Word: cagliari
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...development of these technologies is currently taking place largely in the biomedical and safety fields, but Annalisa Bonfiglio, a professor of electrical and electronic engineering at the University of Cagliari who coordinates the Proetex project, thinks sports could be the sector where the most potential lies. "Sportswear is an extremely powerful means for promoting the acceptance of these new technologies by common people," says Bonfiglio, noting that the technology Proetex develops for rescue workers could easily be used later for sports applications...
...research was done on rats that had been injected intravenously with a small dose of nicotine, about as much as a smoker receives from a single drag on a cigarette. The team, led by Gaetano di Chiara, a neuroscientist at the University of Cagliari, then monitored the biochemical changes that occurred in the nucleus accumbens, an area of the brain that appears to control the process of addiction...
...possible to judge the act itself and remain immune from the circumstances. In the political world, a suicide often involves issues reaching beyond the individual in question. While the deaths of Cagliari and Gardini in themselves cannot be reconciled, it is necessary to find them in some way fitting final words on the extent to which the establishment has rotted in Italy...
...distance ourselves from the particular event of a political suicide, we must strive to learn something from this history. In Eco's conception, exclusive responsibility cannot be foisted onto to a Gardini or a Cagliari. When it is possible to see through to a more malignant crisis, as the Tangentopoli in Italy, the whole national psyche must be shook into a greater self-awareness...
Otherwise, what might be revealed is a character untainted himself in wrongdoing like the incarcerated Cagliari, or even implicated in mispolitics like Gardini, but who was broken in a few months by the soil of a political landscape few cold ever imagine. Perhaps it it time to re-examine my own perspective...