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Galli, Pier Francesco. "Tracce: La psicoanalisi e l'istituzione psicoanalitica in Italia. Carlo Viganň intervista Pier Francesco Galli." PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE, no. 1 (February 2009): 95–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/pu2009-001006.
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- Carlo Viganň interviews Pier Francesco Galli on the history of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Italy in the 1950s and 1960s. Pier Francesco Galli mentions the quarterly journal Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane ("Psychotherapy, Humanities, and Social Sciences") founded by him in 1967 within the Milan Group for the Advancement of Psychotherapy, and the relationship with the Italian Psychoanalytic Association (SPI). One of the aims of this group was the fostering of psychoanalytic education in Italy, also because at the time the Universities were not equipped for this task. Among other things, since the early 1960s Pier Francesco Galli organized continuing education courses in Milan held by colleagues from the United States and Europe, and founded the book series of Feltrinelli publisher of Milan (87 volumes), and of Bollati Boringhieri publisher of Turin (about 350 volumes). [KEY WORDS: Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane, history of psychotherapy in Italy, psychoanalytic institutions, history of psychoanalysis in Italy, psychoanalytic education]
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Cola, Bruno. "Surgical training in Italy." Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 89, no. 10 (November 1, 2007): 348–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1308/147363507x248541.
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There are 41 faculties of medicine in Italy, located at 36 different universities, some of which have 2 (Naples, Bari) or even 4 faculties (Rome, Milan). Each faculty has one or more schools of specialisation in general surgery, making a total of 60 schools. On average, each school accepts 6 students a year, ranging from 1 to 32. At present, there are 1,812 students registered in the various academic years of the schools of general surgery in Italy.
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Kara-Murza, Alexei A. "Pyotr Chaadaev’s Journey to Italy Part One Milan - Florence (1824-1825)." Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences 62, no. 10 (December 15, 2019): 121–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.30727/0235-1188-2019-62-10-121-138.
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Banfi, Enrico, and Agnese Visconti. "The history of the Botanic Garden of Brera during the Restoration of the Austrian Empire and the early years of the Kingdom of Italy." Natural History Sciences 1, no. 2 (November 24, 2014): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2014.203.
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Here, we reconstruct the history of the Botanic Garden of Brera of Milan from the Restoration of the Austrian Empire up to the early years of the Kingdom of Italy, when in 1863 the garden passed hands from the Liceo di Sant’Alessandro to the Istituto Tecnico Superiore of Milan. The reconstruction is based mostly on unpublished documentation preserved at the Archivio di Stato of Milan, the Biblioteca Braidense of Milan, the libraries of the Museo di Storia Naturale of Milan and the Archivio di Stato of Milan, the Archivio del Liceo Classico Statale Cesare Beccaria of Milan, the historical archives of the Politecnico of Milan, the Biblioteca di Biologia Vegetale, Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi, University of Turin, the Autografoteca Botanica of the Botanical Garden of the University of Modena, and the library of the Botanical Garden of the University of Padova. Overall, the period was one of slow decline for the Botanic Garden of Brera, against which successive directors – namely, Antonio Bodei, Francesco Enrico Acerbi, Giuseppe Balsamo Crivelli, Vincenzo Masserotti and Giustino Arpesani – combatted in vain. In particular, Balsamo Crivelli fought with great passion for many years to keep the level of the Botanic Garden of Brera at a satisfactory level, but he did not achieve the desired aim. However, he complied a partial list of the garden’s plants, of which an updated version is presented here.
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BREITBART, WILLIAM. "Beyond symptom control: Research in psychosocial and existential issues in palliative care." Palliative and Supportive Care 2, no. 1 (March 2004): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1478951504040015.
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Stresa, a small town on the shores of the Lago Maggiore, about one hour north of Milan, Italy, was the site of the Third Research Forum of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC). From June 3 through 6, 2004, researchers from all across Europe, as well as investigators from North America, Australia, Japan, and Israel, gathered to review the state of palliative care research and set an agenda for the future. The setting was bucolic and tranquil; the official language was English; the accents were diverse; the accommodations were grand; the ambiance was intimate and insouciant; the dinners were elegant; the dress was stylish; the organization was impeccable; and the scholarship was of the highest level. All this, perhaps, was to be expected of an EAPC event, hosted by an Executive Scientific Committee and Research Committee headed by Franco De Conno of the Instituto di Tumori of Milano, Italy, and his colleagues. What was unexpected, however, was the prominence of research on psychosocial, existential, and spiritual aspects of palliative care at this critically important, international, palliative care research forum. Clearly, 2004 marks an important milestone for the entry of research in psychosocial and existential issues into the mainstream of academic palliative care. Palliative and Supportive Care, having just successfully completed its inaugural year of publication in 2003, is now extraordinarily and uniquely well placed to be the preeminent international palliative care journal for research in the psychosocial, existential, and spiritual aspects of palliative care.
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Terleeva, N. V. "Participation of Russian oceanologists in the International Living Planet Symposium – 2019." Journal of Oceanological Research 48, no. 1 (April 30, 2020): 160–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.29006/1564-2291.jor-2020.48(1).13.
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The International Living Planet Symposium–2019 was holding as one of the most significant international events in the field of remote sensing of the Earth in May 2019, in Milan (Italy). Scientists and specialists from the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of RAS presented five reports at the Symposium.
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MORI, SIMONA. "The police and the urban ‘dangerous classes’: the culture and practice of public law and order in Milan after national unity." Urban History 43, no. 2 (June 2, 2015): 266–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963926815000280.
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ABSTRACT:The city of Milan during the second half of the nineteenth century is the field of observation for this study, which focuses on urban policing and social control in a situation that ultimately caused problems for the whole country. The case of Milan, which has not received enough attention in this regard, is particularly interesting, given its status as the northern metropolis. It was the second largest population centre in Italy and the most important economic one, a leader in the late struggle for political independence and an opponent at that time of the centralizing policies of the nation-state.1
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GOMARASCA, M. A., P. A. BRIVIO, F. PAGNONI, and A. GALLI. "One century of land use changes in the metropolitan area of Milan (Italy)." International Journal of Remote Sensing 14, no. 2 (January 1993): 211–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01431169308904333.
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Senici, Emanuele. "Delirious Hopes: Napoleonic Milan and the Rise of Modern Italian Operatic Criticism." Cambridge Opera Journal 27, no. 2 (July 2015): 97–127. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954586715000026.
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AbstractThis article explores the relationship between politics, society and culture in Napoleonic Milan (1796–1814) on the one hand, and opera reviews published in the city’s periodical press at the time on the other. This relationship is worth discussing for two reasons: first, Milan under French rule constituted the earliest, embryonic instance of the modern city in Italy; second, it was there that for the first time in Italy operatic criticism shifted from an undivided focus on the performance, mostly treated as a social occasion, to a prominent concern for the work being performed, which became the object of lengthy critical scrutiny. The article focuses specifically on the function of the periodical press as a crucial link between the discourse of opera and that of the city, exploring the complex ways in which Milanese society, culture and ideology, especially as represented in the city’s newspapers, are connected to the epoch-making shift from performance to work in the opera reviews published there.
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Antonello, Anna. "The Milan-Hamburg axis: Italy for German readers (1940-1944)." Modern Italy 21, no. 2 (May 2016): 125–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mit.2016.10.
