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Severe asthma: One disease and multiple definitions
2021
Abstract Introduction There is, so far, no universal definition of severe asthma. This definition usually relies on: number of exacerbations, inhaled therapy, need for oral corticosteroids, and respiratory function. The use of such parameters varies in the different definitions used. Thus, according to the parameters chosen, each patient may result in having severe asthma or not. The aim of this study was to evaluate how the choice of a specific definition of severe asthma can change the allocation of patients. Methods Data collected from the Severe Asthma Network Italy (SANI) registry were analyzed. All the patients included were then reclassified according to the definitions of U-BIOPRED,…
Saint Benedict staring at us: Clients as the third party in Modern Art. A theoretical model and a case study in Renaissance Venice
2014
Il presente saggio intende approfondire il ruolo della committenza quale terza parte nel sistema dell’arte in Età Moderna. Al fine di identificare un possibile rapporto di terzietà nell’arte, l’approccio di ricerca si fonda sulla sociologia dell’arte e si concentra sul funzionamento economico della produzione artistica, pur sfruttando infine la tradizione dei casi di studio di matrice iconologica per verificare la correttezza del modello proposto. L’esempio sotto osservazione fa riferimento al Rinascimento Veneziano trattandosi del Trittico dei Frari di Giovanni Bellini, realizzato alla fine del XV secolo e concernente la disputa sull’Immacolata Concezione della Madonna. This paper aims at …
Repubblica e umanesimo in Italia nel XV secolo. Una introduzione
2022
The article introduces the three essays that make up the monographic section of this issue, Republic and Humanism in Italy in the Fifteenth Century. They examine, in an innovative way, the problem of the relationship between humanism and political cultures in three different contexts: the towns of the Veneto, the communities of Friuli (all under Venetian rule: the former studied by Clémence Revest, the latter by Lorenzo Freschi), the Kingdom of Naples and, in particular, its great capital (Monica Santangelo). Despite the obvious peculiarities of each of these realities, these contributions share an attempt to rethink the Italian political space and the categories with which it has long been…
Evidence for a symbiosis between bacteria of the genus Rhodobacter and the marine sponge Halichondria panicea : harbor also for putatively toxic bac…
1998
Halichondria panicea (Pallas) is a marine sponge, abundantly occurring in the Adriatic sea, North sea and Baltic sea. It was the aim of the present study to investigate if this sponge species harbors bacteria. Cross sections through H. panicea were taken and inspected by electron microscopy. The micrographs showed that this sponge species is colonized by bacteria in its mesohyl compartment. To identify the bacteria, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis of the 16S rRNA gene segment, typical for bacteria, was performed. DNA was isolated from sponge material that had been collected near Rovinj (Adriatic Sea), Helgoland (North Sea), and Kiel (Baltic Sea) and was amplified with bacterial pri…
New data on middle Turonian tuffeaux of southern Touraine and on their ammonites faunas.
2020
The knowledge of the Turonian stratotype, “from Saumur till Montrichard“, along the Loire and the Cher valleys waspublished in 2018 by Amédro et alii. Since then, the study of recent collecting of ammonites in southern Touraine provided significant informationto state more precisely the Turonian zonation. New outcrops are described at Bourgueil, Chinon, Loudun, Usseau, Sossay,Marigny-Marmande, Séligny and Ports-sur-Vienne where the following formations were recognized: the Amboise Chalk, the tuffeaux ofArdilliers, of Saumur, of Bourré and the Tuffeau Jaune de Touraine.In these southern countries, it is pointed out that: (1) more than the upper half of the Amboise Chalk appears like the Tuff…
SISTEMI DI CORONAMENTO E SMALTIMENTO DELLE ACQUE METEORICHE : LA REGOLA DELL'ARTE DAI TRATTATI AI MANUALI
2018
Il saggio approfondisce gli aspetti storici e costruttivi dei cornicioni che, da elementi di protezione, possono divenire, a causa della propria forma, talvolta anche elementi di degrado e dissesto. La struttura del testo del presente volume si compone di tre parti principali, presentando alcuni aspetti tecnici e questioni di non comune attenzione. La prima parte analizza una disamina sui valori formali e materiali del cornicione; esso presenta, infatti, caratteri complessi e riassume, proprio per la doppia valenza di ornamento (coronamento dell’edificio) e componente funzionale (sistema di allontanamento delle acque meteoriche dalla facciata) le problematiche che derivano da esigenze forma…
Development and sustainable tourism as choice for the future: the city of Venice
2014
Scuba diver behaviour and its effects on the biota of a Mediterranean marine protected area
2009
The effects of diving activity in different Mediterranean subtidal habitats are scarcely known. This study evaluates diver behaviour (for example time spent in each habitat), use (contacts made with the substrate) and immediate effects of diver contact on benthic species in a marine protected area (MPA) in Sicily. Over a two-year period, intentions of 105 divers were observed within seven subtidal habitats: algae on horizontal substrate, algae on vertical substrate, Posidonia oceanica, encrusted walls, caves, sand and pebbles. Divers selected a habitat in proportion to its availability along the scuba trail. On average, each diver made 2.52 contacts every seven minutes, and no differences w…
Valuing the unmarketable: an ecological approach to the externalities estimate in fishing activities
2013
In a rapidly changing world, sustainability, if it can be said to exist at all, is concept that has attained mythic status, often pursued and rarely reached. In order to improve our capability to cope with environmental problems, adopting an Ecosystem Approach has been suggested. One of the major challenges in the implementation of this new paradigm relates to control of externalities. The recognition and quantification of externalities is often cast as valuing the unmarketable, and there are several approaches that have been proposed. Here, we analyze the opportunity to “feed” the economic valuation with ecological concepts. From an ecological perspective, the energy required to sustain a …
Trophic adaptability shapes isotopic niche of the resident fish Aphanius fasciatus across lagoon habitats
2022
Abstract Coastal lagoons are characterized by high habitat heterogeneity where natural habitats coexist with artificial ones, historically set up to support human activities. Increasing anthropogenic pressure may lead to progressive degradation of the most vulnerable lagoonal habitats and the associated biological communities. One of the strictly estuarine-dependent fish species that may be affected by the degradation of lagoon habitats is the South European toothcarp Aphanius fasciatus, archetype of Mediterranean lagoon residents. Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes were used to disentangle the influence of habitat types (natural vs artificial) and fish community (multi-trophic context) on…