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Francesco Bagnara, Davide Rossi, Luigi Zandomeneghi alla villa Comello di Mottinello Nuovo
No full textSchede: 8. Biadene, Villa Correr Pisani; 51. Mirano, Villa Giustinian; 71: Piove di Sacco, Palazzo Morosini Gradenigo
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Households’ adaptation in a warming climate. Air conditioning and thermal insulation choices
No full textAdjustments in the final use of energy are a critical margin of adaptation for maintaining indoor thermal comfort. This paper explores how households have been adopting air conditioning and thermal insulation to cope with different climatic conditions, and how climatic factors interact with socio-economic, demographic, and household characteristics across eight OECD countries. Changes in the cumulative number of hot and cold days over the year, urbanization, demographics and household characteristics, including attitudes towards energy
efficiency, strongly affect those two margins of adaptation, along with income. If the historically-observed adaptation behaviour is maintained also under future socio-economic pathways and climate scenarios, the impact of global warming and income on air conditioning adoption will be reinforced by urbanization trends, which on the contrary will make it more difficult to improve building thermal insulation
Correction to: When terminology hinders research: the colloquialisms of transitions of control in automated driving (Cognition, Technology & Work, (2022), 10.1007/s10111-022-00705-3)
No full textIn the original article, author affiliation published with error. The correct affiliations are: Davide Maggi—Institute for Transport Studies, Leeds, UK. Richard Romano—Institute for Transport Studies, Leeds, UK. Oliver Carsten—Institute for Transport Studies, Leeds, UK. Joost C. F. De Winter—Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. The original article has been corrected.Human-Robot Interactio
A rejuvenation effect of the antifibrotic therapy correlates with lung function improvement in IPF patients
No full textIdiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is an irreversible and fatal lung disease destined to increase as a sequel of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2. Several studies implicate telomere shortening as hallmark in the pathomechanism of IPF. Our understanding of disease pathogenesis remains, however, incomplete, which hampers also the development of more effective drugs. Aims of this study are: 1) to analyze telomere length in blood leukocytes (LTL) in well phenotypically characterized IPF patients at diagnosis, before treatment with antifibrotic drugs, Pirfenidone and Nintedanib (T0); 2) to investigate in follow up (T1) a possible change in the rate of LTL by combining data on clinic, hematochemical tests, respiratory function and occupational exposure. We examined a group of 24 IPF patients that underwent to a therapy follow up (T1) (mean±SD 297±124 days). We observed an increase in LTL at T1 compared to LTL at T0 (mean±SD LTL (T/S), T1 vs T0, 1.29 ± 0.26 vs 1.19 ± 0.27; p=0.051). Multiple linear regression analysis reveals that the LTL increase, at T1, is significantly related to the time of treatment (p=0.002), LTL at T0 (p<0.0001) and to a slowing in lung function decline (FVC%pred) (p=0.054). The other variables considered including occupational exposure, pack-years, occupational risk factor, gender and body mass index are not significantly related. Our research would indicate a rejuvenation effect of the antifibrotic therapy by measuring the LTL that correlates with lung function improvement. This suggests that targeting fundamental mechanisms of cellular aging has the potential to interfere with the severity of the disease
Admiel Kosman, Siamo giunti a Dio
No full textInternational audienceSix poems from Israeli poet Admiel Kosman translated from the Hebrew into Italian. Selection of poems, presentation of the author, translation and notes by Davide Mano
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