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Rom e Sinti come minoranza. Profili di diritto italiano e comparato e di diritto internazionale
No full textAnalisi comparata del trattamento giuridico di Rom e Sinti nella legislazione dei diversi Paesi europei e sua classificazione, anche alla luce della 'soft jurisprudence' del comitato consultivo del Consiglio d'Europ
The immediate effects of kinesio taping on lumbar range of motions / Mohd Haidir MY, Fatimah M Rom and Kandasamy G
No full textThis study aims at determining the initial effects of kinesio taping (KT) applied to erector spinae muscle on lumbar flexion, extension and lateral flexion range of motions (ROM). Pre-post parallel controlled trial study was conducted on twenty healthy subjects divided equally into two groups (KT and placebo). Lumbar spine flexibility was evaluated using tape measure method for all lumbar tested motions. KT group showed significantly improve lumbar flexion ROM, yielded an increment of 9.9 cm compared with placebo group (9.9 cm, t (9) = -4.265, p = 0.002). However, no significant differences were discovered for lumbar extension (-0.9 cm, t (9) = 1.132, p = 0.287), right lumbar lateral flexion (1.2 cm, t (9) = -1.964, p = 0.081) and left lumbar lateral flexion ROM (0.8 cm, t(9) = -1.633, p = 0.137). The ANCOVA adjusted change scores revealed that the KT group demonstrated a very large effect size in lumbar flexion ROM. Meanwhile, trivial and moderate effect sizes were identified in lumbar extension and lateral flexion ROM respectively. Hence, the KT positively influences erector spinae muscle, allowing improvements in the active lumbar flexion ROM immediately after the application of KT
Letter, [Author unclear] to Paulina T. Merritt
No full textHandwritten letter to Paulina Merritt from an unknown author, October 1, 1876.
Author Co-Citation Analysis (ACA): a powerful tool for representing implicit knowledge of scholar knowledge workers
No full textIn the last decade, knowledge has emerged as one of the most important and valuable organizational assets. Gradually this importance caused to emergence of new discipline entitled ―knowledge management‖. However one of the major challenges of knowledge management is conversion implicit or tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge. Thus Making knowledge visible so that it can be better accessed, discussed, valued or generally managed is a long-standing objective in knowledge management. Accordingly in this paper author co- citation analysis (ACA) will be proposed as an efficient technique of knowledge visualization in academia (Scholar knowledge workers)
Beyond CD-ROM : wider horizons in the provision of electronic information
No full textThe availability of information across the networks is explored and described, along with plans for the navigation and filtering tools which will promote access to them. Issues of funding of datasets, end-user training, document delivery, the marginalization of the traditional library and the Follett Committee Review of Library Provision in Higher Education are explored. The current level of investment in CD-ROM is discussed, as well as the possibilities and limitations of the technology. The two technologies are compared and contrasted and the particular importance of services free at the point of use stressed
Imaging the dynamics of intracellular protein translocation by photoconversion of phamret-cybr/ROM
No full textCybr/Reduced On-random Motile (ROM) is a scaffold protein, containing a postsynaptic density protein-95/discs-large/ZO-1 (PDZ) domain, a LEU region and a PDZ domain binding region at the C-terminus. In the immune system, Cybr/ROM was found to localize in vesicles and at the plasma membrane, through interactions with cytohesin-1. In this investigation, we reported Cybr/ROM as occurring in vesicles, the cytoplasm and at membrane ruffles of H1299 lung cancer cells. Its localization at the ruffles was dependent on intact actin structures as indicated by latrunculin A treatment, which abrogated ruffle formation and staining of Cybr/ROM at the cells' periphery. Transfection of truncation mutants consisting of either the PDZ or LEU domain showed that the LEU domain of ROM was localized to membrane ruffles, vesicles and the cytoplasm, whereas, the PDZ domain localized to the membrane ruffles and cytoplasm only. There was therefore, domain/molecular segregation of Cybr/ROM in different cellular compartments. Cybr/ROM was subcloned into a plasmid carrying the photoactivation-mediated resonance energy transfer (Phamret) protein. The photoconversion experiments demonstrated the diffusion of ROM from the cytoplasm to the membrane ruffling sites and conversely from membrane ruffles to the cytoplasm. Large variances in the transport velocity of Cybr/ROM in the cytoplasm suggested that its movements were facilitated by other mechanisms in addition to diffusion
Evaluation of thoracic ROM in elderly women after a specific flexibility-training program
No full textThe purpose of this study was to assess the effects of a specific flexibility training program on thoracic spinal range of motion (T-ROM) in female older subjects. Thirty older women were randomized into either a trained group [TG] (n: 17; age: 68.35±6.04 years; height: 1.54±0.06 m; weight: 64.78±10.16, kg, BMI: 27.28±3.08) and a control group [CG] (n: 13; age: 69.69±7.94 years; height: 1.57±0.06 m; weight: 68.42±8.18 kg, BMI: 27.88±2.81). Trained subjects were trained for 8 weeks by two sessions/week. In particular, every trained session included: a warm up period (~15 min), a training period (~60 min) including specific exercises to train spinal flexibility, cool down period (~15 min). Control subjects did not perform any programmed physical activity during the experimental period. Data were obtained before and after the experimental phase. Spinal ranges of motion were measured using SpinalMouse® (Idiag, Volkerswill, Switzerland), which is an electronic computer-aided device that measures sagittal spinal ROM and inter-segmental angles non-invasively (Imagama et al. 2011). Each angle was measured three times in a neutral standing (nS) position, maximum extension (maxE) position and maximum bending (maxB) one, and average data were used.
We found a significant increase in thoracic ROM from nS to maxB position (p0.05).
In conclusion, our findings indicate that used flexibility training protocol performed for eight weeks can improve the thoracic ROM from nS to maxB position in elderly people. In agreement with Imagama et al. (2011), we suggest that an increase in T-ROM could have positive consequences on quality of life and activities of daily living in older women.
References
[1] Imagama S et al. (2011) Back muscle strength and spinal mobility are predictors of quality of life in middle-aged and elderly males. Eur Spine J 20(6): 954-61
"Tecnologie per il recupero dell’edilizia rurale. Disamina tecnologica finalizzata all’individuazione di alcune possibili strategie d’intervento basate su logiche prestazionali".
No full textSaggi nella Sezione tecnologica (di cui Theo Zaffagnini è Responsabile Tecnico) presente in AA.VV.,"Manuale di riuso e valorizzazione dell'edilizia e del paesaggio del delta", CD-Rom Win/Mac., 2001, Facoltà di Architettura di Ferrara. Cd-Rom a cura di Gaiani A. con la collaborazione di Rinconi M.
Si tratta di un manuale tecnico progettuale sul riuso dell’edilizia rurale del basso delta ferrarese. Composto di diverse sezioni, l'autore Zaffagnini T. è, oltre che autore di diversi saggi e disegni esplicativi, curatore e responsabile dell'intera sezione tecnologica dedicata all'individuazione delle invarianti tecnologiche presenti in un ampio campione censuario delle costruzioni storiche rurali del delta ferrarese. I suoi contributi spaziano dalla lettura tecnologica del patrimonio costruito ad analisi sui materiali e sui sistemi costruttivi frutto del genius loci padano, quindi ad indicazioni progettuali d'intervento finalizzate - contemplando un approccio progettuale di tipo esigenziale prestazionale - ad un riuso capace di lasciare nitide tracce delle preesistenze testimoniali
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