The House of the Dead. The San Cataldo Cemetery in Modena, by Aldo Rossi and Gianni Braghieri

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Gilda Giancipoli

2015-12-01

Full Text Available One of the projects that absolute addresses the clear relationship between the city of the living and the city of the dead is the project for the competition of the Cemetery in Modena, won by Aldo Rossi and Gianni Braghieri in 1971. Then it was revised for the second degree of the competition and for another step of the project in 1976. Now it remains unfinished, as the administration plans to achieve it programmatically. It has a clear organization of his differentiated and related parts through formal hierarchies, that recognize in the cube and the cone the “facts” of this urban city of the dead, with its rich symbolism linked to the cult of the dead. However, the cemetery isn’t, an isolated moment in Rossi’s work, but it is possible to recognize in it a declination of formal characterizations that returns throughout its design process.

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Dehs, Jørgen

1994-01-01

Interview med Gianni Vattimos. Italiensk politisk kultur, forholdet mellem politikeren og den intelektuelle og Gianni Vattimos program.......Interview med Gianni Vattimos. Italiensk politisk kultur, forholdet mellem politikeren og den intelektuelle og Gianni Vattimos program....

La contribución de Gianni Vattimo a la hermenéutica del siglo xx

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Teresa OÑATE

2009-11-01

Full Text Available RESUMEN: En este artículo se aborda la discusión y el análisis de la decisiva contribución de la ontología de Gianni Vattimo, después de Nietzsche, Heidegger y Gadamer en tres direcciones. En primer lugar, al trazado del mapa doxográfico-temático del pensamiento crítico contemporáneo y su problemática, articulado por la hermenéutica como lengua común y lugar de discusión común de la filosofía actual. En segundo lugar, al lúcido planteamiento y subrayado sistemático, por parte de Vattimo, de la prioritaria cuestión de la filosofía del criterio, o del límite de la interpretación, que entronca históricamente, en el contexto de la hermenéutica occidental europea, con la metafísica de la historia misma, la teología y la filosofía de la religión. Y, en tercer lugar, a la coherente respuesta hermenéutica de Vattimo, de acuerdo con una filosofía afirmativa contradogmática; es decir, al rebasamiento hermenéutico de la racionalidad dialéctica negativa merced al reconocimiento ontológico del espíritu del amor como criterio hermenéutico suprajudicativo.ABSTRACT: This article discusses and analyses the decisive contribution of Vattimo's ontology after Nietzsche, Heidegger and Gadamer. Specially, it focus on the following three aspects. On the one hand, it explores the doxographic-thematic map of contemporary critical thought and its problematic articulated by hermeneutics. On the other hand, it studies Vattimo's approach concerning the priority question of philosophy of criterion, a question which is connected to metaphysics of history, theology and philosophy of religión. Finally, this paper analyse Vattimo's replies constructed according with an affirmative contradogmatic philosophy.

Autonomous Histories of Muslim Women Cultural Poetics; A Critical Reading of the Personal/Academic Narratives of Leila Ahmed and Amina Wadud

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Hadeer Abo El Nagah

2017-01-01

Full Text Available Louis Montrose's "Professing the Renaissance: the Poetics and Politics of Culture" renewed concern with the historical, social and political conditions of literary productions (1989. He suggested a platform through which autonomous aesthetics and academic issues to be understood as inextricably linked to other discourses. While autobiography is considered as a "writing back," I argue here that it is rather a strategic transitional act that connects the past with the present and remaps the future. Though a very personal opening, autobiography is seen as a documentation of public events from a personal perspective. Academic autobiographies like Arab American history professor Leila Ahmad's A Border Passage from Cairo to America; A Woman’s Journey (2012 and African American theology professor Amina Wadud’s Inside the Gender Jihad (2008 are two examples of the production of interwoven private and public histories. The personal opening in such narratives is an autonomous act that initiates cross-disciplinary dialogues that trigger empowerment and proposes future changes. In that sense, these autobiographies are far from being mere stories of the past. Conversely, they are tools of rereading one's contributions and thus repositioning the poetics and politics of culture as testimonial narratives. Employing post-colonial, Islamic feminism and new historicism, the aim of this study is to critically read the above academic/personal two autobiographies as examples of the private/ public negotiations of culture. It also aims to explore the dialogue between the literary, historical and social elements as they remap the future of women in Muslim societies and the diaspora.

Estratégias de luta das enfermeiras da Maternidade Leila Diniz para implantação de um modelo humanizado de assistência ao parto

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Ricardo José Oliveira Mouta

2009-01-01

Full Text Available Es una investigación cualitativa con abordaje socio-histórico, cuyo objetivo fue identificar las estrategias de la lucha simbólica de las enfermeras de la Maternidad Leila Diniz para la aplicación de un modelo de atención al parto humanizado y analizar los efectos de esa lucha. Se usaron como fuentes primarias los documentos escritos y testimonios orales obtenidos por entrevistas semiestructuradas con los jefes de enfermería y las enfermeras. Las etapas del análisis son: ordenación, clasificación y triangulación de los datos. Se usaron los conceptos de campo, habitus, poder simbólico, y capital, según Pierre Bourdieu. Las estrategias encontradas son las siguientes: la búsqueda de especialización, la implantación del Proyecto de Asistencia al Parto por las Enfermeras Obstétricas, la divulgación de ese capital en el contexto científico, la participación de las enfermeras en el grupo de embarazadas. Se concluye que las estrategias de lucha desarrolladas por esos agentes contribuyen para que las enfermeras obstétricas conquisten una posición jerárquica para el desarrollo de las prácticas obstétricas según el modelo humanizado.

Raamat "Tööraamat" = "A life's work" book

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2012-01-01

Eesti Sisearhitektide Liidu 2011. aasta publitsistika preemia: Pärtelpoeg, Leila. Tööraamat / koostaja Krista Roosi ; kujundaja Maarja Roosi. [Tartu] : Eesti Sisearhitektide Liit, [2011]. Loetletud Leila Pärtelpoja, Krista Roosi ja Maarja Roosi tehtud töid

Moodsad ajad vanas majas : Raekoja 1975. aasta sisekujundus = Modern Times at an Old Building : 1975 Interior Design of Tallinn Town Hall / Kai Lobjakas

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2004-01-01

1973. a. Tallinna Raekojale uue sisekujunduslahenduse saamiseks korraldatud kutsutud konkursi võitis töö Annunciation, mille põhiautoriks oli Leila Pärtelpoeg, kaasautoriteks Aate-Heli Õun, Anu Raud, Ilme-Anu Neemre. Tööd jätkas Leila Pärtelpoeg koos Udo Umbergiga. Rippvaipade galerii autor Valve Ilveste

L'uomo inquieto. Identità e alterità nell'opera di Antonio Tabucchi

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Lausten, Pia Schwarz

Italiensk litteratur 1980-2000, Gianni Vattimo, Michail Bachtin, Identitetsproblematik i Antonio Tabucchis forfatterskab, subjektivitetsforståelse......Italiensk litteratur 1980-2000, Gianni Vattimo, Michail Bachtin, Identitetsproblematik i Antonio Tabucchis forfatterskab, subjektivitetsforståelse...

Outcomes of stable and unstable patterns of subjective cognitive decline – results from the Leipzig Longitudinal Study of the Aged (LEILA75+

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Susanne Roehr

2016-11-01

Full Text Available Abstract Background Subjective cognitive decline (SCD, i.e., the self-perceived feeling of worsening cognitive function, may be the first notable syndrome of preclinical Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. However, not all individuals with SCD progress. Stability of SCD, i.e., repeated reports of SCD, could contribute to identify individuals at risk, as stable SCD may more likely reflect the continuous neurodegenerative process of Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Methods Cox regression analyses were used to assess the association between stability of SCD and progression to MCI and dementia in data derived from the population-based Leipzig Longitudinal Study of the Aged (LEILA75+. Results Of 453 cognitively unimpaired individuals with a mean age of 80.5 years (SD = 4.2, 139 (30.7 % reported SCD at baseline. Over the study period (M = 4.8 years, SD = 2.2, 84 (18.5 % individuals had stable SCD, 195 (43.1 % unstable SCD and 174 (38.4 % never reported SCD. Stable SCD was associated with increased risk of progression to MCI and dementia (unadjusted HR = 1.8, 95 % CI = 1.2–2.6; p < .01, whereas unstable SCD yielded a decreased progression risk (unadjusted HR = 0.5, 95 % CI = 0.4–0.7; p < .001 compared to no SCD. When adjusted for baseline cognitive functioning, progression risk in individuals with stable SCD was significantly increased in comparison to individuals with unstable SCD, but not compared to individuals without SCD. Conclusions Our results, though preliminary, suggest that stable SCD, i.e., repeated reports of SCD, may yield an increased risk of progression to MCI and dementia compared to unstable SCD. Baseline cognitive scores, though within a normal range, seem to be a driver of progression in stable SCD. Future research is warranted to investigate whether stability could hold as a SCD research feature.

Los dioses han cambiado (de modo que todo lo demás ya podría cambiar. Acotaciones en torno a la contribución de la hermenéutica de Gianni Vattimo a la condición religiosa postmoderna

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Miguel Ángel QUINTANA PAZ

2009-11-01

Full Text Available RESUMEN: ¿Cuál debe ser la actitud de un pensamiento genuinamente postmoderno ante el fenómeno religioso? ¿Debe contribuir a desterrarlo de nuestras sociedades (en alianza con cierto racionalismo ilustrado que siempre miró con suspicacia cuanto no cabía dentro de sus estrechos criterios o, por el contrario, debe colaborar en su emergente renacimiento (y aliarse, por tanto, con los diversos tradicionalismos que lo reivindican? La filosofía de Gianni Vattimo constituye una respuesta a esta disyuntiva (típicamente moderna desde una perspectiva que pretende distorsionar (verwinden tal dicotomía. La idea clave para ello es el concepto de secularización que a la vez que reconoce nuestra dependencia, como occidentales, de un cierto discurso religioso, lo debilita con el fin de eliminar de él su violencia (pues, de modo circular, reconoce que dentro de él ya existía in nuce el proyecto de esta eliminación, el proyecto de la kénosis. El presente artículo analiza someramente estas ideas y traza algunas de sus conexiones (no siempre explicitadas por el propio Vattimo con el pensamiento teológico más reciente, para después reseñar algunas de las consecuencias que han tenido en los debates filosóficos hispanos. ABSTRACT: Which kind of attitude a genuinely post-modern thought have towards religión? Should it help to abolish religión in our societies —following the path opened by some rationalists of the 18th century, whose narrow criteria were not able to have a handle on this phenomenon?—. Or should it, on the opposite, make any contribution to today's renaissance of religión —aligning itself with the different traditionalisms that propitiate this new emergence?—. The philosophical outlook of Gianni Vattimo offers an answer to this (typically modern dilemma, by way of distorting (verwinden it. The key for this movement is the concept of secularization: this concept recognizes our dependence (as Westerners from a certain

Ainevaldkond "Kehakultuur" / Leila Oja

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Oja, Leila, 1966-

2006-01-01

Ainevaldkonnast "Kehakultuur" Tartu Ülikooli õppekava arenduskeskuses väljatöötatud põhikooli ja gümnaasiumi riiklikus õppekavas - ainevaldkonna kirjeldus, läbivad teemad, aineõpetuse struktuur ning vajalikud ressursid

Dvorjanskoje gnezdo : glava iz knigi 'ESTICA : kultura i istorija' / Jüri Kuuskemaa

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Kuuskemaa, Jüri, 1942-

1998-01-01

Rägavere mõisa härrastemajast, arvatav arhitekt Johann Schulz. Selle taastamisest kultuurikeskuse tarvis. Sisekujundaja Leila Pärtelpoeg, skulptor Cornelius Tamm. Maali- ja mööblikollektsioonist

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Author Affiliations. Kayvan Etebari1 Leila Matindoost2. Department of Sericulture, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Guilan, Somehe Sara, Iran; Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran ...

Phenotypic and molecular genetic analysis of Pyruvate Kinase ...

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Phenotypic and molecular genetic analysis of Pyruvate Kinase deficiency in a Tunisian family. Jaouani Mouna, Hamdi Nadia, Chaouch Leila, Kalai Miniar, Mellouli Fethi, Darragi Imen, Boudriga Imen, Chaouachi Dorra, Bejaoui Mohamed, Abbes Salem ...

Fantaasiad Hiina teemadel / Leila Pärtelpoeg

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2006-01-01

Hiinas praegugi tootmises ja müügil olevate vanu vorme ja dekoratsioone järgivate esemete tutvustus: kitsas laud, fajanssnõu, punane kapp, tool, kandik, panipaik-kapp, azhuurne raam tikandite raamimiseks, väike laud. Lavastused: Madis Liplap kaubandusfirmas Vipex

Alvar Aalto - 100 / Leila Pärtelpoeg

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1998-01-01

Villa Mairea'st, mis valmis 1939. a. ja mille A. Aalto projekteeris oma mõttekaaslastele ja sõpradele Harry ja Maire Gullichsenidele. Loetletud A. Aalto juubelit tähistavad rahvusvahelised näitused. Tallinna Kunstihoone galeriis 10.-11. 03 1998 näitus "Aalto mööbel"

Sokivabrik Suva põrutab soomlaste etnomustritega Soomet vallutama / Rein Sikk

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2009-01-01

AS Suva sokkide müügiedust, tootearendusest. Vabriku disainer on Leila Tamm. Suurt tähelepanu pälvinud rahvusmustritega etnosari sündis koostöös Eesti Kunstiakadeemia tekstiilieriala üliõpilastega. Kalevala sarja sokkidega minnakse Soome turule

Linnumustriga laulupeosokkidest on saanud Suva vabriku hitt-toode / Erik Müürsepp

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Müürsepp, Erik

2009-01-01

Suurest huvist AS Suva toodetud laulu- ja tantsupeo "ÜhesHingamine" temaatikaga sokkide ja põlvikute vastu. 25. laulu- ja 18. tantsupeo kunstniku Liina Tepandi ja AS Suva disaineri Leila Tamme kujundatud sokkide ja põlvikute mudelite ja värvide valikust

Meremaa võluriga päeva kallastele / Helle Leppik

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Leppik, Helle

1999-01-01

29. apr. esietendub Ugalas "Meremaa võlur. Päeva kaldad", lavalugu Ursula K. Le Guini Meremaa-lugude alusel, lavastaja Andres Noormets, kunstnikud Silver Vahtre ja Airi Eras, peaosades Margus Vaher, Martin Algus, Aarne Soro, Leila Säälik, Gert Raudsepp, Silvia Sarrap

African Journal of Biotechnology - Vol 15, No 32 (2016)

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Growth regulators, DNA content and anatomy in vitro-cultivated Curcuma longa seedlings · EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT. Dirlane Antoniazzi, Meire Pereira de Souza Ferrari, Andressa Bezerra Nascimento, Flávia Aparecida Silveira, Leila Aparecida ...

Kultuuri elutööpreemiale esitati Pärtelpoeg, Sööt ja Tormis / Valner Valme, Tiit Tuumalu, Tiina Kolk

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Riigi kultuuripreemiate komisjon tegi ettepaneku määrata miljonikroonine kultuuri elutööpreemia Leila Pärtelpojale, Andres Söödile ja Lea Tormisele. Lühidalt nende tegevusest. Lisaks antakse välja viis 150 000 kroonist preemiat. Loetletud 2009. aasta kultuuripreemiate laureaadid

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Fatemeh Baghbani1 Fathollah Moztarzadeh1 Leila Hajibaki2 Masoud Mozafari3. Biomaterials Group, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering (Centre of Excellence), Amirkabir University of Technology, P.O. Box 15875-4413, Tehran, Iran; Department of Biotechnology and Cellular and Molecular Research Centre, Faculty of ...

Mõisamuinasjutt / Helena Piip

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Piip, Helena

2004-01-01

Jõuluaja veetmise võimalustest Palmse mõisas. Mõisarahvas kannab Mare Raidma kavandite järgi valmistatud 19. sajandi rõivaid. Keldri veini-, jahisaali jm. ruumide sisustuse on kavandanud Kalju Kivi, "Isabella" kohviku on kujundanud Leila Pärtelpoeg. Sepikojas (sepp Kaupo Kangur) saab õnne valada ja rauda taguda

19F-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy as a tool to ...

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19F-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy as a tool to investigate host-guest complexation of some antidepressant drugs with natural and modified cyclodextrins. Leila Shafiee Dastjerdi1* and Mojtaba Shamsipur2. 1Faculty of Science, Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, 2Department of Chemistry, ...

Effect of reinforcement volume fraction on the density & elastic ...

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Effect of reinforcement volume fraction on the density & elastic parameters of BMG's matrix composites. Wahiba Metiri 1, Fatiha Hadjoub1, 2 and Leila Touati Tliba 1. 1 Laboratoire des Semi-Conducteurs, Département de Physique, Faculté des Sciences, Université Badji-. Mokhtar, BP 12, Annaba -23000, Algeria.

Muuga mõis (Münkenhof) / Otto Pius Hippius, A. Brüllow, David Grimm...[jt.

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2002-01-01

5 fotot, värv.; lossi lasi ehitada Carl Timoleon von Neff, ehituskavandeid täiendasid A. Brüllow, D. Grimm, O. Hippius, joonised tegi L. Bohnstedt; interjöör restaureeriti 1987-1994 - sisearhitekt Leila Pärtelpoeg; 1944. aastast töötab mõisas kool

Pramana – Journal of Physics | Indian Academy of Sciences

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Home; Journals; Pramana – Journal of Physics. Zohreh Gholamzadeh. Articles written in Pramana – Journal of Physics. Volume 72 Issue 2 February 2009 pp 335-341 Research Articles. Determination ofGa production parameters by different reactions using ALICE and TALYS codes · Mahdi Sadeghi Tayeb Kakavand Leila ...

Il comico come strategia in Gianni Celati & Co

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2012-01-01

in danese. Lene Waage Petersen ha organizzato l’incontro di Copenaghen insieme a Pia Schwarz Lausten, con la collaborazione del comitato scientifico composto da Marco Belpoliti, María J. Calvo Montoro e Anna Wegener, che ringraziamo per il loro contributo sostanziale alla realizzazione del convegno...

Visions for Literacy: Parents' Aspirations for Reading in Children with Down Syndrome

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Ricci, Leila; Osipova, Anna

2012-01-01

Although children with Down syndrome (DS) can learn to read, few studies have explored parental perspectives on the reading development of this group of children. This article, written by Leila Ricci and Anna Osipova, from California State University, explores visions and expectations regarding reading held by parents of children with Down…

Images in medicine

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30 déc. 2015 ... Gastrinome duodénal sporadique. Hicham Sator1,&, Leila Sbihi1. 1Hôpital Avicenne, Service de Radiologie Centrale, CHU Ibn Sina, Rabat, Maroc. &Corresponding author: Hicham Sator, Hôpital Avicenne, Service de Radiologie Centrale, CHU Ibn Sina ,Rabat, Maroc. Key words: Duodénum, gastrinome, ...

Kulka aastapreemiate žürii hinnang = Comments from the panel of judges / Laila Põdra, Eva Hirvesoo, Tiit Sild, Epp Lankots ; intervjueerinud Margit Mutso

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Arhitektuuriaastast 2010. Eesti Kultuurkapitali aastapreemia - Maarja Kask, Karli Luik, Ralf Lõoke, Kristiina Arusoo, Margit Argus, Pelle-Sten Viiburg (Sõmeru keskusehoone, maanteemuuseumi välialad). Arhitektuuri sihtkapitali arhitektuuripreemia - Hannes Koppel (Kuressaare rannahoone), Raul Vaiksoo (eramu), restaureerimispreemia - Jaan Jõgi (Laupa mõis), sisearhitektuuri preemia - Leila Pärtelpoeg (Röa mõis), tegevuspreemia - Karin Hallas-Murula, Eesti Arhitektuurikeskus

The life of Rabia al-Adawiyya: reflections on feminism and fundamentalism

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Vintges, K.; Dubel, I.; Vintges, K.

