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Reducing diabetes incidence through the inhibition of the renin-angiotensin system: a strategy for reducing cardiovascular mortality and morbidity?
No full textLow domestic exposure to house dust mite allergens (der p 1) is associated with a reduced non-specific bronchial hyperresponsiveness in mite-sensitised asthmatic subjects under optimal drug treatment
No full textSleep Disordered Breathing is Associated with Appropriate Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Therapy in Congestive Heart Failure Patients.
No full textNurse educational activity on non-prescription therapies in patients with chronic heart failure.
No full textGALLOPAMIL IN CHRONIC STABLE ANGINA - ANTIANGINAL EFFECT AND MECHANISM OF ACTION - A RANDOMIZED, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED, DOUBLE-BLIND, CROSS-OVER TRIAL
No full textHigh- Versus Low-Lipase Acid-Resistant Enzyme Preparations in Cystic Fibrosis: A Crossover Randomized Clinical Trial
No full textHigh-strength pancreatic enzyme preparations have recently come into widespread use in some countries for treatment of pancreatic insufficiency in cystic fibrosis. However, the therapeutic equivalence of these preparations to the standard acid-resistant microsphere preparations, under the same lipase dosage, has not been demonstrated by appropriate clinical trials; they are also considered responsible for severe colonic stricture. In a randomized crossover study, 20 adolescent or adult cystic fibrosis patients were treated in hospital with both low-lipase (A) and high-lipase (B) enteric-coated microsphere preparations. The fat excretion coefficient, evaluated over two 72-h fat balance periods (measured fat intake, 1.43 to 3 g/kg/day according to age), was the main response variable, secondary variables being stool wet and dry weight, fecal nitrogen output, and energy loss. With both preparations, patients were given a daily dose of 1,500-2,000 lipase BP U/g fat ingested, distributed across four meals. The low-strength preparation was divided into three doses during each meal, while the high-strength preparation was taken as a single dose in the middle of each meal. The considerable variability of results did not provide conclusive evidence of equivalence or significant differences between the two preparations in terms of steatorrhea and other variables. However, mean differences between the two treatments and their 95% confidence intervals showed less satisfactory results with the high-lipase preparation. A high-strength preparation is thought to release relatively less enzyme activity in the small intestine, forcing patients to increase their dosage and possibly creating a dangerous enzyme hyperconcentration in the large intestine. For this reason, the occasional occurrence of colonic stricture should be borne in mind, as must the possible scope for division of dosage during each meal
Effect of specific immunotherapy added to pharmacologic treatment and allergen avoidance in allergic asthma
No full textLa certificazione delle Competenze Linguistiche per gli Studenti Universitari Disabili e con DSA. L'esperienza dei Test di Idoneità Inglese B1 presso il CLA di Venezia.
No full textLa L.17/1999 (a integrazione e modifica della LQ104/1992) ha reso obbligatoria l'attivazione dei servizi di supporto alle attività di studio e di vita universitaria degli studenti con disabilità per dar loro la possibilità di accedere ai gradi di istruzione superiore offrendo loro pari opportunità . Tra le attività di supporto proposte c’è la possibilità di sostenere esami personalizzati in modo che lo studente disabile possa affrontare le prove d'esame con tempi aggiuntivi, con l'ausilio di specifici mezzi tecnici o svolgere prove equipollenti su proposta del servizio di tutorato specializzato previo accordo con il docente referente per la materia.\ud
Il CLA di Venezia dall’A.A. 2008/2009 somministra le prove di idoneità di lingua inglese B1 che costituiscono un vero e proprio esame riconosciuto nella carriera dello studente. E’ emersa quindi la necessità di pianificare e gestire la somministrazione dei test a studenti con differenti disabilità. Questo ha comportato in primo luogo un contatto diretto ed efficace con il Servizio Disabilità di Ateneo che ha fornito informazioni, personale di riferimento e mediazioni per identificare gli ostacoli posti dalle specifiche tipologie di disabilità e indicato gli strumenti compensativi e/o misure dispensative previste per legge. In secondo luogo, si è resa necessaria l’istituzione di un protocollo per garantire l’accessibilità delle prove computerizzate del CLA (in riferimento alla L.4/2004) introducendo un percorso ad hoc per ogni singolo studente che individui, sulla base delle indicazioni ricevute dal Servizio Disabilità: modalità di somministrazione (durata e articolazione dei tempi, spazi specifici di svolgimento), formato della prova (cartaceo, computerizzato, orale), caratteristiche del formato (caratteri speciali, caratteri ingranditi, lettura umana di testi ), strumenti di ausilio ( tastiere e mouse particolari, ingranditori, sintetizzatori vocali )
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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