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This article aims at showing how and why two cultural periodicals, namely the German edition ofTempo, published by Mondadori between 1940 and 1943, and the German magazineItalien, the official periodical of theDeutsch-Italienische Gesellschaftfrom 1942 to 1944, contributed to shaping the German readership’s idea of contemporary Italian literature. The analysis of the contents of these journals shows a rather diversified cultural offer, promoting authors that would be later associated with the anti-fascist struggle. To this end, the article will particularly focus on the way these periodicals presented Elio Vittorini, who would be heralded as one of the most engaged writers of post-war Italy.
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Salata, Stefano. "Land use change analysis in the urban region of Milan." Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal 28, no. 6 (September 11, 2017): 879–901. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/meq-07-2016-0049.
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Purpose The comparative study between urban regions gathered by the 2010 National Project of Relevant Interest financed by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR – PRIN 2010) re-opened, in Italy, the debate on regional comparison of data, especially the ones of land use monitoring, which are difficult to collect, and to compare. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate some results of comparative studies based on regional and national data sets of land use indicators. Further considerations of land use change (LUC) assessment and its effect on environmental policies extended to the whole metropolitan area of Milan are outlined. Design/methodology/approach The adopted methodology collects different types of information from the existent databases on land uses/land covers (national/regional) and presents an assessment between the selected case of studies (urban regions), leading a shift from a quantitative evaluation to a qualitative one. A comparative study was conducted applying a geographical and statistical difference of land uses among different time thresholds. Subsequently, a cross-tabulation analysis allows an in-depth LUC analysis for the Milan urban region. Findings The results of the study display an autonomous pattern for the Milan urban region, which is the most densely populated area in Italy and seems to be the only comparable to other international cases of studies due to its extension and characteristics. Nevertheless, it is not the urban region that is affected by the highest rate of land take, which takes place in the Italian context where densities of settlements are lower and sprawled. According to Soja’s (2011) interpretation, the post-metropolitan condition of Milan seems to be proved. Originality/value The study was aimed at creating the first online National Atlas which has been used to overcome traditional problems of homogenization of LUC data in Italy. The quantification and qualification of LUC patterns allow us to understand if, and where, post-metropolis condition occurs. This research gives a clear indication of the kind of ongoing phenomena for policy orientation to planners and administrators, especially the one of the green infrastructure approach at the city-region level to solving the emerging environmental challenges.
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Cohn, Jr., Samuel K., and Guido Alfani. "Households and Plague in Early Modern Italy." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 38, no. 2 (October 2007): 177–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jinh.2007.38.2.177.
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The remarkable Books of the Dead from early modern Milan and the parish and tax records of Nonantola during the plague of 1630 allow historians to reconstitute the patterns of family and household deaths caused by pestilence. Not only did deaths caused by this highly contagious disease cluster tightly within households; the intervals between household deaths were also extremely short. As much as one-quarter of all plague deaths were multiple household deaths that occurred on the same day. Similar to a deadly influenza, the speed and efficiency with which the late medieval and early modern plagues spread depended on unusually short periods of incubation and infectivity.
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Vallarino, M., F. Rapisarda, A. Parabiaghi, and A. Barbato. "Do patients with bipolar disorders receive evidence-based psychosocial interventions? a survey in Italy." European Psychiatry 26, S2 (March 2011): 256. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0924-9338(11)71966-6.
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IntroductionResearch evidence on bipolar disorder supports the importance of patients’ active role to improve outcome and the efficacy of a number of psychosocial interventions. The lower cost and potential ease of dissemination of group psychoeducation suggest that this should be a first line approach, with more complex interventions, requiring highly specialized skills, reserved to selected patients. However, to what extent research models can be transferred to everyday practice remains to be seen.ObjectivesTo explore the delivery of psychosocial interventions to bipolar disorders patients in routine mental health care.AimsTo estimate the treated prevalence of bipolar disorders in Milan and to collect data about the variety of psychosocial interventions patients received by mental health services.MethodsA survey of psychosocial interventions received by bipolar patients in three mental health services of Milan (catchment area 867,000 inhabitants) was conducted in 2009. Data from the Regional Mental Health Information System were retrieved to calculate the number of patients involved in psychosocial interventions and the kind of intervention provided.ResultsThe treated prevalence rate was low, showing a probable treatment gap. Only 20% of 636 bipolar patients received at least one psychosocial intervention. The interventions provided were: family psychoeducation (3,8%), individual social skills training (11,5%), group social skills training (1,4%), and relatives group (3,0%).ConclusionsFew bipolar patients receive psychosocial interventions in the MHS of Milan. Moreover, the interventions received were not specifically designed for bipolar disorder. Treatment gap could be reduced providing psychoeducation especially designed for bipolar patients.
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Vignati, Rinaldo. "Da Formentini a Sala." Quaderni dell'Osservatorio elettorale. QOE - IJES 76, no. 2 (December 30, 2016): 8–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/qoe-9249.
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The article retraces the last 20 years of direct mayoral election in Milan. It shows how the changes in institutional and electoral settings influenced both the party system and the voters' electoral responses. The first part of the article retraces the strategies of alliances and the choice of candidates made by the main coalitions. The second part estimates the flows of votes using the Goodman model. In order to quantify the mobility of Milanese electorate a typology of voters is proposed (stable, converted, absent, etc.). The third part analyses some indexes to assess the degree of bipolarism, fragmentation and personalisation of the city party system. In a context more and more volatile and tripolar, Milan is now one of the more bipolar city in Italy.
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Porcheddu, Rossella, Caterina Serra, David Kelvin, Nikki Kelvin, and Salvatore Rubino. "Similarity in Case Fatality Rates (CFR) of COVID-19/SARS-COV-2 in Italy and China." Journal of Infection in Developing Countries 14, no. 02 (February 29, 2020): 125–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3855/jidc.12600.
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As of 28 February 2020, Italy had 888 cases of SARS-CoV-2 infections, with most cases in Northern Italy in the Lombardia and Veneto regions. Travel-related cases were the main source of COVID-19 cases during the early stages of the current epidemic in Italy. The month of February, however, has been dominated by two large clusters of outbreaks in Northern Italy, south of Milan, with mainly local transmission the source of infections. Contact tracing has failed to identify patient zero in one of the outbreaks. As of 28 February 2020, twenty-one cases of COVID-19 have died. Comparison between case fatality rates in China and Italy are identical at 2.3. Additionally, deaths are similar in both countries with fatalities in mostly the elderly with known comorbidities. It will be important to develop point-of-care devices to aid clinicians in stratifying elderly patients as early as possible to determine the potential level of care they will require to improve their chances of survival from COVID-19 disease.
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Henderson, Sandy, Ulrike Beland, and Dimitrios Vonofakos. "International Listening Post report summary: the world at the dawn of 2019." Organisational and Social Dynamics 19, no. 1 (June 24, 2019): 121–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.33212/osd.v19n1.2019.121.
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On or around 9 January 2019, twenty-two Listening Posts were conducted in nineteen countries: Canada, Chile, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Germany (Frankfurt and Berlin), Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy (two in Milan and one in the South), Peru, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, and the UK. This report synthesises the reports of those Listening Posts and organises the data yielded by them into common themes and patterns.
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Berardengo, Marta, Giorgio Busca, Simone Grossi, Stefano Manzoni, and Marcello Vanali. "The Monitoring of Palazzo Lombardia in Milan." Shock and Vibration 2017 (2017): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/8932149.
