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The European network for care of children with paediatric rheumatic diseases : Care across borders

2019

Objectives. To provide an overview of the paediatric rheumatology (PR) services in Europe, describe current delivery of care and training, set standards for care, identify unmet needs and inform future specialist service provision. Methods. An online survey was developed and presented to national coordinating centres of the Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (PRINTO) (country survey) and to individual PR centres (centre and disease surveys) as a part of the European Union (EU) Single Hub and Access point for paediatric Rheumatology in Europe project. The survey contained components covering the organization of PR care, composition of teams, education, health care and …

Large-Eddy Simulation: A Critical Survey of Models and Applications

1994

First considerations on post processing kinematic GNSS data during a geophysical oceanographic cruise

2021

<p class="Abstract">Differential GNSS positioning on vessels is of considerable interest in various fields of application as navigation aids, precision positioning for geophysical surveys or sampling purposes especially when high resolution bathymetric surveys are conducted. However ship positioning must be considered a kinematic survey with all the associated problems. The possibility of using high-precision differential GNSS receivers in navigation is of increasing interest, also due to the very recent availability of low-cost differential receivers that may soon replace classic navigation ones based on the less accurate point positioning technique. The availability of greater plano…

Paperless survey? New methodological approaches to archaeological fieldwork, the case of Navarrés (València)

2014

El trabajo que presentamos se ha desarrollado en el marco del proyecto NSF “The Emergence of Coupled Natural and Human Landscapes in the Western Mediterranean” en el área comprendida por la actual comarca de La Canal de Navarres, situada al suroeste de la provincia de Valencia. Este espacio se convierte en una de las áreas elegidas para un programa de recogida de datos centrado en la prospección sistemática “off site “. En las jornadas “Dando sentido a la prospección arqueológica” nos centraremos en los aspectos metodológicos que hemos desarrollado para llevar a cabo el trabajo de campo. Esta ha sido la primera vez que hemos realizado una prospección arqueológica, en una zona completamente …

Culture and current account balances

2014

This article contributes to the literature of current account balances by introducing cultural variables that until now have been omitted. The World Values Survey indicates that the Roman Catholics do not consider thrift as important as others. We propose that Catholic countries tend to run current account deficits. This result remains robust even if we control for close to all of the determinants that have been included in previous studies. We find evidence that the inclination of Catholic countries to have high levels of uncertainty avoidance goes to a great length in explaining the result. peerReviewed

Association between Intake of Energy and Macronutrients and Memory Impairment Severity in US Older Adults, National Health and Nutrition Examination …

2020

Without a cure, dementia affects about 50 million people worldwide. Understanding the effects of dietary habits, a key lifestyle behavior, on memory impairment is critical to inform early behavioral modification to delay further memory loss and progression to dementia. We examined the associations of total energy intake and energy intake from macronutrients with memory impairment among older US adults using data from the nationally representative National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey study 2011&ndash

Soil erosion assessment and control in Northeast Wollega, Ethiopia

2018

Soil erosion is the main driver of land degradation in Ethiopia, and in the whole region of East Africa. This study was conducted at the Northeast Wollega in West Ethiopia to estimate the soil losses by means of the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE). The purpose of this paper is to identify erosion spot areas and target locations for appropriate development of soil and water conservation measures. Fieldwork and household survey were conducted to identify major determinants of soil erosion control. Six principal factors were used to calculate soil loss per year, such as rainfallerosivity, soil erodiblity, slope length, slope steepness, crop management and erosion-control practices…

Una lettura urbana su Balestrate. Realtà intermedia e nuove possibili centralità

2014

This work was developed at the “R-Lab” project, a workshop that was experimentally promoted by the University of Palermo (teachers, students and researchers) during the academic years 2010-11 and 2011-12. Workshop participants collected and elaborated analysis and proposals in an interdisciplinary and multi-level way (PhD, degree thesis, co-financed research) with lessons, seminars and applied research. Prof. F. Maggio coordinated the section that was titled “Analysis of the smaller towns in Sicily”, and we worked with him within an agreement that was signed with the local administration of Balestrate, a small coastal town in the northwestern Sicily. Our work focuses on some issues of the t…

Immagine urbana e qualità dello spazio nel rilievo tridimensionale di due borgate storiche palermitane

2014

Lo sviluppo dei software di rappresentazione digitale ha comportato una significativa evo- luzione dei modelli rappresentativi, aprendo contemporaneamente la strada a nuove que- stioni di natura non soltanto operativa, ma anche sostanziale. L’assenza di scala di riduzione, la tridimensionalità in “real time”, l’immersività e l’interattività dello spazio virtuale sono infatti ben più di semplici novità strumentali: si pongono come nuovi codici, introducono una visibilità simultanea e onnicomprensiva, definiscono il modello che si viene a elaborare come un “alter” dello spazio indagato, autonomo e parallelo alla realtà stessa, ben più insomma del ruolo di “model- lo” del reale al quale la rap…

Socio-spatial dynamics and ways of living of urban spaces : comparison of Besançon, Mulhouse and Strasbourg

2013

The spatial distribution of urban functions and populations is not random, this distribution canhighlight inequalities which call into question our democratic societies based on the principle ofequality. This principle is based on the relationship between the “social” and the “spatial” whichmainly consist in investigating social disparities in urban areas and what is perceived as an injustice byindividuals. To understand these socio-spatial dynamics, we focus our research on the urban history ofBesançon, Mulhouse and Strasbourg as well as the relations between the inhabitants and theirresidential environment. Using large geo-localized databases from INSEE, we study the spatialdistribution o…