"Mezziuomini, mezzedonne e piglianculo". Rappresentazioni e relazioni nella Sicilia Occidentale

2011

Se nei confronti degli “uomini” è possibile attribuire, per inferenza, qualità quali la coerenza, la libertà di giudizio e l'onestà, sia i “mezzi uomini” che, di rimando, le “mezze donne” e i “piglianculo” nascondono un lato oscuro, una percentuale imprecisata di disvalore. Essa è fornita dalle stigmatizzazioni periodiche a cui sono sottoposti nell’incontro con gli altri. Perché, se gli ominicchi scimmiottano, i pigliainculo non avendo, dal termine che li addita, una “integrità autoriflessiva”, e subendo una espropriazione relazionale del proprio sé autentico, sperimentano in modi differenti l’incontro con l’altri. Il sagggio ripercorre alcuni lemmi che dalla vita quotidiana alla letteratur…

Physiological stress does not increase with urbanization in European blackbirds: Evidence from hormonal, immunological and cellular indicators

2020

Urbanization changes the landscape structure and ecological processes of natural habitats. While urban areas expose animal communities to novel challenges, they may also provide more stable environments in which environmental fluctuations are buffered. Species´ ecology and physiology may determine their capacity to cope with the city life. However, the physiological mechanisms underlying organismal responses to urbanization, and whether different physiological systems are equally affected by urban environments remain poorly understood. This severely limits our capacity to predict the impact of anthropogenic habitats on wild populations. In this study, we measured indicators of physiological…

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Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden

The only natural history museum in southern Norway with zoological, botanical and geological collections and a botanical garden with over 2000 different plants.

Human norovirus hyper-mutation revealed by ultra-deep sequencing

2016

Human noroviruses (NoVs) are a major cause of gastroenteritis worldwide. It is thought that, similar to other RNA viruses, high mutation rates allow NoVs to evolve fast and to undergo rapid immune escape at the population level. However, the rate and spectrum of spontaneous mutations of human NoVs have not been quantified previously. Here, we analyzed the intra-patient diversity of the NoV capsid by carrying out RT-PCR and ultra-deep sequencing with 100,000-fold coverage of 16 stool samples from symptomatic patients. This revealed the presence of low-frequency sequences carrying large numbers of U-to-C or A-to-G base transitions, suggesting a role for hyper-mutation in NoV diversity. To mor…

Plasma Spectroscopy Group

One of research field of the group is applying low-temperature plasma sources (as e.g. wall-stabilized arc or barrier discharge source) for excitation of atoms and ions. Based on the registered spectra the atomic data as the transition probabilities or Stark-broadening parameters are determined. The Stark-broadening of the spectral line in the plasma is studied also by theoretical methods (including numerical simulation). In order to improve the quality of obtained atomic data, study of properties and phenomena present the plasma produced in those sources (as e.g. demixing effect or thermal equilibrium) are next object of interest. It is associated with development of the diagnostic techniq…

Next generation water-smart management systems: large scale demonstrations for a circular economy and society

Water security is among the most crucial challenges for water management today. As a consequence, innovative water management solutions and alternative water resources are required. The EU-funded WATER-MINING project will exhibit and validate innovative next-generation water resource solutions at the pre-commercial demonstration-scale in accordance with relevant legislation, such as the Water Framework Directive, Circular Economy and EU Green Deal packages. It will combine water management services with the improvement of renewable resources such as mining water. It is envisaged that the value-added end products will offer supplies of regional resources to increase economic growth. The proj…

Ethnographic Collection

The department’s ethnographic collection cares for about 2,700 ethnographic objects, mainly from Central and West Africa, but also from Australia, Papua New Guinea and other parts of Oceania. They represent the areas of technology and material culture, and a range of activities including religious practices, hunting and warfare, music, art, and household. This diverse and striking collection is comprised of a wide range of objects, including weapons, basket, musical instruments, textiles and religious objects, such as the outstanding power figure from the Chiloango River collected by R. Visser in the late 19th century.\nThe collection was started in 1950 by Erika Sulzmann, who, in 1948, bec…

Observatory of Sciences of the Universe Earth Man Environment Time Astronomy of Franche-Comté-Bourgogn

The observatory "Astronomical, chronometric and meteorological" of Besançon was created in 1878 and has since developed by diversifying its research topics. Astronomy and chronometry remain nevertheless strong axes of the establishment. From the "historical" Besançon observatory, which regrouped the astronomy part of UTINAM and which was already in charge of providing observational services recognized by INSU (time and frequency metrology, large-scale surveys and data archiving), the establishment became the Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers Terre-Homme-Environnement-Temps-Astronomie (OSU THETA) of Franche-Comté/Bourgogne by federating the following laboratories or teams: UTINAM (UMR C…

