252 research outputs found
Bosco M, Vinci AM, Pessina E. Problematiche relative al danno iatrogeno in protesi dentale.
No full textArticolatori ed archi facciali in Odontoprotesi e Gnatologia. Quaderni di Protesi a cura di Collesano V.
No full textDie Varietékünstlerin und ihr Publikum. Strategien der Beobachtung, der Verdinglichung und der Entortung in Emmy Hennings' frühen Prosatexten
No full textLorella Bosco diskutiert die Beziehung zwischen Kunst und Öffentlichkeit am
Beispiel der dadaistischen Varietékünstlerin und Schriftstellerin Emmy Hennings.
An fünf Prosatexten der Autorin wird nachgezeichnet, wie sich Hennings
immer wieder neu des prekären Standorts weiblicher Autorschaft versichert,
ohne je zu einer eindeutigen Identitätsfestlegung zu gelangen. Sie treibt in enger
Verbindung ihrer literarischen und theatralischen Praxis ein bewegliches Spiel
mit den herrschenden Autorschafts- und Geschlechtermustern und reflektiert
ihre eigene Rolle speziell in Hinsicht auf die spezifische Blickkonstellation,
die zwischen Performerin und Publikum, zwischen Beobachtungssubjekt und
Beobachtungsobjekt besteht. Kern ihrer Selbstinszenierung ist das strategisch
geschickt eingefädelte Spiel mit den Erwartungen und Gendervorstellungen
eines vom zeitgenössischen Frauenbild geprägten Publikums
Intermittent antegrade warm cardioplegia: warm blood versus cold crystalloid. A clinical study
No full textAbstract- Intermittent antegrade warm blood cardioplegia (IAWBC) is a not usual technique of myocardial protection. We propose a delivery protocol that standardizes the length of ischemic intervals, duration of each cardioplegic dose and K+ amount. Cardioplegia is represented by blood, taken from the oxygenator and injected directly into the aortic root, and K+, added by means of a syringe pump. We reviewed the first 300 patients who underwent elective or urgent coronary artery by-pass procedures (group A) and compared them with the last 300 patients operated on with intermittent antegrade cold crystalloid cardioplegia (group B). The overall mortality in group A was lower than in group B (0.7 vs 3.0, p < 0.05); there was no in-hospital death in patients with poor left ventricle (LVEF < 35%) in group A (0/64 vs 3/39, p < 0.025). Reduction of mortality was due to a drastic fall of morbidity. In group A no patients needed circulatory assistance (13 in group B, p < 0.0005) or intraaortic balloon pumping (9 in group B, p < 0.005) in operating room or in intensive care unit (ICU); only 1 patient had inotropic drug (29 in group B, p < 0.0005) and only 6 needed lignocaine infusion (27 in group B, p < 0.0005). Incidence of postoperative myocardial infarction was lower in group A (4 vs 9 in group B) as well cerebrovascular accidents (4 vs 10 in group B), but difference was not statistically significant.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS
Binding Site of Loperamide: Automated Docking of Loperamide in Human mu- and delta-Opioid Receptors
No full textLoperamide is a piperidine analogue, acting as agonist on peripheral opioid receptors, exhibiting affinity and selectivity for the cloned μ human opioid receptor compared with the δ human opioid receptor. Automatic docking studies of loperamide, using AutoDock, on human μ- and δ-opioid receptors is described. Whilst no meaningful difference was detected concerning the docking of the arylpiperidine moiety, μ/δ selectivity could be explained as a different accommodation of the two phenyl groups in two lipophylic pockets of receptor
Adrenal hemorrhagic cysts: apropos of a clinical case and review of the literature
No full textIstituto di IV Clinica Chirurgica, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza
Towards the reproducibility in soil erosion modeling: a new Pan-European soil erosion map
No full textAbstract
Soil erosion by water is a widespread phenomenon throughout Europe and has the potentiality, with his on-site and off-site effects, to affect water quality, food security and floods. Despite the implementation of numerous and different models for estimating soil erosion by water in Europe, there is still a lack of harmonization of assessment methodologies.
Often, different approaches result in soil erosion rates significantly different. Even when the same model is applied to the same region the results may differ. This can be due to the way the model is implemented (i.e. with the selection of different algorithms when available) and/or to the use of datasets having different resolution or accuracy. Scientific computation is emerging as one of the central topic of the scientific method, for overcoming these problems there is thus the necessity to develop reproducible computational method where codes and data are available.
The present study illustrates this approach. Using only public available datasets, we applied the Revised Universal Soil loss Equation (RUSLE) to locate the most sensitive areas to soil erosion by water in Europe.
A significant effort was made for selecting the better simplified equations to be used when a strict application of the RUSLE model is not possible. In particular for the computation of the Rainfall Erosivity factor (R) the reproducible research paradigm was applied. The calculation of the R factor was implemented using public datasets and the GNU R language. An easily reproducible validation procedure based on measured precipitation time series was applied using MATLAB language. Designing the computational modelling architecture with the aim to ease as much as possible the future reuse of the model in analysing climate change scenarios is also a challenging goal of the research.
Cite as:
Bosco, C., de Rigo, D., Dewitte, O., Montanarella, L., 2011. Towards the reproducibility in soil erosion modeling: a new Pan-European soil erosion map. Wageningen Conference on Applied Soil Science “Soil Science in a Changing World”, 18 - 22 September 2011, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Author’s version DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.936872, arXiv:1402.3847
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Apoptosis rate in cumulus cells can be considerate as an indicator for the selection of embryos to improve ongoing pregnancy and implantation rate
No full text„Dieses herrliche Spiel mit der Flucht vor Gefahr“: Ruth Klügers weiter leben
No full textTod und Flucht sind die Schlüsselworte zu Klügers Erinnerungsbuch oder ,autobiographischem Essay‘ weiter leben (1992). Beide Begriffe sind schon auf der ersten Seite zu finden; mit ersterem setzt das Buch sogar ein. Die Autorin, die sich als „eine, die sich auf die Flucht begibt, nicht erst wenn sie Gefahr wittert, sondern schon, wenn sie nervös wird“ bezeichnet, stellt einige Zeilen später fest: „Denn Flucht war das Schönste, damals und immer noch.“ Als die Autorin ein Kinderspiel mit dem später deportierten und ermordeten Halbbruder Schorschi beschreibt, finden sich beide Begriffe wiederum gekoppelt: „Man muß fliehen lernen“, denn „wenn man lang genug wartet, dann kommt der Tod.“ Das ist der Grundsatz, den sich die Autorin aus dem Spiel mit einer imaginären Gefahr einprägt und den sie noch später, im Laufe ihrer Geschichte, beherzigen wird. Doch geht es bei Ruth Klüger nicht um eine „escape-story [...] mit Happy-end“. Flucht entspricht – auf einer poetologischen Ebene – Klügers autobiographischem Projekt und eigenwilliger Erinnerungsarbeit. Um die poetologische und ethische Relevanz der Flucht in weiter leben wird es in den folgenden Überlegungen gehen
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