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    An Italian foreign policy of religious engagement: challenges and prospects

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    A new awareness of the role of religion in international relations has started to inform concrete policy discussions in several Western Ministries of Foreign Affairs under the heading of ‘religious engagement’ in foreign policy. Italy is no exception, but as the country which hosts the Holy See, it represents a special case. As the approach to religion found in the historical record of Italian foreign policy shows, Italy has a comparative advantage and could well develop a unique model of religious engagement by strengthening the central structures involved in religious matters and foreign policy, as well as by using the vast network of Rome-based religious non-state actors as a forum of consultation and policy advice

    Active City for Healthy Ageing and Anti-globesity

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    Health and urban space are two realities that need to progress in close connection; in fact, there is an increasing interest in identifying the links between architecture and public health and how urban design can positively influence the latter. A vision able to reconstruct a profitable reconnection between health, urban planning and environmental planning in line with current evidence and research on the cultural and organizational transition from Public Health to Urban Health is required. The research topic addresses the importance and the centrality of the User-Centred approach in the observation of the relationships established between man, technological systems and the constructed environment, identifying design strategies that guarantee the conditions of physical, mental and social well-being

    The Role of Active Mobility for the Promotion of Urban Health

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    In the debate on the issue of designing spaces for ‘slow’ urban mobility, this paper emphasizes the importance and centrality of the human-centered approach through the observation of the relations that are established among people, technological systems and constructed environments in order to design according to anatomical and metric needs (anthropometric view) as well as to the needs linked with perception and cognitive processes (anthropocentric view). Two levels of interface in the person-system relationship have been identified, the “individual space”, where internal variables impact the “user system” (factors related to the psycho-physiological perception of space), and the “prosthetic space”, where external variables influence the “environment system” (factors that influence the capability of the architectural space to become physiologically and behaviorally prosthetic)

    Education and State Formation in Italy

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    2) In un quadro di analisi comparativa, l’evoluzione del sistema scolastico italiano a partire dall’unificazione del paese può per molti versi essere studiata secondo linee interpretative analoghe a quelle prevalentemente adottate nell’analisi del rapporto fra educazione e formazione dello Stato in diversi Paesi europei. Per una reale e più approfondita comprensione di tale processo, tuttavia, è necessario prendere in adeguata considerazione i caratteri distintivi della situazione politica e sociale italiana lungo il corso della sua storia unitaria. Questo saggio si muove dunque lungo una doppia traiettoria: da un lato analizza l’evoluzione, le strutture e i diversi aspetti del sistema educativo italiano secondo una linea interpretativa simile a quella applicata alla maggior parte degli altri Stati nazionali europei; dall’altro, mette costantemente a fuoco le peculiarità della situazione italiana come chiave interpretativa dell’analisi stessa

    Lactic acidosis, diabetes mellitus and the biguanide compounds

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