Analysis o f the daily locomotor activity of Acanthogonatus tacuariensis (Araneae, Nemesiidae)

The daily locomotor activity ofAcanthogonatus tacuariensis was investigated by means of an actograph apparatus. Twenty-one adult specimens (13 males and eight females) were monitored over 2,352 hours in the course of one year. The covariance analysis indicated neither significant statistical difference between specimens in the daily locomotor activity nor statistical difference between sexes. Statistical analysis of three variables was performed: duration of daily locomotor activity (hours), relation between hourly locomotor activity in darkness and in daylight and daily number of events occurring during the locomotor activity. Results suggest a possible association between daily mean temperature and the studied variables. Key words: Araneae, Acanthogonatus tacuariensis, Daily locomotor activity, Chronobiology, Uruguay.The daily locomotor activity ofAcanthogonatus tacuariensis was investigated by means of an actograph apparatus. Twenty-one adult specimens (13 males and eight females) were monitored over 2,352 hours in the course of one year. The covariance analysis indicated neither significant statistical difference between specimens in the daily locomotor activity nor statistical difference between sexes. Statistical analysis of three variables was performed: duration of daily locomotor activity (hours), relation between hourly locomotor activity in darkness and in daylight and daily number of events occurring during the locomotor activity. Results suggest a possible association between daily mean temperature and the studied variables. Key words: Araneae, Acanthogonatus tacuariensis, Daily locomotor activity, Chronobiology, Uruguay.The daily locomotor activity ofAcanthogonatus tacuariensis was investigated by means of an actograph apparatus. Twenty-one adult specimens (13 males and eight females) were monitored over 2,352 hours in the course of one year. The covariance analysis indicated neither significant statistical difference between specimens in the daily locomotor activity nor statistical difference between sexes. Statistical analysis of three variables was performed: duration of daily locomotor activity (hours), relation between hourly locomotor activity in darkness and in daylight and daily number of events occurring during the locomotor activity. Results suggest a possible association between daily mean temperature and the studied variables. Key words: Araneae, Acanthogonatus tacuariensis, Daily locomotor activity, Chronobiology, Uruguay

A snapshot of knowledge about oral cancer in italy: A 505 person survey

Objectives: Patients’ knowledge about oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) plays an important role in primary prevention, early diagnosis, and prognosis and survival rate. The aim of this study was to assess OSCC awareness attitudes among general population in order to provide information for educational interventions. Methods: A survey delivered as a web-based questionnaire was submitted to 505 subjects (aged from 18 to 76 years) in Italy, and the answers collected were statistically analyzed. Information was collected about existence, incidence, features of lesions, risk factors of oral cancer, and self-inspection habits, together with details about professional reference figures and preventive behaviors. Results: Chi-square tests of independence with adjusted standardized residuals highlighted correlations between population features (age, gender, educational attainment, provenance, medical relationship, or previous diagnoses of oral cancer in family) and knowledge about oral cancer. Conclusions: Knowledge about OSCC among the Italian population is limited, and it might be advisable to implement nudging and sensitive customized campaigns in order to promote awareness and therefore improve the prognosis of this disease

Progress with the Prime Focus Spectrograph for the Subaru Telescope: a massively multiplexed optical and near-infrared fiber spectrograph

The Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) is an optical/near-infrared multi-fiber spectrograph with 2394 science fibers, which are distributed in 1.3 degree diameter field of view at Subaru 8.2-meter telescope. The simultaneous wide wavelength coverage from 0.38 um to 1.26 um, with the resolving power of 3000, strengthens its ability to target three main survey programs: cosmology, Galactic archaeology, and galaxy/AGN evolution. A medium resolution mode with resolving power of 5000 for 0.71 um to 0.89 um also will be available by simply exchanging dispersers. PFS takes the role for the spectroscopic part of the Subaru Measurement of Images and Redshifts project, while Hyper Suprime-Cam works on the imaging part. To transform the telescope plus WFC focal ratio, a 3-mm thick broad-band coated glass-molded microlens is glued to each fiber tip. A higher transmission fiber is selected for the longest part of cable system, while one with a better FRD performance is selected for the fiber-positioner and fiber-slit components, given the more frequent fiber movements and tightly curved structure. Each Fiber positioner consists of two stages of piezo-electric rotary motors. Its engineering model has been produced and tested. Fiber positioning will be performed iteratively by taking an image of artificially back-illuminated fibers with the Metrology camera located in the Cassegrain container. The camera is carefully designed so that fiber position measurements are unaffected by small amounts of high special-frequency inaccuracies in WFC lens surface shapes. Target light carried through the fiber system reaches one of four identical fast-Schmidt spectrograph modules, each with three arms. Prototype VPH gratings have been optically tested. CCD production is complete, with standard fully-depleted CCDs for red arms and more-challenging thinner fully-depleted CCDs with blue-optimized coating for blue arms.Comment: 14 pages, 12 figures, submitted to "Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V, Suzanne K. Ramsay, Ian S. McLean, Hideki Takami, Editors, Proc. SPIE 9147 (2014)

DOCTORAL: THE FREE APP FOR TUTORING IN SUPPORTIVE ORAL CARE

To introduce the version 2.0 of DoctOral free app, created for tutoring medical/dental professionals (and students) in the clinical recognition of oral lesions and dental treatment planning in patients at risk of ONJ drug- related

Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty in the treatment of stenosis of the renal artery in solitary functioning kidney

The authors report 2 cases of patients with single functioning kidney and severe hypertension caused by renal artery stenosis who were treated by percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA). In one case an early and persistent improvement of renal function and a reduction of pressure values were observed. In the other patient, with preexistent severe functional damage, a progressive impairment of renal function required haemodialysis. On the basis of these results and of other reports in the literature, PTA is proposed as elective treatment of renal artery stenosis in patients with single functioning kidney

ANGIOPLASTICA TRANSLUMINALE PERCUTANEA NEL TRATTAMENTO DELLA STENOSI DELL’ARTERIA RENALE IN PAZIENTI MONONEFRICI

The authors report 2 cases of patients with single functioning kidney and severe hypertension caused by renal artery stenosis who were treated by percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA). In one case an early and persistent improvement of renal function and a reduction of pressure values were observed. In the other patient, with preexistent severe functional damage, a progressive impairment of renal function required haemodialysis. On the basis of these results and of other reports in the literature, PTA is proposed as elective treatment of renal artery stenosis in patients with single functioning kidney