Immagini di chiese, immagini di città

Recensione volume "Viste da fuori. L’esterno delle chie- se. Atti del XIV Convegno Liturgico Internazionale. Bose, 2-4 giugno 2016, a cura di Goffredo Boselli, Edizioni Qiqajon, Magnano (Bi) 2017

Fare Chiesa e costruire chiese partecipando

Recensione del convegno "Abitare Celebrare Trasformare. Processi partecipativi tra liturgia e architettura", convegno promosso da Monastero di Bose, Ufficio Nazionale per i Beni Culturali Ecclesiastici e l’Edilizia di Culto della CEI, in collaborazione con il Consiglio Nazionale degli Architetti, Pianificatori, Paesaggisti e Conservatori. Monastero di Bose (Magnano, Biella), 1-3 giugno 2017

Moneo Brock Studio, Chiesa del Signore della Misericordia, Pueblo Serena, Monterrey

Che cosa fa un centro parrocchiale all’interno di un centro commerciale come Pueblo Serena? L’unico modo per costruire una chiesa nel Messico di oggi è quello di collegarla a questo tipo di iniziativa commerciale, oppure semplicemente si tratta – parafrasando il detto popolare – di fare delle chiese dove vanno le persone, dal momento che le persone non vanno in chiesa? È una questione difficile da stabilire. In ogni caso, la chiesa del Signore della Misericordia appare come elemento unico in un ambiente commerciale, rimanendo in un certo senso limitato dalla griglia rigorosa che viene stabilita dall’ottimizzazione dei costi. In questo senso, appare logico che la strategia adottata dai suoi autori consista nella rimozione di parte del suo volume, in modo da creare un edificio che assume il suo status di monumento

A Trezzano sul Naviglio, un’opera di (troppo astratta) materia bianca

Visita alla chiesa di Santa Gianna Beretta Molla, esito di un concorso ad inviti dell’Arcidiocesi di Milano vinto da Quattroassociati. Bianca, pura, ancora intonsa, così si staglia la chiesa di Santa Gianna Beretta Molla nel contesto della periferia milanese di Trezzano sul Naviglio. Che soffra anch’essa della sindrome della freddezza e del distacco di cui molte chiese del nostro tempo sono affette? In verità, uno sguardo attento e una conversazione con i progettisti fanno capire che l’opera è tutt’altro che fredda, al contrario è pulsante di materia, concepita come un monolite stereometrico e candido in un contesto a prima vista spento e ordinario

I Progetti Pilota della Conferenza Episcopale Italiana.

I Progetti Pilota della Conferenza Episcopale Italiana: il bilancio di una esperienza conclusa sei anni fa con l’ultima edizione del concorso che ha visto la progettazione di tre complessi parrocchiali distribuiti tra Nord, Centro e Sud Italia

Use of rice protein concentrate in rainbow trout feeding: preliminary results

During the past decades, the fishery industry has excessively used the world fish captures to produce fishmeal and fish oil in order to prepare feed for aquaculture diets. This has led to a drastic reduction of several fish populations (Hardy, 1999; FAO, 1999). At present 70% of the oil and 34% of fishmeal obtained from captures are used for aquaculture industry and, if the aquaculture production will continue to increase as predicted, in a short time it will absorb the entire world oil and fish meal production. Moreover, since fish meal still constitutes an important part of the feed formula for cultivated fish and since a further increase of fish meal availability will not be possible (Hardy, 2001), its price is expected to continue to increase (Tacon, 1998)

Covid-19 in children: Expressions of type i/ii/iii interferons, trim28, setdb1, and endogenous retroviruses in mild and severe cases

