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Deploying harmonized ITS services in the framework of EasyWay project
2012
In the last decade, the use of new technologies in the transportation domain has made possible the development of the Intelligent Transport System (ITS). However, the ITS services were deployed isolated. The purpose of the EasyWay Project is to involve all the European countries to deploy harmonized ITS services taking into account the European citizen as final In this paper, an introduction of EasyWay project is done, including the ITS concept services and the Deployment Guidelines. A deployment guideline for traffic management and corridors is presented. Using this guideline, a real Spanish Traffic management Plan is analyzed.
Moving across the static magnetic field of a 1.5 T MRI scanner: Analysing compliance with Directive 2013/35/EU
2018
Abstract Does the exposure of magnetic resonance imaging personnel to static magnetic fields fully comply with Directive 2013/35/EU? Despite the obligation to satisfy this question, a general answer cannot be provided, nor are final satisfying good practices methods for exposure assessment currently available. In order to contribute to fix this problem, three different 1.5 T scanners are analysed and – by a new theoretical insight – a positive answer is provided.
Analisi delle evidenze epidemiologiche sui fattori di rischio indoor per malattie respiratorie e allergiche nelle strutture scolastiche [Analysis of …
2012
Il diritto a respirare aria sana nelle scuole è stato sancito già nell’anno 2001 in un documento dell’European Federation of Asthma and Allergy Associations che ha evidenziato scarsa attenzione e assenza di direttive specifiche dell’Unione Europea relativamente agli effetti sulla salute da inquinamento dell’aria nelle scuole, ed è sostenuto dal numero enorme di bambini e ragazzi che frequentano le aule scolastiche. Negli ultimi anni, a livello europeo si è sviluppato un sempre crescente interesse nei confronti dell’effetto della qualità dell’aria dell’indoor scolastico (IAQ) sulla salute dei ragazzi, e sono stati avviati numerosi progetti di ricerca internazionali mirati, appunto, a determi…
2020
Discriminant validity was originally presented as a set of empirical criteria that can be assessed from multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) matrices. Because datasets used by applied researchers rarely lend themselves to MTMM analysis, the need to assess discriminant validity in empirical research has led to the introduction of numerous techniques, some of which have been introduced in an ad hoc manner and without rigorous methodological support. We review various definitions of and techniques for assessing discriminant validity and provide a generalized definition of discriminant validity based on the correlation between two measures after measurement error has been considered. We then review t…
Uno strumento di pianificazione per la salvaguardia degli edifici storico-monumentali. Un caso di studio: la chiesa del SS. Salvatore a Naro
2020
Il patrimonio storico, e in particolare gli edifici monumentali, sono i manufatti tra i più vulnerabili nei confronti degli eventi sismici, e spesso determinano anche gravi ripercussioni su quello che comunemente è definito ”rischio urbano”. Per la conservazione e la tutela del patrimonio culturale nei riguardi dell’azione sismica è necessario disporre di strumenti di analisi in grado di permettere la valutazione della vulnerabilità e del rischio, nonché la progettazione degli interventi di miglioramento sismico. Le Linee Guida per la valutazione e riduzione del rischio sismico del patrimonio culturale – allineamento alle nuove Norme tecniche per le costruzioni, G.U. 26.02.2011, n°47 (di se…
Linee guida per un protocollo all’accessibilità della città storica di Palermo
2021
Il progetto I-Access nasce dalla precisa volontà di sperimentare un nuovo modello di approccio, utilizzando l’accessibilità come chiave interpretativa e progettuale innovativa per gli interventi nei centri storici, così come oggi si presentano a partire dai nuovi sce- nari sociali e culturali configuratisi a seguito della seconda guerra mondiale, e poi strut- turati in seguito alla ricostruzione post-bellica e al progressivo riconoscimento internazionale quale patrimonio culturale dell’umanità siglato per l’intero centro storico di La Valletta nel 1980 e per l’itinerario arabo-normanno per la città di Palermo nel 2015. Tali riconoscimenti diventano un rinnovato punto di partenza per mantene…
Recognizing the Emergent and Submerged Iceberg of the Celiac Disease: ITAMA Project-Global Strategy Protocol.
2022
Coeliac disease (CD) is frequently underdiagnosed with a consequent heavy burden in terms of morbidity and health care costs. Diagnosis of CD is based on the evaluation of symptoms and anti-transglutaminase antibodies IgA (TGA-IgA) levels, with values above a tenfold increase being the basis of the biopsy-free diagnostic approach suggested by present guidelines. This study showcased the largest screening project for CD carried out to date in school children (n=20,000) aimed at assessing the diagnostic accuracy of minimally invasive finger prick point-of-care tests (POCT) which, combined with conventional celiac serology and the aid of an artificial intelligence-based system, may eliminate t…
The process of developing Open Data guidelines for the city of Palermo: A best practice of citizen participation
2014
[Deciding in conditions of uncertainty: the Delphi method and its use in the formulation of guidelines].
2001
The purpose of this paper is to analyze one of the most powerful tools in the decision-making under conditions of uncertainty, the Delphi method, and to verify the related interest of scientific world, particularly, for formulation of guidelines. The method combines the expert opinion preventing biases due to institutional role, status or dominant personality. In the text we explain the methodology and the steps through which it is possible to realize the consensus; we schematized in a didactic manner all the phases for an operational approach of the reader. The search by the most diffused biomedical database (Medline) individualized 623 citations, 7 of which are guidelines (3 of remarkable…
Use of ICS in COPD: From Blockbuster Medicine to Precision Medicine
2017
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major cause of mortality worldwide, whose burden is expected to increase in the next decades, because of numerous risk factors, including the aging of the population. COPD is both preventable and treatable by an effective management including risk factor reduction, prevention, assessment, and treatment of acute exacerbations and co-morbidities. The available agents approved for COPD treatment are long-acting or ultra-long-acting β2-agonists (LABAs) and long-acting muscarinic antagonists (LAMAs) bronchodilators, as well as inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) in combination with LABAs. ICS use has been restricted only to selected COPD patients by th…