On being a neurologist in Italy at the time of the COVID-19 outbreak

Italy is facing its fifth week of crisis due to the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, with affected patients and deaths near to 70,000 and 6,000, respectively,(1)numbers that are increasing every day. Whether government imposition of quarantines, travel bans, and lockdown throughout the country will have effect in the next weeks in limiting the spreading of this disease has still to be seen. Meanwhile, a great spirit of sacrifice is required to health care personnel, and authorities have to manage resource allocation to rapidly increase the number of intensive care beds to assist patients with COVID-19.(2)Although operating rooms and a number of wards have been turned into dedicated intensive units, beds and resources are hardly sufficient to satisfy the needs of so many simultaneously critically ill patients.(3,4)Notably, among infected people, about 10% are health workers, and their number is increasing, also due to the scarcity of efficacious protective measures

SISTEM INFORMASI APLIKASI MANUFAKTUR PADA PT INTERBIS SEJAHTERA PALEMBANG

In the development of information technology today, many companies have use da computerized system based to compete with other companies. In use, a computerized based system has helped many companies in various ways. The objective of this report is to analyze and design the systems that deal with manufacturing production in PT Interbis Sejahtera Palembang. Writing methodology that I use is divided into two, which is design using a methodology UML (Unified Modeling Language), whilefor the development, I use the iterations(Iterative) methodology. Inthismethodology, there are several stages, namely initiation systems, systems analysis, systems design and manufacturing systems. The system is expected to help and solve existing problems in PT Interbis Sejahtera Palembang and reduce errors that occur in the process of sale of goods, purchasing raw materials, supplies and assist in scheduling the production of goods and also help to ease and speed the report making

Integração de uma descrição de dispositivos aberta e não-proprietária em sistemas fieldbus reais e simulados

Os sistemas de automação industrial contam com a definição de arquiteturas abertas padronizadas, a maioria delas utilizando tecnologias proprietárias. Em sistemas fieldbus, a tecnologia normatizada que provê a descrição das características dos dispositivos para o software configurador (IHM - Interface Homem Máquina) é de natureza proprietária e de alto custo, chamada de EDD (Electronic Device Description). Alternativamente, a Open-EDD (Open Electronic Device Description) é uma tecnologia aberta e não-proprietária baseada em padrões de software. Este trabalho descreve a utilização e validação da Open-EDD em duas diferentes aplicações: num sistema fieldbus real e num ambiente fieldbus simulado. Os resultados validam a técnica e indicam que esta pode ser aplicada a demais sistemas de automação.Industrial automation systems are based on open standard architectures definitions, in most cases proprietary technologies. In fieldbuses, the standard technology that describes the devices characteristics to the configuration software (HMI) - human machine interface, is proprietary and has high cost, named EDD (Electronic Device Description). Alternatively, the Open-EDD (Open Electronic Device Description) is an open and non-proprietary technology based on software standards. This paper describes the usage and validation of Open-EDD in two different applications: a real fieldbus system and a fieldbus simulation environment. The results validate the proposed technology and indicate that this can be applied to general fieldbus systems

Neurogenic Bladder Due to Hypoxic-Ischemic Demyelination

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Hypoxia is commonly known to target neuronal cell bodies. Although myelin is a non-infrequent target, posthypoxic demyelination is a rarely described entity. We describe the case of a man who developed neurogenic bladder following a motor vehicle accident. CASE REPORT Following a severe motor-vehicle accident involving massive blood loss, a 46-year-old man developed urinary urgency requiring catheterization, with hyperactive reflexes and bilateral Babinski signs on exam. RESULTS Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain and cervical cord revealed diffuse, isolated white matter signal abnormality in a symmetric, confluent distribution, extending inferiorly into the spinal cord, with changes consistent with bilateral Wallerian degeneration. Serologic and CSF evaluations were normal. CONCLUSIONS Unlike previous reports of hypoxic-ischemic demyelination, our patient lacked any cortical abnormalities, presumably due to isolated white matter changes. This report alerts physicians to the possibility of hypoxic-ischemic demyelination due to global hypoxia-ischemia as an etiologic factor for neurogenic bladder. J Neuroimaging 2008;18:198–201.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/75670/1/j.1552-6569.2007.00167.x.pd

Stima della massa di polvere di galassie ad alto redshift e suo utilizzo come tracciante evolutivo

In questa tesi, sfruttando la disponibilità di dati fotometrici sub-mm di ultima generazione, come quelli dell’interferometro ALMA, si è stimata l’emissione termica della polvere interstellare realizzando un codice numerico in IDL (i.e., Interactive Data Language) che permette di effettuare un fit single-temperature sui dati. Come funzione di fit, si è assunto il cosiddetto “corpo grigio”, che ben descrive la fisica dei grani di polvere. La temperatura di equilibrio della polvere è un parametro libero, del fit. Lo stesso procedimento è stato ripetuto prendendo come funzione di fit l’approssimazione otticamente sottile del corpo grigio, dato il suo largo impiego in letteratura. Confrontando i fit, quelli in approssimazione otticamente sottile risultano meno affidabili e danno una temperatura di best fit sistematicamente inferiore (di un fattore ∼ 1.7) a quella ottenuta nel caso non approssimato. Nota la temperatura di equilibrio della polvere, è stato possibile stimare la sua massa, assumendo che la polvere interstellare sia otticamente sottile alla sua stessa radiazione. Sotto questa assunzione, infatti, si ottiene una relazione tra la massa di polvere e il flusso osservato ad una lunghezza d’onda λ d tale che cada nel regime otticamente sottile. In questa sede si è presa λ_d = 230 μm da Gilli et al. (2014). Oltre alla massa di polvere, usando le curve di best fit, è stato possibile calcolare la luminosità infrarossa (λ rest = 8 − 1000 μm) e stimare il tasso di formazione stellare di ogni oggetto del campione (Kennicutt, 1999). Quest’ultimo, insieme alla massa della polvere e alla massa stellare, può dare vincoli cruciali riguardo la storia di formazione stellare delle galassie. La massa stellare degli oggetti del campione è stata prese da Fontana et al. (2006) e P. Santini (comunicazione privata). I risultati ottenuti sono stati confrontati con gli scenari di evoluzione proposti da Calura et al. (2016) e con lo scenario proposto da Mancuso et al. (2016b)