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This paper discusses the monitoring of Palazzo Lombardia, one of the tallest high-rise buildings in Italy. First, the layout of the monitoring system is addressed for a general description of the sensors used. The paper provides details about how data coming from transducers are used. Special focus is put on the use of signals acquired by means of accelerometers, which are employed for the estimation of modal parameters through operational modal analysis. The procedure used for choosing the modal analysis algorithm and fixing the values of its main parameters is discussed in detail. The modal identification results on the first eight months of monitoring are discussed in the second part of the manuscript, together with a statistical analysis. This allows for a first model of the relationships between eigenfrequencies and environmental variables aiming at a general structural health monitoring procedure based on the evolution of the building’s modal parameters.
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Sebregondi, Giulia Ceriani, and Richard Schofield. "First Principles: Gabriele Stornaloco and Milan Cathedral." Architectural History 59 (2016): 63–122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/arh.2016.3.
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AbstractThe construction from 1386 of Milan Cathedral, the largest Gothic church ever constructed in Italy, was one of the most important episodes in the history of Italian and European architecture. The documentation of the lateTrecentoand earlyQuattrocentodiscussions over how to build the Cathedral is extraordinarily rich and extensive, and permits a consideration of the project from many points of view including the relationship between medieval architectural theory and an actual project. At the same time, any enquiry has to contend with the copious modern literature and the conclusions that have been reached hitherto – often erroneously in our view – about many of the most salient points. We thus re-examine published and unpublished documentation and the existing literature, analysing especially the format of the building's elevation, the proposals by Gabriele Stornaloco and Jean Mignot, and the drawings attributed to Antonio di Vincenzo. We also reconsider the notions ofarsandscientiawhich have previously been misinterpreted in discussions of the cathedral documentation.
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Gentile, Guendalina, Marta Nicolazzo, Rachele Bianchi, Paolo Bailo, Michele Boracchi, Stefano Tambuzzi, and Riccardo Zoja. "Mortality in Prisons: The Experience of the Bureau of Legal Medicine of Milan (Italy) (1993–2017)." Medicine, Science and the Law 61, no. 1_suppl (January 2021): 67–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0025802420934266.
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We undertook a retrospective analysis of deaths that took place in prisons in Milan between 1993 and 2017, by identifying cases from a total of 24,101 autopsies that were performed at the Section of Forensic Medicine of the University of Milan. From the archives of this institution, we found 227 autopsy reports relating to deaths that had taken place in one of Milan’s three detention facilities. These deaths were divided into two types: natural deaths ( n=135; 59.5%) and violent deaths ( n=92; 40.5%). The groups have different characteristics: while natural deaths mostly resulted from cardiovascular diseases, suicides were mainly the result of hanging. Further, people who died by suicide often had a history of psychiatric disease and/or drug abuse, and over a quarter of them had previous suicide attempts and/or had declared suicidal intentions. This study confirms the need for good quality healthcare services for prisoners, given that they remain a population at high risk of early death.
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Bertrando, P., J. Beltz, C. Bressi, M. Clerici, T. Farma, G. Invernizzi, and C. L. Cazzullo. "Expressed Emotion and Schizophrenia in Italy." British Journal of Psychiatry 161, no. 2 (August 1992): 223–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.161.2.223.
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Forty-two schizophrenic patients and their close relatives took part in an Italian replication study of expressed emotion (EE). The patients were selected from the psychiatric ward of a general hospital in Milan and were subsequently followed up for nine months. All patients attended a community service clinic as out-patients, and all but one were prescribed neuroleptics for the duration of the study. Relatives were assigned to the high-EE group if they scored 4 or 5 on the emotional overinvolvement (EOI) scale, or showed hostility, or made six or more critical comments. On this basis, 18 (42%) families were rated as low EE and 24 (57%) as high EE. At follow-up, the admission rate for the 9-month period was significantly higher for the high-EE group (P<0.05). Furthermore, significantly fewer patients were readmitted from families showing high warmth (P<0.05). The presence of high warmth appeared to be associated with a lower admission rate, even in high-EE families.
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Cagetti, Maria Grazia, Jean Louis Cairoli, Andrea Senna, and Guglielmo Campus. "COVID-19 Outbreak in North Italy: An Overview on Dentistry. A Questionnaire Survey." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 11 (May 28, 2020): 3835. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17113835.
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This survey assessed the symptoms/signs, protective measures, awareness, and perception levels regarding COVID-19 among dentists in Lombardy, Italy. Moreover, an analysis of the answers gathered in areas with different prevalence of the disease was carried out. All Lombardy’s dentists were sent an online ad hoc questionnaire. The questionnaire was divided into four domains: personal data, precautionary measures (before patient arrival; in the waiting room; in the operating room), awareness, and perception. Three thousand five hundred ninety-nine questionnaires were analyzed. Five hundred two (14.43%) participants had suffered one or more symptoms referable to COVID-19. Thirty-one subjects were positive to the virus SARS-CoV-2 and 16 subjects developed the disease. Only a small number of dentists (n = 72, 2.00%) were confident of avoiding infection; dentists working in low COVID-19 prevalence areas were more confident than those working in the Milan area and high prevalence area (61.24%, 61.23%, and 64.29%, p < 0.01 respectively). The level of awareness was statistically significantly higher (p < 0.01) in the Milan area (71.82%) than in the other areas. This survey demonstrated that dentists in the COVID-19 highest prevalence area, albeit reported to have more symptoms/signs than the rest of the sample, were the ones who adopted several precautionary measures less frequently and were the more confident of avoiding infection.
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Kotsiou, Ourania S., Vaios S. Kotsios, Ioannis Lampropoulos, Thomas Zidros, Sotirios G. Zarogiannis, and Konstantinos I. Gourgoulianis. "PM2.5 Pollution Strongly Predicted COVID-19 Incidence in Four High-Polluted Urbanized Italian Cities during the Pre-Lockdown and Lockdown Periods." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 10 (May 11, 2021): 5088. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105088.
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Background: The coronavirus disease in 2019 (COVID-19) heavily hit Italy, one of Europe’s most polluted countries. The extent to which PM pollution contributed to COVID-19 diffusion is needing further clarification. We aimed to investigate the particular matter (PM) pollution and its correlation with COVID-19 incidence across four Italian cities: Milan, Rome, Naples, and Salerno, during the pre-lockdown and lockdown periods. Methods: We performed a comparative analysis followed by correlation and regression analyses of the daily average PM10, PM2.5 concentrations, and COVID-19 incidence across four cities from 1 January 2020 to 8 April 2020, adjusting for several factors, taking a two-week time lag into account. Results: Milan had significantly higher average daily PM10 and PM2.5 levels than Rome, Naples, and Salerno. Rome, Naples, and Salerno maintained safe PM10 levels. The daily PM2.5 levels exceeded the legislative standards in all cities during the entire period. PM2.5 pollution was related to COVID-19 incidence. The PM2.5 levels and sampling rate were strong predictors of COVID-19 incidence during the pre-lockdown period. The PM2.5 levels, population’s age, and density strongly predicted COVID-19 incidence during lockdown. Conclusions: Italy serves as a noteworthy paradigm illustrating that PM2.5 pollution impacts COVID-19 spread. Even in lockdown, PM2.5 levels negatively impacted COVID-19 incidence.
