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Zoonosi e sanità pubblica : Un approccio interdisciplinare per un problema emergente = Zoonosis and Public Health: An Interdisciplinary Approach to an Emerging Problem
Zoonoses, that is, naturally transmissible infections between other animal species and man, are now an emerging problem, even in developed countries. Climate change, human migration flows, growth in international trade and wars favor both the re-emergence of diseases considered rare and the introduction of potentially pathogenic organisms into new geographical areas. For most of these pathologies, however, the majority of health professionals - starting with general practitioners - often do not have appropriate and up-to-date knowledge and tools. The text aims to provide medical personnel - and primarily general practitioners - with both a scientific and regulatory framework and a series of specific and practical information on individual pathologies. This volume is intended to be an operational tool also aimed at encouraging multidisciplinary collaboration and the exchange of information, in particular between doctors and veterinarians.
Vite matematiche : Protagonisti del’ 900 da Hilbert a Wiles = Mathematical Lives : Twentieth-century protagonists from Hilbert to Wiles
Presenting famous mathematicians alongside others less known to the general public - from Hilbert to Gödel, from Turing to Nash, from De Giorgi to Wiles - the portraits collected in this volume show us characters with a strong personal charisma, with vast cultural interests, passionate about defending the importance of their research, sensitive to beauty, attentive to the social and political problems of their time. The result is a fresco that documents the centrality of mathematics in the culture, not only scientific but also philosophical, artistic and literary, of our time, in a continuous game of exchanges and references, correspondences and suggestions.
Un invito allAlgebra = An Invitation to Algebra
The book offers a basic course in algebra for university students, structured according to the new regulations. Themes such as groups, rings and fields are first introduced through simple examples (as well as numbers, polynomials and permutations) and are subsequently discussed in depth in the second part of the book. It also deals with topics such as applications to cryptography, codes, computer science, also providing historical hints. The volume aims to offer an introduction to algebra in a schematic and easily understandable way.
Un anno intero sotto il cielo : Guida a 366 notti d’osservazioni = A whole year under the Sky : A guide to 366 nights of observations
There are 365 nights in a year (366 if leap) and for the amateur astronomer there are never two alike. The sky every night offers its own show that has as its protagonists thousands of objects such as stars, constellations, planets, nebulae, to be recognized one by one, to be admired and studied. Sir Patrick Moore - a famous British TV presenter, amateur astronomer and popularizer known throughout the world - wrote this book to suggest to the sky lover which objects of particular interest can be observed on each different night of the year. Easy to interpret star maps are proposed, while the text deals with physics, stars and their history, binary systems, galaxies, the Moon and planets: everything that the celestial vault offers the curious amateur astronomer.
Tutti i numeri sono uguali a cinque = All numbers equal five
Twenty-one stories, twenty-one authors, twenty-one fragments of life walking alongside science, in the most free and brazen way imaginable. Abandoning oneself to digressions, emotions, intuitions of the heart, images, sensations that flank the daily practice of science, but which are not part of codified science. In some stories, science is a method, an instrument, a way of relating to things and people; in others it becomes ideas, thoughts, behaviors, attitudes. Each story has a voice that emerges from the depths of the author's scientific culture, but also from his prejudices, from his way of being a person, from his vision of society, of the world.
Tubazioni in polietilene per il trasporto di acqua : Manuale per la progettazione, la posa e la gestione sicura delle reti idriche = Polyethylene pipes for water transport : A manual for the design, installation and safe management of water networks
Gathers, integrates, and makes available to industry professionals the extensive technical knowledge available regarding the use of polyethylene in water networks. Polyethylene, an extremely versatile material resistant to corrosion and scale formation, flexible, lightweight, and easily weldable, offers significant performance and cost advantages in the construction of water networks. The manual provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of material characteristics, pipe design methods, installation techniques, joining methods, rehabilitation techniques for existing pipelines, and relevant product and certification standards. The manual was developed by Andrea Pavan, professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan and scientific director of the Plastics Testing Laboratory Foundation (POLI.lampol), with the assistance of Roberto Frassine, professor at the same Polytechnic.
