20 research outputs found
Learning to ignore visual onset distractors hinges on a configuration-dependent coordinates system
No full textDecrement of attentional capture elicited by visual onset distractors, consistent with habituation, has been extensively characterized over the past several years. However, the type of spatial frame of reference according to which such decrement occurs in the brain remains unknown. Here, four related experiments are reported to shed light on this issue. Observers were asked to discriminate the orientation of a titled line while ignoring a salient but task-irrelevant visual onset that occurred on some trials. The experiments all involved an initial habituation phase, during which capture elicited by the onset distractor progressively decreased, as in prior studies. Importantly, in all experiments, the location of the target and the distractor remained fixed during this phase. After habituation was established, in a final test phase of the various experiments, the spatial arrangement of the target and the distractor was changed to test for the relative contribution to habituation of retinotopic, spatiotopic, and configuration-dependent visual representations. Experiment 1 indicated that spatiotopic representations contribute little, if at all, to the observed decrement in attentional capture. The results from Experiment 2 were compatible with the notion that such capture reduction occurs in either retinotopic- or configuration-specific representations. However, Experiment 3 ruled out the contribution of retinotopic representations, leaving configuration-specific representation as the sole viable interpretation. This conclusion was confirmed by the results of Experiments 4 and 5. In conclusion, visual onset distractors appear to be rejected at a level of the visual hierarchy where visual events are encoded in a configuration-specific or context-dependent manner. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
Concept riqualificazione aree facoltà architettura politecnico di Milano. supervisor: santiago quesada
No full text(From curators) The MIAW.2/forests program ///Day 1 Salutations Alessandro Balducci, Vice Rector of the Politecnico di Milano - Gianni Scudo, Vice Dean of the School ʻArchitettura e Societàʼ - Ilaria Valente, President School ʻArchitettura e Societàʼ Master of Sciences in Architecture Course - Emilio Genovesi, Councillorship of Culture, Expo, Fashion and Design, Comune di Milano - Richard Haag, Professor Emeritus University of Washington, Seattle // Opening Lecture ʻStick-Chartsʼ by Christine Dalnoky, Atelier Christine Dalnoky (France) // Workshops opening ///Day 2 MIAW Open Lectures Morning Sessions Françoise Akinosho / Maja Leonelli - MIAW Open Lectures Afternoon Sessions Anders Berensson + Ulf Mejergren (Visiondivison) / Drew Seskunas and Brice Delarue (Zirkumflex) ///Day 3 MIAW Open Lectures Morning Sessions Marialena Nikolopoulou / Marta Bottero and Chiara DʼAlpaos - MIAW Afternoon Open Lectures Sessions Giovanni Attili / Santiago Quesada ///Day 4 MIAW Open Lectures Morning Sessions Duilio Forte (AtelierFORTE) / Andre Dekker (Observatorium) ///Day 5 MIAW.2 Final and Farewell Party at the Politecnico di Milano Leonardo Campus /// The 2011 MIAWers are:/// 1 Rachele Albini / Giada Albonico / Jacopo Biasio / Sara Caramaschi / Elisa Carraro / Desislava Dimitrova / Cristina Gatti / Elisa Gulino / Mariya Hasamova / Nina Mikhailova / Ottavia Molatore / Joao Molinar / Azadeh Moradiasr / Mohyedin Navabzadeh Navabi / Giuseppe Maria Palermo / Riccardo Somaini / Bogdan Stojanovic /// 2 Andra Elena Apostolescu / Valentina Armenti / Dana Baranes / Sofia Chicherina / Guadalupe Ciocoletto / Marina Franzi / Gulin Keskin / Somayeh Khoshdelmishamandani / Gabriella Milo / Filippo Minora / Ayca Ozbank / Priyank Dipakbhai Parmar / Elena Piazza / Nicolò Rota / Pietro Spazzini / Paolo Volpetti / Tamara Zarkovic / Maia Zheliazkova /// 3 Kalina Andreeva / Giacomo Ardesio / Giulia Cascella / Filippo Cima / Carolina Luísa De Sá E Brito / Alaleh Emami / Michele Gerli / Anna Chiara Leardini / Marina Meloni / Navid Moshfeghi / Alexandra Nita / Rohit Perla / Gabriele Tomassini /// 4 Alessia Albini / Laura Beltrami / Giuseppe Biscottini / Lorenzo Campini / Angela Charalambous / Michela Di Noia / Reza Kamyabi / Ivana Lilikj / Jacopo Marcolini / Behnam Meimandpour / Surajkumar Nandakumar / Sophia Theologou / Ofelia Vera / Marco Zanini / Alice Cristina Jola Zingales / Riccardo Zocche /// 5 Fabio Bonaventura / Mattia Bravin / Matteo Calati / Lia Crupi / Serena DʼAndrea / Maria Grubova / Ketaki Kadam / Maria Korobitsyna / Aly Mohamed Mohamed Ahmed El Sayed / Mattia Morandi / Haitham Nabil Mohamed Mousa / Ozge Noyan / Arlinda Sheqiri / Ceren Sipahioglu / Paula Stefan / Claudio Valcamonico /// 6 Alessandra D'Apolito / Chrysafina Geronta / Bernardo Gonzalez De Cossio Paez / Rajesh Gupta / Sona Keresztesová / Federico Montagna / Maria Nickolova / Parsa Pahlavan / Raluca-Mihaela Serdaru / Alexandra Shatskaya /// 7 Elena Alexandrova / Chrystalla Argyrou / Tijana Djordjevic / Gloria Ferrari / Priscilla Gazzellini / Deborah Gotti / Francesco Ernst Lupic / Giulia Marcosano / Lara Mondonico / Veronica Notaro / Savia Palate / Caterina Pilar Palumbo / Ilaria Pedrini / Andrea Perletti / Giulia Repetti / Aster Sittoni / Gulcin Tanil / Matteo Tressi / Erica Ubbiali / Ayman Wagdy Mohamed Ibrahim /// 8 Giada Bonatti / Matteo Chelazzi / Alberto DʼOspina / Serena Di Nocera / Katarzyna Dudycz / Nenad Duric / Filip Durickovic / Francesca Fabiana Fochi / Andrea Guaiti / Daniela Iallorenzi / Americo Iannazzone / Mickeal Milocco / Gabriele Motta / Andreea Onu / Patrizio Pelosi / Marta Petrov / Olga Shishova / Jue Wang /// 9 Constantina Agroti / Arezoo Akbarvand / Glykeria Anaxagorouglyka / Stefano Arrighi / Nicolò Bianchi / Giulia Borghi / Miruna-Luiza Caragheorgheopol / Daniele Cremaschi / Vedat Ali Dalokay / Matteo Gobbi / Seyedeh Golkoo Hooshmand Ziafi / Daniele Iori / Berk Kangoz / Katarzyna Krol / Georgios Kyriazis / Lorenza Manfredi / Abdulkadir Eren Ozturk / Amanda Parisi De Marchi / Isha Rathod / Negin Salamat / Marina Serratine Paul / Alessia Tosini / Maria Vassileva / Ege Yuksek /// 10 Stefan Andelkovic / Mirko Andolina / Pietro Bodria / Alessandro Danesi / Irene De Donatis / Claudia De Flumeri / Corinna Del Bianco / Joris Katkecivius / Claudia Mainardi / Federico Marcantognini / Jenni Mazzoni / Luca Menegaldo / Milena Meregalli / Emanuele Migliorosi / Sara Moriggia / Manuele Mossoni / Claudia Praderio / Filippo Tiozzo / Arianne Veloce / Francesca Zanotto MIAW.2/forestsThe 2nd Milano International Architectural Workshop of the Politecnico di Milanoʼs School of ʻArchitettura e Societàʼ programmes, playing with the metaphor of forests, aimed to generate 10 new visions to explain nowadays living and its next future in the spirit of green design, resilience, recycling, and ethical consciousness.MIAW.2 took place from September 26th to September 30th 2011 involving more than 100 students supervised by 15 international tutors working on 10 different workshop themes with the target to enrich the Politecnico di Milanoʼs Leonardo Campus environscape with light installations.This catalogue shows the MIAW.2/forests resul
Mapping of current practices of palliative care for patients with heart failure throughout Europe: A scoping review
No full textMapping of current practices of palliative care for patients with heart failure throughout Europe: A scoping review
No full textHeart failure (HF) is a growing health and societal challenge in Europe, due to an increasingly elderly, frail and multimorbid population. Many patients with HF experience a high burden of complex and multidimensional symptoms leading to a reduced quality of life and significant socioeconomic impact. Despite proven benefits, the integration of palliative care into HF management pathways remains inconsistent and underutilized. We aim to map how current national and international guidelines recommend integrating palliative care into HF management across the 10 countries represented by the EU-funded RAPHAEL consortium (Horizon Europe programme, No 101137170): Belgium, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. A systematic search was conducted across six databases (EMBASE, Global Health, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, The Cochrane Library and Web of Science) for publications from 1 January 2000 to 25 May 2024. Eligible publications focused on adults with HF and models of palliative care integration. Data were synthesized using content analysis. Of 1543 records screened, 13 publications were included. Most studies were guidelines, consensus or position papers; only one was qualitative research. The definition of the population with HF eligible for palliative care was heterogeneous and inconsistently defined, mostly by symptoms (4/13 publications; 31%) and pathophysiology (2/13; 15%). The most frequent triggers for palliative care referral were clinical features and symptoms (8/13; 62%), patients approaching the end of life (8/13; 62%), and symptomatic deterioration despite optimal therapy (7/13; 54%). Additional triggers included multiple (>1) unplanned hospitalizations (6/13; 46%) and spiritual, emotional or social issues (7/13; 54%). Outcomes of palliative care referral for HF patients focused on quality of life (9/13; 69%) and symptom control (9/13; 69%). Multiprofessional involvement was emphasized with cardiologists (12/13; 92%), nurses (10/12; 77%), palliative care specialists (9/13; 69%) and primary care physicians (4/13; 31%). Publications generally noted that despite increased awareness and recommendations, referrals remain low and mostly late stages. This review underscores the need for structured, early integration of palliative care in HF management across Europe with clear triggers for palliative care referral, application of standardized pathways and fostering of multiprofessional collaboration. Developing these, while simultaneously addressing implementation challenges through policy development, could improve patient outcomes and quality of life