2007-01-01

The life of Rabia al-Adawiyya is the subject of many legends and stories. Rabia was an eighth century mystic who is generally known as one of the founders of Sufism. Her life is still a source of inspiration for many Muslim women. Muslim feminists like Leila Ahmed make references to her, but so do

Bagatellid : maailm / Nele-Eva Steinfeld

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Steinfeld, Nele-Eva

2008-01-01

Akadeemik Jarvis väidab, et osade Bachi teoste autoriks on hoopis helilooja naine Anna Magdalena. Pianist Andras Schiff pälvis Wigmore'i medali. Lahkus tenor Gianni Raimondi. Louvre ja tänapäevane muusikaelu. Uus esiviiul Juliardi keelpillikvartetis

Aansprakelijkheid van de afzender van gevaarlijke goederen onder de Hague-Visby-Rules

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Smeele, Frank

1999-01-01

textabstractEngland, House of Lords 22 januari 1998, (1998) 1 Lloyd's Rep. 337 [Giannis NK] Zeevervoer onder cognossement: uitleg begrip 'goederen van . . . gevaarlijke aard'; aard aansprakelijkheid afzender van gevaarlijke goederen Art. iv-6, art. iv-3 Hague (-Visby) Rules (art. 8: 423 BW)

Aasta parimad interjöörid muutsid vana trendikaks / Piret Tali

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2001-01-01

Eesti Sisearhitektide Liidu aastapreemiad: eramu sisekujunduse preemia - Tüüne-Kristin Vaikla ja Urmas Vaikla, meelelahutusliku interjööri preemia - kohvik "Pegasus" (Gert Sarv, Margus Tammik, Tarvo H. Varres osaühisusest Front Arhitektid), ajaloolise interjööri preemia - Tallinna Reaalkooli renoveerimisprojekt Tiina Lõhmuse juhtimisel, unikaaleseme preemia - Leila Pärtelpoja kujundatud riigikogu esimehe puhkeruumi mööbel Toompeal. Nimetatud žürii koosseis

Planning, design and the post-modernity of cities

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Besteliu, I.; Doevendans, C.H.

2002-01-01

This essay draws on the concept of ‘weak thought’ from the writings of the philosopher Gianni Vattimo, and connects it to a weakening of the certitudes of modern urban design and planning. According to Vattimo, modernity does not abruptly end; rather its grounding tenets such as universalised

In the world, but not of the world : The prospects of Christianity in the modern world

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Jonkers, P.H.A.I.

2000-01-01

In this article, I discuss the prospects of Christianity in the modern world from a philosophical perspective (section 1). In order to do so, I analyse in the second section Gianni Vattimo’s and Charles Taylor’s views of the problems of modernity. They interpret modern civilisation as being

High Resolution Melting Analysis for fast and cheap polymorphism screening of marine populations

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2015-01-01

Authors: Anne-Leila Meistertzheim, Isabelle Calves, Sébastien Artigaud, Carolyn S. Friedman, Christine Paillard, Jean Laroche & Claude Ferec ### Abstract This protocol permits the mutation scanning of PCR products by high-resolution DNA melting analysis requiring the inclusion of a saturating intercalating dye in the PCR mix without labelled probe. During a scanning process, fluorescent melting curves of PCR amplicons are analyzed. Mutations modifying melting curve shapes, are allowed...

Palmse supelmaja taas kasutusel / Anneliis Aunapuu

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Aunapuu, Anneliis

1998-01-01

Lahemaa Rahvuspark rentis poolelioleva supelmaja perekond Ong'ile, kes ehituse lõpetas, hoone sisustas ja avas kohvik-restorani 'Freifrau Isabella'. Sisekujundus autor Leila Pärtelpoeg nimetab sisekujundust palladiaanlikuks. Tänu AEL ja Tartu Kunstikooliga sõlmitud lepingule sai supelmaja kõrgetasemelise maalritöö. Maalingud eesruumis ئ Eve Erman. Sepisvalgustid ئ Ülo Sepp. Pika-laua-saalis oleva von Pahlenite vapi valmistas Andres Sapar. Inkrusteeritud puhvetkapi taastas Urmas Ong.

An Imaginative Approach to Teaching Writing

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Cuenca, Carmen Manuel; Carmona, Rodrigo Fernandez

2012-01-01

Mindful of the fact that one of the most important ingredients in learning to write in a foreign language is motivation, the authors have experimented in their classes with a wide range of exercises from a very useful source: Gianni Rodari's "Grammatico della Fantasia: lntroduzione all'arte di inventare storie" (Torino: Piccola Biblioteca Einandi,…

The oneiric in the photography of the film 8 ½ O onírico na fotografia do filme 8 ½

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Dirce Vasconcellos Lopes

2006-12-01

Full Text Available This work analyses the photograph of 8 ½, a movie of Federico Fellini, and relates it with the imaginary and oneiric universe of the director. It investigates how the construction of light, made by the director of photography, Gianni Di Venanzo – together with the plans, compositions, framings and assembly of the movie – explores the possibilities of the expression of the oneiric, causing in the spectator the sensation of ambiguity between reality and dream.Analisa a fotografia do filme 8 ½, de Federico Fellini, os elementos da linguagem fotográfica presentes na obra e sua relação com o universo imaginário e onírico do diretor. Investiga como a construção da luz, realizada pelo diretor de fotografia, Gianni Di Venanzo, e por Fellini – em conjunto com os planos, composições, enquadramentos e montagem do filme – explora as possibilidades de expressão do onírico, causando no espectador a sensação de ambigüidade entre a realidade e sonho. 

ESL aastapreemia 2005 žürii. ESL aastapreemia 2005 žürii koosoleku protokoll : 8. märts 2006 / Mari Kurismaa

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Kurismaa, Mari, 1956-

2006-01-01

2005. a. publitsistikapreemia Leila Pärtelpojale raamatu "Pööningul. Auf dem Dachboden" eest, näitusekujunduse preemia ühendusele Laika, Belka &Strelka Eesti Maanteemuuseumi näituse "Tee ajalugu" eest, ajaloolise interjööri preemia Juta Lemberile Rahvusooper Estonia publikuruumide kujunduse eest, ühiskondliku interjööri preemia Katrin Kaevatsile ja Peeter Perele Pääsküla raamatukogu interjööri eest ning Meelis Pressile TTP ärihoone eest

Bridging the Gap: A Design-based Case Study of a Mathematics Skills Intervention Program

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2017-01-01

Abstract of the DissertationBridge the Gap: A Design-based Case Study of a Mathematics Skills Intervention ProgrambyLeila SafaralianDoctor of Education in Educational LeadershipUniversity of California, San Diego, 2017California State University, San Marcos, 2017Kenneth P. Gonzalez, ChairMany students aspire to continue their educational journey, but far too many enter college without the basic content knowledge, skills, or habits of mind needed to succeed. Research on college readiness indic...

International Workshop on Detection, Classification and Localization of Marine Mammals Using Passive Acoustics (4th). International Workshop on Density Estimation of Marine Mammals Using Passive Acoustics (1st)

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2009-09-13

Università degli Studi di Pavia Dipartimento di Biologia Animale Centro Interdisciplinare di Bioacustica e Ricerche Ambientali 4th International...Dipartimento di Biologia Animale Centro Interdisciplinare di Bioacustica e Ricerche Ambientali 4th International Workshop on Detection, Classification...mail: gianni.pavan@unipv.it ORGANIZED BY: Università degli Studi di Pavia - Dipartimento di Biologia Animale CIBRA CENTRO INTERDISCIPLINARE DI

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2010-01-01

Composition 2010 Président :  Gianni DEROMA Vice-président :  Marcel AYMON Vice-président :  Sébastien EVRARD Secrétaire :  Michel GOOSSENS Trésorier :  Céline GROBON Membres :  Philippe DEFFERT  Roger GIRARDOT  Serge GRILLOT  Catherine LAVERRIERE  Michael LUDWIG  Sonia MALLON AMERIGO  Isabelle MARDIROSSIAN

The Recovery of Rhetoric as "Methodeutic": A Renaissance of Discourse in a Postmodern Age.

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Boswell, Grant

1994-01-01

Describes the crisis of the humanities at the present time as an effect of the demise of the traditional, modern concept of the subject or self. Provides an analysis of views of the postmodern subject, as described by theorists such as Gianni Vattimo and Charles Pierce, and how these views might help redefine rhetoric in a postmodern age. (HB)

Revisiting the Etymology of Zanni | Moro | Italian Studies in Southern ...

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It has long been maintained that the etymology of zani, zanni – the servant or buffoon of the commedia dell'arte – is a northern Italian variant of the proper noun Giovanni, or its shortened form, Gianni. In Tommaseo and Bellini's Dizionario della lingua italiana, published in Turin between 1865 and 1879, it is stated that the ...

Diatom-Based Material Production Demonstration

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2016-03-14

Haeger 0.02 Sean Hoban 0.05 Leila Kamakele 0.06 Jeff Kataoka 0.08 Randi Keipper 0.16 Brendan Lagather 0.17 Stephen Woods 0.10 Rodney Corpuz 0.13 Aga...to Cathleen Fischer at Dresden University of Technology for testing as a substrate for catalysis. Material is available for any other testing...also thank Dr. Pat Kociolek from University of Colorado for help with identifying girdle bands of GAI-216. Bibliography Jantschke A., C. Fischer

Tagasi algusesse : Raekoja restaureerimise viis aastakümmet = Back to the Start : Five Decades of Restoration at the Town Hall / Teddy Böckler

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2004-01-01

1944. a. hävinud tornikiivri taastamisest. 1959. a. alanud raekoja arhitektuuri taastamisest. Kaaristu avati 1960. a. Interjööri taastamisest. 1971. a. alanud restaureerimisperioodist (sisekujundus: Leila Pärtelpoeg, Udo Umberg). 1991. a. alanud töödest: võlvkeldri taastamine, kohviku kujundamine. Tornikiivri ja tuulelipu Vana Toomas uuega asendamisest (1996). Lääneviilu tuulelipu uuendamisest (1999). 2000. a. alanud raekoja välispindade restaureerimisest, pööningu koristamisest. 2004. aastaks toimunud muudatustest interjööris

QTL Analysis and Functional Genomics of Animal Model

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Farajzadeh, Leila

, for example, has enabled scientists to examine more complex interactions in connection with studies of properties and diseases. In her PhD project, Leila Farajzadeh integrated different organisational levels in biology, including genotype, phenotype, association studies, transcription profiles and genetic......In recent years, the use of functional genomics and next-generation sequencing technologies has increased the probability of success in studies of complex properties. The integration of large data sets from association studies, DNA resequencing, gene expression profiles and phenotypic data...

Wiek interpretacji

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Vattimo, Gianni

2013-01-01

Gianni Vattimo, who is both a Catholic and a frequent critic of the Church, explores the surprising congruence between Christianity and hermeneutics in light of the dissolution of metaphysical truth. As in hermeneutics, Vatimo claims, interpretation is central to Christianity. Influenced by hermeneutics and borrowing largely from the Nietzschean and Heideggerian heritage, the Italian philosopher, who has been instrumental in promoting a nihilistic approach to Christianity, draws ...

Kolleegist parem / Andres Kurg

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Kurg, Andres, 1975-

2006-01-01

Eesti Sisearhitektide Liidu aastapreemiad 2005: parima ühiskondliku interjööri preemia võitis Pääsküla raamatukogu (Katrin Kaevats, Urmas Muru, Peeter Pere), näitusekujunduse preemia sai Maanteemuuseum (Krista Lepland, Malle Jürgenson, Tea Tammelaan, OÜ Laika, Belka & Strelka), ajaloolise interjööri preemia läks renoveeritud Estonia teatrile (Juta Lember, Aulo Padar), publitsistikapreemia sai Leila Pärtelpoja raamat "Pööningul", teise ühiskondliku ruumi preemia võitis TTP ärihoone Pirital (Meelis Press). Kommentaar Tiina Jõgedalt

The Age of Interpretation

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Gianni Vattimo

2013-01-01

Gianni Vattimo, who is both a Catholic and a frequent critic of the Church, explores the surprising congruence between Christianity and hermeneutics in light of the dissolution of metaphysical truth. As in hermeneutics, Vatimo claims, interpretation is central to Christianity. Influenced by hermeneutics and borrowing largely from the Nietzschean and Heideggerian heritage, the Italian philosopher, who has been instrumental in promoting a nihilistic approach to Christianity, draws here on Nietz...

Kommunisme i London

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Hansen, Brian Benjamin; Nielsen, Kasper Porsgaard

2010-01-01

Begrebet ”kommunisme” var på dagsordenen, da over 800 mennesker mødtes i Birkbeck University College i London, den 13.-15. marts, 2009. En perlerække af talere var inviteret: Alain Badiou, Michael Hardt, Bruno Bosteels, Peter Hallward, Allesandro Russo, Alberto Toscano, Toni Negri, Terry Eagleton......, Jacques Rancière, Slavoj Žižek, Gianni Vattimo og Judith Balso. Her følger en rapport fra begivenheden....

Mõned ülestähendused disainiaasta puhul : disainist Tartus ja ka Dartu tisainist / Raimu Hanson

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Hanson, Raimu, 1957-

2006-01-01

Hollandi disaineri Kees Dorsti raamatust "Kuidas mõista disaini? 150 mõtisklust disaineri elukutse üle", Tartus tegutsevast Disainijaamast. Leila Pärtelpoja raamatust "Pööningul. Auf dem Dachboden" (kujundaja Maarja Roosi). Leo Leola kujundatud Kellukese karastusjoogi pudelisildist, mille redisainis reklaamiagentuur Taevas Ogivly. Tüüne-Kristin Vaikla ja Urmo Vaikla disainitud pinkidest Tartu kaubamajas. Disainerite kujundatud Tartu südalinnast. Rahvusvahelisest seminarist "Disain ja säästev mõtteviis" Viinistu Kunstimuuseumis. "Tartu Postimehe" võidetud auhindadest maailma ajalehtede kujunduskonkursil. Disainiaasta üritustest Tartus, disainihariduse andmisest Eestis

Sustainability in the Food Sector: Rethinking the Relationship between the Agro‐Food System and the Natural, Social, Economic and Institutional Environments - Selected papers, 119th Seminar of the EAAE ‐

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Gianni Cicia

2011-12-01

Full Text Available Sustainability in the Food Sector: Rethinking the Relationship between the Agro‐Food System and the Natural, Social, Economic and Institutional EnvironmentsSpecial issue with a selection of papers presented at the 119th Seminar of the European Association for Agricultural Economics (EAAE, Capri, Italy, June 30 - July 2, 2010Editors of the special issue:Gianni Cicia, University of Naples, ItalyMelanie Fritz, University of Bonn, Germany 

Mimesis e il giallo

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Minne de Boer

2015-01-01

Recensione di: Ilaria Marzia Orsini, Donne in giallo: la detective story tra genere e gender, Milano/Udine, Mimesis/DeGenere – USB Ultra Slim Books, 2014, 128 p., ISBN: 97888575245680, € 11,00. Bruna Durante, Specchio delle mie trame: la vita secondo dieci scrittori italiani. Con interviste a Eraldo Baldini, Gianni Biondillo, Giancarlo De Cataldo, Giorgio Faletti, Marcello Fois, Carlo Lucarelli, Raul Montanari, Santo Piazzese, Andrea G. Pinketts, Gaetano Savatteri, Milano/Udine, Mimesis/DeGen...

Papers Selected for Presentation at the International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment (16th) Held at Buenos Aires, Argentina on 2-9 June 1982. Volume 2.

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1982-06-01

ARGENTINA Oscar Dominguez and Stella Carballo .............. 355 STUDIES ON SOME URBAN PROBLEMS USING AIRBORNE REMOTE SENSORS IN SANTIAGO, CHILE ...SAN JUAN ARGENTINA) (1) Silvia Lendaro de Gianni (2,3) Enrique Uliarte (I) Centro Regional de Agua Subterrgnea (2) Universidad Nacional de San Juan act...Hidrogeol6gico para refuerzo do la provisi6n de agua " a Puerto Deseado. In4dito. - Pezzuchi, Hugo Daniel (1978) "studio Geol6gico de la zona de Lstancia Dos

Värvikas Riigikogu / Lylian Meister

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Meister, Lylian, 1966-

2007-01-01

1920-1922 Herbert Johansoni ja Eugen Habermanni projekti järgi ehitatud Riigikogu hoonest. Saaliavade ja aknapõskede kujundamisel oli abiks Jaan Koort. 1935. a. rajati Alar Kotli projekti järgi lossi lõunatiib.Valge saal rekonstrueeriti 1936. a. Artur Perna ja Johann Ostrati kavandite järgi. Eesti taasiseseisvumise järel on hoonet Mart Kalmu, Leila Pärtelpoja, Mari ja Kaarel Kurismaa ning Ülar Saare juhendamisel renoveeritud. Riigikogu esimehe kabineti vaiba (1938) kavandas Adamson-Eric, kontorimööbli kujundasid 1997. a. EKA sisearhitektuuri üliõpilased L. Pärtelpoja juhendamisel. 23 ill

Sisearhitektide Liit premeeris / Triin Ojari

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Ojari, Triin, 1974-

2004-01-01

ESL aastapreemiad 2003: parima ajaloolise interjööri ja parima kodu preemia - Leila Pärtelpoja ja Karl-Erik Tarbe kujundatud Villa Tannenrode Lükati teel Tallinnas, parim ühiskondlik interjöör - 3+1 arhitektide (Markus Kaasik, Andres Ojari, Ilmar Valdur, kaasautorid Ralf Lõoke, Kalle Komissarov; söögikoha tegi Taavi Aunre ja ühiskondliku mööbli Gert Sarv) kujundatud Mustamäe keskus, publitsistikapreemia - EKA sisearhitektuuri kateedri kataloog "Eesti Kunstiakadeemia sisearhitektuuri osakond 2002-2003". Ära märgiti kaks tooteseeriat: EGO garderoobid (EGO Mööbel OÜ) ning Jan J. Grapsi loodud "Incognito" mööblisari

Spot på interaktive teknologier

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Brooks, Anthony Lewis

2014-01-01

Spot på interaktive teknologier Af Anthony Lewis Brooks, PhD Associate Professor, Aalborg University & Director SensoramaLab Den verdensomspændende paraplyorganisation for it-foreninger IFIP har netop afholdt sin årlige ”International Conference on Entertainment Computing”. Se her, hvad tre af top...... fra hele verden for at sætte fokus på, hvordan de nyeste teknologier inden for digital underholdning, kan bruges i forskellige sammenhænge. Bag begivenheden står IFIP, som DANSK IT er repræsenteret i. I år var der blandt andet spot på wearables og andre interaktive teknologier. Leila Alem fra den...

Effect of water regime on the growth, flower yield, essential oil and proline contents of Calendula officinalis

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SAMI ALI METWALLY

2013-11-01

Full Text Available Metwally SA,Khalid KA, Abou-Leila BH. 2013. Effect of water regime on the growth, flower yield, essential oil and proline contents of Calendula officinalis. Nusantara Bioscience 5: 63-67. The effects of water regime on the growth, content of essential oil and proline of Calendula officinalis L. plants were investigated. Water regimes of 75% of field water capacity increased certain growth characters [i.e. plant height (cm, leaf area (cm2, flower diameter (cm and spike stem diameter] and vase life (day. Water regime promoted the accumulation of essential oil content and its main components as well as proline contents.

172 rue de Vanves, Paris XIV / Leila Anupõld, Jüri Hain

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Anupõld, Leila

1998-01-01

Kujutava Kunsti Sihtkapitali Valitsuse (KKSKV) poolt alates 1925. a. teisest poolest kunstnikele antud välismaa stipendiumidest. Stipendiaatide (Wiiralt jt.) raskest elust Pariisis. Eesti Vabariigi Prantsusmaa saatkonna abist kunstnike stipendiaatide töö korraldamisel. Sihtkapitali ateljeest, mida 1929-30. aastail lühiajaliselt kasutasid Albert Kesner ja Eduard Wiiralt

Järlepa mõisa härrastemaja ennistatud funktsioonist / Leila Pärtelpoeg

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Pärtelpoeg, Leila, 1927-

1998-01-01

Järlepa väike, laia eestrepi, kivise frontooni ja portikusega ampiirstiilis peahoone valmis 1805. Sisekujunduse autor L. Pärtelpoeg ennistatud härrastemaja interjöörist ja funktsioonist. Soklikorrusest, mida omanikud otsustasid kasutada elukorrusena ja peakorrusest, mille omanikud soovisid jätta üldkasutatavaks ja pidulike sündmuste korraldamiseks. Seal leidis koha Tartu Kunstikooli illusoorse maali ja maalitud tapeedi projekt

Pós-modernidade como gesto de despedida: a "crítica autorreferencial da razão" no pensamento estético Nietzschiano:

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Nabil Araújo

2013-12-01

Full Text Available Partindo das considerações de Gianni Vattimo e de Jürgen Habermas sobre a instauração nietzschiana da pós-modernidade como uma "despedida" à modernidade ocidental e ao tipo de racionalidade a ela associada, este texto analisa o modo pelo qual uma "crítica autorreferencial da razão" (Habermas é efetivamente engendrada pelo pensamento estético nietzschiano, de modo a reconsiderar os termos pelos quais a própria "despedida" pós-moderna deve ser concebida.

Interpret the Event, Transsform the Life: the Lack of Urgency to Hermeneutical Communism

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Malfred Gerig

2018-05-01

Full Text Available This article intends to discuss the proposal of hermeneutical Communism by Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala. In order to do this, the relationship between the draft realization of Marxian philosophy and the philosophy of Martin Heidegger is examined, following the impressions supported by the authors, who suggest that they are united by the project of the weakening of metaphysics. Likewise, the relationship between Marx and Hegel is analyzed as well, with the intention of provide new insights to Marx anti-metaphysical, and then attempt to imagine the history and the events from there.