Transcytosis of Bacillus subtilis extracellular vesicles through an in vitro intestinal epithelial cell model

2020

Bacterial EVs have been related to inter-kingdom communication between probiotic/pathogenic bacteria and their hosts. Our aim was to investigate the transcytosis process of B. subtilis EVs using an in vitro intestinal epithelial cell model. In this study, using Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy, we report that uptake and internalization of CFSE-labeled B. subtilis EVs (115 nm ± 27 nm) by Caco-2 cells are time-dependent. To study the transcytosis process we used a transwell system and EVs were quantified in the lower chamber by Fluorescence and Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis measurements. Intact EVs are transported across a polarized cell monolayer at 60–120 min and increased after 240 min …

Convent of Sant'Antonino

This old Franciscan convent, near the central railway station, was built in the 18th century and later converted into an army barracks. In 2004 it was acquired from the University and today hosts the University Language Centre, a laboratory of basic and applied research, dedicated to innovative materials, and a museum of industrial archaeology. This latter preserves, indeed, the spaces and machinery dedicated to the manufacture of bread, and its gem is the giant solid wood mill that has been preserved almost intact.

Siciliæ sacræ celeberrimi abbatis Netini d. Rocchi Pirri additiones, et correctiones

This work is an integration and correction to the work of Rocco Pirri on Sicilian churches.

Gestalt Theory, Data Decomposition and Functional Architecture in Visual Neuroscience

2013

Attempts to introduce Gestalt theory into the realm of visual neuroscience are discussed on both theoretical and experimental grounds. To define the framework in which these proposals can be defended, this paper outlines the characteristics of a standard model, which qualifies as a received view in the visual neurosciences, and of the research into natural images statistics. The objections to the standard model and the main questions of the natural images research are presented. On these grounds, this paper defends the view that Gestalt psychology and experimental phenomenology provide a contribution to the research into perception by the construction of phenomenological models for an ecolo…

Anomalous low-temperature magnetoelastic properties of nanogranular (CoFeB)$_{x}$-(SiO$_{2}$)$_{1-x}$

2008

We report magnetostatic measurements for granulated films (CoFeB)$_{x}$-(SiO$_{2}$)$_{1-x}$ with fabrication induced intraplanar anisotropy. The measurements have been performed in the film plane in the wide temperature interval 4.5$��$300 K. They demonstrate that above films have low-temperature anomaly below the percolation threshold for conductivity. The essence of the above peculiarity is that below 100 K the temperature dependence of coercive field for magnetization along easy direction deviates strongly from Neel-Brown law. At temperature lowering, the sharp increase of coercivity is observed, accompanied by the appearance of coercive field for magnetization along hard direction in th…

Personality in Second Language Acquisition

The aim of the research group is to investigate the role of personality in the second/foreign language acquisition process, which places it within the ‘Diversity and Migration’, as well as ‘Multilingualism in School and Higher Education’ labs. The basic undertakings of the group include empirical research carried out at the secondary and tertiary levels. Aside from broadening the knowledge about personality involved in language learning, the group’s aim is to refine data analysis tools. The group members include Katarzyna Skałacka (Department of Psychology, University of Opole) and Katarzyna Ożańska-Ponikwia (University of Bielsko-Biala). Some results of the research have already been publ…

Top Research Centre Mechatronics

Machine design, industrial IT, intelligent monitoring, robotics and vision, collaborative robots, assisted living, recycling batteries, flexible production, construction and offshore mechatronics.

Scientific Collections of the Architecture Department

The historical and documentary materials, coming from the collections of architects and artists, constitute a cultural heritage of great scientific and artistic value. The heterogeneity of sources and the different origins make the collection of great interest, especially for a possible future expansion and further valorization.

Ethica ad Nicomachum

Iosephi Binghami ... Origines sive antiquitates ecclesiasticae. Ex lingua anglicana in latinam vertit

Translation from English into Latin of a vast religious-historical work which gives a systematic account of Christian antiquities, grouped by headings. The fifth volume contains book XIII.

Joannis de Laet Antwerpiani Responsio ad dissertationem secundam Hugonis Grotii De origine Gentium Americanarum

De Laet's response to Hugo Grotius who, resentful about De Laet's confutation on his previous work, had published a second treatise in an attempt to refute De Laet's arguments.

La lección política de los Reyes Católicos

1952