Recensione: Mazzaferro, Gerardo (Ed.). (2018). Translanguaging as everyday practice. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Abstract

In questo contributo viene proposta la recensione del testo Translanguaging as Everyday Practice, curato da Gerardo Mazzaferro (Università degli Studi di Torino) e pubblicato nel 2018 dall'editore Springer. Il libro propone 14 studi che, attraverso approcci metodologici diversi, offrono una profonda analisi del concetto di translanguaging in molteplici contesti. Questa nozione viene esaminata, per esempio, nell'intersezione con fenomeni più ampi quali la costruzione identitaria nelle comunità immigrate o minoritarie, il mantenimento e l'erosione linguistica, l'agency dei singoli soggetti nei contesti educativi. In questa recensione, dopo una breve introduzione sugli obiettivi del testo e sul tipo di audience a cui si rivolge, vengono presentati i contenuti dei singoli capitoli e infine si mettono in luce gli aspetti rilevanti e di pregio del testo, accanto ad alcune lievi criticità che non sottraggono valore a questo ottimo libro.

Role of Sex and Age in Fatal Outcomes of COVID-19: Women and Older Centenarians Are More Resilient

“…Both in Belgian and in Sicilian studies centenarians analysed all together show an excess of mortality with respect to the previous year(s) and older people [7,8]. Centenarians are considered an example of positive biology because they have avoided neonatal mortality, death from infection in the pre-antibiotic era, and age-related disease fatalities, thus living more than 99 years [4][5][6]. This does not mean, however, that they are not frail individuals.…”

“…The first question refers to findings demonstrating that women live longer than men even during severe famines and epidemics [3]. The second and third questions refer to the well-known datum that centenarians are successful agers compared to other older adults [4][5][6], and to findings showing a different resilience in "younger" and "older" centenarians when centenarian mortality was analysed by date of birth [7,8]. In the context of susceptibility to age, the possible role of comorbidities will also be mentioned.…”

Approximate contact solutions for non-axisymmetric homogeneous and power-law graded elastic bodies: A practical tool for design engineers and tribologists

“…( 7)) is still not yet completely defined, as for its unambiguous definition the origin of the polar coordinate system has to be chosen. Both Fabrikant [13] and Barber [16] suggest to choose it at the centroid of the area A. However, there are no cogent theoretical reasons for this choice.…”