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Citizen science: involving citizens in research projects and urban planning
No full textStarting from the relationship between urban planning and mobility management, TeMA has gradually expanded the view of the covered topics, always following a rigorous scientific in-depth analysis. This section of the Journal, Review Notes, is the expression of a continuous updating of emerging topics concerning relationships among urban planning, mobility and environment, through a collection of short scientific papers. The Review Notes are made of four parts. Each section examines a specific aspect of the broader information storage within the main interests of TeMA Journal. In particular, the Economy, business and land use section aims at presenting recent advancements on relevant topics that underlie socio-economic relationships between firms and territories. The present note tackles the issue of citizen science, a new data collection methodology for research project that generates sustainability benefits, and that is recently finding applications in urban context to solve social and environmental issues while providing useful information that can be also used to develop urban plans
In Memoriam: Paolo Cappa
No full textProf. Paolo Cappa passed away on 26 August 2016, at the age of 59, after a long and courageous fight against cancer. Paolo Cappa was a Professor in Mechanical and Thermal Measurements and Experimental Biomechanics in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of Sapienza University of Rome, where he had also served as the Head of the Department, and a Research Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of New York University Tandon School of Engineering. During his intense, yet short, career, he made several significant scientific contributions within the discipline of Mechanical and Thermal Measurements, pioneering fundamental applications to Biomechanics. He co-founded the Motion Analysis and Robotics Laboratory (MARLab) within the Neurorehabilitation Division of IRCCS Pediatric Hospital “Bambino Gesu”, in Rome, to fuel transitional research from the laboratory to clinical practice. Through collaboration with neurologists and physiatrists at MARLab, Prof. Cappa led the development of a powerful array of novel mechanical solutions to wearable robotics for pediatric patients, addressing dramatic needs for children’s health and contributing to the training of an entire generation of Mechanical Engineering students
Cognitive neurology: a clinical textbook
No full textThe study of patients affected by disorders of the central nervous system is one of the crucial research methods for investigating the organization of cognitive functions in the brain. However, many clinicians remain unaware of the significant advances that have taken place in the field of cognitive neuroscience in the last decades. This book provides an introduction to the cognitive and behavioural aspects of the clinical practice of neurology. Most of the contributors to this book combine an active clinical practice with a leading role in their respective research area, and have provided concise summaries of the theoretical advances which they consider as potentially relevant for the clinical evaluation and treatment of patients. This general approach has led to a format which is different from the many textbooks of neuropsychology that have appeared in the last few years. The organization of the material follows the main issues of diagnostic evaluation, clinical presentation and management. As a consequence, the book deals not only with the classical neuropsychological syndromes associated with stroke and degenerative dementias, but also with other common clinical conditions, such as multiple sclerosis, head injury, epilepsy and psychiatric disorders, which are often neglected in neuropsychology textbooks.Part I - Assessment Methods1: Jean-François Demonet: Clinical examination2: Jeremie Pariente: Neuropsychological testing3: Guillaume Thierry: Neuroimaging and other ancillary techniques
Part II - Neuropsychological Syndromes Associated with Focal Brain Damage
Julien Bogousslavsky: Introduction4: Jubin Abutalebi & Stefano F Cappa: Language disorders5: Ferdinand Binkofski & Kathrin Reetz: Apraxia6: Angelo Maravita: Spatial disorders7: Sandra Lehmann & Armin Schnider: Memory disorders8: Jean-Marie Annoni: Neurobehavioural disorders after stroke9: Stefano F Cappa & Lisa Cipolotti: Cognitive and behavioural disorders associated with space-occupying lesions
Part III - Dementias10: Peter Garrard: Differential diagnosis in dementia11: Andrew J Larner: Alzheimer's Disease12: Jared Narvid & Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini: Frontotemporal lobar dementia13: John Bowler: Vascular dementia14: John E Duda & Ian G McKeith: Cortical Lewy body disease: dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease with dementia15: William S Brooks, Clement T Loy, John B J Kwok & Peter R Schofield: Genetics of dementia
Part IV - Cognitive Disorders in other Neurological and Psychiatric Diseases16: Anna Mazzucchi: Cognitive and behavioural disorders following traumatic brain injury17: Daniela Wyss & Jurg Kesselring: Neuropsychological problems: cognitive and affective disturbances in MS18: Christoph Helmstaedter: Neuropsychology of epilepsy19: J H Barnett & Paul C Fletcher: Cognition in schizophrenia20: Belinda Lennox & Paul C Fletcher: Neurocognition of depression21: Sean A Spence: 'Others' and others: hysteria and the divided selfPart V - Treatment Issues22: Ulrich Mueller: Pharmacological treatment23: Stefano F Cappa: Rehabilitation of cognitive disorder
Dynamic posturography:pertubed equilibruim assessment on healthy adult subjects
No full textPosturography is a fundamental tool to investigate the systems involved in the postural control either in static and in dynamic conditions. In the present paper we decided, by using sinusoidal perturbations of base support around the anteroposterior axis, to analyze the equilibrium parameters widely used in posture control studies - i.e. Compensatory Postural Adjustments (CPAs) and Anticipatory Postural Adjustments (APAs) - in the perspective of defining a range of equilibrium parameters for healthy adult subjects. Fourteen subjects (9 males and 5 females) with no experience of the experimental procedure participated to the experiments. Sine and step movements of the moving base were imposed through a 3-DOF (Degrees Of Freedom) robotic system and both standard and here proposed novel indices were calculated for the evaluation of equilibrium performance. The results suggest that the length of the Center Of Pressure (COP) trajectory is proportional to the frequency of the oscillations of the platform in the sine perturbation trials, while the range of motion of COP is not influenced. Moreover, we found the absence of asymmetries in the healthy subjects when they performed the session with step perturbations
Who is the author of the 1876 Stefano manuscript?
No full textFor over one hundred years the Stefano manuscript was a private document in the possession of the Baccich family and descendants. It told a story of the 1875 Stefano shipwreck as narrated by the shipwreck survivor and the founding family patriarch Miho Baccich. In these circumstances the question of authorship of the manuscript was immaterial and did not arise as an issue. However, with the publication of the manuscript the author‟s name, or names, need to be formally attributed to it. It turns out that this is not such a clear-cut matter.
As we shall see, all informed sources attributed the authorship, and the ownership, of the manuscript to Miho Baccich. But the manuscript itself was written by Canon Stjepan Skurla – a priest from Miho‟s hometown of Dubrovnik. The question then arises: should Skurla also be considered as an author of the manuscript, or, even as the sole author (as some would have it)
Sviluppo di un dispositivo a basso costo per la taratura di un casco strumentato con accelerometri di tipo lineare per il rilievo di accelerazioni angolari
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