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Therapeutic efficacy of a nutritional combination of N-3 PUFAS and Arctium lappa in canine atopic dermatitis
No full textThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the therapeutic efficacy of a diet containing Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids (n-3 PUFAs) supplemented with the Arctium lappa (AL) plant (Fito Progres® ADULT Sensitive, Blaufelden Wiesenbach, Germany) on Canine Atopic Dermatitis (CAD). Twenty atopic dogs were fed a specifically prepared diet for 90 days and were then returned to their usual diet for another 90 days. A physiological and complete dermatological examination was conducted every 30 days. The examination of the dogs’ skin included an assessment of the Canine Atopic Dermatitis Extent and Severity Index (CADESI) and the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) for pruritus based on owner-derived data. The results show a significant reduction (p<0.01) in the total CADESI score for the 1st 90 days of the trial (V90) compared to day 0 (V0; selection visit) and the same trend is also evident during the following 90 days. Therefore, the positive effect of the feed persisted for 90 days after the studied diet was suspended. Furthermore, the research shows a highly significant reduction (p<0.01) in pruritus during the period the dogs received the studied diet compared to V0 while the pruritus increased significantly in the second period of the trial (p<0.05) compared to V90. The number of dogs with pruritus decreased after 90 days of feeding with the formulated diet while it increased after the studied diet was suspended. The results of this study suggest that the studied diet could be a powerful tool in the management of CAD
I Mareri signori della montagna. Committenza e produzione artistica nella Valle del Salto alla fine del Medioevo
No full textTra la fine del ’300 e la metà XV secolo, la famiglia Mareri (o Maineri, Manerii, Mainerii e de Marerio) acquistò grande rilievo nella Valle del Salto e nel Cicolano. Centro principale della contea fu Petrella Salto, dove la famiglia risiedette e concentrò nella chiesa di Santa Maria, le sue principali committenze artistiche. Qui, almeno tre le cappelle, databili tra ’300 e ’400, conservano tracce cospicue di pitture, realizzate da artisti di probabile origine locale, ma a parte delle più importanti decorazioni coeve eseguite nel Regno
Propriedades psicom?tricas da vers?o brasileira do Teste Comportamental de Mem?ria de Rivermead (RBMT) em idosos
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Previous issue date: 2016-11-30Background: Along with increased longevity elderly are accompanied by diseases such as cognitive decline. Despite the increase in scientific research on cognitive aging, there are few adapted and validated for the American Latin countries. Thus, there is need for greater availability of valid instruments, reliable, standardized and standardized for use with the Brazilian population. Studies also show that education has a significant impact on cognitive performance, which may confound interpretation of the test results. It is noteworthy that low education with elderly performed worse on memory tests which can be seen in the ecological test and thus modify regulation standards is necessary because the test complements the traditional procedures of formal assessment of memory. The behavioral test Rivermead memory differs by being a functional and ecological test, widely used for memory assessment in aging may be of great value for the diagnosis and the use of formal cognitive batteries. Objective: Thus, these works has the main objective suggest normative data for the elderly, stratified by age and education to the Behavioral Test Rivermead Memory (RBMT) and evaluates the effect of these variables in a sample of elderly with preserved cognition, as well as comparatively analyze the results of normal and depressed elderly people with low education. Methods: A cross-sectional study involving a sample of 233 healthy elderly from a third-age group in Porto Alegre with an average age of 70 (SD 7.9) years and 10.7 (SD 4.8) years of education was carried out. The sample was stratified into the following age groups: 60-69 years, 70-79 years and > 80 years. The sample was also divided into individuals with < 8 years and ? 8 years of education. Pearson?s Chi-squared test and Spearman correlations were used. Results: The elderly participants with low educational level had worse performance on all sub-tests, except the Pictures, Messages, Belongings and Orientation. Older elderly performed worse for total RBMT score and on the Face Recognition, Immediate and Delayed Route, Messages and Belongings subtests (p ? 