Trattamento del distacco retinico primario : La storia, le opzioni, le tecniche = Treatment of primary retinal detachment : History, options, techniques
Questo compendio, ricco di informazioni, rappresenta per il moderno chirurgo vitreo-retinico una guida basilare. Esperti nel campo della chirurgia retinica e vitreale, descrivono le tecniche chirurgiche delle quattro procedure principali, in uso all’inizio del ventunesimo secolo: cerchiaggio con drenaggio, retinopessia pneumatica, vitrectomia primaria, ed indentazione minimale senza drenaggio. Vantaggi e svantaggi di ciascuna tecnica sono valutati, e confrontati tra loro in relazione alla selezione dei casi, al riaccollamento retinico dopo un singolo intervento, al riaccollamento finale, alle complicazioni, alla funzione visiva ed al rapporto costo-benefici. Quest’opera, dal carattere formativo, descrive inoltre come la moderna terapia farmacologica sia utilizzata come adiuvante per migliorare il risultato chirurgico e funzionale di queste tecniche. Sono altresì trattate le nuove tecniche di imaging, quali l’uso dei fotoni balistici, lo pseudocolor SLO a grandangolo, ed i farmaci anti-proliferativi, fornendo un’anticipazione delle prospettive future.
Tigri e Teoremi : Scrivere teatro e scienza = Tigers and Theorems : Writing theater and science
From science according to Popper and Toulmin to theater according to Morteo and Brecht, a path is built between the two disciplines that leads to an original intertwining between the two fields: the emotion that a theatrical performance provokes in us can be compared to the pleasure that a theorem proved flawlessly. The purpose of the book is to teach how to write "Theater and Science". Seeing the curtain open in front of one's own scientific play, written with rigor after having researched and analyzed and compared the sources. The secret of this writing lies in two directives that work well both in science and in theater: e.
Teoria delle Equazioni e Teoria di Galois = Equation Theory and Galois Theory
Algebra was born as the study of the solvability of polynomial equations and essentially remained so until in 1830 Evariste Galois - a brilliant mathematician with a short and adventurous life - definitively solved this problem, at the same time laying the foundations for the birth of modern algebra understood as the study of algebraic structures. Classical Galois Theory is now taught at various levels within the degree courses in Mathematics. This textbook was accordingly written to be used flexibly. Some parts - such as the one on Field Theory - can also be used for more advanced courses in Algebra, Geometry and Number Theory. Other topics - such as the study of the solubility by radicals of low degree equations or of the constructability with ruler and compass of plane figures - can be carried out in Complementary Mathematics courses for the didactic address. The volume also contains historical notes, many detailed examples and exercises.
Storie di cose semplici = Stories of simple things
The nut, the thread, the key, the ring, the mirror, the button and the sphere are simple things that we encounter every day, but of which we often forget, because contemporary culture is more and more bewitched by the complexity of the systems and the lightness of virtual realities. This essay, countering Italo Calvino's five American Lectures, examines how "simple things" in fact often demonstrate their importance in simplicity, slowness, heaviness, singularity, in invisibility itself. But their "consistency" - this precisely should have been the sixth Lesson - lies precisely in the fact that their symbolic and real strength lies precisely in the fact that they are concrete things, which we can all touch, even when they take on a metaphorical meaning. The seven simple objects could have been accompanied by many other examples, but this book must remain above all a stimulus so that we can recover greater attention to the concreteness of things, which is not only important when they are placed in the windows of a museum of material culture, but because they are part of us. Literature and technique, art and philosophy, music and news, every day show how these "things" are the real protagonists of what the French call civilization: the Ring of the Nibelung, Pushkin's Button, and the "Brunelleschi's nut" are just a few examples of how these "things" have found a place of honor in history. And this is a book in which many stories are told, like fairy tales that introduce our things, to let us enter their world accompanied by fantasy.
