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An Ethical Investments Evaluation for Portfolio Selection
2004
The Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) is an assets allocation, whose aim is to maximize not only the portfolio expected return but the benefits for a consumer who as a whole operates according to the ethical principles. The wealth of a market economy is to cross the different ethical identities of families, of enterprises, of banks, in order to improve the allocation of the resources for a sustainable development. In this paper, we aim at describing the portfolio selection realized on the basis of the ethical principles - positive /negative, inclusionary/exclusionary - of an investor. The first part of this paper describes Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) and ethical funds market in …
Preoperative Anemia and Iron Deficiency Screening, Evaluation and Management: Barrier Identification and Implementation Strategy Mapping
2020
Alana Delaforce,1,2 Jed Duff,1,3 Judy Munday,3,4 Janet Hardy2 1School of Nursing and Midwifery, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia; 2Mater Health Services, South Brisbane, QLD 4101, Australia; 3School of Nursing/Centre for Healthcare Transformation, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia; 4School of Nursing, The University of Agder, Kristiansand, NorwayCorrespondence: Alana Delaforce Email alana.delaforce@mater.org.auIntroduction and aims: Patients undergoing major surgery risk significant blood loss and transfusion, which increases substantially if they have pre-existing anemia. Preoperative Anemia and Iron Deficiency Screening, Evaluation and…
Drug Screening by Inkjet Printing Microarrays
2010
Multidimensional instruments with an integral approach to identify frailty in community-dwelling people: protocol for a systematic psychometric review
2019
IntroductionAn increasing number of investigations highlight the complex nature of frailty; therefore, the use of multidimensional assessment instruments could be useful in clinical decision-making. Frail people are found mainly in the community setting which is why this is the ideal environment for early screening and intervention. For this purpose, it is necessary to have valid, time-effective and easy-to-use frailty assessment instruments. The aim of this review is to critically appraise, compare and summarise the quality of the measurement properties of all multidimensional instruments with an integral approach to identify frailty in community-dwelling people.Methods and analysisMedline…
Development of Bioimage Analysis tools for the study of neurogenesis and neurodegeneration
2021
ANTECEDENTES La combinación sinérgica de métodos automatizados de captura y análisis de bioimagen está emergiendo como un enfoque de vanguardia para abordar muchas cuestiones biológicas. Sin embargo, hay muchos campos en los que estas técnicas aún no se implementan y, en cambio, todavía se basan en la inspección visual y el análisis manual, que inevitablemente limitan el rendimiento alcanzable y son más propensos a introducir el sesgo del investigador. Por lo tanto, aún queda un gran esfuerzo por hacer en la difusión del uso de tecnologías de bioimagen de vanguardia en los campos de las ciencias de la vida con una gran dependencia de métodos de microscopía. En la presente tesis, nuestro obj…
Reverse Screening on Indicaxanthin from Opuntia ficus-indica as natural chemoactive and chemopreventive agent
2018
Indicaxanthin is a bioactive and bioavailable betalain pigment extracted from Opuntia ficus indica fruits. Indicaxanthin has pharmacokinetics proprieties, rarely found in other phytochemicals, and it has been demonstrated that it provides a broad-spectrum of pharmaceutical activity, exerting antiproliferative, anti-inflammatory and neuromodulator effects. The discovery of the Indicaxanthin physiological targets plays an important role in understanding the biochemical mechanism. In this study, combined reverse pharmacophore mapping, reverse docking, and text-based database search identified Inositol Trisphosphate 3-Kinase (ITP3K-A), Glutamate carboxypeptidase II (GCPII), Leukotriene-A4 hydro…
Contributions à l'analyse et à l'interprétation des images : Extraction et représentation de caractéristiques
2016
Ce mémoire, rédigé en vue de l'obtention de l'Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR), offre un aperçu des travaux de recherche et d’encadrement que j’ai pu mener depuis l'obtention de mon doctorat. Il montre la diversité des champs d’application et de recherche (en vision et en imagerie médicale) que j’ai pu couvrir , ainsi que mon implication dans l’encadrement doctoral.Mes activités de recherche se divisent en deux grandes parties. D'une part, l'analyse de scènes dynamiques, à savoir la détection de regions d'intérêt dans des séquences d'images, pour réduire la taile des données à traiter, et la détection et le suivi d'objets mobiles à l'aide de caméras de diverses natures (perspecti…
Common variants at VRK2 and TCF4 conferring risk of schizophrenia
2011
To access publisher full text version of this article. Please click on the hyperlink in Additional Links field. Common sequence variants have recently joined rare structural polymorphisms as genetic factors with strong evidence for association with schizophrenia. Here we extend our previous genome-wide association study and meta-analysis (totalling 7 946 cases and 19 036 controls) by examining an expanded set of variants using an enlarged follow-up sample (up to 10 260 cases and 23 500 controls). In addition to previously reported alleles in the major histocompatibility complex region, near neurogranin (NRGN) and in an intron of transcription factor 4 (TCF4), we find two novel variants show…
Evaluation of oleander accessions for resistance to Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. nerii
2006
Nine oleander accessions were evaluated for resistance to Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. nerii, causal agent of the oleander knot disease. None of the accessions was resistant when tested with three bacterial strains of different virulence, but they varied significantly in the severity of symptoms induced by these strains. The most susceptible accessions "Dark Salmon" (dark salmon flower) showed deformation of stems, leaves and seed pods and secondary knots on aerial parts, whereas the least susceptible one "White" (white flower), inoculated with the least virulent strain, showed neither localized knots at the inoculation point nor secondary symptoms. In this study an in vitro test, based on pr…
Could a Behavioral Model Explain Adherence to Second-Level Colonoscopy for Colon Cancer Screening? Results of a Cross-Sectional Study of the Palermo …
2022
According to Italian Essential Levels of Assistance (ELA), a colonoscopy is strongly recommended after a positive fecal occult blood test (FOBT) due to its effectiveness in early colorectal cancer detection. Despite the evidence, the Palermo province population (Italy), after a positive FOBT, have a lower colonoscopy adherence compared to Italian standards. This cross-sectional study analyzed patients’ perceptions of colonoscopy procedures to understand the reasons for non-adherence. Patients with a positive FOBT who did not undergo a colonoscopy within the national organized screening program were administered a telephone interview based on the Health Belief Model (HBM) questionnaire. The …