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Quale normalità?
2019
Al centro della scena è il vissuto quotidiano dei cosiddetti “figli di mafia”, figli di boss con diversi percorsi di vita, ragazzi presi in carico all’interno del progetto “Liberi di scegliere” con storie travagliate alle spalle. chiamati a offrire il proprio punto di vista sulla propria vicenda esistenziale e familiare. È un vissuto connotato da una profonda solitudine e dalla sensazione di trovarsi sempre “fuori posto”; identità multiple che oscillano tra la rivendicazione della propria diversità e il fermo proposito di non rinnegare le proprie origini. Sullo sfondo il richiamo a un peccato originale, una condanna kafkiana da cui non si riesce a sfuggire, anche quando non si è commesso al…
Segmentation automatique et analyse de forme d'hippocampes humains dans l'étude de la maladie d'Alzheimer
2011
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the shape change in hippocampus due to the atrophy in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). To this end, specific algorithms and methodologies were developed to segment the hippocampus from structural magnetic resonance (MR) images and model variations in its shape. We use a multi-atlas based segmentation propagation approach for the segmentation of hippocampus which has been shown to obtain accurate parcellation of brain structures. We developed a supervised method to build a population specific atlas database, by propagating the parcellations from a smaller generic atlas database. Well segmented images are inspected and added to the set of atlases, such that t…
Secrecy analysis and learning-based optimization of cooperative NOMA SWIPT systems
2019
Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is considered to be one of the best candidates for future networks due to its ability to serve multiple users using the same resource block. Although early studies have focused on transmission reliability and energy efficiency, recent works are considering cooperation among the nodes. The cooperative NOMA techniques allow the user with a better channel (near user) to act as a relay between the source and the user experiencing poor channel (far user). This paper considers the link security aspect of energy harvesting cooperative NOMA users. In particular, the near user applies the decode-and-forward (DF) protocol for relaying the message of the source no…
Blind multi-user detection by fast fixed point algorithm without prior knowledge of symbol-level timing
2003
We consider the estimation of the source process of the desired user an the downlink of a code-division multiple access (CDMA) communication system. In downlink signal processing, only the code of the mobile telephone user is known, while the codes of the interfering users are unknown. Blind source separation or independent component analysis is an approach offering the solution to this problem. In this work we apply the fast fixed point algorithm to the separation problem. The algorithm is based on fourth-order statistics optimization. Knowledge about the symbol level timing has to be known only coarsely.
Blind source separation for OFDM with filtering colored noise out
2011
Two blind algorithms that are developed with the intention of improving the symbol detection of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) techniques are proposed in this paper. OFDM systems are easy to equalize in implementations. The schemes are based on the theories of blind source separation (BSS). They are among the premier mechanisms used for extracting unobserved signals from observed mixtures in signal processing. In this study noise component of the received signal mixture is tried to be filtered out. A scalar energy function with the iterative fixed point rule for receive signal is used in determining the filter coefficients while taking the time correlation properties of t…
Monoclonal gammopathy of ocular significance (MGOS) – a short survey of corneal manifestations and treatment outcomes
2021
Monoclonal gammopathy of ocular significance (MGOS) is a rare subset of monoclonal gammopathy of clinical significance occurring secondary to plasma cell disorders and causing ocular manifestations. We identified 23 patients with paraproteinemic keratopathy (PPK) in the setting of monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance (MGUS, 10), smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM, 3) or multiple myeloma (MM, 10). Many of these patients with PPK (11/23) presented decreased vision. All patients with MM and 40% of those with other diagnoses such as SMM and MGUS received systemic therapy with or without autologous stem cell transplantation. Four eyes of four patients were treated by penetrating keratopla…
Circulating tumor and immune cells for minimally invasive risk stratification of smoldering multiple myeloma
2022
Abstract Purpose: Early intervention in smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM) requires optimal risk stratification to avoid under- and overtreatment. We hypothesized that replacing bone marrow (BM) plasma cells (PC) for circulating tumor cells (CTC), and adding immune biomarkers in peripheral blood (PB) for the identification of patients at risk of progression due to lost immune surveillance, could improve the International Myeloma Working Group 20/2/20 model. Experimental Design: We report the outcomes of 150 patients with SMM enrolled in the iMMunocell study, in which serial assessment of tumor and immune cells in PB was performed every 6 months for a period of 3 years since enrollment. Resul…
FlowCT for the analysis of large immunophenotypic data sets and biomarker discovery in cancer immunology
2022
Key Points FlowCT is a new computational workspace for unveiling cellular diversity and objectively identifying biomarkers in large immune monitoring studies.FlowCT identified T-cell biomarkers predictive of malignant transformation and survival in SMM and active MM data sets.
Socio-Demographic Vulnerability: The Condition of Italian Young People
2009
For a kind of inertia effect, today the Italian welfare state protects the older too much and, on the contrary, it does not counter sufficiently the new risks associated with other phases of life. Not much seems to be implemented in favour of Italian young people who, as a matter of fact, seem to suffer a lot from the present changes: young people remain longer in the parental home and postpone setting up their own independent life to a most advanced age. In order to understand the situation of vulnerability increasingly widespread among young people, it seemed more and more necessary an in-depth analysis of the reasons and the subjective status of the discomfort that affects young people b…
Research and Implementation of Energy Dispersal Algorithm for DRM System
2020
The article investigates the randomization algorithm of the OFDM signal energy used in modern digital broadcasting systems. Transmission part of the DRM system was modeled in MATLAB/Simulink software environment, bit sequences allocation tests were conducted using the original information signal and the corresponding modulation symbols with a scrambling algorithm and without it.