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Veicolando le più recenti conquiste dell’archeologia medievale in terra lombarda attraverso un linguaggio di pronta presa, la mostra milanese I Longobardi e la Lombardia (Palazzo Reale, 1978) toccava le corde più profonde di una memoria collettiva strettamente legata al territorio. L’ampio successo di pubblico ottenuto impone di ampliare l’angolo d’analisi da una prospettiva specialistica all’interrogazione sulle ricadute dell’evento in ambito museale e identitario tra anni Settanta e Ottanta.

During the last decade, the increase in computational capacity, the consolidation of new data processing methodologies and the availability of access to new information concerning both individuals and organizations, aided by the widespread internet usage, has increased the development and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) within companies. The application of AI techniques in the banking sector attracts wide interest as the extraction of information from data is inherent to banks. As matter of fact, for many years now models play a crucial role in several banks processes and are strictly regulated when they drive capital measurement processes. Among banks’ risk models a special role is played by credit ones, as they manage the most relevant risk banks face and are often used in regulatory relevant processes. The new AI techniques, coupled with the usage of novel data, mostly unstructured ones related to borrowers’ behaviors, allow for an improvement of the accuracy of credit risk models, that so far relied on structured internal and external data. This paper takes inspiration from the Position Paper Aifirm 33/2022 and its English published translation (Locatelli, Pepe, Salis (eds), 2022. The paper is focused on literature review regarding the most common AI models in use in credit risk management, also adding a regulatory perspective due to the specific regime banking models are subject when they are used for regulatory purposes. Furthermore, the exploration of forthcoming challenges and future advancements considers a managerial perspective. It aims to uncover how credit risk managers can leverage the new AI toolbox and novel data to enhance the credit risk models’ predictive power, without overlooking the intrinsic problems associated with the interpretability of the results.

Background: Prolactinoma, the most common pituitary adenoma, is usually treated with dopamine agonist (DA) therapy like cabergoline. Surgery is second-line therapy, and radiotherapy is used if surgical treatment fails or in relapsing macroprolactinoma. Objective: This study aimed to provide economic evidence for the management of prolactinoma in Italy, using a cost-of-illness and cost-utility analysis that considered various treatment options, including cabergoline, bromocriptine, temozolomide, radiation therapy, and surgical strategies. Methods: The researchers conducted a systematic literature review for each research question on scientific databases and surveyed a panel of experts for each therapeutic procedure’s specific drivers that contributed to its total cost. Results: The average cost of the first year of treatment was €2,558.91 and €3,287.40 for subjects with microprolactinoma and macroprolactinoma, respectively. Follow-up costs from the second to the fifth year after initial treatment were €798.13 and €1,084.59 per year in both groups. Cabergoline had an adequate cost-utility profile, with an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) of €3,201.15 compared to bromocriptine, based on a willingness-to-pay of €40,000 per quality-adjusted life year (QALY) in the reference economy. Endoscopic surgery was more cost-effective than cabergoline, with an ICER of €44,846.64. Considering a willingness-to-pay of €40,000/QALY, the baseline findings show cabergoline to have high cost utility and endoscopic surgery just a tad above that. Conclusions: Due to the favorable cost-utility profile and safety of surgical treatment, pituitary surgery should be considered more frequently as the initial therapeutic approach. This management choice could lead to better outcomes and an appropriate allocation of healthcare resources.

Este estudo qualitativo trata de um recorte de uma pesquisa maior sobre o ensino de química, com foco na cinética, sob a perspectiva da metacognição. O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar de que forma os incidentes metavisuais, evocados por um grupo de estudantes, influenciam no processo de aprendizagem durante uma atividade que aborda o efeito da temperatura na rapidez de uma reação química. A atividade metavisual foi realizada com três estudantes universitários em uma universidade pública brasileira. Durante a atividade, os alunos foram incentivados a refletir por meio da comparação de suas próprias representações simbólicas e pictóricas com os diagramas químicos apresentados pela professora. Os resultados indicaram que os incidentes metavisuais, de modo integrado, permitiram que os discentes revisassem e reconstruíssem o pensamento em estágios diferentes da tarefa. Além disso, o estudo também aborda algumas dificuldades relacionadas aos conceitos de química geral e implicações para o ensino no contexto desta pesquisa.

