El nacimiento del pop: el paisaje sonoro de los primeros sesenta en el cine y la televisión italianos

In post-WWII Europe, film culture related in many different ways to a wide range of modern cultural practices. It had the emerging pop music industry at its centre and this was revolutionizing the landscapes and soundscapes we live in. The aim of my contribution is to delve into these related practices, taking the Italian case as my focus. I will explore its crucial journey to mediatization from the Fifties to the Sixties and will argue that it offers an exemplary trajectory for its (apparently excessive) foregrounding of music and sounds both in national film culture and in the transnational mediascape

Paul Fraisse’s Psychology of Rhythm: A Case for Filmology?

My contribution aims to discuss the topic of rhythm as presented by the classic psychologist and filmologist, Paul Fraisse (1911-1994) in his founding studies, to understand its scope, and to consider the possible inheritance to be spent in contemporary research on film. I will first outline Fraisse’s contribution to the psychology of rhythm, a model grounded both on the value of Gestalt organisation and on related dimensions of sensory-motor activation. Secondly, I will investigate contemporary thinking in this field, showing on the one hand how Fraisse’s contribution still helps the psychology of music in defining rhythmic listening experiences, and on the other how the French scholar’s multilayered notion of time perception finds legitimation in neuroscientific research on timing. Finally, I will delve into film theory. In particular, I will put forward the assumption that the sense of rhythm, due to its values of Gestalt organisation, plays a fundamental role in narrative and event-based viewing, enhancing it; yet, due to the dimensions of sensory-motor activation, sound rhythms, in particular, can induce both bodily and neural entrainment and constitute in film an auditive analogon of those embodied and enactive visual processes recognised by the most recent neurofilmological approaches

Ritmo e audiovisivo. Una questione di metodo

Ritmo e audiovisivo. Una questione di metod

Dose-effect and pharmacokinetics of estrogens given to correct bleeding time in uremia

Dose-effect and pharmacokinetics of estrogens given to correct bleeding time in uremia. Conjugated estrogens have a significant and long-lasting effect in shortening bleeding time in patients with end-stage renal disease. The studies so far available indicate that repeated estrogen administrations are necessary to short bleeding time in uremia in a dose range of 95 to 325mg. With the present study we wanted to establish whether single or repeated doses are required to induce a significant shortening of bleeding time in uremia, and the minimum cumulative dose of conjugated estrogens necessary to control bleeding time for a prolonged period of time, and to check whether the prolonged effect of estrogens on bleeding time in uremia is due to an accumulation of the drug or its metabolites in the blood. Fifteen uremics on chronic hemodialysis were studied. A pilot study carried out in five uremic patients indicated that single or repeated estrogen infusions of 0.3 mg/kg did not significantly influence bleeding time values. Therefore the subsequent studies have been carried out using daily infusion of 0.6 mg/kg. A single estrogen infusion of 0.6 mg/kg shortened bleeding time in all patients. The effect was transient and bleeding time returned to pre-infusion values within 72 hours. A 50% decrease of bleeding time or a shortening of bleeding time more than 30 to 15 minutes or less was obtained in all patients with four or five infusions (0.6 mg/kg) spaced 24 hours apart. The effect lasted for 14 days. At day 25 from the last infusion all the patients had bleeding time values comparable with the pre-infusion ones. Pharmacokinetic parameters of both estrone sulfate and equilin sulfate, the major components of the estrogen mixture we used, were comparable in both controls and uremics and can be described assuming a two compartmental model. After repeated administrations of conjugated estrogens no accumulation of estrone sulfate and equilin sulfate or their metabolites was detectable in blood in both uremics and controls

Il catalogo musicale pop e il cinema delle emozioni: il caso "Yuppi Du" (1975)

In the 1970s, film language faced a change towards a more intensified relationship with the viewer. In my contribution, I consider the case study of \u201cYuppi Du\u201d, a rock opera authored by singer Adriano Celentano in 1975, one of the most conscious attempts in Italy to follow the new trends in musical film. On the basis of recent researches in the psychology of rhythm and musical timing, I delve into the emotional qualities of a narrative and stylistic formula which is structured not by the plot, but by a succession of songs comparable with a concept album, or a pop catalogue

COVIDIAGNOSTIX : health technology assessment of serological tests for SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Abstract Objective In vitro diagnostic tests for SARS-COV-2, also known as serological tests, have rapidly spread. However, to date, mostly single-center technical and diagnostic performance's assessments have been carried out without an intralaboratory validation process and a health technology assessment (HTA) systematic approach. Therefore, the rapid HTA for evaluating antibody tests for SARS-COV-2 was applied. Methods The use of rapid HTA is an opportunity to test innovative technology. Unlike traditional HTA (which evaluates the benefits of new technologies after being tested in clinical trials or have been applied in practice for some time), the rapid HTA is performed during the early stages of developing new technology. A multidisciplinary team conducted the rapid HTA following the HTA Core Model® (version 3.0) developed by the European Network for Health Technology Assessment. Results The three methodological and analytical steps used in the HTA applied to the evaluation of antibody tests for SARS-COV-2 are reported: the selection of the tests to be evaluated; the research and collection of information to support the adoption and appropriateness of the technology; and the preparation of the final reports and their dissemination. Finally, the rapid HTA of serological tests for SARS-CoV-2 is summarized in a report that allows its dissemination and communication. Conclusions The rapid-HTA evaluation method, in addition to highlighting the characteristics that differentiate the tests from each other, guarantees a timely and appropriate evaluation, becoming a tool to create a direct link between science and health management