Identification and safety effects of road user related measures. Deliverable 4.2 of the H2020 project SafetyCube

Safety CaUsation, Benefits and Efficiency (SafetyCube) is a European Commission supported Horizon 2020 project with the objective of developing an innovative road safety Decision Support System (DSS). The DSS will enable policy-makers and stakeholders to select and implement the most appropriate strategies, measures, and cost-effective approaches to reduce casualties of all road user types and all severities. This document is the second deliverable (4.2) of work package 4, which is dedicated to identifying and assessing road safety measures related to road users in terms of their effectiveness. The focus of deliverable 4.2 is on the identification and assessment of countermeasures and describes the corresponding operational procedure and outcomes. Measures which intend to increase road safety of all kind of road user groups have been considered [...continues]

Cardiovascular responses to cognitive stress in patients with migraine and tension-type headache

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The purpose of this study was to investigate the temporal relationship between autonomic changes and pain activation in migraine and tension-type headache induced by stress in a model relevant for everyday office-work.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>We measured pain, blood pressure (BP), heart rate (HR) and skin blood flow (BF) during and after controlled low-grade cognitive stress in 22 migraineurs during headache-free periods, 18 patients with tension-type headache (TTH) and 44 healthy controls. The stress lasted for one hour and was followed by 30 minutes of relaxation.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Cardiovascular responses to cognitive stress in migraine did not differ from those in control subjects. In TTH patients HR was maintained during stress, whereas it decreased for migraineurs and controls. A trend towards a delayed systolic BP response during stress was also observed in TTH. Finger BF recovery was delayed after stress and stress-induced pain was associated with less vasoconstriction in TTH during recovery.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>It is hypothesized that TTH patients have different stress adaptive mechanisms than controls and migraineurs, involving delayed cardiovascular adaptation and reduced pain control system inhibition.</p

Il palazzo della Regione a Trento di Adalberto Libera e Sergio Musmeci. Antico decoro e nuove figure strutturali. La ricerca di Libera per un rinnovamento del linguaggio architettonico.

Il palazzo della Regione realizzato da Libera a Trento tra il 1955 e il 1963 non rappresenta forse uno dei capolavori del grande architetto italiano, ma certamente una delle sue opere più esemplari per la lunga ricerca formale che ne caratterizza la genesi e per il particolare apporto alla sua progettazione fornito dal giovane ing. Sergio Musmeci. Il complesso è formato da tre edifici: il corpo con gli uffici amministrativi caratterizzato da una struttura ad albero; il palazzo con gli spazi di rappresentanza risolto con una struttura a ponte a due appoggi e sbalzi di 16 m.; la sala consiliare formata da un cono rovesciato sostenuto da una grande vierendeel circolare. Il progetto rappresenta un epico confronto tra le ragioni della tecnica e quelle dell'architettura, un tentativo esemplare per il modo con il quale dispositivi strutturali sono stati trasformati in altrettante occasioni di invenzione architettonica