1Rheumatology Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; 2Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, Pisa, Italy; 3Department of Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Centers, Ein Kerem, Israel; 4Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey; Rosaria Talarico, MD Luisa Marconcini, Managing ...

Francisco José Avila Ferrer, Roberto Improta,3,∗ Fabrizio Santoro,2,∗ Vincenzo Barone 1) University of Málaga, Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Málaga, 29071, Spain 2) CNR–Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Chimica dei Composti OrganoMetallici (ICCOM-CNR), UOS di Pisa, Area della Ricerca, via G. Moruzzi 1, I-56124 Pisa, Italy 3) CNR–Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istitu...

P. Köster, A. Giulietti, D. Giulietti, L. Labate, L.A. Gizzi K.L. Lancaster, P. Norreys J.S. Green, R.G. Evans F. Perez, S. Baton, M. Koenig A. Morace, D. Batani J. Waugh, N. Woolsey K. Akli 1 Intense Laser Irradiation Laboratory at IPCF, CNR, Pisa, Italy 2 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Pisa section, Italy 3 Physics Department, Univesity of Pisa, Italy 4 Central Laser Facility, STFC, R...

BACKGROUND Although Pisa syndrome and scoliosis are sometimes used interchangeably to describe a laterally flexed postural deviation in Parkinson's disease (PD), the imaging findings of Pisa syndrome in PD have not been previously studied in detail. METHODS Patients with PD and Pisa syndrome (lateral flexion >10° in the standing position) were examined clinically and underwent radiological as...

The Programme for International Student Assessment, PISA, is a worldwide study to assess knowledge and skills of 15year-old students. Results of the latest PISA survey conducted in 2012 were published in December 2013. According to the results, Finland is one of the few countries where girls performed better in mathematics than boys. The purpose of this work is to refine the analysis of this ob...

Collaborative problem solving (ColPS) proficiency was developed as a new assessment for the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in the 2015 international evaluation of student skills and knowledge. The assessment framework defined by the PISA ColPS 2015 expert group crossed three major collaboration processes with four problem solving processes that were adopted from the PISA ...

The fifth Italo-Hungarian Symposium was held in Pisa from 9-13 September 1991, and was jointly organized, as part of a bilateral scientific and technological agreement, by the National Institute of Health in Rome and the Institute of Instrumental Analytical Chemistry, National Council of Research in Pisa. The opening ceremony was held in the Congress Centre in Pisa, followed by a reception in t...

In this study we set up and optimized a dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) procedure for the hyperpolarization of a large dose suitable for cardiac metabolic imaging in vivo in swine models. The dose range proposed in this study allowed chemical shift imaging of cardiac metabolism with hyperpolarized [1-C]pyruvate in pigs. We investigated the typical pattern of distribution of [1-C]pyruvate and...

A small group of high-performing East Asian economies dominate the top of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) rankings. This has caught the attention of Western policymakers, who want to know why East Asian children obtain such high PISA scores, and what can be done to replicate their success. In this paper I investigate whether children of East Asian descent, who were bor...

—— An extreme low power voltage reference generator operating with a supply voltage ranging from 0.9 to 4 V has been implemented in AMS 0.35 μm CMOS process. The maximum supply current measured at the maximum supply voltage and at 80 °C is 70 nA. A temperature coefficient of 10 ppm/°C is achieved by means of a perfect suppression of the temperature dependence of the mobility, the compensation o...