Children with the new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have milder symptoms and a better prognosis than adult patients. Several investigations assessed type I, II, and III interferon (IFN) signatures in SARS-CoV-2 infected adults, however no data are available for pediatric patients. TRIM28 and SETDB1 regulate the transcription of multiple genes involved in the immune response as well as of human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs). Exogenous viral infections can trigger the activation of HERVs, which in turn can induce inflammatory and immune reactions. Despite the potential cross-talks between SARS-CoV-2 infection and TRIM28, SETDB1, and HERVs, information on their expressions in COVID-19 patients is lacking. We assessed, through a PCR real time Taqman amplification assay, the transcription levels of six IFN-I stimulated genes, IFN-II and three of its sensitive genes, three IFN-lIIs, as well as of TRIM28, SETDB1, pol genes of HERV-H, -K, and -W families, and of env genes of Syncytin (SYN)1, SYN2, and multiple sclerosis-associated retrovirus (MRSV) in peripheral blood from COVID-19 children and in control uninfected subjects. Higher expression levels of IFN-I and IFN-II inducible genes were observed in 36 COVID-19 children with mild or moderate disease as compared to uninfected controls, whereas their concentrations decreased in 17 children with severe disease and in 11 with multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C). Similar findings were found for the expression of TRIM-28, SETDB1, and every HERV gene. Positive correlations emerged between the transcriptional levels of type I and II IFNs, TRIM28, SETDB1, and HERVs in COVID-19 patients. IFN-III expressions were comparable in each group of subjects. This preserved induction of IFN-λs could contribute to the better control of the infection in children as compared to adults, in whom IFN-III deficiency has been reported. The upregulation of IFN-I, IFN-II, TRIM28, SETDB1, and HERVs in children with mild symptoms, their declines in severe cases or with MIS-C, and the positive correlations of their transcription in SARS-CoV-2-infected children suggest that they may play important roles in conditioning the evolution of the infection

Multiwavelength characterisation of an ACT-selected, lensed dusty star-forming galaxy at z=2.64

We present \ci\,(2--1) and multi-transition $^{12}$CO observations of a dusty star-forming galaxy, ACT\,J2029+0120, which we spectroscopically confirm to lie at $z$\,=\,2.64. We detect CO(3--2), CO(5--4), CO(7--6), CO(8--7), and \ci\,(2--1) at high significance, tentatively detect HCO$^{+}$(4--3), and place strong upper limits on the integrated strength of dense gas tracers (HCN(4--3) and CS(7--6)). Multi-transition CO observations and dense gas tracers can provide valuable constraints on the molecular gas content and excitation conditions in high-redshift galaxies. We therefore use this unique data set to construct a CO spectral line energy distribution (SLED) of the source, which is most consistent with that of a ULIRG/Seyfert or QSO host object in the taxonomy of the \textit{Herschel} Comprehensive ULIRG Emission Survey. We employ RADEX models to fit the peak of the CO SLED, inferring a temperature of T$\sim$117 K and $n_{\text{H}_2}\sim10^5$ cm$^{-3}$, most consistent with a ULIRG/QSO object and the presence of high density tracers. We also find that the velocity width of the \ci\ line is potentially larger than seen in all CO transitions for this object, and that the $L'_{\rm C\,I(2-1)}/L'_{\rm CO(3-2)}$ ratio is also larger than seen in other lensed and unlensed submillimeter galaxies and QSO hosts; if confirmed, this anomaly could be an effect of differential lensing of a shocked molecular outflow.Comment: Accepted for publication in Ap

Parallaxes of southern extremely cool objects III : 118 L and T dwarfs

We present new results from the Parallaxes of Southern Extremely Cool dwarfs program to measure parallaxes, proper motions and multiepoch photometry of L and early T dwarfs. The observations were made on 108 nights over the course of 8 yr using the Wide Field Imager on the ESO 2.2m telescope. We present 118 new parallaxes of L and T dwarfs of which 52 have no published values and 24 of the 66 published values are preliminary estimates from this program. The parallax precision varies from 1.0 to 15.5mas with a median of 3.8mas. We find evidence for two objects with long term photometric variation and 24 new moving group candidates. We cross-match our sample to published photometric catalogues and find standard magnitudes in up to 16 pass-bands from which we build spectral energy distributions and H-R diagrams. This allows us to confirm the theoretically anticipated minimum in radius between stars and brown dwarfs across the hydrogen burning minimum mass. We find the minimum occurs between L2 and L6 and verify the predicted steep dependence of radius in the hydrogen burning regime and the gentle rise into the degenerate brown dwarf regime. We find a relatively young age of ~2 Gyr from the kinematics of our sample.Peer reviewedFinal Accepted Versio