0.005). Conclusion: Mean scores for age and schooling were suggested in ecological tasks, which is an aspect to be taken into account in the context of the neuropsychological evaluation of cognitively normal elderly.Introdu??o: Juntamente com o aumento da longevidade os idosos est?o sendo acompanhados por patologias, como o decl?nio cognitivo. Apesar do aumento das pesquisas cientificas sobre o envelhecimento cognitivo, ainda existem poucos instrumentos adaptados e validados para os pa?ses latinos americanos. Sendo assim, existe a necessidade de instrumentos v?lidos, fidedignos, padronizados e normatizados para serem utilizados com a popula??o brasileira. Estudos mostram tamb?m que a escolaridade exerce um impacto significativo no desempenho cognitivo, podendo confundir a interpreta??o dos resultados nos testes. Idosos com baixa escolaridade apresentam pior desempenho em testes de mem?ria o que pode ser verificado no teste ecol?gico e desta forma modificar padr?es de normatiza??o se faz necess?rio, pois o teste complementa os procedimentos tradicionais de avalia??o formal da mem?ria. O Teste Comportamental de Mem?ria de Rivermead, ? um teste funcional e ecol?gico, amplamente utilizado para avalia??o de mem?ria no envelhecimento podendo ser de grande valia para o diagn?stico bem como na utiliza??o em baterias cognitivas formais. Objetivo: Esse trabalho teve por objetivo principal sugerir dados normativos para idosos, estratificados por idade e escolaridade para o Teste de Comportamental de Mem?ria Rivermead (RBMT) e avaliar o efeito dessas vari?veis em amostra de idosos com cogni??o preservada, assim como analisar comparativamente os resultados de idosos normais e deprimidos com baixa escolaridade. M?todos: Estudo transversal com uma amostra de 233 idosos saud?veis, provenientes de um grupo de terceira idade do Munic?pio de Porto alegre, com m?dia de idade de 70 anos (7,9 DP) e 10,7 (4,8 DP) anos de escolaridade. A amostra foi dividida em idosos entre 60-69 anos, 70-79 anos e acima de 80 anos. A escolaridade foi dividida entre idosos abaixo de 8 anos e maior ou igual a 8 anos de estudo. Foram utilizados os testes Qui-Quadrado de Pearson e teste de correla??o de Spearman. Resultados: Os idosos com baixa escolaridade apresentaram pior desempenho em todas as tarefas, exceto no reconhecimento, na mem?ria prospectiva e na orienta??o (p?0,001). Idosos mais velhos tiveram desempenho inferior no escore total do RBMT e nas tarefas de reconhecimento, no caminho imediato e recente, na mem?ria prospectiva (p?0,005). Conclus?o: Foram sugeridos escores m?dios para a idade e escolaridade, em tarefas ecol?gicas, sendo esse um aspecto a ser levado em conta no contexto da avalia??o neuropsicol?gica de idosos cognitivamente normais
Ten simple rules for starting FAIR discussions in your community.
No full textThis work presents 10 rules that provide guidance and recommendations on how to start up discussions around the implementation of the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles and creation of standardised ways of working. These recommendations will be particularly relevant if you are unsure where to start, who to involve, what the benefits and barriers of standardisation are, and if little work has been done in your discipline to standardise research workflows. When applied, these rules will support a more effective way of engaging the community with discussions on standardisation and practical implementation of the FAIR principles.Scholarly Communications and PublishingManagement SupportControl & Simulatio
Natural reason and God’s infinite power : diversity of approaches in the late 13th and 14th century commentaries on Averroes's De Substantia Orbis
