors: Sogos Giorgia
Published: January 2020

This thesis work intends to provide a contribution in the field of research on Stefan Zweig through the in-depth study of his most famous and emblematic biographies that made the writer's fortune worldwide in the 1930s. During the research, it emerged that Zweig's biographies represent a field that has remained largely unexplored. In addition to interviews with specialists, this aspect is confirmed by the limited number of studies relating to this topic, appeared mostly in the form of not always exhaustive journal articles. Particularly, the biographies dedicated to the two queens Marie Antoinette and Maria Stuart are little taken into account, as well as the biographical study focused on the French poet Marceline Desbordes-Valmore. From the in-depth analysis of scientific sources it becomes also clear how the terminology with which these works are indicated is problematic, in that we sometimes speak of “biography” and sometimes of “novel”; sometimes these two terms appear interchangeable within a same work. With this work, an attempt was therefore made to resolve this dilemma in favour of the concept of “biography”, a term which, due to its hybridity, appears not only more adequate but above all conforming to the writer's statements.
Gross violations dei diritti delle donne in Messico
Authors: Dara Chiara
Published: January 2020

The violence against women in Ciudad Juárez has made "femicide" an analytical category suitable for explaining the state of unpunished patriarchal violence perpetrated by a macho society. Is it reasonable to think that, confronted with such violence, the Mexican state must assume the consequences of an international offense? Insufficient preventive measures and serious irregularities in the investigative and procedural process, in fact, denounce the failure to respect the obligation of the State to prevent, investigate and punish human rights violations with due diligence. Therefore, if the conditions exist for defining the state "unwilling" and "unable" to genuinely prosecute the crime, are these cases on which the International Criminal Court can exercise its jurisdiction?
Rendimento e attualità della Costituzione repubblicana
Authors: Puccini Giusto
Published: January 2020

Our constitutional legislation lends itself to a rather differentiated judgement, both in terms of performance and actuality, depending on whether one refers, respectively, to the part concerning the form of State intended as a set of purposes and inspiring values of the action of the public authorities, and as a way of posing relations between the latter and the community, to the part concerning the organization and functioning of public state powers, or to the part concerning the form of State intended as the way in which the relations between the State and the decentralized authorities are established. Moreover, the judgement on the performance and topicality of the legislation relating to the first of the afore-mentioned parts is particularly relevant for the purposes of assessing the performance and topicality of the constitutional regulations as a whole.
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 first 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 1,532 editions published from the beginning of printing to 1600. 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 16th century volume exhibits a wide range not only of the famous medieval authors of the ius commune, but also of the growing number of contemporary 16th century jurists.
Prevenzione del mal di schiena di origine meccanica con attività motoria e comportamentale
Authors: Martinelli Elena
Published: January 2020

This volume aims at becoming a basic scientific text; by studying the biomechanics of a healthy spine and carrying out a morpho-functional examination of the subject, the possible risks of mechanical damage causing back pain (BP) are analysed, and the preventive and compensatory motor activities for BP are shown in the context of daily life and work activities. The text is up to date on methodological notions and criteria, in particular on the C.A.MO.® method. It offers a broad general cultural platform, and largely fulfils the information requests of fundamental sectors, such as orthopaedics, sports medicine, physiotherapy, kinesiology, sports preparation, work ergonomics.
Ospedali e politiche assistenziali a Vicenza nel Quattrocento
Authors: Bianchi Francesco
Published: January 2020

The fifteenth century is the century of hospital reforms, started in numerous Italian cities in order to overcome the inadequacies of traditional charitable practices of the Middle Ages and to face the social and health emergencies of that period with the help of different tools. Vicenza also participated in the reform process, restructuring the organisation of its care network, especially thanks to the intervention of the urban patriciate, which ruled the government of the major hospitals according to "managerial" criteria. In the fifteenth century the search for the bonum commune (common good) thus found expression in a new and rational way of understanding, financing and dispensing charity, conversing with public and private actors of the urban scene: a new but not so revolutionary way, in which ancient and recent feelings converged, such as Christian pietas, civic religiosity and protection of the social class’ status quo.
Early cross-modal interactions and adult human visual cortical plasticity revealed by binocular rivalry
Authors: Lunghi Claudia
Published: January 2020

