Sugli spazi pubblici: discorsi sulla sfera pubblica della città contemporanea

The purpose of this research is to single out new requisites for the public space project, that are suitable to promote acknowledgment of the public dimension of urban space and to reveal the unexpressed potential of the marginal spaces of contemporary city. New interpretations of urban dynamics might suggest fresh resources for the city project and stimulate a renewal of project-work which could give back to public space its political and relational dimension. The aim of this PhD Thesis is to explore the “publicness” of contemporary city. Several scholars argue that most discourses about urban public sphere are focused on the inner city and on the decline of public space, but few attention has been paid on the vitality of alternative and marginal spaces in the urban field. Starting from the recognition of the crucial concept of public and its different meanings, this research analyses the concept of decline of public space and the contemporary need to rethinking public space. This thesis suggests some ways of thinking contemporary public space, its perception and transformation processes. Relationship between public sphere and public space will be discussed by means of the main approaches provided by the scientific literature: the decline of the public sphere, the illusion of the public life, the renaissance of the public space and the utopia of the public space project. Analysing the main discourses on the urban public sphere it will be possible to identify weakness and strengths into the literature on this topic on which to focalize next research activities

La Storia della Facoltà di Architettura

La Facoltà di Architettura di Alghero, istituita con decreto del rettore Alessandro Maida il 24 maggio 2001, nasce con l’obiettivo di attivare un centro studi sull’urbanesimo mediterraneo originato dall’alleanza delle università dell’area del Mediterraneo occidentale (Università di Sassari e Cagliari per la Sardegna, Università di Corte per la Corsica, Università di Maiorca per le Isole Baleari). In un decennio di attività, la Facoltà è già divenuta un polo di eccellenza per l’alta formazione, al servizio delle comunità locali e in funzione del loro sviluppo, mentre il CENSIS la valuta come migliore Facoltà di Architettura d’Italia per produttività, didattica, ricerca e rapporti con l’estero

A Prospective Cohort Analysis of the Prevalence and Predictive Factors of Delayed Discharge After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in Italy: The DeDiLaCo Study

Background: the concept of early discharge ≤24 hours after laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is still doubted in italy. this prospective multicentre study aims to analyze the prevalence of patients undergoing elective LC who experienced a delayed discharge >24 hours in an extensive Italian national database and identify potential limiting factors of early discharge after LC. methods: this is a prospective observational multicentre study performed from january 1, 2021 to december 31, 2021 by 90 Italian surgical units. results: a total of 4664 patients were included in the study. clinical reasons were found only for 850 patients (37.7%) discharged >24 hours after LC. after excluding patients with nonclinical reasons for delayed discharge >24 hours, 2 groups based on the length of hospitalization were created: the early group (≤24 h; 2414 patients, 73.9%) and the delayed group (>24 h; 850 patients, 26.1%). at the multivariate analysis, ASA III class (P<0.0001), charlson's comorbidity index (P=0.001), history of choledocholithiasis (P=0.03), presence of peritoneal adhesions (P<0.0001), operative time >60 min (P<0.0001), drain placement (P<0.0001), pain (P=0.001), postoperative vomiting (P=0.001) and complications (P<0.0001) were independent predictors of delayed discharge >24 hours. conclusions: the majority of delayed discharges >24 hours after LC in our study were unrelated to the surgery itself. ASA class >II, advanced comorbidity, the presence of peritoneal adhesions, prolonged operative time, and placement of abdominal drainage were intraoperative variables independently associated with failure of early discharge

A Prospective Cohort Analysis of the Prevalence and Predictive Factors of Delayed Discharge After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in Italy: The DeDiLaCo Study

