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    Liquorice-induced hypokalaemia and water retention in the absence of hypertension

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    This is a case report of a woman who showed headache, weakness, upper-limb edema and a generalized convulsive seizure after chronic ingestion of liquorice. She was taking oral contraceptives which can predispose to liquorice toxicity. Plasma potassium, aldosterone, renin activity and albumin were below the normal level. The abdominal echography and computerized tomography scan demonstrated a perihepatic and perisplenic thin liquid layer with liquid collection in the pelvis. The bioelectrical impedance suggested a hyperhydration state. After stopping the liquorice, the laboratory and bioelectrical values normalized and clinical upper-limb edema and the liquid in the abdomen disappeared in a few days. Copyright (c) 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

    On the lifetime of the I-4(13/2) emitting level of the Er3+ ions in phosphate glasses

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    The decay time of the I-4(13/2) --> I-4(15/2) transition of Er3+ ions in phosphate glasses has been measured through a variable frequency of the pump beam intensity. It has been found that the decay times depend upon temperature and upon the presence of Yb codoping of host glass. The room temperature decay time increases from 5 to 8ms in presence of Yb codoping, but the longer decay time seems to be independent of the relative amount of Er and Yb. The decay times increase at low temperature, where, however, careful control of the sample temperature heated by the pump beam has to be performed. Mechanism of radiative and non-radiative decays are briefly described

    L’intervento pubblico nel contrasto alla ludopatia: brevi cenni

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    Il lavoro si prefigge lo scopo di analizzare brevemente gli strumenti di contrasto al fenomeno della ludopatia predisposti dal legislatore italiano

    Temperature dependence of the line shapes of two-photon excited transitions in KMgF3 : Eu2+

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    The two-photon excitation line shapes of f-f transitions of Eu2+ in KMgF3 have been investigated as a function of temperature. Results for several transition lines of the P-6(J) and D-6(J) multiplets are presented in this work. The two-photon excited transitions appear as zero-phonon lines with a Lorentzian profile whose peak energy is shifted from the zero temperature position. The observed temperature dependence of the zero-phonon line shapes is ascribed to the elastic scattering of the electronic transitions among vibrational states via anharmonic coupling to a phonon mode of the lattice heat-bath. In those components of 4f(7) multiplets whose energies are not resonant with the 4f(6)5d broad excited state, a direct proportionality to the phonon occupation number of the coupled mode is found for the line-shapes and peak-positions temperature dependences
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