Le projet LeKo : une recherche phraséologique intégrale pour l’apprentissage des phrasèmes en contexte plurilingue

This article outlines the methodology and results of a three-year research project (2013-2016) focusing on the analysis and the didactics of Italian collocations and phrasemes (LeKo). LeKo, a joint project between the University of Innsbruck and Eurac Research, is particularly noteworthy as it combines phraseological studies (with an emphasis on German and Italian) with corpus linguistics and the teaching of foreign and second languages. LeKo’s main innovative goal is to collect data to develop teaching material on Italian phraseodidactics for German- speaking learners.This article outlines the methodology and results of a three-year research project (2013-2016) focusing on the analysis and the didactics of Italian collocations and phrasemes (LeKo). LeKo, a joint project between the University of Innsbruck and Eurac Research, is particularly noteworthy as it combines phraseological studies (with an emphasis on German and Italian) with corpus linguistics and the teaching of foreign and second languages. LeKo’s main innovative goal is to collect data to develop teaching material on Italian phraseodidactics for German- speaking learners.Dans cet article, on décrit la méthodologie et les résultats d’un projet de recherche triennal (2013-2016) consacré à l’analyse et à l’enseignement des collocations et des phraséologismes de l’italien (LeKo). Résultant d’une collaboration entre l’Université d’Innsbruck et De Eurac Research, le projet LeKo se situe au croisement de trois domaines : les études phraséologiques, en particulier allemandes et italiennes, la linguistique de corpus et la didactique des langues étrangères et secondes. L’objectif innovant du projet est le recueil de données visant la réalisation d’instruments destinés spécifiquement à la phraséodidactique de l’italien pour des apprenants germanophones

Lipid profile and growth of black soldier flies (Hermetia illucens, Stratiomyidae) reared on by‐products from different food chains

BACKGROUND The total amount of bio‐waste produced annually in the EU by the food and beverage chains is estimated at 37 Mtons. The possibility to use insects for the valorization of by‐products from these value chains may represent a sustainable solution. This study aims at investigating the by‐products obtained from different food chains for the rearing of black soldier fly prepupae to evaluate lipid content and profile and outline its possible applications. The substrates used in this experiment were: (i) industrial by‐products (brewery spent grains, cow's milk whey, grape stalks, and tomato peels and seeds) and (ii) by‐products from retailers (bread dough, fish scraps, and spent coffee ground). Fat extracted from prepupae using an adjusted Folch method was utilized for total lipid content and fatty acids profile. RESULTS Best larval performances were obtained from beer (0.22 gweight per prepupa), tomato (0.19 gweight per prepupa), and cheese (0.14 gweight per prepupa) food‐chain by‐products. The extremely different composition of the substrate was reflected in the differentiated lipid profile of black soldier fly prepupae and in a range of ratios between unsaturated and saturated fatty acids comprised from 0.37 for cow's milk way to 1.34 for tomato peels and seeds. CONCLUSION The high content and type of lipids, together with the proteins, and chitin extracted from prepupae are high‐value bio‐based products that could be used in the feed/food industry or for the development of innovative biomaterials, such as biodiesel. These results suggest that food chain by‐products are the best candidate for insect‐bioconversion purposes

Evidence of reverse remodeling after long-term biventricular stimulation for resynchronization in patients with wide QRS selected on the basis of echocardiographic electromechanical delays

