The health determinants in young children: Testing a new surveillance system in Italy

In recent years, the scientific community has stressed the need to invest in the first 1,000 days of life - the time spanning between conception and the 2nd birthday - because it is during this period that the foundations of health are laid and whose effects will be present throughout the life and may influence the next generation. Taking this into account, in 2013 the National Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (CCM) of the Italian Ministry of Health promoted and financed a project to test a surveillance system of the main determinants of health concerning the child between the conception period and the 2nd years of life which are included in the National Programme “GenitoriPiù”: folic acid before and during pregnancy, abstention from tobacco and alcohol during pregnancy and lactation, breastfeeding, infant sleep position, vaccination attitude, and early reading. The Project, started in January 2014 and ended in August 2016, has piloted the design, testing, and evaluation of the surveillance system with the view to national extension and the repeatability over time. The surveillance system has been designed to collect data through a questionnaire compiled by mothers in vaccination centres, in order to produce indicators which will enable territorial and intertempo-ral comparisons to be made. The project has shown the feasibility of this system, identifying favourable conditions and possible difficulties, and its ability to collect important information on children's health

Dashboard per il monitoraggio delle attività in ambienti di e-learning

Nei processi di formazione a distanza il monitoraggio delle attività è fondamentale sia per gli studenti che per i docenti ai fini della valutazione formativa. E' indispensabile, quindi, predisporre strumenti che, partendo dai dati raccolti dalle piattaforme di e-learning, possano aiutare nel processo decisionale il docente e stimolare la conoscenza di sé e l’autovalutazione dello studente. Tali strumenti, comunemente chiamati dashboard, per essere funzionali agli obiettivi valutativi devono rispondere a specifici principi di progettazione. Partendo dai principi definiti in letteratura, il contributo descrive due dashboard realizzate per la piattaforma Moodle che forniscono una rappresentazione chiara agli attori coinvolti dell'evoluzione del processo formativo

Simulations of Clinical Cases for Learning in e-Health.

Over the years, the effectiveness of the learning by doing and the game based learning have been documented by several experimental evidences. In the latest years, the gamification approach has revealed the value of game-based mechanics to create meaningful learning experiences in non gaming systems. For these reasons in the UBICARE (UBIquitous knowledge-oriented HealthCARE) project, aimed at developing an advanced web system that offers different kinds of services to support the management of patients with chronic diseases, the learning component has been realised using both the simulation and the gamification approaches. In particular, the e-learning component starting from real medical records builds on the basis of the user profile a realistic problem, in order to allow specific skills about treatment protocols and diagnostic procedure to be acquired

A new methodology for the statistical analysis of VLSI CMOS circuits and its application to flash memories

In this paper a new CAD methodology for the statistical analysis of VLSI CMOS circuits is presented. A novel very accurate position-dependent mismatch model has been implemented into a complete CAD tool. The tool is fully integrated in an environment of commercial tools and it has been experimented on in the Flash Memory CAD Group in STMicroelectronics. As an example of application, a bandgap test circuit has been considered and the results have been compared with experimental data. This methodology has also been applied to the read path of a complex flash memory produced by STMicroelectronics, consisting of about 16,000 MOSFETs. Measurements of electrical performances have confirmed the accuracy of the proposed simulation flow and models