A Reconfigurable Impedance Matching Network Employing RF-MEMS Switches

We propose the design of a reconfigurable impedance matching network for the lower RF frequency band, based on a developed RF-MEMS technology. The circuit is composed of RF-MEMS ohmic relays, metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitors and suspended spiral inductors, all integrated on a high resistivity Silicon substrate. The presented circuit is well-suited for all applications requiring adaptive impedance matching between two in principle unknown cascaded RF-circuits. The fabrication and testing of a monolithic integrated prototype in RF-MEMS technology from ITC-irst is currently underway.Comment: Submitted on behalf of EDA Publishing Association (http://irevues.inist.fr/EDA-Publishing

Texture profile and sensory acceptance of a symbiotic diet aerated mousse containing Lactobacillus acidophilus LA-5, inulin, and fructooligosaccharide

This work dealt with the texture profile and sensory acceptance of a symbiotic diet aerated mousse containing Lactobacillus acidophilus LA-5, inulin, and fructooligosaccharid

International migration and the rise of the ‘civil’ nation

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies on 2 March 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1369183X.2016.1155980Scholars largely agree that immigration policies in Western Europe have switched to a liberal, civic model. Labelled as ‘civic turn’, ‘civic integration’ or ‘liberal convergence’, this model is not identically applied across countries, since national institutions, traditions and identifications still matter. Even so, the main focus is on processes which allow or prevent migrants to be incorporated into nations usually taken for granted in their meanings. Moving from policies to discourses, this article aims to interrogate what kind of nation is behind these policies as a way to further scrutinise the ‘civic turn’. Exploring how the term ‘civility’ and its adjectivisations are discursively deployed in Italian parliamentary debates on immigration and integration issues, the article points to two opposite narratives of nation. While one mobilises civility in order to rewrite the nation in terms of a common, inclusive, civic ‘we’, the other uses civility to reaffirm the conflation between national identity and the identity of the ethno-cultural majority. These findings suggest the importance of exploring the ‘civic turn’ not only across countries, but also across political parties within the same country to capture the ways in which a liberal, civic convergence in political discourses might hide divergent national boundary mechanisms

<b>ARE ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM CRL 183 AND LACTOBACILLUS HELVETICUS SSP. JUGURTI 416 ABLE TO PRODUCE ANTIMICROBIAL SUBSTANCE?</b>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"> Production of antimicrobial substance by E. faecium CRL 183 and L. helveticus ssp jugurti 416 was tested against pathogenic bacteria and microorganisms isolated from Wistar rat faeces, using a spot-on-the-lawn assay. Three pathogenic bacteria (Listeria monocytogenes 1/2a, Salmonella enteridites 193/95, Escherichia coli O157:H7) and twenty-fi ve colonies, isolated from animal faeces, belonging to the following groups Enterococcus, Lactobacillus, Clostridium, Bacteroides and Enterobacteriaceae, were used as indicator microorganisms. The results showed that E. faecium CRL 183 and L. helveticus ssp jugurti 416 did not produce signifi cant antimicrobial activity against the indicator microorganisms tested. More tests needed to be carried out with other indicator bacteria and other culture media to confi rm the lack of antimicrobial production. </p&gt

Trombosi tardiva della vena del rene trapiantato : descrizione di un caso

La trombosi della vena renale è una complicanza del trapianto renale. Descriviamo un caso trattato con successo mediante cateterismo dell'arteria trapiantata e infusione locoregionale di urochinasi

Utilization of soy residue (okara) in breakfast cereals development. UTILIZAÇÃO DE RESÍDUO DE SOJA (OKARA) NO DESENVOLVIMENTO DE UM CEREAL MATINAL

The aim of this study was to develop a breakfast cereals with soy residue (okara). From a standard formulation, oat base, similar to the ones of the market, four other formulations were carried with different concentrations of soy residue (25%, 50%, 75% and 100%) as substitute for the oat. The five samples were submitted to sensory analysis and chemical composition. Despite the samples not differ significantly (p<0,05) among themselves in the acceptance test, the results obtained in chemical composition allow to suggest that the sample containing 100% of soy residue can be a good source of fibres and vegetable protein due to the high concentration of these components in relation to the other samples. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"> O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a viabilidade de utilização do resíduo de soja (okara) no desenvolvimento de um produto do tipo cereal matinal. A partir de uma formulação padrão, a base de aveia, similar a de mercado, outras 4 formulações foram elaboradas contendo resíduo de soja em diferentes concentrações (25%, 50%, 75% e 100%) em substituição à aveia. As 5 amostras foram analisadas sensorialmente e avaliadas quanto a sua composição centesimal. Apesar das amostras não diferirem significativamente (p<0,05) entre si quanto à aceitação sensorial, os resultados obtidos na composição centesimal sugerem que a amostra contendo 100% de resíduo de soja pode ser uma boa fonte de fibras e de proteína vegetal por apresentar maiores concentrações desses componentes em relação às demais amostras