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Viral and bacterial infections play a crucial role in the worsening of the pulmonary functioning on chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD) patients, thus favoring the progression of the disease. Inflammatory response against lower airways’ viral and bacterial infections could be a specific marker of the progression of the disease. The control of the pulmonary inflammatory response in chronic diseases like COPD could reduce the risk of pulmonary function decline. Aim of this paper is to revise the data about microbiota/host interaction and the alteration of the immune response in stable and exacerbated COPD. The molecular patterns prevalent in these different clinical conditions will be examined as well as the role of the macrophages, of the autophagy and of the NETosis during lung infections in COPD patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to give a new definition of the word "Archives" as a result of an accurate survey of doctrinal orientations on this specific subject, analyzing - word by word - each particular lemma which makes up the new proposal. Even though there is no definition that is valid in every context, but archival theory seems to suffer largely from a heterogeneous vision, downstream of a rigorous scientific journey, but dense of conceptual and lexical unexpected contingencies. Each term - with meanings and contexts - does not constitute a simple signifier, but refers to a specific baggage of every disciplinary and cultural tradition. For these reasons, we will attempt to provide an overview of the definitions of archives, from the particular to the general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the synodal dimension inside the churches which refer to religious reforms in the XVI century. They debate on the value of the diocesan and national synod in the Anglican Communion, as it is defined in the ethic instances which caused a comparison with consequences in the ecumenical dialogue. Then we pass to present the theme in Lutheran, Calvinist and reformed churches which developed multiple traditions on the Synod also as a consequence of historical events when these churches had to face political power. This necessarily brief survey goes back to pages of historical references and of a theological debate on Synod. It shows how the knowledge of plural solutions is important for the church and consequently for the ecumenical course where this knowledge is thought and lived in the Synod and by the Synod inside the churches founded in the XVI century. Thus a new frontier can be opened for ecumenism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Post-I_IT (Post_Incunaboli_ITaliani) project is the result of the collaboration between Fondazione Scuola per i beni e le Attività culturali and ICCU (the Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and Bibliographic Information). It led to an update of the data stored in two fundamental databases dedicated to early printed books: the National census of sixteenth-century Italian editions (EDIT16) and the Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue (ISTC). The project focused on the identification of the Italian post-incunabula 'erroneously' recorded in one of the most important Fourteenth-Century book depositories, in order to integrate information relating to specific editions and items preserved in libraries all over the world. In addition to emphasizing the terminological issues, this paper intends to analyse some substantial differences relating to the descriptive methodology of the two databases, especially in the light of the recent update which enhanced EDIT16. The information which the project contributed to integrate includes: works of uncertain authorship, controversial attributions of typoghrapher or publisher, uncertain dates and places of publication, the location of previously non-registered specimens and the retrieval and linking of digitized specimens via hyperlink. Like other projects, it was possible to demonstrate that the interaction between databases can stimulate further reflections and considerations regarding the nodal information service of bibliographic repositories, and foster identification surveys beyond national borders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the end of the nineteenth century in U.S. libraries and research centers there has been a growth in book collections that, in 1944, is calculated as exponential. Growth that undergoes a sharp increase after World War II, noting, at the same time, a high rate of overlap between collections, which reduces the total holdings to about two-thirds of the world's published holdings. Using the technology of the time, based essentially on procedures for microfilming documents, proposals for deduplicating collections and reducing the amount of space occupied on the shelf are being developed from a lot of quarters, while electrical, or electronic, devices are being designed and, at times, realized combining the optical element, microfilms, with information retrieval techniques to achieve information discovery integrated with document retrieval. It was actually a series of devices based on the same operating principles, such as electrical photocells, microfilm and high-speed photography, invented, reinvented and reengineered, from which some prototypes were created, until, completely rethought by another inventor, one went into production and was successfully and commercially used. Some of the figures who gravitated around these devices have either remained in the shadows or have been forgotten: this paper, beyond documenting a pioneering period that was very significant for librarianship and for the developments of future information retrieval systems, aims at representing the importance and the role that these people played. