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Jacqueline Woodson’s narrative style in The Other Side: An African American picture book for children
2012
The Other Side (2001) is a children’s story with multicultural characters and themes that can be regarded as an aesthetic exploration of the human experience in the process of the acquisition of knowledge. Following the Black Arts Movement, Jacqueline Woodson’s work portrays many of the issues that are present in the real world but seldom appear in children’s literature, such as racial division or interracial relationships. Using the metaphor of a fence, this African American author reveals issues of loneliness and friendship, inclusion and exclusion, and the overcoming of prejudice and segregation through the wisdom of Clover and Annie, an African American and a white girl, who become frie…
Do Saharan Dust Days Carry a Risk of Hospitalization From Respiratory Diseases for Citizens of the Canary Islands (Spain)?
2021
Background: Saharan dust meets the Canary Islands at the beginning of its westward path across the North Atlantic, exceeding the European daily levels for PM10; for this reason, their two provincial capital cities, constitute optimal sites where to evaluate the health effects of this natural event. Objectives: To assess the short-term association between Saharan Dust Days (SDDs) and respiratory morbidity in the two capital cities. Methods: We carried out a time-series analysis with daily emergency hospital admissions due to all respiratory system diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma between 2001 and 2005, assessing the independent effect of SDDs, defined accordi…
Perspectives of environmental protection in a new African state: Experience in Eritrea
1998
Il lavoro descrive le prime iniziative dello Stato eritreo in materia di tutela dell'ambiente
International public administration on the tip of the tongue: language as a feature of representative bureaucracy in the Economic Community of West A…
2020
Recent scholarship shows increasing interest in gender, ethnic or national representation within regional and international organizations. In contrast, language as a criterion of representation has rarely been scrutinized. We argue that this constitutes an important oversight for two reasons: (1) language is an important identity marker; and (2) language regimes in international public administrations can uniquely address representativeness relative to both member states and groups of citizens. Our article explores language representation in the Economic Community of West African States, and pursues a twofold objective: first, it extends the applicability of representative bureaucracy theo…
Fluid-triggered earthquake swarms in the Rwenzori region, East African Rift—Evidence for rift initiation
2012
The Rwenzori Mountains are located within the Albertine Rift Valley in western Uganda. To monitor the microseismic activity in the area we have deployed a seismic network of up to 35 stations for a period of about 20 months. The analysis of the recordings revealed several earthquake clusters within a restricted area NE of the mountain block. The clusters form elongated pipes with 1–2 km diameter and vertical extensions of 3–5 km. Most of them are located in 5–16 km depths; however one cluster reaches down to 22 km. Each cluster is composed of a series of single earthquake swarms with durations between a few days and more than a week, interrupted by intervals of inactivity of up to several m…
Deep-rooted “thick skinned” model for the High Atlas Mountains (Morocco). Implications for the structural inheritance of the southern Tethys passive …
2006
A re-interpretation of the deep structure of the High Atlas is presented through integration of geophysical and geological data, highlighting the architectural significance of the southern Tethys palaeomargin. Previous crustal models suggest the occurrence of a flat intra-crustal detachment at a depth of � 20 km, a zone where surface thrusts merge and below which the lower High Atlas crust appears continuous. However, within this study seismic refraction data, electrical resistivity surveys and gravity modelling all appear to detect a jump in crustal thickness between the High Atlas and the northern plains. We interpret these data as penetration by thrusts within the ‘‘South-Atlasic fault’’…
Una nuova popolazione isolata di xenopo liscio in Sicilia sud-occidentale
2017
African clawed frog is a sub-saharan native anuran that has been introduced in various states of the old and the new world. The only Italian population of this species is located in western Sicily, and it is known as the European clawed frog population with wider distribution area. This paper describes a new Sicilian population of this species, and sets out to verify the effective isolation from the currently known distribution. The new site is a disused swimming pool, located near the mouth of the Belice River (province of Trapani), 31 km away from the nearest edge of the African clawed frog distribution area. To test whether this new population is the result of natural expansion of its ra…
Libertà, lavoro e architettura negli edifici-simbolo della giovane nazione americana. Attualità di un dibattito : intervista a Mabel Wilson (GSAPP, C…
2022
Il 13 luglio 2000 il Congresso americano sanciva l’urgenza del riconoscimento del lavoro degli afro-americani nella realizzazione del Campidoglio di Washin¬gton, D.C., promuovendo a tal fine la costituzione di una commissione dedicata allo studio del tema (Risoluzione 130, 106° Congresso, 2° sessione). Una decisione che, oltre un secolo e mezzo dopo il completamento dell’edifi¬cio-simbolo della nazione, voleva riconoscere in via ufficiale il ruolo fondamentale svolto dalla forza-lavoro afro americana, restituendo in questo modo alla Storia una più esatta visione del processo che ha portato al suo completamento.
Foreign Direct Investments and the Rule of Law in Africa in the context of legal integration
2019
This essay focuses on the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the rule of law in the context of legal integration in Africa, outside of the AfCFTA agreement. Specifically, the essay investigates the concept of the rule of law, taking into account its ‘dynamic’ side, that is the power to shape and model the structure of a state using the example of OHADA. The OHADA framework shows that the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the rule of law is not unilateral but a ‘two-way mutual’ relationship where both actors contribute to the success of the system, adapting to each other in order to achieve their respective goals.
Nuove ipotesi a partire dalla rilettura dei dati archeologici: la Sicilia occidentale
2010
Il seminario di Parigi sulla Sicilia bizantina con particolare attenzione al periodo a cavallo tra la dominazione bizantina e quella islamica, è stata occasione per ristudiare i dati archeologici a nostra disposizione e leggerli nella prospettiva del passaggio da un periodo al’altro. Ci siamo concentrati sull’VIII secolo ed in particolare sui rapporti con l’Africa romana che tanta parte hanno avuto sulla storia della cultura materiale dell’isola nella tarda antichità. Abbiamo cercato di documentare il perdurare degli scambi commerciali con il nord Africa anche dopo la caduta in mano islamica del Maghreb fino all’VIII secolo analizzando la circolazione delle forme più tarde della sigillata e…