552 research outputs found
Introduzione al Congresso 'Percorsi di Integrazione in Psicologia Clinica Ricerche e Innovazione fra Neuroscienze e Funzionalismo Moderno'
No full textNell'introduzione il curatore ha voluto commentare le ragioni scientifiche che hanno portato alla svolgimento del congresso "Percorsi di Integrazione in Psicologia Clinica
Ricerche e Innovazione fra Neuroscienze e Funzionalismo Moderno" tenutosi a Trieste nel febbraio 2013
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The effect of expertise on encoding of movements and bodily indexes: a study on volleyball players
No full textThe use of a particular attentional paradigm, the paradigm of Sidedness (Ottoboni, Tessari, Cubelli & Umiltà, 2005) has highlighted as professional volleyball players differ from non-players in the ability to encode specific spatial indexes. The presentation of images of hands of potential adversaries incorporates meanings related to sport that make volleyball athletes sensitive to directional spatial characteristics previously unobserved. What appears to be crucial in the generation of such effect is the ability to predict the direction of an action
When motor attention improves selective attention: the dissociating role of saliency
No full textThere is evidence that preparing and maintaining a motor plan (“motor attention”) can bias visual selective attention. For example, a motor attended grasp biases visual attention to select appropriately graspable object features (Symes, Tucker, Ellis, Vainio, & Ottoboni, 2008). According to the biased competition model of selective attention, the relative weightings of stimulus-driven and goal-directed factors determine selection. The current study investigated how the goal-directed bias of motor attention might operate when the stimulus-driven salience of the target was varied. Using a change detection task, two almost identical photographed scenes of simplistic graspable objects were presented flickering back and forth. The target object changed visually, and this change was either high or low salience. Target salience determined whether or not the motor attended grasp significantly biased visual selective attention. Specifically, motor attention only had a reliable influence on target detection times when the visual salience of the target was low
Inclusione di larve di mosca nera soldato in mangimi estrusi sperimentali : ottimizzazione di processo ed effetti sul valore nutrizionale
No full textPercorsi di Integrazione in Psicologia Clinica Ricerche e Innovazione fra Neuroscienze e Funzionalismo Moderno
No full textCuratela di raccolta degli interventi tenuti dai relatori invitati al congresso "Percorsi di Integrazione in Psicologia Clinica
Ricerche e Innovazione fra Neuroscienze e Funzionalismo Moderno" tenutosi a Trieste nel febbraio 2013
Substrate as insect feed for bio-mass production
No full textInsects are able to convert organic material (i.e. waste and by products) into high-quality biomass, which can be processed into animal feed. Several studies have investigated the influence of growing substrates on the nutritional value of different insect species, particularly black soldier fly larvae and prepupae. This article reviews studies on how insects bioconvert different substrates, the effect of the substrate on the composition of insect meals, and on the development time (time needed to reach the harvesting state). All these studies indicate that insects convert low and high quality organic material (i.e. waste, by products, compound feeds) into high-quality insect biomass. The role and effects of selected nutrients, such as ether extract/fats, carbohydrates and fibre in the substrate, seem to be key factors in defining the features of the biomass as well as the time needed to reach the harvesting state
An integrative body therapy approach: The Neo-Functionalism approach
No full textRecent scientific evidence highlights the importance of the body, in its both cognitive and emotional aspects, and this stimulates therapists to seek more integrated forms of therapy. This article introduces the Neo-Funcionalism approach, which is a key therapeutic approach that emphasises the importance of the body. The first part of the article provides evidence supporting the approach and discusses two of its most important components: the 'functions' and the 'basic experiences'. In the second part of the article, the two conceptual components are discussed with reference to a case report of therapeutic work
Light microscopy in combination with computer image analysis for the identification of processed animal protein in feed
No full textFood production is a complex process, with the ultimate objective of the food industry and food safety regulators being to ensure that food reaching the consumer is safe and wholesome. For food derived from animals, the hazard may originate from a number of sources including the consumption by food producing animals of contaminated feed. This is the case of the protracted outbreak of mad-cow disease, for which a feed ban has been introduced [1]. Microscopy and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) together, are the official accepted methods for detection of animal proteins in feed [2] [5].
Nevertheless, neither of two methods fits all the requirements for the accurate identification of prohibited ingredients of animal origin. Light microscopy in combination with computer image analysis (IA), which is based on the identification of bone particles or tissues in feedingstuffs, has been also proposed. Findings in these studies have indicated that the use of the microscopic method in association with IA to identify the origin of processed animal proteins (PAPs) appears promising, especially as a complementary method to the DNA-based ones. This paper explored the potential of the use of
microscopy in combination with IA measurements in distinguishing between different PAPs
Ex-Food: promoting a novel and sustainable pig production by using food leftovers as feedstuff
No full textThe use of alternative feed ingredients in farm animal diets is interesting from several perspectives. Ex-foods, also known as Former Food Products (FFPs), are one way of converting losses from the food industry into ingredients for the animal feed industry, thereby keeping nutrients in the food chain. Based on their nutritional features, these materials are extremely rich in carbohydrates, free sugars and, depending on their origin, also in fats. In addition, FFPs are often characterized by a high degree of processing including technological and heat treatments which can affect not only the availability of nutrients and the kinetics of digestion, but also gastro intestinal health and animal response. This review integrates some of the most recent published works about the chemical composition, nutritional value, digestibility and glycemic index of ex-foods. In addition, a view on the relationship between the use of FFPs and safety issues and their effects on intestinal microbiota are also given
Microscopic methods and computer image analysis for distinguishing fish meals containing pelagic and farmed fish vs sea mammals (no target species)
No full textThe aim of this study was to investigate whether microscopic methods and computer image analysis are useful in distinguish and classify marine/fish meals containing pelagic and farmed fish (e.g. salmon) vs sea mammals (no target species). Accordingly, eight samples of controlled origin were used, namely: fishmeal (4 samples) and sea mammal meals (4 reference samples). Specifically, two fish meals were from pelagic catch (FM Latin America and FM Scandinavia), one was Mackerel meal and one Salmon meal. Sea mammal meals (i.e no target species) were obtained from Dolphin, Porpoise, Seal or Whale carcass provided by the Walloon Agricultural Research Centre - CRA-W, Belgium, Europen Reference Laboratory for Animal Proteins. Samples were analyzed by the microscopic method, according to Annex VI of Regulation 152/2009. Sediment fractions of each sample were observed with a compound microscope at X40. Bone fragment lacunae (n. 625) images from 8 samples (FM Latin America, FM Scandinavia, Mackerel, Salmon, Dolphin, Porpoise, Seal or Whale) were recorded and processed through an IA software. Accordingly, on each lacunae 30 geometric variables have been obtained and measured. The geometric variables have been grouped in two main families, namely: size descriptors and derived shape descriptors. Considering the size descriptors, 11 of them have shown higher mean values in pelagic and farmed fish samples (FMs, mackerel and salmon) than in sea mammal pure meals. By contrast axis minor, diameter min, radius min, size width, ferret min were lower in other fish than in sea mammals. Of note, some differences within the group of fish (FM Latin America, FM Scandinavia, mackerel and salmon) have been also observed: three size descriptors referred to lacunae area were higher in salmon lacunae than in the other fish meals. With regard to the shape descriptor, with the exception of perimeter ratio and solidity, all variables were diverse in fish and sea mammal. Therefore, it can be concluded that combining microscopy and image analysis can contribute in distinguishing fish material vs marine mammal’s materials. Among fish, salmon have shown different bone lacunae size features
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