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper proposes a case study about integration of focus group and survey to listen teenagers and preteens in the participatory evaluation of a local educational project. The contribution discusses strengths and weaknesses of the focus group as a participatory instrument in the evaluation process and the integration with the survey. Furthermore, the authors reflect about possible ways to enhance the approach, starting from the Youth Participatory Evaluation model and focusing on the role of teenagers in different evaluation stages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Covid-19 pandemic has required new reflections on the evaluation of multi-dimensional programs aimed at multiple stakeholders. The traditional approach, based on the blueprint approach, resulted unsuitable for grasping the complexity of the new scenario, due to its focus on objectives achieved. This paper aims to describe the evaluation of two projects for the inclusion of marginalized young people, through the Positive Thinking lenses. In fact, it turned out to be the theoretical approach most capable of responding to the complexities that emerged in this peculiar historical period. The evaluation becomes useful for triggering improvement actions and for capturing the efforts of the organizations. The contribution intends to open the theoretical reflection on the complexity of the programs, and on the role of the evaluator in accompanying the organizations by supporting them, in order to develop effective actions for the beneficiaries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a reflection on the connection between social innovation-driven social design and social impact evaluation (SIE). The author argues for a cognitive and learning function of SIE that can be conducted through the choice of methods, approaches and tools that can capture and enhance the innovations introduced by the programs. To this end, the construction path of the research design of the "Ri-belli" project, funded by the "Educational Poverty Alleviation Fund", is presented. The intervention is representative of the renewed system of second welfare, marked by the involvement of the private social sector in the policy making process and the desire to disseminate evaluative practice in the social sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to offer evidence for the use of clinical strategies, techniques and procedures used in the treatment of anxiety disorders and phobias for avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder. We consider the case study of an underweight woman with amenorrhea, a hyperfocus on nutrition, strict meal control and over-attention to bodily sensations, all aimed at preventing the risk of vomiting, which represents a complete and definitive loss of self-control. The specificity of the vomit phobia together with the concept of impending threat directed us towards a treatment that increases tolerability to the feared event, reducing its catastrophicity and favouring the acceptance of a partial and transitory loss of self-control. Our experimental findings and goals were achieved by following a standard anxiety and phobia treatment, where the exposure to the event is part of the acceptance process, coupled with techniques that aim at changing the perception of dysfunctional beliefs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Alexithymia is a complex, multidimensional and transdiagnostic construct whose aetiological-explanatory aspects are still not fully understood. The main hypotheses relate to a structural deficit or a dysfunctional process. This paper aims is to explore the relationship between alexithymia and self-regulation in order to identify the underlying mechanisms and the possible influence that such strategies may have in crystallising alexithymic traits. Method: a systematic review was performed following the PRISMA statement. The keywords - «Alexithymia » AND («coping» OR «coping strateg*» OR «COPE» OR «emotion regulation strateg*» OR «ERQ») NOT «psychopathology» NOT «neuroscience» - were run on the EBSCOhost database. Based on eligibility criteria, nine articles were selected and included. Results: alexithymic and non-alexithymic subjects tend to use different self-regulation strategies. Alexithymia seems to be positively associated with expressive suppression and, on the contrary, negatively associated with cognitive reappraisal. Moreover, self-regulation strategies based on avoidance and experiential avoidance seem to predict alexithymia dimensions. Conclusion: the identified self-regulation pattern is associated with greater emotional difficulties and lower levels of well-being. Although it is not possible to draw causal conclusions because of the cross-sectional nature of the studies, the importance of subjective self-regulation processes in association with alexithymia has emerged. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Several psychiatric disorders are associated with alterations in the functional connectivity of brain networks. A network that is particularly involved in a dysfunctional way in psychopathology seems to be the default mode network (DMN), a network closely related to resting-state. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a neuro-modulation technique that seems to influence psychiatric symptoms and functional connectivity. At the same time, several studies have reported that cognitive behavioural psychotherapy (CBT) can influence functional connectivity. Starting from these premises, the aims of this paper are i) to explore the effects of tDCS and CBT, independently, on functional connectivity in the context of psychopathology and ii) to explore the possibilities of integrating tDCS into CBT, by reviewing studies considering both interventions in an integrated way. Given the strong involvement of DMN in various psychiatric disorders, a parallel objective was to investigate whether there were any functional connectivity studies on this network in literature regarding the integrated intervention of tDCS and CBT. Exploring scientific literature, as far as we know, few studies have emerged in which tDCS and CBT are administered concomitantly. Published studies have been carried out exclusively on depression, but available data do not allow, at the present time, consistent conclusions to be drawn. From a careful analysis of literature, no functional connectivity study (e.g. of the DMN) in relation to integrated interventions of tDCS and CBT has been published. Therefore, future studies of this kind will be needed. In general, future research on the possibility of integration between neurophysiology and psychotherapy could help to clarify certain psychopathogenetic mechanisms and individual differences in treatment response. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from a critical interpretation of some authors involved in the debate raised by the call, this paper hypothesizes practicable conditions for a circular, nonpyramidal integration of technological disciplines into design processes, presenting some experimental investigations in support of these concepts. The paper aims to investigate, in particular, how the role of digital technologies, the key players in a fullblown transformation of thought, impacts the designer's education models and has a tendency to redefine both the boundaries between disciplines and the very role of the designer. Some significant international experiences in the field of the education of designers show that a humanistic approach to controlling technologies and to "ubiquitous" cooperation among strains of knowledge presents a possible scenario of profound rethinking of the role of the technological designer within a framework of shared fragility of the planet's economic models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from recent systemological research and the debate on the comparative method, the paper first proposes a reflection on the heuristic validity of the typological categories of private and public comparative law and their use to study the trans-nationalization and globalization phenomena. In the same perspective, the analysis focuses on the "deformalization" attempts of classical legal science (especially constitutional), in the view of a realist approach more attentive to the issues of living law and concrete subjects of the legal system. The analysis, therefore, addresses the issues that have characterized the formation of the primary law of the Union. In addition, the paper examines the case-law of the Court of Justice that contributed to the jurisprudential recognition of fundamental rights at the European level, making use for this purpose of the "constitutional traditions common to the member states of the Union". Finally, the conclusions propose a question relating to the right to form jurisprudence of the Union in the field of protection of fundamental rights. From a systemological point of view, this leads to the question of whether it is a peculiarity of the European legal system, or a case study intended to influence, if not also the origin, the developments of the legal systems at the global level in this matter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the dating of Major Declamations 8 and 10. Previous scholarship has pointed to a direct relationship between these two speeches, given the striking similarities in terms of language and shared commonplaces; in this paper I take into account a number of further resemblances with other speeches of our collection (DM 4; 18; 19), along with additional linguistic and rhythmic factors. This body of evidence leads to the conclusion that the author of DM 8 drew from DM 10, as well as from other declamations ascribed to Quintilian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper faces the theme of the priest's theological competence and inquires which theology is currently necessary to the church and consequently to an ordinate ministry serving a conscious faith. The first part offers a number of considerations on the dialogic relations between Christian faith and cultural order. Then the article focuses on the instructions entrusted to the theological reflection by two determining cultural aspects: technical evolution and the complexity of social life. Finally the third part of this paper points out why an adequate practice of ecclesial presidency fundamentally needs a theological competence matching the cultural challenges our epoch presents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On 13rd October 2016 the Chiostergi-Tuscher archive and library, originating from the heirs' house located in France (Saint-Cergues Les Voirons), was transferred to the Centro cooperativo mazziniano "Pensiero e Azione" in Senigallia. The paper reports about how this remarkable heritage of Chiostergi-Tuscher was retrieved and returned to Italy after thirty years. The collection includes correspondences, letters, diaries, documents, journals and papers, pictures, books, posters and other archival and bibliographic materials of great historical value to learn about the political, civic and cultural activities of Giuseppe Chiostergi (1899-1961), anti-fascist, member of the Italian Constituent Assembly and of Parliament, ambassador, pro-European and statesman, friend and correspondent to leading Italian and European personalities in the 20th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the role of the public sector information, seen as the most relevant form of accountability for a democratic state, crucial for citizens to be able to take informed decisions in their lives. The paper stresses also the role of public administration publications in the complex world of public sector information and describes the evolution of the availability and the access to these resources. The author analyzes the evolving scenario of Italian public sector information of the last twenty years, the e-government transition and the issues still to be faced. In particular, the author notes a discontinuity in the publication and making available by institutions of this type of documents and analyzes the reasons. Lastly, the article underlines the importance of information literacy and civic information literacy for communities' development and digital well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from a brief summary of the history of Klostermann' s edition, the paper focuses on the relationship between Origen' s Commentary on Matthew and the analogue commentary, characterized by a high level of compilation, attributed to the so-called Peter of Laodicea. Beyond a