L’autonomia finanziaria regionale tra modello costituzionale e pratiche giurisprudenziali. L'esperienza dei fondi settoriali.

Les projets transnationaux et la maîtrise du temps éducatif.

Linking endocannabinoid system, palmitoylethanolamide, and sarcopenia in view of therapeutic implications

Sarcopenia, a debilitating skeletal muscle disease closely connected with elderly, is becoming a major public health problem with the increasing of life expectancy. In the aim to found effective, targeted and side-effect-free therapies, understanding the endocannabinoid system (ECS) role in muscle homeostasis is of strategic importance. The skeletal muscle expresses all the ECS elements; in particular, a central role is played by the nuclear receptor PPARα and its main endogenous ligand, palm...

The Rats under the Rug: The Morphogenesis of Education in a Global Context

This chapter focuses on the boundary work that accompanies the formation of the education system. Drawing on Michel Serres’s parasitology, it proposes that we rethink the dierences of context between the household and school as interferences or perturbations of a system that undermine its normal or aspired-to operativity. The attempt to exclude such disturbance—the expulsion of the so- called parasite—should accordingly be considered the constitutive moment for the formation of the educa...