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Il 'Venice Squeeze Project', coordinato da Claudia Antonetti, è la prima iniziativa in Italia che intende promuovere il riconoscimento del valore storico e documentario dei calchi epigrafici. Questo progetto ha tra i suoi obiettivi la digitalizzazione e pubblicazione online nel sito web 'E-stampages' della collezione di calchi epigrafici dell’Università Ca’ Foscari. La collezione, che è la più consistente e coerente in Italia, comprende un gruppo più rilevante di calchi prodotti da iscrizioni provenienti dalla Grecia Occidentale, insieme a un nucleo minore di calchi da epigrafi dalla Sicilia e dall’area dell’antica Venetia, per un totale di 605 esemplari. 'E-stampages' è punto di riferimento internazionale per la pubblicazione digitale di cachi epigrafici. Lo standard di digitalizzazione seguito da questo progetto prevede per ogni esemplare una fotografia del recto e del verso e una riproduzione 3D, corredate da metadati che descrivono il calco, il testo e il supporto epigrafico. 'E-stampages' è ad accesso aperto e i dati sono interpolabili e riutilizzabili. Cf. l’articolo citato in ‘Note’. The ‘Venice Squeeze Project’, coordinated by Claudia Antonetti, is the first initiative in Italy to enhance the historical and documentary value of the epigraphic squeezes. Its aims include publishing the Ca’ Foscari collection of epigraphic squeezes within the ’E-stampages’ website. The collection is the richest and most coherent in Italy and it counts 605 items. Most squeezes were produced from inscriptions from Central Greece. A smaller group of squeezes reproduces inscriptions from Sicily and Ancient Venetia. ‘E-stampages’ is an international reference point for digital publishing of epigraphic squeezes. According to the ‘E-stampages digitization standard, each item is reproduced by a photo of the obverse and reverse and a 3D model. The images are supplied with metadata on the squeeze, text and stone. ‘E-stampages is open access and data is interoperable and reusable. Cf. the paper quoted in ‘Notes’.

The Covid-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has completely reshaped the lives of people around the world, including higher education students. Beyond serious health consequences for a proportion of those directly affected by the virus, the pandemic holds important implications for the life and work of higher education students, considerably affecting their physical and mental well-being. To capture how students perceived the first wave of the pandemic���s impact, one of the most comprehensive and large-scale online surveys across the world was conducted. Carried out between 5 May 2020 and 15 June 2020, the survey came at a time when most countries were experiencing the arduous lockdown restrictions. The online questionnaire was prepared in seven different languages (English, Italian, North Macedonian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish) and covered various aspects of higher education students��� life, including socio-demographic and academic characteristics, academic life, infrastructure and skills for studying from home, social life, emotional life and life circumstances. Using the convenience sampling method, the online questionnaire was distributed to higher education students (aged 18 and over) and enrolled in a higher education institution. The final dataset consisted of 31,212 responses from 133 countries and 6 continents. The data may prove useful for researchers studying the pandemic���s impacts on various aspects of student life. Policymakers can utilize the data to determine the best solutions as they formulate policy recommendations and strategies to support students during this and any future pandemic. Acknowledgments: The extensive dataset could not be collected without the numerous international partners who provided the exceptional assistance with questionnaire translation and/or data collection. This work also acknowledges the international partners, who may have been unintentionally omitted from authorship due to the snowball recruitment technique. Special thanks go also to anonymous global survey participants for their valuable insights into the lives of students, which they shared selflessly. The authors also acknowledge the CovidSocLab project (http://www.covidsoclab.org/) as a working platform for international collaboration. Funding: The authors acknowledge the financial support from the Slovenian Research Agency (research core funding No. P5-0093).

The existence of two nontrivial solutions for a class of fully nonlinear problems at critical growth with perturbations of lower order is proved. The first solution is obtained via a local minimization argument while the second solution follows by a non-smooth mountain pass theorem.

An extensive literature has focused on the impact of new public management (NPM) oriented structural changes on academics’ practice and identity. These critical studies have been resolute in concluding that NPM inevitably leads to a degeneration of academics’ ethos and values. Drawing from the moral philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre, we argue that these previous analyses have overlooked the moral agency of the academics and their role in ‘moralizing’ and consequently shaping the ethical nature of their practices. The paper provides a new theoretical understanding of NPM-oriented reforms in light of the virtue ethics approach, thereby directing the attention to the moral character and moral agency of academics. Our analysis of interviews collected in the business department of a Danish university provides an example of how individuals have divergent ethical understandings of these structural changes and enact/resist pre-defined social roles in different ways. While in some cases the NPM agenda of the institutions has triggered internal moral conflict and a crisis of moral character, in other cases the new logic resonates with academics’ values and evaluative standards. Partially departing from the theoretical ground of MacIntyre (1981), we conclude that academics can play a crucial role in shaping the morality of NPM-oriented institutions and in transforming these settings into suitable contexts for the cultivation of virtues.

Among patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), those with pathological stage I have the best expectation of survival; however, survival is reduced to less than 50% in the long term. At present, it is unclear when patients can be reasonably defined as cured, and if they experience a higher incidence of malignant/nonmalignant diseases and a lower expectation of survival than the general population. A total of 134 stage I NSCLC patients, who had undergone resection at the Thoracic Surgery Unit of the General Hospital of Verona (north-eastern Italy) from October 1987 to December 1993, were still disease-free at 5 years. These subjects were further followed up, and morbidity and mortality rates were compared with those recorded in the general population of the same geographical area. The standardised incidence ratios (SIRs) for all malignancies and for lung cancer were higher than expected (2.39, 95% CI=1.6-3.5, P<0.001; 10.1, 95% CI=6.2-15.6, P<0.0001, respectively). The standardised mortality ratio (SMR) was also significantly increased (1.73, 95% CI=1.1-2.6, P=0.013). The excess mortality could be entirely explained by an increase in mortality from lung cancer (5.7, 95% CI=2.8-10.1, P<0.0001). This study shows that patients, resected for pathological stage I NSCLC and tumour-free after 5 years, have a higher incidence of new lung cancer compared with the general population, which in turn determines an excess in all-cause mortality in the following years.

Descrizione della decorazione pittorica di Villa Serego a Santa Sofia di Pindemonte di Verona