Inconvenient glow: cliometrics and the "golden age" of capitalism

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Fernando M. Rugitsky

2014-12-01

Full Text Available This paper aims to criticize the recent cliometrics literature on the so-called "golden age" of capitalism. The works of Nicholas Crafts, Gianni Toniolo, and Barry Eichengreen are reconstructed in order to reveal the main characteristics of this research program. Its narrow quantitative focus, its reliance on theoretical propositions borrowed from neoclassical economics, and its auspicious interpretation of the postwar reconstruction are the main focus of the criticism presented. Finally, the cliometricians' attempt to historicize the "golden age" and de-historicize the following decades is related to the ideological understanding of the recent decades as a period of "great moderation."

Current and emerging treatment options for myopic choroidal neovascularization

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El Matri L

2015-04-01

Full Text Available Leila El Matri, Ahmed Chebil, Fedra Kort Department B of Ophthalmology, Hedi Rais Institute of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, University of El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia Abstract: Choroidal neovascularization (CNV is the main cause of visual impairment in highly myopic patients younger than 50 years of age. There are different treatments for myopic CNV (mCNV, with 5- to 10-year outcomes currently. Chorioretinal atrophy is still the most important determinant factor for visual outcome. The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of the current treatments for mCNV, including laser, surgical management, verteporfin photodynamic therapy, and mainly anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapy. Emerging treatment options are also discussed. Keywords: myopia, choroidal neovascularization, current treatment, emerging treatment

Collision physics going west

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Anon.

1988-01-01

The centroid of proton-antiproton physics is moving west across the Atlantic concluded Luigi Di Leila of CERN in his summary talk at the Topical Workshop on Proton-Antiproton Collider Physics, held at Fermilab in June. Previous meetings in this series had been dominated by results from CERN's big proton-antiproton collider, dating back to 1981. However last year saw the first physics run at Fermilab's collider, and although the number of collisions in the big CDF detector was only about one thirtieth of the score so far at CERN, the increased collision energy at Fermilab of 1.8 TeV (1800 GeV, compared to the routine 630 GeV at CERN) is already paying dividends

Corporate Social Responsibility, an Interpretative Practice. Rediscovering CRS through the Hermeneutic Philosophy of Gianni Vattimo

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Zwart, J.G. de

2016-01-01

The thesis connects CSR to hermeneutic philosophy. The concept of responsibility is an intrinsically interpretative concept, which makes the connection between CSR and hermeneutics (the art of interpretation) an evident connection. Nevertheless, the debate on CSR lacks such a connection and this

Mimesis e il giallo

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Minne de Boer

2015-12-01

Full Text Available Recensione di: Ilaria Marzia Orsini, Donne in giallo: la detective story tra genere e gender, Milano/Udine, Mimesis/DeGenere – USB Ultra Slim Books, 2014, 128 p., ISBN: 97888575245680, € 11,00. Bruna Durante, Specchio delle mie trame: la vita secondo dieci scrittori italiani. Con interviste a Eraldo Baldini, Gianni Biondillo, Giancarlo De Cataldo, Giorgio Faletti, Marcello Fois, Carlo Lucarelli, Raul Montanari, Santo Piazzese, Andrea G. Pinketts, Gaetano Savatteri, Milano/Udine, Mimesis/DeGenere, 2014, 180 p., ISBN: 9788857518176, € 13,60.Carlo Oliva, Giallo popolare: il poliziesco alla radio, a cura di Nicoletta Di Ciolla e Nicoletta Vallorani, Milano/Udine, Mimesis/DeGenere, 2013, 150 p., ISBN: 9788857518183, € 12,00.

Eesti Sisearhitektuur aastal 2007 / Karen Jagodin

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Jagodin, Karen, 1982-

2007-01-01

Eesti Kultuurkapitali arhitektuuri sihtkapitali ja Eesti Sisearhitektide Liidu 2006. a. preemiate laureaatidest ja nominentidest: Viimsi Keskkoolist (ESLi ühiskondliku ruumi preemia, H. Pihlak, K. Lents), restoranidest "Gianni" (P. Lausmäe) ja "Vertigo" (J. Roos, A. Labi), Foorumi kaubanduskeskusest (H. Praks, M. Tammik), Vene teatrist (A. Oja, R. Luuk), Koger &Partnerid büroost Fahle majas (ESLi ajaloolise intrejööri preemia, L. A. Tork), Skype'i büroost (arhitektuuri sihtkapitali sisearhitektuuri preemia, T. Piirmets) ning Velvet Creative Alliance (ESLi büroointerjööri preemia (T. Aunre) Tallinnas, Koordi mõisa peahoonest (R. Vaiksoo, K. Aren), diivanikompletist "Black" (ESLi esemepreemia, T. Mang), valgustitest "Saturn" ja "Mr. Note" (T. Luisk), lambiseeriast "Taara" (J. Roos, A. Labi)

Walking for art's sake

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2005-01-01

The man who compared himself to a proton ! On 20 May, Gianni Motti went down into the LHC tunnel and walked around the 27 kilometres of the underground ring at an average, unaccelerated pace of 5 kph. This was an artistic rather than an athletic performance, aimed at drawing a parallel between the fantastic speed of the beams produced by the future accelerator and the leisurely stroll of a human. The artist, who hails from Lombardy, was accompanied by cameraman Ivo Zanetti, who filmed the event from start to finish, and physicist Jean-Pierre Merlo. The first part of the film can be seen at the Villa Bernasconi, 8 route du Grand-Lancy, Grand Lancy, until 26 June.

Walking for art's sake

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2005-01-01

  The man who compared himself to a proton ! On 20 May, Gianni Motti went down into the LHC tunnel and walked around the 27 kilometres of the underground ring at an average, unaccelerated pace of 5 kph. This was an artistic rather than an athletic performance, aimed at drawing a parallel between the fantastic speed of the beams produced by the future accelerator and the leisurely stroll of a human. The artist, who hails from Lombardy, was accompanied by cameraman Ivo Zanetti, who filmed the event from start to finish, and physicist Jean-Pierre Merlo. The first part of the film can be seen at the Villa Bernasconi, 8 route du Grand-Lancy, Grand Lancy, until 26 June.

Cantacronache 1958-1962. Politica e protesta in musica

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Chiara Ferrari

2013-09-01

Full Text Available At the end of the 50s the italian band from Turin, named Cantacronache, created social and political songs, so contributing to the birth of a new musical genre in Italy. The founders Michele Luciano Straniero, Sergio Liberovici, Emilio Jona, Fausto Amodei, Margherita Galante Garrone, were joined from the collaboration of writers and poets like Mario Pogliotti, Franco Fortini, Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, Gianni Rodari. The name of the group reveals its vocation: telling reality, writing songs about news facts in order to give them back to collective memory. Among the covered themes: italian news, Resistence, the research of social and political songs of the past or the recovery of the popular music heritage.

La enfermedad histórica de la hermenéutica y su transformación dialéctica. El pensamiento débil entre Gadamer y Benjamin

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Leandro Catoggio

2013-05-01

Full Text Available El presente trabajo tiene por fin mostrar cómo la hermenéutica nihilista de Gianni Vattimo mediante su crítica a la hermenéutica ontológica de Gadamer recupera la figura de Walter Benjamin y la asocia al proyecto de Heidegger. Esto lleva a que el presente trabajo, en primer lugar, describa cuáles son las críticas que Vattimo le realiza a Gadamer; y, en segundo lugar, muestre cómo es posible aunar la filosofía de Heidegger con el pensamiento crítico de Benjamin. Por último, se indica mediante la congruencia de estos autores cómo es posible la construcción de un sujeto post-metafísico

Determinants and prevalence of depression in patients with chronic renal disease, and their caregivers

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Hawamdeh S

2017-07-01

Full Text Available Sana Hawamdeh, Aljawharah Mohammed Almari, Asrar Salem Almutairi, Wireen Leila T Dator College of Nursing, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Introduction: This study explored the prevalence of depression among the patients with chronic kidney disease and their caregivers and its association to their demographic profile.Methods: A descriptive, correlational, cross-sectional study that used the Hamilton rating scale tool to assess the prevalence of depression among 226 patients undergoing hemodialysis and 105 of their caregivers in a hospital in Saudi Arabia.Results: Patients with chronic renal disease and their caregivers experience depression at varying levels. Depression was positively associated with the socioeconomic and marital status of the patients. Socioeconomic status of the caregivers was seen to be associated with their depression.Conclusion: Depression is highly prevalent among patients with chronic renal disease and their caregivers. Keywords: caregivers, chronic renal disease, depression

Märkmeid Vaasa elamumessilt

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2008-01-01

Vaasa elamumess pakub põhjamaiseid sisustusideid ning merelisi meeleolusid väikestesse ja suurematesse kodudesse. Messiala on rajatud Suvilahtisse. 5-liikmelise lastega pere 5-toaline valge kodu "Funktio" (207 m2, sisekujundus: Kirsi Valanti), noorusliku abielupaari 2-toaline kodu "Suvitähti" (56 m2, sisustus: Irina Hanhisalo), mehe 2-toaline kodu "Suvituuli" (61 m2, sisustus: Sari Klemetti), abielupaari ja ühe vanema sugulase 7-toaline kodu "Atrium Elite" (154 m2, sisustus: Linda Raholm), 5-liikmelise lastega pere 2-toaline kodu "Siena" (175 m2, sisekujundus: Riia Rintamäki), lastega pere 6-toaline kodu "Vedenjakaja Loiste" (214 m2) ja 5-6-toaline kodu "Vedenjakaja Kaste" (169 m2) (sisekujundus: Tia Jämsen, Anette Nässling), 4-toaline kodu "Aurinkosilta" (131 m2, sisekujundus: Tarja Kankanpää-Salonen), Parma Köökide maja 4-toaline kodu (148 m2, sisekujundus: Leila Rajala, Johanna Järvenpää-Mäntylä)

Plotinus’ Angeletics

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Stamatellos, Giannis

2011-01-01

In “Plotinus’ Angeletics: A Neoplatonic Message Theory” Giannis Stamatellos, a classical scholar and computer scientist from the University of Copenhagen, examines an ancient philosophical discourse on angelos (messenger) found in the thought of Plotinus (AD 204-270) – a prominent philosopher...... of late antiquity, widely regarded as the founder of Neoplatonism. Understanding Plotinus’ message theory involves inquiring into his epistemology, psychology and metaphysics. In the Enneads, Plotinus refers twice to angelos: firstly in his middle-period treatise “On Difficulties About the Soul......” and secondly in his late treatise “On the Knowing ‘Hypostases’ and What is Beyond.” A third enlightening passage is found in the seventh chapter of his early treatise “On the Good or the One.” In these passages, Plotinus uses angelos in relation to: (1) sense-perception and the outer activity of the soul...

Fund Raising for Haiti

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2010-01-01

Dear Colleagues, Following the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on 12 January 2010, the CERN Management and the Staff Association are organizing a collection to help the victims. The money collected will be transferred to associations or bodies guaranteeing proper use of the funds, such as the Association Haïti Ecoles based in Cessy, which our Long Term Collections supported for several years. From today you can pay your donations into a special UBS account, indicating “Séisme Haïti” as the reason for payment . SWIFT : UBSWCHZH12B IBAN : CH85 0027 9279 HU10 6832 1 Account Holder : Association du personnel du CERN We are counting on the generosity of the CERN community to support the Haitian people at this very difficult time. Thank you on their behalf. Rolf Heuer Director-General Gianni Deroma President of the Staff Association

Election of the new Executive Committee: Combining continuity and renewal

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2015-01-01

In agreement with the Staff Association’s Statutes the new Staff Council elected on Tuesday, 8 December, a new President and his Executive Committee for a two-year mandate 2016–2017. Alessandro Raimondo, the only candidate for president, presented a list of delegates for an Executive Committee, which combines continuity and renewal. These are important assets to start working in early 2016 on the implementation of the decisions of the 2015 Five-Yearly Review, especially in the field of the career structure. Alessandro RAIMONDO GS President / Président Céline GROBON PH Vice-president / Vice-président Catherine LAVERRIÈRE DGS Vice-president / Vice-président Juan GARCIA PEREZ TE Treasurer / Trésorier Ghislain ROY BE Secretary / Secrétaire Sandrine BAUDAT FP Member / Membre Oliver BOETTCHER EN Member / Membre Rachel BRAY GS Member / Membre Nicolas DELRUELLE TE Member / Membre Gianni DEROMA GS Mem...

NIHILISTA RADYKALNY. O DIAGNOZACH KULTUROWYCH EMILA CIORANA

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PATRYK SZAJ

2015-05-01

Full Text Available The author of the article tries to describe the philosophy of Emil Cioran as a radical diagnosis of european nihilism. The first part of the article is about threads of teodicy in Cioran’s writing. It shows their timeliness as an announcement of nihilism. Subsequently author analyzes Cioran’s reception of the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche. It turns out that Cioran is one of the most original interpreters of Nietzsche, but also one of his most radical continuers. The existential philosophy of Cioran rejects any metaphysical comfort and face the tragedy of human being. The last two paragraphs of the article are an attempt of a comparative interpretation of Cioran’s and Gianni Vattimo’s philosphy of nihilism. They reveal a similarity between both of philosophers who think of nihilism as a chance to recover from the illness called humanism, anthropocentrism or metaphysics

The ABC of Reading Metaphor in John Ashbery’s Poetry After Theory

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Balle, Søren Hattesen

suggested a general questioning of its epistemological virtues with reference to its rhetorical aberrancy. If metaphor after the deconstructive turn is to be viewed under the aegis of displacement and trivialization, we might think of it as involving “weak metaphoricity” after the fashion of Gianni Vatimo...... to represent a certain Gelassenheit with respect to reaching any hermeneutic telos and granting metaphor any respectable and proper role in this process. More specifically, I shall suggest that Ashbery indetermines metaphor with a view to calling into question its traditional role of substitution, according......, though at the same time impossible for the reader of the poem to decide what are the proper and improper terms, the literal and metaphorical terms of “A Wave.” What sense the poem makes in turn is very much contingent upon how the reader relates to this predicament. In order to propose how Ashbery’s poem...

Aspectos da satisfação das mulheres com a assistência ao parto: contribuição para o debate Aspects of women's satisfaction with childbirth care in a maternity hospital in Rio de Janeiro

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Rosa Maria Soares Madeira Domingues

2004-01-01

Full Text Available Este estudo tem por objetivo analisar os fatores que estiveram associados à satisfação das mulheres com a assistência ao parto normal na Maternidade Leila Diniz. Realizou-se um estudo com desenho transversal por meio de entrevista com puérperas de parto vaginal internadas no período de 1º a 30 de março de 1999. Para averiguar o grau de satisfação, foram utilizadas: (a uma escala para avaliação global do parto; (b a descrição das razões alegadas pelas mulheres para essa avaliação e (c análise de fatores associados à satisfação com o parto. O Qui-quadrado para teste de tendência, com nível de significância de 5%, foi utilizado para a análise dos resultados. Encontrou-se uma elevada satisfação com o parto (67%, sendo os principais determinantes da satisfação a rapidez do parto, o bom tratamento da equipe, o pouco sofrimento, o bom estado da mãe e do bebê, bem como a presença do acompanhante familiar. Verificou-se também associação dessa satisfação com a informação fornecida durante a assistência ao trabalho de parto e ao parto, e com a percepção positiva dos profissionais que forneceram essa assistência.The objective of this study was to evaluate factors associated with women's satisfaction with vaginal delivery at the Leila Diniz Maternity Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A cross-sectional study was conducted from March 1 to 30, 1999, using interviews with women who had undergone vaginal delivery. In order to analyze women's satisfaction, the following were used: (a a scale to evaluate overall satisfaction with the birthing process; (b description of the woman's reasons for this evaluation; and (c analysis of factors associated with the evaluation of childbirth satisfaction. Chi-square for trend with a 5% significance level was used to analyze the results. The results of the study showed high satisfaction with childbirth care (67%, determined mainly by short labor time, good treatment by staff, low

ITALY AT CERN

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23 - 26 June 2003 Main Building Bldg 60 - ground and 1st floor 09.00 hrs - 17.30 hrs Twenty-four companies will present their latest technology at the "Italy at CERN" exhibition. The Italian industry will exhibit products and technologies which are related to the field of particle physics. The main subjects are: cryogenics and vacuum technologies, electric power and power electronics, mechanical components, small and precision machined mechanical components, engineering, industrial plants, industrial machinery, automation, telecommunication, instrumentation, data processing and electronics. The exhibition is being organised by the INFN of Padova. There follows : - the list of exhibitors. A detailed programme will be available in due course at : - your Divisional secretariat, - the exhibition, - on the SPL homepage http://spl-div.web.cern.ch/spl-div/member_states/exhibitions_visits.htm LIST OF EXHIBITORS 1 Aerimpianti Spa13 Europa Metalli - LMI spa 2 AERSAT Spa14 FBM ICOSS srl 3 Andalo' Gianni Srl15 Finsys...

Eimiski-kunst. Nihilistlikust loomest eesti luule näitel

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Leo Luks

2009-10-01

Full Text Available Artiklis käsitletakse nihilistliku kirjandusloome võimalusi eesti luule näitel. Nihilismi ei mõisteta artiklis väärtusprobleemina, vaid ontoloogilise probleemina. Nihilistlikku kirjandusloomet käsitletakse taotlusena tuua sõnasse teine, eimiski. Artikli teoreetiline raamistik toetub põhiliselt Gianni Vattimo languse ontoloogia kontseptsioonile, aga ka Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heideggeri ja Maurice Blanchot' töödele. Samuti analüüsitakse artikli teoreetilises osas eimiski väljendamise võimalusi eesti keeles, tuginedes Uku Masingu ning Jaan Kaplinski mõttekäikudele. Luuletajatest käsitletakse artiklis enim Jaan Oksa ja Juhan Liivi. Analüüsi käigus tuuakse esile järgmised eimiskiga seotud poeetilised figuurid: ootus ja luhtumus, langus ja loojak, hullus, surm. Analüüsi tulemusena selgub, et nihilistlik loome on eesti luules tugevalt esindatud, kuid ei filosoofias ega luules pole võimalik saavutada otsest juurdepääsu eimiskile, tuleb piirduda aimamisega, vihjamisega.

Foreword

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Zoupanos, G.

These are the Proceedings of the scientific activities of CORFU2016, the 16th Hellenic School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity, which took place from August 31st till September 23rd, 2016. The School and Workshops were hosted by the European Institute for Sciences and their Applications (EISA) at the conference center of the ex-Royal Palace garden of Mon Repos in Corfu, Greece. The scientific activities consisted of a series of three events, the Summer School and Workshop on the Standard Model and Beyond, the Recent Developments in Strings and Gravity, the ATLAS Hadronic Calibration Workshop 2016 and a rich set of outreach activities ( TV and radio interviews, Master Classes, series of lectures to High School teachers and talks for the public). We refer to the website www.physics.ntua.gr/corfu2016 for the various organizational and practical details. These proceedings are dedicated to our beloved friend and colleague Giannis (Ioannis) Bakas who passed away on Tuesday, Aug 30, 2016.

O cristianismo não religioso em Bonhoeffer e Vattino

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Suzel Magalhães Tunes

2009-05-01

Full Text Available Resumo Qual o papel da religião numa sociedade secularizada? Qual o papel da Igreja? O artigo propõe uma reflexão sobre essas questões a partir de um "diálogo virtual" entre o teólogo alemão Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945 e o filósofo italiano contemporâneo Gianni Vattimo. Esses dois autores, separados pelo tempo e pela geografia, aproximam-se, no entanto, na forma de pensar o fenômeno da secularização - ambos a entendem como algo intrínseco ao Ocidente cristão. A dissolução do sacro e o movimento em direção à autonomia humana foram percebidos por esses dois pensadores não como ameaças à religião cristã, mas como possibilidades de sua plena realização, concretizada por meio do engajamento social. Diante do fim das certezas e das verdades absolutas - quadro pós-moderno que já se delineava na década de 1940 e ganha contornos mais precisos no princípio do século XXI, tanto Bonhoeffer quanto Vattimo pensaram uma teologia capaz de abrir mão dos pressupostos metafísicos. Palavras-chave: Filosofia; Teologia; Pós-modernidade; Secularização; Eclesiologia. Abstract What is the role of religion in a secularized society? What is the role of the Church? This article suggests a reflection on these questions based on a "virtual dialogue" between German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945 and contemporary Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo. Though separated by time and geography, those authors are close to each other in the way they view the secularization phenomenon - both understand it as intrinsic to the Christian West. The dissolution of the sacred and the movement towards human autonomy were perceived by the two thinkers not as threats to the Christian religion, but as possibilities of its full accomplishment, made real by social commitment. Facing the end of certainties and absolute truths - a postmodern framework that starts to take shape in the 1940s and acquires more definite contours in the beginning of

[Gender-specific predictors of institutionalisation in the elderly--results of the Leipzig longitudinal study of the aged (LEILA 75+)].

