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Mediazione corporea e rielaborazione dell’esperienza nella media età adulta

This paper proposes some educational objectives for middle adulthood, achievable through bodily mediation workshops. Strategies are proposed for elaborating, integrating and evaluatingthe experience of movement using graphic, pictorial and narrative activities. Distinction are made between what can be shared with the group participating in the workshop within a specific part of the symbolic-anthropological setting, and those tools used by theeducator to remember and evaluate the experience. As evidence for the arguments, some artistic products created in a workshop for middle adulthood are added, and a diagram with useful indicators for the educator to use in compiling his/her logbook is proposed.Vengono proposti alcuni obiettivi educativi per la media età adulta, realizzabili attraverso i laboratori esperienziali a mediazione corporea. Si propongono alcune strategie per la rielaborazione,l’integrazione e la valutazione dell’esperienza di movimento, attraverso modalità grafico-pittoriche e narrative. Si fa distinzione tra gli strumenti che possono essere condivisi con i partecipanti ai gruppi, in una parte specifica del setting simbolico-antropologico, e gli strumenti che chi guida e propone l’esperienza utilizza per ricordare e valutare l’esperienza stessa. A testimonianza di quanto argomentato vengono inseriti alcuni lavori realizzati in un laboratorio per la media età adulta, nonché uno schema esemplificativo degli indicatori utili per la redazione del diario di bordo da parte dell’educatore, dell’educatric

Effects of monensin on Na+/K+-ATPase and Ca++-ATPase activities in chick skeletal muscle and myocardium after subacute treatment

Chicks were treated at 2 weeks of age with 4, l5, 40, 100 and 150 mg/kg of monensin, an ionophore used for its anticoccidial and growth-promoting properties. In the present immunohistochemical study, the expressions and distribution of Na+/K+- ATPase and Ca++-ATPase were studied in myocardium and skeletal muscles (pectoral and quadriceps femoris). We detected an increase of Na+/K+-ATPase immunostaining with prominent staining of the sarcolemma and a slight increase of Ca++-ATPase with prominent staining of the sarcoplasma

Hybrid video quality prediction: reviewing video quality measurement for widening application scope

A tremendous number of objective video quality measurement algorithms have been developed during the last two decades. Most of them either measure a very limited aspect of the perceived video quality or they measure broad ranges of quality with limited prediction accuracy. This paper lists several perceptual artifacts that may be computationally measured in an isolated algorithm and some of the modeling approaches that have been proposed to predict the resulting quality from those algorithms. These algorithms usually have a very limited application scope but have been verified carefully. The paper continues with a review of some standardized and well-known video quality measurement algorithms that are meant for a wide range of applications, thus have a larger scope. Their individual artifacts prediction accuracy is usually lower but some of them were validated to perform sufficiently well for standardization. Several difficulties and shortcomings in developing a general purpose model with high prediction performance are identified such as a common objective quality scale or the behavior of individual indicators when confronted with stimuli that are out of their prediction scope. The paper concludes with a systematic framework approach to tackle the development of a hybrid video quality measurement in a joint research collaboration.Polish National Centre for Research and Development (NCRD) SP/I/1/77065/10, Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (Vinnova

Right Iliac Fossa Pain Treatment (RIFT) Study: protocol for an international, multicentre, prospective observational study

Introduction Patients presenting with right iliac fossa (RIF) pain are a common challenge for acute general surgical services. Given the range of potential pathologies, RIF pain creates diagnostic uncertainty and there is subsequent variation in investigation and management. Appendicitis is a diagnosis which must be considered in all patients with RIF pain; however, over a fifth of patients undergoing appendicectomy, in the UK, have been proven to have a histologically normal appendix (negative appendicectomy). The primary aim of this study is to determine the contemporary negative appendicectomy rate. The study’s secondary aims are to determine the rate of laparoscopy for appendicitis and to validate the Appendicitis Inflammatory Response (AIR) and Alvarado prediction scores. Methods and analysis This multicentre, international prospective observational study will include all patients referred to surgical specialists with either RIF pain or suspected appendicitis. Consecutive patients presenting within 2-week long data collection periods will be included. Centres will be invited to participate in up to four data collection periods between February and August 2017. Data will be captured using a secure online data management system. A centre survey will profile local policy and service delivery for management of RIF pain. Ethics and dissemination Research ethics are not required for this study in the UK, as determined using the National Research Ethics Service decision tool. This study will be registered as a clinical audit in participating UK centres. National leads in countries outside the UK will oversee appropriate registration and study approval, which may include completing full ethical review. The study will be disseminated by trainee-led research collaboratives and through social media. Peer-reviewed publications will be published under corporate authorship including ‘RIFT Study Group’ and ‘West Midlands Research Collaborative’