The education system of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is facing multiple challenges that are related to the situation of severe poverty affecting the population, the lack of public funding, the low quality of learning, class overcrowding and high illiteracy rates. The situation is worsened and at the same time caused by the situation of ongoing armed conflict and violence which have been affecting the country since its independence. While the connections between education and conflict are often difficult to disentangle, education can play a key role in creating a more equitable system where peace and inclusion are favoured, thus protecting the most vulnerable. According to latest available estimates, however, the promotion of peace and citizenship education programmes and manuals remains still a challenge in the DRC. The paper presents the Maison de paix experience - a project of international cooperation in the field of education promoted by an Italian association in Kikwit, in the western region of the DRC. It underlines the important role of participatory educational governance and teacher training, as a way to promote justice, solidarity and inclusion which are fundamental values in peace education.

Cet article vise à montrer comment, ces dernières années, la littérature italophone du Haut-Adige/Südtirol s’est emparée de l’échec du plurilinguisme dans le Haut-Adige et des frustrations que cela comporte dans la vie quotidienne des italophones. Les auteurs examinés, appartenant à des générations différentes (Alessandro Banda, Stefano Zangrando et Maddalena Fingerle), donnent corps sur la page à des personnages et à des situations qui expriment, sur un ton satirique ou tragique, une amère déception à l’égard des mécanismes qui bloquent l’évolution d’une société linguistiquement figée.

Durante la sua carriera di storica, teorica, docente e critica militante Jole de Sanna (Martina Franca, 29 novembre 1947 – Massafra, 25 giugno 2004) ha intrecciato differenti discipline e approcci metodologici per dar forma a un pensiero che ancora oggi si distingue per acume, originalità e attualità. Focalizzando l’attenzione sull’analisi delle due monografie Medardo Rosso o la creazione dello spazio moderno (1985) e Lucio Fontana. Materia spazio concetto (1993), affiorano quali tratti distintivi dell’attività di de Sanna una concezione orizzontale delle esperienze del passato e del presente; una solida attenzione per le scienze intese come mezzi per condurre un’analisi lontana dai percorsi tradizionali; un uso sempre intelligente e calibrato del linguaggio che corrisponde a un consistente apparato storico e teorico. La loro contestualizzazione permetterà di vagliare, per la prima volta, il portato di de Sanna nella ridefinizione di alcune delle più significative vicende artistiche della contemporaneità. During her career as a historian, scholar, professor, and militant critic, Jole de Sanna (Martina Franca, 29 November 1947 – Massafra, 25 June 2004) intertwined different disciplines and methodological approaches to give shape to a thought that still today is distinguished by acumen, originality, and topicality. This essay focuses on two monographs she authored: Medardo Rosso o la creazione dello spazio moderno (1985) and Lucio Fontana. Materia spazio concetto (1993). Their examination will bring out as landmarks a horizontal conception of past and present experiences; a robust attention to sciences as a means to conduct an analysis far from traditional paths; an always intelligent and calibrated use of language that corresponds to solid historical and theoretical apparatus. Their contextualization will allow to evaluate, for the first time, de Sanna’s contribution in a redefining process of some of the most significant artistic events of contemporary age.

Ritmo e audiovisivo. Una questione di metodo

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Este artigo aborda o conceito de comunicação pública associado ao de esfera pública, ressaltando a importância da pesquisa empírica para o campo, bem como seus limites metodológicos. Por sua natureza normativa, o conceito comunicação pública permite aferir a qualidade da democracia. Mas, ao procurar responder à dimensão fática da comunicação, a pesquisa empírica pode criar armadilhas cognitivas, acionando a dialética entre facticidade e normatividade, entre ser e dever ser. A reflexão ressalta a necessidade de se reconhecer a complexidade desencadeada por objetos que envolvem conflitos comunicacionais na democracia e indica aspectos metodológicos que podem ser privilegiados ao se contrastar fatos sociais, políticos e comunicativos. Palavras-chave: Comunicação pública, pesquisa empírica, metodologia, facticidade