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Groppi, F., S. Manenti, L. Gini, and A. Ioannidou. "131I, 137Cs, 134Cs from Fukushima fallout at Milano, Italy." HNPS Proceedings 19 (January 1, 2020): 113. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/hnps.2523.
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Right after the Fukushima reactor accident, a systematic air and wet sampling and analysis programme was undertaken to detect and quantitatively analyze the radionuclides in the Fukushima fallout in Milano, Italy. Radionuclides from Fukushima were first detected at Milano region in a rain water sample, collected during March 27-28, 2011 with the concentrations of 131I and 137Cs isotopes in the rainwater to be equal with 0.89 Bq/L and 0.12 Bq/L, respectively. The concentration of 131I in goat and cow milk samples from a farm in Monte Rosa mountain, were 0.25 and 0.21 Bq/L, respectively. Increased atmospheric radioactivity was detected on air filter taken on 30 March 2011, while the maximum activity of 467 μBq/m3 occurred at April 3-4, 2011. A week later the activities had fallen to about 50% of peak values, with a general increasing trend over the following days. In the time period of one month after the nuclear accident, concentrations of 137Cs and 134Cs in air as high as 63 μBq/m3 and 61 μBq/m3, respectively were recorded. The presence of more than one peaks of 131I and 137,134Cs till April 11, 2011, indicates that 131I and 137,134Cs were continuously transferred from Fukushima, Japan to Italy. According to the measurements, airborne activity levels remain of no concern for public health in Italy.
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Ginsborg, Paul. "Italian Political Culture in Historical Perspective." Modern Italy 1, no. 1 (1995): 3–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13532949508454754.
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Much more so than in the recent past, the eyes of Europe and even of the world are on Italy. This attention does not derive from any innovative solutions that Italy may have offered to the grave problems which today face modern states: those of environmental pollution, of unemployment, of racism, of declining political legitimacy. Rather, Italy has attracted intense scrutiny for two principal reasons. First, because certain courageous magistrates, both in Palermo and Milan, have waged an unprecedented and dramatic war against criminal organizations and political corruption, and this in one of the most corrupt democracies in Europe. Their lead has been taken up in France and Spain, and their actions studied by colleagues as far away as Japan and Argentina. Unexpectedly, the Italian state has produced and allowed space for a group of public servants who have earned admiration on a global scale.
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Metzger-Šober, Branko. "Nikada dovršena igra oko osnivanja Galerije moderne umjetnosti u Rijeci u međuratnome razdoblju." Ars Adriatica 9 (February 28, 2020): 173–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.15291/ars.2930.
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Based on the archival documentation from the interwar period in Rijeka, from 1934 to 1943, and an analysis of the published historical data, the author has presented the series of attempts to establish the Gallery of Modern Art in Rijeka at the time when Rijeka and Kvarner were annexed to the Kingdom of Italy, thus becoming its new province. Owing to the initiative of Guido Asveri Bottussi, an agile resident of Milan originating from Rijeka, the idea of founding a Gallery of Modern Art in Rijeka was born, as a very prominent institution that would exhibit works of Italian art from the 19th and 20th centuries. The first holdings of the Gallery were collected through donations made by Italian academics and a donation of three paintings and one sculpture made by King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy to support the initiative and set an example for other potential donators. All donated works were first deposited in Milan with Bottussi. Due to Rijeka’s geostrategic position, the act of establishing such an institution became a matter of national interest for Italy, which saw it as a way to spread its culture beyond its borders, to the Kingdom of SHS and other Danubian countries. Started as Bottussi’s private initiative, with time the Gallery would turn into an initiative of Rijeka’s city administration and other state institutions based in Rome. Due to the war circumstances, the artworks donated for the Gallery’s initial collection never reached Rijeka, which now lacked the conditions for its full establishment.
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Sian, Suki, Francesca Magli, Alberto A. Nobolo, and Enrico Guarini. "Enacting accountability: The case of the Asili di Carità, 1913–1926." Accounting History 25, no. 2 (May 10, 2019): 237–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1032373219845918.
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The Asili di Carità was a non-profit educational institution established for very young children by the Catholic Church in 1836 in the City of Milan. This study shows how the First World War, changes in political ideology and economic developments in northern Italy directly impacted upon the, sometimes precarious, financial position of the Asili. Within the context of such change, the Board of the Asili enacted accountability through the maintenance and presentation of accounting records and meetings with stakeholders. This study draws from both public and private archives to examine the decisions made by the Board in response to change. The study focuses on the Asili’s relations with its most economically powerful stakeholders in the period from 1913 to 1926 as it transitioned from a privately funded organisation to one that was funded predominantly by the Municipality of Milan, before reverting to private hands.
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Macey, Patrick. "Galeazzo Maria Sforza and musical patronage in Milan: Compère, Weerbeke and Josquin." Early Music History 15 (October 1996): 147–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261127900001546.
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Galeazzo Maria Sforza (1444–76), fifth Duke of Milan, set out when he acceded to power in 1466 to style himself as one of the most glorious of rulers and to make his court (in the words of the contemporary chronicler Bernardino Corio) one of ‘the most splendid in the universe’. Galeazzo, a contemporary of King Louis XI of France and Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy, entertained grand designs of turning his ducal coronet into a king's crown and transforming Lombardy into a royal realm, just as Charles the Bold sought to elevate the duchy of Burgundy to a kingdom. The two dukes, as vassals of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, relied on that monarch's power to bestow the kingly crown; both failed tragically in the end. As part of his design to impress his contemporaries with the princely splendour of his court, in 1471 Galeazzo focused his energies particularly on the ambitious project of developing the best musical chapel in Italy. During the course of the next two years he sent emissaries to the rulers of England, Flanders, France, Naples and his neighbour Savoy, seeking to hire (or borrow, in the case of Savoy) the best singers available. His cappella grew to include more than thirty singers, making it larger than any other in Italy, even the papal chapel.
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Levy, Carl. "The centre and the suburbs: Social protest and modernization in Milan and Turin, 1898–1917." Modern Italy 7, no. 2 (November 2002): 171–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1353294022000012961.
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SummaryThis article focuses on two points of disorder and social-political tension in the histories of Milan and Turin: 1898 and 1917. It examines the reasons for different shapes of protest during the ‘ Fatti di Maggio ‘ in 1898 and the events in the summer of 1917. Both cities are the hubs of Italian industrialization and modernization but in 1898, 1917 and later in 1919-20, ‘pre-modern’ protests about the price of bread were melded together with modern political mobilization. This article also examines the growth of working-class suburbs in each city and their relationship to the ‘historic city centres’ on the one hand and the rural hinterland on the other. The uniqueness of protest in each city is related to the political economy and politics of Milan and Turin and the specific relationships between city centre, suburbs and hinterlands in each. The importance of municipal history for the national historical narrative of modern Italy is thus emphasized in this article.
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Cappitelli, Francesca, Lucia Toniolo, Antonio Sansonetti, Davide Gulotta, Giancarlo Ranalli, Elisabetta Zanardini, and Claudia Sorlini. "Advantages of Using Microbial Technology over Traditional Chemical Technology in Removal of Black Crusts from Stone Surfaces of Historical Monuments." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73, no. 17 (June 29, 2007): 5671–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/aem.00394-07.
