I have read, with high interest, the Jednak’s review article “The evolution of bladder augmentation: from creating reservoir to reconstituting an organ” (1), where the literature regarding this subject has been carefully taken into consideration. Particularly, about the tissue engineeringbased augmentation cystoplasty, the attention has been focused on the results reached by Atala and his group...

OBJECTIVES To analyze the variations in the parameters relative to active fixation electrodes at the time of implantation and over subsequent follow-up during 6 months of the acute phase of implantation. DESIGN A descriptive, analytical, prospective, observational cohort study was made of consecutive cases over a period of 8 months (April-December 2010). SETTING Pacing unit of an Intensive ...

Verification and validation of automated driving systems’ safety are some the biggest challenges for introduction vehicles into market. Scenario-based assessment is an efficient repeatable method to test before their deployment in real world. However, even with limited traffic situations identified as critical system behavior, there still open range parameters describe each situation. Thus, def...

The interaction of acoustic waves with fluid-loaded shell structures is an ongoing area of interest in underwater acoustics, ship construction and detection. The elasticity of the structure permits strong surfaceborne wave effects, which can be significant or dominant in large structures (many wavelengths in size). The significance of surface borne waves is compounded by low loss factors, enabl...

Gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers have allowed us to directly observe stellar-mass binaries for the first time, and therefore explore their formation channels. One of ways infer how a system is assembled by measuring system's orbital eccentricity. Current methods parameter estimation do not include all physical effects eccentric systems such as spin-induced precession, higher-o...

Abstract Holarctic expansion of Neoclytus acumiantus acuminatus due to its polyphagous character has been a major concern for plant health, which raises several questions about spreading directions. I have examined all bibliographical references, phytosanitary reports and authentic photographs from the online sources in quest determination worldwide distribution flight phenology N. a. . The exp...

As increasingly recognized by scholars, climate change is posing new challenges in the field of disaster risk management and urban planning. Even though cultural heritage has passed through decades centuries, it never experienced such unexpected variable events as those forecasted for foreseeable future, making a sensitive element living environment. By selecting city Ravenna site Santa Croce C...

Patient monitors at intensive care units produce too many alarms – most of them being unnecessary. Medical staff becomes desensitised and ignores alarms. This phenomenon is called alarm fatigue it negatively influences for both patients staff. Some are due to an acute unforeseeable events but others the result a continued trend hence foreseeable. We present system that forecasts least foreseeab...

Many multi-task operations require human operators to simultaneously perform visual surveillance and a secondary task. As the trend in technological advancement of systems indicates high likelihood heavy interdependence between technology foreseeable future, it is paramount venture beyond context driving, an area where similar research saturated in, investigate functional field view (FFoV) mult...

In regulating the financial statements, amortization of goodwill represents a complex problem that requires careful assessment economic conditions firm and their foreseeable evolution. This study aimed to analyze topic with specific regard Italian context, in order identify parameters useful for guiding processes, compliance limits set by legislation on statements. To this end, used methodology...