Dalla poesia (i cinque componimenti della terza sezione delle Fleurs du Mal e il celebre poème en prose, Enivrez-vous, dello Spleen de Paris), alla prosa (il saggio narrativo Du vin et du hachisch) fino alla meno nota produzione teatrale (L’Ivrogne), la tematica del vino attraversa tutta l’opera di Charles Baudelaire, quale occasione per riflettere sul potenziale creativo e l’infinita aspirazione umana. Se tali presupposti dell’antropologia baudelairiana sono stati già ampiamente trattati dalla critica, attraverso l’analisi dei testi in versi e in prosa, ci pare che l’apporto fornito dal moderno scénario presenti ancora numerosi spunti d’interesse. Come sottolineato da Georges Bataille (La Littérature et le mal), L’Ivrogne, opera sfortunatamente rimasta in fieri, fonde il sentimento empatico e il delirio del limite umano, mettendo in scena “un’estetica dell’impossibile”, condensata nella valenza simbolica del vino e nella fisionomia di un anti-eroe inedito, l’operaio di una segheria. Wine is a recurring theme in Charles Baudelaire’s literary works, in his poetry (e.g. the five poems in the third section of Les Fleurs du Mal, and the famous prose poem Enivrez-vous in Le Spleen de Paris) as well as in his prose (e.g. the narrative essay Du vin et du hachisch), not to mention his lesser-known dramatic text L’Ivrogne. In his works, wine often serves as a pretext to reflect on artistic creation and men’s boundless aspirations. If, on the one hand, these fundamental aspects of Baudelaire’s anthropology have already been treated by scholars, on the other, the modern script still offers several interesting prompts for further research. As George Bataille wrote in La Littérature et le mal, L’Ivrogne, a work that Baudelaire unfortunately never finished, tries to create a blend of empathy and madness, putting on stage «an aesthetic of the impossible», represented by the symbolic value of wine and the creation of an original anti-hero, a sawmill worker.

Areal. Geosophy of Looking The reality is much more uncertain than it appears. The ways in which human beings perceive the reality, on the basis of their own culture and experience, are countless. Whether as adjective or as substantive, the term “Areal” refers to the nature or the identity of an area; for the author, it becomes an approach that suggest a “suspended reality” – i.e. A blurred area between the real and the unreal – and that considers the appearance as “the surface of the profundity”. Areal represents an area of sensible “indeterminateness”, a fluid filigree, where the sense of possibility may be seen. The possibility that forms and signs of reality different from the apparent one may unveil our way of looking at things.

Introduction: Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies are novel immunotherapies for the treatment of hematologic malignancies. They are administered in specialized centers by a multidisciplinary team and require the careful coordination of all steps involved in manufacturing and using cellular therapies. The Maturity Model (MM) is a tool developed and used for assessing the effectiveness of a variety of activities. In healthcare, it may assist clinicians in the gradual improvement of patient management with CAR T-cell therapy and other complex treatments. Methods: The START CAR-T project was initiated to investigate the potential of a MM in the setting of CAR T-cell therapy. Four Italian clinics participated in the creation of a dedicated MM. Following the development and test of this MM, its validity and generalizability were further tested with a questionnaire submitted to 18 Italian centers. Results: The START CAR-T MM assessed the maturity level of clinical sites, with a focus on organization, process, and digital support. For each area, the model defined four maturity steps, and indicated the actions required to evolve from a basic to an advanced status. The application of the MM to 18 clinical sites provided a description of the maturity level of Italian centers with regard to the introduction of CAR T-cell therapy. Conclusion: The START CAR-T MM appears to be a useful and widely applicable tool. It may help centers optimize many aspects of CAR T-cell therapy and improve patient access to this novel treatment option.

This essay proposes that literature is instrumental to the development of an ‘ethics of the empathetic imagination’. Literature illustrates, and often propounds widely shared cultural beliefs. But literature’s association with any cultural system is also manifest a contrario, in the fact that it interrogates and challenges the very logic, codes, and elements of the system, not only at the level of characters’ values and behavior, but also starting from the writer’s special use of language and narrative strategies. The plurivocal quality of complex literature enhances the perception of widely different subject positions and becomes a powerful tool of resistance against prejudice in favour of a sophisticated assessment of alterity. This thesis will be argued also with reference to Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out, and special attention will be paid to the novel’s empathetic dismantling of a dominator’s colonial mentality. The antithetical positions of the narrator and most of the characters allows for a scathing and subtle critique of the colonial mentality.

In the 1970s, film language faced a change towards a more intensified relationship with the viewer. In my contribution, I consider the case study of “Yuppi Du”, a rock opera authored by singer Adriano Celentano in 1975, one of the most conscious attempts in Italy to follow the new trends in musical film. On the basis of recent researches in the psychology of rhythm and musical timing, I delve into the emotional qualities of a narrative and stylistic formula which is structured not by the plot, but by a succession of songs comparable with a concept album, or a pop catalogue.

