698 research outputs found
A mechanical model of posterior vitreous detachment and generation of vitreoretinal tractions
No full textDraunara, installation, Federica Cellini, 2014
No full text Draunara, Federica Cellini, Ana B.K, widewalls.ch , 26/05/2014 "Washed away onto the shores of the island, migrants from Africa keep arriving to Lampedusa, a small island just off the coast of Sicily. (...) The Unstoppable Tempest Draunara takes its name from the local term for a storm that swoops over the island coming from the sea. The author of the piece draws a parallel between the tempest and the overwhelming number of people arriving from the same direction. Although the arrivals ar..
correction idelalisib exposure before allogenic stem cell transplantation in patients with follicular lymphoma an EBMT survey
No full textThe article “Idelalisib exposure before allogeneic stem cell transplantation in patients with follicular lymphoma: an EBMT survey”, written by Leopold Sellner, Johannes Schetelig, Linda Koster, Goda Choi, Didier Blaise, Dietrich Beelen, Fabrizio Carnevale Schianca, Jakob Passweg, Urs Schanz, Emmanuel Gyan, Federica Sora, Nicolaus Kröger, Gerald. G. Wulf, Gwendolyn Van Gorkom, Jiri Mayer, Corentin Orvain, Jean Henri Bourhis, Pavel Jindra, Victoria Potter, Francesco Zallio, Elisabeth Vandenberghe, Stephen Robinson, Patrick J. Hayden, Ibrahim Yakoub-Agha, Silvia Montoto, Peter Dreger, on behalf of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation Lymphoma and Chronic Malignancies Working Parties, was originally published Online First without Open Access. After publication in volume 55, issue 12, page 2335–2338, the author decided to opt for Open Choice and to make the article an Open Access publication. Therefore, the copyright of the article has been changed to © The Author(s) 2020 and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, 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 licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder
Cooking pots from Alassa Pano Mantilaris and Paliotaverna
No full textThis final report on the 1984–2000 investigations at Alassa begins with the presentation of the rescue excavations of the settlement (Chapter 2) and tombs (Chapter 3) at Pano Mantilaris. This is followed by the account of the elite architecture and associated finds uncovered at Paliotaverna (Chapter 4) and a detailed description and discussion of the remarkable seal impressions found on many of the Alassa pithoi (Chapter 5). In-depth studies of the Alassa pithoi and all of the other pottery found at the site are presented in Chapters 6 and 7 by Priscilla Keswani and Ariane Jacobs, respectively. Federica Spagnoli presents a report on cooking pots in chapter 7. Reports by other specialists on a variety of topics may be found in the 10 appendices: the cylinder and stamp seals (Aruz), metallurgical finds (Kassianidou and Van-Brempt), marked pottery (Hirschfeld), C14 dates (Manning), human remains (Lorentz), faunal remains (Croft), coins (Destrooper), ground stone objects (Souter), and archaeometric studies of the pithoi (Nodarou) and other pottery (Jacobs et al.). The results from all of these studies are integrated within the conclusions that the author offers in Chapter 8 regarding the chronology and importance of Alassa within the broader cultural and sociopolitical context of LBA Cyprus
A mathematical model of corneal endothelium pump function
No full textThe corneal endothelium plays a critical role in maintaining the transparency of the cornea by regulating water transport through the ‘pump and leak’ mechanism. This study presents a mathematical model to analyse fluid and ion pumping across the endothelium, accounting for two proposed mechanisms of the endothelial pump: local osmosis and electro‐osmosis. The model incorporates four key ions (Na+, K+, Cl− and HCO−3 ) and considers transcellular and paracellular transport pathways. The model predicts a water flux from the stroma to the anterior chamber as observed in experiments with isolated endothelium. Electro‐osmosis is found to contribute minimally to water transport compared with local osmosis, which is the dominant mechanism. The magnitude of water flux depends on the cell membrane and tight junction permeability to water. Global sensitivity analysis reveals that water flux is also highly influenced by the tight junction permeability to different ion species, and to a smaller extent, to the permeability of cell membrane to some ions, with the specific effect depending on the ion species. The model captures experimental observations, including responses to ion channel inhibitors. This work provides a framework for understanding the factors governing fluid regulation in the cornea
Correction to: Impact of a mixed educational and semi-restrictive antimicrobial stewardship project in a large teaching hospital in Northern Italy (Infection, 10.1007/s15010-017-1063-7)
No full textA technical error led to incorrect rendering of the author group in this article. The correct authorship is as follows: Daniele Roberto Giacobbe1, Valerio Del Bono1, Malgorzata Mikulska1, Giulia Gustinetti1, Anna Marchese2, Federica Mina3, Alessio Signori4, Andrea Orsi5, Fulvio Rudello6, Cristiano Alicino5, Beatrice Bonalumi3, Alessandra Morando7, Giancarlo Icardi5, Sabrina Beltramini3, Claudio Viscoli1; On behalf of the San Martino Antimicrobial Stewardship Group
The Planning of Socialist Urbanity: The New City of Kukës in Albania.
