From December 2019, the SARS-CoV-2 virus rapidly spreads in more than 200 countries world and WHO declared an epidemic public health emergency. In Italy, Coronavirus disease caused 239.410 total infected cases 34.644 people have died. Specific recommendations, as reducing social contacts scrupulous hand hygiene, were adopted to limit spread of disease, affecting daily habits tens millions peopl...

BACKGROUND Professionally-focussed behaviour change intervention (BCI) workshops were utilised in the Management of OsteoArthritis in Consultations (MOSAICS) trial investigating the feasibility of implementing the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Osteoarthritis (OA) Guideline in general practice. The workshops aimed to implement the general practitioner (GP) component of...

Background: Diabetes Mellitus is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide, bringing enormous costs to communities and the health care system. Self-care behavior has a major influence on type 1 diabetes (T1D) health outcomes, and with successful management, children and adolescents with T1D can lead long and healthy lives. This study aimed to inves...

This thesis offers a critical overview of the debate on Wittgenstein’s remarks on Gödel. These remarks—which have since their publication been the source of much controversy—were said by early commentators to show that (a) Wittgenstein did not understand the role consistency plays in the proof of Gödel’s theorem and logic in general, and that (b) he mistakenly thought that a natural language in...

Introduction / objectives The proper management of infectious conditions often requires optimized clinical decisions based on a complex decision making process. Computers are able to aid this process only if the medical knowledge used is machine readable, which requires scrupulous preparation and modeling. Here we describe and evaluate a dynamic model framework for Urinary Tract Infection (UTI).