In this research binocular rivalry is used as a tool to investigate different aspects of visual and multisensory perception. Several experiments presented here demonstrated that touch specifically interacts with vision during binocular rivalry and that the interaction likely occurs at early stages of visual processing, probably V1 or V2. Another line of research also presented here demonstrated that human adult visual cortex retains an unexpected high degree of experience-dependent plasticity by showing that a brief period of monocular deprivation produced important perceptual consequences on the dynamics of binocular rivalry, reflecting a homeostatic plasticity. In summary, this work shows that binocular rivalry is a powerful tool to investigate different aspects of visual perception and can be used to reveal unexpected properties of early visual cortex.
Characteristics of raw and cooked fillets in species of actual and potential interest for Italian aquaculture
Authors: Martelli Roberta
Published: January 2020

Heat treatment generally induces structural changes of fish muscle and loss of nutrients. Depending on many intrinsic and extrinsic factors farmed fish qualitative attributes can be subject to changes.
The aim of this study was to assess the effects of boiling on physical parameters and nutritional profile of fillets from two farmed species [meagre (Argyrosomus regius) and rainbow trout (Onchorynchus mykiss)]. Specie-specific differences in physico-chemical traits influenced raw flesh quality and the response to cooking. In meagre, sampling times differences in macronutrients were nullified by cooking. In rainbow trout, boiling modified physico-chemical profile depending on the strain while farming conditions affected cooked fillet quality in a different extent according to the strain.
Carlo Marsuppini. Carmi latini
Authors: Pierini Ilaria
Published: January 2020

Carlo Marsuppini (1398-1453) is a well known professor at the Studio Fiorentino, Chancellor of the Republic, friend of Cosimo de’ Medici and tutor of his children, translator of Homeric and pseudo-homeric works, author of private and, above all, public letters. His activity as a poet is less known: his writings in vernacular were so far entrusted to a handful of poems published in the collection Carmina illustrium poetarum italorum (1720). This book offers for the first time a rigorous critical edition of the humanist's poetic production, based on the analysis of the vast vast known manuscript tradition, and a broad commentary on the individual poems, of which a translation into Italian is also offered.
Sindaci e professionismo politico
Authors: Corica Graziana
Published: January 2020

The fil rouge of the work concerns the transformations of political professionalism, investigated through a particular category of politicians: the mayors of three municipalities in the provincial capitals of Tuscany, elected between 1994 and 2009. The reconstruction of the debate on the phenomenon, the legislative requirements and the regional political geography are the theoretical pillars on which the dual purpose of the research is based: first, to analyse the profile of the mayors in a diachronic perspective, and second, to interpret the different levels of political professionalism. The first perspective allows to illustrate the generational differences between the mayors after the introduction of the law 83/931. The second perspective focuses on the characteristics of the actors - defined on the basis of four dimensions of a continuum - and on the professionalisation of politics.
Il digitale al museo
Authors: Idra Renato
Published: January 2020

Finding, recovering, photographing, inventorying, cataloguing, restoring and finally, if possible, finding the optimum location: these are the 'seven commandments' for those who pursue the aim of saving the historical and scientific heritage of their country, either officially, through museums, academies and universities, or privately as collectors. This is the commitment of the University Service Centre for the Protection and Promotion of Siena’s Ancient Scientific Heritage Collection of the University of Siena, which aimed at promoting this series of inventories of scientific instruments in order to share its protection activity for scientific and cultural heritage, mainly in the medical and surgical field.
«Truth is an odd number». La narrativa di Flann O’Brien e il fantastico
Authors: Milli Valentina
Published: January 2020

Starting from the main theories about the imaginary - from the Freudian category of Unheimliche and the Todorovian category of hésitation up to the most recent contributions - the volume highlights the imaginary elements of instability in Flann O'Brien's narrative. In particular, the author analyses the discontinuities and irreconcilable contradictions of the Irish writer's textual systems, the idiosyncratic and fragmented representation of the characters, the ambiguous coexistence of natural and supernatural, the problematic relationship between signifier and signified. Malapropisms, neologisms, linguistic tics, nonsense and a series of meta-narrative games seem to compromise the search for reliable answers within the Obrienian cosmos in which truth is, in fact, an odd number.
L’istituzione del matrimonio in Tolstoj
Authors: Zalambani Maria
Published: January 2020