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Luppa, Melanie; Gentzsch, Katrin; Angermeyer, Matthias C; Weyerer, Siegfried; König, Hans-Helmut; Riedel-Heller, Steffi G

2011-05-01

Especially given the different socialization and life conditions of men and women, it could not be assumed that factors leading to nursing home admission (NHA) can be equally applied to both genders. We aimed to determine gender-specific predictors of NHA. Data were derived from the Leipzig Longitudinal Study of the Aged, a population-based study of individuals aged 75 years and older. 1,058 older adults were interviewed six times on average every 1.4 years. Sociodemographic, clinical, and psychometric variables were obtained. Cox proportional hazards regression was used to determine predictors of NHA. 10.3 % of men and 19.5 % of women (p cognitive impairment, poor self-rated health status, and less than two specialist's visits in the preceding 12 months for women, and being unmarried, moderate educational status, and hospitalization in the preceding 12 months were predictors of NHA for men. Gender differences in prediction of NHA do actually exist. The inclusion of gender-specific factors in design and application of interventions to support individuals at home and delay or prevent NHA appears to be warranted. © Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York.

The prospects for ending piracy at sea

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Leila L. Goedhals-Gerber

2014-09-01

Full Text Available Leila L. Goedhals-Gerber, Heinrich W. Freiboth DOI: 10.22495/rgcv4i3art2 Abstract Since the earliest days of maritime trade, piracy has been a great cause of concern for the maritime community. During recent years it has evolved into a highly lucrative “profession”, which serves as a financial outcome to people in some of the poorest regions of the world, including Somalia, while disrupting important international supply chains at a great cost to trade. This paper investigates the geography of modern maritime piracy and the common socio-economic circumstances that underlie the causes of Somali piracy. Key findings include the fact that maritime piracy in the Gulf of Aden has recently declined as a result of coordinated international efforts, but remains a serious threat with cost implications for the maritime transport industry and world trade. The paper concludes by identifying the need in Somalia to change the incentive structure that promotes piracy as an alternative to legal pursuits. This can be achieved by restoring a central authority in the country, creating a stable and safe social environment, and re-establishing formal economic and financial systems

DeepSite: protein-binding site predictor using 3D-convolutional neural networks.

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Jiménez, J; Doerr, S; Martínez-Rosell, G; Rose, A S; De Fabritiis, G

2017-10-01

An important step in structure-based drug design consists in the prediction of druggable binding sites. Several algorithms for detecting binding cavities, those likely to bind to a small drug compound, have been developed over the years by clever exploitation of geometric, chemical and evolutionary features of the protein. Here we present a novel knowledge-based approach that uses state-of-the-art convolutional neural networks, where the algorithm is learned by examples. In total, 7622 proteins from the scPDB database of binding sites have been evaluated using both a distance and a volumetric overlap approach. Our machine-learning based method demonstrates superior performance to two other competitive algorithmic strategies. DeepSite is freely available at www.playmolecule.org. Users can submit either a PDB ID or PDB file for pocket detection to our NVIDIA GPU-equipped servers through a WebGL graphical interface. gianni.defabritiis@upf.edu. Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online. © The Author (2017). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com

Portrait: Yves Sillanoli, Staff Association delegate since 2004

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2017-01-01

Yves Sillanoli - Staff Association delegate. I worked at CERN as Contractor’s personnel for 18 years, and in 2003, I became a staff member. By nature, I am someone who enjoys getting involved in associations. For 35 years, I was a member of a sports association in my community. Therefore, for me it was natural to want to reach out and help my colleagues, especially those with professional experiences similar to mine. Moreover, even though both my father and my brother had worked at CERN before me, I really wanted to understand the inner functioning of the Organization. To this end, I decided to run for staff delegate and was elected to the Staff Association in 2004. Joining the Staff Association has been, above all, a chance to meet people: Gianni Deroma, former President of the Staff Association, and Philippe Defert, who passed away in 2013, were great listeners and had a real sense of mutual help. Philippe Defert influenced greatly my decision take part in the Association and, over time, a rema...

Standing Concertation Committee - Ordinary Meeting on 15 January 2005

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2005-01-01

This meeting was devoted to the main topics summarised below. Follow-up from the meetings of the Finance Committee and Council in December 2004 The Chairman welcomed two new SCC members representing the Staff Association: Véronique Paris and Gianni Deroma. Expressing their best wishes for the New Year, the members of the SCC took note of a report by the Chairman on the outcome of these Committee meetings and of the Director-General's staff meeting on 10 January 2005, and discussed a number of internal follow-up actions. Work planning of the SCC & TREF The SCC agreed its calendar of ordinary sessions and its draft work planning for the first half of 2005, subject to including a number of matters outstanding from 2004. The Committee discussed internal preparation for the next meeting of TREF on 4 & 5 April devoted to items concerning the current 5-Yearly Review. The SCC also took note of the provisional scheduling of TREF meetings from May to September, which will be settled by...

The Age of Interpretation

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Gianni Vattimo

2013-01-01

Full Text Available Gianni Vattimo, who is both a Catholic and a frequent critic of the Church, explores the surprising congruence between Christianity and hermeneutics in light of the dissolution of metaphysical truth. As in hermeneutics, Vatimo claims, interpretation is central to Christianity. Influenced by hermeneutics and borrowing largely from the Nietzschean and Heideggerian heritage, the Italian philosopher, who has been instrumental in promoting a nihilistic approach to Christianity, draws here on Nietzsche’s writings on nihilism, which is not to be understood in a purely negative sense. Vattimo suggests that nihilism not only expands the Christian message of charity, but also transforms it into its endless human potential. In “The Age of Interpretation,” the author shows that hermeneutical radicalism “reduces all reality to message,” so that the opposition between facts and norms turns out to be misguided, for both are governed by the interpretative paradigms through which someone (always a concrete, historically situated someone makes sense of them. Vattimo rejects some of the deplorable political consequences of hermeneutics and claims that traditional hermeneutics is in collusion with various political-ideological neutralizations.

Sailing on seas of uncertainties: late style and Puccini’s struggle for self-renewal

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Amir Cohen-Shalev

2008-10-01

Full Text Available The popularity of Puccini’s melodramatic operas, often derided by “serious” musicologists, has hindered a more rounded evaluation of his attempt at stylistic change. This paper offers a novel perspective of lifespan creative development in order to move the discussion of Puccini beyond the dichotomy of popular versus high-brow culture. Tracing the aspects of gradual stylistic change that began in The Girl from the Golden West (1910 through the three operas of Il Trittico: Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, and Gianni Schicchi (1918–1919, the paper then focuses on Puccini’s last opera, Turandot (1926, as exemplifying a potential turn to a reflexive, philosophical style which is very different from the melodramatic, sentimentalist style generally associated with his work. In order to discuss this change as embodying a turn to late style, the paper identifies major stylistic shifts as well as underlying themes in the work of Puccini. Th paper concludes by discussing the case of Puccini as a novel contribution to the discussion of lateness in art, until now reserved to a selected few ‘“old Masters.”

Institute news

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1999-11-01

Joining the team A new member of staff has recently joined the Institute of Physics Education Department (Schools and Colleges) team. (Dr) Steven Chapman will have managerial responsibility for physics education issues in the 11 - 16 age range, particularly on the policy side. He will work closely with Mary Wood, who spends much of her time out and about doing the practical things to support physics education pre-16. Catherine Wilson will be spending more of her time working to support the Post-16 Physics Initiative but retains overall responsibility for the department. Steven graduated in Physics and Astronomy and then went on to do his doctorate at Sussex University. He stayed in the research field for a while, including a period at NPL. Then, having decided to train as a teacher, he taught for the last five years, most recently at a brand new school in Sutton where he was Head of Physics. Physics update Dates for `Physics Update' courses in 2000, intended for practising science teachers, are as follows: 1 - 3 April: Malvern College 9 - 10 June: Stirling University 8 - 10 July: York University 8 - 10 December: Oxford University The deadline for applications for the course to be held on 11 - 13 December 1999 at the School of Physics, Exeter University, is 12 November, so any late enquiries should be sent to Leila Solomon at The Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London W1N 3DH (tel: 020 7470 4821) right away. Name that teacher! Late nominations are still welcome for the Teachers of Physics/Teachers of Primary Science awards for the year 2000. Closing date for nominations is `the last week in November'. Further details can be obtained from Catherine Wilson or Barbara Hill in the Institute's Education Department. Forward and back! The Education Group's one-day meeting on 13 November is accepting bookings until almost the last minute, so don't delay your application! The day is entitled `Post-16 physics: Looking forward, learning from the past' and it aims to

La parábola del rey filósofo y el pragmatista. Dos relatos sobre el fin de la filosofía, la democracia y la universidad

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Brioso, Jorge

2015-06-01

Full Text Available Does democracy, understood as the moral horizon of western culture, require the end of philosophy as the ultimate foundational knowledge? Do all the narratives of the end of philosophy include the defeat of truth in favor of opinion, a transformation and subordination of the philosophical discourse itself to the form of coexistence that is considered most just, most open, most inclusive? In other words, must the question about what type of philosophical vocabulary and approach best serves human freedom be the most fundamental philosophical question? We then should have to ask philosophy the same terrifying questions Lenin put to freedom: philosophy yes, but for whom? To do what? In this essay all these questions are investigated through two narratives that theorize the end of philosophy with more that four hundred years of difference: Thomas Hobbes in The Leviathan and Gianni Vattimo and Richard Rorty. The game of mirrors that is established in this text tries to be a reflection about the nature of the philosophical discourse and its implementation in the university system inside the context of democracy in the twenty-first century.La democracia, entendida como el horizonte moral de la sociedad occidental, ¿necesita la terminación de la filosofía como saber fundante último? ¿Conllevan todos los relatos del fin de la filosofía una derrota de la verdad en favor de la opinión, una transformación y subordinación del propio discurso filosófico a la forma de convivencia que se considera más justa, más abierta, más inclusiva? Dicho de otra manera, ¿la pregunta sobre qué tipo de vocabulario y de acercamiento filosófico puede servir mejor a la libertad humana tiene que ser la pregunta filosófica fundamental? ¿Habría que hacerle entonces a la filosofía las mismas terroríficas preguntas que Lenin le hizo a la libertad: filosofía sí, pero, ¿para quién, para hacer qué? A lo largo de este ensayo, se abordan estas cuestiones de la

Depression and incident dementia. An 8-year population-based prospective study.

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Luppa, Melanie; Luck, Tobias; Ritschel, Franziska; Angermeyer, Matthias C; Villringer, Arno; Riedel-Heller, Steffi G

2013-01-01

The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of depression (categorical diagnosis; major depression, MD) and depressive symptoms (dimensional diagnosis and symptom patterns) on incident dementia in the German general population. Within the Leipzig Longitudinal Study of the Aged (LEILA 75+), a representative sample of 1,265 individuals aged 75 years and older were interviewed every 1.5 years over 8 years (mean observation time 4.3 years; mean number of visits 4.2). Cox proportional hazards and binary logistic regressions were used to estimate the effect of baseline depression and depressive symptoms on incident dementia. The incidence of dementia was 48 per 1,000 person-years (95% confidence interval (CI) 45-51). Depressive symptoms (Hazard ratio HR 1.03, 95% CI 1.01-1.05), and in particular mood-related symptoms (HR 1.08, 95% CI 1.03-1.14), showed a significant impact on the incidence of dementia only in univariate analysis, but not after adjustment for cognitive and functional impairment. MD showed only a significant impact on incidence of dementia in Cox proportional hazards regression, but not in binary logistic regression models. The present study using different diagnostic measures of depression on future dementia found no clear significant associations of depression and incident dementia. Further in-depth investigation would help to understand the nature of depression in the context of incident dementia.

Egg consumption and cardiovascular disease among diabetic individuals: a systematic review of the literature

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2014-03-01

Full Text Available Nga L Tran, Leila M Barraj, Jacqueline M Heilman, Carolyn G ScraffordExponent Center for Chemical Regulation and Food Safety, Washington, DC, USABackground: This study reviewed epidemiological and experimental evidence on the relationship between egg consumption and cardiovascular disease (CVD risks among type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM individuals, and T2DM risk in nondiabetic subjects.Results: Four of the six studies that examined CVD and mortality and egg consumption among diabetics found a statistically significant association. Of the eight studies evaluating incident T2DM and egg consumption, four prospective studies found a statistically significant association. Lack of adjustment for dietary confounders was a common study limitation. A small number of experimental studies examined the relationship between egg intake and CVD risk biomarkers among diabetics or individuals with T2DM risk factors. Studies among healthy subjects found suggestive evidence that dietary interventions that include eggs may reduce the risk of T2DM and metabolic syndrome.Conclusion: Differences in study design, T2DM status, exposure measurement, subject age, control for confounders and follow-up time present significant challenges for conducting a meta-analysis. Conflicting results, coupled with small sample sizes, prevent broad interpretation. Given the study limitations, these findings need to be further investigated.Keywords: type II diabetes mellitus, diet, cardiovascular risk factors, coronary heart disease, stroke

From national banking supervision to a centralized model of prudential supervision in Europe? : the stability function of the Single Supervisory Mechanism / Gianni Lo Schiavo

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Schiavo, Gianni Lo

2014-01-01

Euroala pankade ühtse pangandusjärelevalve mehhanismist (SSM). Euroopa Nõukogu määrusest 1024/2013, millega antakse Euroopa Keskpangale eriülesanded seoses krediidiasutuste usaldatavusnõuete täitmise järelevalve poliitikaga

Literatura e Religião: a relação buscando um método (Literature and Religion: The search for a method - DOI: 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2012v10n25p29

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Joe Marçal Gonçalves dos Santos

2012-03-01

Full Text Available Um estudo sobre a relação entre literatura e religião tomando ambas como expressão de produtividade da interpretação no contexto da Modernidade. O artigo aborda os pressupostos filosóficos da relação entre história da salvação e história da interpretação, e suas consequências para a consciência histórico-cultural do Ocidente, tal como examinado por Gianni Vattimo. Segundo este, o legado do Cristianismo se atualiza na Modernidade tardia em termos de produtividade da interpretação, ampliando a noção de linguagem e discurso por suas implicações ontológicas e epistemológicas. A partir desses argumentos, a relação entre literatura e religião se estreita, permitindo compreender ambas como formas de produção simbólica, narrativa e discursiva de interpretações poéticas e normativas da vida no mundo. Para compreendê-lo nesses termos, recorre-se a conceitos chaves da hermenêutica literária desenvolvida por Paul Ricoeur, com o qual temos categorias de análise, bem como uma compreensão hermenêutica do próprio evento do texto literário. Finalmente, o artigo conclui com apontamentos para o que seria uma hermenêutica teológica da literatura, nos termos da teologia da cultura de Paul Tillich.Palavras-chaves: Literatura. Religião. Interpretação. Hermenêutica Literária. Teologia da cultura.Abstract: This article presents a study on the relationship between literature and religion taking both as expression of the productivity of interpretation in the context of modernity. The article discusses the philosophical assumptions of the relationship between the salvation history and the history of interpretation and its implications for historical and cultural consciousness of the West, as seen by Gianni Vattimo. According this author, the legacy of Christianity is updated in late modernity in terms of productivity interpretation, expanding the notion of language and discourse for their ontological and epistemological

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Iranian Rehabilitation Journal

2010-04-01

Full Text Available Relationship between motor and mental age in children with Down syndrome Hossein Sourtiji: Seyed Mohammad Sadegh Hosseini; Farin Soleimani, MD.; Seyed Ali Hosseini,Ph.D. Genotype –Phenotype Correlations in Iranian Myotonic Dystrophy type I patients Neda Moradi; Mojtaba Azimian; Bahareh ShojasaffarShahriar Nafisi; Mandana Hasanzad; Seyed Mohammad Ebrahim Moosavi; Azadeh Shirazia; Hossein Najmabadi; Kimia Kahrizi ;,Ana Maria Cobo; Kaveh Alavi; Stigma in Iranian Down Syndrome ,s Family Sahel hemmati, MD.; Farin Solemani, MD.; Asghar Dadkhah, PhD. Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy on Craving, Depression & anxiety among the Opiate abusers under MMT Fereshte momeni; Nahaleh Moshtag, PhD., Abbas Purshahbaz, PhD. Initial effect of taping technique on wrist extension and grip strength and pain of Individuals with lateral epicondylitis Alireza Shamsoddini; Mohammad Taghi Hollisaz, PhD.; Rahmatollah Hafezi, PhD. The effect of anger management skills training on reducing of aggression in mothers of children’s with attention deficit hyperactive disorder Shirin Valizadeh Environment and Blindness situation in Iran Soraya Askari; Narges Shafaroudi; Mohammad Kamali, PhD.; Mitra Khalafbeigy Hope – Oriented Mental Rehabilitation and enhancement of marital satisfaction among couples with addicted husband Hamid Darrodi, .;Seyed Jalal younesi, PhD.; Fazele Bahrami, PhD. Farshad Bahari, PhD.; Ali Akbar Solimanian, PhD. The comparison of the role of vision on static postural stability in athletes and non-athletes Zohre Meshkati, Ph.D ; Mehdi Namazizadeh, Ph.D; Mahyar Salavati, Ph.D Leila Meshkati

10 years of Ws

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Anon.

1993-01-01

Ten years ago, on 25 January 1983, the discovery of the W particle at CERN's proton-antiproton collider was announced to the world. The W, the electrically charged carrier of the weak nuclear force, had been predicted 24 years earlier in the classic formulations of modern weak interaction theory by Feynman and Gell- Mann and by Marshak and Sudarshan, and went on to play an important role in the subsequent electroweak unification of electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force. Following the discovery of the neutral current at CERN in 1973, it became clear that the W was an extremely heavy particle, some 80 times heavier than the proton, too heavy to be detected by any accelerator in operation at the time. Pushed by Carlo Rubbia, the CERN proton-antiproton collider was built to find the W and its electrically neutral companion, the Z. Collider operations at CERN in 1982 had been compressed into a two month run, from October to December. The teams at the big UA1 and UA2 experiments eagerly sifting through their 1982 data noticed the first signs of Ws. The initial candidate W events were announced in CERN seminars by Carlo Rubbia, for UA1, on 20 January 1983*, and the following day by Luigi Di Leila for UA2. As well as new science, these two seminars also set a trend for packing the CERN auditorium to overflowing

On Truth and Emancipation

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Andreas Hjort Bundgaard

2012-09-01

Full Text Available This article has two main currents. First, it argues that an affinity or similarity can be identified between the philosophy of Gianni Vattimo (the so-called “Weak Thinking” and the “Discourse Theory” of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. The two theorizations are engaged with related problems, but have conceptualized them differently; they share central insights, but understand them with different vocabularies. The article furthermore illuminates as regards what this affinity consists in, and it discusses the differences and similarities between the two theoretical positions. The second current of the article takes the ‘postmodern’ philosophical problems of anti-foundationalism and nihilism as its point of departure. It raises the questions of: 1 how it is possible at the same time to take the critique of universality and objectivity seriously and still believe in the value of ethics and science; and, 2 how we are to understand emancipation if there is no necessary relationship between truth and freedom. The article investigates the status, meaning and interconnection of the categories of truth, knowledge, ethics, politics and emancipation in the light of the absence of metaphysical first principles. The article concludes that: A faith can constitute a “weak foundation” of knowledge and ethics; and, B nihilism can be combined with the political and ethical ambitions of universal human emancipation and radical democracy.

L’incontro di Bruno Munari con la didattica attiva. I fondamenti pedagogici dei laboratori "Giocare con l’arte".

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Laura Panizza

2009-07-01

Full Text Available Il saggio affronta il tema: quali idee pedagogiche hanno influenzato la progettazione dei laboratori "Giocare con l’arte", ideati da Bruni Munari negli anni Settanta e destinati a trasformare profondamente il modo d’intendere la didattica museale e l’educazione estetico-artistica. L’ipotesi dell’autrice è che questi laboratori riprendano alcuni principi dell’attivismo pedagogico, a cui Munari non fa però esplicito riferimento nei suoi scritti. Per questo motivo, il saggio cerca di ricostruire gli incontri più significativi che possono aver mediato l’approccio alla didattica attiva, soffermandosi in particolare sui rapporti di collaborazione intessuti da Munari con lo scrittore Gianni Rodari e con il pedagogista Giovanni Belgrano. Sia Rodari, sia Belgrano erano legati – seppure con diverse modalità – al Movimento di Cooperazione Educativa, che si proponeva di rinnovare la scuola italiana ispirandosi alla pedagogia deweyana. Attraverso la loro mediazione, Munari può essersi avvicinato all’attivismo, di cui condivideva peraltro molteplici assunti: dall’esigenza di promuovere la creatività del bambino, mediante la sperimentazione di materiali e tecniche, alla concezione dell’educatore come animatore delle attività volte alla padronanza dei saperi. In tal senso, il saggio si propone anche di mostrare la continuità esistente tra questa linea teorica e la riflessione sulla democratizzazione dell’arte intrapresa da Munari già nel 1948, con la fondazione – insieme ad altri artisti – del Movimento Arte Concreta.

