Search results for " Humans"

Building Bridges through Science

2017

WOS: 000415310800007 PubMed ID: 29144972 Science is ideally suited to connect people from different cultures and thereby foster mutual understanding. To promote international life science collaboration, we have launched "The Science Bridge'' initiative. Our current project focuses on partnership between Western and Middle Eastern neuroscience communities. Medical Research Council [MC_UP_1202/5]

A new multi analytical approach for the identification of synthetic and natural dyes mixtures. The case of orcein-mauveine mixture in a historical dr…

2017

In this paper, the application of a multi-analytical approach for the characterisation of synthetic and natural dyes in a historical textile is presented. The work is focused on a historical dress of a Sicilian noblewoman, dating from about 1865–1870. Firstly, SERS on fibre was performed, in order to individuate the classes of dyes employed. The SERS spectra suggested the presence of two main dyes: mauveine and orcein. In order to confirm these preliminary results, two different extraction protocols were applied. The extracts obtained were analysed by ESI-MS, MALDI-ToF and UHPCL-MS analyses, confirming the SERS results. In particular, the application of the ammonia mild extraction technique…

La pugna de las memorias. Chile, cuarenta años después.

2018

Han pasado cuatro décadas desde que el Ejército chileno se sublevó contra el Gobierno de Salvador Allende. Los años pasan, pero las memorias individuales y de grupo de ese período ―entendidas como discursos sobre el pasado¿ continúan siendo beligerantemente contradictorias, como evidencia la controversia todavía existente entre las figuras de Allende y Pinochet. Esa realidad nos preocupa en la medida que los jóvenes que no vivieron los años de plomo se adscriben ¿de manera poco crítica¿, a la memoria dominante en su espacio vital próximo. Construir una memoria para el futuro, incrementando la dosis de conocimiento histórico de los jóvenes chilenos, podría favorecer el reconocimiento de las …

The Finnish Version of the Affinity for Technology Interaction (ATI) Scale : Psychometric Properties and an Examination of Gender Differences

2022

The pervasiveness of technical systems in our lives calls for a broad understanding of the interaction between humans and technology. Affinity for technology interaction (ATI) scale measures the tendency of a person to actively engage or to avoid interaction with technological systems, including both software and physical devices. This research presents a psychometric analysis of a Finnish version of the ATI scale. The data consisted of 796 responses of students in a Finnish university. The data were analyzed utilizing factor analysis and both nonparametric and parametric item response theory. The Finnish version of the ATI scale proved to be essentially unidimensional, showing high reliabi…

Facultat de Ciències Socials

2008

La Universitat de València t'obri les seues portes. En les seues Facultats i Escoles Universitàries descobriràs una àmplia oferta d'estudis, equipament docent d'última tecnologia, instal·lacions esportives i culturals i una completa xarxa de biblioteques. Tot el que necessites per a accedir a una formació integral que garantisca el teu futur professional.

Hypoallergenic fragment of Par j 2 increases functional expression of Toll-like receptors in atopic children.

2006

Background: Parietaria judaica (Par j) is one of the main causes of allergy in the Mediterranean countries. The activation of Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) inhibits nasal inflammation of atopic children. Objective:  To examine, in vivo and in vitro, the effect of recombinant Par j 2 (rPar j 2) and of its fragments (1–55 and 52–102) on atopic children. Methods:  We used skin prick test for in vivo evaluations. We assessed, in vitro, in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC), the effect of rPar j 2 and of the two fragments on neutrophil chemotaxis, on CD45RO, on TLR2 and TLR4 expression, on LPS binding and on interferon (IFN)-γ release, by a microchemotaxis chambe…

Serum soluble interleukin-2 receptor (IL-2R) in children with allergic disorders

1993

National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic

2022

Funder: Research Council of Norway through its Centres of Excellence Scheme, FAIR project No 262675

A novel framework for MR image segmentation and quantification by using MedGA

2019

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Image segmentation represents one of the most challenging issues in medical image analysis to distinguish among different adjacent tissues in a body part. In this context, appropriate image pre-processing tools can improve the result accuracy achieved by computer-assisted segmentation methods. Taking into consideration images with a bimodal intensity distribution, image binarization can be used to classify the input pictorial data into two classes, given a threshold intensity value. Unfortunately, adaptive thresholding techniques for two-class segmentation work properly only for images characterized by bimodal histograms. We aim at overcoming these limitations and…

SIUMB recommendations for focal pancreatic lesions

2020

AbstractContrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) is increasingly being performed in Italy and Europe, particularly in the field of hepato-gastroenterology. Initially, it was mainly carried out to characterize focal hepatic lesions, but, since then, numerous studies have demonstrated its efficacy in the differential diagnosis of focal pancreatic pathologies (D’Onofrio et al. in Expert Rev Med Devices 7(2):257–273, 2010; Vidili et al. in J Ultrasound 22(1):41–51, 2019). The purpose of this paper is to provide Italian Medical Doctors with recommendations and thereby practical guidelines on the management of these patients. The present paper reports the final conclusions reached by the SIUMB gu…