The city mouse and the country mouse: the geography of creativity and cultural production in Italy

Through census employment data we analyze the evolving structure of the Italian cultural economy and highlights diverging spatial and organizational patterns of cultural production systems in urban and regional areas. Whilst large metropolitan areas remain the more important loci of cultural content production and consumption, craft-based sectors and creative systems of design have a tendency to locate in non-metropolitan centers. Based on the historical formation of manufacturing districts and on the emergence of Rome and Milan as “world cities”, the Italian cultural economy provides an interesting case study to analyze the geographical patterns of different cultural product industries. We extend previous literature on the geography of the cultural economy by offering new insights as to conditions in which metropolitan and rural areas emerge as leading centers of cultural production and creativity.

A multimodal restaurant finder for semantic web

Multimodal dialogue systems provide multiple modalities in the form of speech, mouse clicking, drawing or touch that can enhance human-computer interaction. However, one of the drawbacks of the existing multimodal systems is that they are highly domain-specific and they do not allow information to be shared across different providers. In this paper, we propose a semantic multimodal system, called Semantic Restaurant Finder, for the Semantic Web in which the restaurant information in different city/country/language are constructed as ontologies to allow the information to be sharable. From the Semantic Restaurant Finder, users can make use of the semantic restaurant knowledge distributed from different locations on the Internet to find the desired restaurants

‘Of Mice and Poets’. Callimaco e Virgilio in Orazio, sat. II 6

La Satira II 6 di Orazio contiene alcuni sottili riferimenti a passi importanti degli Aitia callimachei e delle Bucoliche virgiliane. Questi riferimenti sono attivi anche nei versi finali della satira dove il topo di campagna saluta il topo di città, e danno alla conclusione della anilis fabella di Cervio un significato non solo etico, ma anche metapoetico. Il rapporto di Orazio con i suoi predecessori è trattato con ironia e auto-ironia, e non implica un’adesione totale ai loro principi poetici. Horace’s Satire II 6 contains a few subtle references to important passages of Callimachus’ Aitia and Vergil’s Eclogues. These references also occur in the two final verses of the Satire where the country mouse says farewell to the city mouse; they provide the ending of Cervius’ anilis fabella with a meaning that is not only ethical, but also metapoetical. Horace’s relationship with his predecessors and models is treated with irony and self-irony, and does not imply a total acceptance of their poetic stances

A reading workbook of stories and exercises with first grade vocabulary and fourth grade interests

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Do successful tuberculosis vaccines need to be immunoregulatory rather than merely Th1-boosting?

Tuberculosis vaccine candidates are entering clinical studies in areas where BCG fails. This is a high-risk strategy. We suggest that geographical variation in the efficacy of BCG is related to the presence in developing countries of a cross-reactive background Th2-like response, probably attributable to exposure of mother and infant to helminths and environmental mycobacteria. Such Th2-like activity can stop Mycobacterium tuberculosis from being pushed into a latent state by the Th1 response, impair bactericidal functions and cause toxicity of TNF-alpha and pulmonary fibrosis. A successful vaccine, rather than driving a Th1 response, might need to suppress this pre-existing subversive Th2-like component. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

Spartan Daily, March 13, 1991

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