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Rezension zu: Ilaria Bignamini/Clare Hornsby, Digging and Dealing in Eighteenth-Century Rome. With additional research by Irma Della Giovampaola and Jonathan Yarker (New Haven and London 2010)
No full textData of cost-optimal solutions and retrofit design methods for school renovation in a warm climate
No full textAbstract"Efficient Solutions and Cost-Optimal Analysis for Existing School Buildings" (Paolo Maria Congedo, Delia D’Agostino, Cristina Baglivo, Giuliano Tornese, Ilaria Zacà) [1] is the paper that refers to this article. It reports the data related to the establishment of several variants of energy efficient retrofit measures selected for two existing school buildings located in the Mediterranean area. In compliance with the cost-optimal analysis described in the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive and its guidelines (EU, Directive, EU 244,) [2,3], these data are useful for the integration of renewable energy sources and high performance technical systems for school renovation. The data of cost-efficient high performance solutions are provided in tables that are explained within the following sections.The data focus on the describe school refurbishment sector to which European policies and investments are directed. A methodological approach already used in previous studies about new buildings is followed (Baglivo Cristina, Congedo Paolo Maria, D׳Agostino Delia, Zacà Ilaria, 2015; IlariaZacà, Delia D’Agostino, Paolo Maria Congedo, Cristina Baglivo; Baglivo Cristina, Congedo Paolo Maria, D’Agostino Delia, Zacà Ilaria, 2015; Ilaria Zacà, Delia D’Agostino, Paolo Maria Congedo, Cristina Baglivo, 2015; Paolo Maria Congedo, Cristina Baglivo, IlariaZacà, Delia D’Agostino,2015) [4–8]. The files give the cost-optimal solutions for a kindergarten (REF1) and a nursery (REF2) school located in Sanarica and Squinzano (province of Lecce Southern Italy). The two reference buildings differ for construction period, materials and systems.The eleven tables provided contain data about the localization of the buildings, geometrical features and thermal properties of the envelope, as well as the energy efficiency measures related to walls, windows, heating, cooling, dhw and renewables. Output values of energy consumption, gas emission and costs are given for a financial and a macro-economic analysis.This data article provides 288 and 96 combinations for REF1 and REF2, respectively. The output values are obtained using the software ProCasaClima 2015v.2.0
Author Correction: Gluten consumption and inflammation affect the development of celiac disease in at-risk children
No full textThe original version of this Article contained an error in the spelling of the authors Renata Auricchio, Ilaria Calabrese, Martina Galatola, Donatella Cielo, Fortunata Carbone, Marianna Mancuso, Giuseppe Matarese, Riccardo Troncone, Salvatore Auricchio & Luigi Greco which were incorrectly given as Auricchio Renata, Calabrese Ilaria, Galatola Martina, Cielo Donatella, Carbone Fortunata, Mancuso Marianna, Matarese Giuseppe, Troncone Riccardo, Auricchio Salvatore & Greco Luigi. The original article has been corrected
Environmental policies and social impacts. Suggestions from Europeans cities
No full textAre we really sure that green and sustainable are always good for everyone? Ilaria Beretta tries to go beyond the rhetoric of sustainability to understand more deeply the interconnection between economy, society and environment in urban contexts, in the belief that only empirical research and the analysis of data can lead to a correct reading, which is as objective as possible, of the complex reality in which we live. The author, through a comparison between European and U.S. American cities, focuses in particular on policies related to climate change and land use, showing how these, if not properly monitored in their social effects, risk contributing to the tightening of social inequalities, through processes such as ecological and green gentrification. The volume is structured in three parts. In the first section, she illustrates the main European Union’s sustainability and environmental urban policies, focusing on climate change and land use strategies. The second chapter provides a conceptual framework through the environmental justice paradigm, as it applies in Europe and in U.S. Finally, the third chapter offers an empirical analysis of ecological and green gentrification processes, comparing American and European realities, and highlighting how context-specific differences can have profound effects on the manifestation (or not) of these phenomena
Diabetes insipidus is an unfavorable prognostic factor for response to glucocorticoids in patients with autoimmune hypophysitis
No full textIntroduction: Autoimmune hypophysitis (AH) has a variable clinical presentation and natural history; likewise, its response to glucocorticoid therapy is often unpredictable. Objective: To identify clinical and radiological findings associated with response to glucocorticoids. Design and methods: 12 consecutive patients with AH, evaluated from 2008 to 2016. AH was the exclusion diagnosis after ruling out other pituitary masses and secondary causes of hypophysitis. Mean follow-up time was 30 ± 27 months (range 12-96 months). Results: MRI identified two main patterns of presentation: global enlargement of the pituitary gland or panhypophysitis (n = 4, PH), and pituitary stalk abnormality only, or infundibulo-neuro-hypophysitis (n = 8, INH). Multiple tropin defects were more common in PH (100%) than those in INH (28% P = 0.014), whereas diabetes insipidus was more common in INH (100%) than that in PH (50%; P = 0.028). All 4 PH and 4 out of 8 INH were treated with glucocorticoids. Pituitary volume significantly reduced in all PH patients (P = 0.012), defective anterior pituitary function recovered only in the two patients without diabetes insipidus (50%) and panhypopituitarism persisted, along with diabetes insipidus, in the remaining 2 (50%). In all INH patients, either treated or untreated, pituitary stalk diameter reduced (P = 0.008) but diabetes insipidus persisted in all. Conclusions: Glucocorticoid therapy may improve anterior pituitary function in a subset of patients but has no effect on restoring posterior pituitary function. Diabetes insipidus appears as a negative prognostic factor for response to glucocorticoids
El Tlacuache Núm. 458 (2011). 458 Año 11 (2011) marzo. El Tlacuache
No full textReflexiones sobre la migración en la Costa Chica Oaxaqueña Cuando el teléfono suena...por Alejandra A. Ramírez López. -Fronteras Lugares irreales / lugares hiperreales por Ilaria Bologna
Diabetes mellitus induced by somatostatin analogue therapy is not permanent in acromegalic patients
No full textCONTEXT:
Therapy with somatostatin analogues (SSAs) may have deleterious effects on glucose metabolism in patients with acromegaly, often leading to the development of diabetes mellitus (DM).
