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Newcleo is designing and building the next generation of nuclear lead-cooled fast reactors (LFRs) fueled with MOX. A fast-spectrum Small Modular Reactor of 30 MWe will be commissioned in 2030 (the Demonstrator) and a First-Of-Kind 200 MWe a few years later. To this end, newcleo develops an incremental strategy, starting first with the consolidation of mature and promising technologies with its own R&D laboratories and collaborations with major institutes and companies. This step aims to demonstrate the applicability of chosen technologies to a full mock-up of the reactor (the Precursor) available in 2026 for experiments. Inclusion of ISI&R (In Service Inspection and Repair) at the earliest stages of designs is a necessity to achieve a sufficient level of maturity and confidence in the technologies, and to increase safety, availability, and preservation of investments of experimental devices and reactors during their whole life.

Creativity by coping: imitating life as a work of imagination Engineering biological systems is easily interpretable as a process of mere and cold replication, or even distortion, of the natural domain, since it is often linked to industry and built on the Cartesian assumption of human rationality’s control over a submissive nature. In this article, I approach living systems design from an alternative perspective, supporting its similarities with activities which are traditionally associated with creativity, like arts. I show that different kinds of creativity are deeply involved in copying, composing, and modifying life, focusing on two different levels: that of scientific modelling, recognisable by looking at biological circuits design, and that of actual building of new organisms of evolutionary interest, like the artificial bacterium JCVI-syn3.0.

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Intesa Sanpaolo has developed a contagion model aimed at calibrating the measures to be taken to safeguard its employees and the provision of banking services, according to the risk deriving from the external environment. The model is based on both external and internal views: the combination of such elements provides a holistic picture of the overall contagion risk level, enabling the opportunity to take informed decisions for each geographical area. One of the most useful external indicators to feed the model is the reproduction index (Rt) provided by the University of Pavia which is calculated using the Poisson autoregressive (PAR) model. Though more research and development are needed, the proposed model represents a useful tool for supporting the Top Managers in the decision process to continue business as usual safely.

Canons 21 and 22 of the Fourth Lateran Council the XXI stands out as the most important normative especially in the sacramental discipline about confession and the munus of the sacerdos as curatus medicus animarum. Given a brief excursus on the confession’s history, we will try to understand the impact of the Innocentian legislation on doctrinal reflection and the development of the following regulation on the subject between the Middle Ages and the modern age.

Among the standards approved by the Fourth Lateran Council the XXI stands out as the most important in the sacramental discipline. As usual it takes the name from its opening words, Omnis utriusque sexus. Through it, not only did the Church sanction a universal law that established the obligation of the believer to confess all his sins to their priest annually, in order to receive at least at Easter, after the execution of the imposed penance, the sacrament of the Eucharist, but also introduced a broader regulation of the same sacrament which brought up a relevant subject such as the sigillum confessionis and the related penalties which were applicable if violated. For the first time this institution, which has its roots in the divine right, received a general and organic legislative discipline intended to become the subject for reflection on the part of the doctrine, especially in the wake of its reception in the Liber Extra by Gregory IX (X 5. 38. 12). Given a brief excursus on the emergence in the jus vetus of a first regulation in relation to the duty of the Seal of Confession, we will try to understand the impact of l of the Innocentian legislation on doctrinal reflection and the development of the following regulation on the subject between the Middle Ages and the modern age.

L’interprétation métapoétique des textes antiques, des œuvres de la littérature latine en particulier, a trouvé en Alain Deremetz un de ses promoteurs les plus efficaces et elle trouve encore en lui un de ses représentants les plus consistants du point de vue théorique et méthodologique. Depuis la première édition du Miroir des Muses en 1995, cette manière d’interpréter les textes s’est diffusée, de manière irrégulière selon les communautés scientifiques ; elle est parfois devenue banale au point, peut-être, de faire oublier la nécessité de démonstrations systématiques et rigoureuses ; il arrive qu’elle s’attire encore des critiques, dues parfois à une connaissance insuffisante des pratiques avérées de certains auteurs antiques, de métaphores du poétique que ceux-ci se sont transmises, ont fait évoluer, ont même détournées. Cette étude propose deux exemples d’interprétation métapoétique discutés ou à discuter encore (un dans le centon virgilien Europa, le second dans la séquence qui unit Junon et Allecto dans l’Énéide), avant de présenter quelques attitudes à l’égard du métapoétique de la part de commentateurs ayant marqué l’histoire de l’interprétation : les commentateurs virgiliens majeurs que sont Juan Luis de la Cerda et Servius montrent qu’ils connaissent bien certaines métaphores et leurs usages, Servius apparaissant sensible à d’autres procédés de la réflexivité (ce que nous appelons aujourd’hui « tropics of allusivity » notamment) ; le cas de Muret commentant l’Ode I, 26 d’Horace ainsi que quelques autres exemples épars font naître, quant à eux, l’hypothèse que si le métapoétique n’est pas aussi représenté qu’on pourrait l’espérer dans les discours critiques jusqu’au XXe siècle, c’est parce qu’il était jusqu’alors surtout présent dans les poèmes – constitutif du faire poétique – et qu’il avait ainsi moins vocation à être analysé qu’à être imité et (re)mis en œuvre. Le parcours proposé n’est certainement pas exhaustif et il s’est surtout agi de présenter un certain nombre d’exemples-tests, sinon jalons, dans ce qui pourrait former une histoire utile de ce mode d’interprétation.

