Medullary Sponge Kidney and Testicular Dysgenesis Syndrome: A Rare Association by Stefano Masciovecchio, Pietro Saldutto, Giuseppe Paradiso Galatioto, Carlo Vicentini

“…The medullary sponge kidney is also known as Lenarduzzi’s kidney or Cacchi and Ricci’s disease from the first Italian authors who described its main features. A review of the scientific literature underlines particular rarity of the association of MSK with developmental abnormalities of the lower urinary tract and genital tract such as hypospadias and bilateral cryptorchidism. …”
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Cologne, oppidum des Ubiens : l’urbanisme augustéen by Alfred Schäfer

“…Its typically Roman urbanism and its cultural features, were characteristic of a population from the Italian peninsula, not native. The Roman army probably played an important part in the rise of this provincial centre, located in a fertile area, well-linked to the rest of Gaul by the major roads of the Augustan network. …”
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I manoscritti etiopici della Biblioteca Statale di Montevergine a Mercogliano, Avellino by Alessandro Bausi

“…The first manuscript was apparently taken from the field tent of Rās Mangašā after the Battle of Saganayti, on 15 January 1895, and eventually donated on 27 November 1900 by Daǧāzmāč Mikāʾel to the Italian colonial officer Ilario Capomazza. …”
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Francouzské „luiginy“ a jejich severoitalské napodobeniny v peněžním oběhu Osmanské říše v 60. letech 17. století by Petr Vorel

“…It was just a matter of business caused by long-term instability of the Ottoman Empire which Italian producers and Turkish traffickers capitalized on. …”
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Franco Ferrarotti and the Challenges of the Social Research - Exploring the Dimensions and Definitions of Research in Social Sciences in Addressing Major Quests on the Individual a... by Arta Musaraj

“…Considered as the “founder of the Italian sociology”, Ferrarotti definitively represented a strong contributor in shaping the definition, methodology and practices of the modern sociology, a science capable to understand, address and forecast today’s global societies challenges and dialectics. …”
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COVID-19: Metaheuristic Optimization-Based Forecast Method on Time-Dependent Bootstrapped Data by Livio Fenga, Carlo Del Castello

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Genetic polymorphism of local Abkhazian grape cultivars by E. T. Ilnitskaya, M. V. Makarkina, I. V. Stepanov, I. I. Suprun, S. V. Tokmakov, V. Ch. Aiba, M. A. Avidzba, V. K. Kotlyar

“…When comparing the identified Abkhazian grape genotypes, their difference from the sample of Dagestan, Don, Greek, Turkish, Italian, Spanish, and French varieties and genetic similarity with the genotypes of Georgian grapes were shown.…”
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A Hybrid Contextual Embedding and Hierarchical Attention for Improving the Performance of Word Sense Disambiguation by Robbel Habtamu Yigzaw, Beakal Gizachew Assefa, Elefelious Getachew Belay

“…Additionally, it demonstrates superior performance in Italian WSD, outperforming existing papers up to 0.7% F1 accuracy. …”
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Advancing treatment choices: CDK4/6 inhibitor switching in HR+/HER2- metastatic breast cancer by Paola Zagami, Angela Esposito, Beatrice Taurelli Salimbeni, Pier Paolo Maria Berton Giachetti, Roberta Scafetta, Matteo Lambertini, Massimo Di Maio, Giuseppe Curigliano, Carmen Criscitiello, Saverio Cinieri

“…The choice of a specific CDK4/6i may be influenced by adverse events (AEs). Recently, the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) approved the possibility of switching between CDK4/6i for unacceptable toxicity. …”
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Adaptive design strategies for buildings’ retrofit in response to climate change by Giulio Davino, Eduardo Bassolino

“…The urban temperature raising related to climate change on-going phenomenons as a consequence of greenhouse gas concentration’s increasing, the performance flaws of Italian construction, particularly of the one built between ‘70s and ‘90s, the technological progress of technical solutions and research in the field of architecture-related digital technology, have stimulated the development of a methodology based on computational design and data exchange IT tools for buildings’ energy simulation and the definition of interventions of energy and technology retrofit aimed towards adaption and mitigation according to climatic scenarios. …”
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Se rencontrer autrement by Stefana Squatrito