The issue addresses the compilation soubndtrack in the Italian sound cinema

This contribution illuminates the work of German film critic pioneer Hermann Häfker, who dedicated an influential essay to the relation between film and geography (Kino und Erdkunde) as early as in 1914. Häfker was active in the German movement for a film reform since the first decade of the Twentieth century, and Kino und Erdkunde, on the one hand, represents a passionate defense of an educational use of film in schools and public institutions, expressing the most progressive debates of contemporary cultural life, but, on the other hand, it shows the ideological limits and anxieties of a utopian and positivist “geographical” thinking just at the dawn of WWI crisis.

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The article consists of two parts where the authors reflect on the imaginary and they probe it into an mental-anthropological look (Bertirotti) and artistic-conceptual way (Locatelli). The areal term is here understood in a triple role: the ‘real’ as an area of a connexion; with the privative a indicating absence, the absence of the ‘real’; with the a indicating the motion to place, in the sense of approach to the ‘real’. The areal mapping - of which some applications re offered - is a way of thinking and sounding the world, an observation and learning process. The appearance is the surface of a field to explore: the continuous multi-directional openings produced in the areal generative approach, in the border fluctuation between the ‘real’ and the fictitious, they are an ideal habitat for innovation, both incremental and radical. The method presses for the attentional capacity of the participating-observer into a continuous cultural crossover, which is a necessary condition for the looming of a creative flow and places of experience.

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Since the very beginning, Henri Michaux’s poetry has investigated the topic of being, namely its definition, its extent and its boundaries, through the instrument of writing. According to the poet’s vision, human being is “multiple, complexe et d’ailleurs fuyant”; as a consequence, poetry, whose main objective is “questionner, ausculter, approcher le problème de l’être” (Passages), cannot but witness this protean and elusive tendency. Therefore, in the context of a poetic production focused on the theme of the escape, the self, “[qui] est et se voudrait ailleurs, essentiellement autre”, shall overflow its physical and linguistic boundaries, dissolving into many “lignes de fuite”/ “convergence lines” (Deleuze-Guattari), which represent the real issue treated in Michaux’s poetry. As we hope to demonstrate by the analysis of some pages of Plume, La Vie dans les plis, Face aux verrous, the escape and moving of the self, including its body and identity, are not the result of arbitrary imaginative work, but the most suitable poetic strategy allowing the reader to grasp the real objective of art, that is to say the inexhaustible longing for self-understanding, as well as understanding of others.

« Dirons-nous que le monde est devenu pour moi inhabitable ? Est-ce que le monde va finir ? » : telle était la crainte de Charles Baudelaire, dont témoignent ses journaux intimes. Michel Deguy, poète, philosophe et critique, se pose des questions similaires dans ses essais parus aux éditions Hermann entre 2009 et 2012, Fin dans le monde et Ècologiques. Cest surtout ce dernier ouvrage qui fait l’objet de lentretien que nous proposons et de l’analyse qui suit: nous montrerons ainsi comment le discours poétique et les logies de l’oikos se relient par une similarité profonde : prenant les choses « radicalement », c’est-à-dire à la racine, ils nous aident à comprendre et à perpétuer notre « habitacle transitoire ».

Si pour Charles Baudelaire, comparer signifie “puiser dans l’inépuisable fonds de l’universelle analogie” et révéler ces correspondances qui constituent le but d’une vie d’homme et d’artiste, nous comprenons le rôle prééminent conféré à la figure de la comparaison dans une telle poétique. Séparée de la métaphore, avec laquelle elle a toujours été mise en relation au fil des siècles, cette figure, par l’entremise du ‘comme’ – le sésame d’un rapport nouveau, selon la définition de Meschonnic – se caractérise par une configuration et des potentialités spécifiques: entre toutes, la possibilité de défigurer la réalité ainsi qu’elle est conçue pour la recréer grâce à l’établissement de nouveaux rapports de correspondance entre les éléments. Soumise au travail “scientifique” sur le langage établi par l’écrivain symboliste, la comparaison est investie d’un pouvoir poétique innovateur de signification, dont nous essayerons d’offrir un aperçu en analysant quelques-unes de ses occurrences, parmi les plus originales, qui apparaissent dans le recueil des Fleurs du Mal.

The aim of the present paper is to provide an elucidation of the commitments and motivations of phenomenal disjunctivism. Such an elucidation is very much needed, for, as far as I can see, the view, originally introduced by M.G.F. Martin, is often misconstrued. Even though what follows is not a direct defence of the view, this elucidation will dispel some objections, as these will turn out to simply misconceive their target.