Bioarchaeological insights into the last plague of Imola (1630–1632)

AbstractThe plague of 1630–1632 was one of the deadliest plague epidemics to ever hit Northern Italy, and for many of the affected regions, it was also the last. While accounts on plague during the early 1630s in Florence and Milan are frequent, much less is known about the city of Imola. We analyzed the full skeletal assemblage of four mass graves (n = 133 individuals) at the Lazaretto dell’Osservanza, which date back to the outbreak of 1630–1632 in Imola and evaluated our results by integrating new archival sources. The skeletons showed little evidence of physical trauma and were covered by multiple layers of lime, which is characteristic for epidemic mass mortality sites. We screened 15 teeth for Yersinia pestis aDNA and were able to confirm the presence of plague in Imola via metagenomic analysis. Additionally, we studied a contemporaneous register, in which a friar recorded patient outcomes at the lazaretto during the last year of the epidemic. Our multidisciplinary approach combining historical, osteological and genomic data provided a unique opportunity to reconstruct an in-depth picture of the last plague of Imola through the city's main lazaretto.

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ENLIGHTENMENT AND REVOLUTION: NAPLES 1799

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society ◽

10.1017/s0080440100000025 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 10 ◽

pp. 17-44 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

John Robertson

Keyword(s):

French Revolution ◽

Military Intervention ◽

Northern Italy ◽

French Military ◽

The Hill ◽

The City

AbstractTWO hundred years ago today, on 22 January 1799, French troops forced their way into the city of Naples. In doing so, they confirmed the authority of the Neapolitan Republic which had been proclaimed, one and indivisible, the day before by a group of patriots who had taken control of the Castel Sant'Elmo, the fortress on the hill immediately above the centre of the city. Thus began the last of the revolutions which can be regarded as the offspring of the great French Revolution of 1789. There is no denying that the Neapolitan Revolution, like its predecessors in northern Italy and elsewhere, depended on French military intervention. The patriots were not in control of the city before 22 January, and needed the French to quell the popular violence and disorder which had swept the city for the previous week. And when, after three months, the French withdrew their forces, the republicans' hold on the city was too precarious to last more than a few weeks.

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Multidisciplinary Approach to PAD: Who's on Your Team?

Seminars in Interventional Radiology ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1676094 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 35 (05) ◽

pp. 378-383

Author(s):

Sabeen Dhand

Keyword(s):

Patient Outcomes ◽

Orthopedic Surgery ◽

Multidisciplinary Approach ◽

Wound Care ◽

Arterial Disease ◽

Team Approach ◽

Peripheral Arterial ◽

Treat All ◽

Improve Patient ◽

Care Nursing

AbstractThe complexity of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and its multiorgan involvement requires the utilization of a multispecialty team approach. Members of this team include a vascular specialty (interventional radiology, cardiology, and vascular surgery), podiatry, orthopedic surgery, primary care, infectious disease, endocrinology, plastic surgery, wound care nursing, and dietetics. A team approach has been proven to significantly improve patient outcomes as well as decreasing amputation rates. In order to promote collaboration and avoid duplication of care, the team can be broken down into three main pillars: medical management, wound care, and revascularization. A complete team approach is vital for this population, with an overall goal to treat all manifestations of the disease and prevent further progression and risk of major sequelae of the disease.

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The Provenance of Marbles and Alabasters Used in the Monuments of Hierapolis in Phrygia (Turkey): New Information from a Systematic Review and Integration of Archaeological and Archaeometric Data

Heritage ◽

10.3390/heritage2010035 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 519-552

Author(s):

Giuseppe Scardozzi

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Multidisciplinary Approach ◽

Building Stone ◽

Time Span ◽

Research Activities ◽

New Information ◽

Byzantine Period ◽

Procurement Strategies ◽

The City ◽

Chronological Time

Determining the provenance of the stones used for ancient architectures is very important in order to reconstruct many social and economic questions linked to the life of a city. This paper integrates previous and new archaeometric data about marble and alabaster quarries in south-western Phrygia (Lykos valley), and offers a review of some results of the research activities carried out between the years 2013–2018 and aimed to reconstruct the building stone procurement strategies adopted in the city of Hierapolis in Phrygia across a broad chronological time span from the Hellenistic age to the Byzantine period. The research activities based on a multidisciplinary approach, integrating the archaeological and art-historian study of the monuments, the topographical investigation of the quarries, and the archaeometric characterisation both of extraction sites and marbles and alabasters used in the building sites of the urban area and in the necropolises.

