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Sequencing toponymic change: A quantitative longitudinal analysis of street renaming in Sibiu, Romania.
2021
Recent scholarship in critical toponymy studies has refashioned the understanding of street names from innocent labels to nominal loci of historical memory and vectors of collective identity that are embroiled with power relations. Urban nomenclatures consist of more than mere linguistic signposts deployed onto space to facilitate navigation. Street names are also powerful signposts that indicate the political regime and its socio-cultural values. Drawing on these theoretical insights, this paper is focused on Sibiu (Romania) and explore the city’s shifting namescape in a longitudinal perspective spanning one century and a half of modern history (1875–2020). The analysis is based on a compl…
Effect of a prenatal lifestyle intervention on physical activity level in late pregnancy and the first year postpartum
2017
Background: Despite documented health benefits for mother and baby, physical activity (PA)-level tends to decline in pregnancy. Overweight/obese and physically inactive women are two selected groups at increased risk of pregnancy complications. Thus, efficient strategies to maintain or increase PA-level in pregnancy and the postpartum period, especially among these women, are warranted. This secondary analysis examined the effect of a prenatal lifestyle-intervention on PA-level in late pregnancy and the first year postpartum, with subanalysis on initially physically active versus inactive and normal-weight versus overweight/obese women. Method: The Norwegian Fit for Delivery (NFFD) randomiz…
Heart healthy cities : Genetics loads the gun but the environment pulls the trigger
2021
Abstract The world’s population is estimated to reach 10 billion by 2050 and 75% of this population will live in cities. Two-third of the European population already live in urban areas and this proportion continues to grow. Between 60% and 80% of the global energy use is consumed by urban areas, with 70% of the greenhouse gas emissions produced within urban areas. The World Health Organization states that city planning is now recognized as a critical part of a comprehensive solution to tackle adverse health outcomes. In the present review, we address non-communicable diseases with a focus on cardiovascular disease and the urbanization process in relation to environmental risk exposures inc…
L'articolata struttura familiare, culturale e politica dei Chiaromonte
2015
L'articolo ripercorre la storia della famiglia Chiaromonte, che nel Trecento riuscì ad effettuare una straordinaria ascesa sociale grazie a un'abile strategia matrimoniale e politica. Il principale esponente della famiglia fu Manfredi, che divenne vicario del Regno di Sicilia, duca di Gerba e commissionò la realizzazione del soffitto ligneo della Sala Magna dello Steri di Palermo.
CitySearcher: A City Search Engine For Interests
2017
We introduce CitySearcher, a vertical search engine that searches for cities when queried for an interest. Generally in search engines, utilization of semantics between words is favorable for performance improvement. Even though ambiguous query words have multiple semantic meanings, search engines can return diversified results to satisfy different users' information needs. But for CitySearcher, mismatched semantic relationships can lead to extremely unsatisfactory results. For example, the city Sale would incorrectly rank high for the interest shopping because of semantic interpretations of the words. Thus in our system, the main challenge is to eliminate the mismatched semantic relationsh…
Cibo in città. Dalla foodification al delivery
2021
Many historical centres of our cities have been turned into gastronomic villages en plein air. The food outlets have multiplied and the traditional restaurant has exploded, giving life to a myriad of formats. These formats are increasingly linked to the relaunch offered by Instagram pages, to the apps that manage reservations, to the reviews sites. Linking themselves to the possibilities offered by the web, restaurants have transformed their relationship with the city, the practices of food consumption and the rituals of everyday life. We propose to explore this set of processes, starting from the traditional restaurant, and then moving on to the different forms of food consumption that we …
La formazione iniziale degli insegnanti attraverso la pratica del microteaching.
2014
Le metodologie che fanno uso della videoregistrazione sono sempre più utilizzate nella formazione professionale dei futuri insegnanti. La professionalità del docente richiede oltre alle conoscenze teoriche o disciplinari, la capacità di mobilitare i saperi per organizzare risposte efficaci a problemi complessi e rilevanti e la capacità di riflettere sul proprio agire. È necessario che durante il percorso universitario l’insegnante in formazione acquisisca specifiche competenze e capacità autoriflessive. Questo contributo descrive una metodologia per la creazione di esperienze formative centrate sull’utilizzo della videoregistrazione e per la raccolta di dati sull’effetto del video sull’appr…
FUTURE IS BACK
2017
«Trent'anni fa, un piano per il futuro di New York sarebbe apparso futile» Michael R. Bloomberg, sindaco di New York, che ha introdotto nel 2007 la relazione sul futuro della città per il 2030, PlaNYC, oppose la città degli anni 1970, «interamente concentrata sulla risoluzione di crisi immediate», alla città di quegli anni, «più forte che mai»: consapevole di aver ritrovato il desiderio del futuro. La data dell'11 settembre non è percepita come un presagio della fine della supremazia americana, è un evento superato - Future is back ! Questo ritorno nel futuro è immaginato da tutte le metropoli preoccupate di inserirsi nel mercato dell'attrattività3. Trent'anni dopo la fine del progresso, l'…
Ethics and Politics of the Built Environment: Gardens of the Anthropocene
2017
This book is a reflection on the role of gardens in our thinking about our environments, and on the role of urban gardening in our acting and for our environments. More generally, it is an exploration of the ethical and political station of individuals in the Anthropocene - this new epoch in which the Earth is being remade by human activity. The book argues that, in the new epoch, urban gardens and gardening are to become 1) conceptual models for reflecting on the human station within the wider workings of things; 2) contexts and practices of stewardship that enable the fulfillment of individual moral obligations against important global challenges - including food security, climate change,…
Factors associated with first- versus second-generation long-acting antipsychotics prescribed under ordinary clinical practice in Italy
2018
Background For many years, long-acting intramuscular (LAI) antipsychotics have been prescribed predominantly to chronic and severe patients, as a last resort when other treatments failed. Recently, a broader and earlier use of LAIs, particularly second-generation LAIs, has been emphasized. To date, few studies attempted to frame how this change in prescribing took place in real-world practice. Therefore, this study aimed to describe the clinical features of patients prescribed with LAIs, and to explore possible prescribing differences between first- and second-generations LAIs under ordinary clinical practice in Italy. Methods The STAR Network "Depot" Study is an observational, longitudinal…