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Supplemental Material - Technology to Support Older Adults in Home Palliative Care: A Scoping Review
No full textSupplemental Material for Technology to Support Older Adults in Home Palliative Care: A Scoping Review by Ilaria Basile, Letteria Consolo, Stella Colombo, Daniele Rusconi, Flavia Rampichini, and Maura Lusignani in American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®</p
Orbit design for future SpaceChip swarm missions in a planetary atmosphere
No full textThe effect of solar radiation pressure and atmospheric drag on the orbital dynamics of satellites-on-a-chip (SpaceChips) is exploited to design equatorial long-lived orbits about the oblate Earth. The orbit energy gain due to asymmetric solar radiation pressure, considering the Earth's shadow, is used to balance the energy loss due to atmospheric drag. Future missions for a swarm of SpaceChips are proposed, where a number of small devices are released from a conventional spacecraft to perform spatially distributed measurements of the conditions in the ionosphere and exosphere. It is shown that the orbit lifetime can be extended and indeed selected through solar radiation pressure and the end-of-life re-entry of the swarm can be ensured, by exploiting atmospheric drag
Development of the hub port of Colombo, Sri Lanka
No full textThe Port of Colombo, Sri Lanka, is an important hub port in the Indian Ocean. A hub port is a port with mainly transhipment (and in this case container) throughput, which means that most of the cargo is not for the country itself, but for countries in the region. The yearly container throughput at the Port of Colombo reached its full capacity of 1.7 million TEU per year in 1997. Increasing waiting times for ships calling at the port are a result of this. Because of the costs of a waiting ship, shipping lines will choose other ports in the region such as Singapore, Salalah (Oman) or Dubai (United Arab Emirates) for their ships to go to. The aim of this study is to develop a plan for a New Container Terminal, which will give the Port of Colombo enough container throughput capacity for the next 25 years: till the year 2025.Hydraulic EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Dissomphalus miriamae Colombo & Azevedo, sp. nov.
No full textDissomphalus miriamae Colombo & Azevedo, sp. nov. (Figs 12, 150, 151) Description. Male. Head and mesosoma black; metasoma dark castaneous or black. Mandible with two apical teeth; clypeus broadly projected forward, median tooth weakly rounded; frons weakly coriaceous and punctate. Mesosoma. Weakly coriaceous. T2 without tergal process. Posterior hypopygeal margin concave. Genitalia: paramere small in dorsal view, apex rounded, arched, smaller than basiparamere; cuspis wide; digitus wide; aedeagal ventral ramus smaller than dorsal body, apex ill defined, laminar, narrow; aedeagal dorsal body with one pair of apical lobes, inner pair with apex rounded in dorsal view, inner pair weakly serrate; basal process ill defined; apodeme extending beyond genital ring. Female unknown. Remarks. This species is allocated in amplus species-group by having the tergal process absent. This species not is similar other of species-group. This species is mainly different because has the aedeagal dorsal body with one pair of apical lobes and inner pair weakly serrate. Material examined. Types: Holotype Ƌ, BRAZIL, E[spírito] S[anto]: Santa Teresa, Est [ação] Biol [ógica] de Santa Lúcia, 28.III.2001, varredura, Azevedo & Kawada col. (UFES). Paratypes: 2Ƌ, Santa Teresa, Est [ação] Biol [ógica] de Santa Lúcia, 31.V.2001, 2♂, 27.IX.2001, varredura, Azevedo & Kawada col. (UFES); 1♂, Santa Maria de Jetibá, Fazenda Paulo Seick, 20º02’S 40º42’W, 29.XI–06.XII.2002, armadilha Malaise, Tavares & Azevedo e eq[uipe] col. (UFES); 1♂, Vitória, P [ar]q[ue] Est [adual] Fonte Grande, 30.VI.2001, varredura, Azevedo & Kawada col. (UFES). Etymology. The epithet miriamae is in allusion to the mother’s second author name Miriam. Distribution. Brazil (Espírito Santo).Published as part of Colombo, Wesley D. & Azevedo, Celso O., 2016, Review of Dissomphalus Ashmead, 1893 (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from Espíri- to Santo, Brazil, with description of twenty-one new species, pp. 1-84 in Zootaxa 4143 (1) on pages 41-42, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4143.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/26075
Dissomphalus clovisi Colombo & Azevedo, sp. nov.