recapitulation of the attempts of identification of this mysterious author, the paper offers specimina of comparisons between correspondent sections of Origen' s and Peter' s texts, in order to highlight similarities and differences, and thus to discuss if Peter' s text can be rightly taken into consideration as a useful witness in a new edition of Origen' s text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to continue the discussion begun at the end of the 19th century comparing the reliability of both the 'indirect tradition' of Contra Celsum (represented by the Philocalia) and the 'direct tradition' (preserved only in the manuscript Vaticanus graecus 386 = A). In the first part of this paper, important conclusions resulting from the above discussion are recalled. Since some readings of Manuscript A are still considered problematic to this day, the second part of this paper deals with the question of whether the reliability of the 'indirect tradition' text has been underestimated in specific cases. Based on recent research on the Alethes Logos and a new analysis of Origen' s reply to Celsus' polemic, it is shown that in three selected fragments (fr. I 9, fr. VI 3 and fr. VI 1) the original words used by Celsus are to be found in the Philocalia instead of Manuscript A, i.e. the source that the modern editors of Contra Celsum followed. In part three of this paper it is shown that by preferring the words of the Philocalia for fr. VI 1, a door opens for a reinterpretation of the larger context of the passage for both the Alethes Logos as well as Contra Celsum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to present the current state of the art about love addiction, an obsessive and exasperated form of love towards a romantic partner, compromising one's own wellbeing. The first part concerns the definition, phenomenology and prevalence of the above mentioned condition. The main theories regarding love addiction nosographic conceptualization are discussed therein, as well as several diagnostic considerations to differentiate it from similar pathologies. The second part of the paper outlines the main hypotheses about love addiction etiology, the measures that are most commonly used for its assessment and the treatment options that have been proposed so far. Overall, it should be noted that even though love addiction has been discussed for a long time, the academic literature appears to be fragmented and unclear, which is to be considered, according to this paper authors, the main limit to overcome in order to effectively help out those who suffer from such condition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On May 4, 2019 a Danish Lawyers Studio has made public a legal opinion on "whether it would be in contravention of human rights and environmental law to establish the 5G-system in Denmark". The paper carried out a meticulous selection of the world's scientific literature produced in recent decades on biological effects caused by electromagnetic radiation and radio-frequency (RER) in living things. Recent reviews and meta-analyzes concerning studies on cell cultures, experimental animals, fauna, plants and also, with regard to the use of cell and cordless phones, on humans were examined. Scientific research has documented biological damage such as an increase in free radicals and DNA alterations and significant risks to humans also due to frequencies currently in use, even of medium-low intensity, far below the safety limits recommended by the International Commissions such as the ICNIRP. Based on the literature data, this paper is concerned compliance with the law is according to the Danish legislation, both in the European and International guidelines. The final remarks and conclusions show no uncertainty or ambiguity in stating that the activation of a 5G network in Denmark would be in violation of current international laws and conventions on human and children's rights, increasing the risks of serious damage to health and without guarantees for environmental protection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This contribution begins analyzing the meaning of globalization as differing from “globalism”, ideological plan and story-telling. The questions regard the current situation of globalization which is now put out or temporarily blocked. Then the paper goes on describing a new feature of capitalism: its universal control and supervision. Considering the reduced individual liberty (also due to Covid-19 epidemics) this paper enlightens the urgent demands of today’s mankind leading to a deep reflection and an ethic integration of economy differing from any moralistic shortcut. Finally this paper outlines a few points of view for the reopening of a route looking forward to an eco-friendly future for man and the earth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On Dacia restituta again. The paper reprises the discussion concerning the phrase Dacia restituta within Pan. IV [8] uttered on March 1st, 297 at Augusta Treverorum by an anonymous orator on the occasion of celebrating the Quinquennalia, in the honour of Constantius becoming a Caesar. The first part features an overview of the opinions formulated regarding the localisation of Dacia mentioned by the orator. Hence, some believe that it is the North-Danubian province, “taken back” by the Empire around 289 or even 297. Others point out that it is the extreme southern area of the former province, controlled permanently by the Romans through the fortifications on the left bank of the river. Others yet, without denying that the orator was referring to the former trans-Danubian province, only credit the information with the value of rhetorical expression, as more of an ideological than a realistic claim. Finally, certain researchers pinpoint that the orator must have referred to the South-Danubian province of Dacia as a whole or to one of the provinces by that name (Dacia Ripensis, Dacia Mediterranea) situated on the left side of the river. The following lines feature the significations of the term restituta (-us), in general, then in the Panegyrici Latini. The paper also includes an internal analysis