Cordoba in pieces : to live/to move in sociosegregated contexts

La ciudad de Córdoba se ha ido constituyendo como ciudad turística/ciudad espectáculo, a través de un “embellecimiento estratégico" que la vuelve extraña a sus propios habitantes, especialmente a los de clases subalternas. Las presentes reflexiones abordan las experiencias de habitar/desplazarse por la ciudad de estos sujetos durante la última década. Partimos de una breve referencia a la forma sociohabitacional ciudad barrio como respuesta de vivienda social generada por el Gobierno Provincial que impactó fuertemente en la experiencia de los “beneficiarios" como en el perfil de la ciudad. Desde una perspectiva metodológica en clave benjaminiana orientada a “pensar en/a partir de imágenes", presentamos algunas escenas expresivas de los modos de habitar, percibir y sentirse en la ciudad, algunas imágenes que condensan ciertos estados de sentir que manifiestan los pobladores -mediante la palabra pero también mediante la forma de apropiación de la vivienda y del barrio observada-. Ponemos en juego estas imágenes con otras, producto de una encuesta realizada en las ciudades barrio. Buscamos así reconstruir algunos de los fragmentos de la urbe cordobesa tal como es vivida, pedazos que abarcan el mero espacio de la casa, y trayectos fuertemente segregados por clase.Córdoba has been constituted as a tourist city / city spectacle, through a "strategic embellishment" that turns its inhabitants stranges, especially those of the lower clases. These reflections address their experiences of inhabiting / moving about the city during the last decade. We start from a brief reference to the city neighborhood sociohabitacional form as social housing response of Provincial State, with strong impact on the experiences of the "beneficiaries" and the city skyline. From a benjaminian methodological perspective, oriented to "think about/from images", we introduce some expressive scenes of the ways of living, perceiving and feelling in the city, some images that condense inhabitants certain states of feeling expressed by the word -but also by forms of ownership of housing / neighborhood. We introduce these images with others, resulting of a survey conducted in the cities neighborhood. We seek in this way to reconstruct some of the fragments of Cordoba city, pieces spanning the mere space of the house, and strongly segregated by class journeys.Fil: Boito, María Eugenia. Universidad Nacional de CórdobaFil: Michelazzo, Cecilia. Universidad Nacional de Córdob

Il virgiliano parvus Micon (Buc. 7.29-30) e Atteone

The two lines on Micon convey a subtle allusion to the myth of the young hunter Actaeon and his metamorphosis

The prevention of hereditary breast cancer in Italy: towards the implementation of the national prevention plan in the Italian regions

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A systematic review of case-series studies on the effectiveness of interventions to reduce polypharmacy and its adverse consequences in the elderly

Background. Aging is frequently accompanied by chronic diseases; as a consequence, older people are often exposed to polypharmacy that has been associated with negative health-consequences. The aim of this study is to conduct a systematic review of the literature reporting on the effectiveness of different approaches to reduce polypharmacy in the elderly. Methods. We conducted a comprehensive literature search of MEDLINE, Scopus and ISI Web of Knowledge databases. Eligible studies were case-series reporting outcomes of interventions aimed at reducing polypharmacy and its consequences in the elderly. A quality appraisal of the studies included was performed. Results. Nineteen studies were included, of which six conducted in community setting, seven in hospital setting, and six in nursing homes. Seventeen of them were judged as moderate quality, and two of them as poor quality. The majority of the interventions were carried out by pharmacists, alone (35%) or with other professionals (40%). Interventions consisted in pharmacotherapy reviews based on various tools and software; in some cases educational interventions were performed for review-performers and patients. Studies conducted in community-setting provided also a feedback to primary care physician. The outcomes included five categories: therapy’s characteristics (e.g. number of drugs, appropriate prescriptions), quality of life, health-related outcomes, costs, healthcare services’ utilization. Therapy-related outcomes were those more affected by all types of interventions. Conclusion. Interventions aimed at reviewing patients’ therapy are effective in optimizing the use of drugs, and could be considered also  in improving quality of life, healthcare costs, services’ utilization, and health-related outcomes