No full textThe subject of this article is the Latin reception of Averroes’s treatise De substantia orbis, with special regard to the commentary practice in the late Middle Ages. Numerous philosophical problems were taken up in these commentaries following Averroes’s lead. The most controversial among them were these concerning divine attributes, i.e., infinite power, efficient and final causality, and, consequently, God’s ability to create out of nothing. Three different commentaries were therefore chosen to exemplify the key differences between the doctrinal approaches of the commentaries on the De substantia orbis. The first two of them - composed by Fernand of Spain and Maino de’ Maineri - represent the exegetic approach, adopting and developing Averroes’s ideas; the third commentary - composed by an anonymous author in Erfurt around 1362 - represents the critical approach referring to the questions raised in the De substantia orbis in order to propose orthodox solutions being far from these adopted in the treaty by Averroes himself. The article aims at scrutinizing the problems of infinite power of God and divine causality as they have been taken up by Latin philosophers from the late 13th to the second half of the 14th century by elucidating the key differences between the two lines of inquiry and highlighting the variety of approaches to Averroes’s De substantia orbis
Erratum: Nodal management and upstaging of disease: Initial results from the Italian VATS Lobectomy Registry [J Thorac Dis, 9, (2017), (2061-2070)] DOI: 10.21037/jtd.2017.06.12
No full textIn the article that appeared on page 2061-2070, Vol 9, No 7 (July 2017) Issue of the Journal of Thoracic Disease (1), there are some mistakes in the presented authors information. In the list of collaborators of the Italian VATS Group are not included the following author names: Alessandro Bertani, Alessandro Gonfiotti, Mario Nosotti, Paolo Albino Ferrari, Lavinia De Monte, Emanuele Russo, Gioacchino Di Paola, Piergiorgio Solli, Andrea Droghetti, Luca Bertolaccini, Roberto Crisci. The correct list of collaborators of the Italian VATS Group should have been shown as below. Alessandro Bertani, MD (IRCCS ISMETT, Palermo); Alessandro Gonfiotti, MD (Careggi Hospital, Firenze); Mario Nosotti, MD (Policlinico Ca'Granda, Milano); Paolo Albino Ferrari, MD (IRCCS ISMETT, Palermo); Lavinia De Monte, MD (IRCCS ISMETT, Palermo); Emanuele Russo, MD (IRCCS ISMETT, Palermo); Gioacchino Di Paola, MD (IRCCS ISMETT, Palermo); Piergiorgio Solli, MD PhD (AUSL Romagna Teaching Hospital, Forlì); Andrea Droghetti, MD (ASST Mantova-Cremona, Mantova); Luca Bertolaccini, MD PhD (AUSL Romagna Teaching Hospital, Forlì); Roberto Crisci, MD PhD (Università dell'Aquila, L'Aquila); Carlo Curcio, MD (Monaldi Hospital, Napoli); Dario Amore, MD (Monaldi Hospital, Napoli); Giuseppe Marulli, MD (University of Padova); Samuele Nicotra, MD (University of Padova); Andrea De Negri, MD (San Martino Hospital, Genova); Paola Maineri, MD (San Martino Hospital, Genova); Gaetano di Rienzo (Vito Fazzi Hospital, Lecce); Camillo Lopez, MD (Vito Fazzi Hospital, Lecce); Angelo Morelli, MD (S. Maria delle Misericordia Hospital, Udine); Francesco Londero, MD (S. Maria delle Misericordia Hospital, Udine); Lorenzo Spaggiari, MD (IEO Hospital, Milano); Roberto Gasparri, MD (IEO Hospital, Milano); Guido Baietto, MD (Maggiore della Carità Hospital, Novara); Caterina Casadio, MD (Maggiore della Carità Hospital, Novara); Maurizio Infante, MD (Borgo Trento Hospital, Verona); Cristiano Benato, MD (Borgo Trento Hospital, Verona); Marco Alloisio, MD (IRCCS Humanitas, Milano); Edoardo Bottoni, MD (IRCCS Humanitas, Milano); Giuseppe Cardillo, MD (Forlanini Hospital, Roma); Francesco Carleo, MD (Forlanini Hospital, Roma); Franco Stella, MD (S. Orsola Hospital, Bologna); Giampiero Dolci, MD (S. Orsola Hospital, Bologna); Francesco Puma, MD (University of Perugia); Damiano Vinci, MD (University of Perugia); Giorgio Cavallesco, MD (University of Ferrara); Pio Maniscalco, MD (University of Ferrara); Luca Ampollini, MD (University of Parma); Paolo Carbognani, MD (University of Parma); Alberto Terzi, MD (Negrar Hospital, Verona); Andrea Viti, MD (Negrar Hospital, Verona); Giampiero Negri, MD (S. Raffaele Hospital, Milano); Alessandro Bandiera, MD (S. Raffaele Hospital, Milano); Reinhold Perkmann, MD (Bolzano Hospital, Bolzano); Francesco Zaraca, MD (Bolzano Hospital, Bolzano); Claudio Andretti, MD (S. Andrea Hospital, Roma); Camilla Poggi, MD (S. Andrea Hospital, Roma); Felice Mucilli, MD (S. Maria Annunziata Hospital, Chieti); Pierpaolo Camplese, MD (S. Maria Annunziata Hospital, Chieti); Luca Luzzi, MD (University of Siena); Marco Ghisalberti, MD (University of Siena); Andrea Imperatori, MD (University of Varese); Nicola Rotolo, MD (University of Varese); Luigi Bortolotti, MD (Humanitas Gavazzeni Hospital, Bergamo); Giovanna Rizzardi, MD (Humanitas Gavazzeni Hospital, Bergamo); Massimo Torre, MD (Niguarda Hospital, Milano); Alessandro Rinaldo, MD (Niguarda Hospital, Milano); Armando Sabbatini, MD (Ospedali Riuniti, Ancona); Majed Refai, MD (Ospedali Riuniti, Ancona); Mauro Roberto Benvenuti, MD (Spedali Civili, Brescia); Diego Benetti, MD (Spedali Civili, Brescia); Alessandro Stefani, MD (Ospedale Policlinico, Modena); Pamela Natali, MD (Ospedale Policlinico, Modena); Paolo Lausi, MD (Ospedale Molinette, Torino); Francesco Guerrera, MD (Ospedale Molinette, Torino)