of the fragment where the phrase Dacia restituta is featured, as well as of other contexts within the speech where the lexeme in question is used, leading to the conclusion that the phrase can only refer to a Dacia that the Empire considered an integrant part of it—a provincia—and that was restored, reintegrated in the initial structures (administrative, legal, tax-related, etc.) of the state, after the perturbation of the natural evolution by the barbarian incursions. Hence, it could not have been the former province of Dacia in the north of the Danube, given that its legal Roman status had ceased de jure and definitively upon the official abandonment of the province, but the province of Dacia in thesouth of the Danube, in closeconnection with the events requiring the presence of Diocletian on the Danubian front in 289, 290–291, 293–294, 296. A further argument to support this idea is the frequency of the opposition amissa-recepta, not amissa-restituta. Finally, the foreign policy ideology of the 297 speech is worth highlighting; namely, the view according to which the Empire was a closed space, a stable world, where territorial acquisitions on the left bank of the Danube wereexcluded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The difficult pursuit of a comparison between anthropology and psychology, undertaken by Ernesto de Martino, raised many perplexities in the Italian cultural landscape of the 1960s. In this paper, first the obstacles he encountered during his research project on cultural apocalypses and end-of-the-world delusions are discussed. Subsequently, the new cultural setting of the 1980s, witnessing the emergence of new paradigms of thought favourable to rethinking the relationship between the individual psyche and the cultural sphere, is described. In this perspective, de Martino's pioneering thought, aimed at understanding how the human presence is intrinsically linked to cultural institutions, paved the way to the development of a complex psychology. The specific contribution of de Martino was to usher, with no prejudice whatsoever, and actually with stringent rigor and in-depth intuition, in an area in which methods of investigation and different types of knowledge about human existence are often undefined, contaminated, and undifferentiated. This is an area that today we can better approach through the various complexity theories, but at that time it was pioneered in Italy by de Martino. This led him to develop an unconventional and original intellectual trajectory, totally unlinked to the prevailing culture, a trajectory that in fact some authors have compared to that of Michel Foucault. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current health crisis, like any kind of crisis, questions our human and Christian identity and its perception. Therefore, the crisis stimulates a theological reflection: how does the human identity emerging from the current health crisis challenge practical theology to rethink itself? Reacting to this question, this paper aims to highlight three approaches to the human identity and shows how an accurate analysis of social phenomena contributes to a better understanding of the dynamic nature of faith, enriching and stimulating a transdisciplinary theological reflection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses Malaysia's experience managing Vietnamese refugees from 1975 to the 1990s. Since 1975, Malaysia has assisted more than 250,000 Vietnamese refugees on global humanitarian grounds. However, Malaysia had to change several policies, including closing its doors, urging third countries and chairing the second Indochina refugee conference as the number of Vietnamese refugees coming to Malaysia continued to increase. At the same time, the Terengganu state government has reclaimed Bidong Island as a temporary settlement for Vietnamese refugees in Malaysia. This had caused a dilemma to Malaysia between its commitments to international humanitarian assistance and to safeguard its national interests. Historical research methods are used by referring to primary sources, especially the report of the Parliament of Malaysia. An interview with Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad was also conducted. Based on historical analysis, it appears that Malaysia had consistently committed to assisting Vietnamese refugees in Malaysia even though Malaysia had never ratified the 1951 Refugee Convention and the Refugee Protocol 1967. Nonetheless, Malaysia's efforts have been widely criticized as inhumane at the international level for threatening to shoot as well as pushing Vietnamese refugees back to sea. But Malaysia never gave up and continued to treat Vietnamese refugees appropriately before being deported to their home country or transferred to third countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) disease pandemic has a huge impact on global health and hospitals, which have had to reorganize their services to deal with an unprecedented health emergency. This paper describes the experience of the Clinical Psychology Unit of a large healthcare organization in Milan (Italy), focusing on the interventions delivered for hospitalized COVID-19 patients with the aim of highlighting their experiences and related psychological needs, and propose reflections on the functions that the psychologist can have with respect to these needs. The reflections are based on an extensive clinical experience conducted in presence for over a year with those patients hospitalized for COVID-19 who have received treatment with C-PAP, helmet, or low-flow oxygen. This led to the bottom-up identification of three macro-areas of issues that these patients face: isolation, fear of death, grief. In addition, two further transversal themes have been identified -- guilt and the perception of time -- which seem to modulate the articulation of the three macro-areas. Starting from these experiences and needs, two lines of actions of the psychologist with the hospitalized COVID-19 patient are identified that correspond to the two phases of hospitalization: 1) an action in the 'here and now' when the patient is still in a critical phase; 2) an