No full textThis paper titled "The Planning of Socialist Urbanity: The New City of Kukës in Albania" has been submitted in March 2022 (abstract submission) to the “Ngā Pūtahitanga / Crossings: 39th Annual SAHANZ Conference and 16th Australasian UHPH Conference" hosted at the Te Pare School of Architecture and Planning, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau, New Zealand, in 25-27 November 2022 (hybrid online/in situ format). This paper has been peer-reviewed and it has been accepted for publication in December 2022, and published in July 2023 in the Annual Conferences Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), “Ngā Pūtahitanga / Crossings”, Volume 39, edited by Julia Gatley and Elizabeth Aitken Rose, Auckland: SAHANZ 2023. ISBN: 978-0-646-88028-0 (ISSN 2653-4789 - online).
More info on the SAHANZ/UHPH Joint Conference can be found here: https://www.sahanz.net/events/nga-putahitanga-crossings-a-joint-conference-of-sahanz-and-the-australasian-uhph-group/
Conference contributions are available online at the following link: https://www.sahanz.net/publications/annual-proceedings/?session=3709
The final paper written by Dr Pompejano can be also accessed and downloaded here: https://www.sahanz.net/wp-content/uploads/Pompejano_2022_SAHANZ.pdf
The paper should be cited as follows:
Federica Pompejano, “The Planning of Socialist Urbanity: The New City of Kukës in Albania.” In Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand: 39, Ngā Pūtahitanga / Crossings, ed. Julia Gatley and Elizabeth Aitken Rose, 379-87. Auckland: SAHANZ, 2023. Accepted for publication December 1, 2022. DOI: 10.55939/a5035pmg1tThis paper should be cited as follows:
Federica Pompejano, "The Planning of Socialist Urbanity: The New City of Kukës in Albania." In Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand: 39, Ngā Pūtahitanga / Crossings, ed. Julia Gatley and Elizabeth Aitken Rose, 379-87. Auckland: SAHANZ, 2023. Accepted for publication December 1, 2022. DOI: 10.55939/a5035pmg1t
Acknowledgement: This article originates from the scientific work conducted by the author during the implementation of the research project "Materializing Modernity – Socialist and Postsocialist Rural Legacy in Contemporary Albania (MaMo)" which has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 896925 (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/896925). This contribution reflects only the author's view, and the EU Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains
Analytical methods for estimating the gust-excited response of cantilever vertical structures
No full textGust buffeting of structures is a main topic of research developed in wind engineering over the last 40 years. This paper provides a general framework and a critical survey of this matter, focusing attention on the methods developed at the University of Genoa with reference to cantilever vertical structures, e.g. buildings, towers and chimneys. Alongwind, crosswind and torsional gust-excited effects are first determined as the superimposition of static, quasi-static and resonant parts. The static and quasi-static parts are evaluated by the influence function technique; the resonant parts are associated with the fundamental modes of vibration. The equivalent static forces are defined through three alternative rules referred to as the gust factor, loading combination and global loading techniques. The solutions may be obtained by estimating the wind loading experimentally and calculating the response numerically. A different and more appealing approach consists in setting a hierarchy of hypotheses coherent with classical models and solving the problem in closed form. This makes engineering applications straightforward and enables to assess general structural tendencies. The comparisons between the results provided by analytical methods, numerical algorithms and experimental tests show the robustness of the models proposed. The conclusions deal with integrated procedures and proper orthogonal decomposition. Integrated procedures use analytical methods, numerical algorithms and experimental tests jointly; embedded in such a context, analytical methods allow the solution of wind engineering problems otherwise almost prohibitive. Proper orthogonal decomposition offers innovative tools for expressing the gust-excited response as a double series of structural and loading modes; the search for the eigensolutions of loading in closed form opens the door to a new generation of analytical methods
Rural Heritage and Cultural Landscape: Guidelines for Sustainable Seismic Reinforcement of Emilian Historic Rural Building in Italy
No full textAbstractHistoric rural settlements are essential evidences of the Italian cultural heritage because they hand precious architectural, historical and environmental values. Despite its importance, this heritage is rarely protected by specific laws and a great part of these buildings are now abandoned and partially ruined, also as a consequence of the last century mechanized and intensive farming and the consequent lifestyle change. Moreover, the seismic events pose a serious threat to their preservation: indeed, despite they are located in an area - the Italian territory - with a very high seismic risk, often they don’t have any proper anti-seismic device able to prevent a serious damage, or collapse. In this work, the results of the research carried out on a significant number of historic rural buildings in the Emilian area, in Italy, are presented in order to draw up specific guidelines for their sustainable seismic reinforcement and conservation. Indeed, starting from the analysis of the peculiar features of the landscape and of the examined buildings, it's possible to recognize some recurring structures and shapes which identify as many rural architectural types, with similar structural behavior and seismic damage. Thanks to this similarity, it has been possible to set up some reliable guidelines of analysis and intervention which can constitute an easy and expeditious instrument for technicians and restorers in order to safeguard this valuable built heritage, too much neglected until now. The final aim is to evidence the extreme efficacy of a conservation strategy, which can constitute the first guarantee for a sustainable intervention on this precious cultural heritage
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