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Recensione di Gabriella D’Agostino, Vincenzo Matera, a cura di, Storie dell’antropologia, Milano, UTET, 2022, pp. 635.

This article highlights the potential for collecting and processing territorial data in order to facilitate planning and programming that respond to real local problems and include the political and regulatory framework in force. A case study is explored that involves the joint use of two databases with institutional functions: the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) and the National Information System for Water Management in Agriculture (SIGRIAN). Both databases are managed by the Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA). Those data were used to calculate economic-structural indicators for irrigated and livestock farms located in the Po River Basin District and to run the socioeconomic analysis required to update the Water Management Plan. The updating of plans is governed by the Water Framework Directive (Directive 2000/60/EC), which establishes the community framework for water and requires all Member States to review and update their Plan every six years. The first update deadline was December 2015 and the second one will be December 2021. The integrated use of two databases made it possible to identify farms according to two types of irrigation: collective or self-supplied. With collective irrigation (Irrigation Water Service), the farm is a user of a Local Agency for Water Management (LAWM) that collects and distributes irrigation water. With self-supplied irrigation, the individual farmers collect and distribute water themself. The analysis carried out demonstrates the need and opportunity to develop coordinated data collection and management systems, thereby strengthening and refining the monitoring and programming of water use in line with the real needs of the territory.

In this paper, we will describe the field experience of a psychosocial intervention of reception and integration of migrants in Sardinia. We will also discuss the role of emergency psychologists and humanitarian assistance in promoting a kind of reception which can develop the resources of the adult and child migrants as well as of the family nucleus, following the Social Cognitive Transactional Analysis/ SCTA approach. SCTA will be used as the theoretical basis to describe the several organizational and operational phases of welcoming the migrant, the role of psychologists and other professionals involved, and also the methodology of the intervention. According to Scilligo (2006), the basic processes of SCTA are: the ability to take in pleasure or pain, the ability to respond actively or passively to a change in external stimuli, the ability to provide for the continuation of the race (species) through relational interdependence, and the evolutionary factor, that is the gradual biological and psychological maturation of an individual.

Maintenance budget appraisal and allocation is a fundamental activity for the definition of an effective Facility Management (FM) strategy. Once the maintenance policy is set by the assets’ owner, facility managers are asked to compare different maintenance strategies (i.e. preventive vs. corrective) in order to provide a reliable and cost-effective maintenance budget. This can be hindered by unavailability of data for maintenance of building components. Nowadays, Building Information Modelling (BIM) provides plenty of data, but procedures are seldom focused on maintenance costs appraisal and this frequently leads to an intensive data re-elaboration. The objective of this research is to provide a precise maintenance budget appraisal according to different maintenance strategies through the Facility Condition Index (FCI), calculated starting from data stored into an Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) model. Data are stored in IfcAsset elements, using the related property sets. To overcome calculation needs, some additional attributes may be associated to elements and stored in custom property sets. The results of this research are a set of data, procedures and tools that allow the quantification and planning of maintenance expenditure, allowing a proper budget allocation. These procedures and tools answer the need of both designers during new constructions (to prepare the maintenance plan, as required by current Italian laws for public buildings) and asset managers during the digitisation of existing buildings (to store maintenance data and to rely on better appraisals). In this paper a demonstration is presented, with the purpose of showing the proposed methodology and tools. The demonstration has been carried out on some of the architectural and Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing (MEP) components that mainly contribute to the annual maintenance expenditure.

Preface to the AAPP special issue gathering the proceedings of the international workshop on Glasses and Polymers: the Science of Disorder, held in Messina, Italy, on 15-16 November 2018.