AIM:
The aim of the study was to evaluate whether DM, developed during therapy with SSAs, may revert after drug withdrawal and cure of acromegaly with pituitary adenomectomy.
DESIGN:
Retrospective cohort study, in a tertiary referral centre.
PATIENTS:
Eighteen acromegalic patients without DM at the diagnosis of acromegaly treated with SSAs as a primary therapy, and then cured by pituitary adenomectomy.
METHODS:
Endocrine status and glucose homeostasis were evaluated at diagnosis of acromegaly and at least every 6 months during SSA therapy. At each visit, patients were classified into one of the following classes: normal glucose tolerance, prediabetes, overt diabetes.
RESULTS:
Median follow-up after starting SSAs therapy was 69 months (IQR 54.75-132.25). During SSA therapy, all patients had controlled acromegaly defined by normal serum IGF1 concentrations for the age. Of the 13 euglycaemic patients at diagnosis, three developed prediabetes and three diabetes, whereas, of the five prediabetic patients at diagnosis, two worsened to overt diabetes and three remained in the prediabetic range (P = 0.04). After curing acromegaly with pituitary adenomectomy and subsequent SSA withdrawal, prediabetes reverted in five of six patients, and diabetes in all five patients (three reverted to euglycaemia, while two reverted to prediabetes) (P = 0.01).
CONCLUSIONS:
In acromegalic patients with controlled disease, changes in glycaemic status induced by SSAs are not permanent
The beneficial effect of acromegaly control on blood pressure values in normotensive patients
No full textObjective Control of acromegaly may ameliorate blood pres- sure (BP) in hypertensive (HT) patients. We evaluated the impact of acromegaly control on BP values of normotensive (NT) acromegalics.
Design Retrospective cohort study.
Patients Fifty-eight na€ıve patients with acromegaly (39 F; age range, 30–69 years), including 28 NT and 30 HT subjects, par- ticipated in the study.
Measurements Blood pressure was measured by clinical mea- surement and 24-h ambulatory monitoring at diagnosis and after 24 months of medical therapy for acromegaly.
Results Acromegaly was controlled by medical therapy in 15 NT and 17 HT patients at 24 months. In the NT group, systolic (SBP) or diastolic (DBP) BP significantly increased (all P < 0 005) when acromegaly was uncontrolled, but did not change when the disease was controlled. Changes in SBP and DBP were also significantly different between uncontrolled and controlled NT patients. At 24 months, clinical hypertension was detected only in uncontrolled NT patients (46% vs 0%, P < 0 001), whereas ambulatory hypertension was found in 38% of uncontrolled and in 7% of controlled NT subjects (P = 0 035). In the HT group, ambulatory SBP increased in patients with uncontrolled acromegaly (24-h SBP P = 0 046, day SBP P = 0 005, night SBP P = 0 005), whereas ambulatory DBP decreased in subjects with controlled disease (24-h DBP P = 0 008, day DBP P = 0 026).
Conclusions Control of acromegaly has a beneficial effect on BP regulation either in HT or NT subjects; in the latter, it may prevent progression towards hypertension
Werner Sombart and the global society. Anticipations from a classic author of sociology
No full textThe article examines the most salient works in which the sociologist Werner Sombart saw the dimension of globality as a social element, constitutive of mo- dernity and its future. The aim is to understand the role of globality, as an idea and a phenomenon, in the constitution in all aspects of society (economic, political, cultural, anthropological). The Works to which the article refers show a global society, one that goes from the time of Sombart to the present day, as the author had already envisioned in all their potentialities and criticalities
Self Portrait of an Italian Historian as a Woman on the Train
No full textThirty years on from publication of her first book, and
amidst epoch-making changes to the university system, especially in Italy, the author reconstructs her own intellectual and professional
story. In this ego histoire Ilaria Porciani goes over the milestones and encounters of her working life, as well as some material and institutional career aspects of an Italian woman historian across the turn of the millennium
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