«Bisogna sventrare Napoli!» (Naples must be disemboweled!) decreed Italian Prime Minister Agostino Depretis in reaction to the 1884 cholera outbreak. Consequently, Neapolitan journalist and author Matilde Serao chronicled government’s violent desire cure Naples’s belly Il ventre di Napoli (1884-1904). In this article I draw on disability feminist studies carry out an intertextual analysis of th...

Information Systems cannot be designed nor programmed without prior elicitation of the knowledge they need to know. Representing this knowledge in an explicit form is the main application of a Conceptual Model. By allowing for a minor paradigm shift, one can imagine the human body as an Information System. Highly complex and built on biological molecules, rather than man-made hardware, but an I...

More than half of all people living with HIV are women and 80% of all HIV positive women in the world live in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper demonstrates that the legal origins of these formerly colonized countries significantly determines current day female HIV rates. In particular, female HIV rates are significantly higher in common law Sub-Saharan African countries compared to civil law ones...

We study the twisted index theory of elliptic operators on orbifold covering spaces of compact good orbifolds, which are invariant under a projective action of the orbifold fundamental group. We apply these results to obtain qualitative results on real and complex hyperbolic spaces in 2 and 4 dimensions, related to generalizations of the Bethe-Sommerfeld conjecture and the Ten Martini Problem, ...