action of narrative recovery of the lived experience when the patient is recovering. The importance for hospitalized COVID-19 patients of delivering psychological consultations in presence is supported by clinical experience; however, its effectiveness in preventing subsequent maladjustments should be evaluated in further studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictive measures have had a significant impact on the mental health of the entire population, especially children and adolescents. It seems appropriate to make a distinction between stressful events, which most families have experienced, and real traumatic experiences, which only the most vulnerable individuals have been victims of. In fact, the most recent data (WHO, 2020) show a significant increase in the rates of intra-family violence against women and minors around the world, during the period of the lockdown. The aim of this paper is to illustrate the spectrum of symptoms that the experience of a complex trauma determines on children and adolescents, and at the same time to indicate the possible strategies to facilitate the early detection of distress indicators and implement the necessary interventions in emergency contexts in an integrated and multilevel perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors highlight how, in the clinical practice of the psychoanalytic multifamily group, the emergence of traumatic memories and related emotional experiences allows us to perceive the existence of pathogenic "presences" in the internal world of suffering people. Such "presences" possess a permanent, secret and occult power of conditioning, very hard to grasp in other contexts. Pathogenic identifications that block the development of their own egoic resources are structured around these "presences" and the subject will live inhabited and possessed by others who prevent him from being himself. This paper describes how the specific functioning of the group makes it possible to start processes for the construction of transformative identifications which are gradually able to reduce the pathogenic power of such presences. Mutual mirroring, the functioning of the group as an "enlarged mind" and the emergence of healthy personal virtuality are the elements that allow the person to start thinking, through the other, what was impossible to think on his or her own. In particular with respect to his or her own pathogenic interdependencies. The presence of the other becomes of support in the disclosure of an authentic Self and in the construction of an integrous subjective identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last decade the European residential market has seen radical social and economic changes. The economic situation and heterogeneous housing demand has created the necessary conditions for the development of new housing models. This paper introduces the methods, procedures and tools of a process model for new construction or retrofitting of residential buildings called Collective Self-Organised (CSO) housing. The CSO process model is characterized by service sharing, reduction of construction costs and use of high energy performance technologies developed through the PROFICIENT research project financed by the European community's 7th framework programme (GA N°312219). The paper also presents an example of a Dutch CSO housing project named 'De Hallen'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper provides an overview of the key elements of a research project focused on the development of a multilayer platform aimed at supporting regeneration process at district scale particularly for what concerns the improvement of comfort conditions. The paper describes the adopted methodologies and the main stages in which the research is organized. The backbone of the multi-layer platform is described according to the purpose and to the expected impacts. The role of the tool and of ICT in increasing the end-users' awareness about the potential benefit deriving by the adoption of efficient solution and energy saving measures is discussed. A reflection concerning the barriers to further developments and the most promising implementation opportunities completes the text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Time acts as a fundamental variable of urban transformation. In fact, changing needs can make an architecture or a technological unit obsolete over time. Precisely, this unexpected deficiency in performance can no longer be interpreted as a limitation but rather as potential to update the architecture itself. This paper fits into this framework and investigates both the potential and limitations of architecture considered an upgradeable system in which time, and the need for changes, become a variable of transformation. By analysing a case study and possible updating strategies relative to a renewed demand framework, the paper underlines the potential that modern architecture offers in terms of updating. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Political representation and popular sovereignty are the two main theoretical themes that help the constitutionalist to qualify the institutional/constitutional manifestations of modern liberal democracy. The latter finds its historical origins in the French revolutionary events of discontinuity with the absolute state and its development in the forms of social and participatory democracy of the post-war constitutionalism. The analysis of the Italian constitutional model is at the heart of the paper. This model proposed a highly innovative due to the enhancement of popular sovereignty and the political forms of its exercise as they focus on the central role played by the provision of the participation of political parties in determining national politics. In particular, the paper analyzes the Italian constitutional model to grasp its evolution in the context of internal democratic life and concerning the concrete conditioning of public institutions carried out by them. In this perspective, the article raises two questions. On the one hand, it asks whether a democracy without parties is possible in the context of the transformation