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Hip viscosupplementation under ultra-sound guidance riduces NSAID consumption in symptomatic hip osteoarthritis patients in a long follow-up. Data fr…

2011

Introduction: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) consumption is strictly related to a high gastrointestinal and cardiovascular mortality and morbidity rate. Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) recommendations in patients with symptomatic hip or knee OA stated that NSAIDs should be used at the lowest effective dose but their long-term use should be avoided if possible. OARSI guidelines for the treatment of the hip OA include the use of viscosupplementation, which aims to restore physiological and rheological features of the synovial fluid. Objective: Aim of this multicentric, open and retrospective study is to investigate if NSAID consumption may be reduced by t…

Patient Specific Instrumentation for Total Knee Arthroplasty: a Literature Review

2014

During the past decade, total knee arthroplasty (TKA) has been markedly increased. Recently, patient-specific custom cutting guides have been commercially introduced in order to achieve an accurate component alignment during TKA. In fact, these cutting blocks are specific to a patient’s knee anatomy and should help the surgeons to perform bone cuts, reducing the complexity of conventional alignment and sizing tools. Nevertheless, there are critical arguments against patient-specific cutting guides for routine use, such as poor evidence and higher costs. Additionally, there are still no mild and long-term results available that describe the clinical outcomes following patient-specific instru…

The challenge of using the rheumatoid arthritis diagnostic criteria in clinical practice.

2015

The new 2010 ACR/EULAR (American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism) criteria of Rheumatoid Arthritis recently published, have been released to classify and identify patients with early RA who could benefit from early therapy. They recommend anti-citrullinated protein antibody (ACPA) testing as an alternative criterion to Rheumatoid Factor (RF) and ACPA that were introduced together with the other classic criteria in a scoring system. We previously criticized these new criteria because of unavailable specificity and sensibility in the first paper, and the use of ACPA as dichotomous criterion (presence/absent) and alternatives to rheumatoid factor. Our previous work p…

“Who’s Afraid of the Dark?”: The Ironic Self-Stereotype of the Ethnic Other in Finnish Rap Music

2017

Drawing on recent sociolinguistic work on globalization and superdiversity, this chapter explores the multisemiotic and ironic construction of the self-stereotype of the ethnic Other in a Finnish rap music video. Because Finland and Finnish hip-hop are still ethnically relatively homogeneous, people of migrant background, such as rap artist Musta Barbaari (Black Barbarian), need to negotiate their belonging in various ways. In the video, he deliberately constructs himself as the ethnicized and sexualized Other to highlight prejudice, discrimination and racism. In doing this, he voices societal critique and dissatisfaction – and speaks for multiculturalism and tolerance in (super)diversifyin…

CUZZOLIN P., Napoli M. (a c.di),Ancora su musica e fonetica nella Grecia antica

2006

L'articolo mostra come nella cultura greca antica sia dato di ritrovare, ancor prima di quanto abitualmente si creda, chiare tracce di una conoscenza non banale dei processi fonatori. L'idea che viene esplicitata è che all'interno della scuola pitagorica antica si reperivano nel canale orale umano, equiparato a un tubo sonoro simile a quello degli auli, tre punti che ne frazionavano la lunghezza secondo precisi rapporti in analogia al modo in cui si operava in quegli strumenti musicali, mediante l'apertura e chiusura dei fori praticati nei loro corpi sonori, per ottenere il frazionamento della lunghezza della colonna d'aria.

La dimension musicale des textes des troubadours

2016

Saggio di complemento alla traduzione francese della grande antologia di testi trobadorici curata nel 1975 da Martin de Riquer. Si tratta di una introduzione alla tradizione musicale dei trovatori in cui si cerca di integrare la prospettiva musicologica a quella filologico-letteraria. Il saggio è articolato in tre paragrafi: 1. "Filologi e musicologi", in cui si discutono le diverse posizioni dei due ambiti disciplinari riguardo alle melodie dei trovatori; 2. "Tradizione scritta delle melodie", in cui si illustrano le modalità di trasmissione dei testi musicali con particolare riguardo alla tradizione stravagante e indiretta di melodie trobadoriche; 3. "Tipi musicali, generi poetici, genera…

Langage et Musique

2014

Az ember gitárja : a mindent túlélő hangszer = The guitar of man : a musical instrument surviving everything

2010

Una nuova spia della composita facies culturale e linguistica della Palermo normanna

2014

L'interpretazione del nome di una strada della Palermo normanna conferma uno scenario, già noto e di grande interesse, in cui musulmani ebrei e cristiani vivevano insieme a dispetto delle loro diverse culture e religioni. In quel periodo irripetibile della storia siciliana la comunità cristiana praticava peraltro la propria religione adottando vari riti. La presenza dei riti bizantino e gallicano nella Sicilia normanna era già nota. L'articolo mostra che ne va aggiunto un terzo, l'ispanico. Quest'ultimo era adottato dal gruppo di mozarabi arrivati dalla penisola iberica già durante la dominazione araba.

Dynamic Functional Connectivity in the Musical Brain

2019

Musical training causes structural and functional changes in the brain due to its sensory-motor demands. This leads to differences in how musicians perceive and process music as compared to non-musicians, thereby providing insights into brain adaptations and plasticity. Correlational studies and network analysis investigations have indicated the presence of large-scale brain networks involved in the processing of music and have highlighted differences between musicians and non-musicians. However, studies on functional connectivity in the brain during music listening tasks have thus far focused solely on static network analysis. Dynamic Functional Connectivity (DFC) studies have lately been …