Due esametri anonimi in Athen. 168 Β

The two anonymous hexameters of gnomic character, quoted by Athenaeus (168B), may come from the lost ps.-Hesiodic poem entitled Ceyx’s wedding

Bruch von Flussdeichen: Analytische Strömungsmodellierung und hydro-morphodynamische Untersuchungen im Labor

Breaching of river levees often causes catastrophic damages to the hinterland which is supposed to be protected by the levees. The breaching process has been studied during the last decades mainly with reference to the case of dams and sea dikes, while specific knowledge and modelling tools are missing to address the case of river levees. A new process-oriented approach was developed in the present study in order to advance the knowledge about the processes associated with the breaching of river levees and to investigate the physical conditions that determine a final configuration of the breach. The interaction between breach development and river hydro-morphodynamics was considered to be the key to understand the levee breaching process. The river-breach system has been analysed by means of two series of laboratory experiments and an analytical model of the river flow, which give complementary descriptions about the breaching process. Results from the fixed bed laboratory investigations highlight the hydrodynamic processes that take place in a channel when a lateral outflow occurs (as in case of a levee breach). The movable bed investigations provide one of the few existing laboratory experiments reproducing a non-cohesive levee breach together with the river flow until an equilibrium stage is achieved. A simple overall picture of the hydrodynamic processes and a new interpretation of the breaching at the equilibrium stage are given by the analytical flow model. This research provides the necessary knowledge about the breaching process of river levees in order to support more process-oriented approaches for the assessment of the breach features that can develop in a river levee. The application of the results to real case data shows that the research direction is appropriate and it pushes toward future research studies.Der Bruch von Flussdeichen ist oft mit dramatischen Folgen verbunden. Die bisherigen Untersuchungen über den Deichbruch erfolgten vorwiegend im Seedeich- und Dammbau, so dass heute die wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen und Modelle für die Beschreibung des Bruches von Flussdeichen nicht im ausreichenden Maße vorliegen. In dieser Studie wurde ein neues Verfahren entwickelt, das dazu beiträgt, das Grundlagenwissen hinsichtlich der beteiligten Prozesse wesentlich zu erweitern und die Bedingungen, die den Endzustand des Deichbruches entscheidend bestimmen, genauer zu untersuchen. Dabei wird davon ausgegangen, dass der Schlüssel zum Verständnis der hierfür verantwortlichen Prozesse in eine genaue Untersuchung der Interaktion zwischen Deichbruch und hydro-morphodynamischen Veränderungen im Fluss selbst besteht. Deshalb wurde das “Fluss-Deichbruch-System” durch zwei verschiedene Laborexperimente (Modell mit fester Sohle und Modell mit beweglicher Sohle) und ein analytisches Strömungsmodell untersucht, die sich zur Beschreibung des Deichbruchprozesses ideal ergänzen. Das analytische Strömungsmodell, zusammen mit den Laborergebnissen, ermöglicht die Bestimmung eines vereinfachten Gesamtbildes der beteiligten hydrodynamischen Prozesse sowie eine neue Interpretation des Deichbruches beim Erreichen des Gleichgewichtzustands zwischen Fluss und Deichbruch. Die Ergebnisse dieser Studie stellen einen wesentlichen Beitrag zu den wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen über die Prozesse beim Bruch von Flussdeichen dar, die für künftige detailliertere und mehr prozessbasierte Verfahren und Vorhersagemodelle benötigt werden. Die praktische Anwendung der Ergebnisse für einige reale Fallstudien aus früheren Deichbrüchen unterstreicht die Richtigkeit der hier verwendeten Forschungsansätze und die Notwendigkeit für weitere Studien in diese Richtung

Due esametri anonimi in Athen. 168 Β

The two anonymous hexameters of gnomic character, quoted by Athenaeus (168B), may come from the lost ps.-Hesiodic poem entitled Ceyx’s wedding