and crisis of parties. On the other hand, in a comparative analysis perspective open to countries of pluralist democracy on both sides of the ocean, it questions whether the interventions on the institutions of constitutional democracy - even of a manipulative type - do not disclose worrying scenarios of a 'besieged democracy' that still conforms to the experiences of illiberal democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the graphic culture of the merchants living in the towns and villages of the northern coast of Portugal in the second half of the 16th century. It aims to analyze their different levels of graphic competence, and also of their wives, based on their signatures. These signatures appear in several Livros de Notas of the first notarial registry of Vila do Conde (now in the district of Porto). The main goal was to find out which merchants, and their wives, were capable of writing and at what level, which was their graphic model, where and in which social and economic context they lived. The analysis of these different aspects made it possible to know this group from the point of view of its cultural and intellectual power, in addition to the already studied social and economic power. Previous researches on cities such as Porto or Vila do Conde in the timeframe considered in this paper allows a better understanding of the different cultural and social dynamics concerning these men and women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Three papers are published. In the first paper Pier Francesco Galli, in a brief introduction, emphasizes the importance of the historical role played by Swiss psychoanalysis in the training of many Italian colleagues. In the second paper Berthold Rothschild describes, also with the reproduction of a correspondence, the vicissitudes that brought to the cancellation of his invitation to a meeting titled “Psychoanalysis, culture, and politics” that was planned for June 6, 2020, in Geneva, sponsored by the Centre Psychanalytique Raymond de Saussure (CPRS) of the Swiss Psychoanalyic Society (Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Psychoanalyse [SGPsa]); this cancellation was due to the protest of some German speaking psychoanalysts of the Swiss Psychoanalyic Society who still remember the split that occurred in 1977 between the “Zurich Psychoanalytic Seminar” (Psychoanalytisches Seminar Zürich [PSZ]), of which Rothschild is a member, and the Swiss Psychoanalyic Society; this split followed the controversies that ended up with the cancellation of a meeting that was planned in 1974 in Interlaken (this is the reason why the words “second episode” appear in the title). In the third paper, the material of the “Interlaken affaire”, which originally appeared in issues nos. 4/1975 and 3/2015 di Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane, is reprinted; this material, that contains also the reproduction of several letters exchanged in 1973 and 1974, has been published only in Italian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the present paper the authors reported some results of a preliminary investigation on the process of a short-term group psychotherapy for college/university young adults, carried out within the Psychological Assistance Service for students - Dynamic Psychotherapy Service (SAP-DPS) of the University of Padua. The study aimed to examine the thematic development during the course of psychotherapy, with specific attention to both patients and psychotherapists. For this purpose, techniques of content analysis have been applied to session reports, with the support of Atlas.ti software. Results, however partial and not generalizable, highlighted the developmental nature of emerging adulthood. This paper can be a meaningful starting point for subsequent studies to deepen the relationship between efficacy and process, and the dialogue between research and clinical practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gambling disorder is placed in DSM-5 among addictive disorders in the subsection of "non-substance-related disorders", defining it as «persistent and recurrent problematic gambling behavior leading to clinically significant impairment or distress, in a 12-month period» (APA, 2013). The aim of this paper, through a review of the literature and a description of a clinical case, is to highlight the relational aspect of the GAP disorder by describing different forms of "relationship pathology" among its main effects. National and international literature highlights how the gambling represents a traumatic family experience, that involves all the systems of the player life with both human and social costs; in particular, gambling becames part of the dynamics between the couple and of the parent-child bond, assuming particular configurations and meanings for both symbolic and relational point of view. The presence of pathological mechanisms in the couple relationship hidden by an apparent complicity that actually underlies a co-dependent relation between the partners, constitutes a first aspect that reinforces the pathological gaming. The present paper focuses attention on couple therapy, in a systemic perspective, to overcome the concept of the gambling as an "individual intrapsychic phenomenon" and to identify the factors that may co-occur the onset and maintenance of pathological behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Freud's 1919 paper The Uncanny, written during troubled times after First World War and often considered problematic and confused, is discussed. This paper deals with the interpretation of E.T.A. Hoffmann's 1815 novel Der Sandmann, where the recurrent reference to the eyes is brought back by Freud to the castration complex. Discussing Kohon's (2016) paper on aesthetic experiences where he states that (whether for the writer-artist or the reader-spectator) these experiences will always be autobiographical, and Rand & Torok (1994) for whom Hoffmann's novel has no reference to castration but to a family secret, it is argued that Freud's concern with this novel could be unconsciously rooted in some family secrets related to his childhood that the little