Petrarch’s Poetics: From the Abyss of Representation to Creative Imitation

This article examines concepts such as creative imitation and the impossibility of representation in order to suggest an ethic of reading in Petrarch’s Canzoniere. Such ethics illuminate possible new relationships between Renaissance and Baroqu

Numana and its ancient territory: new data and research perspectives

Numana is one of the most important centers for the Picenian civilization and prospered in the Marche and Abruzzo regions during the Iron Age. Almost all of the archaeological evidence found until now refers to the necropoleis spread over a broad territory, while data concerning inhabited areas are quite scarce. Although findings are plenty, the study of Ancient Numana is quite incomplete. As a matter of fact, all the published materials are related to single burials or finds and there are no overall studies on its territory. A recent research project involving a wider sector of the largest Numana necropolis (Quagliotti-Davanzali), has not been published yet but offers a detailed description since the excavation documentation is available. The project sets out to consider burials as organized systems, offering information on cultural transformations and on the social organization of the ancient community. The systematic analysis of the data from the burial and the single funerary sets - to be organized in a specific GIS - will be accompanied by an investigation of the ancient landscape in its many components - necropolis and inhabited area - in its diachronic development, thanks to the results of other recent analyses carried out in the Numana territory (geomorphology, GIS of the archaeological map, new surveys of the territory). The scope of the project is therefore to analyze times, ways of arrangements, shapes of the Ancient Numana, in its definition of a territorial, inhabited, rural space, by using methods and techniques to record and read new data, to build knowledge in a scenario which can be integrated with results coming from future research

Parallel BioScape: A Stochastic and Parallel Language for Mobile and Spatial Interactions

BioScape is a concurrent language motivated by the biological landscapes found at the interface of biology and biomaterials. It has been motivated by the need to model antibacterial surfaces, biofilm formation, and the effect of DNAse in treating and preventing biofilm infections. As its predecessor, SPiM, BioScape has a sequential semantics based on Gillespie's algorithm, and its implementation does not scale beyond 1000 agents. However, in order to model larger and more realistic systems, a semantics that may take advantage of the new multi-core and GPU architectures is needed. This motivates the introduction of parallel semantics, which is the contribution of this paper: Parallel BioScape, an extension with fully parallel semantics.Comment: In Proceedings MeCBIC 2012, arXiv:1211.347

Modelling interdependencies between the electricity and information infrastructures

The aim of this paper is to provide qualitative models characterizing interdependencies related failures of two critical infrastructures: the electricity infrastructure and the associated information infrastructure. The interdependencies of these two infrastructures are increasing due to a growing connection of the power grid networks to the global information infrastructure, as a consequence of market deregulation and opening. These interdependencies increase the risk of failures. We focus on cascading, escalating and common-cause failures, which correspond to the main causes of failures due to interdependencies. We address failures in the electricity infrastructure, in combination with accidental failures in the information infrastructure, then we show briefly how malicious attacks in the information infrastructure can be addressed

Этические комитеты и их роль в сфере медицинских технологий

ЭТИКИ КОМИТЕТЫЛЕЧЕБНЫХ УЧРЕЖДЕНИЙ ЭТИКИ КОМИТЕТЫМЕДИЦИНСКОЙ ЭТИКИ КОМИТЕТЫБИОМЕДИЦИНСКИЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯКЛИНИЧЕСКИХ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ ДАННЫЕ, КОМИТЕТЫ ПО МОНИТОРИНГУКОМИТЕТЫ ПО НАДЕЖНОМУ МОНИТОРИНГУМЕДИЦИНСКИЕ ТЕХНОЛОГИИЗДРАВООХРАНЕНИЕ РЕСПУБЛИКИ БЕЛАРУСЬВо многих учреждениях здравоохранения Беларуси создаются этические комитеты. Что заставляет руководителей этих организаций создавать это новое структурное подразделение? Медицинская наука – одна из самых развивающихся наук в современном мире. Ежегодно открываются новые лекарственные средства, способы диагностики заболеваний, методы лечения. Проведение исследований в сфере медицинских технологий проводится в соответствии с международными согласительными документами потому, что главное правило медицины – "не навреди". В соответствии с мировыми тенденциями для контроля за выполнением биомедицинских исследований в организациях здравоохранения создаются независимые этические комитеты. Этические комитеты осуществляют соответствующую экспертизу проводимых исследований, а также выполняют контролирующую функцию и дают рекомендации в сложных конфликтных ситуациях.Many health care institutions in Belarus are creating ethical committees. What makes the authorities of these organizations create this new structural unit? Medical science is one of the most developing sciences in the modern world. Every year new drugs, methods of diagnosing diseases and their treatment are discovered. Research in the field of medical technology is carried out in accordance with the international agreement documents because the main rule of medicine is "do no harm". In conformity with global trends, independent ethical committees are being established in health care organizations to monitor the conducted biomedical researches. Ethical committees carry out appropriate expertise of the researches done, as well as exercise control and give recommendations in complex conflict situations

