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In the spring of 1994, anti-HCV prevalence and associated risk factors were evaluated in 681 subjects representing all age-groups in the general population of a small central Italian town. The overall anti-HCV prevalence was 8.4%, ranging from 3.7% in the 30-39 age-group to 18.2% (p0.01) in the 60-70 age-group; no subject below 30 years of age was positive. Multiple logistic regression analysis showed that the only variables independently associated with anti-HCV positivity were awareness of unspecified liver disease (O.R. 3.58), age45 years (O.R. 2.72), and lowest number of years of schooling (O.R. 11.0) while no association was found with any parenteral exposure such as blood transfusion, intravenous drug use, major or minor surgical intervention, use of glass syringes or dental therapy. The HBsAg prevalence in this population was 1.3%, which corresponds to the rate reported in central Italy. These findings show a high level of HCV endemicity, with no evidence of parenteral exposure.

A cohort of 1971 chemical workers licensed to handle ethylene oxide was followed up retrospectively from 1940 to 1984 and the vital status of each subject was ascertained. No quantitative information on exposure was available and therefore cohort members were considered as presumably exposed to ethylene oxide. The cohort comprised 637 subjects allowed to handle only ethylene oxide and 1334 subjects who obtained a licence valid for ethylene oxide as well as other toxic gases. Potential confounding arising from the exposure to these other chemical agents was taken into consideration. Causes of death were found from death certificates and comparisons of mortality were made with the general population of the region where cohort members were resident. Seventy six deaths were reported whereas 98.8 were expected; the difference was statistically significant. The number of malignancies for any site exceeded the expected number (standardised mortality ratio (SMR) = 130; 43 observed deaths; 95% confidence interval (95% CI) 94-175) and approached statistical significance. For all considered cancer sites the SMRs were higher than 100 but the excess was only significant (p < 0.05, two sided test) for lymphosarcoma and reticulosarcoma (International Classification of Diseases--9th revision (ICD-9) = 200; SMR = 682; four observed deaths; 95% CI 186-1745). The excess of cases for all cancers of haematopoietic tissue (ICD-9 = 200-208) also approached statistical significance (SMR = 250; six observed deaths; 95% CI 91-544). Focusing the analysis on the subcohort of the ethylene oxide only licensed workers, who are likely to have experienced a more severe exposure to this gas, it became evident that all but one of the observed cases of haematopoietic tissue cancers in the cohort were confined to this subgroup, enhancing the relevant SMR to 700 (95% CI 237-1637) and the SMR of lymphosarcoma and reticulosarcoma to 1693 (95% CI 349-4953).

L'impatto del diritto comunitario sull'ordinamento giuridico dei Paesi terzi in materia di imposte dirette riguarda in primis la libera circolazione dei capitali. Lo scambio di informazioni e l'assistenza nella fase dell'accertamento costituiscono fattori rilevanti per estendere l'ambito delle libertà fondamentali anche ai rapporti con paesi non appartenenti all'Unione europea.

Saggio di storia della storiografia romanistica nel quale mostra come l’opposizione della romanistica, in specie italiana, all’idea diarchica di Th. Mommsen sia stata influenzata da un pregiudizio determinato da un inconsapevole impiego della dogmatica moderna e dalla sua conseguente sovrapposizione alle vicende giuridico-costizionali di Roma imperiale.

Alcuni versi di oscura interpretazione del famoso carme catulliano si spiegano attraverso elementi interni al testo e non in base ad elementi di diritto celtico, come voleva il grande storico Santo Mazzarino

Nell’articolo si esaminano e notizie relative alle gentes Cincia e Cilnia quale esempio del Dizionario della gentilità romana, ormai in corso di stampa.

L'a., prendendo le mosse dalla moderna disciplina della mora debendi e dalle incertezze giurisprudenziali al riguardo, procede a ritroso individuando già nell'esperienza giuridica romana una serie di problemi concernenti soprattutto l'assenza di una definizione di mora e l'origine della cd. mora ex persona.

L'A. esamina i mutamenti intervenuti nella concezione dell'adozione dal diritto classico al diritto giustinianeo.

Il saggio affronta il problema del passaggio dall’esecuzione personale a quella reale. La concezione potestativa di tutti i rapporti giuridicamente rilevanti fece sì che dalla situazione debitoria scaturisse la soggezione fisica, materiale, della persona onerata a quella che doveva ricevere la prestazione. Un significativo mutamento di rotta si verificò solo nel 326 a.C. quando, in una mutata situazione economica, fu approvata la lex Poetelia Papiria de nexis che abolì la servitù per debiti.