Scritture separate: autocensura testuale e imposizione visuale del bondage in Dino Buzzati

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Antonio Lunardi

2015-05-01

Full Text Available The last period of Dino Buzzati's literary production (1960-1971 offers topics and stylistic forms that significantly diverge from the author's persona as prematurely proposed by criticism. Buzzati's prose here includes erotic and sensuous themes, while the author adds some visual elements that become increasingly pivotal in their experimentalism.  This twist on contents and forms reaches is apex in some images of bondage proposed in Buzzati's "opere doppie" (Coglitore:  Le storie dipinte, Poema a fumetti e I miracoli di Val Morel. The drawings in the books are frequently explicit, but bondage is never present in the text, where nothing but distant allusions to it can be found. Moving from Gius Gargiulo's work on the topic, this study interrogates this feature of the works going beyond the level of autocensorship. I will propose to read Buzzati's formal choice through the concepts of aesthetism and suspension that Gilles Deleuze recognizes as peculiar of masochism in his study on Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty. Buzzati's works are therefore contextualized in literary and cinematographic Italian production between 1965 and 1975, with reference to Gianni Celati's Il chiodo in testa and Liliana Cavani's Il portiere di notte. I therefore compare the aesthetic function of bondage in Buzzati's paintings to the narrative function of the masochistic scene in Pier Vittorio Tondelli's Camere Separate.

Imaging choroidal neovascular membrane using en face swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography

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Moussa M

2017-10-01

Full Text Available Magdy Moussa,1,2 Mahmoud Leila,3 Hagar Khalid1,2 1Ophthalmology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt; 2MEDIC Eye Center, Tanta, Egypt; 3Retina Department, Research Institute of Ophthalmology, Giza, Egypt Purpose: The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography (SS-OCTA in delineating the morphology of choroidal neovascular membrane (CNV. Patients and methods: This was a retrospective observational case series reviewing clinical data and fundus fluorescein angiography (FFA, swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT, and SS-OCTA images of patients with CNV and comparing the findings. The swept-source technology enables deeper penetration and superior axial resolution. The incorporated blood flow detection algorithm, optical coherence tomography angiography ratio analysis (OCTARA, enables visualization of CNV in vivo without the need for dye injection. Results: The study included 136 eyes of 105 patients. Active lesions on SS-OCTA images showed increased capillary density, extensive arborization, vascular anastomosis and looping, and peri-lesional hollow. Inactive lesions showed decreased capillary density, presence of large linear vessels, and presence of feeder vessels supplying the CNV. We detected positive correlation between SS-OCTA, FFA, and SS-OCT images in 97% of eyes. In the remaining 3%, SS-OCTA confirmed the absence of CNV, whereas FFA and SS-OCT either were inconclusive in the diagnosis of CNV or yielded false-positive results. Conclusion: SS-OCT and SS-OCTA represent a reproducible risk-free analog for FFA in imaging CNV. SS-OCTA is particularly versatile in cases where FFA and SS-OCT are inconclusive. Keywords: swept-source OCT, OCT angiography, imaging of CNV, OCTARA algorithm

Higher emotional intelligence is related to lower test anxiety among students

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Ahmadpanah M

2016-01-01

Full Text Available Mohammad Ahmadpanah,1 Mohammadreza Keshavarz,1 Mohammad Haghighi,1 Leila Jahangard,1 Hafez Bajoghli,2 Dena Sadeghi Bahmani,3 Edith Holsboer-Trachsler,3 Serge Brand3,4 1Behavioral Disorders and Substances Abuse, Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran; 2Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies (INCAS, Iranian Institute for Reduction of High-Risk Behaviors, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; 3Psychiatric Clinics of the University of Basel, Center for Affective, Stress and Sleep Disorders, 4Department of Sport, Exercise and Health Science, Sport Science Section, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland Background: For students attending university courses, experiencing test anxiety (TA dramatically impairs cognitive performance and success at exams. Whereas TA is a specific case of social phobia, emotional intelligence (EI is an umbrella term covering interpersonal and intrapersonal skills, along with positive stress management, adaptability, and mood. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that higher EI and lower TA are associated. Further, sex differences were explored.Method: During an exam week, a total of 200 university students completed questionnaires covering sociodemographic information, TA, and EI.Results: Higher scores on EI traits were associated with lower TA scores. Relative to male participants, female participants reported higher TA scores, but not EI scores. Intrapersonal and interpersonal skills and mood predicted low TA, while sex, stress management, and adaptability were excluded from the equation.Conclusion: The pattern of results suggests that efforts to improve intrapersonal and interpersonal skills, and mood might benefit students with high TA. Specifically, social commitment might counteract TA. Keywords: test anxiety, emotional intelligence, students, interpersonal skills, intrapersonal skills

Peyronie's disease after urethral swab, an unusual complication: a case report

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Paulis G

2015-11-01

Full Text Available Gianni Paulis,1,2 Davide Barletta3 1Andrology Center, Regina Apostolorum Hospital, Albano Laziale, Rome, Italy; 2Castelfidardo Medical Team, Peyronie's Disease Care Center, Rome, Italy; 3Department of Urology, Andrology Center, San Matteo Hospital, Pavia, Italy Abstract: Urethral swabs are still currently used as a diagnostic tool when urethritis or prostatitis are suspected. Urologists are certainly aware that Peyronie's disease may occur after traumatic urethral instrumentation (catheterization, urethrocystoscopy, etc, but onset of Peyronie's disease after urethral swab for diagnostic purposes has never been reported in the literature. This paper presents the case of a patient who developed Peyronie's disease after a clumsy urethral swab insertion. It is an unusual, and to date unreported, complication which we would like to call attention to. In the case of our patient, the swab had been inserted to a greater depth than normally required and strong pressure had also been applied. During the procedure, the patient experienced severe urethral and penile pain, which was followed by urethrorrhagia, and later penile curvature. The patient was treated conservatively with good results, partly because the disease was still in its active stage and not yet stable. In the light of what we report, when ordering a urethral swab, physicians should always recommend that it be performed at testing centers that follow accurate, rigorous standards. Patients should also be informed that the test they are to undergo consists of a swab being inserted into the urethra for a short distance, not more than 2–3 cm. Keywords: genitourinary trauma, penile curvature, Peyronie, urethral swab

Proof of concept in cardiovascular risk: the paradoxical findings in blood pressure and lipid abnormalities

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Fuchs FD

2012-07-01

Full Text Available Flavio Danni Fuchs, Sandra Costa Fuchs, Leila Beltrami Moreira, Miguel GusDivision of Cardiology and Postgraduate Studies Program in Cardiology, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, BrazilAbstract: High blood pressure and lipoprotein abnormalities were identified by many cohort studies as the major risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Laboratory experiments apparently confirmed their role in the causation of atherosclerosis, but a proof of concept requires the corroboration by clinical trials in human beings. The size of benefit in clinical trials regarding the control of high blood pressure was within the estimations of risk provided by cohort studies. For a reduction of 10 mmHg in systolic blood pressure or 5 mmHg in diastolic blood pressure, the relative risk reduction of coronary heart disease was 22% (95% confidence interval 27%–17% in a meta-analysis of clinical trials, close to the estimation of reduction of 25% (95% confidence interval 23%–27% provided by a meta-analysis of cohort studies. The corresponding values for stroke were 41% (95% confidence interval 33%–48% in clinical trials compared to a cohort risk prediction of 36% (95% confidence interval 34%–38%. This efficacy was shared by all blood pressure-lowering drugs. The same figure has not paradoxically happened with drugs that act over abnormalities of cholesterol and lipoproteins. Only statins, which have other beneficial actions as well, have consistently lowered the incidence of cardiovascular diseases, an efficacy that was not reproduced by older and newer quite potent lipid drugs. The adverse effects of these drugs may nullify their beneficial effects over lipoproteins and abnormalities of lipoproteins may only be surrogate markers of the underlying real risks.Keywords: proof of concept, hypertension, lipoproteins, clinical trials

Mental resilience, perceived immune functioning, and health

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Van Schrojenstein Lantman M

2017-03-01

Full Text Available Marith Van Schrojenstein Lantman,1 Marlou Mackus,1 Leila S Otten,1 Deborah de Kruijff,1 Aurora JAE van de Loo,1,2 Aletta D Kraneveld,1,2 Johan Garssen,1,3 Joris C Verster1,2,4 1Division of Pharmacology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands; 2Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands; 3Nutricia Research, Utrecht, the Netherlands; 4Centre for Human Psychopharmacology, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia Background: Mental resilience can be seen as a trait that enables an individual to recover from stress and to face the next stressor with optimism. People with resilient traits are considered to have a better mental and physical health. However, there are limited data available assessing the relationship between resilient individuals and their perspective of their health and immune status. Therefore, this study was conducted to examine the relationship between mental resilience, perceived health, and perceived immune status. Methods: A total of 779 participants recruited at Utrecht University completed a questionnaire consisting of demographic characteristics, the brief resilience scale for the assessment of mental resilience, the immune function questionnaire (IFQ, and questions regarding their perceived health and immune status. Results: When correcting for gender, age, height, weight, smoker status, amount of cigarettes smoked per week, alcohol consumption status, amount of drinks consumed per week, drug use, and frequency of past year drug use, mental resilience was significantly correlated with perceived health (r=0.233, p=0.0001, perceived immune functioning (r=0.124, p=0.002, and IFQ score (r=−0.185, p=0.0001. Conclusion: A significant, albeit modest, relationship was found between mental resilience and perceived immune functioning and health. Keywords: mental resilience, immune functioning, health, vitality, quality of life

Spotlight on frovatriptan: a review of its efficacy in the treatment of migraine

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Allais G

2016-10-01

Full Text Available Gianni Allais, Chiara Benedetto Department of Surgical Sciences, Women’s Headache Center, University of Turin, Turin, Italy Abstract: Migraine is a common neurovascular disorder, affecting millions of people worldwide. Current guidelines recommend triptans as first-line treatment for moderate-to-severe migraine attacks. Frovatriptan is a second-generation triptan with a longer terminal elimination half-life in blood than other triptans (~26 hours. Three double-blind, randomized crossover preference studies have been recently conducted, assessing efficacy and safety of frovatriptan versus rizatriptan, zolmitriptan, and almotriptan, respectively. Frovatriptan showed favorable tolerability and sustained effect, with a significantly lower rate of relapse over 48 hours versus the other triptans. These findings were confirmed in a series of analyses of patient subsets from the three studies, including patients with menstrually related and oral contraceptive-induced migraine, hypertension, obesity, weekend migraine, as well as patients with migraine with aura. In all patient subsets analyzed, lower headache recurrence rates were observed versus the comparator triptans, indicating a more sustained pain-relieving effect on migraine symptoms. A further randomized, double-blind study demonstrated that frovatriptan given in combination with the fast-acting cyclooxygenase inhibitor dexketoprofen provided improved migraine pain-free activity at 2 hours, and gave more sustained pain-free activity at 24 hours, versus frovatriptan alone. These benefits were observed both when the combination was administered early (<1 hour after symptom onset or late (>1 hour after onset. Different pharmacokinetic, but synergistic, properties between frovatriptan and dexketoprofen may make the combination of these agents particularly effective in migraine treatment, with rapid onset of action and sustained effect over 48 hours. These benefits, together with potential cost

The Many Riches of Human Flourishing: On the Veiled Agent in Veil Narratives

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Muneer Aram Kuzhiyan

2014-05-01

Full Text Available This paper critiques what it calls the parochial conception of agency animating the narrative of the Malayalam writer Khadija Mumthas' novel Barsa (2007 that is anchored in the notion that acts of resistance to relations of domination exhaust the field of human action. Following contemporary cultural anthropologists Talal Asad (1993, Saba Mahmood (2005 and Charles Hirschkind (2006, I argue that if unveiling of a Muslim woman in the spirit of liberatory endeavour constitutes one modality of action, the religiously-inspired programme of moral formation, including adopting the veil, practiced by many Muslim women in Kerala, as elsewhere, often decried for their patriarchal proclivities is also a speech act that makes up agency, no less. I find particularly useful here the idea of 'docility' that Mahmood (2005 develops out of Foucault (1990: rather than being a synonym for passivity, 'docility' in this line of thought takes on a meaning of 'teachability' that demands will, effort and perseverance. This understanding brings to sharp relief the Foucauldian insight that specific relations of subordination enable and enact modes of human agency. Lost in Khadija Mumthas' monologue of agency is the fact that divergent conceptual understandings of a practice create divergent subjectivities and social and political life worlds and it would be a mistake to privilege one over the other. The novel, I argue, betrays the author's dis-ease with the modalities of agency other than subverting norms and belies the burden of proving Islam's compatibility with the ideals of liberalism-a burden she shares with many contemporary Muslim reformers who fit the bill 'liberal Islam.' Finally, by way of comparison and contrast, I call attention to the anglophone Sudanese writer Leila Aboulela's two novels The Translator (1999 and Minaret (2005 which, even as they exploit as one of their key thematic concerns the role of religion in the protagonists' identity formation and

Equipe de trabalho

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Gabriel Gerber Hornink

2014-08-01

Full Text Available   Equipe de Trabalho 2014 1. Equipe editorial Editor-Chefe Bayardo Bapstista Torres, Instituto de Química - USP, Brasil Eduardo Galembeck, Departamento de Bioquímica Instituto de Biologia UNICAMP, Brasil   Editores Gabriel Gerber Hornink, Depto. Bioquímica, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade - Federal de Alfenas - Unifal-MG, Brasil Vera Maria Treis Trindade, Instituto de Ciências Básicas da Saúde, Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil   Corpo Editorial Adriana Cassina, Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Uruguai Angel Herráez, Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología molecular, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Espanha André Amaral Gonçalves Bianco, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp, Brasil Denise Vaz de Macedo, Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Unicamp, Brasil Eneida de Paula, Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Unicamp, Brasil Guilherme Andrade Marson, Instituto de Química - USP, Brasil Jose Antonio Martinez Oyanedel, Universidad de Concepción, Chile Josep Maria Fernández Novell, Dept. Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular Universitat de Barcelona, Espanha Leila Maria Beltramini, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade Estadual de São Paulo - USP, Brasil Manuel João da Costa, Escola de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Maria Lucia Bianconi, Instituto de Bioquímica Médica Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, Brasil María Noel Alvarez, Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Uruguai Miguel Ángel Medina Torres, Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Faculty of Sciences University of Málaga, Espanha Nelma Regina Segnini Bossolan, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo - USP, Brasil Paulo De Avila

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Journal of Biochemistry Education

2015-12-01

Full Text Available  Equipe de Trabalho 2015 (Jan-Jul1. Equipe editorialEditor-ChefeBayardo Bapstista Torres, Instituto de Química - USP, BrasilEduardo Galembeck, Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Biologia, UNICAMP, Brasil Co-editoresGabriel Gerber Hornink, Depto. Bioquímica, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade - Federal de Alfenas - Unifal-MG, BrasilVera Maria Treis Trindade, Instituto de Ciências Básicas da Saúde, Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil Corpo EditorialAdriana Cassina, Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, UruguaiAngel Herráez, Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología molecular, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, EspanhaAndré Amaral Gonçalves Bianco, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp, BrasilDenise Vaz de Macedo, Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Unicamp, BrasilEneida de Paula, Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Unicamp, BrasilGuilherme Andrade Marson, Instituto de Química - USP, BrasilJose Antonio Martinez Oyanedel, Universidad de Concepción, ChileJosep Maria Fernández Novell, Dept. Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular Universitat de Barcelona, EspanhaLeila Maria Beltramini, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade Estadual de São Paulo - USP, BrasilManuel João da Costa, Escola de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade do Minho, PortugalMaria Lucia Bianconi, Instituto de Bioquímica Médica Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, BrasilMaría Noel Alvarez, Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, UruguaiMiguel Ángel Medina Torres, Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Faculty of Sciences University of Málaga, EspanhaNelma Regina Segnini Bossolan, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo - USP, BrasilPaulo De Avila Junior, Centro

The Squallor phenomenon: Social and political satire in Italian music during the First Republic

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Nicolino Applauso

2014-12-01

Full Text Available Gli Squallor: La risata triste e le pernacchieLa satira sociale e politica nella musica italiana durante la Prima RepubblicaAnche se spesso viene catalogato con il marchio onnicomprensivo di ‘Rock demenziale’, il gruppo musicale italiano degli Squallor rappresenta uno dei fenomeni più incisivi di satira politica e sociale nell’Italia moderna. Ciò appare evidente se si esaminano i numerosi pezzi contenuti nei loro album, che presentano brillanti e corrosive parodie di noti partiti e politici, nonché di tendenze culturali e sociali dominanti. Se consideriamo inoltre il periodo in cui gli Squallor raggiunsero il massimo successo (verso la metà degli anni Ottanta, essi possono anche rappresentare l’importante voce di dissenso che caratterizzò gli ultimi decenni della cosiddetta Prima Repubblica. In questo articolo viene esplorata una selezione dei loro più importanti testi, con lo scopo di analizzare le dinamiche della loro particolarissima satira in relazione alle tendenze culturali, sociali e politiche allora in voga in Italia. Ci si sofferma inizialmente sulle varie allusioni politiche presenti in modo generico in pezzi come Alluvione, per poi passare all’analisi di pezzi che presentano una satira politica più esplicita contro noti partiti (come i Verdi e politici dell’epoca, quali Gianni De Michelis (con Demiculis e Umberto Bossi ( in Berta II. Gli Squallor hanno creato parodie di famose canzoni utilizzando il nonsense, un umorismo surreale ed iperbolico e spaziando tra sperimentazioni linguistiche ed un linguaggio osceno. In questo modo, l’articolo sostiene che gli Squallor si sono dedicati alla ‘metasatira’, deridendo con successo l’industria musicale e radiotelevisiva italiana. Alla fine offre una riflessione sulla complessità della loro satira che anche se si è affermata come simbolo emblematico dell’anticonformismo, rimane nel contempo un fenomeno difficilmente catalogabile, perché in continua dissacrazione

New developments in chemotherapy of advanced breast cancer.

