Search results for "Meri"

“Silence was all the boy ever got”: the silent treatment of trauma in The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

2023

Sueños y violencias, migrantes latinoamericanas en su paso por México

2019

Le politiche pubbliche e la violenza come “rischio” nella Sicilia occidentale

2014

4. Il saggio prende le mosse dal rifiuto di Franca Viola di sottostare al matrimonio come atto “riparatorio" alla violenza subita, che aveva il potere di derubricare giuridicamente lo stupro perpetrato dal carnefice ma, soprattutto, di riammettere la vittima, in un contesto sociale, pronto, in caso contrario, ad escluderla e stigmatizzarla. Ne descrive i passaggi con cui la Regione Sicilia perviene, circa quaranta anni dopo, all'approvazione della Legge n.3 sulla violenza di genere. Fa il punto sulle associazioni di terzo settore impegnate nel contrasto al fenomeno nella Sicilia occidentale, gli sportelli antiviolenza istituiti e servizi che vengono forniti alle donne vittime di violenza di…

Human Papillomavirus Types 16, 18, and 31 Share Similar Endocytic Requirements for Entry

2013

ABSTRACT Human papillomavirus type 18 (HPV18), one of the HPVs with malignant potential, enters cells by an unknown endocytic mechanism. The key cellular requirements for HPV18 endocytosis were tested in comparison to those for HPV16 and -31 endocytoses. HPV18 (like HPV16 and -31) entry was independent of clathrin, caveolin, dynamin, and lipid rafts but required actin polymerization and tetraspanin CD151, and the viruses were routed to the same LAMP-1-positive compartment. Hence, the viruses shared similar cellular requirements for endocytic entry.

Lipid Binding Controls Dimerization of the Coat Protein p24 Transmembrane Helix

2019

Abstract Coat protein (COP) I and COP II complexes are involved in the transport of proteins between the endoplasmic reticulum and the Golgi apparatus in eukaryotic cells. The formation of COP I/II complexes at membrane surfaces is an early step in vesicle formation and is mastered by p24, a type I transmembrane protein. Oligomerization of p24 monomers was suggested to be mediated and/or stabilized via interactions within the transmembrane domain, and the p24 transmembrane helix appears to selectively bind a single sphingomyelin C18:0 molecule. Furthermore, a potential cholesterol-binding sequence has also been predicted in the p24 transmembrane domain. Thus, sphingomyelin and/or cholestero…

The Extracellular δ-Domain is Essential for the Formation of CD81 Tetraspanin Webs

2014

AbstractCD81 is a ubiquitously expressed member of the tetraspanin family. It forms large molecular platforms, so-called tetraspanin webs that play physiological roles in a variety of cellular functions and are involved in viral and parasite infections. We have investigated which part of the CD81 molecule is required for the formation of domains in the cell membranes of T-cells and hepatocytes. Surprisingly, we find that large CD81 platforms assemble via the short extracellular δ-domain, independent from a strong primary partner binding and from weak interactions mediated by palmitoylation. The δ-domain is also essential for the platforms to function during viral entry. We propose that, ins…

Reperti su alcuni Artropodi fitofagi in colture di rilevente interesse economico in Sicilia.

2001

Representing the Haitian diaspora in Russell Banks’s Continental Drift, from Port-de-Paix to Little Haiti: a celebration of the margins

2021

International audience; Russell Banks’s 1985 novel Continental Drift tells the intertwined stories of Bob Dubois, a white American man who decides to try his luck in Florida, and the Haitian Vanise Dorsinville, who is forced to leave her island with her son and her nephew to flee Jean-Claude Duvalier’s dictatorial presidency. In this paper, I study how, in the chapters dedicated to the Haitian diaspora, Banks chooses to adopt an ex-centric point of view to give a voice to those whose history and culture have largely been ignored by American society and literature. Vanise is a figure of in-betweenness, caught between Haiti and the United States, between land and ocean, and even between life …

The Army Game Project : creating an artefact of war

2009

Biopolymer Recovery from Aerobic Granular Sludge and Conventional Flocculent Sludge in Treating Industrial Wastewater: Preliminary Analysis of Differ…

2022

The recovery of biopolymers from sewage sludge could be a crucial step in implementing circular economy principles in wastewater treatment plants (WWTP). In this frame, the present study was aimed at evaluating the simultaneous production of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) and extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) obtainable from the treatment of agro-industrial wastewater. Two biological enrichment systems, aerobic granular sludge (AGS) and a conventional activated sludge operating as a sequencing batch reactor (SBR), were monitored for 204 and 186 days, respectively. The maximum biopolymers accumulation capacity was close to 0.60 mgPHA-EPS gVSS−1 in the AGS when operating at 3 kgCODm…