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Women and transnational organized crime: the ambiguous case of the italian Mafias
2022
This chapter examines the transformation of the roles of women in Italian organized crime groups. Starting from a comparative analysis of the way in which – over time – the different manifestations of female power and male domination in certain organized crime groups (Cosa Nostra and others) have changed, we seek to understand what female power is in these contexts and what are the circumstances which make it legitimate and visible, what are the different modalities in which it expresses itself over time, in different locations and criminal contexts. The studies of women’s roles in mafias have shown how, over time, these have changed, particularly in terms of their ‘visibility’. Over the la…
“Sick woman” or “half woman”? Breast and cervical cancer, emotional script and representations of female body in a mediterranean area of Italy
2016
The proposal aims to highlight the semiotic elements of the discourse that refer to the symbolic ones of representations, and that transform the therapy in an exercise of professional dominion aimed to modify the perception of the self of the female patient through the subversion of specific emotional script. The mapping of the emotional scripts of shame and modesty, in their performative evolution, will be useful to demonstrate how and through what relational strategies the medicalization performs a gender violence which leads to exclude and self-stigmatise the sick woman, considered a “half woman”. The reflection that has its incipit in the ascertainment that the female body has been and …
I principi della sostenibilità: dai valori dichiarati al comportamento di consumo alimentare. Analisi del ruolo dei media nella costruzione e diffusi…
2012
La sostenibilità è un tema ampio che non riguarda solo le politiche istituzionali e le scelte aziendali, ma anche persone qualunque e comportamenti di acquisto e di consumo. Per esempio, il cibo è un tema fortemente connesso alla sostenibilità. Avendo a che fare con la salute e la sensibilità ambientale, la sostenibilità influenza spesso scelte dietetiche, anche se non è ancora chiaro quanto sia forte il condizionamento della sostenibilità sulle persone, se queste siano effettivamente condizionate dal problema, e se il condizionamento provenga da processi diretti e coscienti o da scelte economiche o inconsce. Allo stesso tempo, ciò che emerge è una contraddizione generale tra conoscenze, co…
Violence against Women and Femicide: an analysis on the murders of foreign women in Italy
2022
AbstractThis paper presents the results of a research on the representations of femicide in the judicial field, in Italy. The use of the term femicide is analysed through the lens of the normative process, examining its social meanings and questioning its political and economic anchoring using the “juridical field” model (Bourdieu 1986). The essay is based on a wide theoretical framework. It starts by highlighting the problems evoked by the term ‘femicide’ (Corradi, et al. 2016; Radford and Russell 1992); its declension in criminal law and jurisprudence through its coding in specific types of offence (Merli 2015). The topics of power and imbalance between the sexes (Goffman 1977) are analys…
A probabilistic compressive sensing framework with applications to ultrasound signal processing
2019
Abstract The field of Compressive Sensing (CS) has provided algorithms to reconstruct signals from a much lower number of measurements than specified by the Nyquist-Shannon theorem. There are two fundamental concepts underpinning the field of CS. The first is the use of random transformations to project high-dimensional measurements onto a much lower-dimensional domain. The second is the use of sparse regression to reconstruct the original signal. This assumes that a sparse representation exists for this signal in some known domain, manifested by a dictionary. The original formulation for CS specifies the use of an l 1 penalised regression method, the Lasso. Whilst this has worked well in l…
Incipient damage identification through characteristics of the analytical signal response
2008
The analytical signal is a complex representation of a time domain signal: the real part is the time domain signal itself, while the imaginary part is its Hilbert transform. It has been observed that damage, even at a very low level, yields clearly detectable variations of analytical signal quantities such as phase and instantaneous frequency. This observation can represent a step toward a quick and effective tool to recognize the presence of incipient damage where other frequency-based techniques fail. In this paper a damage identification procedure based on an adimensional functional of the square of the difference between the characteristics of the analytical theoretical and measured sig…
The Psychology of Fluent Use
2016
In a perfect world, it would always be possible to operate technology effortlessly and to reach the desired goal. However, in the real world many factors may make technologies difficult to use or even hinder people from using technical artefacts. Most of these factors pertain to usability (i.e., technology’s ability to fit users’ capabilities) and thus concern technological solutions from the point of view of human beings as users of technology. Therefore, designing technical artefacts that are easy to use requires understanding the psychological and mental preconditions for using technology.
UNA CONFIGURAZIONE SMART HERITAGE PER I CONTESTI EURO-MEDITERRANEI
La ricerca intende proporre una strategia urbana e tecnologica costituita da elementi smart che sviluppino una capacità di progettazione tecnologica integrata su scala urbana ed edilizia, sovrapponendo al disegno della città smart contemporanea quella della valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale attraverso le nuove Tecnologie dell’Informazione e della Comunicazione (TIC). Attraverso la schedatura di alcune esperienze smart di appendici che raccolgono le strategie urbane di recupero più significative e di un glossario finale con i termini ricorrenti nel settore, la Dottoranda propone un punto di vista del modello Smart City che si lega al tema della valorizzazione urbana fornendo a pianific…
Isotropic stochastic flow of homeomorphisms on Sd for the critical Sobolev exponent
2006
Abstract In this work, we shall deal with the critical Sobolev isotropic Brownian flows on the sphere S d . Based on previous works by O. Raimond and LeJan and Raimond (see [O. Raimond, Ann. Inst. H. Poincare 35 (1999) 313–354] and [Y. LeJan, O. Raimond, Ann. of Prob. 30 (2002) 826–873], we prove that the associated flows are flows of homeomorphisms.
Reżyserka jako zawód urojony, czyli o podwójnej polityczności polskiego kina młodego pokolenia tworzonego przez kobiety
2014
Art as being not only exalted vision of the artist, is a subject to the whole series of dependences. Among them there are institutional and non-institutional factors. It is no different in the case of cinema. Within its field representation issues of a social group and its interests may cross. There we may encounter the political of the presented content, but also of the environment in which it arises. Therefore, the reflection on Polish cinema of the younger generation created by women seems reasonable. The purpose of these considerations is therefore examining its political face, both in terms of the content itself and the conditions of its formation.