Search results for "cala"

Health promotion in the curricula and teaching of two polytechnics in Finland

2000

Abstract The purpose of this study was to examine the manifestation of health promotion in two Finnish health care and nursing polytechnic curricula for students starting their studies in August 1997. Another goal was to explore students’ and their teachers’ perceptions of which modules contained health promotion, as well as to find out which modules contained integrated health promotion. In this study, data and investigator triangulation were used. The data consisted of the curricula of two polytechnics of health care and of interviews with 20 student nurses and their teachers. The data were analysed using content analysis. Health promotion studies were integrated with other studies in the…

Performance evaluation of a measurement-based algorithm for distributed admission control in a DiffServ framework

2002

Distributed Admission Control in IP DiffServ environments is an emerging and promising research area. Distributed admission control solutions share the idea that no coordination among network routers (i.e. explicit signaling) is necessary, when the decision whether to admit or reject a new offered flow is pushed to the edge of the IP network. Proposed solutions differ in the degree of complexity required in internal network routers, and result in a different robustness and effectiveness in controlling the accepted traffic. This paper builds on a recently proposed distributed admission control solution, called GRIP (Gauge&Gate Reservation with Independent Probing), designed to integrate the …

Deep learning model deploying on embedded skin cancer diagnostic device

2020

The number of research papers, where neural networks are applied in medical image analysis is growing. There is a proof that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are able to differentiate skin cancer from nevi with greater accuracy than experienced specialists on average (sensitivity 82% and 73% accordingly).1 Team's latest research2 allows achieving even greater accuracy, by using specific narrow-band illumination. Nevertheless, the overall probability of early skin cancer detection depends on the availability of diagnostic tools. If screening tools will be available to a high number of general practices, the chance of disease detection will increase. The previous research3 shows that scala…

A comparison study of evolutive algorithms for solving the partitioning problem in distributed virtual environment systems

2004

Fast Internet connections and the widespread use of high performance graphic cards are making Distributed Virtual Environment (DVE) systems very common nowadays. However, there are several key issues in these systems that should still be improved in order to design a scalable and cost-effective system. One of these key issues is the partitioning problem. This problem consists of efficiently assigning clients (3D avatars) to the servers in the system. In this paper, we present a comparison study of different modern heuristics for solving the partitioning problem in DVE systems, as an alternative to the ad hoc heuristic proposed in the literature. Performance evaluation results show that some…

A Comparison Study of Modern Heuristics for Solving the Partitioning Problem in Distributed Virtual Environment Systems

2003

Fast Internet connections and the widespread use of high performance graphic cards are making Distributed Virtual Environment (DVE) systems very common nowadays. However, there are several key issues in these systems that should still be improved in order to design a scalable and cost-effective system. One of these key issues is the partitioning problem. This problem consists of efficiently assigning clients (3-D avatars) to the servers in the system. In this paper, we present a comparison study of different modern heuristics for solving the partitioning problem in DVE systems, as an alternative to the ad-hoc heuristic proposed in the literature. Performance evaluation results show that som…

Scalable Electro-Optic Control of Localized Bistable Switching in Broad-Area VCSELs Using Reconfigurable Funnel Waveguides

2017

We demonstrate a steplike optical modulation based on the activation and deactivation of a bistable localized structure using a photoinduced and reconfigurable miniaturized 30 × 30 μm electroactivated funnel waveguide. Control of a single 10-μm-diameter spot in a 200-μm-diameter vertical-cavity surfaceemitting laser at 980 nm is achieved modulating the phase of an exciting beam in the specific position of the spot in the cavity. This localized on-off response can be scaled into arrays and offer a possible route to fast integrated optical logical functions and memory at low intensities at near-infrared wavelengths.

Strappazzandola di parole ... maltrarrandola apiù un posso... Una lite tra fratello e sorella nella Sicilia di fine seicento

2019

La sfera domestica, nel passato come nel presente, è ?l?ambito privilegiato di espressione e di azione della violenza maschile contro le donne?. Nell?ultimo quarantennio gli studi su questo fenomeno di lunga durata e rappresentativo delle relazioni tra uomini e donne si sono moltiplicati. La violenza contro le donne si è rivelata un angolo visuale molto importante per riflettere su ?alcuni temi centrali nella storia europea: la famiglia, il potere, la civilizzazione? ed è oggetto di studio in diversi ambiti disciplinari, incluso quello storico. In questo articolo ho preso in esame la lunga contesa giudiziaria tra Anna Ruffo e il fratello maggiore Placido Ruffo, principe della Scaletta, prim…

Patrimonio culturale a rischio. Una risposta dall'Europa. Il Progetto Polirisk - Politiques comparées: patrimoine, aménagement et risques naturels

2008

CD multimediale della rivista "Complessità e sostenibilità. Il territorio e l'architettura, 2008". L'articolo descrive il Progetto Polirisk, uno dei 12 sottoprogetti della Opération Cadre Régionale Noé – Patrimoine et Prévention des Risques Naturels, finanziata dalla Commissione Europea all’interno del Programma di Iniziativa Comunitaria (PIC) Interreg IIIC Sud per il periodo 2006-2008. Le regioni che compongono il partenariato, diretto dal Consiglio Regionale Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’azur (France), chef de file del progetto, vedono riunita una significativa parte dell’Europa attorno al tema della prevenzione del patrimonio culturale e ambientale dai rischi naturali: l’Attica dell’Est per la G…

Monitoraggio del contenuto idrico del suolo in un versante calanchivo in Sicilia

2008

Chemical composition of the essential oil of Cyanus adscendens (Bartl.) Soják and C. orbelicus (Velen.) Soják growing wild in Bulgaria, and PCA analy…

2022

Cyanus Mill. genus, belonging to the Asteraceae family, includes more than 50 taxa, mainly growing in Central and Southern Europe, North Africa, Asia Minor, and the Caucasus. Previous investigations on Cyanus taxa have shown that they are rich source of flavonoids and phenolic compounds but, differently from species of genus Centaurea, almost devoid of sesquiterpene lactones. In the present study, the chemical composition of the essential oils from aerial parts of Cyanus adscendens (CA) and C. orbelicus (CO), collected in Bulgaria, and not previously investigated, was evaluated by GC-MS. The main components of CA were α-bergamotene (31.3%), (Z,Z,Z)-9,12,15-octadecatrien-1-ol (14.5%) and cal…