132 research outputs found
Microfluidic continuous flow immunoassay for autonomous measurement of inflammation markers in a native sample stream
No full textA microfluidic device is presented which fully automates all of the incubation steps of a microbead immunoassay. The device requires only controlled inlet flow rates to achieve this automation, and has no moving parts. These assays are useful for a wide variety of biomolecular quantification applications. Additional benefits of the micro-immunoassay are small sample volume requirements, high sampling rate capability, continuous monitoring, and the potential for real time monitoring of time-varying sample concentrations. The continuous monitoring feature has specific clinical applications such as studying the time course of inflammatory biomarkers in the blood during mechanical circulatory support procedures, and studying the inflammation response in cerebrospinal fluid following spinal cord injury. It has also been shown that multiplexed quantification on a single micro-immunoassay chip is possible. These unique features will enable a variety of new functionalities for clinical diagnostics and laboratory research as compared to existing assay techniques.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Lawrence A. Sasso Jr
Erratum to: Effect of moderate red wine intake on cardiac prognosis after recent acute myocardial infarction of subjects with Type 2 diabetes mellitus (Diabetic Medicine, (2006), 23, 9, (974-981), 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2006.01886.x)
No full textIn an article by Marfella et al, the author name C. Saron is incorrect and should be listed as C. Sardu. Therefore the correct author list is: R. Marfella, F. Cacciapuoti, M. Siniscalchi, F. C. Sasso, F. Marchese, F. Cinone, E. Musacchio, M. A. Marfella, L. Ruggiero, G. Chiorazzo, D. Liberti, G. Chiorazzo, G. F. Nicoletti, C. Sardu, F. D'Andrea, C. Ammendola, M. Verza and L. Coppola.In an article by Marfella et al, the author name C. Saron is incorrect and should be listed as C. Sardu. Therefore the correct author list is: R. Marfella, F. Cacciapuoti, M. Siniscalchi, F. C. Sasso, F. Marchese, F. Cinone, E. Musacchio, M. A. Marfella, L. Ruggiero, G. Chiorazzo, D. Liberti, G. Chiorazzo, G. F. Nicoletti, C. Sardu, F. D'Andrea, C. Ammendola, M. Verza and L. Coppola
A New Gall Midge Species of Asphondylia (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) Inducing Flower Galls on Clinopodium nepeta (Lamiaceae) from Europe, Its Phenology, and Associated Fungi
No full textA new gall midge, Asphondylia nepetae sp. n. Viggiani (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), causing flower gall on Clinopodium nepeta (L.) Kuntze (Lamiaceae), is described from Europe. The morphological characteristics of adult, larvae, and pupa are described and illustrated. Molecular approach (by sequencing 28S-D2, ITS2, and COI) confirmed that A. nepetae is a distinct species. The development of the gall is always associated with the presence of the fungus Botryosphaeria dothidea (Moug.: Fr.) Ces. and De Not. (Botryosphaeriales: Botryosphaeriaceae). The new species can complete several generations per year, on the flowers of the same host plant and its adults emerge from late spring to autumn. Pupae overwinter inside peculiar flower galls in a state of quiescence. The impact of the pest is highly variable with a percentage of flowers infested that ranged between 3 and 57.5% in the sampled years. Insect mortality was, at least in part, due to parasitoids that attack the young stages of the midge. Among them, the dominant species was Sigmophora brevicornis (Panzer) (Chalcidoidea: Eulophidae). © The Author(s) 2018
Problem based learning per le professioni sanitarie
No full textProblem based learning for health personnel
This book describes the problem based learning (PBL) educational approach and its application in the health professionals education.
Problem based learning (PBL) is a student centred approach to active learning originating from McMaster university in 1970. We can find its roots in John Dewey's approach to education.
The author wrote 5 chapters (1-2-3-4-10). The first chapter describes the rationale and the history of problem based learning. The second chapter tries to answer the question: “Is PBL effective?” and illustrates the results of the main systematic reviews concerning student and teacher satisfaction, academic achievements, major competencies acquired by students comparing to traditional curricula. Since PBL is not only an educational methodology, but it is also a curriculum organizer, the third chapter describes how to plan an entire academic curriculum to train health personnel, including a lot of examples of curricula for the training of nurses and physiotherapists at international level. The fourth chapter is dedicated to problem construction, the different formats of problems and taxonomy, how to write a good problem for educational purpose. . Chapter 10 is dedicated to the introduction of PBL in continuing education of inter professional health professions.