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ABSTRACT This study compares two cleaning methods, one involving an ammonium carbonate-EDTA mixture and the other involving the sulfate-reducing bacterium Desulfovibrio vulgaris subsp. vulgaris ATCC 29579, for the removal of black crust (containing gypsum) on marble of the Milan Cathedral (Italy). In contrast to the chemical cleaning method, the biological procedure resulted in more homogeneous removal of the surface deposits and preserved the patina noble under the black crust. Whereas both of the treatments converted gypsum to calcite, allowing consolidation, the chemical treatment also formed undesirable sodium sulfate.
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Faccincani, Roberto, Francesco Della Corte, Giovanni Sesana, Riccardo Stucchi, Eric Weinstein, Itamar Ashkenazi, and Pierluigi Ingrassia. "Hospital Surge Capacity during Expo 2015 in Milano, Italy." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 33, no. 5 (August 29, 2018): 459–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x18000742.
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AbstractIntroductionHospital Acute Care Surge Capacity (HACSC), Hospital Acute Care Surge Threshold (HACST), and Total Hospital Capacity (THC) are scales that were developed to quantify surge capacity in the event of a multiple-casualty incident (MCI). These scales take into consideration the need for adequate care for both critical (T1) and moderate (T2) trauma patients. The objective of this study was to verify the validity of these scales in nine hospitals of the Milano (Italy) metropolitan area that prepared for a possible MCI during EXPO 2015.MethodsBoth HACSC and HACST were computed for individual hospitals. These were compared to surge capacities declared by individual hospitals during EXPO 2015, and also to surge capacity evaluated during a simulation organized on August 23, 2016.ResultsBoth HACSC and HACST were smaller compared to capacities measured and reported by the hospitals, as well as those found during the simulation. This resulted in significant differences in THC when this was computed from the different methods of calculation.Conclusions:Surge capacity is dependent on the method of measurement. Each method has its inherent deficiencies. Until more reliable methodologies are developed, there is a benefit to analyze surge capacity using several methods rather than just one. Emergency committee members should be aware of the importance of critical resources when looking to the hospital capacity to respond to an MCI, and to the possibility to effectively increase it with a good preparedness plan. Since hospital capacity during real events is not static but dynamic, largely depending on occupation of the available resources, it is important that the regional command center and the hospitals receiving casualties constantly communicate on specific agreed upon critical resources, in order for the regional command center to timely evaluate the overall regional capacity and guarantee the appropriate distribution of the patients.FaccincaniR,Della CorteF,SesanaG,StucchiR,WeinsteinE,AshkenaziI,IngrassiaP.Hospital surge capacity during Expo 2015 in Milano, Italy.Prehosp Disaster Med.2018;33(5):459–465.
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Ruggiero, Vincenzo. "New Social Movements and the ‘Centri Sociali’ in Milan." Sociological Review 48, no. 2 (May 2000): 167–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-954x.00210.
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This paper discusses the social movement known in Italy as the movement of the centri sociali. The empirical material presented relies heavily on the centri sociali operating in Milan. Such material offers the opportunity to revisit issues related to social movement theories. In part one, a brief overview of these theories is sketched, and concepts suggested by both resource mobilisation theorists and new social movements theorists are presented. Attempts to unify the two approaches are also briefly reviewed. In part two, the origin of the centri sociali is traced. Some of the motives and practices inspiring the movement are described as a legacy, though re-elaborated and re-contextualised, of the particularly troubled, if compelling, Italian 1970s. The methodology used for the empirical work undertaken is then presented. Finally, the discussion moves back to social movement theories, against which the movement of the centri sociali is analysed. Here, the utility of some aspects of both resource mobilisation and new social movement theories will be underlined, thus adding a modest, tentative, contribution to previous attempts to elaborate a synthesis between the two approaches.
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Angelucci, Alba, Roberta Marzorati, and Eduardo Barberis. "The (mis)recognition of diversity in Italy between policy and practice: The case of Milan." European Urban and Regional Studies 26, no. 3 (June 18, 2019): 254–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0969776419854500.
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The article analyses the discourses, strategies and daily practices about diversity in Milan, Italy, framing them at different scales: (a) the national model of integration; (b) the city-level debate and policy framework about diversity; (c) the neighbourhood-level initiatives addressing (directly or indirectly) diversity; (d) representations and narratives about diversity among the residents of two neighbourhoods in the city. Drawing on qualitative research conducted between 2013 and 2015 with 33 interviews with key officials and policymakers and 52 interviews with inhabitants of two neighbourhoods in Milan, this work aims at disentangling how multi-scalar representations intertwine and intersect, to what extent the different scales influence each other and with what consequences on the multi-level governance of urban diversity. Considering both the bottom-up and the top-down perspectives, the results will highlight the detachment between people’s narratives and representations and the local and national frameworks of discourses and policy practice, especially focusing on the reasons for and consequences of this detachment, and on the role that the meso level of local initiatives has in connecting the macro and the micro levels. The focus on the meso level allows one to underline the weaknesses and potentialities of the urban policy level in fostering the production of an institutional environment that is able to acknowledge and promote diversity.
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Foot, John. "Television and the City: the Impact of Television in Milan, 1954–1960." Contemporary European History 8, no. 3 (November 1999): 379–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960777399003033.
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The early years of state television in Italy, which began transmission in 1954, have usually been viewed as crucial to the spread of mass culture through Italian society. In addition, these developments have essentially been seen in negative terms by historians and sociologists. This article explores these early years in detail for one, key, urban setting: Milan. Through an examination of the myriad and often hidden effects of television, the research attempts to draw out the contradictory and complicated impact of TV and its relationship with other media, the neighbourhood, the family, the home and daily life. The article also looks at the impact of one important quiz show in the 1950s and concludes with some reflections on the power of the media in the city in the 1990s.
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Spada, Eva, Daniela Proverbio, Paola Galluzzo, Roberta Perego, Giada Bagnagatti De Giorgi, Nora Roggero, and Santo Caracappa. "Frequency of PiroplasmsBabesia microtiandCytauxzoon felisin Stray Cats from Northern Italy." BioMed Research International 2014 (2014): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/943754.
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Emerging diseases caused by piroplasms pose a health risk for man and other animals, and domestic cats have been proposed as potential reservoirs for some piroplasm infections. The aim of this study was to identify the frequency of the piroplasmsBabesia microtiandCytauxzoon felisin stray cats from northern Italy and to identify possible risk factors associated with these infections. Blood samples from 260 stray cats enrolled in a trap-neuter-release (TNR) program in northern Italy were examined with conventional PCR for the presence ofBabesia microtiandCytauxzoon felisDNA. No sample (0.0%) tested positive forC. felis, whilstB. microtiDNA was detected in two samples (0.8%). Both infected cats were in good clinical condition and recovered well from the neutering surgery. One of these two cats had a triple coinfection withBabesia microti,CandidatusMycoplasma haemominutum, andAnaplasma phagocytophilum. Evidence presented in this study indicates that the blood borne protozoansBabesia microtiandCytauxzoon felisare not widely distributed in stray cat populations in Milan, northern Italy, and that the significance of cats as a reservoir host forB. microtiin this area is limited.
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Ottomano, Vincenzina. "Die erste Rezeption russischer Opern in Italien: Ein Leben für den Zaren in Mailand." Studia Musicologica 52, no. 1-4 (March 1, 2011): 143–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/smus.52.2011.1-4.10.
