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Modelli o metafore?
La conoscenza, scientifica o filosofica che sia, si avvale spesso di modelli per avvicinarsi a una più compiuta comprensione del reale. E i modelli, in quanto tali, debbono all’andamento spurio del linguaggio più di quanto siano disposti a concedere. E allora: in quanto strumenti di comprensione, vale a dire di semplificazione di una realtà per definizione più complessa, non rischiano di rimanere, sempre e comunque, poco più che delle metafore? È forse possibile dire dei modelli teorici sviluppati dalle scienze quello che Nietzsche pensava delle metafore adoperate dai “ricercatori di verità”
Psichiatria e filosofia. Allittero ergo sum. Psicolatrie e filosofemi_psicolatrati e filosofischi
In the story of culture, Philosophy and Psychiatry have intercepted each other more frequently to emphasize methodological distinctions than to integrate their respective analyses into a coherent picture. A story of disagreements, of categorical closures followed by sudden and not always sincere concordance in the name of the opposing concepts
of Universality and Medicine, one would say. Here we ask whether it is still possible to rebuilt a conceptual framework, a new chapter in this relationship, to imagine new discursive possibilities
Implementation of the PaperRank and AuthorRank indices in the Scopus database
We implement the PaperRank and AuthorRank indices introduced in [Amodio & Brugnano, 2014] in the Scopus database, in order to highlight quantitative and qualitative information that the bare number of citations and/or the h-index of an author are unable to provide. In addition to this, the new indices can be cheaply updated in Scopus, since this has a cost comparable to that of updating the number of citations. Some examples are reported to provide insight in their potentialities, as well as possible extensions
A tutto neuros
Le nuove tecnologie legate al
neuroimaging funzionale come
il fMRI stanno conducendo a
una vera e propria mappatura
del cervello umano. I
neuroscienzati ritengono di
aver compreso (o di essere
sulla buona strada per
comprendere) le regole del
comportamento umano e di poter
leggere chiaramente le
motivazioni inconsce che
stanno dietro ogni nostra
scelta
Su Vero e Falso in senso gravitazionale, ovvero di virtuosismi virtuali
ON TRUTH AND FAKE
IN A GRAVITATIONAL SENSE, OR
ABOUT VIRTUAL VIRTUOSITIES
The discovery of the
existence of
gravitational waves not
only represents the
experimental proof of
Einstein’s theory, but
also an improvement of
the world of Physics.
In fact, gravitational
waves are directly
connected to the
structure of the
radiant objects, it is
just like they gave us
back a “snapshot”, thus
making possible the
construction of new
maps of the Sky, that
will no longer be based
on visible light, Xrays,
or infrared rays,
but exactly on the
particles forming the gravitational waves. So, the President of “Società Italiana di Relatività
Generale e Fisica della Gravitazione (Sigrav)” can affirm: «We may discover new Worlds, identify
wormholes and live the experience of deforming the order of past, present and future as well as the
way we are used to perceiving them». Plurality of Worlds and deformation of Time: in a way, the
Virtuality of physic Reality gets stronger. Hence, S&F_ aims to open a consideration about the
state of the art of the “Virtual” – a notion that from Medieval ontology seems to set up itself as
the litmus paper no longer and not only of “potential” Reality, but of Reality itself. The purpose
of this Dossier will be investigating virtual Semantics in a multidisciplinary key, in order to
verify if the concept of Virtual has effectively ceased to mean the Fake and, by consequence, to
which extent it has become able to designate the Truth
About Life (forget_about_it). Da lontano sembrano mosche
ABOUT LIFE (FORGET_ABOUT_IT).
THEY LOOK LIKE FLIES FROM A DISTANCE
Philosophy struggles to determinate
and specify the concept of life in
its various connotations and
meanings. The dichotomy between Zoé
and Bios helps in articulating the
distinction between a notion of
life conceived respectively as
something simply lived, as an
object, and life as something
characterized by a duration, a
biography, to which we may ascribe
a specific and higher value. These
conceptual couples underlie on the
one hand the controversial and
intensively discussed separation
between organic and inorganic world
and on the other hand the
relationship between animal and
human life. In this sense, the
human being has to be considered
not only as a biological organism,
a mere member of a species, but
also as an individual, part of a
larger context. This seems to widen
the horizons of philosophical
research towards a deeper
investigation on the boundaries
between individual and collective,
framed both in biological (organism and species) and in socio‐political and cultural dimension
(individual and society). Although many reductionist attempts have been made in order to explain
specificity of life exclusively through physical, chemical, i.e. non‐living language, hard sciences
tend to accept the challenge of a philosophical and anti‐reductionist thought. Is it possible to
address the peculiarity of life and the living without violating the legal limits of natural
science? How could it be done
Spectral solution of ODE-IVPs by using SHBVMs
Recently, Hamiltonian Boundary Value Methods (HBVMs), have been used as spectral methods in time for effectively solving multi-frequency, highly-oscillatory and/or stiffly-oscillatory problems. A complete analysis of their use in such a fashion has been also carried out, providing a theoretical framework explaining their effectiveness. We report here a few numerical examples showing their potentialities to provide a fully accurate solver for general ODE problems
Susceptibility of SARS-CoV2 infection in children
Coronavirus disease 2019 in children presents with distinct phenotype in comparison to adults. Overall, the pediatric infection with a generally milder clinical course of the acute infection compared to adults still faces several unknown aspects. Specifically, the presence of a wide range of inflammatory manifestations, including multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), myocarditis, and long COVID in the period after infection suggests a particular susceptibility of some children upon severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Albeit peculiar complications such as long covid are less frequent in children compared to adults, research on the relationship between inflammatory syndromes and SARS-CoV-2 is rapidly evolving. Conclusions: new studies and findings continue to emerge, providing further insights into the underlying mechanisms and potential therapeutic strategies. In the present work, we revised current knowledge of the main factors accounting for such variability upon SARS-CoV-2 infection over the pediatric age group.What is Known:& BULL; COVID19 in children overall showed a milder course compared to adults during the acute phase of the infection.& BULL; Children showed to be susceptible to a wide range of post infectious complications including multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), myocarditis, neuroinflammation, and long COVID.What is New:& BULL; Mechanisms underlying susceptibility to a severe course of the infection were recently shown to pertain to the host.& BULL; A specific combination of HLA was recently shown to be associated to higher susceptibility to MIS-C in children
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