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Mobile Edge Computing: Architetture ed Analisi della Live Migration
2020
Con l'ormai prossima rete mobile 5G entreranno a far parte della nostra quotidianità nuovi servizi applicativi, mai prima possibili, grazie all'avvicinamento di risorse di calcolo e di memoria nei pressi dell'utente in mobilità. Un’architettura abilitante i futuri servizi è quella di Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) in cui cloud di capacità inferiori rispetto a quelli presenti nella core della rete sono dislocati nei pressi della stazioni radio e metteranno a disposizione risorse di calcolo tali da permettere, tramite la tecnica di offloading, la fruizione di servizi quali realtà aumentata, gaming online, contenuti streaming ad alta risoluzione ed operazioni di data analytics. Ogni nuovo paradig…
Preface
2017
The volume is the result of the eighth edition of University of Palermo International Summer School on “Migrants, Human Rights and Democracy”, bearing the human mobility and hidden geographies theme held in Favignana (Italy), in July, 2014. Moving from Kumar Rajaram and Grundy-Warr’s volume Borderscapes. Hidden Geographies and Politics at Territory’s Edge (2007), the interesting and relevant contributions by participants (outstanding scholars, academics and humanitarian practitioners) from different Eu and non Eu countries investigate the new mobility paradigms (Cresswell, 2006; Hannam et al., 2006; Sheller and Urry, 2006), providing a comprehensive and multidisciplinary overview of contemp…
Between striated and smooth space: Exploring the topology of transnational student mobility
2017
In this paper, we raise a question regarding how transnational students develop their spaces as mobile, temporary, and at times stable and territorially fixed. We argue that approaching transnational student migration and its relations to place as a Deleuzian assemblage is a fruitful way of highlighting this issue, and we propose the axes of the expressive/material and territorialisation/de-territorialisation as analytical tools for understanding aspects of the temporal and spatial dimensions of transnational student mobility. Our theoretical discussion is informed by the migration experiences of transnational students studying at a Norwegian university. Our core argument is that transnatio…
7keto-stigmasterol and 7keto-cholesterol induce differential proteome changes to intestinal epitelial (Caco-2) cells
2015
Abstract Recent studies have expanded the appreciation of the roles of oxysterols triggering inflammatory, immune cytotoxic and apoptotic processes, but have not been considered for proteome analysis. A comparative proteomic study in intestinal epithelial cell cultures incubated (60 μM/24 h) with 7keto-cholesterol or 7keto-stigmasterol was performed. The influence of both compounds was studied following the nLC-TripleTOF analysis. Findings were compared to results for control cultures. In the principal component analysis (PCA) of proteome patterns, two components were extracted accounting for 99.8% of the variance in the protein expression. PCA analysis clearly discriminated between the per…
Bioinformatic and experimental fishing for artemisinin-interacting proteins from human nasopharyngeal cancer cells.
2012
Determining interacting cellular partners of drugs by chemical proteomic techniques is complex and tedious. Most approaches rely on activity-based probe profiling and compound-centric chemical proteomics. The anti-malarial artemisinin also exerts profound anti-cancer activity, but the mechanisms of action are incompletely understood. In the present investigation, we present a novel approach to identify artemisinin-interacting target proteins. Our approach overcomes usual problems in traditional fishing procedures, because the drug was attached to a surface without further chemical modification. The proteins identified effect among others, cell cycle arrest, apoptosis, inhibition of angiogen…
Working conditions and their impact on work satisfaction in migrating and non migrating workers. Factor structure of the Polish version of the Workin…
2020
BackgroundThe study compares the impact of working conditions and wages as predictors of work satisfaction of Poles, working in Poland and abroad. Although the work environment plays a crucial role in determining the work sat-isfaction of migrants, most mention higher income abroad as the main migration motive. The increased in-come may not boost the work satisfaction however, because during migration the wage reference point chang-es. Based on those observations, it was assumed that working conditions will have a greater impact on mi-grants’ work satisfaction than nominal earnings. Additionally, migrants, while having higher nominal wages, should subjectively judge them as lower.Participan…
Migration history and risk of psychosis: results from the multinational EU-GEI study.
2022
The European Network of National Schizophrenia Networks Studying Gene-Environment Interactions (EU-GEI) Project was funded by grant agreement Health-F2-2010-241909 (Project EU-GEI) from the European Community’s Seventh Framework programme.
Indoor air pollutants stimulate interleukin-8-specific mRNA expression and protein secretion of alveolar macrophages.
1998
Indoor air pollutants may cause inflammatory changes of the airways and adjacent pulmonary tissue. After phagocytosis of inhaled particles alveolar macrophages (AM) release chemotactic mediators capable of attracting inflammatory cells into the lung tissue. To evaluate these mechanisms further peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMNC) and human AM (freshly recovered from the lower respiratory tract) were exposed to the indoor particles Soot FR 101 and Printex 90, the asbestos fiber Chrysotile B, and titanium dioxide (TiO2) at concentrations of 10 or 50 microg/10(6) cells for up to 8 h. The migration of granulocytes into the conditioned supernatants of AM and PBMNC was quantified by chemota…
Diet of the insectivorous bat 'Pipistrellus nathusii' during autumn migration and summer residence
2013
Migration is widespread among vertebrates, yet bat migration has received little attention and only in the recent decades has a better understanding of it been gained. Migration can cause significant changes in behaviour and physiology, due to increasing energy demands and aerodynamic constraints. Dietary shifts, for example, have been shown to occur in birds before onset of migration. For bats, it is not known if a change in diet occurs during migration, although breeding season–related dietary preference has been documented. It is known that a diet rich in fats and the accumulation of fat deposits do increase the flight range of migratory bats. Some bat species can be regarded as long-dis…
Remittance behaviours of foreigners in Italy
2013
This paper intends to figure out why immigrants remit, what characteristics they have and, in particular, which of these individual characteristics influence (and in what sense) their remittance behaviours. In particular, it aims to verify the existence of a "time effect" during the migration process. The time effect supposes that the propensity and amount of remittances become less consistent as far as the immigrant integrates into the host country and the ties with the country of origin become less intense. In practice, according to this hypothesis, the evolution of the migration plan towards stabilisation in the new country, rather than to return home, would lead the migrant to invest mo…