Confessional discourse in Secretum by Francesco Petrarch

Petrarch 2 : Petrarcher

PETRARCH 2 is the fourth generation of a series of Event-Data coders stemming from research by Phillip Schrodt1. Each iteration has brought new functionality and usability 2, and this is no exception. Petrarch 2 takes much of the power of the original Petrarch’s dictionaries and redirects it into a faster and smarter core logic. Earlier iterations handled sentences largely as a list of words, i...

Francesco Boato

Francesco Blast

Hog thyroid tautomerase (EC 5.3.2.1, phenylpyruvate keto-enol isomerase), an enzyme which is believed to play a role in the biosynthesis of thyroxine, has been purified over lOOO-fold. The purification procedure involves a heat step at 70”, gel f&ration on Sephadex G-100, ion exchange chromatography on carboxymethyl Sephadex C-50, and, finally, gel titration on Sephadex G-50. The enzyme is homo...

De Francesco 8 pages

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) will continue to be a serious global health threat for many years to come because of the chronic nature of the infection, its high prevalence and the significant morbidity of the resulting disease. Recently, a small number of molecules have produced encouraging results in proof-of-concept clinical trials. At the same time, preclinical evidence is accumulating that develo...

Confessional culture, masculinity and emotional work

‘Confessional culture’ is a particularly controversial aspect of tabloidization, condemned by many within the media industry as trivial or even degrading. Others argue that, apart from the positive audience response, public explorations of the subjective are an important flexing of the boundary between the public/rational/masculine and the private/affective/female domains. Having first consider...