The Social Network: Electronic/Ambient Album or Collaborative OST? (a.k.a. the Importance of Music and Video Editors)

The Social Network (2010) has been recognized, by both critics and audiences, as one of the best movies of 2010. Its peculiar soundtrack and film editing techniques enhance the sparkling script in such a way that the result is an incredibly dense, almost hard to follow, movie about the creation of the nowadays most used social network in the world. In this paper it will be discussed the unusual creative process that led to the finalization of the soundtrack and it will be analyzed whether such creative process could be an innovative and more efficient way of composing music to picture.https://remix.berklee.edu/graduate-studies-scoring/1034/thumbnail.jp

Intercultural comics : an expresson of the african voice

La necesidad de una educación intercultural es cada día más evidente y necesaria en un universo comunicado e interdependiente. Sin embargo, las tecnologías no van siempre al compás de las evolución de las culturas y los modelos de vivir y sentir de las comunidades. Por ello, se hace necesario el desarrollo de propuestas didácticas interculturales, a través de los propios medios de comunicación, con el objeto de dotar a niños y adolescentes de los instrumentos necesarios para saber decodificar y reconocer los estereotipos que suelen acompañar la representación de determinadas culturas.The need for intercultural education is growing more evident in an increasingly communicative and interdependent. However, technologies do not always ma- tch the evolution of the diverse cultures and communities and their models for living and feeling. Thus, it becomes necessary to develop intercultural educative projects for the media in order to provide children and teenagers with the necessary tools that help them decode and recognise the many stereotypes usually accompanying the representation of those culture

Il rapporto tra capitale pubblico e altre variabili macroeconomiche: un'applicazione empirica

The issue of whether public capital is productive has received a great deal of attention in the last period, especially after the sovereign public debt crisis in some European countries. This work tries to estimate the dynamic effects of public capital on some macroeconomic variables (such as private capital, employment and economic growth measured as GDP), using the vector autoregressive methodology (especially the VECM – Vector Error Correction Model) for a set of some OECD countries with similar economic features (France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom and United States of America). The empirical analyses of public capital productivity is limited to a small sample of countries for which official capital stock estimates are available. The lack of data is always a big problem in the analyses of this problem. For this reason, we built a new database that provides internationally comparable capital stock estimates for the countries mentioned above. The empirical results suggest that there is evidence for positive output effects of public capital but not exactly the same for the other variables, employment and private capital

IDENTIFICATION OF HOLSTEIN COWS CARRIERS OF COMPLEX VERTEBRAL MALFORMATION BY HIGH RESOLUTION MELTING CURVES (HRM)

The objective of this study was the optimization and implementation of a reliable and economical molecular screening method for the detection of the mutant allele of CVM (complex vertebral malformation, c.559G>T, SLC35A3) by HRM analysis, as well as analyzing its existence in a representative sample of Holstein cows from the Milk Genomic DNA Bank of Uruguay. The optimization of the HRM methodology in the RotorGene™ 6000 equipment (Corbett Life Science, Australia) by amplification of the 79 bp PCR products clearly differentiated the two genotypes: homozygous, wild type: GG; and heterozygous, carrier for the mutation CVM: GT (c.559G>T; SLC35A3). In the analyzed sample, the frequency of the mutant allele (T) for CVM was high (q = 0.032), with a prevalence of carrier cows of 6.45%. It is concluded that the PCR-HRM analysis is a fast, easily interpretable, low cost, and highly accurate technique for the detection of this mutation in Holstein cattle, which may be implemented in genetic selection programs

ESPERIENZE DAL NORD E DAL SUD DEL MONDO VERSO LA CREAZIONE DI POLITICHE ALIMENTARI URBANE IN GRADO DI RENDERE PIU' SOSTENIBILI I SISTEMI ALIMENTARI DELLE CITTA'

Urban food policies are powerful institutional actions, to build more sustainable food systems of contemporary cities. These new policies are designed with a systemic and cross-sectoral approach, they able to act at the intersection of different issues and fields such as water, waste, planning, health, transport, education, environment, trade. We will describe the experiences developed in the Northern and Southern cities of the world (with a focus on West, Africa and Latin America), through the recent Milan Urban Food Policy Pact, which could start a new kind of city-to-city cooperation initiatives

Il settore costruzioni in Italia: crisi e opportunità nell’ultimo decennio.

