this paper presents the results obtained from the life cycle assessment (lca) of the productionof sicilian artichokes (cynara scolymus) with the aim of reducing impacts, interpreting the results, suggesting possible improvements and enriching the sustainability knowledge already existing in the agro food field. artichokes represent one of the excellent italian agricultural products even if stil...

objectives: the purpose of this study was to determine the functional mobility and balance in the elders after total hip arthroplasty in healthy coparison to elders. methods & materials: the current cross-sectional study was done on 20 patients (70.9±4.2) with hip osteoarthritis 6 months after total hip arthroplasty and 20 healthy subjects (73±5.7) as control group. patient group was assigned w...

While we can usually understand the impacts of invasive species on recipient communities, invasion biology lacks methodologies that are potentially more predictive. Such tools should ideally be straightforward and widely applicable. Here, we explore an approach that compares the functional responses (FRs) of invader and native amphipod crustaceans. Dikerogammarus villosus is a Ponto-Caspian amp...

Non-viral lipid/polymeric vectors have widely been used as nanocarriers (NCs) for gene delivery. They possess large surface area to volume ratio and are able to interact with biomolecules through functional moieties, resulting in inadvertent biological impacts, in particular at genomic level. Thus, their genomic bio-signature needs to be investigated prior to use in vivo. Using high-throughput ...

Cold plasma (CP) technology has proven very effective as an alternative tool for food decontamination and shelf-life extension. The impact of CP on food quality is very crucial for its acceptance as an alternative food processing technology. Due to the non-thermal nature, CP treatments have shown no or minimal impacts on the physical, chemical, nutritional and sensory attributes of various prod...

conclusions our study shows that there is improvement in pain scores, at rest and on movement, as well as a reduction in incidence of severe pain, in patients who receive cfnb versus those who receive intravenous pca. results our results show that the incidence of a severe pain episode was higher in the pca compared with the cfnb group. lower pain scores were observed in the cfnb group compared...

background: dizziness as a common symptom affecting many aspects of the patient’s life and it is hard to be fully evaluated. the dizziness handicap inventory (dhi) is a reliable self-perceived questionnaire in the evaluation of dizziness impacts. the purposes of this study are translation of the dhi to persian language and measuring its psychometric properties, including face, content, discrimi...

Non-functional requirements encompass important design concerns such as schedulability, security, and communication constraints. In model-based development they non-locally impact admissible platformmappings and design spaces. In this paper we present a novel and formal approach for specifying non-functional requirements as constraintsystems over the space of models. Our approach, based on stru...