https://hdl.handle.net/10807/41 Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:42:57 GMT 2026-06-21T17:42:57Z https://hdl.handle.net/10807/340007 Titolo: Mens sana in corpore sano: sports effects on children learning in Italy Autori: Nosvelli Mario Abstract: This study analyses the impact of sports participation on both cognitive and noncognitive skills using micro data from Italian fifth grade pupils’ test scores. The performance of students is investigated by estimating different frequencies of sports practice. Using sports facilities as an instrument for sports participation, we find that its effect on school performance is positive, but only for an intermediate level of training. Sports drills have a negative effect, especially on females, when the extremes come into play: both inactivity and full-week action. On the contrary, daily sports practice seems to be effective on non-cognitive skills, revealing positive contributions to some personality traits that represent a major component of human capital. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10807/340007 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10807/340003 Titolo: INTRODUCTION Autori: Mariagrazia Fanchi; Paola Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto; Elena Mosconi Abstract: The new historiographical paradigms (Biltereyst, Malby, Meers 2019), the relevant boost of film audience studies provided by networks such as HoMER, and the convergence of an increasing number of disciplines around cinema history: geography (Hallam, Roberts 2014; Treveri Gennari, O’Rawe, Hipkins 2019; Celata, Simone 2023), ethnography (Treveri Gennari et al, 2020; Stokes, Jones, Pett 2022; Antichi, Fedele, Garofalo 2023; Wessels et al 2022; Kuhn 2023), phenomenology (Hanich 2017), have, in recent years, produced an important growth in historical knowledge about movie theatres, the public, and, more generally, cinema experiences. Data-driven approaches and open science models (Deb Verhoeven’s work has been pivotal in this regard) have in addition contributed to deeply transforming the work of scholars, even in traditional fields, such as early cinema (Slugan, Biltereyst 2022), introducing new perspectives, encouraging to intersect many and different sources (Egan-Smith-Terrill, 2021), and developing longitudinal and comparative studies (van Oort, Whitehead, 2023). The research on movie theatres and moviegoing in Italy has certainly benefited from this conjuncture. However, some aspects and periods have been investigated less (systematically) than others. For example, the long and non-linear phase of the decline of cinemas and cinema-going in Italy, from the 1960s to the 1980s and the subsequent revival, from the second half of the 1990s have been understudied; cinema-going in rural areas and Southern regions, despite being the subject of some pioneering research (Pinna et al, 1958), still largely needs to be investigated. Likewise, the history of entrepreneurs running cinemas in Italy – predominantly family-run enterprises – is a relatively unexplored field. The history of the professions that revolve around cinema (managers, projectionists, cashiers…), in turn need to be completely reconstructed. In the same way, the experience of moviegoers, their relationship with cinema and the role that the viewing experience has taken on in their lives continue to offer many opportunities for study and investigation, strengthened by new investigation techniques and methodologies. Considering this landscape, this special issue aims to analyze how cinema and movie theatres shaped the history of territories, businesses, and people in the past and present, with a particular but non-exclusive focus on the case of Italy. Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10807/340003 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10807/340000 Titolo: Clinical features and management of LICATS involving the heart in a patient with diffuse and rapidly progressive systemic sclerosis Autori: Natalello, Gerlando; Bosello, Silvia Laura; Marano, Riccardo; De Lorenzis, Enrico; Moliterno, Eleonora; Galli, Eugenio; Giammarco, Sabrina; Hagen, Melanie; Pagliara, Daria; Schett, Georg; Locatelli, Franco; Sica, Simona; D'Agostino, Maria Antonietta Abstract: N/A Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10807/340000 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10807/339998 Titolo: COVID‐19 illness: Different comorbidities may require different immunological therapeutic targets Autori: Gremese, Elisa; Tolusso, Barbara; Bruno, Dario; Paglionico, Anna Maria; Perniola, Simone; Ferraccioli, Gianfranco; Alivernini, Stefano Abstract: Background: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has led to more than 6,870.000 deaths worldwide. Despite recent therapeutic advances, deaths in Intensive Care Units still range between 34 and 72%, comprising substantial unmet need as we move to an endemic phase. The general agreement is that in the first few days of infection, antiviral drugs and neutralizing monoclonal antibodies should be adopted. When the patient is hospitalized and develops severe pneumonia, progressing to a systemic disease, immune modifying therapy with corticosteroids is indicated. Such interventions, however, are less effective in the context of comorbidities (e.g., diabetes, hypertension, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, obesity and central nervous system-CNS diseases) which are by themselves associated with poor outcomes. Such comorbidities comprise common and some distinct underlying inflammatory pathobiology regulated by differential cytokine taxonomy. Methods: Searching in the PubMed database, literature pertaining to the biology underlying the different comorbidities, and the data from the studies related to various immunological treatments for the Covid-19 disease were carefully analyzed. Results: Several experimental and clinical data have demonstrated that hypertension and atrial fibrillation present an IL-6 dependent signature, whereas diabetes, obesity, heart failure and CNS diseases may exhibit an IL-1a/b predominant signature. Distinct selective cytokine targeting may offer advantage in treating severe COVID-19 illness based on single or multiple associated comorbidities. When the patient does not immediately respond, a broader target range through JAKs pathway inhibitors may be indicated. Conclusions: Herein, we discuss the biological background associated with distinct comorbidities which might impact the SARS-CoV-2 infection course and how these should to be addressed to improve the current therapeutic outcome. Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10807/339998 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z