Background: The concept of early discharge ≤24 hours after Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy (LC) is still doubted in Italy. This prospective multicentre study aims to analyze the prevalence of patients undergoing elective LC who experienced a delayed discharge >24 hours in an extensive Italian national database and identify potential limiting factors of early discharge after LC. Methods: This is a prospective observational multicentre study performed from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021 by 90 Italian surgical units. Results: A total of 4664 patients were included in the study. Clinical reasons were found only for 850 patients (37.7%) discharged >24 hours after LC. After excluding patients with nonclinical reasons for delayed discharge >24 hours, 2 groups based on the length of hospitalization were created: the Early group (≤24 h; 2414 patients, 73.9%) and the Delayed group (>24 h; 850 patients, 26.1%). At the multivariate analysis, ASA III class ( P <0.0001), Charlson's Comorbidity Index (P=0.001), history of choledocholithiasis (P=0.03), presence of peritoneal adhesions (P<0.0001), operative time >60 min (P<0.0001), drain placement (P<0.0001), pain ( P =0.001), postoperative vomiting (P=0.001) and complications (P<0.0001) were independent predictors of delayed discharge >24 hours. Conclusions: The majority of delayed discharges >24 hours after LC in our study were unrelated to the surgery itself. ASA class >II, advanced comorbidity, the presence of peritoneal adhesions, prolonged operative time, and placement of abdominal drainage were intraoperative variables independently associated with failure of early discharge

Immagini? Image and imagination between representation, communication, education and psychology

Il 27 e il 28 novembre 2017 si è tenuto a Bressanone, presso la Facoltà di Scienze del-la Formazione della Libera Università di Bolzano, il convegno internazionale e inter-disciplinare IMMAGINI? Image and imagi-nation between representation, communica-tion, education and psychology / On 27 and 28 November 2017, the Faculty of Education of the Free University of Boz-en-Bolzano held in Brixen-Bressanone the international and interdisciplinary confer-ence IMMAGINI? Image and imagination between representation, communication, ed-ucation and psychology

Centrality evolution of the charged-particle pseudorapidity density over a broad pseudorapidity range in Pb-Pb collisions at root s(NN)=2.76TeV

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War and Peace between Words and Pictures. The Picturebooks As Neutral Ground for the Dialectics between Graphic and Verbal Languages

This article discusses the relationships that have been established throughout history between drawn pictures and written words. An almost epic interweaving of war and peace emerges between the two languages that, depending on the times, cultures and contexts, have sometimes prevailed one over the other, have sometimes allied themselves, and then again fought and imposed themselves on each other. Despite the fact that this diatribe never seems to reach a conclusion, there are some fields in which the two languages seem to succeed in dialoguing in unpredictable and surprising ways. One of these is the picture book, a neutral field in which the longstanding struggles for supremacy between graphic and verbal languages seem to disappear, whereas they instead dialogue and experiment together in new forms of narration. Words and images here renounce their traditional meanings and configuration, defining unusual forms of wordless books, which go far beyond the classic and almost predictable format of the silent books

Graphic, Visual and Image Sciences

Visual sciences, image sciences and graphic sciences are just some of the different possible definitions that can be found in literature to define the field of investigation on the production, perception, visualization, reading and interpretation, of images. Although they represent different approaches and disciplinary traditions, they are often used as synonyms. In this paper is discussed why terms so different in meaning are so interconnected and why it is impossible to investigate one of them without consider the others. IMG journal, Image, Imagination and Imagery has a great potential that is that of becoming a space of maturation, development and deepening for what can be called image sciences, or visual sciences, or graphic sciences. These definitions, which as will be explained below, are often used as synonyms despite the fact that the words they are composed of have profoundly different meanings

Drawing and Cognition in Learning Graphics and in Graphic Learning

This article discusses the relationships between drawing and cognition starting from the concept of graphic intelligence, and going beyond the classic approach, widely deepened in the literature from the field of clinical neuropsychology, linked to a concept of drawing as tool for the evaluation of the cerebral connections functionalities in cases of particular disabilities. Instead, this article analyses the relationships between drawing and cognition focusing to learning processes. Therefore, drawing is considered not only as a product with which to interpret the psychological, bodily-kinesthetic and cognitive spheres of the individual, but also as a tool for stimulating the development of such spheres