Of, By, and For Which People? Government and Contested Heritage in the American Midwest

Two government-owned and managed heritage sites in Indiana, USA, offer an opportunity to explore the role of governments in adjudicating the competing paradigms of value and contested uses. Strawtown Koteewi is a Hamilton County park and Mounds State Park is part of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources statewide park system. Each site has come under scrutiny in recent years. Strawtown Koteewi is one of the most significant sites in the area for understanding the history of Native peoples. After almost a decade of archaeological excavations, several Native American groups, under the auspices of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), initiated repatriation processes for the recovery of human remains, and some objected to the ongoing archaeological research. At Mounds State Park a coalition of citizens opposed a planned dam project intended to ensure a safe and plentiful water supply and to spur economic development in the area. In each case, the government entities have had to navigate the political landscapes of competing claims about the sites. These case studies expose the fissures between authorized heritage discourse and the paradigms of meaning among the diverse constituencies of the sites, and they highlight the tenuous position of public governance in privileging competing cultural, economic, and social interests. While not unique, the state and county agencies’ positions within these fields of power and their strategic choices reveal some of the barriers and constraints that limit their actions as well as the deep-seated ideologies of policies that perpetuate settler colonial politics in the control and interpretation of indigenous heritage

Il Seminario Arcivescovile di Siena nella seconda metà del XVII secolo: logiche di governo e contabilità

Nel presente studio intendiamo indagare la relazione esistente tra potere e contabilità. Tale relazione è stata nella letteratura oggetto di numerosi contributi che hanno ipotizzato e dimostrato l’esistenza di tale legame. In particolare, cercheremo di comprendere l’impatto che le forme di governo e di esercizio del potere determinano sulla definizione e sul funzionamento del sistema di contabilità all’interno di una data azienda. In tale prospettiva si vuole enfatizzare il ruolo strumento per il controllo interno che la tenuta della contabilità ha originariamente assunto prima di divenire strumento con valenze esterne (strumento di rendicontazione e di comunicazione verso soggetti terzi). Il riferimento alle valenze di strumento per il controllo interno giustifica il ricorso alle vicende storiche che hanno caratterizzato la creazione di una fra le più interessanti istituzioni religiose di cui è ricca la storia italiana. Per comprendere le dinamiche le legano l’esercizio del potere e la contabilità ricorreremo alla ricostruzione storica della fase che ha condotto alla nascita ed ai primi di attività del Seminario Arcivescovile di Siena (SAS). L’esistenza del ricco archivio di documenti e libri contabili di questa istituzione religiosa della metà del XVII secolo consente di ripercorrere le vicende che hanno condotto alla sua costituzione e che hanno determinato il formarsi di quel sistema contabile ed il suo raffinato funzionamento

Patrimonio ambientale e creazione del valore. Il turismo come fattore di cambiamento sociale ed economico-aziendale in Provincia di Siena.

Il percorso cognitivo seguito nell’indagine muove dalla definizione del quadro concettuale di riferimento in ambito turistico, per poi soffermarsi sugli aspetti definitori e normativi dell’attività agrituristica. Su tali impostazioni presenteremo i risultati di un’indagine empirica svolta nell’intento di apprezzare, in termini evolutivi, la dimensione qualitativa e quantitativa del fenomeno turistico considerato nell’ambito dell’economica nazionale. Da tale livello di studio discenderemo per individuare le caratteristiche che rendono peculiare l’esercizio dell’attività agrituristica nella Regione Toscana per poi giungere alla descrizione dello scenario della Provincia di Siena

The efficacy of moisture retentive ointment in the mangement of cutaneous wounds and ulcers: A multicenter clinical trial

Local management of chronic wounds and ulcers remains one of the most costly unsolved problems in health care today. With proper clinical management, most chronic wound healing problems can be resolved and healing expected, though recurrence may be common. The recent logarithmic growth in our knowledge about wound healing and the appreciation of the importance of a moist environment in optimal wound healing has led to the introduction of new and exciting therapeutic modalities. In view of the many practical disadvantages as well as the serious complications of currently available moisture retentive dressings when applied to chronic contaminated wounds, a prospective multicenter clinical trial was conducted from December 1999 to November 2000 to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a newly introduced moisture retentive ointment (MEBO: Moist Exposed Burn Ointment) (Julphar - Gulf Pharmaceutical Industries, UAE) in the local wound care of problematic non-healing wounds. The active component of the ointment is β-sitosterol in a base of beeswax, sesame oil and other components. Though it was not a comparative study, the ointment was found to induce rapid reduction in ulcer size even after a prolonged stagnant state with other therapeutic modalities without complications such as skin maceration, unmanageable excessive exudation, and wound infection. As expected with such chronic wounds, the healing potential of local ointment application is limited by the mere size of the original defect and the underlying pathologies and associated diseases. however, the safety and practicality of simple ointment application was found to be a valid alternative treatment for local management of chronic wounds

A multicenter experience in the treatment of burns with autologous and allogeneic cultured epithelium fresh or preserved in a frozen state

This report describes the clinical results obtained from a multicentre experience of the use of autologous and allogenic cultured human epidermal cells in the treatment of partial and full skin thickness burns. A laboratory has been organized to supply cultured epithelium to Burns Units in different cities. From May 1986 to December 1988, 58 patients with an age range of 1 to 59 years, and with burns covering between 7 and 95 per cent of the body surface area, have been treated. Graftable cultured epithelium can be frozen and remain viable if stored in a skin bank. Such grafts were used successfully to treat patients with partial and full skin thickness wounds