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Structure, tritium depth profile and desorption from 'plasma-facing' beryllium materials of ITER-Like-Wall at JET

2017

This work has been carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium and has received funding from the Euratom research and training programme 2014–2018 under grant agreement No 633053 . The views and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of the European Commission.

Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsThermal desorption spectroscopyMaterials Science (miscellaneous)Nuclear engineeringJoint European TorusAnalytical chemistryThermal desorptionchemistry.chemical_elementFuel accumulationTritiumThermal desorption7. Clean energy01 natural sciences010305 fluids & plasmasFusion plasma och rymdfysikDesorption0103 physical sciences:NATURAL SCIENCES:Physics [Research Subject Categories]010306 general physicsJet (fluid)ChemistryITER-like wallPlasmaITER-Like-Walllcsh:TK9001-9401Fusion Plasma and Space Physicsrespiratory tract diseasesNuclear Energy and Engineeringcardiovascular systemlcsh:Nuclear engineering. Atomic powerTritiumBerylliumDepth profileBeryllium
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Cultural institutions as agents of urban and community regeneration in the (post-)pandemic city. The case of the «Laboratorio Zen Insieme» in Palermo

2022

Although all cities in the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, its impacts on the territories, yet to be understood, are unevenly distributed, revealing extremely varied imbalances depending on the places. However, it is clear that the virus and its variants have aggravated pre-existing socio-spatial inequalities, creating new ones and bringing attention back to those implications between space, planning, public health and citizenship that are at the origins of contemporary urbanism. In a reference framework in which the crisis is globalized but unequal and in the absence of a welfare system capable of responding to the urgencies of the most marginalized social contexts and g…

Olsen 2018Settore ICAR/21 - UrbanisticaSettore M-GGR/01 - GeografiaSacco and Blessi 2009). In the current (post-) pandemic context and through the lens of a southern European perspective the purpose of this article is to critically reflect about the role of culture as possible vehicle of urban and community regeneration. In particular we will focus on the activities of the no profit organization «Laboratorio Zen Insieme» in ZEN2 one of the last large popular and peripheral neighborhoods built in Palermo at the end of 80s in order to explore and understand how cultural practices work as agent of urban and social transformation capable of addressing emerging issues especially in the pandemic scenario we are experiencing. Thecasestudy has been conducted through analysis of documents participative observations (Honer and Hitzler 2015) and qualitative in-depth interviews with key actors involved in the conception organization and management of the activities carried out by Laboratorio Zen Insieme with representatives of local institutions and non-formal conversations with participants of the workshops heldin the neighborhood. The experience we narrate finds that cultural practices have re-conceptualized their design and functions as strategies of urban and community regeneration and at the same time have contributed to answer to emergent issues in developing proximity and local based strategies facing up to problems inherent civil rights educationalpoverty socio-spatial justice and have changed the image and identity of urban places they inhabit.In this sense the research provides a framework for development of strategies and legitimization for cultural practices and a point of discussionabouttheirrolein urban development.Although all cities in the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic its impacts on the territories yet to be understood are unevenly distributed revealing extremely varied imbalances depending on the places. However it is clear that the virus and its variants have aggravated pre-existing socio-spatial inequalities creating new ones and bringing attention back to those implications between space planning public health and citizenship that are at the origins of contemporary urbanism. In a reference framework in which the crisis is globalized but unequal and in the absence of a welfare system capable of responding to the urgencies of the most marginalized social contexts and groups a response to the new social and individual needs has been offered by cultural institutions that play a role of territorial agency often independently or in the absence of political institutions. Far from the idea of entertainment and divertissement it is in fact increasingly clear how the practices of cultural innovation experimenting with various forms of action and participation can in some cases play a fundamental role in the processes of social cohesion and community building representing an antidote to the worsening of the phenomena of marginalization and socio-spatial inequalities within cities and territories (Colantonio and Dixon 2011
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VAMPIRE: Vessel assessment and measurement platform for images of the REtina

2011

We present VAMPIRE, a software application for efficient, semi-automatic quantification of retinal vessel properties with large collections of fundus camera images. VAMPIRE is also an international collaborative project of four image processing groups and five clinical centres. The system provides automatic detection of retinal landmarks (optic disc, vasculature), and quantifies key parameters used frequently in investigative studies: vessel width, vessel branching coefficients, and tortuosity. The ultimate vision is to make VAMPIRE available as a public tool, to support quantification and analysis of large collections of fundus camera images.

Opthalmology; image processing; retinaEngineeringVesselgenetic structuresOpthalmologyImage processingRetinal ImagesRetinaRetina; Image; VesselSoftwareMedical imagingmedicineHumansSegmentationComputer visionRetinaSettore INF/01 - Informaticabusiness.industryVampireRetinal VesselsImage segmentationeye diseasesimage processingFractalsVAMPIREmedicine.anatomical_structureImageArtificial intelligenceAdvanced image processing and mathematical modeling techniquesbusinessOptic disc2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
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THREE-DIMENSIONAL INTEGRAL MICROSCOPY WITH ENHANCED RESOLUTION AND DEPTH OF FIELD

2016

In this contribution we explain two new techniques developed by our group, which permit to increase the two-dimensional spatial resolution of the computed depth images in integral microscopy.

