Videomaking. Action-Research Experimentations in Highly Diverse Communities

The clear, steady, peaceful water of the Caribbean sea, customary depicted in old postcards or in touristic advertises, doesn’t account properly of the turbid tides and waves which are shaking the human and physical landscape of the Lesser Antilles. Unavoidable social, economic, cultural and natural appear as local echoes of the major impulses of climate change and markets globalisation. In different ways, the islands of Barbados and Dominica share the common duty of keeping the course on that stormy sea made up of threats and opportunities; this by caring of not losing inadvertently the huge treasures hidden by the centuries of a tough history to be safely kept in their territories, nowadays progressively disregarded to forgotten. Deprived of the references provided by the local heritage, the uneasy enhancement of the composite identity of the islands is at risk. Their fault can lead to territorial fragility, cultural impoverishment, economic vulnerability and social disintegration

Self-organization practices in cities: discussing the transformative potential

In a growing number of small and large cities across Europe, citizens are engaging and mobilizing to demonstrate their ability in creating innovative solutions for important social and spatial challenges. We are witnessing a different set of micro-practices that are transforming cities ‘from below’, thus questioning not only the relation between active citizenship and the State (Uitermark, 2015) but also forms of urban activation themselves. In this paper we examine the politics of urban self organization with a particular focus on the implications for local governments and the transformative potential of these practices for local communities

Endoscopic ultrasound-guided drainage of a post-hepatectomy abscess using a lumen-apposing self-expandable metal stent with electrocautery-enhanced delivery system

Endoscopic ultrasound-guided drainage of a post-hepatectomy abscess using a lumenapposing self-expandable metal stent with electrocautery-enhanced delivery syste

Rompere il simulacro turistico

Molti piccoli comuni italiani negli ultimi decenni hanno conosciuto profondi fenomeni di abbandono e spopolamento. In seguito ai processi di modernizzazione emersi con forza nel secondo dopoguerra, i territori interni del nostro paese hanno subìto un potente stravolgimento: comunità disperse, modi di vita scomparsi, borghi in rovina. Civita di Bagnoregio è una di queste realtà che tuttavia ha conosciuto, specialmente negli ultimi anni, una nuova vita. Da borgo abbandonato (attualmente caratterizzato dalla presenza di soli 9 abitanti) Civita si è scoperta crocevia di flussi turistici transnazionali. Si tratta di un fenomeno che ha conosciuto negli ultimi anni un’accelerazione impressionante: nel 2008 il borgo poteva contare sulla presenza di 42000 turisti; oggi si contano più di 1.000.000 visitatori. Nonostante la difficoltà d’accesso e l’offerta limitata di servizi, Civita si iscrive dunque a pieno diritto nelle nuove geografie del turismo planetario. Un turismo sedotto dalla visione della “città che muore”. E’ proprio l’immagine di un borgo disabitato e sospeso su di una rupe che crolla, ad aver colonizzato un immaginario collettivo che si è costruito per sovrapposizione/accumulo di rappresentazioni divenute nel tempo potenti dispositivi iconici di cattura turistica.Civita di Bagnoregio (Viterbo, Italy) is a depopulated small town, characterized by a fragile ecosystem. The ongoing erosive processes affecting the tuff hill, the consequent partial loss of the original town, and, above all, the dispersion of the local community, have dramatically broken the complex coevolutionary relationship between population and natural environment that has been historically able to preserve the town and its territory, despite its structural fragility. Furthermore, the recent transformation of Civita in an international mass tourist attraction risks to further irreparably damage the whole syste

Planificación del entrenamiento en el Taekwondo Olímpico (WTF)

La obtención de los resultados deportivos depende en gran medida de la organización del entrenamiento del atleta. El concepto correcto para denominar este proceso es el de planificación del entrenamiento deportivo, en el cual se conjugan todos los factores intervinientes en el armado del proceso. Es sabido que a lo largo de la historia se vienen conociendo varios modelos de planificación de acuerdo a la variada bibliografía en el tema. En el presente trabajo se pretende mostrar uno de los tantos modelos de panificación existentes, plasmado en un periodo determinado en el Taekwondo Olímpico. El trabajo es tomado de una planificación real de un grupo de deportistas de la ciudad de la plata, en la preparación previa a una concentración selectiva de dos semanas en el CENARD (Bs. As. Argentina). Se desarrollará el ciclo anual de competencias, luego el diseño general de cada macrociclo hasta llegar a la descripción de una sesión de entrenamiento. Todos los datos expuestos en el trabajo son el producto de los entrenamientos realizados por el grupo de competencia del CIT (Centro Infantil de Taekwondo), ubicado en el Club Unión Vecinal de la Ciudad de la plata.Eje 3: Las prácticas de la Educación Física vinculadas a la salud y al rendimiento. Mesa de Trabajo E: Ciencias del deporte y rendimiento.Departamento de Educación Físic