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Lebwohl, D E; Canetta, R

1999-01-01

Anthracyclines and taxanes are the two most active classes of chemotherapy for the treatment of advanced breast cancer. Recent studies have investigated combination therapy including doxorubicin (Dox) and paclitaxel. The efficacy of this combination has been established in a phase III study conducted by ECOG, comparing Dox/paclitaxel versus Dox versus paclitaxel. The combination is superior to Dox or paclitaxel with respect to response rate and time to disease progression, indicating that the combination provides a new standard for the first line treatment of metastatic breast cancer [1]. Phase II studies using higher doses of Dox and using shorter infusions of paclitaxel have suggested the combination can be further optimized; Gianni reported a 94% objective response rate using Dox 60 mg/m2 followed by paclitaxel 175 mg/m2 given over three hours [2]. The more active regimens are associated with enhanced cardiotoxicity; this toxicity can be avoided, however, by limiting the exposure to doxorubicin. The newer regimens have now been moved into phase III studies. Future progress for this disease will depend on the introduction of new agents. Two novel drugs are currently being investigated in randomised phase III trials as potentiators of Dox and/or paclitaxel. One is a monoclonal antibody from Genentech (Herceptin, trastuzumab) directed at the HER-2/neu oncogene, which is overexpressed in > 25% of breast cancers [3]. Recent results indicate that Herceptin in combination with paclitaxel (or with a Dox plus cyclophosphamide regimen) induces a higher response rate (RR) and prolongs the time to disease progression when compared to chemotherapy alone. The second agent N,N-diethyl-2[4-(phenylmethyl)-phenoxy] ethanamine.HCl (DPPE, BMS-217380-01), when combined with Dox, was associated with a higher RR than previously observed with Dox alone [4]. A randomized trial of Dox versus Dox plus DPPE is ongoing. The possible mechanisms underlying chemo-potentiation by these agents

Pregnancy and live birth after follicle-stimulating hormone treatment for an infertile couple including a male affected by Sertoli cell-only syndrome

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Paulis G

2017-10-01

Full Text Available Gianni Paulis,1,2 Luca Paulis,3 Gennaro Romano,4 Carmen Concas,5 Marika Di Sarno,5 Renata Pagano,5 Antonio Di Filippo,5 Maria Luisa Di Petrillo5 1Andrology Center, Regina Apostolorum Hospital, Rome, Italy; 2Department of Uro-Andrology, Castelfidardo Medical Team, Peyronie’s Disease Care Center, Rome, Italy; 3Section of Pharmacology and Research, Department of Uro-Andrology, Castelfidardo Medical Team, Peyronie’s Disease Care Center, Rome, Italy; 4Department of Urologic Oncology, Italian League Against Cancer, Avellino, Italy; 5Department of Reproductive Medicine and Biology, Caran Center, Caserta, Italy Abstract: In males with nonobstructive azoospermia, one of the main histopathologic patterns of the testis is Sertoli cell-only syndrome (SCOS, in which no germ cells are present and only Sertoli cells are contained in the seminiferous tubules. There is not any formal treatment for this pathological condition. However, several studies reported the possibility to perform testicular sperm extraction in patients with SCOS, although, according to some authors, sperm retrieval is possible only in the presence of focal spermatogenesis. We report the case of an infertile couple in whom the 30-year-old male was azoospermic. After the diagnosis, the patient underwent multiple bilateral testicular biopsies, which showed a histological pattern corresponding to SCOS. We administered a cycle of hormone stimulation followed by medically assisted procreation procedures to the male patient. Therefore, the male patient was treated with follicle-stimulating hormone gonadotropin for a total of 7 months (150 IU recombinant human follicle stimulating hormone three times per week. After carrying out a new multiple testicular sperm extraction, several spermatozoa were microscopically observed, and it was then possible to perform an intracytoplasmic sperm injection with subsequent embryo transfer of the blastocyst into the wife’s uterus, and so pregnancy was

Validity and test–retest reliability of the Persian version of the Montgomery–Asberg Depression Rating Scale

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Ahmadpanah M

2016-03-01

Full Text Available Mohammad Ahmadpanah,1 Meisam Sheikhbabaei,1 Mohammad Haghighi,1 Fatemeh Roham,1 Leila Jahangard,1 Amineh Akhondi,2 Dena Sadeghi Bahmani,3 Hafez Bajoghli,4 Edith Holsboer-Trachsler,3 Serge Brand3,5 1Behavioral Disorders and Substances Abuse Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran; 2Hamadan Educational Organization, Ministry of Education, Hamadan, Iran; 3Center for Affective, Stress, and Sleep Disorders, Psychiatric Clinics of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; 4Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies (INCAS, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; 5Department of Sport, Exercise and Health Science, Sport Science Section, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland Background and aims: The Montgomery–Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS is an expert’s rating tool to assess the severity and symptoms of depression. The aim of the present two studies was to validate the Persian version of the MADRS and determine its test–retest reliability in patients diagnosed with major depressive disorders (MDD. Methods: In study 1, the translated MADRS and the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS were applied to 210 patients diagnosed with MDD and 100 healthy adults. In study 2,200 patients diagnosed with MDD were assessed with the MADRS in face-to-face interviews. Thereafter, 100 patients were assessed 3–14 days later, again via face-to-face-interviews, while the other 100 patients were assessed 3–14 days later via a telephone interview. Results: Study 1: The MADRS and HDRS scores between patients with MDD and healthy controls differed significantly. Agreement between scoring of the MADRS and HDRS was high (r=0.95. Study 2: The intraclass correlation coefficient (test–retest reliability was r=0.944 for the face-to-face interviews, and r=0.959 for the telephone interviews. Conclusion: The present data suggest that the Persian MADRS has high validity and excellent test–retest reliability over

AHP 27: A Northeastern Tibetan Childhood

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Tsering Bum ཚེ་རིང་འབུམ།

2013-12-01

poorly documented but well-known troubles the Amdo Tibetans faced under the warlord Ma Bufang. Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Assistant Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, Columbia University

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Revista de Ensino de Bioquímica

2014-10-01

Full Text Available Equipe de Trabalho 2014 1. Equipe editorial Editor-Chefe Bayardo Bapstista Torres, Instituto de Química - USP, Brasil Eduardo Galembeck, Departamento de Bioquímica Instituto de Biologia UNICAMP, Brasil   Co-editores Gabriel Gerber Hornink, Depto. Bioquímica, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade - Federal de Alfenas - Unifal-MG, Brasil Vera Maria Treis Trindade, Instituto de Ciências Básicas da Saúde, Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil   Corpo Editorial Adriana Cassina, Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Uruguai Angel Herráez, Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología molecular, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Espanha André Amaral Gonçalves Bianco, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp, Brasil Denise Vaz de Macedo, Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Unicamp, Brasil Eneida de Paula, Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Unicamp, Brasil Guilherme Andrade Marson, Instituto de Química - USP, Brasil Jose Antonio Martinez Oyanedel, Universidad de Concepción, Chile Josep Maria Fernández Novell, Dept. Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular Universitat de Barcelona, Espanha Leila Maria Beltramini, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade Estadual de São Paulo - USP, Brasil Manuel João da Costa, Escola de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Maria Lucia Bianconi, Instituto de Bioquímica Médica Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, Brasil María Noel Alvarez, Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Uruguai Miguel Ángel Medina Torres, Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Faculty of Sciences University of Málaga, Espanha Nelma Regina Segnini Bossolan, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo - USP, Brasil Paulo De Avila

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Ana Cristina Fricke Matte

2011-07-01

Full Text Available Este número da revista Texto Livre: Linguagem e Tecnologia dedica-se à área de Humanas, em especial a grande área Linguística Letras e Artes. No entanto, a seção Educação e Tecnologia vem com mais força que as demais, desta vez com três artigos dedicados ao uso de tecnologias digitais no ensino. Jaiza Helena Moisés Fernandes, com o artigo"SOFTWARE LIVRE NA EDUCAÇÃO PARA ALÉM DA INCLUSÃO DIGITAL E SOCIAL: LETRAMENTOS MÚLTIPLOS DE PROFESSORES E ALUNOS" apresenta um bem sucedido caso de utilização do Linux educacional 3.0 numa escola do Ceará. Leila de Almeida Castillo Iabel discute a resistência de professores e educadores no uso de Tecnologias da Informação em suas atividades docentes, no artigo "RELAÇÕES DE ENSINÂNCIA E APRENDÊNCIA ATRAVÉS DO USO DAS TIC'S". Gonzalo Abio, na mesma seção, apresenta uma visão panorâmica e comentada das diretrizes do livro didático no Brasil, no artigo "UN ANÁLISIS PRELIMINAR DE LAS ACTIVIDADES TIC PRESENTES EN LOS LIBROS DIDÁCTICOS ESCOGIDOS POR LOS PNLD 2011 Y 2012 PARA LA ENSEÑANZA DE E/LE A BRASILEÑOS". O artigo foi vertido para o português por Vanderlei Machado e publicado na seção Vindo de Outras Trilhas (Traduções". A ferramenta Wiki e o trabalho de produção colaborativa de textos é o foco da seção produção Textual e Tecnologia, no artigo "A FERRAMENTA WIKI: DESAFIOS E CONTRIBUIÇÕES NA FORMAÇÃO UNIVERSITÁRIA PRESENCIAL", assinado por Andriza Machado Becker. Finalmente, Isabel Cristina Vieira Coimbra Diniz, na seção Semiótica e Tecnologia, discute a relação entre espaço e corpo no que diz respeito às novas formas de divulgação de espetáculos de dança pela internet, no artigo "A DANÇA EM CENA: DO PALCO À TELA DO COMPUTADOR: UMA ANÁLISE SEMIÓTICA". Convidamos a todos a refletir conosco essas importantes questões. Ana Cristina Fricke Matte

self-criticism to Arab and Muslim intellectuals

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Fachrizal Halim

2007-06-01

Full Text Available Contemporary Arab Thought: Studies in Post-1967 Arab Intellectual Historyis written as a self-criticism addressed to Arab and Muslim intellectuals, especially those who reside in the West. The Arab intellectuals or Muslims alike, who have received Western education and have decided to live in Western countries in the first half of twentieth century, have actually benefited from their modern secular education. The liberalization of U.S. immigration laws in 1965 for non-European immigrants has even enlarged the number of Arabs and Muslims who have trained in the best institutions in the U.S. By the dawn of the twentieth century, the number of Arab intellectuals who reside in the West is estimated to double, as the result of the emergence of a second generation. However, the large number of educated Arab people does not always fulfill the promise of transformation of the social conditions of the Arab World. Far from being ‘organic intellectuals’, to use Gramsci’s favorite term, who would transform Arab societies from imperialism and Western hegemony, and the impact of dependency on the so called ‘globalization,’ most Arab thinkers in the West as well as the elite in the Arab world have been party to Western capitalist interests which aim to control the Arab World. By no means denigrating the works of Isma‘il Raji al-Faruqi, Edward Said, Ghada Hashem Talhami, Halim Barakat, or the feminist Leila Ahmad, to mention some brilliant Arab intellectuals, most Arab thinkers in the West seem to have forgotten the social conditions of the Arab world that have been in acute crisis since the mid nineteenth century or from the time colonialism stepped into the Arab world. Pseudo modernization—to say that there has never been any modernization as it emerged from the middle class as in Europe, but was initiated mainly by the elites—has kept Arab intellectuals in the West completely in the dark and unable to offer radical solution to the crises of

Proceedings of the Franco-British Marine Energies Seminar

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Rufenacht, Antoine; Holmes, John; Moore, Alan; David, Pierre; Dal Ferro, Benoit; Shanahan, Gary; Bal, Jean-Louis; Ruer, Jacques; Laleu, Vincent de; Dupard, Dominique; Smith, George; Vandenbroucke, Eric; Bahaj, Abubakr; Le Guen, Yone; Mill, Andrew; Kermode, Neil; Taylor, Alan; Rousset, Jean Marc; Brossard, Jerome; Rawlinson Smith, Rob; Hassan, Garrad; Facon, Guy; Clement, Alain; Carcas, Max; Babarit, Aurelien; Ruellan, Marie; Langston, David; Crow, Nigel; Dreau, Guillaume; Cooper, Bill; Jenner, Chris; Abonnel, Cyrille; Fraenkel, Peter; Majastre, Herve; Imbault, Didier; Pagot, Jean Philippe; Huxley-Reynard, Chris; Auty, Fiona; Hughes, Gareth; Adrian, David; Starling, Michael; Eyraud, Delphine; Cochevelou, Gilles; Vallat, Francis; Operto, Gianni; Boston, Jon; Chrupek, Thierry; Mocilnikar, Tristan; Cassin, Fabrice; Gouverneur, Philippe; Lrivain, Alain; Perrot, Jean-Yves; Paillard, Michael; Sibun, Giles; Le Lann, Gilbert; Schirmann-Duclos, Danielle; Populus, Jacques; Maheut, Alexis; Lesieur, Christopher; Delgery, Chloe; Crutchfield, Zoe; David, Pierre; Abonnel, Cyril; Cochevelou, Gilles; Sibun, Giles; Crutchfield, Zoe

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This document brings together the available presentations (slides) made during this French-British seminar on Marine Energies. Content: 1 - Session I - Wave and Tidal, Prospects and Policy: Introduction (Pierre David); Wave and Tidal Resources - the scale of the opportunity (Benoit Dal Ferro); UK Policy and European Programmes (Gary Shanahan); French Policy on New and Renewable Energies (Jean-Louis Bal); Marine Energies and French Policy (Jacques Ruer, Vincent de Laleu); New Paths Towards Sustainable Energy (Dominique Dupard); 2 - Session II - Centres of Excellence in Research, Testing and Infrastructure: Introduction (George Smith, Eric Vandenbroucke); R and D - Universities and Companies in the UK (Abubakr Bahaj); METRI, A European infrastructure for research and testing on hydrodynamic behaviour of structure and ages of materials in marine environments (Yone Le Guen); 1/10 Scale Wave Tank Testing (Andrew Mill); Full Scale Testing (Neil Kermode); Long Term Monitoring (Alan Taylor); Experimental Methods and Numerical Simulation (Jean Marc Rousset); Modelling (Jerome Brossard, Rob Rawlinson Smith); Mediterranean Testing Centres (Guy Facon); 3 - Session III - Practitioners and Business Development - Wave Energy: Introduction (Alain Clement, Max Carcas, Aurelien Babarit, Marie Ruellan, David Langston, Nigel Crow, Guillaume Dreau, Bill Cooper, Chris Jenner); 4 - Session IV - Practitioners and Business Development - Current Energy: Introduction (Cyrille Abonnel, Peter Fraenkel, Herve Majastre, Didier Imbault, Jean Philippe Pagot, Chris Huxley-Reynard, Fiona Auty, Gareth Hughes, David Adrian, Michael Starling); 5 - Session V - Economics and Financing of Wave and Marine Energy Conversion: Introduction (Delphine Eyraud, Gilles Cochevelou); Role of French Cluster (Francis Vallat); Funding Panorama (Gianni Operto); The Technologist's Experience (Max Carcas); The Utility's Perspective (Jon Boston); French Methods and Policies for Development (Thierry Chrupek

Prevalence, psychological impact, and risk factors of erectile dysfunction in patients with Peyronie’s disease: a retrospective analysis of 309 cases

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2016-07-01

Full Text Available Gianni Paulis,1,2 Gennaro Romano,3 Andrea Paulis4 1Department of Surgical Sciences, Andrology Center, Regina Apostolorum Hospital, Albano L., Italy; 2Department of Uro-Andrology, Peyronie’s Disease Care Center, Rome, Italy; 3Department of Urologic Oncology, Section of Avellino, Italian League Against Cancer, Avellino, Italy; 4Section of Psycho-Sexology, Peyronie’s Disease Care Center, Rome, Italy Abstract: Peyronie’s disease (PD is a chronic inflammatory disease involving the tunica albuginea of the penis. Erectile dysfunction (ED is a possible invalidating symptom of PD. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence, psychological impact, and risk factors of ED in patients with PD. The study was conducted by carrying out a retrospective analysis of the clinical records of 309 patients with PD who visited our andrology clinic. All patients underwent the following tests: body mass index, common blood tests and hormone assays, questionnaire for erectile function assessment, dynamic penile color Doppler ultrasonography, imaging of the penis at maximum erection with photographic poses according to Kelâmi, psychosexual impact evaluation with PD Questionnaire (symptom bother score, evaluation of depression symptoms with the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, and evaluation of the intensity of penile pain with the pain intensity numeric rating scale. ED was observed in 37.5% of the cases. We divided the cases into two groups: group A (PD + ED, 116 cases, and group B (PD without ED, 193 cases. After multivariate analysis, we concluded that the following comorbidities are independent risk factors for ED: dyslipidemia, obesity, chronic prostatitis, benign prostatic hyperplasia, and autoimmune diseases. A depressive disorder was observed in 62.4%, and it was more frequent in patients with PD + ED (91.37% versus 45.07% group B. Sexual bother was greater in group A compared with group B (9.7 versus 7.6. Intensities of depressive symptoms and

Barium titanate nanoparticles and hypergravity stimulation improve differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells into osteoblasts

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Rocca A

2015-01-01

Full Text Available Antonella Rocca,1,2 Attilio Marino,1,2 Veronica Rocca,3 Stefania Moscato,4 Giuseppe de Vito,5,6 Vincenzo Piazza,5 Barbara Mazzolai,1 Virgilio Mattoli,1 Thu Jennifer Ngo-Anh,7 Gianni Ciofani1 1Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Center for Micro-BioRobotics @SSSA, Pontedera, Italy, 2Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, The BioRobotics Institute, Pontedera, Italy, 3Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Pisa, Italy, 4Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Pisa, Italy, 5Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Center for Nanotechnology Innovation @NEST, Pisa, Italy, 6Scuola Normale Superiore, NEST, Pisa, Italy, 7Directorate of Human Spaceflight and Operations, European Space Agency, Noordwijk, the Netherlands Background: Enhancement of the osteogenic potential of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs is highly desirable in the field of bone regeneration. This paper proposes a new approach for the improvement of osteogenesis combining hypergravity with osteoinductive nanoparticles (NPs.Materials and methods: In this study, we aimed to investigate the combined effects of hypergravity and barium titanate NPs (BTNPs on the osteogenic differentiation of rat MSCs, and the hypergravity effects on NP internalization. To obtain the hypergravity condition, we used a large-diameter centrifuge in the presence of a BTNP-doped culture medium. We analyzed cell morphology and NP internalization with immunofluorescent staining and coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering, respectively. Moreover, cell differentiation was evaluated both at the gene level with quantitative real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction and at the protein level with Western blotting.Results: Following a 20 g treatment, we found alterations in cytoskeleton conformation, cellular shape and morphology, as well as a significant increment of expression of osteoblastic markers both at the gene and protein levels, jointly pointing to a substantial

Long-term survival in elderly patients with a do-not-intubate order treated with noninvasive mechanical ventilation

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Riario-Sforza GG

2011-04-01

Full Text Available Paolo Scarpazza1, Cristoforo Incorvaia2, Paolo Amboni3, Giuseppe di Franco1, Stefania Raschi1, Pierfranco Usai1, Monica Bernareggi1, Cristiano Bonacina1, Chiara Melacini1, Roberta Cattaneo1, Serena Bencini1, Chiara Pravettoni2, Gian Galeazzo Riario-Sforza2, Gianni Passalacqua4, Walter Casali11Divisione di Broncopneumotisiologia, Ospedale Civile, Vimercate, Italy; 2Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Istituti Clinici di Perfezionamento, Milan, Italy; 3Clinical Chemistry Laboratory, Ospedali Riuniti, Bergamo, Italy; 4Allergy and Respiratory Diseases, University Of Genoa, Genoa, ItalyBackground: Noninvasive mechanical ventilation (NIMV is an effective tool in treating patients with acute respiratory failure (ARF, since it reduces both the need for endotracheal intubation and the mortality in comparison with nonventilated patients. A particular issue is represented by the outcome of NIMV in patients referred to the emergency department for ARF and with a do-not-intubate (DNI status because of advanced age or excessively critical conditions. This study evaluated long-term survival in a group of elderly patients with acute hypercapnic ARF who had a DNI order and who were successfully treated by NIMV.Methods: The population consisted of 54 patients with a favorable outcome after NIMV for ARF. They were followed up for 3 years by regular control visits, with at least one visit every 4 months, or as needed according to the patient’s condition. Of these, 31 continued NIMV at home and 23 were on long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT alone.Results: A total of 16 of the 52 patients had not survived at the 1-year follow-up, and another eight patients died during the 3-year observation, with an overall mortality rate of 30.8% after 1 year and 46.2% after 3 years. Comparing patients who continued NIMV at home with those who were on LTOT alone, 9 of the 29 patients on home NIMV died (6 after 1 year and 3 after 3 years and 15 of the 23 patients on LTOT alone died (10 after 1

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Emanuele Monegato

2013-12-01

Full Text Available di Elisa Cairati, Paolo Caponi, Emanuele Monegato, Anna Pasolini   Amy Stewart, Wicked Plants, London, Timber Press, 2010, 236 pp. ISBN 978-160-469-127-6 Andrea Corrado e Igor Mariottini, Cinema e autori sulle tracce delle migrazioni, Roma, Ediesse, 2013, 155 pp. ISBN 978-882-301-625-5 Carlos Busqued, Sotto questo sole tremendo, Roma, Atmosphere libri, 2012, 141 pp. ISBN 978-88-6564-032-6 Doménico Chiappe, Tan real como la ficción (Herramientas narrativas en periodismo, Barcelona, Editorial Laertes, 2010, 197 pp. ISBN 978-84-7584-704-7 Eduardo Huarag Álvarez, La cultura oral en la narrativa hispanoamericana, Lima, Editorial San Marcos, 2011, 293 pp. ISBN 978-612-302-537-3 Eduardo L. Holmberg, Le ossa, Salerno, Edizioni Arcoiris, 2012, 114 pp. ISBN 978-88-96583-28-9 Guido Bonsaver, Mussolini censore. Storie di letteratura, dissenso e ipocrisia, Bari, Laterza, 2013, 230 pp. ISBN 9788858106624 Leila Guerriero, Frutos extraños (crónicas reunidas 2001-2008, Madrid, Alfaguara, 2009, 400 pp. ISBN 978-84-204-0371-7 Marco Di Domenico, Italiani Pericolosi, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2012, 254 pp. ISBN 978-883-392-335-2 Margo Lanagan, Tender Morsels, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2008, 464 pp. ISBN 978-0-375-84305-1 María Caballero Wangüemert, Las trampas de la emancipación. Literatura femenina y mundo hispánico, Madrid, Biblioteca Nueva/Minerva, 2012, 363 pp. ISBN 978-84-9940-529-2 Maria Cristina Paganoni, Representing the City. Linguistic Perspectives,Discursive Strategies and Multimodality in City Branding, Bergamo, Lubrina Editore, 2012, 148 pp. ISBN 978 88 7766 464 8 Michael Denning, Cover Stories. Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller, London, Routledge, 1987, 168 pp. ISBN 0-7100-9642-9; John G. Cawelti, Bruce A. Rosenberg, The Spy Story, Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 1987, 270 pp. ISBN 0-226- 09868-0 Nicoletta Vallorani, Millennium London. Of Other Spaces and the Metropolis, Milano/Udine, Mimesis, 2012

Chitosan–tripolyphosphate nanoparticles as Arrabidaea chica standardized extract carrier: synthesis, characterization, biocompatibility, and antiulcerogenic activity

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Servat-Medina L

2015-06-01

Full Text Available Leila Servat-Medina,1,2 Alvaro González-Gómez,2,3 Felisa Reyes-Ortega,2 Ilza Maria Oliveira Sousa,1 Nubia de Cássia Almeida Queiroz,1 Patricia Maria Wiziack Zago,1 Michelle Pedrosa Jorge,1 Karin Maia Monteiro,1,4 João Ernesto de Carvalho,1 Julio San Román,2,3 Mary Ann Foglio1 1Chemical, Biological and Agricultural Pluridisciplinary Research Center-State University of Campinas (CPQBA-UNICAMP, Campinas-SP, Brazil; 2Biomaterials Group, Polymer Science and Technology Institute-Spanish National Research Council (ICTP-CSIC, 3CIBER-BBN, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red, Madrid, Spain; 4Department of Medical Clinics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas, Campinas-SP, Brazil Abstract: Natural products using plants have received considerable attention because of their potential to treat various diseases. Arrabidaea chica (Humb. & Bonpl. B. Verlot is a native tropical American vine with healing properties employed in folk medicine for wound healing, inflammation, and gastrointestinal colic. Applying nanotechnology to plant extracts has revealed an advantageous strategy for herbal drugs considering the numerous features that nanostructured systems offer, including solubility, bioavailability, and pharmacological activity enhancement. The present study reports the preparation and characterization of chitosan–sodium tripolyphosphate nanoparticles (NPs charged with A. chica standardized extract (AcE. Particle size and zeta potential were measured using a Zetasizer Nano ZS. The NP morphological characteristics were observed using scanning electron microscopy. Our studies indicated that the chitosan/sodium tripolyphosphate mass ratio of 5 and volume ratio of 10 were found to be the best condition to achieve the lowest NP sizes, with an average hydrodynamic diameter of 150±13 nm and a zeta potential of +45±2 mV. Particle size decreased with AcE addition (60±10.2 nm, suggesting an interaction between the extract’s composition

Desinterés y terror. El destino nihilista de la estética occidental en el L'uomo senza contenuto.