OpticsMaterials sciencebusiness.industryMultifocal plane microscopyLight sheet fluorescence microscopyResolution (electron density)MicroscopyScanning confocal electron microscopyDigital holographic microscopyDepth of fieldbusinessImage resolutionImaging and Applied Optics 2016
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Dosimetric characteristics of a new unit for electronic skin brachytherapy

2013

PURPOSE: Brachytherapy with radioactive high dose rate (HDR) (192)Ir source is applied to small skin cancer lesions, using surface applicators, i.e. Leipzig or Valencia type. New developments in the field of radiotherapy for skin cancer include electronic brachytherapy. This technique involves the placement of an HDR X-ray source close to the skin, therefore combining the benefits of brachytherapy with the reduced shielding requirements and targeted energy of low energy X-rays. Recently, the Esteya(®) Electronic Brachytherapy System (Esteya EBS, Elekta AB-Nucletron, Stockholm, Sweden) has been developed specifically for HDR brachytherapy treatment of surface lesions. The system provides rad…

Original Paperelectronic brachytherapybusiness.industrymedicine.medical_treatmentTreatment durationSuperficial radiotherapyBrachytherapyElectronic skinsuperficial radiotherapyRadiation therapyLow energyOncologynonmelanoma skin-cancermedicineskin brachytherapyRadiology Nuclear Medicine and imagingNuclear medicinebusinessDose rateDepth doseJournal of Contemporary Brachytherapy
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Hybrid CPU/GPU Acceleration of Detection of 2-SNP Epistatic Interactions in GWAS

2014

This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09873-9_57 [Abstract] High-throughput genotyping technologies allow the collection of up to a few million genetic markers (such as SNPs) of an individual within a few minutes of time. Detecting epistasis, such as 2-SNP interactions, in Genome-Wide Association Studies is an important but time consuming operation since statistical computations have to be performed for each pair of measured markers. In this work we present EpistSearch, a parallelized tool that, following the log-linear model appr…

POSIX ThreadsMulti-core processorBioinformaticsComputer scienceComputationCUDAParallel computingBioinformaticsPthreadsCUDAAccelerationComputingMethodologies_PATTERNRECOGNITIONTitan (supercomputer)Filter (video)EpistasisGWASEpistasis
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Correlazione tra dosaggio di paratormone ed elevati valori di PSA prebioptici in pazienti con successivo esito istologico di benignità

2012

The functional relationship between parathyroid glands and prostatic gland is commonly very well known. The aim of our study was to investigate the relationship between serum levels of PTH and serum levels of PSA in patients with pathological finding of BPH. According to 261 transrectal ultra- sound-guided prostatic biopsies performed from March 2009 to March 2010, 75 patients, responding to our inclusion criteria, were selected. 26 patients (34.6%) ended the study. All patients with high serum levels of PSA (>4 ng/mL), with histological diagnosis of benign prostatic hyperplasia, underwent the assay of serum levels of PTH. We observed high levels of PTH (> 66 pg/mL) in 9 patients (35.2%)

PSAPTH IPB Biopsia prostaticaSettore MED/24 - Urologia
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Endoskopiskas retrogrādas holangiopankreatogrāfijas un perkutānas transhepātiskas žulstsvadu stentēšanas metožu salīdzinājums onkoloģiskiem pacietiem…

2017

Problēmas aktualitāte. Katru gadu pacienti vēršas pie ārsta pēc palīdzības sakarā ar dzelti un dzeltes simptomiem, un nereti atklājas, ka pacientiem ir mehāniska žultsceļu obstrukcija sakarā ar ļaundabīgas masas palielināšanos vēdera dobumā. Lielākoties audzējs jau ir izplatījies, un radikāla operācija vairs nav iespējama. Šiem pacientiem, lai pagarinātu dzīvildzi un uzlabotu atlikušās dzīves kvalitāti, optimālākais risinājums ir paliatīva ārstēšana dzeltes mazināšanai. Darba mērķis. Aprakstīt un salīdzināt ERHP un PTHA stentēšanas metodes onkoloģiskiem pacientiem ar mehānisku dzelti, un izvērtēt, kura no metodēm pagarina pacienta dzīvildzi ar mazāku komplikāciju risku. Materiāli un metodes…

PTHAMehāniska dzelteAizkuņģa dziedzera duktāla adenokarcinomametāla stentsERHPMedicīna
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PTHrP [38-94] and gene expression of MDA-MB231 breast cancer cells

2006

PTHrP breast cancer gene expressionSettore BIO/06 - Anatomia Comparata E Citologia
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The expression of PTHrP isoforms in differentiating human fat-derived mesenchymal stem cells

2012

PTHrP breast cancer mesenchymal stem cells gene expressionSettore BIO/06 - Anatomia Comparata E Citologia
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