Search results for "Cure"

Determination of trichothecenes and zearalenones in grain cereal, flour and bread by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry

2012

Although analytical methods have been already reported for legislated mycotoxins as trichothecenes and zearalenone (ZON) separately, we describe the optimization of a simple and rapid multimycotoxin method for the determination of a total of 12 mycotoxins simultaneously, nine trichothecenes (NIV, DON, FUS-X, DAS, 15-AcDON, 3-AcDON, NEO, HT-2, T-2 T2), and zearalenone and its metabolites (ZON, a-ZOL, b-ZOL), of different origin (wheat, oat, barley and spelt) and in three different products where these substance can be present (grain, flour and bread) reach the food chain and cause toxic effect either in humans or animals. The extraction procedure was based on a mixture of acetonitrile/water …

Chemical and Microbiological Characterization for PDO Labelling of Typical East Piedmont (Italy) Salami

2015

This study is focused on the characterisation of typical salami produced in Alessandria province (North West of Italy). Seventeen small or medium salami producers from this area were involved in the study and provided the samples investigated. The aim is double and consists in obtaining a screening of the characteristics of different products and following their evolution along ripening. The study involved five types of typical salami that were characterised for aroma components and nutritional features. This approach could provide a basis for a possible PDO or PGI label request. Principal Component Analysis and cluster analysis were used as multivariate statistical tools for data treatment…

Artificial intelligence to counteract “KPI overload” in business process monitoring: the case of anti-corruption in public organizations

2023

PurposeThe nature and amount of data that public organizations have to monitor to counteract corruption lead to a phenomenon called “KPI overload”, consisting of the business analyst feeling overwhelmed by the amount of information and resulting in the absence of appropriate control. The purpose of this study is to develop a solution based on Artificial Intelligence technology to avoid data overloading and, at the same time, under-controlling in business process monitoring.Design/methodology/approachThe authors adopted a design science research approach. The authors started by observing a specific problem in a real context (a healthcare organization); then conceptualized, designed and imple…

Diritti, sicurezza, solidarietà e responsabilità nella protezione delle persone migranti

2018

Le crisi migratorie e l’onda lunga del populismo nei sistemi politici nazionali contro la ricerca dell’equilibrio fra diritti, sicurezza, solidarietà e responsabilità; la Carta dei diritti fondamentali dell’Unione Europea ed il rafforzamento del principio di solidarietà fra Stati; la ricerca dell’equilibrio: il contributo del costituzionalismo. L’esperienza italiana: diritti, solidarietà, responsabilità e sicurezza.

A new system for animal products traceability and authentication: Use of DNA analysis of natural tracers and example of application to dry cured hams

2010

A few DNA based approaches have been developed to trace animal products from the farm to the consumer “fork”. These approaches make use of the animal DNA that can be recovered during all steps of t...

Crenobalneotherapy (spa therapy) in patients with knee and generalized osteoarthritis: a post-hoc subgroup analysis of a large multicentre randomized…

2014

Abstract Objective To determine whether the addition of spa therapy to home exercises provides any benefit over exercises and the usual treatment alone in the management of generalised osteoarthritis associated with knee osteoarthritis. Methods This study was a post-hoc subgroup analysis of our randomised multicentre trial ( www.clinicaltrial.gov : NCT00348777 ). Participants who met the inclusion criteria of generalized osteoarthritis (Kellgren, American College of Rheumatology, or Dougados criteria) were extracted from the original randomised controlled trial. They had been randomised using Zelen randomisation. The treatment group received 18 days of spa treatment in addition to a home ex…

Fast dendrogram-based OTU clustering using sequence embedding

2014

Biodiversity assessment is an important step in a metagenomic processing pipeline. The biodiversity of a microbial metagenome is often estimated by grouping its 16S rRNA reads into operational taxonomic units or OTUs. These metagenomic datasets are typically large and hence require effective yet accurate computational methods for processing.In this paper, we introduce a new hierarchical clustering method called CRiSPy-Embed which aims to produce high-quality clustering results at a low computational cost. We tackle two computational issues of the current OTU hierarchical clustering approach: (1) the compute-intensive sequence alignment operation for building the distance matrix and (2) the …

Studi epidemiologici e trial clinici

2005

Disabilità e dolore: il caso della cannabis terapeutica. Fisionomia e limiti del diritto alla cura nel decreto del Ministero della Salute 9 novembre …

2022

Il contributo illustra l’originale struttura del mercato della cannabis terapeutica, ricostruendo la legislazione italiana in materia, di cui si mette in luce la dubbia compatibilità  con i principi di libera circolazione e di concorrenza. La specialità del settore è comunemente giustificata alla luce delle esigenze di salute pubblica, dell’ordine pubblico e della pubblica sicurezza la cui tutela è sottesa anche ai più recenti interventi normativi: specialità che non consente tuttavia di giudicare la regolazione della cannabis terapeutica conforme all’interpretazione consolidata degli articoli 49, 52, 56, 106 T.f.Ue e alla altrettanto stabile giurisprudenza della Corte costituzionale italia…

Challenges in Information Systems Procurement in the Norwegian Public Sector

2011

Published version of a chapter in the book Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6846, 404-417. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22878-0_34 Public procurement of information systems (IS) and IS services provides several challenges to the stakeholders involved in the procurement processes. This paper reports initial results from a Delphi study, which involved 46 experienced procurement managers, chief information officers, and vendor representatives in the Norwegian public sector. The participants identified altogether 98 challenges related to IS procurement, divided further into 13 categories: requirements specification, change management, cooperation a…