Leo Tolstoy's works are not only masterpieces of world literature, but also mirrors of their time, of the socio-cultural transformations which took place in Tsarist Russia; it is from this perspective that, in this work, this great writer’s production is analysed. In particular, the author examines the evolution of the institution of marriage in the second half of the 19th century in Russia, starting from the reading of Family Happiness , Anna Karenina and The Kreutzer Sonata. If Family happiness preludes to the crisis of the arranged marriage, its implosion is beautifully described in Anna Karenina . Anna announces the definitive death of this institution when she defies the society of her time by not hiding her adultery and, on the contrary, by exhibiting it and trying to legitimize it.The Kreutzer Sonata, lastly, demonstrates the successful overcoming of the aristocratic marriage model, replaced by the bourgeois one.
Architetture nel tempo
Authors: De Vita Maurizio
Published: January 2020

Architetture nel tempo represents the awareness of the duration, permanence and authenticity of places along the centuries and in their continuous contemporaneity, entrusted to the preservation which passes on to the future, to the dialogue between ancient and modern architecture and to the restoration project. Therefore, they are not only excellent artefacts, but also everyday architectures, artefacts born of necessity as well as of symbolic and grandiloquent will, which have however survived the passing of time in order to acquire the right to become memory and future, in order to exhibit a citizenship which is equally recognized at the borders of past and present, in order to become that material for history which, through research and investigation in the field, turns itself into history.
Preistoria e Protostoria egea e cipriota
Authors: Bombardieri Luca , Graziadio Giampaolo , Jasink Anna Margherita
Published: January 2020

This volume is intended as an introduction to the study of pre-classical cultures - Minoan, Mycenaean, Cycladic and Cypriot - which developed between the third and first millennium BC in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean basin. The analysis of archaeological evidence linked to material culture and artistic productions together with the study on epigraphic documentation offer a picture of political, economic-social and religious structures hosting phenomena of continuity and deep cultural relations. Even before Greek prehistory, this is the story of a composite reality, which is still far from being fully understood, but which has the charm of the ancient myths and of their ability to expand and interact with other Mediterranean and Near Eastern civilisations.
The Conservatory of Santa Teresa
Authors: Bilenchi Romano
Published: January 2020

This volume is the first translation of Romano Bilenchi’s 1940 masterpiece to appear in English. This is surprising since The Conservatory of Santa Teresa is much more than an invaluable historical document of life in provincial Tuscany around the time of the First World War. It is truly one of the most important works of fiction published in Italy under Fascism. In telling of the pre-adolescent Sergio’s encounter with the larger world of sex, politics, and the violence and cruelty of adult life, Bilenchi succeeds in representing a universal paradigm, that of the clash of innocence with experience. But what makes Sergio’s trajectory unique is that he goes through it in the company of three extraordinary women who are at once femmes fatales and benevolent guides: his mother, his aunt, and his tutor, all almost unbearably beautiful, as least in Sergio’s eyes. These women, plus the dazzling landscape of the Sienese countryside as captured by Bilenchi, make Sergio’s journey an enviable even if sometimes painful and bewildering experience.
Educational Jobs: Youth and Employability in the Social Economy
Authors: Boffo Vanna , Federighi Paolo , Torlone Francesca
Published: January 2020

In Europe the social economy employs almost 15 million workers. During the crisis years, unlike other sectors, it has often generated an increase in jobs. The aim of this comparative study is to investigate how to allow the supply and demand for young people to meet in the different types of social economy bodies. In particular, it concentrates on the problem of how to bring into line initial university training and the skills required by these organizations. The focus is placed on the varied family of training workers present in at least 75% of the organizations, whose professionalism is nevertheless rarely acknowledged. The papers proposed in this book try to identify the most suitable solutions at the level of curriculum, career development and accompanying measures, while drawing solutions from objective findings and not from training system needs or convictions.
Repository Istituzionali Open Access e strategie Linked Open Data
Authors: Solodovnik Iryna
Published: January 2020

