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This paper proposes a reflection on the role of digital technologies as a tool to know and enhance architectural and artistic heritage through non-invasive modalities and technologies. The article is part of the broader research work on the closed churches of Naples’s historic center, with the Church of S. Vincenzo Ferreri as the case study of this experimentation. The church still has an extremely rich decorative apparatus deriving from various stratifications. However, it is seldom open to the public only when exhibitions and events are hosted. The paper will comply with the foundational concepts of survey and digital architectural representation in the interpretation processes of the architectural heritage to evaluate the validity of alternative fruition techniques aimed at expanding the knowledge of this heritage to the community.

La Fibromialgia è una condizione di dolore muscoloscheletrico diffuso che si associa a fa-tigue, rigidità, insonnia, alterazioni dell'umore e comporta conseguenze importanti per la vita quotidiana. Ad oggi è ancora sottodiagnosticata e sono poco chiare sia l'eziopatogenesi sia la diagnosi differenziale con condizioni di Dolore Cronico Diffuso. Tra i fattori cognitivi che contribuiscono al mantenimento della condizione, la catastrofizzazione ha ottenuto particolare interesse. Lo scopo del presente studio è stato confrontare la sintomatologia in pazienti con diagnosi di Fibromialgia (FM; n = 27) e con diagnosi di Dolore Cronico Diffuso (Chronic Widespread Pain, CWP; n = 27) e indagare i predittori degli outcome riferiti di dolore. Tutti i pazienti han-no compilato i seguenti questionari: McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ), West Haven Yale Multidimensional Pain Inventory (WHY-MPI), Pain Related Self-Statement Scale (PRSS), Pain Related Control Scale (PRSS). È stato rilevato inoltre l'elettromiografia di superficie (EMG) a riposo per 5 minuti in corrispondenza del muscolo trapezio superiore sinistro e del muscolo frontale. Ai questionari, i pazienti con FM hanno presentato una maggiore catastrofizzazione (p 0.05) rispetto ai pazienti CWP. Inoltre, il livello di catastrofizzazione modula la relazione tra EMG del muscolo trapezio e interferenza del dolore riportata nel gruppo di pazienti con FM. I risultati suggeriscono che alti livelli di catastrofizzazione accentuino l'effetto negativo di elevati livelli di tensione muscolare in pazienti con FM.

Comparative Studies in Education. An Historical-Critical Introductions Comparative studies in education constitute a rather complex research field. It is not unusual to hear calls for their redefinition, starting from the consideration that the dynamics of globalisation seem to question some characterising elements like the very unit of comparison adopted, often identified with the State. The author aims to show how this conception is an oversimplification in that a serious consideration of comparative studies and theories demonstrates how, as a unit, the State has actually not been the exclusive object of study at all, historically speaking. Instead, while bearing in mind the limitations of studies exclusively based on the State, the simplistic assumption of going beyond the State must at least be justified in some way. Without careful attention to individual contexts and an in-depth analysis of their peculiarities, any «comparison» remains vacuous or, rather, cannot be defined as real comparison, and both the theoretical end and the melioristic one are ineluctably destined not to be achieved. Over and beyond the specificities linked to individual research approaches, this remains a fundamental call for method which, ultimately, is linked to what Sadler recommended over a century ago.

The absolute stereochemistry at the C-7, C-8, and C-9 chiral centers of pinolidoxin (1) has been determined by chemical and spectral methods. First, the synthesis of four stereoisomeric fully benzoylated 2,3-erythro-1,2,3,4- heptanetetrols, corresponding to the C6-C18 portion of the natural substance, has been accomplished starting from meso-tartaric acid. As next step, the selection of the synthetic tetrabenzoate possessing 'natural' stereochemistry (10a') suitable for absolute configuration determination, has been carried out by correlation with its 'natural' homologue derived from degradation of pinolidoxin. Determination of the stereochemistry at the title chiral centers has been carried out by application of the Mosher's method both to 7a', a compound stereochemically related to 10a', and to pinolidoxin itself. The stereoselective synthesis of a protected form of the C6-C18 portion of pinolidoxin, to be used in its total synthesis, has also been accomplished starting from commercially available D-erythronolactone.