“…This meeting already shows the precocious talent of a very young Flaubert who spreads, with real skill, the mania of Giacomo and the progression of his devouring passion until the tragic fall at the end of the story. The Italian translations of the text, while keeping the same meaning of the original, show significant variations, especially in terms of rhythm. …”
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Urban Digital Twin and Energy Modeling – Experiences and case study analyses by Danila Longo, Beatrice Turillazzi, Rossella Roversi, Stefano Lilla, Carlo Alberto Nucci, Andrea Costa, Alessandro Piccinini

“…This article explores the use of the UDT in the context of energy transition, focusing on the experience of Bologna, an Italian city committed to climate neutrality by 2030. …”
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Feminist Digital Literature in Italy. Delays, Breakthroughs and Exceptions by Liliosa Azara

“…The article provides a comparative analysis of digital feminist literature by considering two cases, namely the UDI (Unione Donne in Italia) (1944), the largest Italian women’s organisation, and its Noi Donne magazine, along with the neo-feminism of the seventies and the Effe magazine, representative of the various elements in the transnational movement. …”
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Heritage for a sustainable future – The theoretical principle of reversibility and its reflections on architecture by Roberta Fonti

“… The theme of reversibility in architecture focuses on the addition of the new to the existing and how this ‘input’ can be made reversible to preserve the pre-existing ideas budding in the Italian culture of Restoration and promoting new ideas in architectural design and the sustainable reuse of building materials, according to the different seasons of Kunstwollen. …”
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Nessuna disciplina si salva da sola. Diario di un’etnografia in Antartide #1 by Elena Bougleux

“…The ongoing research projects that I have been observing for about a month, finding myself in one of the Italian bases managed by the PNRA, are all built around a basic multi-disciplinarity, which involves the fundamental knowledge of natural sciences. …”
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Voluminous Extracardiac Adult Rhabdomyoma of the Neck: A Case Presentation by Riccardo Maglio, Scicchitano Francesco, Magistri Paolo, Valabrega Stefano, D'Angelo Francesco, Ramacciato Giovanni

“…The patient is a seventy-year old male Italian patient. Conclusion. Adult extracardiac rhabdomyoma is a rare benign tumor that may present with symptoms that vary from aerodigestive tract obstruction to remaining asymptomatic for many years. …”
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Sustainability and energy transition – Perspectives for an integrated approach to the built heritage by Davide Del Curto, Andrea Garzulino, Anna Turrina

“…However, the debate focuses on new zero-emission buildings, while policies such as the Italian 110% Superbonus have promoted retrofitting interventions aimed exclusively at achieving specific energy characteristics. …”
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Short-term suborbital space flight curtails astronauts’ dopamine levels increasing cortisol/BDNF and prompting pro-oxidative/inflammatory milieu by Gerardo Bosco, Angelo Landolfi, Tommaso Antonio Giacon, Alessandra Vezzoli, Nazareno Paolocci, Simona Mrakic-Sposta

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The Burden of NAFLD and Its Characteristics in a Nationwide Population with Type 2 Diabetes by Gabriele Forlani, Carlo Giorda, Roberta Manti, Natalia Mazzella, Salvatore De Cosmo, Maria Chiara Rossi, Antonio Nicolucci, Paolo Di Bartolo, Antonio Ceriello, Pietro Guida, AMD-Annals Study Group

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Un scrutin pour trois pays : la nouvelle géographie politique italienne suite à l’élection législative du 4 mars 2018 by Matteo Cavallaro, Davide Policastro, Guido Salza, Massimo Angelo Zanetti

“…In this article we describe and analyse the results of the Italian General Election of March 4, 2018. In particular, we focus on the geographical differences in the scores distribution of the main political forces. …”
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