We review the main achievements accomplished in the study of the coherent collective dynamics of phospholipid membranes, i.e., the collective vibrational excitations active on the sub-picoseconds to picoseconds time scale and terahertz frequencies, over a length scale comparable to the angstrom length scale. The first descriptions of the terahertz collective spectrum, mainly assigned to a single longitudinal acoustic-like mode similarly to simple liquids, have been progressively replaced by a complex scenario, with longitudinal and transverse acoustic-like and optic-like inelastic excitations. Complex phenomena (avoided crossing mechanisms between modes, a phonon gap introduced by the disorder and a slow- to fast-sound transition) have been highlighted in the dispersion curves of lipid bilayers. Systematic and comprehensive studies along the lines of the investigations reviewed here contribute to understand the role of the collective (coherent) chain dynamics in the passive transport across bilayers, in the formation of water wires inside dynamic defects in lipid bilayers and in other biological functions of biomembranes.

Water has important economic values, mainly in the agricultural sector. Beside enhancing agricultural output and crop diversification, irrigation generates positive externalities which have been little emphasized by the literature. The purpose of this review is to investigate the direct, indirect and potentialbenefits of water use in agriculture by taking an additional step towards the identification and economic evaluation of the observed positive, social, environmental and ecological effects of irrigation. Five categories of contributions are examined: irrigation returns flows for groundwater recharge; biodiversityand wildlife habitat; landscape aesthetic and cultural values; nutrient recycling and retention; and improved health, nutritionand living conditions. Knowing the economic value of such positive externalities would help to get the right policy incentives for better water use and increased water savings in a context of growing water scarcity.

L’articolo esplora le forme di psicopatologia emergenti nell’ottica di un pensiero complesso. L’obiettivo, più in particolare, è quello di analizzare le nuove forme di esistenza-nel-mondo nell’epoca della post-modernità evidenziandone il loro carattere di frammentarietà e di movimento incessante e continuamente ricorsivo. In questo modo, mentre si esplorano le forme del mondo esterno si disegnano le forme del mondo interno e, viceversa, con gli occhi del mondo interno si descrivono le forme del mondo esterno. Si propone, infine, la possibilità di riacquisire la propria autenticità e creatività a partire dalla ri-fondazione di un legame con la vita e con gli ambienti di vita.

Book review of Juan Javier Rivera Andía, La vaquerita y su canto: Una antropología de las emociones, Buenos Aires, Rumbo Sur / Ethnographica, 2016, pp. 192.

The hydration of the dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine multi-bilayers has been studied by means of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The structure of water confined in lipid membrane, under water-rich and water-poor conditions has been investigated by examining the OH stretching band region. We found that the structure of solvation water of lipid bilayer differs from bulk water. In addition, interaction of water molecules with carbonyl group and phosphate group of phosphatidylcholine have been observed through the downshift of the relative vibrational components representing hydrogen bonded groups. We infer that the disorder of the water network occurs especially in the interfacial region of phospholipids and it increases above the gel to liquid crystalline phase transition, giving rise to an increase of the absorption around 3600 cm^(-1) which indicates the presence of weakly hydrogen-bonded water aggregates.

This article aims to investigate the relationship between movie representation of disasters and sharing of emotions that have been experienced personally in real emergency situations. The theme is addressed in the first place referring to clinical observations and accounts of survivors, which explicitly use some images from specific films in their narratives. The hypothesis explored here is that the film genre known as disaster movie provides to individuals in distress in our culture some representations and symbolic tools which are useful to encode exceptional events and to cope with and share the emotions aroused by them. A thorough knowledge of the genre can therefore help to better listen, understand and support the narratives of the people who survived to serious emergencies and now need social legitimization and acceptation of their emotions.

This paper presents two different experimental applications of corpora through a common corpus-based approach, based on the authors’ experiences respectively in EFL secondary and ESP tertiary settings. The corpus-based approach was not meant to replace other teaching methodologies, but to experiment opportunities of narrowing learners’ lexical competenceperformance gap through their active involvement in corpora-designed activities.