Stabilità funzionale e controllo neuroumorale = Functional stability and neurohumoral control
Stability of function has been the guiding concept from C. Bernard to the present, both for biology and clinical medicine. Only recently, however, have two illustrious physicists, Grégoire Nicolis and Ilya Prigogine, winners of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics, offered a comprehensive description of the stability of a variable, and therefore of a functional state, in terms so clear, precise, and comprehensive that it can also be applied to the biological field. The previously confused concepts on which we based our thinking now arrange themselves in an acceptable manner, and from their newly acquired meaning, they already draw attention to the potential emergent order. This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to a biological topic: from systems theory and far-from-equilibrium thermodynamics to the functional states of sleep, wakefulness, and muscular exercise. Simple descriptions, precise definitions, and abundant illustrations will facilitate the reader's study of the stability of complex systems and understanding how the autonomic nervous system controls this stability.
Sistemi ACM e imaging diagnostico : Le immagini mediche come matrici attive di connessioni = ACM systems and diagnostic imaging : Medical images as active matrices of connections
The first hypothesis underlying ACM (Active Connections Matrix) systems is that each N-dimensional image can be transformed into a network of interconnected pixels that develops over time through local, deterministic, and iterative operations. The transformed image can display, in a larger dimensional space, morphological and dynamic regularities that, in the original dimensions, would be invisible or could be classified as noise. This hypothesis allows us to explain the second hypothesis underlying ACM systems: each image contains within it the inherent mathematics that produced it. In practice, it is as if each image concealed within it two other invisible images. ACM systems extract them and make them visible. The work also describes possible applications in diagnostic imaging and is therefore aimed at physicists, computer scientists, radiologists, and laboratory technicians who work in image processing.
Sindrome Coronarica Acuta, un nuovo modo di fare diagnosi, un nuovo modo di impostare la terapia = Acute Coronary Syndrome : Anew way of diagnosing and setting therapy
Aims to provide the reader with a concise yet comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the issue of acute coronary syndrome, in light of the enormous body of literature published on the subject over the past decade. Introduction to the concepts of electrocardiography and histophysiopathology, the nosological reclassification of acute coronary disease resulting from the introduction of new myocardial necrosis markers into clinical practice is addressed. It also emphasizes the need for physicians to assess the intrinsic risk of the disease by calculating specific scores proposed by clinical studies. Based on these new concepts, the various therapeutic approaches that should be implemented are analyzed, including both purely pharmacological and more "aggressive" approaches in terms of effectiveness. Ample space is therefore given to the use of new antithrombotic treatments and the choice between pharmacological therapy and invasive approaches using coronary angiography and angioplasty. a crossroads that sometimes puts the doctor in difficulty, but which can imply, if the options are faced rationally, a radical change in the patient's destiny.
Salute & equilibrio nutrizionale = Health & nutritional balance
L'obesità costituisce il problema nutrizionale più frequente nei paesi industrializzati. In Italia, un bambino su quattro è soprappeso, uno su dieci è obeso. Inoltre, i risultati di recenti indagini epidemiologiche suggeriscono che il numero dei bambini obesi sembra destinato ad aumentare ulteriormente. L'obesità esordita in età giovanile costituisce un problema soprattutto a causa di due fattori: la persistenza dell'obesità in età adulta e l'elevato rischio di morbilità: in più del 50% dei casi il bambino obeso mantiene il suo eccesso ponderale anche in età adulta. L'estensione del fenomeno obesità ed il suo progressivo aggravarsi impongono la realizzazione di efficaci interventi preventivi e terapeutici. Questo volume riporta i più recenti aggiornamenti sui fattori genetici, metabolici e psicologici coinvolti nel determinare lo sviluppo dell'obesità nell'età evolutiva, e suggerimenti basati sull'evidenza scientifica per il suo trattamento.
