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Household Wealth Distribution in Italy in the 1990s
This paper describes the composition and distribution of household wealth in Italy. First, the evolution of household portfolios over the last forty years is described on the basis of newly reconstructed aggregate balance sheets. Second, the characteristics and quality of the main statistical source on wealth distribution, the Bank of ItalyÂ’s Survey of Household Income and Wealth, are examined together with the statistical procedures used to adjust for non-response, non-reporting and under-reporting. The distribution of household net worth is then studied using both adjusted and unadjusted data. Wealth inequality is found to have risen steadily during the 1990s. The increased concentration of financial wealth was an important factor in determining this path.household wealth, wealth inequality, Italy
Non-lesional focal epilepsies: epileptogenic zone diagnosis using deep electrodes in a high complex public hospital
Purpose : Epilepsy surgery is the most effective method in the treatment of focal epilepsies when the epileptogenic zone (EZ) coincides with lesion in the MRI and does not involve eloquent areas. In those cases where EZ is not identified by neuroimaging methods, the implantation of deep electrodes is required for the adequate diagnosis of EZ. The aim of this study is to perform a descriptive analysis of the EZ diagnoses and the post- surgical evolution compared with the group of patients (p) with lesion in the MRI. Method : We analyzed the totality of patients implanted with deep electrodes (SEEG), from the Video- EEG Unit of El Cruce Hospital “Nestor Carlos Kirchner”, from January 2014 to December 2018, and selected those p without MRI lesion. We compared post surgical evolution of this selected group with the those p with MRI lesion. Results : From 30 p with deep electrodes (SEEG), 7 p (23%) had no lesion in the MRI. Four p. were implanted with deep electrodes in both mesial temporal regions. Two p, was bilateral temporal and prefrontal deep electrodes. The remaining p was explored in the posterior temporal region and right parietal. In 5 p surgery was indicated and 1 p remained seizure free. In 4 p we observed improve on seizures frequency. Compared with the population with a lesion in the MRI that was operated (12p), 4 p remain seizure free, 6 continued with lower seizure frequency and 2 p with sporadic seizures (p < .05). Conclusion : Post surgical evolution compared with the group of patients with lesion in the MRI, did not present significant differences. In the group of patients with focal drug resistant epilepsy without lesion in MRI, it is essential to perform SEEG with a multidisciplinary approach for a correct diagnosis of EZ and adequate response to surgical treatment.Fil: Nasimbera, Alejandro. Gobierno de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Hospital El Cruce Doctor Nestor Carlos Kirchner. Centro de Medicina Traslacional.; Argentina. Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos. Provincia de Buenos Aires. Ministerio de Salud. Hospital Alta Complejidad en Red El Cruce Dr. Néstor Carlos Kirchner Samic. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos; ArgentinaFil: Oddo, Silvia Andrea. Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos. Provincia de Buenos Aires. Ministerio de Salud. Hospital Alta Complejidad en Red El Cruce Dr. Néstor Carlos Kirchner Samic. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos; ArgentinaFil: Giagante, Brenda. Gobierno de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Hospital El Cruce Doctor Nestor Carlos Kirchner. Centro de Medicina Traslacional.; Argentina. Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos. Provincia de Buenos Aires. Ministerio de Salud. Hospital Alta Complejidad en Red El Cruce Dr. Néstor Carlos Kirchner Samic. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos; ArgentinaFil: Solis, P.. Gobierno de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Hospital El Cruce Doctor Nestor Carlos Kirchner. Centro de Medicina Traslacional.; Argentina. Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos. Provincia de Buenos Aires. Ministerio de Salud. Hospital Alta Complejidad en Red El Cruce Dr. Néstor Carlos Kirchner Samic. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos; ArgentinaFil: D'Alessio, L.. Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos. Provincia de Buenos Aires. Ministerio de Salud. Hospital Alta Complejidad en Red El Cruce Dr. Néstor Carlos Kirchner Samic. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos; Argentina. Gobierno de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Hospital El Cruce Doctor Nestor Carlos Kirchner. Centro de Medicina Traslacional.; ArgentinaFil: Collavini, Santiago. Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos. Provincia de Buenos Aires. Ministerio de Salud. Hospital Alta Complejidad en Red El Cruce Dr. Néstor Carlos Kirchner Samic. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos; Argentina. Gobierno de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Hospital El Cruce Doctor Nestor Carlos Kirchner. Centro de Medicina Traslacional.; ArgentinaFil: Princich, Juan Pablo. Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos. Provincia de Buenos Aires. Ministerio de Salud. Hospital Alta Complejidad en Red El Cruce Dr. Néstor Carlos Kirchner Samic. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos; Argentina. Gobierno de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Hospital El Cruce Doctor Nestor Carlos Kirchner. Centro de Medicina Traslacional.; ArgentinaFil: Seoane, E.. Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos. Provincia de Buenos Aires. Ministerio de Salud. Hospital Alta Complejidad en Red El Cruce Dr. Néstor Carlos Kirchner Samic. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos; Argentina. Gobierno de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Hospital El Cruce Doctor Nestor Carlos Kirchner. Centro de Medicina Traslacional.; ArgentinaFil: Seoane, P.. Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos. Provincia de Buenos Aires. Ministerio de Salud. Hospital Alta Complejidad en Red El Cruce Dr. Néstor Carlos Kirchner Samic. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos; Argentina. Gobierno de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Hospital El Cruce Doctor Nestor Carlos Kirchner. Centro de Medicina Traslacional.; ArgentinaFil: Kochen, Sara Silvia. Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos. Provincia de Buenos Aires. Ministerio de Salud. Hospital Alta Complejidad en Red El Cruce Dr. Néstor Carlos Kirchner Samic. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Unidad Ejecutora de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos; Argentina. Gobierno de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Hospital El Cruce Doctor Nestor Carlos Kirchner. Centro de Medicina Traslacional.; Argentina33° Congreso Internacional de EpilepsiaBangkokTailandiaInternational League Against Epileps
Ruling out Stellar Companions and Resolving the Innermost Regions of Transitional Disks with the Keck Interferometer
With the Keck Interferometer, we have studied at 2 um the innermost regions
of several nearby, young, dust depleted "transitional" disks. Our observations
target five of the six clearest cases of transitional disks in the
Taurus/Auriga star-forming region (DM Tau, GM Aur, LkCa 15, UX Tau A, and RY
Tau) to explore the possibility that the depletion of optically thick dust from
the inner disks is caused by stellar companions rather than the more typical
planet-formation hypothesis. At the 99.7% confidence level, the observed
visibilities exclude binaries with flux ratios of at least 0.05 and separations
ranging from 2.5 to 30 mas (0.35 - 4 AU) over >= 94% of the area covered by our
measurements. All targets but DM Tau show near-infrared excess in their SED
higher than our companion flux ratio detection limits. While a companion has
previously been detected in the candidate transitional disk system CoKu Tau/4,
we can exclude similar mass companions as the typical origin for the clearing
of inner dust in transitional disks and of the near-infrared excess emission.
