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Iconografie religiose fenicie nelle emissioni di Melite (Malta)
2005
Unlike the Punic issues of Sicily, in which the Phoenician religious iconography plays only a marginal role, on the coins of the III-II century BC. J. C. of Melite, this theme is very present. The permanence of these themes in the monetary issues of peripheral and marginal areas, such as Melite, can be explained as a desire to preserve a cultural heritage and the relative religious identity, which resisted the political conquest of Rome (218 BC)
ELITES AND ECCLESIASTICAL CAREERS IN EARLY MODERN SICILY: BISHOPS, ABBOTS AND KNIGHTS
2009
Most recent research on Sicilian aristocracy in early modern age has shown how the elite of the island, while keeping its reference “ideological” models in the titled nobility of feudality, was actually a very composite social group, formed by bureaucrats, lawyers, merchants, former “gabelloti” (major tenants of estates) as well as by professionals. Moreover, joining this heterogeneous aristocratic group was increasingly linked, especially since the end of the sixteenth century, to a large availability of financial resources provided by these “new nobles”. During that period, infact, due to mounting economical troubles, the Spanish monarchy actually made a widespread use of conferring – or,…
Élite senza frontiere dentro e fuori la Monarchia spagnola
2017
La storiografia europea sulla Monarchia spagnola, indipendentemente dai complessivi quadri interpretativi ("composite monarchy", "sistema imperiale", "monarquía católica"), va esplorando negli ultimi anni la permeabilità dei suoi spazi, aperti alla circolazione di individui e gruppi al servizio degli Asburgo. Tale mobilità tra le discontinue (non solo geograficamente) frontiere di reinos e province spagnole (America compresa) ha riguardato in particolare quelle élite che, forti del sostegno di reti familiari e clientelari di potere, hanno più di altre contribuito alla costruzione e al funzionamento della Monarchia iberica "sub specie imperii". Lo spettro dei protagonisti e degli spazi della…
Descrizione del primo caso clinico di rapida guarigione di un ulcera cutanea in soggetto con osteomielite da Staphylococcus aureus dopo trattamento c…
2014
Background: L'osteomielite è uno delle complicanze infettive più gravi del paziente sottoposto a riduzione della fratture mediante mezzi di sintesi. Alcuni pazienti hanno manifestazioni sistemiche di infezione ma alcuni anche se non diabetici e immunocompetenti possono avere solo sintomi locali come ulcerazione cutanea da fistola ossea. Recentemente alcuni lavori dimostrano come l’utilizzo delle prostaglandine ad azione vasodilatatoria come PGE1, PGE2 in associazione alla terapia antibiotica possano contribuire alla più rapida guarigione della osteomielite senza intervento chirurgico ortopedico poiché le prostaglandine sembrano ridurre la formazione del biofilm e la cronicizzazione dell’inf…
Le localizzazioni extravertebrali della tubercolosi osteoarticolare
2011
An exploration of reciprocity between female athletes and their coach in elite junior swimming: a shared reality theory perspective
2021
Based on the proposition that the relationship between a coach and athlete is at its best when both parties contribute to enhancing its quality, the present study sought to investigate if Shared Reality Theory could provide new insights on the topic. Specifically, the purpose of the present study was to explore: (a) how a shared reality is established, or fails to be established, over the course of the sporting partnership between athletes and their coach; and (b) how the presence of a shared reality (or not) in the coach-athlete relationship is related to the experienced quality of the relationship between athletes and their coach, as recorded over time. Narrative inquiry, embedded within …
Performance Analysis of Cooperative V2V and V2I Communications Under Correlated Fading
2019
Cooperative vehicular networks will play a vital role in the coming years to implement various intelligent transportation-related applications. Both vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications will be needed to reliably disseminate information in a vehicular network. In this regard, a roadside unit (RSU) equipped with multiple antennas can improve the network capacity. While the traditional approaches assume antennas to experience independent fading, we consider a more practical uplink scenario where antennas at the RSU experience correlated fading. In particular, we evaluate the packet error probability for two renowned antenna correlation models, i.e., cons…
The individual zones of optimal functioning (IZOF) model (1978–2014): Historical overview of its development and use
2015
The individual zones of optimal functioning (IZOF) model is a sport-specific framework that describes the relationship between emotional experiences and relative success in sporting tasks on the basis of individual rather than group-based patterns. Initially developed by the psychologist Juri Hanin in the 1970s, the number of published studies using the model has since significantly grown and diversified. In an effort to create a comprehensive database of IZOF research and reviews, a literature search was conducted using several databases and existing reference lists. This analysis yielded a total of 183 IZOF-based publications (from 380 compiled). The list of publications was subdivided in…
“Some Women Are Born Fighters”: Discursive Constructions of a Fighter’s Identity by Female Finnish Judo Athletes
2017
Martial arts and combat sports have been traditionally associated with masculinity, and a range of contradictory meanings have been attached to women’s engagement and experiences. The present study draws on cultural praxis and feminist poststructuralist frameworks to explore how female martial artists are subjectified to dominant cultural discourses surrounding fighting and competition. Interviews with nine female judoka (judo athletes) were gathered in Finland and analyzed using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (FDA). The FDA revealed that in female judoka talk, judo was constructed as a sport for all, but also as a male domain and a manly sport with fighting and competition as innate mascul…
Play and liberty : A brief incursion into some ideological currents in the history of systems‐oriented family therapy
2022
We reflect on family therapy and its history from two points of view, as an entity that becomes understood with the help of a twofold concept of a game, and a twofold concept of liberty. Systemic family therapy has always been comprehended with the help of game theory. Its development becomes more properly understood if we keep in mind that game itself is a dualistic concept entailing both a cultural and a logico-mathematical interpretation of a game. We show how cultural ethos has molded the ways how game metaphor have been implemented to systemic thinking. In the same manner we show how Isaiah Berlin's idea of two incompatible concepts of liberty helps to contextualize family therapy in a…