Un HGIS per lo studio dei catasti storici della città di Parma

Già da alcuni decenni le discipline che si occupano di storia urbana possono avvalersi delle potenzialità legate allo sviluppo delle tecnologie informatiche. L’impiego dei GIS sviluppati su cartografia storica, in grado di archiviare grandi quantità di dati e riferirli alle rispettive coordinate spaziali, permette oggi di riconsiderare alcuni fenomeni nella loro distribuzione territoriale. In questa direzione all’interno del DICATeA dell’Università degli Studi di Parma sul finire del 2012 ha preso avvio un progetto multidisciplinare che prevede la realizzazione di un HGIS sui catasti storici figurativi della città. La presenza di ben quattro catasti geometrici storici, realizzati a partire dalla seconda metà del Settecento e basati sulla stessa matrice territoriale, permette di impostare un sistema a più soglie e di effettuare una lettura regressiva della storia urbana dalla fine del XVIII secolo ad oggi. La scelta di lavorare su fonti di tipo catastale, oltre a essere legata alla quantità e alla qualità dei dati presenti, è altresì favorita dalla duplice struttura dei catasti moderni che, abbinando descrizioni di carattere cartografico a descrizioni di carattere testuale, ben si prestano ad essere analizzati sfruttando appieno le potenzialità offerte dalle strumentazioni GIS. La rappresentazione zenitale dei catasti geometrici-particellari consente di ottenere, grazie a operazioni di georeferenziazione, la sovrapposizione tra diverse mappe (anche realizzate in diversi periodi storici) e una lettura geometricamente e dimensionalmente corretta. Con la realizzazione del GIS sarà quindi possibile studiare alcuni fenomeni storici da un punto di vista spaziale e operare letture sincroniche e diacroniche sulla storia della città.Already for several decades disciplines that are involved in urban history can take advantage of the potential offered by the development of information technology. Nowadays the use of GIS developed on historical maps, able to store large amounts of data and relate them to their spatial coordinates, allows to reconsider some phenomena in their spatial distribution. In this direction within the DICATeA of the University of Parma at the end of 2012 started a multidisciplinary project that provides for the construction of a HGIS on historic figurative cadastres of the city. The presence of four historical geometric cadastres, made from the second half of the eighteenth century and based on the same territorial matrix, allows to realize a multi-thresholds system and a regressive reading of urban history from the late eighteenth century to today. The choice to work on this type of sources, in addition to be linked to the quantity and quality of data present, is also encouraged by dual structure of modern registers that, combining cartographic descriptions with textual descriptions of characters, lend themeselves to be analyzed by exploiting the full potential offered by GIS. The zenithal representation of the detailed-geometric maps allows to obtain, thanks to georeferencing operations, the overlap between different maps (also made in different historical periods) and a geometrically and dimensionally correct reading. With the implementation of GIS will be possible to study some historical phenomena from a spatial point of view and operate synchronic and diachronic readings on the history of the city.Peer Reviewe

Chapter Tecniche integrate di rilievo fotogrammetrico e TLS per la documentazione di architetture dipinte

The 43rd UID conference, held in Genova, takes up the theme of ‘Dialogues’ as practice and debate on many fundamental topics in our social life, especially in these complex and not yet resolved times. The city of Genova offers the opportunity to ponder on the value of comparison and on the possibilities for the community, naturally focused on the aspects that concern us, as professors, researchers, disseminators of knowledge, or on all the possibile meanings of the discipline of representation and its dialogue with ‘others’, which we have broadly catalogued in three macro areas: History, Semiotics, Science / Technology. Therefore, “dialogue” as a profitable exchange based on a common language, without which it is impossible to comprehend and understand one another; and the graphic sign that connotes the conference is the precise transcription of this concept: the title ‘translated’ into signs, derived from the visual alphabet designed for the visual identity of the UID since 2017. There are many topics which refer to three macro sessions: - Witnessing (signs and history) - Communicating (signs and semiotics) - Experimenting (signs and sciences) Thanks to the different points of view, an exceptional resource of our disciplinary area, we want to try to outline the prevailing theoretical-operational synergies, the collaborative lines of an instrumental nature, the recent updates of the repertoires of images that attest and nourish the relations among representation, history, semiotics, sciences

RESANARE. Dieci anni di tesi di laurea in Restauro, Analisi e Recupero del costruito

Guardare agli edifici storici con lo sguardo dei giovani architetti che li hanno studiati è il modo più efficace per sottolinearne la necessità di valorizzazione. il volume - che riunisce i migliori tra questi sguardi, raccolti in una mostra - offre l'occasione per riflettere sui temi del REStauro e dell'ANAlisi del patrimonio architettonico, finalizzati al suo REcupero

XX ANNI DI DIDATTICA DEL DISEGNO nei corsi di Laurea in Architettura dell’Università di Parma

Dall’analisi degli elaborati grafici realizzati dagli studenti nei primi vent’anni di vita dei corsi di Laurea in Architettura dell’Università di Parma, nascono riflessioni sui caratteri del Disegno dell’Architettura e sulle sue trasformazioni e permanenze. Il volume — che riunisce una sintesi significativa di questi disegni all’interno di una mostra — offre l’occasione per riflettere sui temi della Rappresentazione dell’architettura sia di progetto che di rilievo