No full textDissomphalus clovisi Colombo & Azevedo, sp. nov. (Figs 9, 143, 144) Description. Male. Head and mesosoma black; metasoma dark castaneous or black. Mandible with two apical teeth; clypeus broadly projected forward, median tooth ill defined; frons weakly coriaceous, punctate. Pronotal disc coriaceous. T2 without tergal process. Posterior hypopygeal margin weakly concave. Genitalia: paramere wide in dorsal view, apex serrate, invagination serrate in ventral view, smaller than basiparamere; cuspis very wide; digitus sickle-shaped; aedeagal ventral ramus smaller than dorsal body, base narrow, wide middle part, apex narrow, laminar; aedeagal dorsal body with two pairs apical lobes, apex weakly bifurcated in dorsal view, inner pair weakly membranous; basal bar wide; apodeme extending beyond genital ring. Female unknown. Remarks. This species is allocated in amplus species-group by having the tergal process absent. This species not is similar other of species-group. This species is mainly different because has the aedeagal ventral ramus with wide middle part and apex narrow; aedeagal dorsal body with apex weakly bifurcated and aedeagal dorsal body with basal bar wide. Material examined. Types: Holotype Ƌ, BRAZIL, E[spírito] S[anto]: Santa Teresa, Est[ação] Biol[ógica] de Santa Lúcia, 26–29.VIII.2004, arm[adilha] Malaise, Tavares & equipe col. (UFES). Paratypes: 1Ƌ, Santa Maria de Jetibá, Fazenda Paulo Seick, 20º02’S 40º42’W, 06–13.XII.2002, armadilha Malaise, Tavares & Azevedo e eq[uipe] col. (UFES). Etymology. The epithet clovisi is in allusion to the father’s second author name Clovis. Distribution. Brazil (Espírito Santo).Published as part of Colombo, Wesley D. & Azevedo, Celso O., 2016, Review of Dissomphalus Ashmead, 1893 (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from Espíri- to Santo, Brazil, with description of twenty-one new species, pp. 1-84 in Zootaxa 4143 (1) on page 40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4143.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/26075
Sulle ali del nibbio. Volare sulle ali del nibbio tra i cerchi del mondo.
No full textQuesta pubblicazione nasce dall’aver riunito due interventi da me fatti in occasione del XIII e del XIV Convegno Internazionale dei Docenti della Rappresentazione (U.I.D.).
Il primo incontro, che si è svolto a Lerici nel 1991, s’impernia sul tema “Diario di una ricerca”. La mia memoria propone, in forma del tutto autobiografica, le vicissitudini di uno studio,mai portato a termine, sul “Comunismo degli Indiani del Nord America”.
L’argomento del secondo convegno (1992) è sintetizzato nel titolo “Cristoforo Colombo e Piero della Francesca 1492-1992”.
Il 1992 è l’anno del cinquecentenario della morte di Piero della Francesca e della scoperta del Nuovo Continente: in America e negli stati del Vecchio Mondo c’è grande fermento per festeggiare in maniera adeguata questo grande evento, che segna l’inizio, per la nostra storia, dell’era moderna.
Il mio modo di celebrare questo avvenimento è stato quello di far conoscere ai miei studenti del primo anno di Architettura (corso di Applicazioni di geometria descrittiva) il mondo degli Amerindi: la loro storia, i costumi, l’organizzazione sociale, la religione. Ciò è stato possibile con la semplice lettura e rielaborazione delle immagini proprie della produzione figurativa dei Nativi Americani, cercando di comprenderne il significato, la composizione, lo spazio, la tecnica e la filosofia. L’intervento al convegno del 1992 , pertanto, è una sintesi del lavoro prodotto dagli studenti durante l’anno accademico 1991-1992
Correction to: Biaxial bending of SFRC slabs: Is conventional reinforcement necessary? (Materials and Structures, (2019), 52, 1, (1), 10.1617/s11527-018-1302-0)
No full textThe article ‘‘Biaxial bending of SFRC slabs: Is conventional reinforcement necessary?’’, written by Marco di Prisco, Matteo Colombo and Ali Pourzarabi, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s Internet portal (currently SpringerLink) on 22 December 2018 without open access. The copyright of the article changed in December 2019 to The Author(s) 2019, and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made
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