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Management of chronic viral hepatitis in patients with thalassemia: recommendations from an international panel.

2010

AbstractChelation therapy with new drugs prevents cardiac damage and improves the survival of thalassemia patients. Liver diseases have emerged as a critical clinical issue. Chronic liver diseases play an important role in the prognosis of thalassemia patients because of the high frequency of viral infections and important role of the liver in regulating iron metabolism. Accurate assessment of liver iron overload is required to tailor iron chelation therapy. The diagnosis of hepatitis B virus– or hepatitis C virus–related chronic hepatitis is required to detect patients who have a high risk of developing liver complications and who may benefit by antiviral therapy. Moreover, clinical manage…

PRIVACY-PRESERVING METERING AND LOAD CONTROL IN SMART GRID

In the last decade, electrical grids have experienced an impressive evolution towards the so called Smart Grids, inspired by the Internet model. Indeed, the main driver for this evolution is the exploitation of communication networks for enabling the integration of renewable energy sources and making the energy demand closer to the time-varying production. While witnessing to the incremental deployment of Smart Grids and novel services for Smart Grids, we note a growing awareness on the risks associated to the collection of many sensitive users data. For example, monitoring the temporal trace of the energy consumption data of a given residential customer, may reveal a lot of information on …

Load capacity and deflection of fire-resistant steel beams

1990

The methodology of defining safety of constructions in fire has not yet been sufficiently verified and agreed upon. This paper includes calculation results for steel beams, which prove that the ultimate load-bearing capacity predicted by plastic design theory, which is valid in engineering calculations, is not sufficient for determining the critical temperature. The reason is that this temperature tends to be limited in some cases by large deflections of beams in fire.

A Numerical Approach to Finite Journal Bearings Lubricated With Ferrofluid

1987

Several cases of cylindrical bearings lubricated with ferrofluid are examined by means of a finite-difference numerical procedure. The subregion of cavitation is determined by imposing mass conservation across the “rupture” and “reformation” boundaries of the complete film. The examined cases refer to bearings confined by sealing rings formed by the lubricant itself, for which there is no need of external supply. In each case the most significant parameters are calculated and it is possible to see that the use of these bearings is favorable when speeds are low, clearances large, and loads light, because in such conditions the magnetic effects are comparable with the pure hydrodynamic ones a…

A Coexistence Analysis of Blockchain, SCADA Systems, and OpenADR for Energy Services Provision

2022

The advent of blockchain technology allows the raise of new business models for the electricity market, opening the way also to end-users and letting them offer regulation services to the power grid. Thanks to the characteristic of being distributed, the blockchain technology could be a solution to balancing problems caused by the penetration of renewable sources, implementing a platform for Demand-Response programs delivery. Demand-Response allows consumers to respond to market signals by increasing or reducing their energy consumption, contributing to greater flexibility and stability of the grid and to a more efficient use of infrastructures and energy resources. Currently, Demand-Respon…

A Green Mesh Routers' Placement to Ensure Small Cells Backhauling in 5G Networks

2017

International audience; The wireless industry is preparing the fifth generation wireless systems with several requirements regarding capacity and coverage area. A promising solution to meet this challenge is a densification of the network via a large scale deployment of small cells from different sizes. The advantage here is that small cells are easy to deploy and cost-efficient compared to macro base stations. However, the challenge is to ensure a reliable backhaul links. Mesh routers backhauling is one of the candidate solutions here, since it is easy to deploy, doesn't use wired connections between locations and cost-efficient. Nevertheless, the issue is to deploy routers in the suitable…

Flexural behavior of external beam-column reinforced concrete assemblages externally strengthened with steel cages

2016

In this paper, an experimental study referring to the flexural behavior of full-scale external beam-column joints externally strengthened with steel angles and strips and subjected to cyclic reversal loading is presented. One control specimen and five other specimens having the same characteristics as the control specimen but strengthened with steel angles and strips along beams and columns, and characterized by different configurations of strengthening in the critical regions, were tested. The control specimen was designed with a weak column and strong beam to reproduce the most common cases of old frame structures in the Mediterranean area, which were designed only for gravity loads and a…

Considerations on oversized transportation in the UE(Community)

2017

The transportation problem is becoming increasingly complex at a national, European and global level. Achieving an efficient and safe transportation system with low environmental pollution, with a quick delivery is a requirement for any carrier in the 21 st century. When talking about oversized transport, the challenge is even greater. Making a low loader go through several European countries has proved to be more complicated than we expected, due to the lack of uniformity of laws in this field. This paper seeks to find these different regularities characteristics from one European country to another and to propose developing procedures leading to the design and implementation of cheaper an…

Why does vacuum drive to the loading of halloysite nanotubes? The key role of water confinement.

2019

The filling of halloysite nanotubes with active compounds solubilized in aqueous solvent was investigated theoretically and experimentally. Based on Knudsen thermogravimetric data, we demonstrated the water confinement within the cavity of halloysite. This process is crucial to properly describe the driving mechanism of halloysite loading. In addition, Knudsen thermogravimetric experiments were conducted on kaolinite nanoplates as well as on halloysite nanotubes modified with an anionic surfactant (sodium dodecanoate) in order to explore the influence of both the nanoparticle morphology and the hydrophobic/hydrophilic character of the lumen on the confinement phenomenon. The analysis of the…

Allostatic Load of Men and Women in Early Middle Age

2005

Abstract. The present longitudinal study investigated three aspects of allostatic load, a long-term negative consequence of physical responses to stress: (1) sex differences in allostatic load in early middle age, (2) associations between career stability history and allostatic load, and (3) relationships between allostatic load and health problems. Participants consisted of 62 men and 55 women from the ongoing Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development, Finland. Allostatic load was the sum of eight parameters (dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate, 12-h urinary norepinephrine, high-density lipoprotein, triglycerides, glycosylated hemoglobin, systolic and diastolic blood p…