With the Cross-Border Healthcare Directive (2011/24/EU) a mandatory framework was established to foster cooperation on a voluntary basis, within European Reference Networks (ERNs). These networks are composed of centres and healthcare providers. The exchange of knowledge is a central issue in this context. A detailed literature survey was carried out to determine the most important factors affe...

The paper summarises activities within a broad-based research program for the reconstruction of the evolution of Italian climate in the twentieth century. The main result of the program is that Italian climate is becoming warmer and drier with an increase of both heavy precipitation events and long dry spells. Most of the observed signals appear to be due to changes in atmospheric circulation c...

Spondylolisthesis has always fascinated orthopaedist and others concerned with the treatment of low back disease. Spondylo means Vertebra and Olisthesis to slip or slide down a slippery path.In this orticle.the history of spondylolisthesis has been described,followed by the recent classification of different types of the condi­tion.There are Sdifferent types of spondylolisthesis­dysplastic,Isth...

the mass transfer performance of a pulsed disc and doughnut column for extraction of samarium and gadolinium from aqueous nitrate solution with d2ehpa was investigated. the effects of operating parameters such as pulsation intensity, continuous and dispersed phase velocities on column performance were investigated. the axial dispersion model was used to obtain the overall mass transfer coeffici...

Figure 1: Rare Event Detection includes both Rare Mutation Detection (RMD) and Rare Species Detection (RSD). RMD and RSD can be classified according to their assay components. An RMD assay is comprised of a single primer set plus two competitive probes. RSD utilizes either a single assay to detect a rare species per unit volume (Case 1) or two independent, noncompetitive assays to detect a rare...