Unlike CoKu Tau/4, all our targets show some evidence of accretion. We find
that all but one of the targets are clearly spatially resolved, and UX Tau A is
marginally resolved. Our data is consistent with hot material on small scales
(0.1 AU) inside of and separated from the cooler outer disk, consistent with
the recent SED modeling. These observations support the notion that some
transitional disks have radial gaps in their optically thick material, which
could be an indication for planet formation in the habitable zone (~ a few AU)
of a protoplanetary disk.Comment: 36 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in Ap
MITS: the Multi-Imaging Transient Spectrograph for SOXS
The Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) is a medium resolution spectrograph R~4500
proposed for the ESO 3.6 m NTT. We present the optical design of the UV-VIS arm
of SOXS which employs high efficiency ion-etched gratings used in first order
(m=1) as the main dispersers. The spectral band is split into four channels
which are directed to individual gratings, and imaged simultaneously by a
single three-element catadioptric camera. The expected throughput of our design
is >60% including contingency. The SOXS collaboration expects first light in
early 2021. This paper is one of several papers presented in these proceedings
describing the full SOXS instrument
The VIS detector system of SOXS
SOXS will be a unique spectroscopic facility for the ESO NTT telescope able
to cover the optical and NIR bands thanks to two different arms: the UV-VIS
(350-850 nm), and the NIR (800-1800 nm). In this article, we describe the
design of the visible camera cryostat and the architecture of the acquisition
system. The UV-VIS detector system is based on a e2v CCD 44-82, a custom
detector head coupled with the ESO continuous ow cryostats (CFC) cooling system
and the NGC CCD controller developed by ESO. This paper outlines the status of
the system and describes the design of the different parts that made up the
UV-VIS arm and is accompanied by a series of contributions describing the SOXS
design solutions.Comment: 9 pages, 13 figures, to be published in SPIE Proceedings 1070
The Acquisition Camera System for SOXS at NTT
SOXS (Son of X-Shooter) will be the new medium resolution (R4500 for a
1 arcsec slit), high-efficiency, wide band spectrograph for the ESO-NTT
telescope on La Silla. It will be able to cover simultaneously optical and NIR
bands (350-2000nm) using two different arms and a pre-slit Common Path feeding
system. SOXS will provide an unique facility to follow up any kind of transient
event with the best possible response time in addition to high efficiency and
availability. Furthermore, a Calibration Unit and an Acquisition Camera System
with all the necessary relay optics will be connected to the Common Path
sub-system. The Acquisition Camera, working in optical regime, will be
primarily focused on target acquisition and secondary guiding, but will also
provide an imaging mode for scientific photometry. In this work we give an
overview of the Acquisition Camera System for SOXS with all the different
functionalities. The optical and mechanical design of the system are also
presented together with the preliminary performances in terms of optical
quality, throughput, magnitude limits and photometric properties.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, SPIE conferenc
O-GlcNAcylation enhances CPS1 catalytic efficiency for ammonia and promotes ureagenesis
Life-threatening hyperammonemia occurs in both inherited and acquired liver diseases affecting ureagenesis, the main pathway for detoxification of neurotoxic ammonia in mammals. Protein O-GlcNAcylation is a reversible and nutrient-sensitive post-translational modification using as substrate UDP-GlcNAc, the end-product of hexosamine biosynthesis pathway. Here we show that increased liver UDP-GlcNAc during hyperammonemia increases protein O-GlcNAcylation and enhances ureagenesis. Mechanistically, O-GlcNAcylation on specific threonine residues increased the catalytic efficiency for ammonia of carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 (CPS1), the rate-limiting enzyme in ureagenesis. Pharmacological inhibition of O-GlcNAcase, the enzyme removing O-GlcNAc from proteins, resulted in clinically relevant reductions of systemic ammonia in both genetic (hypomorphic mouse model of propionic acidemia) and acquired (thioacetamide-induced acute liver failure) mouse models of liver diseases. In conclusion, by fine-tuned control of ammonia entry into ureagenesis, hepatic O-GlcNAcylation of CPS1 increases ammonia detoxification and is a novel target for therapy of hyperammonemia in both genetic and acquired diseases
Archivio storico della provincia di Salerno. A.1, n.1/4(1921)
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Architecture of the SOXS instrument control software
SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) is a new spectrograph for the ESO NTT telescope,
currently in the final design phase.
The main instrument goal is to allow the characterization of transient
sources based on alerts. It will cover from near-infrared to visible bands with
a spectral resolution of using two separate, wavelength-optimized
spectrographs. A visible camera, primarily intended for target acquisition and
secondary guiding, will also provide a scientific "light" imaging mode.
In this paper we present the current status of the design of the SOXS
instrument control software, which is in charge of controlling all instrument
functions and detectors, coordinating the execution of exposures, and
implementing all observation, calibration and maintenance procedures.
Given the extensive experience of the SOXS consortium in the development of
instruments for the VLT, we decided to base the design of the Control System on
the same standards, both for hardware and software control.
We illustrate the control network, the instrument functions and detectors to
be controlled, the overall design of SOXS Instrument Software (INS) and its
main components. Then, we provide details about the control software for the
most SOXS-specific features: control of the COTS-based imaging camera, the
flexures compensation system and secondary guiding.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figure
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