Electrophysiologic efficacy of irrigated bipolar radiofrequency in the clinical setting

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Integrated survey for architectural restoration: A methodological comparison of two case studies

A preliminary survey campaign is essential in projects of restoration, urban renewal, rebuilding or promotion of architectural heritage. Today several survey techniques allow full 3D object restitution and modelling that provides a richer description than simple 2D representations. However, the amount of data to collect increases dramatically and a trade-off between efficiency and productivity from one side and assuring accuracy and completeness of the results on the other must be found. Depending on the extent and the complexity of the task, a single technique or a combination of several ones might be employed. Especially when documentation at different scales and with different levels of detail are foreseen, the latter will likely be necessary. The paper describes two architectural surveys in Italy: The old village of Navelli (AQ), affected by the earthquake in 2009, and the two most relevant remains in Codiponte (MS), damaged by the earthquake in 2013, both in the context of a project of restoration and conservation. In both sites, a 3D survey was necessary to represent effectively the objects. An integrated survey campaign was performed in both cases, which consists of a GPS network as support for georeferencing, an aerial survey and a field survey made by laser scanner and close range photogrammetry. The two case studies, thanks to their peculiarities, can be taken as exemplar to wonder if the integration of different surveying techniques is today still mandatory or, considering the technical advances of each technology, it is in fact just optional

Characterisation of the immune-related transcriptome in resected biliary tract cancers

Although biliary tract cancers (BTCs) are known to have an inflammatory component, a detailed characterisation of immune-related transcripts has never been performed. In these studies, nCounter PanCancer Immune Profiling Panel was used to assess the expression of 770 immune-related transcripts in the tumour tissues (TTs) and matched adjacent tissues (ATs) of resected BTCs. Cox regression analysis and Kaplan-Meier methods were used to correlate findings with relapse-free survival (RFS). The first analysis in the TT and AT of an exploratory set (n = 22) showed deregulation of 39 transcripts associated with T-cell activation. Risk of recurrence was associated with a greater number of genes deregulated in AT in comparison to TT. Analysis in the whole set (n = 53) showed a correlation between AT cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA4) expression and RFS, which maintained statistical significance at multivariate analysis. CTLA4 expression correlated with forkhead box P3 (FOXP3) expression, suggesting enrichment in T regulatory cells. CTLA4 is known to act by binding to the cluster of differentiation 80 (CD80). No association was seen between AT CD80 expression and RFS. However, CD80 expression differentiated prognosis in patients who received adjuvant chemotherapy. We showed that the immunomodulatory transcriptome is deregulated in resected BTCs. Our study includes a small number of patients and does not enable to draw definitive conclusions; however, it provides useful insights into potential transcripts that may deserve further investigation in larger cohorts of patients. TRANSCRIPT PROFILING: Nanostring data have been submitted to GEO repository: GSE90698 and GSE906

Anti-Mullerian Hormone-to-Testosterone Ratio is Predictive of Positive Sperm Retrieval in Men with Idiopathic Non-Obstructive Azoospermia

The lack of clinically-reliable biomarkers makes impossible to predict sperm retrieval outcomes at testicular sperm extraction (TESE) in men with non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA), resulting in up to 50% of unnecessary surgical interventions. Clinical data, hormonal profile and histological classification of testis parenchyma from 47 white-Caucasian idiopathic NOA (iNOA) men submitted to microdissection TESE (microTESE) were analyzed. Logistic regression analyses tested potential clinical predictors of positive sperm retrieval. The predictive accuracy of all variables was evaluated using the receiver operating characteristic-derived area under the curve, and the clinical net benefit estimated by a decision-curve analysis (DCA). Overall, 23 (49%) and 24 (51%) patients were classified as positive and negative sperm retrievals at microTESE. While circulating hormones associated to a condition of primary hypogonadism did not predict sperm retrieval, levels of anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) and the ratio AMH-to-total Testosterone (AMH/tT) achieved independent predictor status for sperm retrieval at microTESE, with a predictive accuracy of 93% and 95%. Using cutoff values of <4.62 ng/ml for AMH and <1.02 for AMH/tT, positive sperm retrieval was predicted in all individuals, with 19 men out of 47 potentially spared from surgery. DCA findings demonstrated clinical net benefit using AMH and AMH/tT for patient selection at microTESE

Elliptic and hyperelliptic magnetohydrodynamic equilibria

The present study is a continuation of a previous one on "hyperelliptic" axisymmetric equilibria started in [Tasso and Throumoulopoulos, Phys. Plasmas 5, 2378 (1998)]. Specifically, some equilibria with incompressible flow nonaligned with the magnetic field and restricted by appropriate side conditions like "isothermal" magnetic surfaces, "isodynamicity" or P + B^2/2 constant on magnetic surfaces are found to be reducible to elliptic integrals. The third class recovers recent equilibria found in [Schief, Phys. Plasmas 10, 2677 (2003)]. In contrast to field aligned flows, all solutions found here have nonzero toroidal magnetic field on and elliptic surfaces near the magnetic axis.Comment: 9 page