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Assessment of water shortage in urban areas
2007
Recent history has demonstrated that extreme hydrological events such as floods and droughts can create additional stress on water supplies essential for human and ecosystem health. As stated several times by European Environmental Agency, the prudent and efficient use of water is thus an important issue in Europe and a number of policies and mechanisms have been used or have been formulated to ensure sustainable use of water in the long term. Urban uses are responsible of almost the 17% of the total European fresh water consumption and they are rapidly growing depending on the extension of urban areas and concentration of population in cities. The present chapter will discuss the phases in…
The UJI industrial robotics telelaboratory: Real-time vision and networking
2008
In this video we present a work in progress in the UJI (i.e. the acronym for University Jaume I) robotics telelaboratory. This telelaboratory uses a remote control system based on networked robots and FPGAs technology. The main devices included in this cell are: a SCARA manipulator (AdeptOne), a robot arm with six degrees of freedom (Motoman), an industrial belt, several sensors and cameras, an FPGA that takes care of the computer vision algorithms (i.e. including grasping determination), and a distributed architecture that allows any user to control remotely via Internet a specific manufacturing task. The different components of this system are connected by a 100BaseT Ethernet network and …
Robres, Fernando Andrés, Benítez Sanchez-Blanco, Rafael y Ciscar Pallarés, Eugenio: El monasterio rebelde. Monarquía y poder monástico en reinode Val…
2021
Leaps and bounds: geographical and ecological distance constrained the colonisation of the Afrotemperate by Erica.
2018
Abstract Background The coincidence of long distance dispersal (LDD) and biome shift is assumed to be the result of a multifaceted interplay between geographical distance and ecological suitability of source and sink areas. Here, we test the influence of these factors on the dispersal history of the flowering plant genus Erica (Ericaceae) across the Afrotemperate. We quantify similarity of Erica climate niches per biogeographic area using direct observations of species, and test various colonisation scenarios while estimating ancestral areas for the Erica clade using parametric biogeographic model testing. Results We infer that the overall dispersal history of Erica across the Afrotemperate…
LABA/LAMA fixed-dose combinations in patients with COPD: A systematic review
2018
Paola Rogliani,1 Luigino Calzetta,1 Fulvio Braido,2 Mario Cazzola,1 Enrico Clini,3 Girolamo Pelaia,4 Andrea Rossi,5 Nicola Scichilone,6 Fabiano Di Marco7 1Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy; 2Department of Internal Medicine, IRCCS San Martino Genoa University Hospital, Genoa, Italy; 3Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy; 4Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Section of Respiratory Diseases, Magna Græcia University, Catanzaro, Italy; 5Pulmonary Unit, University of Verona, Verona, Italy; 6Department of Internal Medicine, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy; 7…
Une quête d'exactitude : machines, algèbre et géométrie pour la construction traditionnelle des équations différentielles
2015
In La Géométrie, Descartes proposed a “balance” between geometric constructions and symbolic manipulation with the introduction of suitable ideal machines. In particular, Cartesian tools were polynomial algebra (analysis) and a class of diagrammatic constructions (synthesis). This setting provided a classification of curves, according to which only the algebraic ones were considered “purely geometrical.” This limit was overcome with a general method by Newton and Leibniz introducing the infinity in the analytical part, whereas the synthetic perspective gradually lost importance with respect to the analytical one—geometry became a mean of visualization, no longer of construction. Descartes’s…
A Review of the Water Desalination Technologies
2021
Desalination is commonly adopted nowadays to overcome the freshwater scarcity in some areas of the world if brackish water or salt water is available. Different kinds of technologies have been proposed in the last century. In this paper, the state of the mainstream solutions is reported, showing the current commercial technologies like reverse osmosis (RO), Multi-Stages Flash desalination (MSF) and Multi-Effect Distillation (MED), and the new frontiers of the research with the aim of exploiting renewable sources such as wind, solar and biomass energy. In these cases, seawater treatment plants are the same as traditional ones, with the only difference being that they use a renewable energy s…
Myocardial Infarction Quantification from Late Gadolinium Enhancement MRI Using Top-Hat Transforms and Neural Networks
2019
Significance: Late gadolinium enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (LGE-MRI) is the gold standard technique for myocardial viability assessment. Although the technique accurately reflects the damaged tissue, there is no clinical standard for quantifying myocardial infarction (MI), demanding most algorithms to be expert dependent. Objectives and Methods: In this work a new automatic method for MI quantification from LGE-MRI is proposed. Our novel segmentation approach is devised for accurately detecting not only hyper-enhanced lesions, but also microvascular-obstructed areas. Moreover, it includes a myocardial disease detection step which extends the algorithm for working under healthy scans.…
Farmacologia de la solifenacina
2010
Departamento de Farmacologia. Facultad de Medicina y Odontologia. Universidad de Valencia. Valencia. Espana.Resumen.- Los antimuscarinicos son los farmacos de primera eleccion para el tratamiento del sindrome de vejiga hiperactiva y su relacion beneficio/riesgo depen-de en gran medida de la selectividad por los distintos subtipos de receptores muscarinicos. Solifenacina es el antimuscarinico que muestra mayor selectividad por los receptores M3 vesicales, lo que puede traducirse en una menor incidencia de reacciones adversas relacionadas con otros subtipos de receptor. Las vias metabolicas de los antimuscarinicos pueden influir en la eficacia y en la aparicion de interacciones. Solifenacina es …
Role of CD36 in Oral and Postoral Sensing of Lipids
2011
Obesity and associated plethora of diseases constitute a major public health challenge worldwide. The conjunction of profound changes in our lifestyle and a thrifty genetic that evolved in an environment of food scarcity largely explains this epidemic situation. Food abundance promotes our specific appetite for the more palatable food generally rich in lipids. It is noteworthy that this attraction for fatty food is not specific to humans. Rats and mice also spontaneously prefer lipid-rich food in a free-choice situation. Detection of lipids in food requires the presence of specific sensors located in strategic places (e.g., oral cavity, small intestine, brain) whose activation results in a …