The nature of optically dull active galactic nuclei in COSMOS
No full textWe present infrared, optical, and X-ray data of 48 X-ray bright, optically dull active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the COSMOS field. These objects exhibit the X-ray luminosity of an AGN but lack broad and narrow emission lines in their optical spectrum. We show that despite the lack of optical emission lines, most of these optically dull AGNs are not well described by a typical passive red galaxy spectrum: instead they exhibit weak but significant blue emission like an unobscured AGN. Photometric observations over several years additionally show significant variability in the blue emission of four optically dull AGNs. The nature of the blue and infrared emission suggest that the optically inactive appearance of these AGNs cannot be caused by obscuration intrinsic to the AGNs. Instead, up to ~70% of optically dull AGNs are diluted by their hosts, with bright or simply edge-on hosts lying preferentially within the spectroscopic aperture. The remaining ~30% of optically dull AGNs have anomalously high fX /fO ratios and are intrinsically weak, not obscured, in the optical. These optically dull AGNs are best described as a weakly accreting AGN with a truncated accretion disk from a radiatively inefficient accretion flow. Based on observations with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, obtained at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by AURA Inc, under NASA contract NAS 5-26555; the Magellan Telescope, which is operated by the Carnegie Observatories; and the Subaru Telescope, which is operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Exploring the feasibility of ex-post harmonisation of religiosity items from the European Social Survey and the European Values Study
No full textThis paper examines the feasibility of ex-post harmonisation strategies using European Values Study (EVS) Wave 5 (2017–2020) and European Social Survey (ESS) Round 9 (2018–2019) data across 17 countries. The study shows an empirical assessment of the comparability of four items measuring religious behaviours (belonging to a religious denomination at present/in the past, religious services attendance, and praying), captured in both surveys. The novelty of this paper lies in the analytical comparison of religiosity indicators that are rarely assessed from a comparative perspective. The harmonisation strategy was based upon several analytical techniques that seek to determine similarities and differences between the selected items in terms of (a) their validity, by examining their correlations with a set of sociodemographic and substantive correlates, (b) their distributions, supplemented by visual comparisons and relevant statistical tests, and (c) item non-substantive shares. The findings pointed to the most consistency among the partial correlations, where individual religiosity produced the most differences between the surveys. Distributions produced the most discrepancies that also corresponded to less similarity across variable categories as gauged by Duncan’s index. This paper is descriptive and exploratory in its aim. It can be taken as a jumping-off point for future research where the time series of these two surveys, and potentially others, can be examined across aggregate levels (e.g. birth cohorts, countries)
High frequency deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus versus continuous subcutaneous apomorphine infusion therapy: a review
No full textAnálise de desempenho estrutural aplicada a paredes em painéis de madeira revestidos com elementos cerâmicos
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico.Neste trabalho é apresentado um levantamento das técnicas construtivas específicas para aplicação de revestimento cerâmico em paredes de edificações em madeira, que são empregadas em países com ampla tradição em construções com base neste material. Tem o intuito de contribuir para o aprimoramento da tecnologia construtiva voltada ao setor madeireiro brasileiro. Aborda a análise de desempenho de elementos e componentes estruturais como forma de comprovação do desempenho de soluções construtivas quando em uso, submetendo a ensaios protótipos de paredes de edificações em madeira, revestidos com elementos cerâmicos, assentados sobre chapa cimentícia