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Virtual Environments as Enablers of Civic Awareness and Engagement

International Journal of Urban Planning and Smart Cities ◽

10.4018/ijupsc.2020010102 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 22-34

Author(s):

Paolo Bellavista ◽

Antonio Corradi ◽

Luca Foschini ◽

Eliza Helena Gomes ◽

Elena Lamberti ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Multidisciplinary Approach ◽

Point Of View ◽

Public Administrators ◽

Living Lab ◽

Critical Issues ◽

Wide Availability ◽

Civic Awareness ◽

The City ◽

Privacy Issues

The wide availability of accurate sensors currently hosted by smartphones are enabling new participative urban management opportunities. Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) allows people to actively participate in any aspect of urban planning, by collecting and sharing data, reporting issues to public administrations, proposing solutions to urban planners, and delivering information of potential social interest to their community. Although collected data can be very helpful to enhance the quality of life of citizens, mobile users are still reluctant to use their devices to take advantages of the opportunities offered by the digitized society, mainly due to privacy issues. From August to December 2018, the city of Florianópolis, capital of Santa Catarina, in southern Brazil, was used as a living lab environment for an MCS application called ParticipACT Brazil, a socio/technical-aware crowdsensing platform. While the current literature focuses on MCS from a purely technical point of view, this research demonstrated that a multidisciplinary approach that includes both human sciences and ICT is needed in order to better identify critical issues, highlights the untapped potential of MCS paradigm, and suggests research methodologies that could provide benefits for all the actors involved (researchers, public administrators, and citizens).

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Magnetic and SEM-EDS analyses of Tilia cordata leaves and PM10 filters as a complementary source of information on polluted air: Results from the city of Parma (Northern Italy)

Environmental Pollution ◽

10.1016/j.envpol.2018.04.055 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 239 ◽

pp. 777-787 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Luciana Mantovani ◽

Mario Tribaudino ◽

Massimo Solzi ◽

Vera Barraco ◽

Eriberto De Munari ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Northern Italy ◽

Tilia Cordata ◽

The City ◽

Source Of Information

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Le monde romain dans les lettres de Pline le Jeune: espace et valeurs

Mnemosyne ◽

10.1163/156852508x321176 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 62 (2) ◽

pp. 237-249

Author(s):

Nicole Méthy

Keyword(s):

Roman Empire ◽

Special Reference ◽

Mental Representation ◽

Northern Italy ◽

Intellectual Work ◽

Native Land ◽

Political Career ◽

Roman World ◽

The City

AbstractIn this article the geographical allusions are considered which the reader can find in Pliny's letters, with special reference to those containing the writer's appreciation. They suggest a mental representation of the contemporary Roman world. The ancient ciceronian distinction between parua patria and magna patria still remains valid. But Pliny is conscious of belonging to a much larger territory that is neither his native land of northern Italy nor the city of Rome, in which he had his political career: the Roman empire. However, in Pliny's mind this empire is not a completely united one. It is divided into a Roman or occidental and a Greek or oriental half. This distinction is both geographical and moral. Each part is associated with ethical notions, which are for the former part positive ones, for the latter part negative ones. Even if he is periodically aspiring to reject even his Roman roots or links, in order to find an ideal place for intellectual work, Pliny only feels himself as belonging to the western part, which can no longer be only Rome, because of its moral decline, but also includes the most ancient provinces.

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The Concept of an Imperial City in The Modern Global World

SHS Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/shsconf/20219206022 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 92 ◽

pp. 06022

Author(s):

Yulia Maltseva

Keyword(s):

Multidisciplinary Approach ◽

Mutual Influence ◽

Value Added ◽

Global Market ◽

Historical Background ◽

Global Competitiveness ◽

Financial Investments ◽

Global World ◽

The City ◽

Scientific Growth

Research background: The author analyzes the phenomenon of cultural identity of the city and its cultural and economic aspects which allows us to create the concept of the Imperial city, and analyze its relationship with its own historical background and ideas about the global city. Structural analysis of modern ideas about the Imperial city allows us to ensure a strong urban brand and influences its global competitiveness. Purpose of the article: The article is devoted to the problem of forming strong brands of certain territories, in particular, Imperial cities, and their impact on the competitiveness of the region. Methods: The multidisciplinary approach to the analysis of a chosen phenomenon combining economic-statistical and cultural-philosophical methods to assess the mutual influence of the city’s globality and its Imperia concept on the formation of its distinctive ecnomically strong brand. Findings & Value added: The analysis showed that a new understanding of the phenomenon of the Imperial city, strengthening its brand, increasing recognition in the world and close ties with cultural dominants allows the Imperial cities to attract significant financial investments and improve their competitive position at the global market. As a scientific growth, the author can consider the influence of the Imperial city concept on the structure of the formation of a successful urban brand of a territory. The author proposes the new methodology for assessing the brand value of the Imperial City.

