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L’albero Falcone: legalità e bellezza (Palermo, 1992-2020)
2021
Il saggio è incentrato sull’Albero Falcone davanti la casa del magistrato divenuto simbolo della resistenza alla mafia, emblema del riscatto della società civile e di legalità dopo l’attentato (1992). A partire da una fortissima ondata emozionale l’albero ha profondamente contraddistinto il luogo segnandone l’identità. Ne rappresenta il senso più profondo – la legalità – perché le persone lo hanno reso tale e in modo assolutamente spontaneo, condividendo le loro sensazioni. Hanno creato sull’onda di una fortissima e violenta spinta emozionale un luogo di incontro, non solo fisico, ma anche ideale, che continua emotivamente a coinvolgere non solo sul piano personale, ma anche a livello colle…
Direct lookup and hash-based metadata placement for local file systems
2013
New challenges to file systems' metadata performance are imposed by the continuously growing number of files existing in file systems. The total amount of metadata can become too big to be cached, potentially leading to multiple storage device accesses for a single metadata lookup operation. This paper takes a look at the limitations of traditional file system designs and discusses an alternative metadata handling approach, using hash-based concepts already established for metadata and data placement in distributed storage systems. Furthermore, a POSIX compliant prototype implementation based on these concepts is introduced and benchmarked. A variety of file system metadata and data operati…
Sustainable and Conventional Banking in Europe
2020
At the end of the 20th century a new banking model, the so-called ethical banking, emerged becoming the maximum exponent of a socially responsible investment. The financial crisis in 2008 led to a distrust of the conventional financial system and consequently investors began to look with interest this new banking, which only invests in ethical activities and products, with social and environmental criteria, total transparency and a democratic management. The aim of this article is to analyze the economic structure of ethical banking, compared to that of conventional banking, by paying attention to its liquidity, coverage and solvency. Specifically, We compare the financial statements of Tri…
Uneven economic burden of non-communicable diseases among Indian households: A comparative analysis
2021
Background Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading global cause of death and disproportionately concentrate among those living in low-income and middle-income countries. However, its economic impact on households remains less well known in the Indian context. This study aims to assess the economic impact of NCDs in terms of out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) and its catastrophic impact on NCDs affected households in India. Materials and methods Data were collected from the 75th round of the National Sample Survey Office, Government of India, conducted in the year 2017–18. This is the latest round of data available on health, which constitutes a sample of 113,823 households. The coll…
Prediction of Distant Educational Goals by Goals in Other Domains and Perceived Contextual Opportunities
2015
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" lang="en-US"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Lifelong learning is linked to successful economic participation</span></span><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">. </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">At the same time, individual activities are framed by contextual opportunities for education and occupation.</span></span></em><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-fami…
Genetic structure and demographic inference of the regular sea urchin Sterechinus neumayeri (Meissner, 1900) in the Southern Ocean: the role of the l…
2018
22 pages; International audience; One of the most relevant characteristics of the extant Southern Ocean fauna is its resiliency to survive glacial processes of the Quaternary. These climatic events produced catastrophic habitat reductions and forced some marine benthic species to move, adapt or go extinct. The marine benthic species inhabiting the Antarctic upper continental shelf faced the Quaternary glaciations with different strategies that drastically modified population sizes and thus affected the amount and distribution of intraspecific genetic variation. Here we present new genetic information for the most conspicuous regular sea urchin of the Antarctic continental shelf, Sterechinus…
Conditioned place preference paradigm can be a mouse model of relapse to opiates
2001
With the object of determining the usefulness of the conditioned place preference (CPP) paradigm as a model of relapse to opiates, the effects of the re-exposure to morphine are explored in male mice which had undergone a process of extinction of conditioning. Morphine (40 mg/kg) produces a CPP which lasts up to 15 days after conditioning. When it has completely extinguished (45 days), a non contingent re-exposure to the drug again produces the same preference. These results suggest that the CPP paradigm may be used in mice to study the mechanisms of relapse to opiates in addicts.
Mediterranean diet adherence and synergy with acute myocardial infarction and its determinants: A multicenter case-control study in Italy
2018
Background Cardiovascular diseases are the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in Western countries. The possible synergistic effect of poor adherence to a Mediterranean diet (MD) and other risk factors for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) such as hypertension, cholesterol, ever smoker, BMI> 25, diabetes, has not been deeply studied. Design Case-control study. Methods Patients with first AMI and controls from four tertiary referral Italian centers were screened for enrolment. Dietary information was collected through a questionnaire and a MD adherence score was calculated. Physical activity and smoking habits were also registered. The Synergy Index was calculated according to Rothman…
Factors associated with first- versus second-generation long-acting antipsychotics prescribed under ordinary clinical practice in Italy
2018
Background For many years, long-acting intramuscular (LAI) antipsychotics have been prescribed predominantly to chronic and severe patients, as a last resort when other treatments failed. Recently, a broader and earlier use of LAIs, particularly second-generation LAIs, has been emphasized. To date, few studies attempted to frame how this change in prescribing took place in real-world practice. Therefore, this study aimed to describe the clinical features of patients prescribed with LAIs, and to explore possible prescribing differences between first- and second-generations LAIs under ordinary clinical practice in Italy. Methods The STAR Network "Depot" Study is an observational, longitudinal…
Geographies of Cyberspace: Internet, Community, Space, and Place
2017
This chapter “Geographies of Cyberspace” discusses the term “cyberspace” in relation to the concepts of “space”, “place”, and “community” by reviewing the academic literature from human geography, sociology, and cultural anthropology. It forms the basis for the development of a phenomenological perspective on cyberspace. Instead of presenting all possible approaches towards cyberspace, this chapter discusses only those concepts that focus on the connections between on- and offline life. It proposes that cyberspace not only includes spatial and territorial metaphors , as several human geographers have pointed out, but that it is also characterised by complex geographies, which have to be exp…