Search results for "movement"

Visions and Forms of Democratic Participation in Italian Universities after 1968

2022

The essay focuses on the ideological aspects and organizational dynamics underlying the 1968 protests in Italian universities. It analyses the inter-generational confrontation within the parties and in the wider public sphere in order to explain the new assembly-based organization in the Italian university. Young people in many countries demanded new spaces for a more direct political action; in Italy this would foster a change in the university representatives and parliamentary bodies which had so far mediated student participation. The UNURI (Italian University’s National Representative Union), founded in 1948, would suffer a crisis in 1968 precisely on the thrust of requests from youth i…

Neutralismo e interventismo in Filippo Meda

2019

Filippo Meda (Milan 1869-1939), lawyer, journalist and leading member of the Lombard Catholic movement, was the first Catholic deputy to enter the Parliament in the Kingdom of Italy. Elected for the first time in 1909, re-elected in 1913, 1919 and 1921, was minister of finance during the government of national unity, under the leadership of Paolo Boselli, and during the following government under Vittorio Emanuele Orlando. At the beginning of World War I, Meda opted for neutrality, but soon he changed his position for strictly political reasons. During his parliamentary and governmental terms, his thoughts, his writings and his speeches took part in the long debate about the crisis of the I…

The wind of protest goes ... and then returns. Feminist movements in Italy from the 1970s to the 2020s

2023

The chapter deals with the actual trends in the sociology of social movements within multi-level governance. In the first part, it illustrates the differences between “Movements of the 1960s and 1970s” and “New” social movements, stressing the approach defined by Jürgen Habermas. As a focus, it points out a critical analysis of collective mobilisation in Italy. In the face of a trend towards alignment of urban governance modes across Europe, current mobilisations revolve around issues of environmental protection, access rights to high-quality schools, higher education, work, protection for working mothers etc. The forecasts of rapid exhaustion of the protest waves of the 1960s and 1970s wit…

Attivisti 5 Stelle a Palermo: un’analisi esplorativa (paper 6.1.1.)

2014

L’intervento presenta i primi risultati di una ricerca esplorativa sugli attivisti del Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S) nella città di Palermo. L’indagine sul meetup palermitano è stata condotta attraverso interviste in profondità, faccia a faccia, a 10 attivisti e a un ex attivista espulso dal M5S . Le interviste hanno permesso di cominciare a delinearne organizzazione, strategie comunicative, attività, problemi attraversati nel tempo. La traccia utilizzata per le interviste è stata elaborata da Roberto Biorcio e condivisa allo scopo di rendere i risultati della ricerca comparabili con quelli delle altre realtà italiane nelle quali è in corso. Lo schema di base è stato integrato con alcuni punti s…

The Metaphor of the Flâneuse: Remembering the Committed Nomadic Existence of Michèle Roberts

2009

Short article: Eye movements when reading text messaging (txt msgng)

2009

The growing popularity of mobile-phone technology has led to changes in the way people—particularly younger people—communicate. A clear example of this is the advent of Short Message Service (SMS) language, which includes orthographic abbreviations (e.g., omitting vowels, as in wk, week) and phonetic respelling (e.g., using u instead of you). In the present study, we examined the pattern of eye movements during reading of SMS sentences (e.g., my hols wr gr8), relative to normally written sentences, in a sample of skilled “texters”. SMS sentences were created by using (mostly) orthographic or phonological abbreviations. Results showed that there is a reading cost—both at a local level and at…

Paradox lost: variable colour-pattern geometry is associated with differences in movement in aposematic frogs

2014

Aposematic signal variation is a paradox: predators are better at learning and retaining the association between conspicuousness and unprofitability when signal variation is low. Movement patterns and variable colour patterns are linked in non-aposematic species: striped patterns generate illusions of altered speed and direction when moving linearly, affecting predators' tracking ability; blotched patterns benefit instead from unpredictable pauses and random movement. We tested whether the extensive colour-pattern variation in an aposematic frog is linked to movement, and found that individuals moving directionally and faster have more elongated patterns than individuals moving randomly and…

Matrix metalloproteinases 2 and 9, and extracellular matrix in Kaposi's sarcoma

2010

Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are associated with Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) tumorigenesis and may contribute to the mechanism of KS invasive growth. To date, only a few MMPs have been studied in KS lesions, and exactly which MMPs are involved in KS development and progression remains unanswered. However, MMPs 2 and 9 have been associated with different phases of angiogenesis, but their role in the proteolytic modification of the extracellular matrix has not been investigated. The results of this study confirm that MMPs, specifically MMP-2 and MMP-9, can contribute to angiogenesis by disrupting the vessel basement membrane and other extracellular matrix barriers, and enabling endothelial cell…

Automatic recognition of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep by artificial neural networks.

1995

Artificial neural networks are well known for their good performance in pattern recognition. Their suitability for detecting REM sleep periods on the basis of preprocessed EEG data in humans under clinical conditions was tested and their performance compared with the manual evaluation. A single channel of the EEG signal was analysed in time periods of 20 s and preprocessed into a vector of six real numbers, which served as input to the network. EOG and EMG information was ignored. Backpropagation was used as a learning rule for the network, which consisted of 12 neurons and 39 synapses. Training datasets were put together from the input vectors and the corresponding sleep stages were scored…

No Effects of Pulsed High-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields on Heart Rate Variability during Human Sleep<sup>1</sup>

1998

The influence of pulsed high-frequency electromagnetic fields emitted by digital mobile radio telephones on heart rate during sleep in healthy humans was investigated. Beside mean RR interval and total variability of RR intervals based on calculation of the standard deviation, heart rate variability was assessed in the frequency domain by spectral power analysis providing information about the balance between the two branches of the autonomic nervous system. For most parameters, significant differences between different sleep stages were found. In particular, slow-wave sleep was characterized by a low ratio of low- and high-frequency components, indicating a predominance of the parasympathe…