Search results for " Cura"

Open data and digital morphology

2017

International audience; Over the past two decades, the development of methods for visualizing and analysing specimens digitally, in three and even four dimensions, has transformed the study of living and fossil organisms. However, the initial promise that the widespread application of such methods would facilitate access to the underlying digital data has not been fully achieved. The underlying datasets for many published studies are not readily or freely available, introducing a barrier to verification and reproducibility, and the reuse of data. There is no current agreement or policy on the amount and type of data that should be made available alongside studies that use, and in some cases…

miRToolsGallery: a tag-based and rankable microRNA bioinformatics resources database portal

2017

Abstract Hundreds of bioinformatics tools have been developed for MicroRNA (miRNA) investigations including those used for identification, target prediction, structure and expression profile analysis. However, finding the correct tool for a specific application requires the tedious and laborious process of locating, downloading, testing and validating the appropriate tool from a group of nearly a thousand. In order to facilitate this process, we developed a novel database portal named miRToolsGallery. We constructed the portal by manually curating > 950 miRNA analysis tools and resources. In the portal, a query to locate the appropriate tool is expedited by being searchable, filterable and …

Text mining and expert curation to develop a database on psychiatric diseases and their genes

2017

Psychiatric disorders constitute one of the main causes of disability worldwide. During the past years, considerable research has been conducted on the genetic architecture of such diseases, although little understanding of their etiology has been achieved. The difficulty to access up-to-date, relevant genotype-phenotype information has hampered the application of this wealth of knowledge to translational research and clinical practice in order to improve diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric patients. PsyGeNET (http://www.psygenet.org/) has been developed with the aim of supporting research on the genetic architecture of psychiatric diseases, by providing integrated and structured accessi…

Transgresión moral y enfermedad en los países nórdicos en la temprana Edad Moderna

2009

This article seeks to understand how people in the early modern age interpreted the nature of illness and the role that morality played in these interpretations. From this point of view illnesses were not only psycho-physical states or subjects for medical diagnosis but they were also subjects for narratives or stories through which people tried to understand what had caused their illness, and why it was happening to them. Illnesses were understood as strictly connected with the patient's character and were regarded as possible consequences of his personality. On the other hand, the interpretations also emphasised the ambivalence of a healer. Personal experiences and an understanding of one…

La costruzione narrativa del prendersi cura dell'altro. Analisi qualitativa di un dispositivo gruppale di caregiver di pazienti affetti da patologie …

Gran parte della letteratura sui caregiver di persone affette da patologie cronico-degenerative è centrata sulla valutazione delle ripercussioni negative dell’attività di cura sullo stato di salute e sulle condizioni di vita; inoltre i discorsi culturalmente veicolati intorno alle patologie dementigene tendenzialmente condividono un linguaggio negativo, omogeneo, costruito attorno ai significati di perdita, dipendenza, devastazione. Partendo da queste premesse la presente ricerca, facente riferimento ad uno studio esplorativo basato sull’analisi qualitativa di un single case, si propone di osservare, in ottica costruzionista, l’esperienza di malattia vissuta dai caregiver nella loro relazio…

Ospedale, elemosina e performance del dolore: pratiche del campo e del fuori campo

2015

Editoriale

2019

Il numero che proponiamo ha per titolo “Antropologia del viaggio e del prendersi cura dell’Altro” e propone cinque articoli che da diversi punti di os- servazione si occupano del rapporto con l’alterità. Viene indagata la relazione con l’altro che arriva nel nostro territorio attraverso viaggi al limite della sopravvivenza, che fugge da miserie, guerre e maltratta- menti.

Terme e Bagni di Sicilia : caratteri di un'architettura specialistica

2015

La storia e le vicende degli stabilimenti termali isolani individuano elementi di originalità e specificità del tipo edilizio rispetto ad altre “architetture per il bagno”. Le terme si confrontano con tanti altri edifici che nel corso dei secoli hanno dovuto rapportarsi con il tema dell’acqua: stabilimenti di cura, elio-idroterapici, bagni collettivi e lavatoi pubblici: emerge un quadro in cui esse non sfigurano, anzi, appaiono il cuore di molteplici attività pulsanti, un esempio da imitare e con cui relazionarsi. Il racconto prende avvio dalle sorgenti e dai primordiali modi di effettuare le abluzioni, dall’analisi delle fabbriche di epoca romana ed araba, permanenze queste non solo archeo…

Arte contemporanea e sistema dell’arte. Una breve ricognizione

2018

Il contributo prende in esame i principali soggetti del sistema dell’arte, come artisti, curatori, critici, collezionisti, gallerie, musei e fiere, analizzando la nascita del fenomeno in riferimento a protagonisti e movimenti di epoca contemporanea e offrendo spunti di riflessione sulle dinamiche che regolano tale network complesso e affascinate. The contribution explores the main players of the art system (artists, curators, critics, collectors, galleries, museums and art fairs) examining this phenomenon in reference to contemporary artists and movements and offering a reflection on the dynamics which regulate this complex and fascinating network.

Solving gap metabolites and blocked reactions in genome-scale models: application to the metabolic network of Blattabacterium cuenoti

2013

Abstract Background Metabolic reconstruction is the computational-based process that aims to elucidate the network of metabolites interconnected through reactions catalyzed by activities assigned to one or more genes. Reconstructed models may contain inconsistencies that appear as gap metabolites and blocked reactions. Although automatic methods for solving this problem have been previously developed, there are many situations where manual curation is still needed. Results We introduce a general definition of gap metabolite that allows its detection in a straightforward manner. Moreover, a method for the detection of Unconnected Modules, defined as isolated sets of blocked reactions connect…