Background. There is increasing evidence that cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) may trigger an inverse remodeling process leading to decreased left ventricular (LV) volumes in patients with heart failure and wide QRS. However, it is still important to simplify patient selection and achieve a widely applicable parameter to better stratify patients who are candidates for CRT. Methods. Eighteen patients (13 males, 5 females, mean age 67.5 ± 7.2 years) with advanced heart failure due to ischemic (n = 12) or idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (n = 6) and complete left bundle branch block received biventricular pacing. The patients were considered eligible in the presence of echocardiographic evidence of intra- and interventricular asynchrony, defined on the basis of LV electromechanical delay. Investigations were performed before pacemaker implantation (at baseline), the day after, and 3 and 6 months later. Results. Two patients died before the first outpatient examination. There were 15 (83%) responders to reverse remodeling among the remainder. In the overall population, there was a significant and progressive improvement in LV sphericity indexes, ejection fraction, mitral regurgitation area and LV volumes (p < 0.001). The improvement in the interventricular mechanical delay after CRT was significantly correlated with the decrease in LV end-systolic volume (r2= 0.2558, p = 0.04). Conclusions. CRT reduces LV volumes in patients with advanced heart failure, complete left bundle branch block and detailed documentation of ventricular asynchrony prior to therapeutic pacing. Broadly applicable Doppler echocardiographic measures may increase the specificity of the longterm response to CRT in terms of LV performance. © 2004 CEPI Srl

Prognostic implications of functional mitral regurgitation according to the severity of the underlying chronic heart failure: A long-term outcome study

AimsTo examine the independent prognostic role of functional mitral regurgitation (FMR) and its impact across the severity of chronic heart failure (CHF) in a large population of outpatients with systolic CHF followed at two multidisciplinary clinics.Methods and resultsEchocardiography was performed upon enrolment in 469 CHF patients. Follow-up for death and heart transplant was updated on January 2007. Five-year transplant-free survival was 82.7 in patients with no or Grade I FMR, 64.4 in Grade II, 58.5 in Grade III, and 46.5 in Grade IV (P < 0.0001). There was a strong graded association between FMR and the long-term risk of death and heart transplant, which remained significant after multivariable adjustment (P = 0.0003). The association between FMR and events was strong and independent in patients with less severe symptoms and in those at lower overall risk based on a propensity score analysis, while it was not significant in patients with more advanced CHF or in the high-risk subgroup (P < 0.0001 for interactions).ConclusionThis study clarifies previous apparently discrepant results by demonstrating that FMR is an independent determinant of death and heart transplantation only in less severe CHF and in patients with a lower risk profile. This finding indicates that FMR plays a major role in the early phase of CHF, suggesting that this should be the focus of strategies attempting to reduce it. \uc2\ua9 The Author 2010

On the feasibility of adversarial machine learning in malware and network intrusion detection

Nowadays, Machine Learning (ML) solutions are widely adopted in modern malware and network intrusion detection systems. While these algorithms offer great performance, several researches demonstrate their vulnerability to adversarial attacks, which slightly modifies the input samples to compromise the correct behavior of the detector. Although this issue acquires extreme relevance in security-related contexts, the defenses are still immature. On the positive hand, cybersecurity poses additional challenges to the practicability of these attacks with respect to other domains. Previous studies focus exclusively on the degree of effectiveness of the proposals, but they do not discuss their actual feasibility. Based on this insight, in this paper we provide an overview of adversarial attacks and countermeasures for ML-based malware and network intrusion detection systems to assess their applicability in real world scenarios. In particular, we identify the constraints that need to be considered in the cybersecurity domain and discuss limitations of meaningful examples of previous proposals. Our work can guide practitioners to devise novel hardening solutions against more realistic threat models

Le Urne dei forti. Storie di vita e di morte in una comunità dell'età del bronzo

Il volume raccoglie in brevi testi la ricerca sulla necropoli dell'età del bronzo di Casinalbo confrontata anche con altre necropoli coeve o precedenti dell'Italia settentrionale.The book was conceived as a guide to the archaeological exhibition. It collects in short texts the research on the Bronze Age necropolis of Casinalbo, compared with other contemporary or previous necropolis in northern Italy

Personal Digital Assistant-PDA: un nuovo strumento per una corretta terapia nel paziente anziano con scompenso cardiaco congestizio.

Il lavoro si propone di dimostrare l'utilit\ue0 di metodiche i-tech, come il Personal Digitant Assistant, nella gestione del paziente anziano con patologie croniche, con particolare riferimento allo scompenso cardiaco

Montale, the Terramara Lives

Ten years ago, the results of investigations from one of the most important protohistoric settlements of the Po Plain in Italy lead to the construction of a large archaeological park. A project which, today, represents a core reality in the dissemination of experimentations