The System of Children and Youth Choirs and Orchestras founded forty years ago by Josè Antonio Abreu in Venezuela, has become a significant alternative to the social ills faced by children and young people of the most disadvantaged neighborhoods of the South American metropolis, not only drugs and crime, but also the nihilistic logic that lacks all hope. It makes sense to transfer this experience in the wealthy West where the discomfort takes different forms? The answer is positive: music made together is ideal for sharing basic social values, construction of meaning and important experiences. The group is a perfect example of positive interdependence, commitment and responsibility, emblem of the community, micro-ideal society. Tolerance, inclusion, shared goals: values that can be a solution as well for our ills (bullying, eating disorders, depression, immaturity, inability to decision and commitment, dependence on families etc.). The System of Abreu is the credible alternative to the traditional way of teaching music, cold and elitist, and it stresses the importance of teachers in their role of great responsibility, both pedagogical and psychological.

O processo de ocidentalização do mundo tem sido compreendido como movimento constituidor da Modernidade em termos de uma tentativa totalizadora de universalizar uma lógica européia. Tal perspectiva produziu uma forma de construção de narrativas imaginárias sobre a alteridade e subjetividades alinhadas ao projeto colonial ocidental. O objetivo do presente trabalho é, partindo de Foucault, da Análise do Discurso Crítica e de teorias pós-coloniais, focalizar as práticas discursivas na mídia e investigar o seu papel na criação e circulação de discursos sobre a identidade e a diferença no cenário contemporâneo depois de 11 de setembro de 2001. Ao analisar um evento comunicativo da imprensa escrita brasileira, um artigo de opinião acerca da guerra recente contra o Iraque, os autores argumentam que identidade e diferença são abordadas através de lentes fundamentalistas, ainda em sintonia com uma perspectiva ocidentalista - justamente em um período no qual os ideais iluministas têm sido amplamente criticados pelo pós-colonialismo. O artigo demonstra como o discurso é utilizado como arma de guerra.The process of occidentalization of the world, a way of constructing imaginary narratives about otherness, has been said to constitute Modernity in terms of a totalitarian attempt to universalize a European logic. Through this perspective, subjectivities were produced in complicity with the Western 'colonial' project. Drawing on Foucault, Critical Discourse Analysis and Postcolonial theories, this paper focuses on current language practices in the media by investigating their role in creating and circulating discourses about identities and differences in the contemporary scenario after 9/11. On analyzing a specific communicative event in the printed Brazilian press, an opinion article which centers on the Iraqi War, the authors argue that, still in tune with an occidentalist perspective, identity and difference are approached through fundamentalist lenses - in a period in which post-colonialism has widely criticized Enlightenment ideals. It is shown how in this approach media discourse is used as a war weapon.

Vários estudos sobre a caracterização da identidade de gênero na mídia têm sinalizado que o eixo bipolar masculino-feminino vem orientando historicamente as narrativas identirárias, ao diferenciar homens e mulheres em razão de sua anátomo-fisiologia. Apontam ainda para o fortalecimento, na contemporaneidade, de discursos cientificistas explicativos do comportamento humano, alimentados pelos avanços tecnológicos e pelo mercado. Tendo em vista esse panorama, o propósito do presente estudo é, com base em um texto jornalístico inglês, mapear parte das crenças e da lógica que figuram no cenário midiático contemporâneo, analisando sua participação na construção do conceito de mulher e de feminilidade hegemônica. O referencial da Análise Crítica do Discurso é utilizado para abordar o processo de construção de posições imaginárias propostas para os interlocutores cujas vozes interagem no referido texto.Different studies on the construction of gendered identities in the media have shown that the male-female polarity has been guiding historical narratives, as it differentiates men and women according to biological features. They also problematize the role played by technological developments and marketing practices in the strengthening of explanatory scientific discourses concerning human behavior in the contemporary scenario. In light of this state of affairs, the purpose of the present paper is to map part of the beliefs and logics underlying contemporary media practices, analyzing its participation in the construction of womanhood and hegemonic femininity. The reflection is triggered by an article published in an English newspaper and draws on Critical Discourse Analysis to approach the construction of imaginary subject positions for interlocutors whose voices interact in the focused text.