Objectives: we aimed to analyze incidence and costs of hip fractures in Italy. Methods: we analyzed the Italian Ministry of Health national hospitalization and DRGs databases concerning fractures occurred in people ≥65 between 2003 and 2005. We have estimated incidence and direct costs sustained by the National Health Service for hospitalization and treatment of hip fractures on the basis of the value of the Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) referring to hip fractures. The expenses of rehabilitation and indirect costs were based on regional estimations. Results: between 2003 and 2005 we registered almost 90,000 hospital admissions per year (corresponding to 75,000 patients) because of hip fractures in people aged ≥65. Women accounted for the majority of hospital admissions due to hip fractures (78.0%; n=214,519). Among women, 84.3% of fractures (n=180,861) occurred in patients ≥75, which is known to be the age group with the highest prevalence of osteoporosis. Hospitalizations of both men and women showed an increasing trend across all the examined period. Hospital costs increased up to 467 million euros in 2005, while rehabilitation costs rose up to 531 million in the same year. Conclusions: hip fractures in the Italian population are increasing and represent a major public health challenge.

L'avvio del progetto di una nuova biblioteca di pubblica lettura nel Comune di Perugia ha fin da subito messo in luce una serie di criticità: la convivenza (o meno) in un unico spazio delle funzioni di biblioteca storica e di biblioteca “piazza del sapere”; i rapporti tra ente locale e università; le soluzioni architettoniche più idonee ad integrare una biblioteca “nuova” in uno spazio antico (ma vuoto); le eventuali difficoltà di accesso legate all'ubicazione nel centro storico; la dialettica tra funzionalità e wow factor; i rapporti con le diverse realtà bibliotecarie della città e tra le biblioteche e gli altri centri di cultura; la rilevanza (o meno) del patrimonio librario in una biblioteca di nuova concezione; la sostenibilità gestionale. Se è vero che ogni problema può essere visto come un'opportunità, una sfida a trovare soluzioni innovative, tutte queste criticità – una volta risolte – contribuiranno a realizzare una struttura di notevole interesse dal punto di vista biblioteconomico, architettonico e urbanistico.

L’ouvrage si stimulant de Scott Mc Gill, Virgil recomposed. The mythological and secular centos of Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, 2005, a pu susciter une attention aigue chez un nombre croissant de chercheurs pour cette forme d’écriture extraordinaire, pouvant donner lieu à des réécritures virtuoses comme celle d’Ovide via Virgile dans le centon Narcisse étudié par G. Tronchet dans le numéro 7 (2010) de de Dictynna. C’est plutôt l’ordinaire qui est au centre de cette la présente étude, où il s’agit de mieux comprendre la démarche de l’auteur du centon De panificio vis-à-vis de la poésie de Virgile. Le centon n’est pas lu ici comme une parodie, mais comme un jeu de lettré où Virgile permet peut-être, au contraire, d’élever ce qui est humble. Il témoigne en tout cas d’une très bonne connaissance de la poésie virgilienne et de certains de ses enjeux, en particulier stylistiques. L’auteur du poème a, en effet, réuni la plupart des passages de l’Énéide où la thématique alimentaire est en cause ; il a également rapproché plusieurs passages où l’humilité intrigue, voire est problématique ; enfin, il s’est peut-être donné pour but de recomposer de manière allusive et en miniature un chant particulier de l’Énéide, le chant 5, dont chacun des principaux épisodes est représenté dans ces onze vers captivants.

A selection of 10 poems by Svetlana Cârstean, one of the most interesting and original voices in contemporary Romanian poetry, is presented here in Italian translation. The texts are taken from the collection The Vise-Flower.

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