Perioperative Levels of Adiponectin and Oxidative Stress in Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Abdominal Surgery for Cancer
No full textEvidence of the existence of the As<sub>4</sub>S<sub>6</sub> molecule produced by light exposure of alacranite, As<sub>8</sub>S<sub>9</sub>
No full text<jats:p>Abstract. The As4S6 molecule, although theoretically predicted and supposed to occur in amorphous arsenic sulfides, was missing in the reported structures of crystalline As chalcogenides; the thermodynamic stable phase for this stoichiometry, in fact, is that of the mineral orpiment, which shows a layered structural arrangement based on trigonal AsS3 pyramids. Here we report the first possible occurrence of the As4S6 molecule together with the other known As4Sn (n=3, 4, 5) molecules randomly replacing each other in the crystalline structure of a new monoclinic product obtained by the light-induced alteration of the mineral alacranite, As8S9. Our findings are based on single-crystal X-ray diffraction experiments. The fact that As4S6 formed in a crystalline light-induced alteration product could indicate a heretofore unknown role of this molecule in the photoinduced changes of the physico-chemical properties of both bulk glasses and thin films in the As–S system, widely studied in optics and optoelectronics.
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BIOBLITZ 2013-2014 OASI DI SAN FELICE
No full textThe growing interest in emerging environmental crisis has increased the level of public attention and the willingness to take part in participatory science projects, commonly defined with the term “Citizen Science”. This phenomenon can be recorded globally in many national contexts, with a prevalence in anglophone and more industrialized countries. In the biodiversity sector, the growing demand for public involvement has been declined in many different ways, with solutions aimed at providing cognitive and participatory tools. Among these, one of the best known is the BioBlitz: a 24-hour event held in a specific place with the aim of listing as many living species as possible. This work presents the data collected during the first two BioBlitzes organized by the Maremma Natural History Museum in 2013 and 2014. Both were made in the area of the San Felice Oasis, near the terminal part of the San Leopoldo ditch. During the BioBlitz, data collected attested the presence of 627 different taxonomic entities, of which 527 were identified at the level of species and 12 at the level of subspecies. The rest were identified at higher taxonomic levels. Eleven alien species, one endemic species, 33 species protected by national and international laws and / or directives and 13 species at risk of extinction were identified
Ecology of the intertidal crab Dotilla intermedia from tsunami-impacted beaches in Thailand
No full textCrabs of the genus Dotilla are ecologically important members of intertidal sandy shorecommunities. Exposed sandy shores represent one of the main habitat types along the coast of theLaem Son National Park in Thailand, and Dotilla sp. is the dominant macrofaunal species onthese beaches, occurring in immense numbers. Despite their importance as a key member of thefaunal community on these beaches, little is known about the ecology of Dotilla crabs in theLaem Son. Taxonomic investigations identified the Dotilla crabs present on the exposed oceanicbeaches in the Laem Son to be D. intermedia. This represents the first time that D. intermedia hasbeen recorded from Thailand. Dotilla intermedia inhabits a very well defined zone on the sandybeaches, and the factors underlying these zonation patterns were examined. The gradient of thebeach was correlated to the height at which the boundaries of the Dotilla zone occurred, withphysical factors associated with the beach gradient driving the distribution of D. intermedia onthe beach. The upper limit of the Dotilla zone was controlled by the total water content of thesediment, with D. intermedia absent from areas with less than 15% total water content. Tidalinfluences defined the lower boundary of the Dotilla zone, with crabs requiring an area with aminimum exposure time between tidal immersions of 4-5 hours to feed on the sediment. Withinthe Dotilla zone, size segregation was observed; larger crabs occurred higher on the shore, andsmall crabs lower down. The sandy shores of the Laem Son were heavily impacted by thetsunami of 26th December 2004, which effectively destroyed the populations of D. intermedia onthe beaches. However, by April 2005 D. intermedia was present again on the beaches. Atemporal population genetic study was undertaken to investigate the impact of extinction andrecolonisation on the genetic variation of a population. Genetic variation in mtDNA markers wasfound to decrease over time, matching the predictions of mathematical models concerning theeffect of bottlenecking events on genetic diversity within populations. The impact of the tsunamion D. intermedia is discussed further in light of the ecological and molecular data produced inthis thesis
