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Long-term strength and balance training prevents mobility decline among community-dwelling people aged 75 and older
2016
High functional capacity of muscle strength and balance in older persons promotes independent mobility and prevents functional decline below the disability threshold. This dissertation explored the effects of strength and balance training (SBT) as part of a multimodal geriatric intervention on physical functioning and health-related factors associated with training participation in a community-dwelling population aged 75 years and over. This study is a part of the Geriatric Multidisciplinary Strategy for the Good Care of the Elderly (GeMS) project conducted from 2004 to 2007 in Kuopio, Finland. Participants were randomized into an intervention (n=339) and control group (n=312). The individu…
Accumulation of sensory difficulties predicts fear of falling in older women
2013
Objectives: To explore whether the accumulation of sensory difficulties predicts fear of falling (FOF), and whether the traits correlate with each other regardless of familial factors. Methods: Self-reported hearing, vision and balance difficulties, and FOF were assessed using structured questionnaires at the baseline and after a 3-year follow-up in 63- to 76-year-old women (n = 434). Results: Among the women without FOF at baseline (n = 245), 41% reported FOF at follow-up. Increasing numbers of sensory difficulties at baseline predicted higher incidence of FOF. The relationship between accumulated sensory difficulties and FOF was not mediated by familial factors. Discussion: The accumulati…
Modellazione numerica del comportamento meccanico delle volte catalane
2010
Il presente lavoro riguarda la modellazione numerica del comportamento costitutivo delle cosiddette volte in foglio (le bóvedas tabicadas) che rappresentano una delle tecniche edilizie tradizionali catalane più diffusamente impiegate da alcuni tra i più grandi architetti spagnoli (primo fra tutti Gaudí) alla fine del XIX secolo [1-3]. Tali volte risultano fondamentalmente costituite da strati alternati di spessore in generale pressoché uguale di mattoni e di malta. Questa particolare caratteristica viene studiata in questo lavoro nel quale si vuole confrontare la modellazione del comportamento costitutivo considerando il materiale come ideale omogeneo con quella ottenuta modellando il mater…
Analisi numerica e sperimentale sul comportamento meccanico delle volte catalane
2008
Nähdä metsä puilta : yhteismitallisuus ympäristökysymyksenä
2019
Particle balance and return loops for microplastics in a tertiary-level wastewater treatment plant.
2021
Highlights: Dewatering by centrifugation was a step that removed a high number of MPs from the sludge. Sludge retained especially the fibrous microplactics. Reject water transported microplastics inside a wastewater treatment plant. Disc filter-based tertiary treatment ensured removal of 99% of microplastics in wastewater. Microplastics (MPs) from households, stormwater, and various industries are transported to wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), where a high proportion of them are captured before discharging their residuals to watersheds. Although recent studies have indicated that the removed MPs are mainly retained in wastewater sludge, sludge treatment processes have gained less atten…
EVAPOTRANSPIRATION, CROP COEFFICIENTS AND WATER USE EFFICIENCY OF CYPERUS ALTERNIFOLIUS L. AND TYPHA LATIFOLIA L. IN A PILOT-SCALE HORIZONTAL SUBSURF…
2014
In constructed wetland systems (CWs) for wastewater treatment, the efficiency of the system is highly affected by the system’s water balance. This study shows the results of a series of water balance measurements obtained in 2013 from a pilot horizontal-subsurface flow (HSSF) system in the West of Sicily (Italy). The system included three separate units, one planted with Cyperus alternifolius L., one planted with Typha latifolia L. and an unplanted unit. The system was fed with urban wastewater from an activated-sludge wastewater treatment plant. The aim of the study was to compare evapotranspiration rates (ET), crop coefficients (Kc) and water use efficiency (WUE) of two root emergent macr…
Monitoring of erosion on two calanchi fronts – Northern Sicily (Italy)
2011
In the present research, two neighbouring calanchi fronts have been monitored by means of repeated readings on erosion pins, that were carried out between November 2006 and October 2008. During the monitoring period, a gauge station has been recording rainfalls, allowing us to compute the Rainfall-Runoff Erosivity Factor of the USLE model. The research highlighted: i) a general correspondence between rainfalls temporal trends and surface variation rhythms; ii) alternating erosion and deposition phases result in a retreat of the “calanchi” fronts.
Conflitto e bilanciamento tra diritti fondamentali. Una mappa dei problemi
2007
In the current jurisprudential debate, the issue of conflicts of rights is a widely debated one. The present essay aims at clarifying the main aspects of this ongoing debate, along the following lines: firstly, an historical account of the problem of balancing conflicting rights will be given, with an eye both to the American recent experience and to the Italian one. Secondly, it will be discussed whether and under what circumstances rights can conflict. Thirdly, after having acknowledged that conflicts of rights are in fact unavoidable, it will be necessary to examine the main technique of solving those conflicts: namely, the “weighing and balancing” technique. The main suggestion that is …
Gli strumenti di conciliazione nella prassi: analisi su un campione di contratti collettivi aziendali
2020
Individuare le vie verso un efficiente sistema di work-life balance è questione complessa e impone di considerare molteplici fattori, tra cui il ruolo strategico che può assumere la contrattazione collettiva nell’integrazione delle misure adottate a livello normativo, perfezionando la disciplina con diritti mirati o per meglio garantire l’attuazione di quelli esistenti. Fino a che punto, però, i contratti collettivi raggiungano nei fatti l’ambizioso obiettivo di potenziare i risultati in questa direzione è ciò che si intende meglio indagare, pur senza pretesa di esaustività. Il presente contributo si concentra sull’analisi dei contenuti di un campione di contratti collettivi di secondo live…