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Fungal Necrotizing Scleritis After Intravitreal Injection Therapy
2020
PURPOSE To report a case of infectious necrotizing scleritis secondary to Aspergillus terreus after intravitreal injection therapy. METHODS This is a case report with literature review. RESULTS A 98-year-old woman receiving intravitreal aflibercept injections for neovascular age-related macular degeneration in the left eye presented with severe pain, redness, and purulent discharge at the injection site. She was initially treated with topical fortified antibiotics, and clinical improvement was achieved, although microbial cultures showed negative results. Two months later, she presented with severe ocular pain and was diagnosed with anterior necrotizing scleritis. Scleral scrapings were col…
Soccer players have a better standing balance in nondominant one-legged stance
2010
Rosario Barone1, Filippo Macaluso2, Marcello Traina3,4, Vincenza Leonardi4,5, Felicia Farina1, Valentina Di Felice11Human Anatomy Section 'E. Luna', BioNeC, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy; 2Department of Physiological Science, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa; 3Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular and Renal Diseases, 4Methods and Didactics of Motory Activities, DISMOT, 5Department of General Surgery, Emergency and Organ Transplants (GENURTO), University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy  Rosario Barone and Filippo Macaluso contributed equally to the workAbstract: The purpose of this study was to analyze the differences in standing balan…
Intra- and inter-foot coordination in quiet standing: footwear and posture effects.
2012
Intra-foot coordination between center of pressure (COP) of the ball and heel of the foot in single leg standing and inter-foot coordination of the right and left foot during bipedal stance was examined as a function of postural stance (two legs, one leg, and toe postures), footwear (barefoot, different area based high heel shoes) and postural training (ballet group and regular exercising group). Young adult females performed three 20s trials in each postural condition. In general, the traditional variability measures of COPnet motion increased under the less stable postural support conditions and ballet dancers had better balance in single leg standing. Regularity analysis revealed a negat…
Ankle muscle strength discriminates fallers from non-fallers
2014
International audience; It is well known that center of pressure (CoP) displacement correlates negatively with the maximal isometric torque (MIT) of ankle muscles. This relationship has never been investigated in elderly fallers (EF). The purpose of this study was thus to analyze the relationship between the MIT of ankle muscles and CoP displacement in upright stance in a sample aged between 18 and 90 years old that included EF . The aim was to identify a threshold of torque below which balance is compromised. The MIT of Plantar flexors (PFs) and dorsal flexors (DFs) and CoP were measured in 90 volunteers: 21 healthy young adults (YA) (age: 24.1 +/- 5.0), 12 healthy middle-aged adults (MAA)…
Directional Control Mechanisms in Multidirectional Step Initiating Tasks.
2020
Typical anticipatory postural adjustments (APAs) in forward gait or step initiation tasks to prepare for possible disturbances caused by prime voluntary movements and to accelerate the body forward have been previously reported. However, it is not clear how wide the variations in step directions are differentiated and controlled in non-forward step initiation tasks during the APA phase. The main goal of this study is to explain the directional control mechanisms by investigating the APA of step initiation tasks in forward, diagonal, lateral, and posterior directions. The center of pressure (COP) trajectories and related muscle (soleus, tibialis anterior, and gluteus medius of both lower lim…
The Effects of Stochastic Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation on Body Sway and Muscle Activity
2020
Objective: This study aimed to investigate whether galvanic vestibular stimulation with stochastic noise (nGVS) modulates the body sway and muscle activity of the lower limbs, depending on visual and somatosensory information from the foot using rubber-foam.Methods: Seventeen healthy young adults participated in the study. Each subject maintained an upright standing position on a force plate with/without rubber-foam, with their eyes open/closed, to measure the position of their foot center of pressure. Thirty minutes after baseline measurements under four possible conditions (eyes open/closed with/without rubber-foam) performed without nGVS (intensity: 1 mA, duration: 40 s), the stimulation…
Controllable morphology of flux avalanches in microstructured superconductors
2014
The morphology of abrupt bursts of magnetic flux into superconducting films with engineered periodic pinning centers (antidots) has been investigated. Guided flux avalanches of thermomagnetic origin develop a tree-like structure, with the main trunk perpendicular to the borders of the sample, while secondary branches follow well-defi ned directions determined by the geometrical details of the underlying periodic pinning landscape. Strikingly, we demonstrate that in a superconductor with relatively weak random pinning, the morphology of such flux avalanches can be fully controlled by proper combinations of lattice symmetry and antidot geometry. Moreover, the resulting flux patterns can be re…
Terrence Malickin elokuva "Elämän puu" sielunmessun näkökulmasta
2016
Tässä tutkielmassa tarkasteltiin yhdysvaltalaisen elokuvaohjaajan Terrence Malickin elokuvaa Elämän puu sielunmessun näkökulmasta. Malickin elokuvia on tulkittu usein Martin Heideggerin eksistenssifilosofian sekä elokuvien sisältämien kristillisten aiheiden pohjalta. Tässä tutkielmassa lähtökohtana toimi Malickin Elämän puu -elokuvassa käytetyn musiikin narratiivisuus sekä sen vaikutus elokuvasta tehtävään tulkintaan. Tutkielman teoreettinen viitekehys muodostui elokuvamusiikin narratiivisuutta käsittelevistä teorioista metodologian edustaessa hermeneuttista taiteen tulkintaa. Musiikin narratiivisuutta tarkasteltiin musiikissa sekä lauluteksteissä toistuneiden aiheiden muodostamien teemojen…
La spada penale trafigge i rave party. Osservazioni attorno al nuovo reato di “Invasione di terreni o edifici per raduni pericolosi” (art. 434 bis c.…
2022
Il contributo analizza i profili critici della norma "anti rave party" introdotta con il Decreto Legge n. 162/2022 e ne valuta le possibili modifiche, alla luce della proposta di emendamento di recente presentata dall'Esecutivo con l'obiettivo di "normalizzare" la disposizione.
Geofanie. La Terra postmoderna
2015
L’altro ieri qualcosa è cambiato e noi non ce ne siamo accorti. La Terra, che credevamo stabilizzata in un’immagine razionale, che sapevamo parto laborioso di un lungo transito dal mito alla scienza, ha cominciato a pulsare e a deformarsi di nuovo. Per tentativi, per assaggi periferici, qualcuno ha provato a reinventarla, trovando nelle sue forme in rilievo una spinta molto antica e molto attuale. Questa tettonica dell’immaginario viaggiava su assi precisi: epica, cosmografia, corpo come misura del mondo. La Terra postmoderna, perché è di questo che si tratta, era molto più di una vaga intuizione e molto meno di paradigma condiviso. Questo libro è la ricognizione di un’alba già finita, è la…