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Paula Fleisner

2010-07-01

Full Text Available En el mismo año en que se publicaba póstumamente el así llamado “último gran tratado moderno de la disciplina estética”, la Teoría Estética de T. W. Adorno, un joven Giorgio Agamben escribía su contribución, marginal pero decisiva, a un debate muy presente en la filosofía italiana por esos días. Se trata del debate en torno a las relaciones entre el destino nihilista de la metafísica occidental, la estética y la política del que se ocupan entre otros el “pensiero debole” de Gianni Vattimo y el “pensiero negativo” de Massimo Cacciari. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo general analizar las tesis del primer libro de Agamben, L’uomo senza contenuto, en cuanto intento por comprender el proyecto estético de Occidente. Allí se afirma que el ingreso del arte en la dimensión estética con la Modernidad responde al desplazamiento de una consideración de la capacidad pro-ductiva humana (la “inquietante” téchne que permite al hombre llevar una cosa del no-ser al ser hacia una mirada centrada en el punto de vista del espectador que puede apreciar “desinteresadamente” la belleza. Pero este proceso, lejos de ser natural, evidencia una crisis del “hacer” humano en general. Si con Aristóteles podía distinguirse entre póiesis (un hacer aparecer o un traer a la presencia como forma de un saber y praxis (un realizar producto de la voluntad, entendida como apetito, como forma de un actuar, en la Modernidad asistimos al solapamiento de la esfera poiética por la de la praxis y a una progresiva reducción de toda actividad productiva al trabajo que, por reducir al hombre a su desnuda vida biológica, es la dimensión más baja de la vida activa. Teniendo en cuenta este diagnóstico agambeniano, me propongo pensar aquí el lugar central que tendría la estética como disciplina filosófica privilegiada para preguntar por las posibilidades actuales de una nueva póiesis y con ella de una “vita nova” para el hombre.

Toxic elements as biomarkers for breast cancer: a meta-analysis study

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Full Text Available Leila Jouybari,1 Marzieh Saei Ghare Naz,2 Akram Sanagoo,1 Faezeh Kiani,3 Fatemeh Sayehmiri,4 Kourosh Sayehmiri,5 Ali Hasanpour Dehkordi6 1Nursing Research Center, Goletsan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran; 2Student Research Committee, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; 3Student Research Committee, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran; 4Proteomics Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; 5Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran; 6Department of Medical Surgical, Nursing and Midwifery, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran Aims and background: Breast cancer (BC is responsible for a large proportion of incidence of cancer in the world. Identifying the risk factors contributing to the incidence of BC is crucial to find efficient preventive and management strategies for this disease. Several studies have examined Arsenic (As, Cadmium (Cd, and Nickel (Ni as risk factors for BC. The present study aimed at studying the link between As, Cd, and Ni concentrations and BC by using a meta-analysis.Materials and methods: All case–control studies addressing the relationship between As, Cd, and Ni concentrations with BC were identified through electronic search databases (­Scopus, ISI Web of Science, PubMed, EmBase, and Cochrane Library. The relevant data obtained from these papers were analyzed by a random-effects model. The heterogeneity of studies was secured by using I2 index. Funnel plots and Egger’s test were used to examine publication bias.Results: In the present study, due to different measurement methods used for measuring As, Cd, and Ni, the concentration of these elements was measured in various subgroups (1: plasma, 2: breast tissue, and 3: scalp hair and nail of individuals with BC and healthy subjects. The overall integration of data from the 3

Efficacy and safety evaluation of pentoxifylline associated with other antioxidants in medical treatment of Peyronie's disease: a case-control study

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Paulis G

2015-12-01

Full Text Available Gianni Paulis,1,2 Davide Barletta,3 Paolo Turchi,4 Antonio Vitarelli,5 Giuseppe Dachille,6 Andrea Fabiani,7 Romano Gennaro8 1Regina Apostolorum Hospital, Andrology Center, Albano L, 2Castelfidardo Medical Team, Peyronie's Disease Care Center, Rome, 3Department of Urology, Andrology Center, San Matteo Hospital, Pavia, 4Azienda ASL 4 Prato – Andrology Service, Prato, 5Department of Urology, University of Bari, 6Department of Urology, S Giacomo Hospital, Monopoli, Bari, 7Department of Surgery, Section of Urology and Andrology, Macerata, 8Department of Urologic Oncology, Section of Avellino, Italian League Against Cancer, Avellino, Italy Abstract: Peyronie's disease (PD is a chronic disorder involving the tunica albuginea surrounding the corpora cavernosa of the penis. A conservative treatment is indicated in the first stage of disease. The aim of this study was to assess the therapeutic impact and possible side effects of treatment with pentoxifylline (PTX in combination with other antioxidants in 307 patients with early-stage PD. Patients were subdivided into three groups: A, B, and C. Both groups, A and B, comprising of 206 patients, underwent treatment, whereas Group C was the control group (n=101. Treatment lasted 6 months and included the following: Group A: PTX 400 mg twice a day + propolis 600 mg/d + blueberry 160 mg/d + vitamin E 600 mg/d + diclofenac 4% gel twice/a day + PTX 100 mg via perilesional penile injection/every other week (12 injections in all; Group B: the same treatment as Group A except for the penile PTX injections. After the 6-month treatment course, we obtained the following results: actual mean decrease in plaque volume -46.9% and -24.8% in Group A and B, respectively (P<0.0001; mean curvature reduction -10.1° and -4.8°, respectively (P<0.0001; resolution of pain in 67.6% and 67.2% of cases, respectively (P=0.961; recovery of normal penile rigidity in 56.09% and 23.5% of cases, respectively (P=0.005. After 6 months

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-March onwards include Guildford, Brighton, Gosport, Leeds, Loughborough, Oakham, Wolverhampton, Framlingham (Suffolk), Hatfield and London. Further details from Catherine Wilson (catherine.wilson@iop.org ). Courses and conferences Physics Update courses will be held in four locations this year. Details of the Malvern course (1 - 3 April) have already been circulated to schools and colleges. Details of the York course (8 - 10 July) will be circulated early next term. An Update course for teachers in Scotland will be held at Stirling University on 9 - 10 June and the final Update of the year will be held at Oxford University on 8 - 10 December. Further details are available from Leila Solomon (leila.solomon@iop.org ). Entitled `Hands on, minds on: raising standards by sharing good practice', the Education Group's Annual Conference 2000 will be held at the University of Durham on 7 - 8 July. Further details can be obtained from Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani (jasmina.bolfek-radovani@iop.org ) in the Institute's Conference Department. Other dates: * Schools Physics Group annual one-day meeting, 8 June 2000, Rugby School. * Scottish Branch one-day meeting for physics teachers, 8 June 2000, Stirling University. Posters A set of four full-colour A2 posters has recently been produced, with another set of four in preparation. The aim is to get across the message `Physics at the heart of everything' by means of eye-catching images - and to brighten up school and college labs and corridors in the process. Further explanations of the physics depicted are printed on the back of the posters. Sets of the first four posters are being circulated to all schools but additional copies will be available on request from schools.education@iop.org . And finally ... The Institute's Schools and Colleges Affiliation Scheme is to be relaunched later this year, as a free scheme for all schools and colleges which will provide low-cost items on a regular basis. There will also be a second, subscription tier giving

Dietary protein intake in sarcopenic obese older women

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2016-02-01

Full Text Available Espedita Muscariello,1 Gilda Nasti,1 Mario Siervo,2 Martina Di Maro,1 Dominga Lapi,1 Gianni D’Addio,3 Antonio Colantuoni1 1Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy; 2Human Nutrition Research Centre, Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; 3IRCCS Salvatore Maugeri Foundation, Telese, Italy Objective: To determine the prevalence of sarcopenia in a population of obese older women and to assess the effect of a diet moderately rich in proteins on lean mass in sarcopenic obese older women.  Materials and methods: A total of 1,030 females, >65 years old, body mass index >30 kg/m2, were investigated about their nutritional status. Muscle mass (MM was estimated according to the Janssen equation (MM =0.401× height2/resistance measured at 50 kHz +3.825× sex -0.071× age +5.102. Sarcopenia was defined according to the MM index, MM/height2 (kg/m2, as two standard deviations lower than the obesity-derived cutoff score (7.3 kg/m2. A food-frequency questionnaire was used to measure participants’ usual food intake during the previous 3 months. Moreover, a group of sarcopenic obese older women (n=104 was divided in two subgroups: the first (normal protein intake [NPI], n=50 administered with a hypocaloric diet (0.8 g/kg desirable body weight/day of proteins, and the second treated with a hypocaloric diet containing 1.2 g/kg desirable body weight/day of proteins (high protein intake [HPI], n=54, for 3 months. Dietary ingestion was estimated according to a daily food diary, self-administered, and three reports of nonconsecutive 24-hour recall every month during the follow-up.  Results: The 104 women were classified as sarcopenic. After dieting, significant reductions in body mass index were detected (NPI 30.7±1.3 vs 32.0±2.3 kg/m2, HPI 30.26±0.90 vs 31.05±2.90 kg/m2; P<0.01 vs baseline. The MM index presented significant variations in the NPI as well as in the

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2009-11-01

Full Text Available Anguita, Julio, Corazón rojo. La vida después de un infarto. Madrid, La esfera de los libros, 2005, 251 pp.Páginas 169-171Diego Iturriaga BarcoAttinà, Fulvio; Rossi, Rosa (ed., European Neighbourhood Policy: Political, Economic and Social Issues. Catania, The Jean Monnet Centre "Euro-Med", 166 pp.Páginas 171-172Alejandro Román AntequeraCastells, Manuel; Serra, Narcís (eds., Guerra y Paz en el Siglo XXI. Una Perspectiva Europea. Barcelona, Tusquets Editores, 2003, 208 pp.Páginas 172-175Jesús Fernández GarcíaChomsky, Noam, Hegemonía o Supervivencia. La estrategia imperialista de Estados Unidos. Barcelona, Ediciones B, 2004, 401 pp.Páginas 175-177Jesús Fernández GarcíaClarke, Richard C., Contra todos los enemigos. Madrid, Taurus, 2004, 381 pp.Páginas 177-179Inmaculada Ramírez PérezDunn, Ross E., The New World History: A Teacher's Companion. New York, Bedford/St. Martins, 2000, 596 pp.Páginas 179-183Andre Gunder FrankFausto, Boris; Devoto, Fernando J., Brasil e Argentina: Um ensaio de história comparada (1850-2002. São Paulo, Editora 34, 2004, 574 pp.Páginas 183-184Paulo Roberto de AlmeidaFûret, François, El pasado de una ilusión. Ensayo sobre la idea comunista en el siglo XX. Madrid, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1995, 583 pp.Páginas 184-185Alfonso Galindo LucasGill, Stephen; Mittelman, James, Innovation and transformation in International Studies. Cambridge & New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997, 294 pp.Páginas 185-189Andre Gunder FrankMussolini, Romano, Il duce mio padre. Milano, Rizzoli, 2004, 170 pp.Páginas 189-195Jan NelisNavajas Zubeldia, Carlos (ed., Actas del IV Simposio de Historia Actual. 2 Vols., Logroño, 2004, 1.090 pp.Páginas 195-197Alejandro Román AntequeraRichardson, Philip, Economic Change in China, c.1800-1950. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999, 137 pp.Páginas 197-198Andre Gunder FrankSartori, Giovanni; Mazzoleni, Gianni, La tierra explota. Superpoblación y desarrollo. Madrid, Taurus

Enhancement of the thermostability of Hydrogenobacter thermophilus cytochrome c(552) through introduction of an extra methylene group into its hydrophobic protein interior.

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Tai, Hulin; Irie, Kiyofumi; Mikami, Shin-ichi; Yamamoto, Yasuhiko

2011-04-19

Careful scrutiny of the protein interior of Hydrogenobacter thermophilus cytochrome c(552) (HT) on the basis of its X-ray structure [Travaglini-Allocatelli, C., Gianni, S., Dubey, V. K., Borgia, A., Di Matteo, A., Bonivento, D., Cutruzzola, F., Bren, K. L., and Brunori, M. (2005) J. Biol. Chem. 280, 25729-25734] indicated that a void space, which is large enough to accommodate a methyl group, exists in the hydrophobic protein interior near the heme. We tried to reduce the void space through the replacement of a Val by Ile or Leu (Val/Ile or Val/Leu mutation), and then the structural and functional consequences of these two mutations were characterized in order to elucidate the relationship between the nature of the packing of hydrophobic residues and the functional properties of the protein. The study demonstrated striking differences in the structural and functional consequences between the two mutations. The Val/Ile mutation was found to cause further enhancement of the thermostability of the oxidized HT, as reflected in the increase of the denaturation temperature (T(m)) value by ∼ 3 deg, whereas the thermostability of the reduced form was essentially unaffected. As a result, the redox potential (E(m)) of the Val/Ile mutant exhibited a negative shift of ∼ 50 mV relative to that of the wild-type protein in an enthalpic manner, this being consistent with our previous finding that a protein with higher stability in its oxidized form exhibits a lower E(m) value [Terui, N., Tachiiri, N., Matsuo, H., Hasegawa, J., Uchiyama, S., Kobayashi, Y., Igarashi, Y., Sambongi, Y., and Yamamoto, Y. (2003) J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125, 13650-13651]. In contrast, the Val/Leu mutation led to a decrease in thermostability of both the redox forms of the protein, as reflected in the decreases of the T(m) values of the oxidized and reduced proteins by ∼ 3 and ∼ 5 deg, respectively, and the E(m) value of the Val/Leu mutant happened to be similar to that of the Val/Ile one. The E

An innovative intervention for the treatment of cognitive impairment–Emisymmetric bilateral stimulation improves cognitive functions in Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment: an open-label study

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Full Text Available Fabio Guerriero,1–3 Emanuele Botarelli,3 Gianni Mele,3 Lorenzo Polo,3 Daniele Zoncu,3 Paolo Renati,3,4 Carmelo Sgarlata,1 Marco Rollone,2 Giovanni Ricevuti,1,2 Niccolo Maurizi,1 Matthew Francis,1 Mariangela Rondanelli,5 Simone Perna,5 Davide Guido,2,6 Piero Mannu3 1Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Therapy, Section of Geriatrics, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy; 2Agency for Elderly People Services, Santa Margherita Hospital, Pavia, Italy; 3Ambra Elektron, Italian Association of Biophysics for the Study of Electromagnetic Fields in Medicine, 4Alberto Sorti Research Institute, Medicine and Metamolecular Biology, Turin, Italy; 5Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine, Section of Human Nutrition, Endocrinology and Nutrition Unit, 6Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine, Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Unit, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy Background and aims: In the last decade, the development of different methods of brain stimulation by electromagnetic fields (EMF provides a promising therapeutic tool for subjects with impaired cognitive functions. Emisymmetric bilateral stimulation (EBS is a novel and innovative EMF brain stimulation, whose working principle is to introduce very weak noise-like stimuli through EMF to trigger self-arrangements in the cortex of treated subjects, thereby improving cognitive faculties. The aim of this pilot study was to investigate in patients with cognitive impairment the effectiveness of EBS treatment with respect to global cognitive function, episodic memory, and executive functions. Methods: Fourteen patients with cognitive decline (six with mild cognitive impairment and eight with Alzheimer’s disease underwent three EBS applications per week to both the cerebral cortex and auricular-specific sites for a total of 5 weeks. At baseline, after 2 weeks and 5 weeks, a neuropsychological assessment was performed through mini–mental state

Short-Communication: Revisiting conclusions of the report titled, "The impact of psychological factors on self-reported sleep disturbance among people living in the vicinity of wind turbines," by Leila Jalali, Mohammad-Reza Nezhad-Ahmadi, Mahmood Gohari, Philip Bigelow, & Stephen McColl, published in environmental research, volume 148, July 2016, 401-410.

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The research report concluded, "It appears that self-reported sleep reported of participants may be associated to the indirect effects of visual and attitudinal cue and concern about property devaluation rather than distance to the nearest WT's or noise as itself." Careful reading of the report shows that the conclusions presented are not supported by the data provided in the report. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

A Social Media-Based Acute Alcohol Consumption Behavior (NekNomination): Case Series in Italian Emergency Departments.

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Barbieri, Stefania; Feltracco, Paolo; Lucchetta, Vittorio; Gaudio, Rosa Maria; Tredese, Alberto; Bergamini, Mauro; Vettore, Gianna; Pietrantonio, Vincenzo; Avato, Francesco Maria; Donato, Daniele; Boemo, Deris Gianni; Nesoti, Maria Vittoria; Snenghi, Rossella

2018-01-31

1.6% (7/450) of cases; binge drinking and other alcoholic games caused 23.3% (105/450) and 23.8% (107/450) of hospitalizations, respectively. On admission, 44.2% (199/450) of patients were assigned a red or yellow color code requiring immediate medical attention; about 14% of them required additional medical assistance (after being in the ED) or hospitalization, some in semi-intensive care units. Our study shows that the increased numbers of hospitalizations due to alcohol intoxication in the adolescent age group, as a consequence of NekNominate or other drinking games, is alarming and represents a serious public health issue. The potential markers of improper use of social networks must be clearly identified, including categories at risk of alcohol abuse, in order to develop intervention and prevention strategies in terms of education and awareness, which may help in averting potentially fatal episodes. ©Stefania Barbieri, Paolo Feltracco, Vittorio Lucchetta, Rosa Maria Gaudio, Alberto Tredese, Mauro Bergamini, Gianna Vettore, Vincenzo Pietrantonio, Francesco Maria Avato, Daniele Donato, Deris Gianni Boemo, Maria Vittoria Nesoti, Rossella Snenghi. Originally published in the Interactive Journal of Medical Research (http://www.i-jmr.org/), 31.01.2018.

