HOW SICILY MADE ITS SWEET SYMBOLS: GLOCAL IDENTITY AND FOOD

How Sicily Made Its Sweet Symbols: Glocal Identity and Food

Food is an effective symbol capable of strongly evoking a SPIRULINA BLUE-GREEN ALGAE cultural identity.In the case of Sicily, this role is mainly played by pastry, and in particular by two sweets: cannolo (the singular of cannoli) and cassata.But how does it happen that just these two preparations, rather than others, take on this value? What are t

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Post-craniotomy Pain: An Update

Approximately two-thirds of patients experience moderate to severe intensity pain following craniotomy.It is often undertreated due to fear of unfavorable side effects of commonly used analgesic drugs.The objectives of this review are to discuss the various aspects Collections of acute and chronic post-craniotomy pain including its incidence, patho

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Expanding the marine virosphere using metagenomics.

Viruses infecting prokaryotic cells (phages) are the most abundant entities of the biosphere and contain a largely uncharted wealth of genomic diversity.They play a critical role in the biology of their hosts and in ecosystem functioning at large.The classical approaches studying phages require isolation from a pure culture of the host.Direct seque

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High Civic-Mindedness Reduces Compassion Fatigue in the First 3 Years of Professional Physical Therapist Practice: A Pilot Study

Introduction: Clinicians with compassion fatigue (CF) experience behavioral, cognitive, and emotional changes due to repeated exposure to second-hand trauma from the clients with whom they are working.A civic-minded professional possesses the core value of social responsibility.Physical therapy (PT) education programs must balance a focus on develo

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