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A Life for the Tsar by Michail Glinka was staged on 20 May 1874 at the Teatro dal Verme in Milan. The paper discusses the impact this opera had on the Italian public, including some of the echoes in the foreign press. The style and dramaturgical content of Glinka’s masterpiece sparked off an authentic querelle which was similar to — indeed perhaps even more violent than — the one caused by Wagner’s operas, which were also receiving their first hearings in Italy. The increasingly frequent staging of operas from the Slavic repertoire brought to the fore a fundamental problem in this transition period. The insinuation of an extraneous element — which in the case of Italy immediately found a casus belli in Glinka’s A Life for the Tsar — necessarily meant acknowledging the inescapable crisis of everything which had heretofore been confined within national borders or had relied on a substantially Euro-centric viewpoint.
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Benocci, Roberto, Chiara Confalonieri, Hector Eduardo Roman, Fabio Angelini, and Giovanni Zambon. "Accuracy of the Dynamic Acoustic Map in a Large City Generated by Fixed Monitoring Units." Sensors 20, no. 2 (January 11, 2020): 412. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20020412.
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DYNAMAP, a European Life project, aims at giving a real image of the noise generated by vehicular traffic in urban areas developing a dynamic acoustic map based on a limited number of low-cost permanent noise monitoring stations. The system has been implemented in two pilot areas located in the agglomeration of Milan (Italy) and along the Motorway A90 (Rome-Italy). The paper reports the final assessment of the system installed in the pilot area of Milan. Traffic noise data collected by the monitoring stations, each one representative of a number of roads (groups) sharing similar characteristics (e.g., daily traffic flow), are used to build-up a “real-time” noise map. In particular, we focused on the results of the testing campaign (21 sites distributed over the pilot area and 24 h duration of each recording). It allowed evaluating the accuracy and reliability of the system by comparing the predicted noise level of DYNAMAP with field measurements in randomly selected sites. To this end, a statistical analysis has been implemented to determine the error associated with such prediction, and to optimize the system by developing a correction procedure aimed at keeping the error below some acceptable threshold. The steps and the results of this procedure are given in detail. It is shown that it is possible to describe a complex road network on the basis of a statistical approach, complemented by empirical data, within a threshold of 3 dB provided that the traffic flow model achieves a comparable accuracy within each single groups of roads in the network.
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Turrini, Alex, Daniela Cristofoli, and Giovanni Valotti. "Sense or Sensibility? Different Approaches to Cope With the COVID-19 Pandemic." American Review of Public Administration 50, no. 6-7 (July 22, 2020): 746–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0275074020942427.
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The paper qualitatively infers which factors allow public administrations to be quick when an emergency, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, occurs. For this purpose we analyze the same type of intervention (i.e. conversion of convention centers into makeshift hospitals for coronavirus patients) in two different geographical settings (i.e. New York (USA) and Milan (Italy)) and we trace the two processes on the basis of a systematic analysis of national newspaper articles. The comparative analysis reveals that there is no one single best way to manage emergencies successfully, and it sheds light on which conditions might drive different modes of intervention from the public sector in emergencies and beyond.
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Gouthier, Daniele. "It's science after all, Homer!" Journal of Science Communication 06, no. 04 (December 21, 2007): R01. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.06040701.
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Within just a few months, new releases in the world of publishing have seen two books dealing with science and The Simpsons, one published in the US and the other in Italy: last spring, What's science ever done for us? by Paul Halpern (John Wiley & Sons, New York 2007) and, this autumn, La scienza dei Simpson by Marco Malaspina (Sironi Editore, Milano 2007).
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Cascinelli, Natale, Eva Singletary, Marco Greco, Frederick Ames, Alessandro Testori, Maria Baldini, Alberto Morabito, et al. "Long-Term Survival and Prognostic Factors for 2170 Breast Cancer Patients Treated at Two Cancer Centers: (Milan and Houston)." Tumori Journal 75, no. 2 (April 1989): 123–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030089168907500209.
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Data on 2170 consecutive patients with breast cancer submitted to curative surgery with or without combined radiotherapy in the period 1968–1972 at the National Cancer Institute of Milan (Italy) and at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center of Houston (Texas, USA) were analyzed to evaluate the prognosis of breast cancer patients after loco-regional treatment only and to verify if different prognostic factors have the same relevance. Forty-four percent of patients were alive without evidence of disease at the end of the follow-up in both centers: 14% of patients treated in Milan died without evidence of breast cancer with an intercurrent disease, whereas the death rate for intercurrent disease was 27 % in Houston. Thirty-seven percent of the patients in Milan and 26% of the patients in Houston died from breast cancer. A considerable percentage of patients (23.4 % in Milano, 38.2% in Houston) had one or more of the required items not specified in the clinical chart. Since the lack of information was considered a possible source of bias, the series were divided into two groups: the first collecting patients with all information available, the second gathering patients with at least one of the required items missing. The latter group was defined « unknown ». Multivariate analysis of survival, carried out by means of Cox's regression model, showed that mortality of these patients for all causes was significantly affected by the following criteria: status of regional nodes (P = 2 × 10−18), unknown (P = 10−9), maximum diameter of primary tumor (P = 7 × 10−10), age of the patients (P = 10−4), site of primary (P = 0.01), and Center (P = 0.04). A significant interaction was found between center and a) age of the patients, b) menopausal status and c) unknown. The relative P values were 6 × 10−7 for age and center, 8 × 10−3 for menopausal and center, 3 × 10−2 for unknown and center. Multivariate analysis of breast cancer mortality was significantly affected by: status of regional nodes (P = 10−18), diameter of primary (P = 5 × 10−14), unknown (P = 2 × 10−13), center (P = 2 × 10−6), site of primary (P = 0.002), and age of the patients (P = 0.03). The same significant interaction as for mortality from all causes was found. It is concluded that comparability of results obtained in different institutions may be dependent on the standardization and availability of patients data. The lack of information may introduce considerable biases in the evaluation of results, as was shown by the relevance of the variable unknown on mortality for all causes and for breast cancer. As regards the number of positive lymph nodes as a criterion to define subgroups of patients with different risks of death, we were unable to identify a definite breaking point. The most widely used categorization of this variable (1–3 positive nodes and 4 or more positive) was not supported by our data.
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Oreni, D., G. Karimi, and L. Barazzetti. "APPLYING BIM TO BUILT HERITAGE WITH COMPLEX SHAPES: THE ICE HOUSE OF FILARETE’S OSPEDALE MAGGIORE IN MILAN, ITALY." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-2/W5 (August 21, 2017): 553–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-2-w5-553-2017.
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This paper presents the development of a BIM model for a stratified historic structure characterized by a complex geometry: Filarete’s Ospedale Maggiore ice house, one of the few remaining historic ice houses in Milan (Fig. 1). Filarete, a well-known Renaissance architect and theorist, planned the hospital in the 15<sup>th</sup> century, but the ice house was built two centuries later with a double-storey irregular octagonal brick structure, half under and half above ground, that enclosed another circular structure called the ice room. The purpose of the double-walled structure was to store ice in the middle and store and preserve perishable food and medicine at the outer side of the ice room. During World War II, major portions of the hospital and the above-ground section of the ice house was bombed and heavily damaged. Later, in 1962, the hospital was restored and rehabilitated into a university, with the plan to conceal the ice house’s remaining structure in the courtyard, which ultimately was excavated and incorporated into a new library for the university.<br><br> A team of engineers, architects, and students from Politecnico di Milano and Carleton University conducted two heritage recording surveys in 2015 and 2016 to fully document the existing condition of the ice house, resulting in an inclusive laser scanner and photogrammetric point cloud dataset. The point cloud data was consolidated and imported into two leading parametric modelling software, Autodesk Revit© and Graphisoft ArchiCAD©, with the goal to develop two BIMs in parallel in order to study and compare the software BIM workflow, parametric capabilities, attributes to capture the complex geometry with high accuracy, and the duration for parametric modelling. The comparison study of the two software revealed their workflow limitations, leading to integration of the BIM generative process with other pure modelling software such as Rhinoceros©. The integrative BIM process led to the production of a comprehensive BIM model that documented related historic data and the existing physical state of the ice house, to be used as a baseline for preventive maintenance, monitoring, and future conservation projects.
