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La violenza delle mafie
2017
Nell’ambito delle attività promosse dal progetto STAR-Linea 1 The use of violence and organized crime. A socio-economic analysis of Camorra clans in Campania, «Meridiana» ha organizzato una tavola rotonda sul tema della violenza delle mafie che si è tenuta il 9 novembre 2017 presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche dell’Università di Napoli Federico II durante i due giorni del Convegno finale di presentazione dei risultati del progetto. Alla tavola rotonda, coordinata da Monica Massari, hanno partecipato studiosi e studiose del fenomeno mafioso di diverse generazioni e ambiti disciplinari, presenti in quei giorni a Napoli per partecipare al Convegno. Nelle pagine che seguono si riportano…
Spoken-Word Segmentation and Dyslexia
2002
We used magnetoencephalography to elucidate the cortical activation associated with the segmentation of spoken words in nonreading-impaired and dyslexic adults. The subjects listened to binaurally presented sentences where the sentence-ending words were either semantically appropriate or inappropriate to the preceding sentence context. Half of the inappropriate final words shared two or three initial phonemes with the highly expected semantically appropriate words. Two temporally and functionally distinct response patterns were detected in the superior temporal lobe. The first response peaked at approximately 100 msec in the supratemporal plane and showed no sensitivity to the semantic appr…
More comprehensive proprioceptive stimulation of the hand amplifies its cortical processing
2021
Corticokinematic coherence (CKC) quantifies the phase coupling between limb kinematics and cortical neurophysiological signals reflecting proprioceptive feedback to the primary sensorimotor (SM1) cortex. We studied whether the CKC strength or cortical source location differs between proprioceptive stimulation (i.e., actuator-evoked movements) of right-hand digits (index, middle, ring, and little). Twenty-one volunteers participated in magnetoencephalography measurements during which three conditions were tested: 1) simultaneous stimulation of all four fingers at the same frequency, 2) stimulation of each finger separately at the same frequency, and 3) simultaneous stimulation of the fingers…
Automatic Processing of Changes in Facial Emotions in Dysphoria: A Magnetoencephalography Study
2018
It is not known to what extent the automatic encoding and change detection of peripherally presented facial emotion is altered in dysphoria. The negative bias in automatic face processing in particular has rarely been studied. We used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to record automatic brain responses to happy and sad faces in dysphoric (Beck’s Depression Inventory ≥ 13) and control participants. Stimuli were presented in a passive oddball condition, which allowed potential negative bias in dysphoria at different stages of face processing (M100, M170, and M300) and alterations of change detection (visual mismatch negativity, vMMN) to be investigated. The magnetic counterpart of the vMMN was el…
Brain Functional Effects of Psychopharmacological Treatment in Major Depression: A Focus on Neural Circuitry of Affective Processing
2015
In the last two decades, neuroimaging research has reached a much deeper understanding of the neurobiological underpinnings of major depression (MD) and has converged on functional alterations in limbic and prefrontal neural networks, which are mainly linked to altered emotional processing observed in MD patients. To date, a considerable number of studies have sought to investigate how these neural networks change with pharmacological antidepressant treatment. In the current review, we therefore discuss results from a) pharmacological functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies investigating the effects of selective serotonin or noradrenalin reuptake inhibitors on neural activation…
“GENDER NEUTRALITY” E “GENDER SEGREGATION” IN UNA PROFESSIONE TRADIZIONALMENTE FEMMINILE
2016
L’ingresso progressivo delle donne nel mondo del lavoro è stato accompagnato da una sostanziale “gender segregation”, che si evidenzia soprattutto in talune professioni di cura, fra cui quella dell’assistente sociale. Secondo l’autrice, non si è trattato solo, nel XX secolo, di separare foucultianamente le professioni maschili da quelle femminili, favorendo di fatto un ingresso di “genere” alle professioni, quanto di imporre un modello culturale e un habitus comportamentale “ gender neutrality” alle lavoratrici e alle professioniste. L’autrice individua una possibile causa dell’imposizione del modello “gender neutral” in un retaggio culturale “positivista e razionalista”, volto a sminuire ‒…
Maschilità "sacrificate", maschilità "esibite" e maschilità "revansciste" nel sex work di strada
2022
Il presente articolo, approfondendo dei dati etnografici sul sex work maschile di strada raccolti dall'autore tra il 2011 e il 2018, intende evidenziare i significati attribuiti allo scambio sessuo-economico e delineare le relazioni gerarchiche che si definiscono per via della costruzione egemonica di genere e sessuale ma anche, inevitabilmente, per la corresponsione di una paga a seguito di una prestazione con l'obiettivo di identificare le modalità attraverso le quali si costruiscono modelli di maschilità situazionali e negoziate. L'analisi prova che la reputazione maschile deve essere costantemente preservata e dal momento che determina una sorta di rendita da posizionamento, essa è cost…
Male Sex Working and Masculinity: Finding ‘Check and Balance’ Between Stigmatisation and Homosexualisation
2021
Abstract in conference proceedings
SEX WORK IS (ALSO) A MALE THING. The long journey towards legitimisation
2022
This chapter aims at re- shaping the representations, theories, rhetoric, organisation, and types of male sex work as a complex, uncomfortable, and controversial phenomenon located at the crossroads of masculinity and socio- sexual change – something in between traditional models, new configurations, and new normativities.
Toolbox for Distance Estimation and Cluster Validation on Data With Missing Values
2022
Missing data are unavoidable in the real-world application of unsupervised machine learning, and their nonoptimal processing may decrease the quality of data-driven models. Imputation is a common remedy for missing values, but directly estimating expected distances have also emerged. Because treatment of missing values is rarely considered in clustering related tasks and distance metrics have a central role both in clustering and cluster validation, we developed a new toolbox that provides a wide range of algorithms for data preprocessing, distance estimation, clustering, and cluster validation in the presence of missing values. All these are core elements in any comprehensive cluster analy…