February 1967 Conference Issue

Massachusetts Turf and Lawn Grass CouncilBetter Turf Through Research and Educatio

GoldThes: A Faceted Thesaurus for Goldsmith's Art in a Regional Context

In industrialized countries, the rapidity of development has not taken into account the fact that it would be opportune to formalize “niche” knowledge. There is an ever-growing need for a written formalization of Tacit knowledge. The aim of this activity consists in building specialized knowledge collections, which are useful to help and to guarantee the continuity of small and medium-sized business during successions and to guarantee staff training related to specific practices. To reach this aim this work presents the construction of a Faceted Thesaurus (GoldThes) for the domain of goldsmith handcraftsmanship, which tries to classify and organize domain extracted from a regional context. The use of this kind of system demonstrated how classifying and organizing information into multi-dimensional hierarchies is more accessible than using a single taxonomy that is a unique hierarchical dimensio

Prime note per lo studio linguistico terminologico dell'Area 10

The paper presents the first results of a terminological study concerning the knowledge management of the Area 10 National University Council (cun) research domains "Sciences of antiquity, philological-literary and historical-artistic". In the present research, we created a corpus of institutional texts in order to extract the terms which could be candidate to automatically populate a machine-readable controlled vocabulary able to describe the topics under examination. In the paper we will describe the statistically and linguistically motivated strategies we adopted to process the corpora and the evidences that emerged from the text analyses

Chirurgia ginecologica in videolaparoscopia.

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Increased Use of Blood Transfusions to Manage Urological Conditions during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Introduction: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) led to an extensive reorganization of the healthcare system in Italy, with significant deferment of the treatment of urology patients. We aimed to assess the impact of deferred treatment during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on the need for blood transfusions in 3 Italian urology departments. Methods: We reviewed hospital chart data on blood transfusions at the urology units of 3 academic centers in the north of Italy from March to April 2020. Data were compared with values from the same time frame in 2019 (March to April 2019). Results: We observed significant reductions of the number of patients admitted to the urology units from March to April 2020 (373 vs. 119) and the number of performed surgeries (242 vs. 938) compared to 2019. Though, the number of transfused blood units was comparable between the 2 years (182 vs. 252), we found a greater mean number of blood units transfused per admission in 2020 (0.49 vs. 0.22; p < 0.0001). As a whole, the transfusion rate for hematuria was higher in 2020 than in 2019 (36 vs. 7.9%; p < 0.0001). Discussion/Conclusion: The observed increased number of blood transfusions needed throughout the SARS-CoV-2 era could have had a negative impact on both patients and the healthcare system. It is possible to speculate that this is the consequence of a delayed diagnosis and deferred treatment of acute conditions