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Una vitella di razza frisona di 5 giorni, condotta al Dipartimento Clinico Veterinario dell’Università di Bologna, mostrava grave deformazione dei profili splancnocranici, dispnea e disfagia. Tramite Tomografia Assiale Computerizzata (TAC) si notavano masse multiple, di dimensioni variabili fino a 24 cm, nel cranio e numerosi noduli nel collo che hanno fatto sospettare la presenza di un lipoma multiplo. La vitella non è stata sottoposta ad alcun trattamento terapeutico chirurgico. Dopo morte spontanea dell’animale, l’esame necroscopico ha permesso di verificare l’estensione e l’aspetto lardaceo delle neoformazioni, mentre l’esame istologico ha confermato la diagnosi di lipoma moderatamente infiltrante associato a fibrosi periferica secondaria.

The individualistic tendencies of contemporary society have produced a progressive reduction of collective places in our cities. If we look the condition of the historical centers (or at the suburbs of contemporary metropolis) we can immediately perceive an emergency situation in which the meeting places are gradually disappeared. On the other hand, there is also a greater demand for places where people can cultivate various interests and have opportunities to meet and exchange with others. Many institutions, such as museums, galleries and in particular libraries, that in the past had a specific functional purpose, now have a wide urban role. Even if they preserve their original cultural characteristics, the public library has, nowadays, lost the sacred character of the knowledge preservation place. They became increasingly the centers of social life in the cities. In Italy many cultural institutions, above all libraries, occupy today important buildings in the historic city. The existence of important libraries in monumental buildings of the historical cities centers open the way to some questions about the relations between library, architecture and city. The problems are both internal (historical buildings have an insufficient inclination to modify them self and increase the flexibility that requires a modern library) and external (those buildings have a lot of accessibility issues and a general inability to expand their spaces). The project presented concerns the thesis on the expansion and renovation of Sicilian Central Library. The history and the urban location of the building establish a two-way relationship between the content and the container: on the one hand, the presence of the library in the Jesuit "Collegio Massimo" has ensured the permanence of a major cultural institution in the heart of the city of Palermo; on the other hand, the Library has provided the preservation of the monument, that arrives to the present day in almost the original configuration despite the changes made over the centuries and the ravages of the Second World War.

The widespread distribution of goods with historic, artistic, architectural, archaeological value on Italian territory makes unique the conservation model applied until now. The dual need of preserving the identity of the space and reconfiguring it according to the different demand of use requires the expansion of knowledge and the development of methodologies and tools for planning, assessment, design and management. In this scenario, the active conservation, in its variations of transformation, recovery, maintenance and management of cultural heritage, plays a crucial role in the economic development. The ability to reduce the physical, functional obsolescence of the goods enables processes of enhancement of urban systems, affecting their ability to attract. It generates new values, renewing the sense / meaning of places, result of the combination of tradition and innovation. The Mediterranean basin is an object of investigation of high complexity, in which coexist areas of excellence, but also areas of high physical, environmental and socio-economic degradation, whose condition derive from incorrect or ineffective management decisions and the lack of investment in active protection, recovery and scheduled maintenance. The complexity of the issue requires the integration of multiple disciplinary contributions for the construction of new strategies of fruition and development of cultural heritage, which can combine needs - different and sometimes conflicting - of local communities, of direct and indirect beneficiaries and institutions. Nowadays, it is essential a research activity able to redefine and direct the principles that have guided the design of the city and the territory. The updating of knowledge in the field of technological research must identify appropriate responses to the challenges of the crisis, through the fulfillment of needs emerging in the definition of new urban and architectural models, materials and technologies, infrastructure, forms of management and governance, compatible with the local instances.

Allo scopo di valutare se il controllo delle popolazioni ornitiche possa rientrare nei compiti della Sanità Pubblica Veterinaria in Italia, vengono presi in considerazione gli aspetti positivi e negativi della coesistenza uomo/uccelli in città, partendo da un excursus storico per arrivare a considerazioni sulla normativa vigente e sui possibili interventi di gestione e di controllo