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Devillanova, Carlo, Cinzia Colombo, Primo Garofolo, and Anna Spada. "Health care for undocumented immigrants during the early phase of the Covid-19 pandemic in Lombardy, Italy." European Journal of Public Health 30, no. 6 (October 29, 2020): 1186–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaa205.
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Abstract Despite concern on the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on undocumented immigrants, quantitative evidence on the issue is scant. We analyze socioeconomic and health conditions of 1590 undocumented immigrants in Milan, Lombardy, one of the regions with the highest COVID-19 clinical burden in the world that does not guarantee access to primary care for these individuals. We document a sharp reduction in visit number after lockdown, with 16% frequency of acute respiratory infections, compatible with COVID-19. Moreover, housing conditions make it difficult to implement public health measures. Results suggest the need to foster primary care by undocumented immigrants to face COVID-19 emergency.
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Andjelkovic, Sladjana, Cedo Vuckovic, Suzana Milutinovic, Tomislav Palibrk, Marko Kadija, and Marko Bumbasirevic. "Giovanni Battista Monteggia (1762-1815)." Srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo 143, no. 1-2 (2015): 105–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/sarh1502105a.
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Giovanni Battista Monteggia was born in Laverne on the 8th of August 1762. Monteggia started his education in the School of Surgery at the Hospital Maggiore in Milano in 1779. This hospital was called ?Big House? and it is one of the oldest medical institutions in Italy. He passed exam in surgery in 1781. Monteggia was promoted to assistant at surgery in Maggiore hospital in 1790. He was among the first who gave a complete clinical description of polio. He described traumatic hip dislocation and special forearm fracture which was named after him. Strictly speaking, a Monteggia fracture is a fracture of the proximal third of the ulna with an anterior dislocation of the radial head. Monteggia became a member of the renewed Institute of Science, Literature and Art in Milano in 1813.
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Bisesti, Alberto, Andrea Mallardo, Simone Gambazza, Filippo Binda, Alessandro Galazzi, Silvia Pazzaglia, and Dario Laquintana. "Facing COVID-19 Pandemic in a Tertiary Hospital in Milan: Prevalence of Burnout in Nursing Staff Working in Sub-Intensive Care Units." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 13 (June 22, 2021): 6684. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18136684.
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In early March 2020, Italy became the epicenter of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Europe. A different organization of hospital units was required to take care of patients affected by acute respiratory failure caused by COVID-19. This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of burnout in two sub-intensive care units (SICUs) of the COVID-19 hub center of the Lombardia region in Milan (Italy). All nurses and healthcare assistants working in the SICUs during June 2020 were included in the study. Burnout was assessed via the Maslach Burnout Inventory questionnaire. One hundred and five (84%) SICU staff participated in the study. The prevalence of high burnout for nurses and healthcare assistants was 61.9% for emotional exhaustion, 47.6% for depersonalization and 34.3% for personal accomplishment. Depersonalization was significantly more frequent in younger nurses (p = 0.009). Nurses were 4.5 times more likely to have burnout than healthcare assistants. Burnout was a common condition among healthcare workers operating in SICUs during the pandemic. Urgent actions are needed, especially for nurses, as well as preventive strategies for future pandemic scenarios.
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Solano, Giacomo, Raffaele Vacca, Matteo Gagliolo, and Dirk Jacobs. "Transnationalism and Belonging: The Case of Moroccan Entrepreneurs in Amsterdam and Milan." Social Inclusion 8, no. 1 (March 25, 2020): 300–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v8i1.2456.
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Research on migrant transnationalism has mostly focused on particular transnational activities, their salience in various contexts and populations, and their relationship with migrant incorporation. Less attention has been paid to the interplay between the different domains of transnationalism (economic, political, and socio-relational) and to the way in which they affect migrants’ identity. This study investigates whether and how one domain of migrant transnationalism—transnational entrepreneurship—influences migrants’ (1) transnational involvement in other domains and (2) sense of belonging to different social groups and places. Focusing on the case of Moroccan entrepreneurs in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Milan, Italy, we compare transnational migrant entrepreneurs, whose business is based on cross-border relationships and exchanges, with domestic migrant entrepreneurs, who are active exclusively in the destination country. Combining quantitative and qualitative data, we find that transnational entrepreneurs differ from domestic entrepreneurs mostly in terms of socio-relational transnational involvement. On the other hand, transnational entrepreneurship does not substantially change transnational practices in other domains or sense of belonging among Moroccan migrants.
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Amadasi, Alberto, Michele Boracchi, Guendalina Gentile, Francesca Maciocco, Francesca Maghin, and Riccardo Zoja. "Observations on self-incineration characteristics in 24 years (1993–2016) of autopsies in the city of Milan." Medicine, Science and the Law 58, no. 1 (December 19, 2017): 32–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0025802417748284.
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Self-incineration is one of the most dramatic and lethal suicide methods. It is rarely reported in Western countries and is more frequent in developing regions. We illustrate the forensic cases of self-immolation occurring over 24 years in the city of Milan, Italy, highlighting the main issues of such a complex and rare suicide. We selected 33 cases of self-incineration among 23,417 autopsies (4022 suicides) performed at the Department of Legal Medicine of the University of Milan over a period of 24 years (1993–2016). Several parameters were included and analysed: gender and age of the victims, pathological history, previous suicide intentions/attempts, duration of burning, place of death or discovery of the corpse, circumstantial data of fatal events and autopsy findings, with particular attention to thermal injuries. Self-incineration was found in 0.8% of total suicides and 0.14% of total autopsies. One of these cases involved a complex modality (association with plastic-bag suffocation). The typical characteristics of the victim were an Italian man with psychiatric illness, frequently moved by passion, existential discomfort and economic problems. During the 24-year period, the number of cases of self-incineration progressively reduced. This study provides a general overview in one of the biggest metropolitan Italian areas and is one of the few works performed on this topic. It may be helpful in understanding and studying such an unusual manner of suicide.
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Taher, A., A. Nassar, M. Naja, C. Cesaretti, R. Fasulo, and M. D. Cappellini. "Outcome of Thalassemia Intermedia Mothers and Newborns in Two Tertiary Care Centers, Beirut and Milan." Blood 110, no. 11 (November 16, 2007): 3827. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood.v110.11.3827.3827.
