Task 1 - Deliverable 1: Database structure

The Italian strong motion data base (Italian Strong Motion Data Base) is a joint product of the agreement between the Dipartimento della Protezione Civile – Ufficio Valutazione Prevenzione e Mitigazione del Rischio Sismico ed Attività ed Opere Post-Emergenza (Department of Civil Protection – Evaluation, Prevention and Mitigation of Seismic Risck and Post-Emergency Works) and the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology). The data base is handled through two different relational data base management system: Ms Access® 2003, of major use among research institutions and public administrations, for CD-ROM release, and MySQL for the web distribution. The selection of the former product is driven by the simplicity of the software, the worldwide diffusion and the possibility of being linked to software’s for the management of spatial data, such as ESRI ArcGis® and Arcview®, and software for the scientific calculation such as Matlab ®. The data base will store the information regarding the seismic events, the recording stations, the installed instruments, the main features of the recordings and the engineering parameters. The structure is based on a previous version of the Italian strong-motion data base created by ENEA in collaboration with Department of Civil Protection, which stores the information regarding the accelerometric recordings in the time span 1972-1993. This manuscript will explain the structure of the tables containing the information, the data base architecture, the relationships existing among tables and the technical features for data input.Progetto DPC-INGV S6 “Data base dei dati accelerometrici Italiani relativi al periodo 1972-2004"Published5.2. TTC - Banche dati di sismologia strumentaleope

Task 1 - Deliverable 1: Database structure

The Italian strong motion data base (Italian Strong Motion Data Base) is a joint product of the agreement between the Dipartimento della Protezione Civile – Ufficio Valutazione Prevenzione e Mitigazione del Rischio Sismico ed Attività ed Opere Post-Emergenza (Department of Civil Protection – Evaluation, Prevention and Mitigation of Seismic Risck and Post-Emergency Works) and the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology). The data base is handled through two different relational data base management system: Ms Access® 2003, of major use among research institutions and public administrations, for CD-ROM release, and MySQL for the web distribution. The selection of the former product is driven by the simplicity of the software, the worldwide diffusion and the possibility of being linked to software’s for the management of spatial data, such as ESRI ArcGis® and Arcview®, and software for the scientific calculation such as Matlab ®. The data base will store the information regarding the seismic events, the recording stations, the installed instruments, the main features of the recordings and the engineering parameters. The structure is based on a previous version of the Italian strong-motion data base created by ENEA in collaboration with Department of Civil Protection, which stores the information regarding the accelerometric recordings in the time span 1972-1993. This manuscript will explain the structure of the tables containing the information, the data base architecture, the relationships existing among tables and the technical features for data input

Peak expiratory flow rate shows a gender-specific association with vitamin D deficiency

Context: To our knowledge, no previous studies examined the longitudinal relationship between vitamin D status and pulmonary function in a population-based sample of older persons. Objective: Our objective was to examine the cross-sectional as well as the longitudinal relationship between vitamin D status and peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) in a representative sample of the Dutch older population. Design, Setting, and Participants: Participants included men and women in the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam, an ongoing cohort study in older people. Main Outcome Measure: PEFR was measured using the mini-Wright peak flow meter. Results: Men with serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25-OHD) levels below 10 ng/ml (25 nmol/liter) had a significantly lower PEFR in the cross-sectional analyses, and men with serum 25-OHD levels below 20 ng/ml (50 nmol/liter) had a significantly lower PEFR in the longitudinal analyses as compared with men with serum 25-OHD levels above 30 ng/ml (75 nmol/liter) (cross-sectional: β = -47.0, P = 0.01 for serum 25-OHD<10 ng/ml; longitudinal: β = -45.0, P<0.01 for serum 25-OHD<10 ng/ml; and β = -20.2, P = 0.03 for serum 25-OHD = 10-20 ng/ml in the fully adjusted models). Physical performance (β = -32.5, P = 0.08 for serum 25-OHD<10 ng/ml) and grip strength (β = -40.0, P = 0.03 for serum 25-OHD <10 ng/ml) partly mediated the cross-sectional associations but not the longitudinal associations. In women, statistically significant associations between 25-OHD and PEFR were observed in the cross-sectional analyses after adjustment for age and season of blood collection but not in the fully adjusted models or in the longitudinal analyses. Conclusions: A strong relationship between serum 25-OHD and PEFR was observed in older men, both in the cross-sectional as well as longitudinal analyses, but not in older women. The association in men could partly be explained by physical performance and muscle strength. Copyright © 2012 by The Endocrine Society

Earthquake-reactivated landslide scenarios in Southern Italy based on spectral-matching input analysis

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The Italian Consensus Conference on FAI Syndrome in Athletes (Cotignola Agreement)

Background. Femoro-acetabular impingement (FAI) is an important topic in literature because of its strong relationship with sport populations. Methods. Sixty-five experts participated in "this Consensus Conference (CC)". They discussed, voted and approved a consensus document on the FAI syndrome in athletes. Results. The CC experts approved document provided suggestions concerning: 1) Epidemiology of FAI; 2) Clinical evaluation; 3) Radiological evaluation; 4) Conserva-tive treatment; 5) Surgical criteria; 6) Surgical techniques; 7) Post-surgical rehabilita-tion; 8) Outcome evaluation; 9) FAI-associated clinical frameworks. Conclusions. The CC offers a multidisciplinary approach to the diagnosis and treat-ment of FAI syndrome in athletes taking into account all the different steps needed to approach this pathology in sport populations

Measurement of hadronic event shapes in high-p T multijet final states at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

A measurement of event-shape variables in proton-proton collisions at large momentum transfer is presented using data collected at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Six event-shape variables calculated using hadronic jets are studied in inclusive multijet events using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1. Measurements are performed in bins of jet multiplicity and in different ranges of the scalar sum of the transverse momenta of the two leading jets, reaching scales beyond 2 TeV. These measurements are compared with predictions from Monte Carlo event generators containing leading-order or next-to-leading order matrix elements matched to parton showers simulated to leading-logarithm accuracy. At low jet multiplicities, shape discrepancies between the measurements and the Monte Carlo predictions are observed. At high jet multiplicities, the shapes are better described but discrepancies in the normalisation are observed. [Figure not available: see fulltext.

A search for the dimuon decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector

A search for the dimuon decay of the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson is performed using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb(-1) collected with the ATLAS detector in Run 2 pp collisions at root s = 13 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. The observed (expected) significance over the background-only hypothesis for a Higgs boson with a mass of 125.09 GeV is 2.0 sigma (1.7 sigma). The observed upper limit on the cross section times branching ratio for pp -&gt; H -&gt; mu mu is 2.2 times the SM prediction at 95% confidence level, while the expected limit on a H -&gt; mu mu signal assuming the absence (presence) of a SM signal is 1.1(2.0). The best-fit value of the signal strength parameter, defined as the ratio of the observed signal yield to the one expected in the SM, is mu = 1.2 +/- 0.6. (C) 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V