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Il design visivo della violenza allâinfanzia
SOMMARIO: La violenza allâinfanzia Ăš un drammatico problema ancora
sommerso nonostante sia un fenomeno diffuso in tutto il mondo, che
investe trasversalmente vari modelli culturali e diverse classi sociali.
Molte campagne di comunicazione sociale hanno restituito in forma visiva
gli aspe delle brutalitĂ verso i minori, impiegando particolari lessici e
sistemi comunicativi, che appaiono come un âvocabolario visivoâ del
precario stato emotivo e psicologico generato nei bambini da atti di
violenza e abusi. Un vocabolario capace di stimolare, piĂč di esortazioni
orali o scrie, riflessioni profonde, araverso apparati che diventano
riflessi di drammi, richiamando, in molti casi, lo stato nel quale la vima
dellâabuso Ăš costreta e le molteplici derive ed effeti connessi al
fenomeno. Sono espressioni del design per la comunicazione sociale, che
si realizzano atraverso delle metafore visive, connotate da registri
narrativi, differenziati secondo le declinazioni che puĂČ assumere la
violenza allâinfanzia e condizionati dalla cultura nella quale questa viene
praticata, che, oltre a denunciare il fenomeno, lo raccontano, offrendo
allâosservatore lâoccasione di ampliare gli spazi di riflessione.ABSTRACT: Violence and abuses of chilhood are a dramatic issue
neglected even if widely diffused all over the world crossing all cultures
and social status. Many social communication campaigns faced this issue
and visually represented all the aspects of brutality toward children,
through a specific visual lexicon of the altered emotional and
psychological condition abused children feel. This lexicon stimulates a
deep reflection, through its means and meanings, the condition the victim
experiences and the consequences connected to the phenomenon. These
forms of design for social communication are possible through visual
metaphors featuring a narrative language properly declined after the
violence to childhood in relation to the cultural context of the
abuse/violence that reports the offense and gives the audience further
elements to meditate on.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Inflammation, Mitochondria and Natural Compounds Together in the Circle of Trust
Human diseases are characterized by the perpetuation of an inflammatory condition in which the levels of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) are quite high. Excessive ROS production leads to DNA damage, protein carbonylation and lipid peroxidation, conditions that lead to a worsening of inflammatory disorders. In particular, compromised mitochondria sustain a stressful condition in the cell, such that mitochondrial dysfunctions become pathogenic, causing human disorders related to inflammatory reactions. Indeed, the triggered inflammation loses its beneficial properties and turns harmful if dysregulation and dysfunctions are not addressed. Thus, reducing oxidative stress with ROS scavenger compounds has proven to be a successful approach to reducing inflammation. Among these, natural compounds, in particular, polyphenols, alkaloids and coenzyme Q10, thanks to their antioxidant properties, are capable of inhibiting the activation of NF-ÎșB and the expression of target genes, including those involved in inflammation. Even more, clinical trials, and in vivo and in vitro studies have demonstrated the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of phytosomes, which are capable of increasing the bioavailability and effectiveness of natural compounds, and have long been considered an effective non-pharmacological therapy. Therefore, in this review, we wanted to highlight the relationship between inflammation, altered mitochondrial oxidative activity in pathological conditions, and the beneficial effects of phytosomes. To this end, a PubMed literature search was conducted with a focus on various in vitro and in vivo studies and clinical trials from 2014 to 2022
INFN What Next: Ultra-relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
This document was prepared by the community that is active in Italy, within
INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), in the field of
ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The experimental study of the phase
diagram of strongly-interacting matter and of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP)
deconfined state will proceed, in the next 10-15 years, along two directions:
the high-energy regime at RHIC and at the LHC, and the low-energy regime at
FAIR, NICA, SPS and RHIC. The Italian community is strongly involved in the
present and future programme of the ALICE experiment, the upgrade of which will
open, in the 2020s, a new phase of high-precision characterisation of the QGP
properties at the LHC. As a complement of this main activity, there is a
growing interest in a possible future experiment at the SPS, which would target
the search for the onset of deconfinement using dimuon measurements. On a
longer timescale, the community looks with interest at the ongoing studies and
discussions on a possible fixed-target programme using the LHC ion beams and on
the Future Circular Collider.Comment: 99 pages, 56 figure
Study of dimuon production in Indium-Indium collisions with the NA60 experiment
The NA60 experiment at the CERN-SPS is devoted to the study of dimuon
production in heavy-ion and proton-nucleus collisions. We present preliminary
results from the analysis of Indium-Indium collisions at 158 GeV per nucleon.
The topics covered are low mass vector meson production, J/psi production and
suppression, and the feasibility of the open charm measurement from the dimuon
continuum in the mass range below the J/psi peak.Comment: Contribution at XXXXth Rencontres de Moriond, "QCD and High Energy
Hadronic Interactions
First results from the NA60 experiment at CERN
Since 1986, several heavy ion experiments have studied some signatures of the
formation of the quark-gluon plasma and a few exciting results have been found.
However, some important questions are still unanswered and require new
measurements. The NA60 experiment, with a new detector concept that vastly
improves dimuon detection in proton-nucleus and heavy-ion collisions, studies
several of those open questions, including the production of open charm. This
paper presents the experiment and some first results from data collected in
2002.Comment: Paper presented at the XXXVIII Rencontres de Moriond, QCD and High
Energy Hadronic Interactions, Les Arcs, March 22-29, 2003. 4 pages, 6 figure
Meson Production in In-In Collisions and the Puzzle
The NA60 experiment measured dimuon production in In-In collisions at 158
AGeV. This paper presents a high statistics measurement of with
the specific objective to provide insight on the puzzle, i.e. the
difference in the inverse slopes and absolute yields measured by NA49 and
NA50 in the kaon and lepton channel, respectively. Transverse momentum
distributions were studied as a function of centrality. The slope parameter
shows a rapid increase with centrality, followed by a saturation. Variations of
with the fit range of the order of 15 MeV were observed, possibly as a
consequence of radial flow. The meson yield normalized to the number of
participants increases with centrality and is consistently higher than the
yield measured by the NA49 experiment at any centrality.Comment: 4 Pages, 2 Figures. Proceedings of the 20 International
Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus Nucleus Collision
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