ECAWsoft: A Web based Climate and Weather Data Visualization for Big Data Analysis

Purpose: In Tanzania, data for climate and weather are normally analyzed by Meteorological Agency and then are published through TV, website and radio. Different stakeholders normally obtain the weather and climate data / information in a generalized way. This calls for a need of a system which allows data to be shared openly to different stakeholders so that they can analyze those data as per their specific needs. The paper presents the overview of the developed system, ECAWsoft. Also, it gives some few interfaces showing different outputs from the system. Findings: The goal of this paper has been attained by developing a working data visualization tool for climate and weather called ECAWsoft. The system is current operational and is providing open data for different stakeholders. It is user friendly and interactive with capability of displaying visualization of data as per fine granularity required by user. Development of open data system for data visualization has lead to a transparency system which is helping farmers, researchers, policy makers (etc.) to make informed decision on weather and climate. Practical implications: The system presented in this paper need to be scaled up so that more data from all weather stations in Tanzania can be populated in real time. Originality/value: The development and adoption of open systems for visualizing weather and climate data remains seriously lacking in many countries including Tanzania. This paper provides an overview of some initiative to fill such a research gap

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"LA RICERCA FOLKLORICA

Chanteurs et vagabonds. Production et diffusion de la littérature populaire

Folk literature (songs, fairytales) was created and spread by professionals who lived on the fringes of society and who earned their keep by presentations in town or village squares (storytellers) or who found board and lodging by telling stories by the fireside (vagrants and beggars). These forms of production and diffusion are reflected in the tradition itself. We do not have an uninterrupted series of variants produced by the oral tradition, as current Romantic or Neo-Romantic theory would claim. What we find by contrast is a series of different versions, arranged in random fashion, depending on the choice of each professional storyteller and on specific market strategies. The author proposes to distnguish three different categories : (a) redazioni (authorial remakes, characterized by innovations in form and in the narrative plot) ; (b) versioni (local handling of different versions by professionals or semi-professionals, characterized by slight but stable alterations) ; (c) varianti (variations explained by the mechanism of oral transmission). Popular culture is marked by Romantic taste, but it is probably the Baroque aesthetic that gives it its form. An uninterrupted chain of revivals and re-creations is one of the main characteristics of ballads and folktales. Their subject-matter is often of feudal origin, but their form belongs to the Renaissance and their music comes from the Baroque. This literary and musical reorganization of style and folk tradition shows a procedure which is basically similar to the one used by Romantic authors in their reconstruction of the Middle Ages

Un dibattito sulla geografia linguistica tra Jaberg, Jud, Scheuermeier e Gilliéron

L'analisi del carteggio tra Scheuermeier, Jaberg e Jud, impegnati nell'AIS, ci permette di ricostruire un importante dibattito teorico, suscitato dai commenti di Jules Gilliéron raccolti da Schuermeier durante una visita al maestro della geografia linguistica

Ernesto de Martino: etnografia e storia

Pubblicazione degli Atti dei seminari di Napoli, Roma e Venezi

Silicosis and silicotuberculosis among respiratory hospital admissions: A cross-sectional survey in northern Tanzania

Background. There is little evidence describing respiratory disease among 40.5 million small-scale miners worldwide. Objectives. To describe the prevalence and clinical characteristics of adult respiratory inpatients with silicosis and silicotuberculosis in a tertiary hospital in Tanzania that serves a small-scale mining region. Methods. In this retrospective, cross-sectional survey, patient files from admissions between 2010 and 2020 were opportunistically selected and included if a respiratory diagnosis had been made. Results. Of 223 patients with respiratory conditions, 32 (14.3%; 95% confidence interval (CI) 10.0 - 19.6) were diagnosed with silicosis and 17 (7.6%; 95% CI 4.5 - 11.9) with silicotuberculosis. Mining was the most frequent occupation in those with silicosis (n=15/32; 46.9%) and silicotuberculosis (n=15/17; 88.2%). Of those with silicosis or silicotuberculosis, 26/49 (53.1%) were aged <45 years. Conclusion. Our study suggests that silicosis and silicotuberculosis are common among male and female respiratory inpatients with occupational exposure. The study highlights the role of occupational exposures in respiratory disease in developing economies

Evolocumab and lipoprotein apheresis combination therapy may have synergic effects to reduce low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels in heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia: A case report

A 49 years old woman (weight 68 kg, BMI 27.3 kg/m2 ) with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH) and multiple statin intolerance with muscle aches and creatine kinase elevation, presented at the Outpatient Lipid Clinic of Verona University Hospital in May 2015. Hypercholesterolemia was firstly diagnosed during adolescence, followed in adulthood by a diagnosis of Cogan's syndrome, a rheumatologic disorder characterized by corneal and inner ear inflammation. No xanthomas, corneal arcus, or vascular bruits were detectable at physical examination. Screening for macrovascular complications did not reveal relevant damages. Ongoing medical therapy included salicylic acid, methylprednisolone, methotrexate, and protonic-pump inhibitor. In the absence of specific lipid-lowering therapy, plasma lipid levels at first visit were: total-cholesterol\u2009=\u2009522 mg/dL, LDL-cholesterol\u2009=\u2009434 mg/dL, HDL-cholesterol\u2009=\u200984 mg/dL, triglycerides\u2009=\u2009120 mg/dL, Lp(a)\u2009=\u200913 mg/dL. On December 2015, evolocumab 140 mg sc every 2 weeks was initiated. After a 24-week treatment, the LDL-cholesterol levels decreased by an average of 21.2% to 342\u2009\ub1\u200922 mg/dL (mean\u2009\ub1\u2009SD). On May 2016, LDL-apheresis (H.E.L.P.system) was started as add-on therapy. Compared to the average levels obtained during the evolocumab monotherapy period, the LDL-cholesterol was reduced by 49.4%, thus reaching an inter-apheresis level (mean\u2009\ub1\u2009SD) of 173\u2009\ub1\u200937 mg/dL. This report suggests that a combination therapy with evolocumab and lipoprotein-apheresis may have synergic effects on circulating lipid levels. Its relevance as a highly effective treatment option for hyperlipidemia in HeFH patients warrants further investigation in larger datasets