Dell’indispensabile ruolo del giudice nel riconoscimento della protezione internazionale, in Italia e in Francia

Abstract: The needful role of the judge in the recognition of international protection, in Italy and France – The aim of the essay is to underline the role of the judge in the field of the international protection for the asylum seekers in Italy and France, given the absence of a clear and unambiguous definition of the notion of refugee as well as of solid evidence within the affairs. For that purpose, after a general overview of the legal framework, it dwells on the active role of the judges in the national procedures for the recognition of the protection, then shortly analysing the case of asylum claims based on persecution because of sexual orientation

La sfida dell’eguaglianza di genere e della tutela dei diritti delle donne nell'Africa subsahariana francofona. Brevi note dalle Corti costituzionali di Madagascar, Senegal e Congo

Il contributo affronta il tema dell’eguaglianza di genere e della tutela dei diritti delle donne nell’Africa subsahariana francofona, analizzandolo nel prisma di tre decisioni in materia dei giudici costituzionali di Madagascar, Senegal e Congo.Title: The Challenge of Gender Equality and Women’s Rights in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa. Brief notes from the Constitutional Courts of Madagascar, Senegal and Congo Abstract: The contribution addresses the issue of gender equality and protection of women’s rights in Francophone sub-Saharan Africa, analysing it in the prism of three decisions on the subject by the constitutional courts of Madagascar, Senegal and Congo

Quale ruolo per le Corti? Riflessioni sulla giustizia costituzionale nell’Africa subsahariana francofona

Lo scopo del contributo è quello di riflettere sul ruolo che la giustizia costituzionale è effettivamente in grado di ricoprire nel tessuto istituzionale di tre Paesi dell’Africa subsahariana francofona, nel prisma di tre recenti sentenze del giudice delle leggi beninese, congolese e nigerino.Title: Which role for the Courts? Reflections on constitutional justice in sub-Saharan Africa Abstract: The purpose of this contribution is to reflect on the role that constitutional justice is able to play in the institutional fabric of three francophone sub-Saharan African countries, in the prism of three recent ruling issued by the Beninese, Congolese and Niger constitutional judges

Spondylodiscitis as Complication of Transrectal Ultrasonography-guided Prostate Biopsy: a Case Report

A 61-year-old man presented with high fever, and severe back and abdominal pain following transrectal ultrasonography (TRUS)-guided prostate biopsy. Diagnosis of spondylodiscitis and psoas abscesses was made based on MRI images of the lumbar tract of the spine. Six-month broad-spectrum antibiotic treatment and immobilization with a girdle overcame the disease without any relapse at the 1-year follow-up. Spondylodiscitis after TRUS-guided prostate biopsy is a rare event, which is not yet included as a major complication of the procedure. It is probably due to the presence of fluoroquinolone-resistant bacteria in faeces. It is, therefore, important to highlight this possibility and to stress the use of targeted antibiotic prophylaxis after rectal flora swabbing with selected antibiotics at sufficient concentrations to be effective

Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and miss- ing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses 36.1 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at √s = 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. No significant excess of events above the estimated backgrounds is observed. The results are in- terpreted in the framework of simplified models of spin-0 dark-matter mediators. For colour- neutral spin-0 mediators produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a pair of dark-matter particles, mediator masses below 50 GeV are excluded assuming a dark-matter candidate mass of 1 GeV and unitary couplings. For scalar and pseudoscalar mediators produced in association with bottom quarks, the search sets limits on the production cross- section of 300 times the predicted rate for mediators with masses between 10 and 50 GeV and assuming a dark-matter mass of 1 GeV and unitary coupling. Constraints on colour- charged scalar simplified models are also presented. Assuming a dark-matter particle mass of 35 GeV, mediator particles with mass below 1.1 TeV are excluded for couplings yielding a dark-matter relic density consistent with measurements