Ebrei e marrani in Italia in una commedia rinascimentale

Because of their extreme realism, Italian Renaissance comedies can be used as historical tools, in order to gauge social, commercial, and religious customs in Sixteenth Century Italy. The Comedia SINE NOMINE, written by an unknown author, printed in Florence by the Giuntis in 1574, relates the flight of a marrano family from Barcelona to Florence. In spite of being often caught in the web of the Italian «commedia erudita», the play is of great interest because it helps us to better understand the conditions under which Jews and marranos lived in Renaissance Florence.Por su extremado realismo, las comedias del Renacimiento italiano pueden utilizarse como fuentes históricas para evaluar las costumbres sociales, comerciales y religiosas de la época. La Comedia SINE NOMINE, escrita por un autor desconocido e impresa en Florencia por los Giunti en 1574, relata el traslado de una familia marrana desde Barcelona a Florencia. Pese a caer a menudo en las redes de una «commedia erudita» italiana, la obra es de gran interés porque ayuda a una mejor comprensión de las condiciones en las que vivían los judíos y los marranos en la Florencia del Renacimiento

Importance of Baseline Prognostic Factors With Increasing Time Since Initiation of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy: Collaborative Analysis of Cohorts of HIV-1-Infected Patients

Background: The extent to which the prognosis for AIDS and death of patients initiating highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) continues to be affected by their characteristics at the time of initiation (baseline) is unclear. Methods: We analyzed data on 20,379 treatment-naive HIV-1- infected adults who started HAART in 1 of 12 cohort studies in Europe and North America (61,798 person-years of follow-up, 1844 AIDS events, and 1005 deaths). Results: Although baseline CD4 cell count became less prognostic with time, individuals with a baseline CD4 count 350 cells/μL (hazard ratio for AIDS = 2.3, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.0 to 2.3; mortality hazard ratio = 2.5, 95% CI: 1.2 to 5.5, 4 to 6 years after starting HAART). Rates of AIDS were persistently higher in individuals who had experienced an AIDS event before starting HAART. Individuals with presumed transmission by means of injection drug use experienced substantially higher rates of AIDS and death than other individuals throughout follow-up (AIDS hazard ratio = 1.6, 95% CI: 0.8 to 3.0; mortality hazard ratio = 3.5, 95% CI: 2.2 to 5.5, 4 to 6 years after starting HAART). Conclusions: Compared with other patient groups, injection drug users and patients with advanced immunodeficiency at baseline experience substantially increased rates of AIDS and death up to 6 years after starting HAART

The Visual Object Tracking Vot2016 Challenge Results

The Visual Object Tracking challenge VOT2016 aims at comparing short-term single-object visual trackers that do not apply pre-learned models of object appearance. Results of 70 trackers are presented, with a large number of trackers being published at major computer vision conferences and journals in the recent years. The number of tested state-of-the-art trackers makes the VOT 2016 the largest and most challenging benchmark on short-term tracking to date. For each participating tracker, a short description is provided in the Appendix. The VOT2016 goes beyond its predecessors by (i) introducing a new semi-automatic ground truth bounding box annotation methodology and (ii) extending the evaluation system with the no-reset experiment.Wo