Unidentified family dressed in costume; Milan.

Handwritten caption: Mein Bruder Eduard links und Familie in Mailand Italien

Memory mixed with desire : a preliminary study of philosophy and literature in the works of Friedrich Nietzsche and Milan Kundera

Memory Mixed with Desire: A preliminary study of Philosophy and Literature in the works of Friedrich Nietzsche and Milan Kundera Robert Spinelli Brock University, Department of Philosophy This thesis studies intertextuality in the works of Friedrich Nietzsche and Milan Kundera through the primary themes of memory and forgetting. The thesis starts with two introductory chapters that delineate memory according to Nietzsche and Kundera respectively. From here, I move into a discussion of Nietzsche's Ubermensch as an example of the type of forgetting that Nietzsche sees as a cure for the overabundance of memory that has led to Christian morality. Next, I explore the Kunderan concept of kitsch as the polar opposite of what Nietzsche has sought in his philosophy, finishing the chapter by tying the two thinkers together in a Kunderan critique of Nietzsche. The thesis ends with a chapter devoted to the Eternal Return beginning with an exegesis of Nietzsche's idea and ending with a similar exegesis of Kundera's treatment of this thought. What I suggest in this chapter is that the Eternal Return might itself be a form of kitsch even in its attempt to revalue existence.

La suisse les lacs italiens, Milan, Turin, genes et nice

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Éloge et critique de l’empereur chez Ambroise de Milan et Symmaque : au confluent de deux conceptions idéologiques du pouvoir impérial romain

L’expression idéologique du pouvoir impérial romain au IVe siècle apr. J.-C. fut profondément marquée par les contextes religieux, culturel et littéraire dans lesquels elle s’inséra et dans lesquels coexistèrent deux religions et donc deux systèmes différents de pensée et de représentation du monde, soit le paganisme, religion traditionnelle de l’État romain, et le christianisme, religion émergente qui s’imposa de plus en plus dans l’Empire, notamment à partir du règne de Constantin. Cette trame de fond, loin de signifier à cette époque la fin totale du paganisme – comme il a longtemps été admis – au profit de la religion chrétienne qui entretint, grâce au support impérial, une relation nouvelle avec le pouvoir politique, modela de nouveaux critères d’exercice du pouvoir et des conceptions de l’idéal impérial qui s’exprimèrent dans les discours d’éloge destinés à l’empereur. Miroir du prince et moyen de communication entre ce dernier et l’élite, les éloges d’Ambroise de Milan et de Symmaque s’insérèrent dans le débat politique de leur temps en élaborant un archétype de l’empereur et en déterminant ses devoirs. Pour mesurer toute l’ampleur de la symbolique véhiculée dans de tels discours, il importe, pour le IVe siècle, de considérer la mentalité des auteurs, chrétiens et païens, d’où émanaient les éloges – ou encore les critiques – de la personne impériale. Ce mémoire propose ainsi d’analyser l’idéologie du pouvoir impérial selon les discours chrétien et païen, à travers les éloges d’Ambroise et de Symmaque, afin de relever les points de rencontre, d’influence ou de divergence entre ces représentations du monde et, plus spécifiquement, du pouvoir impérial, qui ont longtemps été considérées comme totalement opposées et incompatibles.

Liver transplantation and expanded Milan criteria: does it really work?

CONTEXT: Orthotopic liver transplantation is an excellent treatment approach for hepatocellular carcinoma in well-selected candidates. Nowadays some institutions tend to Expand the Milan Criteria including tumor with more than 5 cm and also associate with multiple tumors none larger than 3 cm in order to benefit more patients with the orthotopic liver transplantation. METHODS: The data collected were based on the online database PubMED. The key words applied on the search were "expanded Milan criteria" limited to the period from 2000 to 2009. We excluded 19 papers due to: irrelevance of the subject, lack of information and incompatibility of the language (English only). We compiled patient survival and tumor recurrence free rate from 1 to 5-years in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma submitted to orthotopic liver transplantation according to expanded the Milan criteria from different centers. RESULTS: Review compiled data from 23 articles. Fourteen different criteria were found and they are also described in detail, however the University of California - San Francisco was the most studied one among them. CONCLUSION: Expanded the Milan criteria is a useful attempt for widening the preexistent protocol for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma in waiting-list for orthotopic liver transplantation. However there is no significant difference in patient survival rate and tumor recurrence free rate from those patients that followed the Milan criteria.

Social housing: interventions of densification in urban regeneration (1995-2010). Critical analysis of strategies adopted in Milan, London, São Paulo

The prospect of the continuous multiplication of life styles, the obsolescence of the traditional typological diagrams, the usability of spaces on different territorial scales, imposes on contemporary architecture the search for new models of living. Limited densities in urban development have produced the erosion of territory, the increase of the harmful emissions and energy consumption. High density housing cannot refuse the social emergency to ensure high quality and low cost dwellings, to a new people target: students, temporary workers, key workers, foreign, young couples without children, large families and, in general, people who carry out public services. Social housing strategies have become particularly relevant in regenerating high density urban outskirts. The choice of this research topic derives from the desire to deal with the recent accommodation emergency, according to different perspectives, with a view to give a contribution to the current literature, by proposing some tools for a correct design of the social housing, by ensuring good quality, cost-effective, and eco-sustainable solutions, from the concept phase, through management and maintenance, until the end of the building life cycle. The purpose of the thesis is defining a framework of guidelines that become effective instruments to be used in designing the social housing. They should also integrate the existing regulations and are mainly thought for those who work in this sector. They would aim at supporting students who have to cope with this particular residential theme, and also the users themselves. The scientific evidence of either the recent specialized literature or the solutions adopted in some case studies within the selected metropolitan areas of Milan, London and São Paulo, it is possible to identify the principles of this new design approach, in which the connection between typology, morphology and technology pursues the goal of a high living standard.