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SISCam 2.0
No full textGeneral coordination: Giuseppe Vilardo
Database GIS: Giuseppe Vilardo, Carlo Terranova, Giovanni Bronzino.
WEB GIS: Giovanni Bronzino.
Contributing scientists: Eliana Bellucci Sessa, Fabio Matano, Rosa Nappi and Guido Ventura.
For further information the reader may refer to: Nappi R., Alessio G., Bronzino G., Terranova C., Vilardo G. (2008). Contribution of the SISCam Web-based GIS to the seismotectonic study of Campania (Southern Apennines): an example of application to the Sannio-area. Natural Hazards, 45 (1), 73-85, doi: 10.1007/s11069-007-9170-x.The Seismotectonic Information System of the Campania Region is aimed to improve the knowledge of the geodynamic processes affecting this seismically active, highly populated region. The Information System is oriented to the production of scientific and technical information for seismotectonic applications.Published5.5. TTC - Sistema Informativo Territorialeope
Trends and Methods of Suicide in Italy, 1979 to 2016
Full text linkThe epidemiology of suicide could provide interesting data for societies that are undergoing significant demographic transformations. The main purpose of this study was to analyze the scale of and trends in suicide in Italy during the period 1979 to 2016. The secondary aim was to compare rates and methods of suicide in the elderly with those in other age groups. This was a population-based study on suicide for the period 1979 to 2016. Data on suicide regarding gender and age from the Italian Institute of Statistics and the World Health Organization were examined with linear regression and ANOVA test. The data on the elderly were compared with those for other age groups. Linear regression revealed a significant decline in the overall suicide rate (F = 180.6; p <.0001). The 45 to 54 age group accounted for the highest suicide rate in recent years (2003–2016). The second highest incidence was among the elderly, with the “young” elderly (65–75 years old) having the highest suicide rate in this group. The male-to-female suicide ratio increased proportionally with age. Hanging was the suicide method most frequently employed independently from age groups. Universal and selective preventive strategies could be developed on the basis of the results of this study. The sensitization of health professionals, families, and friends to specific circumstances could contribute to the decline in the incidence of suicide in specific circumstances of time and place. Further studies are needed in order to better understand social and clinical risk factors related to the risk of suicide in specific age groups
COVID-19 and the death of older people in Italy's rest homes. Is a judicial turmoil the answer?
Full text linkCognitive bias in forensic psychiatry: A medico-legal perspective|BIAS COGNITIVI IN AMBITO PSICHIATRICO FORENSE: UNA PROSPETTIVA MEDICO-LEGALE
No full textQualità di sistema e responsabilità professionale del medico legale. Patologia da tossici
No full textXenobiotici, sostanze e pratiche dopanti. Parte IV. Anestetici Locali, Alcol Etilico, Derivati della Cannabis, Corticosteroidi, Beta Bloccanti, Antiinfiammatori, Antiasmatici e Antitussivi, Eritropoietina ed EMO-correlati, Doping Genetico
No full textAn unusual unplanned complex suicide by arm cutting, poisoning, and self-immolation
Full text linkDifferent methods of suicide, when combined with contamination of the scene, increase the difficulty of interpreting the dynamics of an event. In the presented case, the discovery of a corpse with widespread burns, singed hair, an “X”-shaped cut on the arm with a weapon distant from the body, and the death scene significantly altered by subjects with psychiatric disorders raised the hypothesis of murder in the initial phase. However, the integration of the death scene investigation with medicolegal, toxicological, and radiological analyses allowed for the identification of an unusual unplanned complex suicide by arm cutting, poisoning, and self-immolation
Infants of Mothers with Cocaine Use: Review of Clinical and Medico-Legal Aspects
Full text linkIllicit drug use is a global problem that also affects pregnant women. Substance use and alcohol abuse during pregnancy may have various harmful consequences for both mothers and foetuses. Intrauterine exposure to illicit substances can be investigated through maternal reports and toxicological tests on mothers’ and/or newborns’ samples. While the negative effects of alcohol and opioid use on pregnancy, the foetus, and/or newborn are well established, the effects of cocaine use remain controversial. We performed a review of the literature to evaluate the current state of knowledge of the effects of intrauterine cocaine exposure on newborns’ and children’s long-term development and to highlight possible implications for health professionals dealing with women who use cocaine during pregnancy. Although intrauterine cocaine exposure has been associated with reduced infant measurements, no specific amount of cocaine use exerting such effects has been determined, and no long-term effects have been confirmed. The evidence of cocaine use during pregnancy justifies a clinical and social takeover of the mother and newborn without assuming that there will certainly be long-term damage related to intrauterine cocaine exposure, but also considering other possible associated factors
Postpartum maternal death associated with undiagnosed Hodgkin's lymphoma
No full textThe authors describe the case of a 28-year-old patient who died from an extensive intracerebral haemorrhage due to disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) which occurred a few days after delivery. Access to an emergency department of gynaecology on three separate occasions in the three days preceding hospitalization made judicial evaluation of the case necessary. The case was studied with a methodological approach based on the following steps: (1) examination of clinical records; (2) autopsy; (3) study of the placenta; (4) anatomo-histopathological observations concerning particular organs and structures potentially involved in postpartum maternal death; and (5) evaluation of physicians' behaviour, in the light of necroscopic findings and a review of the literature. The causes of death most frequently described in the postpartum period were excluded; a mediastinal nodular sclerosing Hodgkin's lymphoma with transdiaphragmatic diffusion, not diagnosed in life, was demonstrated. The cause of death was identified as intracerebral haemorrhage following DIC, Hodgkin's disease and recent delivery by caesarean section. Analysis of the physicians' conduct, together with a review of the literature, revealed a medical error. However, no causal relationship between the error and the death of the patient was considered to exist. The interest of the case lies in the unusual cause of DIC discussed in relation to a hypothesis of obstetric-gynaecological liability
Clustering radar satellite (PS-InSAR time series) data: Geological interpretations in the Sannio-Irpinia area (Campania, Italy)
No full textSi descrive un’applicazione di tecniche di clustering su dati
satellitari relativi ai serie storiche di deformazione del suolo. Tali dati sono stati
ottenuti mediante elaborazione con tecnica PS-InSARTM su immagini dei
satelliti ERS1-2 per il periodo 1992-2000. L’area analizzata è compresa tra le
città di Avellino e Benevento in Campania, e si sono ottenute alcune importanti
informazioni sui trend deformativi del suolo presenti nel periodo di misura e sulla loro distribuzione areale, che è stata interpretata in prospettiva geologica e sismotettonica
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