Sophy project: evidences intimate hygiene

The importance of intimate hygiene, pH and vaginal flora in keeping the vaginal ecosystem in good balance is known and widely described. No systematic, nation-wide, current study is up to now available, on the correlation between vaginal pH and intimate hygiene in the different ages and condition of the woman, mainly considering the modified hygienic and clothing habits. A project aimed to collect systematically data related to intimate hygiene, in a representative sample of the Italian gynaecological population has been realised, helped by a specific website to insert the data. Lifestyle, vaginal pH, intimate hygiene compliance, presence of symptoms, gynaecological treatment stratified in different subgroups (prepubertal, fertile, pregnant, lactating, pre-menopause and menopause) have been recorded up to now on 119t women. The Study on pH and Hygiene (SOPHY) provides a strong educational impact, pushing doctors and women in considering pH and intimate hygiene an important moment of their professional and daily life. Each natural plant extract used in intimate hygiene (Sage, Thyme and Chamomile) confirmed its clinical activity on protecting against bacteria, mycoses and inflammation

Analysis of equilibrium states of Markov solutions to the 3D Navier-Stokes equations driven by additive noise

We prove that every Markov solution to the three dimensional Navier-Stokes equation with periodic boundary conditions driven by additive Gaussian noise is uniquely ergodic. The convergence to the (unique) invariant measure is exponentially fast. Moreover, we give a well-posedness criterion for the equations in terms of invariant measures. We also analyse the energy balance and identify the term which ensures equality in the balance.Comment: 32 page

Adjoint bi-continuous semigroups and semigroups on the space of measures

For a given bi-continuous semigroup T on a Banach space X we define its adjoint on an appropriate closed subspace X^o of the norm dual X'. Under some abstract conditions this adjoint semigroup is again bi-continuous with respect to the weak topology (X^o,X). An application is the following: For K a Polish space we consider operator semigroups on the space C(K) of bounded, continuous functions (endowed with the compact-open topology) and on the space M(K) of bounded Baire measures (endowed with the weak*-topology). We show that bi-continuous semigroups on M(K) are precisely those that are adjoints of a bi-continuous semigroups on C(K). We also prove that the class of bi-continuous semigroups on C(K) with respect to the compact-open topology coincides with the class of equicontinuous semigroups with respect to the strict topology. In general, if K is not Polish space this is not the case

Smooth stable and unstable manifolds for stochastic partial differential equations

Invariant manifolds are fundamental tools for describing and understanding nonlinear dynamics. In this paper, we present a theory of stable and unstable manifolds for infinite dimensional random dynamical systems generated by a class of stochastic partial differential equations. We first show the existence of Lipschitz continuous stable and unstable manifolds by the Lyapunov-Perron's method. Then, we prove the smoothness of these invariant manifolds

Paving the road from transport models to “new mobilities” models

For half a century, tremendous efforts have been invested in developing transport models as a decision aid for policy makers in designing effective policy interventions and deciding among costly public projects for the benefit of the population. Transport and activity-based models are often criticized for neglecting the “new mobilities” turn (Urry 2007, Cresswell 2006), namely multiple mobility aspects and rationales, including social, cultural, material, aesthetic and affective, in analyzing travel behavior. This paper aims at taking a tentative first step in bridging the gap between the traditional transport modeling approach and “new mobilities” research by suggesting a model framework that considers non-instrumental transport rationales, personal latent traits and intra-household decision dynamics

Paving the road from transport models to “new mobilities” models

For half a century, tremendous efforts have been invested in developing transport models as a decision aid for policy makers in designing effective policy interventions and deciding among costly public projects for the benefit of the population. Transport and activity-based models are often criticized for neglecting the “new mobilities” turn (Urry 2007, Cresswell 2006), namely multiple mobility aspects and rationales, including social, cultural, material, aesthetic and affective, in analyzing travel behavior. This paper aims at taking a tentative first step in bridging the gap between the traditional transport modeling approach and “new mobilities” research by suggesting a model framework that considers non-instrumental transport rationales, personal latent traits and intra-household decision dynamics

Regulatory peptides in the urinary bladder of two genera of Antarctic Teleosts

Somatostatin 14, prolactin, atrial natriuretic peptide, galanin and urotensin II were found using immunohistochemistry in the urinary bladders of the Antarctic \uaeshes Trematomus bernacchii (Nototheniidae) and Chionodraco hamatus (Channichthyidae) caught in the Ross Sea. The urinary bladders of the two species showed a dierent histology in the epithelial layer. In T. bernacchii the epithelium comprises a single type of columnar cells, while in C. hamatus the columnar cells are restricted to the ventral portion of the bladder, and the dorso-lateral region is lined by cuboidal cells. No dierence in the intensity of the immunostaining was observed in the two cell types; the only variation was a dierent distribution of the immunoreactions, which were present in the whole cytoplasm in the cuboidal cells and restricted to the apical and/or basal portion of the columnar cells