Introduction Hospitals situated in the Piedmont Region (Italy) have systematically collected data on in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) since 2012. This activity has been established as part of the Regional Guidelines for the continuous quality improvement of the in-hospital emergency. Those guidelines and improvement strategies are coordinated by the Scientific Committee of the Regional Board a...

Toscana virus is the most important agent responsible for meningitis in central Italy. We report a serosurveillance study, using an immunoenzymatic assay, of 360 serum samples harvested from a high-risk population occupationally exposed to Toscana virus in two regions of Italy, Tuscany and Piedmont. The results indicates a seroprevalence of Toscana virus of 77.2% in the forestry workers, partic...

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Galway, Ireland Bioactive and Resorbable Glass/Gelatin Composite Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering Piergiorgio Gentile, Francesco Baino, Valeria Chiono, Chiara Tonda-Turo, Francesca Boccafoschi, Chiara Vitale-Brovarone, Enrica Vernè, Gianluca Ciardelli Corresponding Author: [email protected] Dept. of Mechanics, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy, Dept. of Materials Science and...

gypsiferous soils occur in xeric, ustic, and aridic moisture regimes. environmental conditions affect the mode of gypsum formation. gypsiferous soils in fars province, southern iran, are found in piedmont plains, flood plains, and alluvial plains. the objective of this work was to investigate the micromorphology of gypsum crystals formed under different soil moisture regimes. the results indica...

Background – Canine leishmaniasis (CanL) is traditionally endemic in central-south Italy, whereas northern regions (Padana plane and Alpine territories) have been considered Leishmania-free (Pozio et al., 1985) until early 1990’s, when CanL foci were firstly identified in Veneto and Piedmont. Because of the appearance of autochthonous human cases (VL), a national project was launched in 2003 to...

Small reservoirs are prevalent landscape features and an important component of headwater hydrology. Tens of thousands of small ponds, most less than a hectare, were constructed over the past century within the United States. While remote-sensing and geographic-mapping technologies assist in quantifying these features, their influence on water quality is less well understood. This study reports...