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The Late Mesolithic in Southern Europe is dated to the 7th and the first part of the 6th millennia BCE and is marked by profound changes which are mostly evident in the technical know-how and tool-kit of the last hunter-fisher-gatherer societies. The significance of this phase also relates to the fact that it precedes the Early Neolithic, another period of major transformations of human societies. Nonetheless, the Late Mesolithic still remains a poorly known age in this area. A burial discovered at Mondeval de Sora (Northern Italy) in 1987, represents a unique window into this period.

Fournier's gangrene is a life-threatening acute necrotizing fasciitis of perianal, genitourinary and perineal areas. Local symptoms are scrotal swelling, erythema of scrotal skin and pain with generalized constitutional symptoms. The gangrene may extends to abdominal wall, intra-abdominal structures, and even in the retroperitoneal tissues. Urgent surgical debridement is crucial to warrant a good outcome since delayed intervention carries a poor prognosis.

In the present study, we measured whether competence-related high and low social status attributed to two unknown individuals affects participants' implicit reactivity to abstract stimuli associated to the identity of the same individuals. During a status-inducing procedure, participants were asked to play an interactive game with two (fake) players coded as high vs low status based on their game competence. Before and after the game, a modified version of the Affective Misattribution Procedure (AMP) was administered in which the players' faces were used as primes.

Nell'ambito degli studi sull'uso di informazioni personali nel parlato politico dei leader, questa ricerca esplora la rievocazione dei ricordi autobiografici di Obama, in occasione di due discorsi inaugurali del rientro scolastico (Back to school) che tradizionalmente fanno parte dei doveri presidenziali. I discorsi analizzati sono stati tenuti in una scuola inserita in un contesto sociale svantaggiato e in una scuola di élite. Dall'analisi del contenuto di questi discorsi sono emersi due ricordi episodici dal significato simile.