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PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING: AN ASSOCIATION WITH ALEXITHYMIA, PERSONALITY DISORDERS AND CLINICAL SYNDROMES

2014

Pathological gambling (PG) is a disorder recently conceptualized as a behavioural addiction, because of its neurobiological, neurophysiological and psychological features (American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders - 5th ed., 2013; Potenza et al., 2012). PG represents both a social and a sanitary cost, in terms of pharmacological and psychological therapies. The aim of this study was to examine the correlation between personality disorders, clinical syndromes and alexithymia levels in a group of pathological gamblers. Furthermore this study aimed at highlighting a relationship between PG and alexithymia, over and above the relationship between pe…

Data from: Deceiving predators: linking distraction behavior with nest survival in a ground-nesting bird

2016

Individual behavior that minimizes predation risk is favored by natural selection. Ground-nesting birds employ different defensive behaviors as part of their antipredator strategies because they nest where a wide range of predators have access. We investigated the influence of distraction displays on breeding success in the Kentish Plover, Charadrius alexandrinus, in order to explore the role of the defensive behavior on nest survival. We quantified the intensity of defensive behavior of adult plovers in response to nest disturbance caused by an approaching researcher, by ranking display types according to the intensity and exposure to predation. We also examined sex differences in nest def…

THE ROLE OF RATIONALITY IN JUDICIAL ARGUMENTATION

2006

I would like to try to answer in this paper a question: Should, and in which sense, judicial argumentation, particularly the external justification of the major premise of legal syllogism, be ‘rationally justified’, i.e. objectively founded? In order to determine if the (external) justification of the major premise of legal syllogism should be rationally justified, it is necessary to answer three questions: that is, (a) What is meant by external justification of the major premise of legal syllogism? (b) How and why can we reconstruct the judicial argumentation as a practical syllogism, that is, a form of practical reasoning and not of theoretical reasoning? and (c) How and why should normat…

The eikos between Logic and Rhetoric. A Comparison between Aristotle and the Rhetorica ad Alexandrum.

2010

The paper proposes a comparison between the Aristotelian concept of eikos and that which is found in the Rhetorica ad Alexandrum. The aim is to shed light upon both the differences between the two perspectives and their relative continuity in relation to the prior tradition. The basic assumption is that the rhetorical notion of eikos has theoretical worth and many philosophical questions revolve around it. The boundary between philosophy and rhetoric is much less defined than what a long tradition has led us to believe.

Subliimi Alexander Lauréuksen ja G. W. Finnbergin taiteessa

2002

Vapaapalokunta - kasvupaikka kansalaistoiminnalle 1838-1938

2011

Vapaapalokuntatoiminta alkoi maassamme vuonna 1838 naapurimaista saadun esimerkin mukaisesti. VPK:iden toiminta muotoutui moninaiseksi ja se oli tarkoitettu kaikille kansalaisille. Toiminnassa noudatettiin tasa-arvon ja demokratian periaatteita alusta lähtien ja toiminnan tavoitteisiin kuuluivat yleishyödyllisyys sekä luokkaerojen vähentäminen jäsenten keskuudessa amerikkalaisen esikuvansa mukaisesti. Tutkielman tarkoituksena on selvittää vapaapalokuntatoiminnan merkitystä kansalaisyhteiskunnalle ja kansalaisille niillä paikkakunnilla, joilla yhdistyksiä perustettiin. Tutkielman ajaksi olen rajannut ensimmäisen sadan vuoden ajan, koska silloin vapaapalokuntatoiminta oli aitoa vapaaehtoista …

Epistemologia tieteenhistorian hahmotuksessa

1998

Riconsiderare l’identità delle donne musulmane nell’Egitto post-rivoluzionario

2019

Questo articolo esplora alcune forme dell’identità femminile nell’Egitto post-rivoluzionario, quale si manifesta in due documenti pubblicati dopo la Rivoluzione del 2011 sui diritti delle donne musulmane. Sono il Documento di al–Azhar (2013) e la Dichiarazione di Alessandria (2014), concordi nel ribadire il valore delle donne e i diritti garantiti loro dalla shari‘a. L’uno e l’altra hanno visto il coinvolgimento delle femministe islamiche. Si descrivono anche le possibilità di collaborazione tra al-Azhar e le femministe islamiche, per fondare una conoscenza religiosa-femminista autoctona e sensibile al genere. Tale collaborazione è utile per l’affermazione di un’identità femminile rispettos…

Q. Curtii Rufi, Historia Alexandri Magni. Cum notis selectiss. variorum, Raderi, Freinshemii, Loccenii, Blancardi, & c.

Editio variorum of Quintus Curtius Rufus Historiae Alexandri Magni, with comments and annotations by various specialists. It is the story of the life and career of Alexander the Great.