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Full Text Available Work Team 2016 (Jan-Jul1. Editorial TeamChief-editorsBayardo Bapstista Torres, Instituto de Química (USP, BrasilEduardo Galembeck, Depto. Bioquímica, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade de Campinas (Unicamp, Brasil Co-editorsGabriel Gerber Hornink, Depto. Bioquímica, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade - Federal de Alfenas (Unifal-MG, BrasilVera Maria Treis Trindade, Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Ciências Básicas da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, Brasil Editorial BoardAdriana Cassina, Department of Biochemistry, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, UruguayAngel Herráez, Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología molecular, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, SpainAndré Amaral Gonçalves Bianco, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp, BrasilDenise Vaz de Macedo, Depto. Bioquímica, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp, BrasilEneida de Paula, Depto. Bioquímica, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp, BrasilJose Antonio Martinez Oyanedel, Universidad de Concepción, ChileJosep Maria Fernández Novell, Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, Universitat de Barcelona, SpainLeila Maria Beltramini, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade Estadual de São Paulo (USP, BrasilManuel João da Costa, Escola de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade do Minho, PortugalMaria Lucia Bianconi, Instituto de Bioquímica Médica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, BrasilMaría Noel Alvarez, Department of Biochemistry, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, UruguayMiguel Ángel Medina Torres, Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Faculty of Sciences University of Málaga, SpainNelma Regina Segnini Bossolan, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo (USP, BrasilPaulo De Avila Junior, Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas (CCNH Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC

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Daniervelin Renata Marques Pereira

2012-12-01

��Sites de Editoras de livros didáticos pela perspectiva do professor”, Laura Márcia Luiza Ferreira relata o como os sites de editoras de livros didáticos ajudam no trabalho do professor em sala de aula. Julianna Silva Glória, em “A alfabetização e sua relação com o uso do computador: o suporte digital como mais um instrumento de alfabetização na escola”, demonstra novos aspectos agregados às tarefas escolares pelo suporte digital. Em “A formação do professor para o uso das TICS em sala de aula: uma discussão a partir do projeto piloto UCA no Acre”, de Darlan Machado Dorneles, o Projeto Um computador por aluno é discutido tendo em vista o uso de tecnologias para formação dos professores. “Explorando a autoria de hipertexto por meio de um processo e de uma ferramenta para a retextualização digital”, de autoria de Antônio Robson de Paula e Ivan L. M. Ricarte, apresenta uma revisão de pesquisas sobre a produção de hipertextos a partir de textos lineares. Por fim, Izabel Cristina Diniz e Leila Aparecida Anastácio dedicam o texto “Natureza do hipertexto no jornalismo digital em dois suplementos para o público infantil” à abordagem dos hipertextos em jornais online para verificar a adequação das práticas ao público-alvo e ao contexto. Incentivamos a leitura de todas essas referências na relação entre linguagem e tecnologia, acreditando que se constituem elas importantes tendências nas pesquisas acadêmicas.   Daniervelin Renata Marques Pereira Comissão Editorial Executiva da Revista Texto Livre

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teachers in Iceland and on Friday to teachers in Ireland. Fred and Frances from Southgate College showed great team spirit in the world's most chaotic quiz, then sang in harmony with Dave from Barnsley and Yoji from Japan amongst others. Kirsten from across the Atlantic shared her research on children and museums on Friday and later I discovered how much I didn't know about global warming from a chemist and a set of unreadable graphs in a computer lab. What a pleasure to see Tom and Seamus from Ireland again. The day closed with a barn dance fling where I managed to boogie on down with some teachers from Turkey. A final 'strip the willow' with Pete and Allison finished me off. Saturday started with breakfast with Ken from Greenwich offering me some part-time work. The exhibitions called and amongst others I hugged Sue from Cardiff, Barry and Leila from London, Pauline from Scotland and an unknown but very friendly lady from Holland. I met a lady from Scotland who lived in Iceland but who taught in Norway and of course Catherine was everywhere. I had tea with Jean from Edinburgh, Janet from London, Gordon from Aberdeen. I laughed with Mick from Sheffield and the same friendly lady from Holland. I ate posh food with Susie from Ayr and applauded big names from America and Australia. I shared a lump in my throat for John and for Wynne and nodded and smiled at countless people whose names I had forgotten but our paths had crossed sometime in the past. There are more than 20 000 members in the ASE and countless thousands of science teachers across the globe. The world is indeed expansive but for three days in Guildford it seemed that the very best speakers and the very cheeriest folk had magically converged on one place. If ever there were confirmation that science and science teaching were alive and well it was there and it was then. If you were there you will know exactly what I mean. If you weren't there then don't miss it next January in Liverpool.www.ase.org.uk

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Gabriel Gerber Hornink

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ções:- The Critical Importance of Science Education for Society, por Bruce Albert (University of California - San Francisco, USA;- The Relevance of Neuroscience in Evaluation of Students in Classroom, por Diogo Onofre de Souza (UFRGS, Brasil;- Replacing Prctical Classes with Experimental Projects, por Paulo S.L. Beirão (UFMG, Brazil. O segundo simpósio (PABMB: Teaching biochemistry in a connected world ocorreu no dia 26 de agosto (15:30-17:30, mediada pelo professor Dr. Miguel Castanho (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, com a apresentação de quatro simposiastas:- Hands-on inquiry-based biochemistry courses for improving scientific literacy of school teachers and students, por Andrea T. Da Poian (UFRJ, Brasil;- Keeping 3D resources in the web to learn on protein structure, por Raual Herrera (Universidad de Talca, Chile; - How Apps-Embedded Assessment can contribute to learning outcomes mapping, por Eduardo Galembeck (Unicamp, Brasil;- Using "raw" online data derived from global gene expression experiments for posgraduate teaching activities, por Jose Sotelo (Montevideo, Uruguay. Agradecemos aos membros do corpo editorial e aos colaboradores que estiveram presentes no estande da revista, auxiliando nesse importante processo de valorização do ensino: Aos professores Gabriel Gerber Hornink (Unifal-MG, Eduardo Galembeck (Unicamp, Vera Treis Trindade (UFRGS, Leila Maria Beltramini (UFSCar, Wagner Seixas da Silva (UFRJ, Raul Herrera Faúndez (Universidade de Talca-CH, André Amaral Gonçalves Bianco (Unifesp, Adriana Cassina (Universidade de la República-UR; María Noel Alvarez (Universidade de la República-UR. Aos estudantes Frederico José Moreira Baêta (Unifal-MG, Thanuci Silva (Unicamp, Mayara Lustosa de Oliveira (Unicamp, Caeteno Costa (Unicamp, Caroline Dutra Lacerda (UFRJ.AtenciosamenteGabriel G. HorninkUnifal-MGVera Maria T. TrindadeUFRGSBayardo B. TorresUSPEduardo GalembeckUnicamp

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Full Text Available 1. Equipe editorialEditor-ChefeBayardo Bapstista Torres, Instituto de Química - USP, BrasilEduardo Galembeck, Departamento de Bioquímica Instituto de Biologia UNICAMP, BrasilCo-editoresGabriel Gerber Hornink, Depto. Bioquímica, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade - Federal de Alfenas - Unifal-MG, BrasilVera Maria Treis Trindade, Instituto de Ciências Básicas da Saúde, Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, BrasilCorpo EditorialAdriana Cassina, Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, UruguaiAngel Herráez, Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología molecular, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, EspanhaAndré Amaral Gonçalves Bianco, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp, BrasilDenise Vaz de Macedo, Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Unicamp, BrasilEneida de Paula, Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Unicamp, BrasilGuilherme Andrade Marson, Instituto de Química - USP, BrasilJose Antonio Martinez Oyanedel, Universidad de Concepción, ChileJosep Maria Fernández Novell, Dept. Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular Universitat de Barcelona, EspanhaLeila Maria Beltramini, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade Estadual de São Paulo - USP, BrasilManuel João da Costa, Escola de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade do Minho, PortugalMaria Lucia Bianconi, Instituto de Bioquímica Médica Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, BrasilMaría Noel Alvarez, Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, UruguaiMiguel Ángel Medina Torres, Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Faculty of Sciences University of Málaga, EspanhaNelma Regina Segnini Bossolan, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo - USP, BrasilPaulo De Avila Junior, Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas (CCNH

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, Barcelona, Anagrama, 2012, 434 pp. ISBN 978-84-339-2597-8 José “Cheche” Campos Dávila, Ajum decía mi abuela , Lima, Editorial San Marcos, 2011, 199 pp. ISBN 978-612-302-676-9 Joseph Gelfer (ed., 2012 Decoding the Countercultural Apocalypse, Oakville and Sheffield, Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2011, 203 pp ISBN 978-1-84553-639-8 Juan Pablo Sutherland, Cielo dandi. Escrituras y poéticas de estilo en América latina, Buenos Aires, Eterna Cadencia, 2011, 284 pp. ISBN 978-987-1673-46-9 Luigi Cimmino, Daniele Dottorini, Giorgio Pangaro, Dal cuore di tenebra all'Apocalisse. Francis Ford Coppola legge Joseph Conrad, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino Editore, 2011, 205 pp. ISBN 978-884-982-907-5 Mariacristina Cavecchi, Cerchi e cicli: sulle forme della memoria in Ulisse, Piccola Biblioteca Joyciana, Roma, Bulzoni, 2012, 96 pp. ISBN 978-88-7870-723-8 Mauro Giori (ed., Poetica e prassi della trasgressione in Luchino Visconti. 1935-1962 , Milano, Lampi di stampa, 2011, 346 pp. ISBN 978-88-488-1277-1 Michela Bassanelli e Gennaro Postiglione (eds., The Atlantikwall As Military Archeological Landscape / L’Atlantikwall come paesaggio di archeologia militare , Siracusa, LetteraVentidue, 2011, 207 pp. ISBN 978-88-6242-041-9 Neil Campbell e Alasdair Kean (eds., American Cultural Studies. An Introduction to American Culture , London, Routledge, 2011, 376 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-59871-2 Silvia Antosa (ed., Queer Crossings. Theories, Bodies, Texts , Milano Mimesis, 2012, 195 pp. ISBN 978-885-750-939-6 Silvia Antosa, Crossing Boundaries: Bodily Paradigms in Jeanette Winterson's Fiction . 1985-2000 , Roma, Aracne, 2008, 224 pp. ISBN 978-885-481-682-4 Silvia Gianni, Tendenze della critica letteraria e narrativa centroamericana degli ultimi anni , Roma, Aracne editrice, 2011, 361 pp. ISBN 978-88-548-4027-0 Silvia Ross, Tuscan Spaces. Literary Contstructions of Place, Toronto/Buffalo/London, University of Toronto Press, 2010, 224 pp. ISBN 978-1-4426-3998-0 Valentina Agostinis, Londra chiama. Otto

Obituary: Daniel E. Harris (1934 - 2015)

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defund the war. He was also an active member of the organization that published the Astronomers and the Arms Race Newsletter. As a concerned scientist, Dan advocated against the star wars agenda and the militarization of space during the eighties. Dan was an active member of the AAS and frequent participant at meetings. The last meeting he attended was the 2015 Seattle one where he presented a talk and chaired a session. His presence at the 2015 meeting is a testament of his unwavering energy. Dan is survived by his wife Barbara, three children: Justine, Seth, and Leila, and four grandchildren.

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2000-07-01

Ireland. Its pages are brimming with useful information to help sixth-formers and college students who wish to study physics make the very important decision regarding their particular choice of course and university. Under the heading `Summary tables of physics courses' every university listed in the publication has a table which includes all the courses on offer, their entrance requirements, duration and the awards given. Another section of the book entitled `Departmental information' includes data on the teaching and assessment styles of the Physics Department, special facilities plus a contact name and address. These sections, together with an expanded set of case studies of recent students and various other interesting articles, make this publication a must for anyone who is considering studying physics at university. Copies of Physics on Course 2001 will be available from Leila Solomon, Education Department, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, W1N 3DH. The Particle Physics Wallchart (PCET) This full-colour chart, with a set of Teachers Notes, was published recently. It has been developed by PCET with Professor Peter Kalmus acting as expert consultant. The cost of the chart and notes is £7.75 plus VAT and copies can be purchased from PCET, 27 Kirchen Road, London W13 0UD (fax: 020 8566 5120). Inspire II The second part of Inspire was published in the Spring. It is a highly visual, full-colour leaflet which can be used as a stand-alone item but which was designed to `nest' inside the first four-page spread which was distributed in February. The occupational areas for physicists covered in the second leaflet include the media/leisure, finance and engineering (at technician level) industries. The third of the intended four sheets will be published later this year. (Copies of Inspire II have been included in the Affiliated schools/colleges package; other schools/colleges will be sent copies on request.) Nanotechnology - a technical brief The Industrial

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Márcio Matias

2012-12-01

-SC - instituições que apoiaram com recursos financeiros, humanos e de infraestrutura; e a todos os profissionais, professores e estudantes que contribuíram para a realização do evento. A Comissão organizadora do evento foi composta pelos seguintes professores do Departamento de Ciência de Informação da UFSC: Dr. Moisés Lima Dutra - presidente, Dra. Miriam Figueiredo Vieira da Cunha, Dra. Gleisy Regina Bóries Fachin, Dra. Lígia Café, Dr. Márcio Matias, Me. Luciane Paula Vital, Me. Sonali Paula Molin Bedin, Me. Graziela Martins de Medeiros; e Dr. Gregório Varvakis Rados do Departamento de Engenharia do Conhecimento da UFSC. O Comitê Científico do 3º SBCC foi composto por: Dr. Hélio Kuramoto (IBICT, Dra. Edna Lúcia da Silva (UFSC, Dra. Graça Targino (UESPI / UFPB, Dra. Ida Stumpf (UFRGS, Dr. Fábio Mascarenhas (UFPE, Dra. Sely Costa (UnB, Dra. Sueli Ferreira (USP, Dr. Márcio Matias (UFSC, presidente. O evento foi realizado por: UFSC, Departamento de Ciência da Informação; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Informação; Encontros Bibli: Revista Eletrônica de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES. O evento contou com o apoio de: SENAC-SC, por intermédio de Elisabete Werlang; Departamento de Engenharia do Conhecimento (EGC/UFSC; Ivan Coelho Eventos. A Comissão Organizadora contou com suporte de funcionários técnico-administrativos, bolsistas, alunos de graduação e de mestrado ligados ao Departamento CIN, PGCIN e Revista Encontros Bibli: Sabrina Fonseca de Conto, Renata Cardozo Padilha, Leila Cristina Weiss, Lidiana Sagaz Silva, Aline Borges de Oliveira, Rodrigo Freitas da Silveira e Rafaela Paula Schmitz. Em sua edição de 2012, o SBCC confirmou sua função de atuar como um fórum para reunir especialistas, promover discussões e o compartilhamento de informações associadas à área de comunicação científica.

Dossiê - 3º Simpósio Brasileiro de Comunicação Científica – SBCC, 2012.

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Moisés Lima Dutra Correio

2012-01-01

financeiros, humanos e de infraestrutura; e a todos os profissionais, professores e estudantes que contribuíram para a realização do evento. A Comissão organizadora do evento foi composta pelos seguintes professores do Departamento de Ciência de Informação da UFSC: Dr. Moisés Lima Dutra - presidente, Dra. Miriam Figueiredo Vieira da Cunha, Dra. Gleisy Regina Bóries Fachin, Dra. Lígia Café, Dr. Márcio Matias, Me. Luciane Paula Vital, Me. Sonali Paula Molin Bedin, Me. Graziela Martins de Medeiros; e Dr. Gregório Varvakis Rados do Departamento de Engenharia do Conhecimento da UFSC. O Comitê Científico do 3º SBCC foi composto por: Dr. Hélio Kuramoto (IBICT, Dra. Edna Lúcia da Silva (UFSC, Dra. Graça Targino (UESPI / UFPB, Dra. Ida Stumpf (UFRGS, Dr. Fábio Mascarenhas (UFPE, Dra. Sely Costa (UnB, Dra. Sueli Ferreira (USP, Dr. Márcio Matias (UFSC, presidente. O evento foi realizado por: UFSC, Departamento de Ciência da Informação; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Informação; Encontros Bibli: Revista Eletrônica de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES. O evento contou com o apoio de: SENAC-SC, por intermédio de Elisabete Werlang; Departamento de Engenharia do Conhecimento (EGC/UFSC; Ivan Coelho Eventos. A Comissão Organizadora contou com suporte de funcionários técnico-administrativos, bolsistas, alunos de graduação e de mestrado ligados ao Departamento CIN, PGCIN e Revista Encontros Bibli: Sabrina Fonseca de Conto, Renata Cardozo Padilha, Leila Cristina Weiss, Lidiana Sagaz Silva, Aline Borges de Oliveira, Rodrigo Freitas da Silveira e Rafaela Paula Schmitz. Em sua edição de 2012, o SBCC confirmou sua função de atuar como um fórum para reunir especialistas, promover discussões e o compartilhamento de informações associadas à área de comunicação científica.

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Rede Conpadre

2015-06-01

êco Filho reflete sobre o rio Grajaú, sua navegação e importância para a circulação de pessoas e mercadorias no Maranhão a partir de fragmentos de memória dos vareiros.  Lembra que esses trabalhadores do rio, além de empurrarem embarcações com varas, cheias de mercadorias, ora a favor ora contra a correnteza do rio, compartilharam experiências em dois ambientes muito distintos: o litoral e o sertão. Leandro Mendes Rocha e Maria de Fátima Oliveira procuram compreender as transformações que vêm se processando na região de Imperatriz [MA] e Porto Nacional [TO], que faz parte da bacia do rio Tocantins analisando o contexto histórico no qual ela está inserida. Leila Mourão Miranda em “Cidades, Águas e Ilhas no Estuário Amazônico” busca recuperar memórias e histórias dos processos de interação entre sociedades, águas e insularidades das cidades estuarinas amazônicas, com foco especial na Região Metropolitana de Belém [PA]. Marcelo Silva de Souza Ribeiro em “Infâncias do Semiárido lançando olhares” traz discussões, a partir de um panorama cultural, sócio-histórico e ambiental do lugar/tempo chamado, hoje, de Semiárido nordestino brasileiro. Jadson Luís Rebelo Porto e Ivo Marcos Theis em “Circuitos da Economia na fronteira amapaense: um híbrido de subsistemas para a sua reorganização espacial” discutem a formatação do circuito econômico da fronteira Amapá — Guiana Francesa a partir das recentes ações econômicas ali estabelecidas, proporcionando novos usos da fronteira e do seu território. Questões eminentemente transdisciplinares compõem um quadro complexo envolvendo múltiplas escalas de diferentes áreas do conhecimento, proporcionando uma inteligente e necessária integração do conhecimento em áreas afins como Engenharia, Geografia e Urbanismo por uma imprescindível História Ambiental. Esperamos tenham todos uma excelente leitura.   Gercinair Silvério Gandara & Laurent Vidal Universidade Estadual de Goi

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Irene Machado

2008-11-01

, tomando alguns trabalho de Alfredo Volpi para análise. Finalmente, Leila Darin examina o potencial babélico de alguns programas de softwares usados para tradução entre lí­nguas, refazendo, assim, as interligações entre as linguagens e as lí­nguas. Na sessão Entrevista, Galáxia conseguiu recuper uma das últimas conversas do professor e poeta Philadelpho Menezes num programa de televisão onde discutiu temas de sua paixão teórica: a cultura em tempo de globalização e a conseqüente inserção da poesia produzida no encontro com as tecnologias da comunicação contemporânea. Para complementar a entrevista, e também para homenagear Menezes, a sessão abriu um espaço para uma rápida apreciação do trabalho sobre a poesia sonora e para um levantamento de sua produção crí­tico-criativa, nacional e internacional, realizado pelo também poeta e seu ex-aluno Jorge Luiz Antonio. A poesia continua tendo seu espaço reservado nessa edição de Galáxia. Na sessão Diálogo, J. L. Antonio colheu segmentos de uma longa conversa do e-group Webartery sobre poesia digital. O tema que move esse debate é nada mais do que o código da poesia criada em ambiente digital ou de rede. Com isso, o mecanismo semiótico fundamental da linguagem é aqui submetido a interpretações conflitantes. Afinal, em última análise, é o fazer poético segundo as interferências no código é que está em jogo. Quem quiser um exemplo claro do que motiva essa discussão, basta olhar com merecida atenção a capa deste segundo número de Galáxia: a foto de um deserto que Gilbertto Prado produziu em ambiente digital. Ao fazê-lo, o artista interferiu no código para obrigá-lo a servir a seus propósitos. Essa é uma importante contribuição para a compreensão de como as tecnologias emergentes são dotadas de diferentes potencialidades de linguagem. Duas novas sessões, previstas no projeto editorial mas não incluí­das no primeiro número de Galáxia, surgem agora. As sessões Not

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Ugur Demiray

2009-10-01

Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan, MALAYSIA. The purpose of the study is to report findings from an on-going research using Computer-supported Collaborative learning in an ESL classroom in Malaysia. Collaboration is the act of working together to produce a piece of work. Collaborative learning deals with instructional methods that seek to promote learning through collaborative efforts among students working on a given task. At the end of the collaborative activities they were expected to complete written projects. The students were interviewed on their perceptions on this innovative way of learning. The findings indicate that the students have responded positively towards computer supported collaborative learning. “Studying the Attitudes of Agricultural Faculty Members towards Distance Education”, send by Leila SAFA and Seyed Mahmood HOSSEINI, University of Tehran, Tehran, IRAN. In their paper was descriptive survey research which is undertaken to study the attitudes of agricultural faculty members towards distance education. The statistical population of the study consisted of all the faculty members of agricultural colleges of Shiraz and Ferdowsi Mashhad universities. The results revealed that more than half of the agricultural faculty members had moderate familiarity with distance education. Also, the results indicated that agricultural faculty members had a positive attitude towards distance education. Finally, agricultural faculty members ranked time as the primary barrier to using instructional technology in distance education. The eight article is again came from Pakistan AIOU. Titled article is on A Theoretical Framework For Quality Indicators In Elearning, written by Ciprian CEOBANU, Prof. Roxana CRIUFaculty of Psychology and Education SciencesAnd Laura SANDULUI Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Al.I.Cuza University, ROMANIA. Their paper focuses on the strong potential that ICT provides, in order to develop the learning possibilities among