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Do Bilateral Pleural Effusions Always Have the Same Cause?
Get PDFA 67-year-old man with a history of seropositive rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was admitted to the Internal Medicine ward for bilateral pleural effusion. Two years before this episode, coinciding with an exacerbation of the RA, he was incidentally diagnosed with asymptomatic left pleural effusion compatible with rheumatoid exudate, which was resolved with a tube thoracostomy. Three weeks before admission, the patient developed asthenia, orthopnoea and progressive dyspnoea. A chest x-ray revealed bilateral pleural effusion occupying the lower third of the left hemithorax and a smaller portion of the right hemithorax along with marked elevation of N-terminal fragment of pro-brain natriuretic peptide levels. The patient was admitted with a diagnosis of left-sided heart failure. Transthoracic echocardiography and cardiac catheterization confirmed the existence of ischaemic cardiomyopathy. After 2 days of diuretic treatment, the right pleural effusion resolved, but the left effusion persisted. A needle thoracentesis was performed, draining 800 ml of milky fluid compatible with rheumatoid pseudochylothorax
Proposta di adesione alla Associazione “CYBER 4.0”
Get PDFStudio di fattibilità per l'adesione del CNR al “Centro di Competenza ad alta specializzazione Cyber 4.0”, in linea con quanto definito nel D.D. 29.01.2018 della Direzione Generale per la Politica Industriale, la Competitività e le Piccole e Medie Imprese (DGPICPMI), attuativo del Decreto del Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico di concerto con il Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze n.214 del 12.09.2017.
Approvato con delibera del CdA del CNR n° 79/2019 del 11/04/201
Action B1: The decision governance for transplanting Posidonia oceanica in Italy Sub-Action B1.1 Governance analysis
Get PDFEntomologia forense: insetti e indagini tecniche
Get PDFLa relazione tra gli insetti e l’uomo è argomento di base dell’entomologia applicata, la disciplina che utilizza le conoscenze sulla biologia e sul comportamento degli insetti per risolvere questioni legate alle attività antropiche. In ambito giuridico, l’entomologia forense (che comprende: l’entomologia urbana, l’entomologia dei prodotti immagazzinati e l’entomologia medico-legale) trova applicazione in controversie civili e penali legate ad insetti e/o artropodi che infestano l’ambiente umano. L’entomologia forense medico-legale si occupa di diversi gruppi tassonomici di insetti (in particolare Ditteri e Coleotteri) e tra questi le mosche rivestono un ruolo di primaria importanza
Groundwater resources at salinisation risk: effects of climate and utilisation changes in the case of Apulian coastal aquifers (Southeastern Italy)
Get PDFSeawater intrusion is the main cause of groundwater salinisation in Italy. The largest coastal aquifers, highly vulnerable to salinisation, are in Apulia. For these aquifers, main changes in terms of climate change and utilisation are discussed together with piezometric trends, as the latter are relevant triggering factors for upconing and lateral seawater intrusion. For this purpose, time series from 1921 to 2016 concerning climate (rainfall and temperature), from 1965 to 2016 concerning groundwater availability (piezometric values), and recent periodic data on potable utilisation are discussed. Climate and groundwater availability trends at 2016 are compared with trends previously assessed, using the same dataset (1921-2001 for rainfall and temperature). The negative characteristic of rainfall 1921-2001 trend improved in the next years up to disappear in the assessment of rainfall 1921-2016 trend. Notwithstanding the improving of rainfall trend and the reduction of groundwater utilisation, both observed at 2016, the improvement of piezometric trends at 2016 is not enough to remove a prevailing decreasing trend, previously observed. The increases of temperature and effective evapotranspiration should be considered a relevant explanation of groundwater availability reduction. The consequence of these results should be quickly considered in the management of groundwater resources
Isolamento e plurilinguismo. Il caso dell'Ogliastra in Sardegna (secoli XVII-XVIII)
Get PDFEmbedded between mountains and sea, in the eastern Sardinia, Ogliastra is
often described as a fascinating region, an ideal place to spend a holiday, due
to its rugged and wild natural landscapes, beautiful beaches and historical
monuments. Ogliastra is also known for the longevity of its population and the
high number of centenarians, but in the past it was considered one of the most
isolated and underdeveloped areas in Sardinia.
The isolation of Ogliastra, frequently highlighted by travel books, it was never
absolute and was not an obstacle for the spread of Catalan and Castilian
languages in the Modern Ages. The article, especially based on an analysis of
notarial records, describes how these two languages were used in the writing
context of Ogliastra and what was the role of Latin and Sardinian languages in
the same context
Plurilinguismo e comparazione giuridica: la mediazione familiare
Get PDFThe paper illustrates the importance of legal language analysis for the study
and comparison of legal systems with the support of methods and techniques
offered by legal informatics. The author explains the first results of the activity
of designing and implementing a Glossary and Thesaurus for family mediation,
a composite and strongly interdisciplinary subject between psychology
and law. In particular, the first considerations from the analysis of the data are
referred to the international and European legislation and to the two Italian
and Maltese legal system
Le parole sono ponti: risorse digitali per l'integrazione in contesti multilingui
Get PDFLearning the language of the hosting country is a key factor for the integration
of people coming from abroad but this objective could be achieved only if political
institutions promote initiatives in this direction. Researchers in the field
can cooperate, providing their expertise. In this paper we present two research
activities concerning the use and the production of multilingual resources
developed at the Institute for Computational Linguistics “Antonio Zampolli”.
More specifically, we report on the creation of a multilingual glossary of difficult
terms extracted from forms that people submit to the municipality of
Genova to access public services. We also describe the experimental use in a
primary school of ImagAct, a multilingual lexical resource focused on action
verbs consulted by pupils to create a vocabulary of food preparation in Italian,
English, Chinese and Spanish
"Seminavano grano nelle carreras della città". Parole e saperi dalla Spagna all'Italia del Trecento
Get PDFThe paper analyzes the relations between Italy and the Iberian Peninsula (and
especially with Castile, Aragon and Catalonia) between the 13th and 14th centuries,
from three different points of view. The first one is the circulation of
words, with particular regard to the Castilian and Catalan terms entered in the
Italian dialects, especially in the regions placed under the Crown of Aragon.
The second one is the circulation of texts, and in particular of the vernacular
translation. The last one is the circulation of knowledge, with particular regard
to the circulation of recipe books
L'evoluzionismo anti-darwiniano in America. Tra scienza e ideologia
Get PDFNella storia antica e complessa del dibattito sulla teoria dell'evoluzione negli Stati Uniti, le teorie evoluzionistiche anti-darwiniane hanno avuto una importanza di primo piano, anche per il prestigio degli scienziati e delle istituzioni scientifiche che le hanno sostenute e attivamente disseminate. Questo volume ricostruisce in particolare la storia della cosiddetta "scuola paleontologica americana" sorta fra XIX e XX secolo in contrapposizione al darwinismo e poi al neo-darwinisimo. Le posizioni dei principali teorici -E.D. Cope, H.f. Osborn, W.B. Scott e altri- vanno analizzate criticamente e ricomprese nel contesto appropriato dei vincoli operativi, metodologici e teorici della morfologia ottocentesca, come anche dei limiti delle spiegazioni darwiniane del tempo rispetto a complesse evidenze paleontologiche. Tuttavia, la diffusione enorme delle loro teorie e la loro sistematica applicazione a temi sociali, politici, etici e religiosi ebbe un'influenza di lungo periodo sulla ricezione pubblica del darwinismo negli Stati Uniti, il cui lascito ideologico vale ancora a rafforzare le derive dell'ideologia anti-darwiniana in America