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Sars-CoV-2 infection after lung transplantation: is there professional liability?
No full text: For the first time in the literature, a case of Sars-Cov-2 infection after lung Transplantation has been described. This case, particularly rare, brought attention on the in-depth screening for Sars-CoV-2 on lung donor. In addition to infectious problems, it is important to focus attention on medico-legal issues related to this case. In fact, from the point of view of professional responsibility, in theory, there could be criteria for identifying professional responsibility. The author analyzes the possible presence of medical liability in this specific case
Letter to the editor in response to Is it time for international guidelines on physical restraint in psychiatric patients?
No full textThe Mastrogiovanni case was a revolutionary case in the field of Italian forensic psychiatry. A recent judgment of the Court of Cassation has defined what the legal limits of mechanical restraint should be. On the other hand, even today, there is a gap in the scientific community about the presence of guidelines governing mechanical restraint. It is probably time to create specific guidelines to protect the psychiatric patient and the mental health worker
Structured References from PDF Articles: Assessing the Tools for Bibliographic Reference Extraction and Parsing
Full text linkMany solutions have been provided to extract bibliographic references from PDF papers. Machine learning, rule-based and regular expressions approaches were among the most used methods adopted in tools for addressing this task. This work aims to identify and evaluate all and only the tools which, given a full-text paper in PDF format, can recognise, extract and parse bibliographic references. We identified seven tools: Anystyle, Cermine, ExCite, Grobid, Pdfssa4met, Scholarcy and Science Parse. We compared and evaluated them against a corpus of 56 PDF articles published in 27 subject areas. Indeed, Anystyle obtained the best overall score, followed by Cermine. However, in some subject areas, other tools had better results for specific tasks
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Evoluzione, sostenibilità e prospettive del sistema italiano di intervento pubblico nelle assicurazioni agricole
No full textReflections concerning the legitimacy of animal testing [Réflexions sur la légitimité de l'expérimentation animale]
No full textAnimal testing is at the center of a bioethical and legislative debate. In recent years much has changed with respect to the regulation of the use of laboratory animals in medical tests. Recently, in Italy, the Council of State suspended a research project of two Italian universities (Turin and Parma) in which primates were used for experiments. The order is reasoned on the ground that the burden of proof as to the usefulness of the use of animals for laboratory tests is borne by the experimenter. Therefore, the use of animal testing is no longer considered a useful aprioristically. This order of the Council of State further fuels the already considerable medico-legal and bioethical debate on animal testing. The aim of this article is to encourage reflection on this subject.L’expérimentation animale est au centre d’un débat bioéthique et législatif. Ces
dernières années, beaucoup de choses ont changé en ce qui concerne la réglementation de
l’utilisation des animaux de laboratoire dans les tests médicaux. Récemment, en Italie, le
Conseil d’État a suspendu un projet de recherche de deux universités italiennes (Turin et Parme)
dans lequel des primates ont été utilisés pour des expériences. L’ordonnance est motivée au
motif que la charge de la preuve quant à l’utilité de l’utilisation d’animaux pour des test
Problems of the advanced encryption standard in protecting Internet of Things sensor networks
No full textThis paper deals with a new field for electronic measurements in very-poor signal-to-noise-ratio conditions, related to experimental analysis of transducer networks cybersecurity. The security vulnerability of the most used cryptographic algorithm in Internet of Things sensor networks, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), is proved experimentally. To this aim, an improved version of state-of-the-art signature analysis of sensor power consumption (scatter attack) is exploited to discover the encryption key by a malicious smart soft micro-transducer. Attacking measurements are carried out by a commercial data acquisition micro-system, straightforward digital pre-processing, and suitable statistical analysis. An experimental case study, related to a successful attack to an 8-bit IoT microcontroller protected by AES-128 algorithm, is reported. The results highlight the need for the creation of an international standard of experimental characterization for IoT security
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