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First Report of Powdery Mildew Caused by an Oidium sp. on Spiraea japonica in Italy

Plant Disease ◽

10.1094/pdis.2004.88.9.1045c ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 88 (9) ◽

pp. 1045-1045

Author(s):

A. Garibaldi ◽

G. Gilardi ◽

M. L. Gullino

Keyword(s):

Powdery Mildew ◽

Ornamental Plants ◽

The United States ◽

Northern Italy ◽

Artificial Inoculation ◽

Conidial Suspension ◽

Sterile Water ◽

Growth Reduction ◽

White Mycelium ◽

The City

Spiraea japonica is an old-fashioned shrub widely grown in Italy in parks and gardens. In the summer of 2003, severe outbreaks of a previously unknown powdery mildew were observed in some parks and gardens in the city of Torino (northern Italy). Infected leaves became covered on both sides with a white mycelium. As the disease progressed, infected leaves turned reddish and eventually dropped prematurely. The presence of powdery mildew infections on leaves sometimes caused their distortion and growth reduction. Frequently, mycelium was observed also on the stem. Conidia were hyaline, ellipsoid, cylindrical, or dol iform, born in chains, measured 21.0 to 38.4 × 10.8 to 14.4 mm, and showed fibrosin bodies. Cleistothecia were not observed. The pathogen was identified as Oidium subgenus Fibroidium (1,2). Pathogenicity was confirmed by spraying leaves of healthy potted S. japonica plants with a conidial suspension (105 conidia per ml) prepared in sterile water from diseased leaves. Three plants were inoculated and three noninoculated plants served as control. The artificial inoculation was carried out twice. After artificial inoculation, plants were maintained in a growth chamber at 25°C. After 20 days, powdery mildew symptoms developed. Microsphaera alni and Podosphaera oxyacanthae were described as causal agents of powdery mildew on S. japonica in the United States (3), while Sphaerotheca spiraeae was considered the causal agent of a powdery mildew observed in Japan (4) and more recently in Poland. References: (1) U. Braun and S. Takamatsu. Schlechtendalia 4:1, 2000. (2) R. T. A. Cook et al. Mycol. Res. 101:975, 1997. (3) P. Pirone. Diseases and Pests of Ornamental Plants. John Wiley and Sons, NY, 1978. (4) K. Sawada. Rev. Appl. Mycol. 31:577, 1952.

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GPS observations of coseismic deformation following the May 20 and 29, 2012, Emilia seismic events (northern Italy): data, analysis and preliminary models

Annals of Geophysics ◽

10.4401/ag-6168 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 55 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Enrico Serpelloni ◽

Letizia Anderlini ◽

Antonio Avallone ◽

Valentina Cannelli ◽

Adriano Cavaliere ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Sedimentary Cover ◽

Active Faults ◽

Northern Italy ◽

Coseismic Deformation ◽

Seismic Sequence ◽

Stress Indicators ◽

Po Plain ◽

Fold And Thrust Belt ◽

The City ◽

Gps Observations

<p>In May-July 2012, a seismic sequence struck a broad area of the Po Plain Region in northern Italy. The sequence included two Ml >5.5 mainshocks. The first one (Ml 5.9) occurred near the city of Finale Emilia (ca. 30 km west of Ferrara) on May 20 at 02:03:53 (UTC), and the second (Ml 5.8) occurred on May 29 at 7:00:03 (UTC), about 12 km southwest of the May 20 mainshock (Figure 1), near the city of Mirandola. The seismic sequence involved an area that extended in an E-W direction for more than 50 km, and included seven Ml ≥5.0 events and more than 2,300 Ml >1.5 events (http://iside.rm.ingv.it). The focal mechanisms of the main events [Pondrelli et al. 2012, Scognamiglio et al. 2012, this volume] consistently showed compressional kinematics with E-W oriented reverse nodal planes. This sector of the Po Plain is known as a region characterized by slow deformation rates due to the northwards motion of the northern Apennines fold-and-thrust belt, which is buried beneath the sedimentary cover of the Po Plain [Picotti and Pazzaglia 2008, Toscani et al. 2009]. Early global positioning system (GPS) measurements [Serpelloni et al. 2006] and the most recent updates [Devoti et al. 2011, Bennett et al. 2012] recognized that less than 2 mm/yr of SW-NE shortening are accommodated across this sector of the Po Plain, in agreement with other present-day stress indicators [Montone et al. 2012] and known active faults [Basili et al. 2008]. In the present study, we describe the GPS data used to study the coseismic deformation related to the May 20 and 29 mainshocks, and provide preliminary models of the two seismic sources, as inverted from consensus GPS coseismic deformation fields. […]</p>

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Valvular Disease

10.1093/med/9780190226459.003.0050 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Shobana Chandrasekhar ◽

C. LaToya Mason

Keyword(s):

Patient Outcomes ◽

Maternal Morbidity ◽

Multidisciplinary Approach ◽

Anesthetic Technique ◽

Cardiac Diseases ◽

Successful Management ◽

Maternal Risk ◽

Maternal Morbidity And Mortality ◽

Selection Of

Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of maternal morbidity and mortality worldwide. Complex valvular heart disease accounts for approximately 30% to 50% of all cardiac diseases of pregnancy and presents significant challenges to the management of the parturient affected by it. Determination of disease severity and maternal risk assessment are especially important to development of appropriate plans of care for the labor, delivery, and immediate postpartum periods, when adverse events for both mother and fetus may occur. An understanding of the pathophysiology of the causative lesions and hemodynamic goals, thorough evaluation, and a multidisciplinary approach are key components to the successful management of these patients, allowing for appropriate selection of an anesthetic technique that balances the benefits and consequences to both mother and infant, thereby leading to optimal patient outcomes.

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