The virtual body-environment

Nowadays “Lebenswelt” must be considered as a mediatic environment or simply a medium, a continent/device inhabited by new digital technology that makes the fabric of the world, on the whole, a communication source. The article specifically examins the virtual body/environment, an aspect of Lebenswelt, which has still to reach its full potential, but will increasingly continue to influence our lifestyle. The virtual body/environment is a new entity immersive and interactive, ontologically hybrid because it is internal and external, and both a thing and an image. The article focuses on same forms of art that allow the possibility to live the virtual body/environment in a non passive way

Nota sul rapporto tra allegoria e analogia

Through an analysis of some crucial passages from Walter Benjamin’s On Language as Such and the Language of Man and The Origin of German Tragic Drama, the paper discusses the role and significance of the notion of "allegory" in philosophy and offers some insights into the idea of relationship between Benjamin’s notion of "allegory" and the “analogy” from the point of view of system theory, synthesis and exhibition of a radical negativity beyond any conceptual understanding

O corpo-ambiente virtual

corpo virtuale e percezione estetic

Logos estetico in Gentile

Sentimento e filosofia dell'arte in Giovanni Gentil

Relazione, sistema, virtualità. Prospettive dell'esperienza estetica

rapporti tra sistema relazione e virtualità in prospettiva estetic

Notes on Aesthetic Experience

concept of aesthetic experienc

Plant Structure Analysis of Cerrado Fragments by Remote Sensing

With the development of society to preserve the environment becomes essential. Biodiversity is a resource that has strategic value and is related to the territorial heterogeneity. The loss and fragmentation of natural habitats is one of the greatest threats to biodiversity resulting biotic and abiotic changes in the remaining. The Cerrado occupied 23% of the Brazilian territory in the plains of the central plateau. Estimates indicates that the Cerrado will be completely destroyed in 2030. The environmental heterogeneity contributes to the high species richness and from the environmental services offering stands out the protection of water resources. This study aims to analyze the structural vegetation of 18 Cerrado fragments by multi-temporal composite applied to Normalized Difference Vegetation Index and Normalized Difference Water Index. Both indices were calculated using Landsat images 1985-2015 and a falsecolor composite was then generated to detect changes in vegetation cover. It was possible to detect changes in vegetation cover and moisture over time. The false-color multi-temporal combination proved to be a quick and easy way to locate the places where there have been changes in vegetation cover

Guidelines for diagnosis and management of the cobalamin-related remethylation disorders cblC, cblD, cblE, cblF, cblG, cblJ and MTHFR deficiency

BACKGROUND: Remethylation defects are rare inherited disorders in which impaired remethylation of homocysteine to methionine leads to accumulation of homocysteine and perturbation of numerous methylation reactions. OBJECTIVE: To summarise clinical and biochemical characteristics of these severe disorders and to provide guidelines on diagnosis and management. DATA SOURCES: Review, evaluation and discussion of the medical literature (Medline, Cochrane databases) by a panel of experts on these rare diseases following the GRADE approach. KEY RECOMMENDATIONS: We strongly recommend measuring plasma total homocysteine in any patient presenting with the combination of neurological and/or visual and/or haematological symptoms, subacute spinal cord degeneration, atypical haemolytic uraemic syndrome or unexplained vascular thrombosis. We strongly recommend to initiate treatment with parenteral hydroxocobalamin without delay in any suspected remethylation disorder; it significantly improves survival and incidence of severe complications. We strongly recommend betaine treatment in individuals with MTHFR deficiency; it improves the outcome and prevents disease when given early