The purpose of this book is to highlight the relevance of the international Open Access (OA) movement, which aims at supporting and promoting strategies for the dissemination of scientific research products with the support of network technologies and open access policies. The OA Institutional Repositories (IRs) will be presented within the framework of: some guidelines, research evaluation mechanisms, intellectual property issues, long-term storage, Data and Process Management Plan and Trusted Digital Repositories. The work will also present a survey on a sample of 23 (Italian and international) digital repositories in support of communication and of open access to online research content. On the basis of this investigation, a ToolKit will be presented which could be useful for programming and monitoring several different features of an IR. Subsequently, the reader will be presented with a metadata scheme for the description of the scientific research products in IRs, which takes into consideration the Guidelines for the creation and management of metadata in Institutional Repositories (CRUI, 2012) and the Linked Open Data-enabled Bibliographical Data Recommendations (Subirats, Zeng, 2015). Metadata enabled as limit of detection (LOD) data will play a key role in qualifying the semantic profile of the properties of the considered metadata and, consequently, of the information resources they represent. They will also contribute to the enhancement of semantic interoperability and to the online promotion of collaborative dynamics of scientific research content on an Italian and international level, strengthening the effectiveness and efficiency of research itself.
L’immagine del cane in Franz Kafka
Authors: Pastorelli Giuseppina
Published: January 2020

Within the Kafkaesque bestiary, the dog is undoubtedly the animal that deserves a more careful study: it is the image which the author uses the most, in literary writing but also in the private one, and which occupies a a very large time span, so much so that it becomes a real key figure through which to read Kafka's work from a possible new perspective. The volume aims to demonstrate how the problems that have characterized Kafka's existence are hidden behind the dog's symbology, the reflections around which he has concentrated, throughout his life, his thought and his writing: the woman and the question of marriage, writing itself, religion as a relationship with the divine.
A study on cholinergic signal transduction pathways involved in short term and long term memory formation in the rat hippocampus
Authors: Lana Daniele
Published: January 2020

Neurodegenerative processes alter neuronal and glial physiology and cause cognitive and mnemonic impairments. Aim of this PhD thesis is to investigate the involvement of the cholinergic system and the role of mTOR pathway in the mechanisms of memory encoding in the hippocampus and to study the pathophysiological processes at the base of the cognitive impairments in different experimental models of neurodegeneration: in particular normal brain aging, neuroinfiammation and chronic cerebral hypoperfusion. These mechanisms are studied focusing on the morpho-functional alterations in the neuron-astrocytemicroglia triad.
Medici in transizione
Authors: Sofritti Federico
Published: January 2020

The evolution of the Italian health system, which went from the establishment of the National Health Service in 1978 to the corporate management introduced with the reforms of the 1990s, requires a thorough knowledge of the effects of organizational change on the medical profession. Starting from this consideration, this volume focuses on the results of the corporatising process in terms of professional identity. The research, conducted among medical specialists operating in the territorial structures of two Tuscan Health Authorities, shows a transitioning figure, which hints at a new form of medical professionalism.
Il pensiero estetico di Nikolaj Evreinov dalla teatralità alla 'poetica della rivelazione'
Authors: Pieralli Claudia
Published: January 2020

This research offers an integral analysis of the aesthetic thought of the director, playwright and art theorist Nikolaj Nikolaevic Evreinov. The work focuses on the analysis of the treaty The revelation of art, written in Paris in the 1930s, which represents the greatest testimony of the author's research in the aesthetic field. Henceforth, a connection is offered between the known aspects of Evreinov's theatrical thought, relating to the period of the avant-garde in Russia, and others, of a broader nature, which have long been precluded from being known. Through insights on the Russian theatrical history of the early 20th century, reflections touching textual criticism, the history of aesthetic thought and Russian criticism, the complex figure of an artist emerges against the background of the culture expressed by post-revolutionary Russian emigration. An artist who, as an intellectual, begins a dialogue with the Western European cultural tradition. This book thus intends to restore the visibility, as well as an exegetical and historiographic completeness, of Evreinov’s rich legacy as a writer, a philosopher and a critic.