Simulations and field tests of a CO2 refrigerating plant for commercial refrigeration

3noDuring the refurbishment of a supermarket in northern Italy, the HFC refrigeration plant has been replaced by a new CO2 transcritical system. A deep synergy has been favoured with the HVAC system, by allowing mutual heat exchanges at various temperature levels. Simulations have been performed at the design stage, with a TRNSYS based tool and in-house types for the refrigerating unit and the display cabinets. The plant was fully instrumented, and the availability of measured data on the new system allowed assessing its actual performance and validating the model. It was then possible to investigate the effectiveness of the heat recovery solutions applied, and to optimize their control rules.openopenG. Cortella; P. D’Agaro; M.A. CoppolaCortella, G.; D’Agaro, P.; Coppola, M. A

[A short history of anti-rheumatic therapy--V. analgesics].

The pharmacological treatment of pain has very ancient origins, when plant-derived products were used, including mandrake extracts and opium, a dried latex obtained from Papaver somniferum. In the XVI and XVII centuries opium came into the preparation of two compounds widely used for pain relief: laudanum and Dover's powder. The analgesic properties of extracts of willow bark were then recognized and later, in the second half of the XIX century, experimental studies on chemically synthesized analgesics were planned, thus promoting the marketing of some derivatives of para-amino-phenol and pyrazole, the predecessors of paracetamol and metamizol. In the XX century, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs were synthesized, such as phenylbutazone, which was initially considered primarily a pain medication. The introduction on the market of centrally acting analgesics, such as tramadol, sometimes used in the treatment of rheumatic pain. is quite recent

Lingering colonial outlier yet miniature continent : notes from the Sicilian archipelago

The fortunes of the wider Mediterranean Sea, the world’s largest, have never rested on Sicily, its largest island. A stubbornly peripheral region, and possibly the world’s most bridgeable island, Sicily has been largely neglected within the field of Island Studies. The physically largest island with the largest population in the region, and housing Europe’s most active volcano, Sicily has moved from being a hinterland for warring factions (Sparta/Athens, Carthage/Rome), to a more centrist stage befitting its location, although still remaining a political outlier in the modern era. Unlike many even smaller islands with smaller populations, however, Sicily has remained an appendage to a larger, and largely dysfunctional, state. The Maltese islands are part of ‘the Sicilian archipelago’, and it was a whim of Charles V of Spain that politically cut off Malta from this node in the 1520s, but not culturally. This article will review some of the multiple representations of this island, and its changing fortunes.peer-reviewe

InCoB2010 - 9thInternational Conference on Bioinformatics at Tokyo, Japan, September 26-28, 2010

10.1186/1471-2105-11-S7-S1BMC Bioinformatics11SUPPL. 7-BBMI

Building Simulation Applications BSA 2013 - Proceedings of 1st IBPSA Italy conference

Building Simulation application 2013 was the first IBPSA Italy regional conference on building performance simulation. The two-day event focused on three main subjects: simulation of building performance, actual perspectives in building physics and simulation tools. The principal mission is to promote and advance the practice of building performance simulation in order to improve the design, construction, operation and maintenance of new and existing building