This article examines the origins and operationalisation of concept a ‘geopolitical Commission’, which has been promoted by President European Commission Ursula von der Leyen since 2019. used to guide stronger co-ordination external aspects Commission's work. It is also symptomatic growing role strategic considerations in recent initiatives, particularly through objective strengthening EU's ‘op...

the european court lifted the italian ban on pre-implantation diagnostics (pgd). as such the court accepted pgd as a generally accepted means for medically assisted procreation, which may have consequences for other member states prohibiting pgd.

The paper’s subject is the risk of using nuclear weapons by Russia in context war Ukraine. aim to analyze and evaluate such a possibility from American perspective. main research problem whether, according scholars experts, it realistic for use against Ukraine or NATO countries? From perspective West, cannot be ruled out, but great majority researchers analysts believe that very small. If this ...

This paper investigates the speech rhythm of Porteño (Buenos Aires) Spanish (PORTE), which is strongly influenced by Italian due to migration-induced contact, and L2 Peninsular Spanish, produced by Italian natives (SPA L2). It is hypothesized that Italian learners transfer the rhythmic values of their L1 to the target language Spanish and that the data produced by speakers of both the contact v...

background: taking visual acuity is an important part of an eye routine examination. this study was conducted to compare visual acuity measured using an iranian digital tumbling e chart with visual acuity measured using an italian digital tumbling e chart as a familiar foreign chart. materials and methods: this study was carried out on 200 participants (400 eyes; healthy n=40, glaucoma n=40, re...

Until alternative theories that sought a serious consideration of third world states in International Relations (IR) proliferated the last quarter 20th century, knowledge production remained monopolized by dominant Western-centered theories. Historical Sociology (HSIR) is one approaches aimed at directing IR towards more inclusive inquiries acknowledge temporal and spatial variance; especially ...

We report the results of a study which tested receptive Italian grammatical competence and general cognitive abilities in bilingual Italian-Sardinian children and age-matched monolingual Italian children attending the first and second year of primary school in the Nuoro province of Sardinia, where Sardinian is still widely spoken. The results show that across age groups the performance of Sardi...

In this article, we attempt to quantify the contribution of prosody (timing and melody) to the perception of a foreign accent, by using a prosodic transplantation paradigm. For this experiment, a dozen sentences, which are spoken in (almost) the same way in Italian and Spanish, were recorded. They were read by 3 Spanish monolinguals, 3 Italian monolinguals and 3 Spanish/Italian bilinguals (once...

In their study, Brenna and Spandonaro analyzed the mobility into Italian regions. In particular, it analyzes the situation of 5 regions, with very different backgrounds. With this paper, we try to better define the meaning of health mobility and to find its underlying causes. Furthermore, we propose a strategy that could help in controlling mobility flows that currently are the source of health...