La frana sul Caos della città dei Templi

Il 19 luglio del 1966 a Agrigento fu apocalisse. Svelò trame, illegalità, corruzioni, pratiche diffuse di malgoverno. Quel giorno si scoperchiò il pentolone di una speculazione edilizia smisurata e arrogante. La politica si permetteva tutto, senza ritegno. La magistratura – ma non solo essa – non vedeva, non sentiva, forse dormiva. Palazzi che non dovevano superare i 25 metri di altezza ne raggiungevano 53. Altre costruzioni, che dovevano arrivare a 17 metri, salivano fino a 48. Via Empedocle era la più abusata. Fu frana tremenda. Col merito, paradossale, di mettere un freno a eccessi per non poche ragioni ingiustificabili

Diseguaglianza, fiducia e capitale sociale nel Mezzogiorno

La carenza di capitale sociale del Mezzogiorno pu\uf2 essere spiegata, almeno in parte, con la maggiore incidenza delle diseguaglianz

The Powered Generation: Canadians, Electricity, and Everyday Life

Most studies of electricity in Canada have examined the process of electrification from a business or political perspective, emphasizing the role of private and public institutions in electrifying the country. Such approaches neglect the primary targets of the electrification process: Canadians as consumers of electricity. This dissertation analyzes electrification as a social phenomenon. Drawing from archival sources in Canada and the United States, as well as newspapers, magazines, and government documents, the author addresses technological debates in Canadian history and investigates the relationship between technology and society. The broader themes in this dissertation include: urban electrification, rural electrification, domestic electrification and the changing role of electricity in medicine. These areas of electrification in Canada indicate that while electricity may have had some transformative effect on Canadian society, it stopped short of revolutionizing people’s lives; electricity simply made it easier — for those who could afford it — to accomplish the same tasks (at home, on the farm, and in the city) people had been performing for hundreds of years. Canadians adopted new electrical technologies to suit traditional needs, and evidence suggests that established cultural practices informed the path of electrical development in Canada. This dissertation is the first study of the social implications of electrification in Canada on a nationwide scale, and a step toward understanding the broader social implications of technological change for Canadians

Family Well-Being Under Pressure: Rhythmanalysis Applied to Post Pandemic Family Dynamics

This contribution deals with the centrality of family relationships for the production of individual well-being, both on a cognitive level, i.e. as an influence on satisfaction with one’s own life and, therefore, as the outcome of a cognitive evaluation, and on an experiential and emotional level, i.e. as an influence on moment-to-moment experience. It starts from an analysis of subjective well-being, arriving at a concept of relational well-being, whilst proposing an approach of rhythmanalysis as a tool for understanding the changes occurring in family dynamics in the post-Covid era

L’epicentro del malessere. Gli indicatori di benessere e la situazione in Italia

This article deals with the general theme of well-being with the specific aim of examining the emotional climate in Italy, now characterised by the spread of negative feelings such as anger and worry, and assessing what available data allow us to identify the generative factors and social bases. We will see which social phenomena the available data allow us to identify as those that can explain the growth of these unpleasant or negative affects and which social basis can be the most directly affected by these phenomena

Ruptured aortic arch aneurysm: transposition of aortic arch branches after insertion of thoracic endovascular stent with extra-anatomic brain perfusion

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Lymphatic Vascular Structures : A New Aspect in Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the most common diabetic microvascular complication and major cause of blindness in working-age adults. According to the level of microvascular degeneration and ischemic damage, DR is classified into non-proliferative DR (NPDR), and end-stage, proliferative DR (PDR). Despite advances in the disease etiology and pathogenesis, molecular understanding of end-stage PDR, characterized by ischemia- and inflammation-associated neovascularization and fibrosis, remains incomplete due to the limited availability of ideal clinical samples and experimental research models. Since a great portion of patients do not benefit from current treatments, improved therapies are essential. DR is known to be a complex and multifactorial disease featuring the interplay of microvascular, neurodegenerative, metabolic, genetic/epigenetic, immunological, and inflammation-related factors. Particularly, deeper knowledge on the mechanisms and pathophysiology of most advanced PDR is critical. Lymphatic-like vessel formation coupled with abnormal endothelial differentiation and progenitor cell involvement in the neovascularization associated with PDR are novel recent findings which hold potential for improved DR treatment. Understanding the underlying mechanisms of PDR pathogenesis is therefore crucial. To this goal, multidisciplinary approaches and new ex vivo models have been developed for a more comprehensive molecular, cellular and tissue-level understanding of the disease. This is the first step to gain the needed information on how PDR can be better evaluated, stratified, and treated.Peer reviewe

Il differenziale di capitale sociale e fiducia fra uomini e donne. Una rassegna degli studi e una prima analisi dei dati di survey

In spite of the great interest aroused by the notion of social capital in the scientific community, in publications, including popular ones, and in the world of journalism, and in spite of the amount of research and publications produced over the years, the topic of the relationship between social capital and gender seems to have been rather neglected for a long time (Molyneux, 2002). In the reference authors on the concept of social capital, from Coleman (2005) to Bourdieu (1980) from Granovetter (1998) to Putnam (2004), it is difficult to find, if not a thematisation, at least a reference to a gender difference in relation to the endowment of social capital. Nor, however, can it be assumed that they consider the issue of gender indifferent to the endowment of social capital, its activation and its forms. As early as 1988, Campbell had already shown the differences in male and female relational networks: women's networks were, both numerically and in terms of prestige, poorer, with consequences in terms of the very 'productivity' of social capital. Assuming that networks help to find work, female ones helped to find it later than male ones. Another researcher, Burt (1998), had shown that the benefits of being at the centre of 'structural holes', i.e. having a wealth of relationships linking different groups that have no other channels to communicate, benefits men but risks slowing down the career path of women for whom, on the other hand, integration in strongly hierarchised networks headed by a single male person constitutes a competitive advantage. In short, the evidence of the relevance of gender for a complete conceptualisation of social capital is almost contemporary to the focus of the concept itself and yet, it is only in recent years that the issue seems to have acquired a significant centrality in research and studies