Tweeting News Articles Readership and News Sections in Europe and the Americas

In this article we investigate the impact of social media readership to the editorial profile of newspapers. We analyze tweets containing links to news articles from eight of the largest national newspapers in the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Brazil, and Germany. The data collection follows the first two weeks of October 2012 and includes 2,842,699 tweets with links to news articles. Twitter-shortened links were resolved using a three-pass routine and assigned to 1 of the 21 newspaper sections. We found the concentration of links to news articles posted by top users to be lower than reported in the literature and the strategy of relaying headlines on Twitter via automatic news aggregators (feeds) to be inefficient. The results of this investigation show which sections of a newspaper are the most and least read by readers in different parts of the world, with German readers placing greater emphasis on Politics and Economy; Brazilians on Sports and Arts; Spaniards on Local and National news; Britons and Americans on Opinion and World news. We also found that German and Spanish readers are more likely to read multiple national newspapers, while British readers more often resort to foreign sources of news. The results confirm that feedback to news items from a large user base is pivotal for the replication of content and that newspapers and news items can be clustered according to the editorial profile and principles of newsworthiness inherited from legacy media. The results of this investigation shed light onto the networked architecture of journalism that increasingly depends on readership agency

Chemical investigation of a biologically active schinus molle L. leaf extract

The pepper tree Schinus molle L. is an evergreen ornamental plant belonging to the Anacardiaceae family, native to South America and widespread throughout the world. It has biological activities and is used in folk medicine. This paper aims to contribute to a deeper knowledge of its chemical composition and biological properties. S. molle leaf extracts were obtained by sequential extraction with solvents of different polarities and subsequently tested on the HL-60 human leukaemia cell line to define a possible cytotoxic activity. Among the investigated extracts, the petroleum ether extract revealed a high cytotoxic activity, and its chemical composition was further investigated. By a silica column chromatography, eight fractions were obtained, and their compositions were determined by GC-MS analysis. Compounds and relative abundance differed widely among the fractions; sesquiterpenes resulted the main component and alcoholic sesquiterpenes the most abundant

Cultivo de café (Coffea arábica L.) com princípios agroecológicos como opção para a agricultura familiar na região de Penápolis/SP.

No município de Penápolis e região, os fatores econômicos, climáticos e políticos, influenciaram na substituição da cultura do café por outras atividades agropecuárias, como a cana-de-açúcar e a pastagem, oprimindo assim, a agricultura familiar tornando-a inviável, provocando o êxodo rural em busca de outras fontes de renda. O objetivo desse trabalho é o de verificar a viabilidade de manter o agricultor familiar na região através do resgate da cafeicultura com manejo agroecológico que supere as adversidades ambientais e socioeconômicas. A implementação de uma lavoura experimental de café com princípios agroecológicos e o levantamento de dados dos produtores e de suas propriedades, vislumbra o fortalecimento da cultura na região, com novos modelos de produção. Conclui-se que a possibilidade de intensificação do cultivo do café com vertente agroecológica na região de estudo, como uma opção de resistência ao avanço da cana-de-açúcar, depende em grande parte de uma decisão política de estímulo e de motivação dos agricultores familiares

Narrative and violence: the Brazilian Autumn coverage on Twitter

This paper analyses the media coverage of the Brazilian protests that happened in June 2013. We monitored 2,852 tweets from ten news organizations and newspapers that were covering the events on Twitter and, based on content analysis, we compared and identiied messages focusing on violence aspects of the manifestations. We also compared this discourse to oicial data from 268 protests that occurred during the same timeframe, regarding deaths, injuries and arrests. Our results indicate that news coverage on Twitter diverged from official sources, amplifying the violence discourse by focusing tweets’ contents on this topic

La storiografia pedagogica italiana sul lavoro e sulla formazione

Il saggio mira a verificare se fra gli studi italiani che hanno affrontato il tema del lavoro e della formazione professionale si possa riconoscere una serie di indagini di tipo storico-educativo, che si presenti con una qualche autonomia e continuit\ue0. A tale scopo, viene presentata una rassegna di opere storiche che partendo dai primi decenni unitari giunge ai nostri giorni

L’autorità giudiziaria, e non il Prefetto, può annullare la trascrizione nel registro dello stato civile. Nota a sentenza TAR Lazio n. 3907/15

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Senecana

Notes on Seneca’s prose works (nat. 3.30.8; 4a.2.18; ep. 90.10; 22-3), with obser-vations on Lucan 9.942-5, and John Lydus mens. 4.107, p. 144.15 ff. Wuensch

Filatura e tessitura secondo Posidonio e Seneca: per il testo e l’esegesi di Sen. Ep. 90.20

Notes bearing on the text and interpretation of the passage in which Seneca levels biased criticisms at Posidonius for failing to report technical progress in weaving

Oliari and Others v. Italy: a stepping stone towards full legal recognition of same-sex relationships in Europe

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A victory for Italian same-sex couples, a victory for European homosexuals? A commentary on Oliari v Italy

In Oliari and others v. Italy the European Court of Human rights established for the first time that the legislator’s failure to guarantee a legal framework recognizing non-marital same-sex relationships constitutes a violation of the right to respect for private and family life under article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights. This article aims to underline positives and negatives in judges’ reasoning. Particularly, it will be underlined the relevance of the judgment both as a critique on major contradictions characterizing Italian institutional debate around the issue of same-sex partnerships, and as a further step in the progressive application of article 8 ECHR to protect same-sex individuals committed in an intimate relationship. Such result is indeed achieved by referring expressly to the US Supreme Court judgment in Obergefell v. Hodges, which is uncommon for the Strasbourg Court and should not be overlooked for future cases.However, the article observes how the Chamber surprisingly failed ascertaining a possible violation of the right of private and family life in conjunction with the non-discrimination principle. This risks limiting the effects of its reasoning to the Italian situation only. Moreover, it is disappointing to notice that the European Court did not even examine Italy’s violation of the right to marry under art.12 of the Convention, and contrarily granted a wide margin of appreciation to the States. At present, same-sex marriage still remains “taboo” for the ECtHR.Effective Protection of Fundamental Rights in a pluralist worl