In questo lavoro si presenta una mappa delle grandi trasformazioni del settore costruzioni italiano avvenute nell’ultimo decennio. Il lavoro è articolato in due parti. La prima ricostruisce il quadro macroeconomico delle costruzioni attraverso i dati Istat. La seconda, ha un impianto microeconomico e analizza i dati di bilancio AIDA delle imprese del settore costruzioni. Dai dati emerge una dinamica settoriale complessivamente recessiva fino al 2013, con alcuni recenti segnali di ripresa che vanno consolidati. Interventi di politica attiva nel mercato del lavoro, e per gli investimenti in nuove costruzioni e riqualificazione abitativa, sembrano essere le misure più auspicabili. Classificazione JEL: J08, E22, G3. Parole chiave: Settore Costruzioni; Investimento; Finance. The construction industry in Italy: crisis and opportunities over the last decade This paper presents a map of the great transformations of the Italian construction sector that took place in the last decade. The paper is divided into two parts. The first one reconstructs the macroeconomic transformations of this sector by means of data provided by Istat. The second one has a microeconomic content and analyzes the AIDA balance sheet data of companies acting in the construction sector. Data shows an overall recessional dynamics up to 2013, with some recent signs of rebound but still to consolidate. Active policies in the labor market and subsidies for investments in environmental sustainable construction, and building improvement schemes seem to be the most desirable measures to relaunch the sector. JEL classification:. JEL: J08, E22, G3. Keywords: Constructuin industry; Employment; Finance

HIGH- RESOLUTION MELTING (HRM) CURVE ANALYSIS: NEW APPROACH USED TO DETECT BLAD AND DUMPS IN URUGUAYAN HOLSTEIN BREED

The widespread use of artificial insemination has allowed the expansion of genetic progress. However, it also brought consequences such as the expansion of lethal hereditary diseases and the increase in inbreeding. The object of this study was to establish a fast and sensitive molecular assay to detect bovine leukocyte adhesion deficiency (BLAD) and deficiency of uridine monophosphate synthase (DUMPS) carriers in Uruguayan Holstein cattle by means of high resolution melting (HRM) curve analysis. By testing previously confirmed carrier and non-carrier animals, we set up a rapid, simple, and inexpensive diagnostic test using PCR followed by HRM curve analysis. The PCR-HRM genotyping method was effective for the discrimination of BLAD and DUMPS homozygous genotypes, and the BLAD heterozygous genotype. We conclude that the PCR-HRM assay is a robust, reliable, and economical tool for the detection of these mutations in the Holstein breed, which may be implemented in genetic selection programs

Bioaugmentation of a historically contaminated soil by polychlorinated biphenyls with Lentinus tigrinus

Background: Several species belonging to the ecological group of white-rot basidiomycetes are able to bring about the remediation of matrices contaminated by a large variety of anthropic organic pollutants. Among them, polychlorobiphenyls (PCBs) are characterized by a high recalcitrance due to both their low bioavailability and the inability of natural microbial communities to degrade them at significant rates and extents. Objective of this study was to assess the impact of a maize stalk-immobilized Lentinus tigrinus CBS 577.79 inoculant combined with soybean oil (SO), as a possible PCB-mobilizing agent, on the bioremediation and resident microbiota of an actual Aroclor 1260 historically contaminated soil under unsaturated solid-phase conditions. Results: Best overall PCB depletions (33.6 ± 0.3%) and dechlorination (23.2 ± 1.3%) were found after 60 d incubation in the absence of SO where, however, the fungus appeared to exert adverse effects on both the growth of biphenyl- and chlorobenzoate-degrading bacteria and the abundance of genes coding for both biphenyl dioxygenase (bph) and catechol-2,3-dioxygenase. A significant (P < 0.001) linear inverse relationship between depletion yields and degree of chlorination was observed in both augmented and control microcosms in the absence of SO; conversely, this negative correlation was not evident in SO-amended microcosms where the additive inhibited the biodegradation of low chlorinated congeners. The presence of SO, in fact, resulted in lower abundances of both biphenyl-degrading bacteria and bph. Conclusions: The PCB depletion extents obtained in the presence of L. tigrinus are by far higher than those reported in other remediation studies conducted under unsaturated solid phase conditions on actual site soils historically contaminated by Aroclor 1260. These results suggest that the bioaugmentation strategy with the maize stalk-immobilized mycelium of this species might be promising in the reclamation of PCB-contaminated soils. The addition of SO to matrices contaminated by technical PCB mixtures, such as Aroclor 1242 and Delor 103 and characterized by a large preponderance of low chlorinated congeners, might not be advisable

case study on the choices to be made to limit the damage of the transitional period

Following the transition period, there is a clear reduction in performance levels for individual skills such as jumping, speed, dexterity and strength of the upper limbs. A compensatory working hypothesis is urgently needed to mitigate the damage. The aim of the study is to investigate the motivation, thought and self-criticism of athletes on this subject through the case study with the method of administration of a questionnaire that evaluate the propensity to train in the transition period and preference for methodological choices. The administration was done through a special online platform, in total anonymity so as not to incur in false data. The study is submitted to volleyball athletes of different sex and age. The study involved 67 athletes divided into 3 groups: 19 boys aged between 18 and 29 years, 22 girls aged between 13 and 18 years and 26 other girls aged between 19 and 30 years. From the study conducted shows a favourable propensity to continue the activity during this period by athletes preferring group activities over solo activities. And there is a tendency to leave the decision on the planning of activities to the figure of the coach. In conclusion, the study gives an immediate response to the hypothesis of solving the problem by finding fertile ground in the will of the athletes and in any case ascertains the functionality of the method to be adopted for a study with a large and representative sports sample