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New Directions for Recognizing visual Patterns in Medical Imaging
No full textNew study directions are focused on the extraction and recognition of visual patterns from different types of medical images
Prefazione
No full textUna mattina d'inverno, mentre si trova nel suo ufficio, il sig. Amelio L., in seguito ad una drammatica telefonata della moglie, si precipita a casa per soccorrerla. La poverina è in preda ad una terribile crisi nervosa scatenata dalle crescenti tensioni di cui si sente vittima, e da incomprensioni apparentemente assurde con il titolare del negozio di ottica dove è impiegata. Ad Amelio l'arduo compito di ricostruire, tra tanti spezzoni di verità, il gioco di connivenze tra una serie di personaggi ambigui e il progetto di soggiogare psicologicamente sua moglie, per renderla vittima di una vera e propria estorsione
Prefazione
No full textUna mattina d'inverno, mentre si trova nel suo ufficio, il sig. Amelio L., in seguito ad una drammatica telefonata della moglie, si precipita a casa per soccorrerla. La poverina è in preda ad una terribile crisi nervosa scatenata dalle crescenti tensioni di cui si sente vittima, e da incomprensioni apparentemente assurde con il titolare del negozio di ottica dove è impiegata. Ad Amelio l'arduo compito di ricostruire, tra tanti spezzoni di verità, il gioco di connivenze tra una serie di personaggi ambigui e il progetto di soggiogare psicologicamente sua moglie, per renderla vittima di una vera e propria estorsione
Eredità della politica. Hammamet di Gianni Amelio
No full textDa Miss Marx a Undine, da Favolacce a Tenet, agli ultimi film di Clint Eastwood, Gianni Amelio e Woody Allen, a speciali dedicati a Rohmer e Felleni e al cinema di animazione, a serie televisive come La casa di carta e Babylon Berlin, fino omaggi a figure come Max Weber, Georg Simmel, Eduard Limonov e Bernard Stiegler, questo volume racconta tutto ciò che di importante è apparso sugli schermi del cinema e nelle nostre librerie nell’ultimo anno.Gianni Amelio’s Hammamet is the last episode of the recent biographicalpolitical
turn in Italian cinema, pursuing the peculiar direction of this thread,
that is, the intertwining of life, history, and politics in one single figure, in this
case former Socialist Italian Party secretary Bettino Craxi. In particular, the
depiction of Craxi’s last days – when he forcibly quit political activity –
focuses on the strong bond between politics and images, disclosing a question
about the heritage of that political era in the present time
Digitization of Forensic Engineering: Overview, Perspectives and New Challenges
No full textIn the last years, digitization of data and processes in the forensic field has started to flourish as a core aspect of computer science, due to the need of extracting, representing and storing the underlying information. The scope of application is wide and multidisciplinary, as the digitization process now fully involves all phases of the forensic process. Due to the recent innovations in the field of knowledge representation and data analytics, this paper provides a thorough methodological overview of the main digitizing approaches and algorithms within the so-called “Forensic Engineering”. Firstly, the two terms “Digitization” and “Forensic” will be introduced and defined. Then, the meaning and value of these two concepts combined together will be explored. Accordingly, an overview of the forensic digitization procedure will be provided and the importance that this digital transformation entails, in both scientific and innovation terms. Secondly, different examples of data-driven approaches and intelligent systems for knowledge extraction, representation and classification will be presented in multiple contexts of forensic engineering. Following a methodologic analysis of the main limitations of the existing methods, we will propose innovative and promising research directions in the field. Finally, many difficulties, due to Code requirements and Code of Practice approaches, will be pointed out in order to define a more practical approach for a common Legal Engineer
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Cell death pathology: Cross-talk with autophagy and its clinical implications
No full textAutophagy is a self-digesting mechanism that cells adopt to respond to stressful stimuli. Morphologically, cells dying by autophagy show multiple cytoplasmic double-membraned vacuoles, and, if prolonged, autophagy can lead to cell death, "autophagic cell death". Thus, autophagy can act both as a temporary protective mechanism during a brief stressful episode and be a mode of cell death in its own right. In this mini-review we focus on recent knowledge concerning the connection between autophagy and programmed cell death, evaluating their possible implications for therapy in pathologies like cancer and neurodegeneration
A systematic review of proton therapy in the treatment of chondrosarcoma of the skull base
No full textAbstract
Chondrosarcoma (CSA) of the skull base (SB) is an uncommon, slowly growing, neoplasm comprising approximately 0.1% of all intracranial tumors and 6% of SB lesions. Even though its growth is slow, CSA is a potentially lethal tumor. The therapeutic approach to CSA of the SB is still controversial and clinical experience is limited because of the relative rarity of this tumor. The use of proton therapy (PT) after maximal surgery is widely accepted, but there are no controlled studies demonstrating the need of PT and its superiority in comparison to radiotherapy with photons. We conducted a systematic review of the scientific literature published during the period between January 1980 and June 2008 on data regarding irradiation of CSA of the SB with PT and a series of inclusion criteria. During August 2008, two independent reviewers (M.A. and D.A.), by applying the key words "skull base", "chondrosarcoma", and "proton therapy" selected those studies from the PubMed database in which a minimum of ten patients received palliative, radical, or postoperative irradiation with protons and which furnished a minimum of 24 months of follow-up. Forty nine reports were retrieved. There were no prospective trials (randomized or nonrandomized) but just nine uncontrolled single-arm studies for PT mainly related to advanced and frequently incompletely resected tumors. According to the inclusion criteria, only four articles, reporting the most recent updated results of the publishing institution, were included in the analysis providing clinical outcomes for 254 patients in total. Therapeutic approach to CSA of the SB has traditionally relied on surgical control. Radiation therapy has demonstrated to be a valuable modality for local control in the postoperative setting or in advanced/inoperable cases treated with definitive intent. The use of PT following maximal surgical resection shows a very high probability of medium- and long-term cure with a relatively low risk of significant complications
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