Sigmund was not able to uncover. Freud must have read the novel Der Sandmann autobiographically according to Kohon's theory. In reference to Jentsch's (1906) paper "On the Psychology of the Uncanny", where the source of the uncanny is seen in the intellectual uncertainty whether an object is alive or not, it is argued that this statement could have brought back unconscious memories of the brother Julius' death, from whom Freud would have protected himself moving to the castration topic. Some scholars found in Hoffmann's novel a hidden reference to the primal scene, that is another uncanny background in Freud's childhood. Another uncanny episode occurred to the little Sigmund when he lost his beloved nanny. It is argued that these three topics where the unconscious factors that compelled Freud to write about the uncanny choosing Hoffmann's novel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper starts from the relevance of the nuptial category to express the relationship between man and God in the Scripture, as well as from the imposing itself by the notion of person in the Tradition to express the same relationship even if not in a nuptial way. Then the paper suggests that the notion of nuptial person could be, in the present post-modern context, a point of higher synthesis, rich of anthropological implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Freud considered it a matter in need of investigation: until recently, however, Islam has been noticeably absent from the psychoanalytic arena. This paper aims, on one hand, to review current and rare psychoanalytic contemplations regarding Islam as a potential subject; and on the other hand to provide an analysis of Islam as the modern erotic of our times, looking at new forms of jihadists and extreme islamic groups. From this perspective, Islam is interpreted through the lens of a psychoanalytic discourse of the unconscious, one that must remain subversive and, at times, untranslatable and inaccessible, to allow the emergence of the autonomous subject. As the paper will demonstrate, for such a possibility to emerge, it is also necessary to consider the challenges of a Western liberal discourse imposed on Islam from various fronts, and particularly within the spirit of our times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to present the case, in many ways surprising, of the versified letters of the Romanian peasant soldiers, built according to the metrics, style and structures of traditional oral poetry. From the beginning, in the Romanian context, the writings of ordinary people have become an object of exclusive interest for ethnographers and folklorists. This disciplinary option, which has cut out specific philological, literary or historical interests, has had several consequences, that the paper tries to point out. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The indication of the food origin is one of the most important tools to ensure the protection of consumers and farmers. It is also very important to maintain and enhance rural landscape, especially in Italy and within agri-food productions with geographical indications. The strong link in terms of identity and culture between the territory and these products, a heritage preserved by farmers from generation to generation, is apparently intangible, but actually, it emerges in the fields configuration and in the traditional landscape features. Supporting agri-food production with deep territorial and cultural origins, means promoting a model anchored in local economies and rural communities. However, the risk of losing this heritage is still real, especially in our country and despite the several tools of protection and promotion in the agri-food sector. In this paper, the author shows the authenticity of the link between landscape and agri-food products through the analysis of a Piedmont case and the spatial analysis of the geographical context and territorial relationship (protection, naturalness, visual integrity and accessibility). In addition, the paper suggests some technical and political issues that can contribute to the debate on the heritage integrated vision, considered also as a potential lever of development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper attempts to look at the, partly conflicting, relations between the technical world and the new sensitivity toward the sounds of everyday life. The possibility of storing these sounds and making them available without limits of space and time has greatly increased the possibility of studying and using them but, perhaps, has also made us less aware of central aspects of the soundscape, i.e. that it is highly variable and rarely repeats itself. In the last part of the paper some artistic works are examined in which everyday sounds play various roles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyses the onomastic variations of the main characters of El cielo árido, a novel by Emiliano Monge. During the course of the novel, the protagonist - Germán Alcántara Carnero - changes his name with the changing of the events that he becomes involved in; at the same time and with similar dynamics, the names of men and women whose existence is linked to that of the protagonist also change. For the creation of these names - which we might call 'biographical' - Monge resorts to audacious univerbation procedures, leading to fanciful syntagmatic names. By analysing these names, the paper will identify the morphological and motivational processes that led to their formation, as well as their translation in the Italian version of the novel (Cielo arido). On the basis of the peculiarities that emerge, the analysis will highlight how Monge's naming processes configure, within the fictional onomastics, a sui generis typology of 'speaking names': namely descriptive names that vary with the changing of the events and roles in which the characters are involved, and therefore narrative names (or narrative allonyms), which replace and alternate with each other and distributed functionally throughout the narration so as to amplify the reader's empathic processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]