The book is the most exhaustive one about this subject in Italian language
Problem based learning per le professioni sanitarie
No full textProblem based learning for health personnel
This book describes the problem based learning (PBL) educational approach and its application in the health professionals education.
Problem based learning (PBL) is a student centred approach to active learning originating from McMaster university in 1970. We can find its roots in John Dewey's approach to education.
The author wrote 5 chapters (1-2-3-4-10). The first chapter describes the rationale and the history of problem based learning. The second chapter tries to answer the question: “Is PBL effective?” and illustrates the results of the main systematic reviews concerning student and teacher satisfaction, academic achievements, major competencies acquired by students comparing to traditional curricula. Since PBL is not only an educational methodology, but it is also a curriculum organizer, the third chapter describes how to plan an entire academic curriculum to train health personnel, including a lot of examples of curricula for the training of nurses and physiotherapists at international level. The fourth chapter is dedicated to problem construction, the different formats of problems and taxonomy, how to write a good problem for educational purpose. . Chapter 10 is dedicated to the introduction of PBL in continuing education of inter professional health professions.
The book is the most exhaustive one about this subject in Italian language
Amphibious Subjects
No full textAmphibious Subjects is an ethnographic study of a community of self-identified effeminate men— known in local parlance as sasso—residing in coastal Jamestown, a suburb of Accra, Ghana’s capital. Drawing on the Ghanaian philosopher Kwame Gyekye’s notion of “amphibious personhood,” Kwame Edwin Otu argues that sasso embody and articulate amphibious subjectivity in their self-making, creating an identity that moves beyond the homogenizing impulses of Western categories of gender and sexuality. Such subjectivity unsettles claims made by both the Christian heteronationalist state and LGBT+ human rights organizations that Ghana is predominantly heterosexual or homophobic. Weaving together personal interactions with sasso, participant observation, autoethnography, archival sources, essays from African and African-diasporic literature, and critical analyses of documentaries such as the BBC’s The World’s Worst Place to Be Gay, Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic meditation on how Africa is configured as the “heart of homophobic darkness” in transnational LGBT+ human rights imaginaries.
“This book is a powerful synthesis of African theorization and rigorous fieldwork that presents an engaging and convincing read of a location. Kwame Edwin Otu’s work is not simply meaningful for Jamestown, Accra, Ghana, or West Africa; it has real import elsewhere while remaining committed to its locality and subjects, a rare feat.” T. J. Tallie, author of Queering Colonial Natal: Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa
“A unique project based on groundbreaking research. There is no other work that gives such elegant insight into the multifarious desires of queer life—in an African city or anywhere. Otu convincingly shows how simplistic identity categories are confounded by the fluidities and illegibilities of lived queer experience.” Jesse Weaver Shipley, Professor of African and African American Studies and Oratory, Dartmouth Colleg
Prediction of ductile failure in materials for onshore and offshore pipeline applications
No full textThis paper shows the procedures needed to calibrate a numerical model intended for ductile damage estimation of bulk materials. For this purpose, an extensive experimental campaign has been carried out on three steels used for offshore/onshore pipe applications. Tests have been performed providing very different stress states: tensile and compressive uniaxial tests, multiaxial tensile tests on round notched bars, 3-point bend tests, again on notched geometries, and plane strain tensile tests on large grooved specimens. Based on the gathered results, a standard plasticity model has been tuned and then the damage model parameters have been identified for each investigated material. The chosen theoretical formulation can take into account all of the experimental evidence: hence, the numerical model represents a useful tool for finite element simulation of engineering problems where information concerning the materials ultimate resistance capability is needed. Moreover, the proposed calibration technique has general validity and can be used to tune other similar damage models. © 2013 The Author(s)
2020 ONS Congress Poster Abstracts - Pain management satisfaction reported by cancer patients in a national comprehensive cancer center in Italy: 65.
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