Qualità dei Dati : Concetti, Metodi e Tecniche = Data quality: Concepts, Methods and Techniques
Poor data quality can hinder or seriously damage the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations and businesses. The growing awareness of these repercussions has led to important public initiatives such as the promulgation of the "Data Quality Act" in the United States and the Directive 2003/98 of the European Parliament. The authors present a complete and systematic introduction to the wide range of problems related to data quality. The book starts with a detailed description of different dimensions of data quality, such as accuracy, completeness and consistency, and discusses its importance in relation to both different types of data, such as federated data, data present on the web and data with temporal dependencies, which to the different categories in which the data can be classified. The comprehensive description of techniques and methodologies from not only research in the area of data quality but also related areas, such as data mining, probability theory, statistical data analysis and machine learning, provides an excellent introduction to the state of the art. current art. The presentation is complemented by a short description and a critical comparison of practical tools and methodologies, which will help the reader to solve their quality problems.
Psicologia Clinica : Dialoghi e confronti = Clinical Psychology : Dialogues and Comparisons
Il volume fornisce un panorama aggiornato dei principali aspetti teorici, formativi e di ricerca che attualmente caratterizzano la psicologia clinica in Italia. I diversi contributi presentati nelle prime 4 sezioni (Prospettive e dibattiti; Le psicoterapie: sviluppi ed innovazioni; Psicologia clinica, psicoterapia e ricerca; La dimensione formativa in psicologia clinica ) rappresentano il frutto di un dialogo e di un confronto che si è articolato nel tempo fra alcuni dei principali studiosi italiani. Lo spirito che accomuna i diversi capitoli deriva dalla considerazione che la psicologia clinica implica una clinica essenzialmente psicologica, caratterizzata da metodiche atte a comprendere ed eventualmente modificare stati mentali, schemi di comportamento e sistemi di relazione. Nella sezione quinta In dialogo con altre discipline vengono riportati i contributi della filosofia del linguaggio ed alcune nuove proposte metodologiche sugli studi osservazionali.
Psicoanalisi e Neuroscienze = Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience
The development of neuroscience has brought very significant contributions to the study of the human mind and its basic functions: memory, unconscious, dream, repression, empathy, sharing of affective and emotional states, imitation, intentionality. These functions form the basis of psychoanalytic theory of the mind and clinical practice. In particular, the discovery of implicit memory has made it possible to extend the concept of the unconscious to include that of the unconscious not repressed whose contents are related to primary childhood experiences. The study with bio-images and the discovery of mirror neurons also contributed to making known the neurophysiological basis of mental processes involved in transference and countertransference. The book, centered on the possible integration between Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience, is an essential training tool for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, neurologists and for scholars interested in the origins and functions of the human mind.
Protocollo per la valutazione delle abilità prassiche e della coordinazione motoria APCM = Protocol for the evaluation of practical skills and motor coordination APCM
Intended to provide valuable support in formulating a definitive diagnosis in children with multiple developmental difficulties (learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and signs of dyspraxia). The authors also emphasize the importance of carefully observing certain aspects of the behavior of children with these difficulties. Recent research, based on the concept of embodied cognition, has shown that experiences derived from the body, and therefore the development and control of motor functions, play a crucial role in the development of the mind, or cognitive development.
Protocolli di studio in TC spirale multistrato : Vol.1 : Addome = Study protocols in multilayer spiral CT
Multilayer spiral CT (TCMS) is a pivotal method in abdominal diagnostics, able to offer an often decisive contribution to the clinical status of the patient. However, an accurate diagnosis cannot be separated from a rigorous examination technique, which is constantly evolving in parallel with the development of the equipment. Through the presentation of cases concerning the main abdominal pathologies, the volume represents for the general radiologist and for the resident a streamlined guide able to support them in the decisions regarding the optimization of study protocols in relation to the clinical question.
Produrre ed elaborare immagini diagnostiche = Produce and process diagnostic images
Illustrates the fundamental principles of the processing methods and deals with the various applications in detail. The first part is dedicated to the production of digital images, to the algorithms used for two-dimensional and three-dimensional processing, up to the systems and rules of image management in diagnostic practice. The second part develops the applications of the processing methods, divided by anatomical district, focusing on what are the most frequently encountered situations. The final part is devoted to three topics of particular interest: diagnostic image fusion techniques, nuclear medical applications and diagnostic support systems.
