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The exhibition is dedicated to an important institution of the University of Turin, the Laboratory of Political Economy, founded one hundred and thirty years ago, in 1893, by Salvatore Cognetti de Martiis, and headed by Luigi Einaudi from 1900. The exhibition traces the history of this institution in its golden age, the one characterized by the presence, as leaders, of Cognetti and Einaudi, who were the main exponents of a school, the Turin School of Economics, that was an important expression of that season of Italian economic thought.

The essay aims to research the events through which Turin university acquired private libraries formerly owned by professors who refused the fascist oath of 1931: expecially, the collections of Francesco and Edoardo Ruffini, of Piero Martinetti and of Lionello Venturi (respectively stored in Norberto Bobbio Library, Art, Music and Entertainment Library of the Department of Humanities and Arturo Graf University Historical Library). The different histories of these formerly private collections also show significant relationships with other personal collections now kept by the same university.

Background and aims. Real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is the gold-standard assay to detect SARS-CoV-2, but it has limitations compared to viral load analysis. Quantitative detection improves surveillance, diagnosis, and prevention. We performed a comparative study of qualitative and quantitative tests for the diagnosis of COVID-19 on respiratory samples from patients screened for SARS-CoV-2 infection, and explored the correlation between viral load compared to the threshold cycle (Ct) value obtained in RT-PCR. Materials and methods. Sixty respiratory samples from patients affected by SARS-CoV-2 were subjected to both the qualitative (Allplex ™ 2019-nCoV Seegene) and the quantitative (Clonit® Quanty COVID-19) assays, and the relationship between viral load and Ct value was assessed by Spearman correlation analysis (ρ). In addition, the viral load of samples collected from a patient with symptomatic cancer was monitored. Results. The results show 100% agreement between the results obtained with quantitative assay and the reference standards, whereas 99.2% agreement was found for the qualitative test. A strong negative Spearman’s correlation between the Ct values of the N genes and RdRP gene was observed from qualitative assay values and viral loads. Conclusions. Quantitative assay has a higher sensitivity than qualitative assay, and viral load testing allows the clinicians to better orient themself in the choice of therapeutic treatment to be adopted. The constantly higher viral load of clinical cases considered, irrespective of the different therapies used, confirms that viral load monitoring could represent a great advantage in clinical practice.

In den letzten zehn Jahren wurden in der Schweiz mindestens 18 Gesuche auf Namensänderungen von strafrechtlich verurteilten Personen eingereicht, oftmals begründet mit einer identifizierenden medialen Berichterstattung. Von den Kantonen wurden diese mehrheitlich abgelehnt. In diesem Aufsatz wird aufgezeigt, dass diese Praxis zu restriktiv ist, da bei identifizierender Berichterstattung und damit einhergehender Stigmatisierung einer Person als kriminell die Namensänderung zur Beseitigung der resultierenden Nachteile offenstehen muss. Wir argumentieren, dass die Ablegung dieses Stigmas einen achtenswerten Grund darstellt und zudem eine allfällige Missbräuchlichkeit der Namensänderung einfach verhindert werden kann. Weiter gehen wir auf den Zeitpunkt der Änderung ein und sprechen uns dafür aus, diesen bereits während des Vollzugs einer allfälligen Inhaftierung anzusetzen.

This work has three objectives. The first is the creation of an extensive mapping of technological districts, innovation poles, excellence research centers, laboratories and science parks in the Italian regions. The second is about monitoring, employing data from Open Cohesion, the state of the art of regional and national programs that aim at building local research networks and innovation networks. The third objective is to compare the sectorial priorities chosen by Regions according to their Smart Specialization Strategy (S3) with the existing sectors in their research networks. Finally, the study explores to what extent the presence of the industrial districts in the regions has facilitated the formation of technological districts and innovation poles.

Most of the academic articles that look at the development of 20th century Italian women’s theatre begin with a discussion of the dramatic works of narrators such as Natalia Ginzburg and Dacia Maraini, or performers such as Franca Valeri and Franca Rame. In this article, I claim that an alternative path for the discovery of Italian women playwrights can be found by visiting libraries and archives and looking for women dramatists as authors of theatrical genres often considered minor: radio dramas and the educational plays. After an analysis of the two genres, I look at the careers of three women playwrights that started as writers for radio or educational plays and went on to have successful careers in TV adaptations (Anna Luisa Meneghini), children’s theatre (Gici Ganzini Granata) and the major theatre (Clotilde Masci).

By means of a critical analysis of the electronic-popular-music discourse in the German mainstream magazine Musikexpress in the decade 1975-1985, this paper traces back the historic development of journalists’assessment standards for virtuosity, authenticity and subversion in the electronic-music-age. Results show how cultural industry applies its hegemonic influence on musical discourses through media institutions and Pop/Rock intellectuals, in order to satisfy market requirements.

This paper provides a framework on regional research systems, through which, different regions are preparing to engage in program- ming period 2014 – 2020. It will also cover the regions’ investments in the co-financed programs between 2000 and 2013. Particular attention is dedicated to those projects that, in the specific objectives or specific actions have referred to high-tech districts, techno- logical platforms, clusters, innovation centers, science or technology parks and networks. It then carries out two verifications: firstly, of the degree of consistency between policies and implementation and ongoing design (S3) and secondly of their connection with the existing territorial specializations at regional level. This analysis shows that in some regions (in the case of Lombardy and Emilia Romagna) such research systems have been able to generate innovation thanks to the presence of very active economic - social en- vironments and local institutions able to properly analyze the context and promote tools, which have brought substantial positive outcomes (for example: Emilia Romagna and Puglia). In all other cases, the overall picture still does not deny the issue of the gap bet- ween the regions of Northern and Southern Italy. For these other regions it is considered necessary to further develop a new role for the regional and local institutions, such as “applicants’ innovation and technology", and improve attention to the question of the other users.

We consider a one-species plasma moving in an infinite cylinder in R3, in which it is confined by means of a magnetic field diverging on the walls of the cylinder. In a recent paper [4] we have supposed that the plasma satisfies the Vlasov equation with a Yukawa mutual interaction (i.e. Coulomb at short distance and exponentially decreasing at infinity). Assuming that initially the particles have bounded velocities and are distributed according to a bounded density without any hypothesis on its decreasing at infinity, we have proved the global in time existence and uniqueness of the time evolution of the plasma and its confinement. In the present paper we extend this result to a Coulomb interaction, making on the initial density some assumption of slight decreasing on average at infinity, which however does not imply that the density belongs to any Lp space. The proof is similar, but slightly simpler.

We consider a convex body in R^3, moving along the x-axis, immersed in an infinitely extended perfect gas in the mean-field approximation. We assume that the gas particles interact with the body by means of elastic collisions. Giving to the body an initial velocity V_0, we prove that, for |V_0| small enough, |V (t)| ≈ C t^{−5} for large t, being C a positive constant depending on the medium and on the shape of the obstacle. The power law approach to the equilibrium V = 0, instead of the exponential one (typical in viscous friction problems), is due to the long memory effect of the recollisions. This paper completes the analysis made in previous papers (see [7] and [8]), in which for simplicity the body was assumed to be a disk.