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Abstract Introduction: β-thalassemia intermedia (TI) patients either present with a severe disease between the ages of 2–6 years, or remain asymptomatic until they present with a milder disease during adult life. With the advances in assisted reproductive technology and medical management, pregnancy has become possible in most TI cases. Spontaneous abortions, intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR), and preterm labor are complications that face women with TI. This study aimed at evaluating the pregnancy outcome of women with TI in two tertiary care centers, one in Lebanon and another in Italy. Methods: Patient databases at the Chronic Care Center, Lebanon and at the Hereditary Anemia Center in Milan, Italy were reviewed. Maternal and neonatal charts of women with TI and documented pregnancy were identified and reviewed using a specially formulated questionnaire that focused on demographic characteristics (maternal age, gestational age (GA), parity, and abortions), past medical history related to thalassemia, course of pregnancy and complications, intrapartum events and neonatal outcome. Patients were then contacted by phone for any missing information. Results: A total of 44 pregnant TI patients, 11 in Lebanon and 33 in Italy were identified. Mean age at diagnosis of TI was 9.2 ± 9.7 years (range 1–42 years) with 34 (77.3%) splenectomized patients identified. Fourteen patients (31.8%) were frequently transfused, 25 (56.8%) occasionally transfused and only 4 (9.1%) never transfused. Mean age at pregnancy was 29.5 ± 3.9 years (range 21–38 years) with 11 patients (28.2%) receiving the first transfusion during pregnancy. Twenty eight patients were on chelation therapy: 21 (48.8%) received deferioxamine, 4 (9.3%) deferiprone and 3 (7%) deferasirox. After excluding 4 women with ongoing pregnancies, information on 79 pregnancies, all spontaneous, were available, 30 from Lebanon and 49 from Italy. These resulted in 60 live births (75.9%), 17 abortions (21.5%), and 2 intrauterine fetal deaths (2.5%), at 26 and 36 weeks of gestation, respectively. Three patients (7.5%) had recurrent abortions (≥3 abortions). Of women whose pregnancies progressed beyond 20 weeks of gestation (n=62), the following obstetrical complications were encountered: preterm delivery <37 weeks of gestation (18, 29.0%), IUGR (14, 22.6%), preeclampsia (1, 1.6%), placental abruption (2, 3.2%) and cholestasis of pregnancy (1, 1.6%). Mean GA at delivery was 36.8 ±2.8 weeks. Thrombotic events were encountered during 4/79 (5.1%) pregnancies: deep vein thrombosis (DVT) ante- and post-partum (n=2), antepartum DVT (n=1) and placental thrombosis (n=1). Two women had postpartum splenectomy. Cesarean delivery was performed in 44 pregnancies (70.9%). No significant differences were noted when the course of pregnancy and obstetrical outcomes of women in Lebanon and Milan were compared. Conclusions: Preterm delivery complicates 29% of pregnancies with TI which are at a 23% risk of IUGR. Cesarean delivery is the most common route of delivery in these patients (70.9%). As with any chronic disease affecting different organs, TI presents a challenge for pregnant patients, their fetuses and physicians and requires close monitoring for any events that might compromise the patient or the newborn. Further studies comprising more patients need to be carried out to determine the effects of splenectomy and transfusions during pregnancy and on the outcome of those pregnancies.
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Gherlinzoni, F., G. Bacci, P. Picci, R. Capanna, P. Calderoni, E. G. Lorenzi, M. Bernini, E. Emiliani, E. Barbieri, and A. Normand. "A randomized trial for the treatment of high-grade soft-tissue sarcomas of the extremities: preliminary observations." Journal of Clinical Oncology 4, no. 4 (April 1986): 552–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.1986.4.4.552.
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A new trial for evaluating the effectiveness of adjuvant chemotherapy in high-grade soft-tissue sarcomas of the extremities in adult patients is presented. All patients after local treatment were randomized into two arms, one without further therapy and the other to receive adjuvant chemotherapy (Adriamycin [Farmitalia-Carlo Erba, Milan, Italy], 450 mg/m2). The preliminary results of the study are reported at a median observation period of 27.6 months. Of the 59 patients who entered the study, 79.1% in the chemotherapy group are without sign of disease, whereas the corresponding figure in the nonadjuvant chemotherapy group is 54.3%. The difference between the two groups is statistically significant (P less than .005, log rank test). These preliminary observations encourage continuation of the study.
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Stanga, Chiara. "The Racetrack Oval Frame Vault of Villa Borromeo in Cassano d’Adda." Nexus Network Journal 22, no. 4 (October 6, 2020): 1117–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00004-020-00529-6.
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AbstractThe paper describes the analysis of the oval frame vault of the ballroom of Villa Borromeo in Cassano d’Adda (Milan), one of the most important, yet not deeply studied, countryside villas of the Adda family. The vault is a particular example of a frame vault on an oval plan, where the main elements that characterize the space are the skene arches and the curved lunettes. The article sheds light on the constructive and geometric genesis of this particular type of vaulting, which was a common construction practice of architects and builders in the Modern Age in Northern Italy. The analysis of the vault geometries and construction techniques is carried out through a geometric and photogrammetric survey, the elaboration of drawings, and a 3D model.
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Maranzano, Paolo, Alessandro Fassò, Matteo Pelagatti, and Manfred Mudelsee. "Statistical Modeling of the Early-Stage Impact of a New Traffic Policy in Milan, Italy." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 3 (February 8, 2020): 1088. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17031088.
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Most urban areas of the Po basin in the North of Italy are persistently affected by poor air quality and difficulty in disposing of airborne pollutants. In this context, the municipality of Milan started a multi-year progressive policy based on an extended limited traffic zone (Area B). Starting on 25 February 2019, the first phase partially restricted the circulation of some classes of highly polluting vehicles on the territory, in particular, Euro 0 petrol vehicles and Euro 0 to 3 diesel vehicles, excluding public transport. This is the early-stage of a long term policy that will restrict access to an increasing number of vehicles. The goal of this paper is to evaluate the early-stage impact of this policy on two specific vehicle-generated pollutants: total nitrogen oxides (NO x ) and nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ), which are gathered by Lombardy Regional Agency for Environmental Protection (ARPA Lombardia). We use a statistical model for time series intervention analysis based on unobservable components. We use data from 2014 to 2018 for pre-policy model selection and the relatively short period up to September 2019 for early-stage policy assessment. We include weather conditions, socio-economic factors, and a counter-factual, given by the concentration of the same pollutant in other important neighbouring cities. Although the average concentrations reduced after the policy introduction, this paper argues that this could be due to other factors. Considering that the short time window may be not long enough for social adaptation to the new rules, our model does not provide statistical evidence of a positive policy effect for NO x and NO 2 . Instead, in one of the most central monitoring stations, a significant negative impact is found.
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Meniconi, S., B. Brunone, M. Ferrante, C. Capponi, C. A. Carrettini, C. Chiesa, D. Segalini, and E. A. Lanfranchi. "Anomaly pre-localization in distribution–transmission mains by pump trip: preliminary field tests in the Milan pipe system." Journal of Hydroinformatics 17, no. 3 (September 22, 2014): 377–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2014.038.
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In this paper, the reliability of transients due to pump trip as a powerful tool for the pre-localization of anomalies in real pipe systems is tested. The examined pipe system is part of the one supplying the city of Milan, Italy and is managed by Metropolitana Milanese SpA (MM). The characteristics of such a system can be considered as intermediate between those of classical transmission mains and distribution systems because of its several branches. A Lagrangian model simulating pressure wave propagation is used to evaluate the pipe pressure wave speed – associated with a genetic algorithm – and to locate possible anomalies – associated with wavelet analysis. The results of the diagnosis of the pipe system are corroborated by repairs executed by MM in the area where possible anomalies have been pre-localized.