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Verifiche Diagnostiche nell'ex Chiesa Madre di Santa Margherita di Belice
2011
La relazione presenta in modo dettagliato gli esiti della seconda campagna di indagini diagnostiche, svolta nella fabbrica architettonica a cantiere di restauro in corso d'opera. L'obiettivo delle valutazioni non distruttive e minimamente invasive è valutare la corretta esecuzione degli interventi attraverso il confronto tra la diagnosi preliminare e quella post-intervento. The report presents in detail the results of the second campaign of diagnostic investigations, carried out in the architectural restoration site. The goal of minimally invasive and non-destructive evaluation is to assess the proper execution of consolidation through the comparison between the preliminary and post-interve…
Role of diagnostic surveys in the conservation of the former mother-church of Santa Margherita di Belice in Sicily: preliminary tests and restoration…
2013
The paper presents the results of a campaign of non-destructive and minimally invasive tests that were conducted in the former mother church of Santa Margherita di Belice (Agrigento, Sicily), damaged during the earthquake in 1968 and now re-used as a “Museum of Memory”. It includes a summary of the refl ections that arose during the preliminary surveys and instrumental tests, and reasons that supported the choice of investigations to be performed and methods to be specifi cally applied for the conservation of the architectural heritage. An innovative method designed to produce an effective diagnosis for the localization of defects and the choice of restoration techniques has been applied: i…
Indagini diagnostiche nella chiesa di Santa Maria delle Stelle a Comiso
2012
La relazione riporta dettagliatamente gli esiti di una campagna d'indagini non distruttive e minimamente invasive svolte nella chiesa madre di Santa Maria delle Stelle a Comiso, su incarico della Soprintendenza ai Beni Culturali e Ambientali della Provincia di Ragusa. Le indagini diagnostiche comprendono la termografia all'infrarosso, l'indagine radar, l'indagine ultrasonica, le ispezioni endoscopiche, il controllo dell'umidità e le verifiche statiche. Technical Report regarding the outcome of a campaign of minimally invasive and non-destructive surveys conducted in the mother church of Santa Maria delle Stelle in Comiso (RG) on assignment by the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage and Env…
Indagini Diagnostiche nell'Ex Chiesa Madre di Santa Margherita di Belice
2010
La relazione presenta in modo dettagliato gli esiti di una campagna d'indagini diagnostiche non distruttive e minimamente invasive svolte nella ex chiesa madre di Santa Margherita di Belice per supportare, in particolare, lo studio delle murature e della decorazione a stucco. Le indagini hanno supportato l'elaborazione del progetto definitivo e del progetto esecutivo del restauro, come prescritto dalla normativa di riferimento. The report presents in detail the results of a campaign of non-destructive and minimally invasive diagnostic surveys performed in the former mother church of Santa Margherita di Belice to support, in particular, the study of masonry and stucco decoration. The investi…
Level of Diffusion and Training of Lung Ultrasound during the COVID-19 Pandemic - A National Online Italian Survey (ITALUS) from the Lung Ultrasound …
2021
The goal of this survey was to describe the use and diffusion of lung ultrasound (LUS), the level of training received before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the clinical impact LUS has had on COVID-19 cases in intensive care units (ICU) from February 2020 to May 2020. The Italian Lung Ultrasound Survey (ITALUS) was a nationwide online survey proposed to Italian anesthesiologists and intensive care physicians carried out after the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. It consisted of 27 questions, both quantitative and qualitative. 807 responded to the survey. The median previous LUS experience was 3 years (IQR 1.0-6.0). 473 (60.9 %) reported having attended at least one training cour…
Human NCL Neuropathology
2015
AbstractThe neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCL) currently encompass fourteen genetically different forms, CLN1 to CLN14, but are all morphologically marked by loss of nerve cells, particularly in the cerebral and cerebellar cortices, and the cerebral and extracerebral formation of lipopigments. These lipopigments show distinct ultrastructural patterns, i.e., granular, curvilinear/rectilinear and fingerprint profiles. They contain−although to a different degree among the different CLN forms−subunit C of ATP synthase, saposins A and D, and beta-amyloid proteins. Extracerebral pathology, apart from lipopigment formation, which provides diagnostic information, is scant or non-existent. The ret…
Retinal ultrastructure of neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinosis in the Dalmatian dog
1985
Ultrastructural studies of the retinae in two NCL-affected Dalmatian dogs revealed ubiquitous accumulation of lipopigments in numerous cell types of the retina, the fine structure of which closely resembled that seen in NCL-affected English setters. Photoreceptors and other retinal cell types were largely intact. These findings show that the retinal involvement in NCL of our Dalmatian dogs is identical to that of NCL-affected English setters. It also shows that in canine NCL a severe retinopathy, regularly encountered in human childhood NCL, does not develop. Thus, the NCL of Dalmatian dogs —and English setters — represents a reliable model to study human NCL, but for human retinopathia pig…
Ultrastructural study of the retina in late infantile metachromatic leukodystrophy.
1992
The autopsy of a 2-year-old girl revealed a clinically unrecognized metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) due to an aryl-sulfatase A deficiency, characteristically affecting the central and peripheral nervous system by demyelination and by accumulation of metachromatic material. The retina though reported clinically as normal, showed the same demyelinating process in the optic nerve including the papilla but an additional intraneuronal storage of MLD-typical lysosomal residual bodies in ganglion cell perikarya of the retina. Cells of the bipolar and photoreceptor layers as well as pigment epithelial cells were not affected by MLD-specific lysosomal storage. Thus, sulfatides seem to play a part…
Determination of liposoluble vitamins in cooked meals, milk and milk products by liquid chromatography
2002
A method for the simultaneous determination of liposoluble vitamins in cooked meals was established. Saponification was performed with 50% (w/v) KOH at 80 degrees C, and ascorbic acid was added as antioxidant. The subsequent extraction was carried out with diethyl ether. This was followed by a liquid chromatographic separation on a reversed-phase C18 column with methanol-water (94:6, v/v as the mobile phase. Retinyl acetate was used as the internal standard. The analytical parameters linearity, detection limit (0.19 and 8.33 microg/100 g for retinol and alpha-tocopherol, respectively), precision of the method (RSD=5.24 and 6.99% for retinol and alpha-tocopherol, respectively) and recovery a…
Frequency-Sliding Generalized Cross-Correlation: A Sub-Band Time Delay Estimation Approach
2020
The generalized cross correlation (GCC) is regarded as the most popular approach for estimating the time difference of arrival (TDOA) between the signals received at two sensors. Time delay estimates are obtained by maximizing the GCC output, where the direct-path delay is usually observed as a prominent peak. Moreover, GCCs play also an important role in steered response power (SRP) localization algorithms, where the SRP functional can be written as an accumulation of the GCCs computed from multiple sensor pairs. Unfortunately, the accuracy of TDOA estimates is affected by multiple factors, including noise, reverberation and signal bandwidth. In this paper, a sub-band approach for time del…