O medo do Outro. Planeamento através de diálogos terapêuticos em comunidades altamente conflituais

The concept of difference is becoming more and more central to the way in which urban societies are understood, and a whole raft of theorizing (feminist, postcolonial, poststructuralist, queer, and psychoanalytic theories, for example) has contributed to this new awareness. But so too has a new politics of difference which has been re-shaping not only how we think about cities and urban processes but, more importantly, re-shaping cities themselves. Managing these differences has become an increasing challenge to the running of cities and has particular implications for the city-building professions. The choice is clear: ghettoization or hybridization; separate lives, or change-by-conjoining. The challenge is clear. How to build new hybrid communities rather than increasingly segmented and fragmented cities? Planning’s responses to this crucial question has not often been really satisfactory. Many scholars have acknowledged the overall failure of the planning system to respond to the increasing cultural diversity of the city, to the ways in which the values and norms of the dominant culture are reflected in plans, planning codes and bylaws, legislation, heritage and urban design practices, to planners’ inability to analyze issues from a multicultural perspective or to design participatory processes that bring racial and ethnic groups into the planning process (Ameyaw, 2000, p. 105). Finding out ways to manage our coexistence in increasingly diverse urban landscapes is not an easy task. A different path can be built: a path based on a communicative and collaborative planning approach whose goal is to encourage a dialogue among conflicting subjectivities. We call it a therapeutic approach (Sandercock 2003; Sandercock and Attili 2014): a way to engage with emotions in planning practice, recognising the importance of working with and through people’s hopes, fears, memories, wounds. In this respect many scholars, in the recent years, have been drawing attention to the need of creating a dialogic space for the unspeakable, for emotions to be heard and named, for talk of fear and loathing as well as of hope and transformation (Marris 1974; Baum 1997, Forester 1999, 2009; Sandercock 2003; Erfan 2013). This urgency involves the design of a safe space in which conflicting parties can meet and speak without fear of being dismissed, attacked, or humiliated—a new space of recognition in which differences and historic injustices are acknowledged, as a necessary prelude to addressing contemporary conflict

An iterative shooting method for a certain class of singular two-point boundary value problems

AbstractMany problems in physics and engineering give rise to singular differential equations. In this paper, we consider a simple shooting method coupled with an iterative method for the numerical solution of a certain class of singular two-point boundary value problems. Our approach enables us to take advantage of such highly accurate initial value solvers as multistep methods. The singularity of the problem is dealt with in a purely algebraic way so that no special care is required when applying an initial value solver. The accuracy of the method is the same as the accuracy of the IVP solver

THE CORRELATION OF MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE-9 WITH STROKE AND PREVALENCE, RISK FACTORS, AND KNOWLEDGE OF STROKE AMONG PALESTINIANS

Objectives: The research study aims to estimate the prevalence of the stroke, to evaluate the stroke associated risk factors, and to determine the factors and symptoms associated with the knowledge of the stroke among the Palestinian population. Furthermore, to find the association between matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) levels and the stroke, the concentration of MMP-9 in the serum of stroke patients was measured. Methods: The research study includes a cross-sectional survey that was conducted. The serum MMP-9 levels were also measured in 11 stroke patients using an ELISA reader. Statistical analysis was performed by GraphPad Prism version 8. Sociodemographic characteristics of stroke patients associated with stroke among the Palestinian population were also obtained and analyzed. Results: The higher incidence of the stroke was in the patient’s ages between 51 and 60 years old, with 30 patients (46%) of the total stroke patients. The majority of the stroke patients 40 (60.6%) were having enough income. Most of the stroke patients (29, 43.9%) were none educated. The majority of the stroke patients 48 (72.2%) had a family member/s who has been diagnosed with a stroke. Most of the stroke patients 60 (90.9%) have sudden numbness, weakness in the face, arms, and legs. All the samples analyzed showed a marked increase in MMP-9 concentration. Conclusions: The prevalence of stroke and the high risk of stroke were high among adults aged ≥51 years in Palestine. Hypertension was the highest risk factor for stroke. The serum MMP-9 could be an important prognostic factor for the stroke