CLIMATOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE WIND IN PIEDMONT

The object of the following study is to individualize the common anemological features in the Piemonte region. The executed analysis avails itself of a multiannual sample of wind data (from 1990 to 2000) collected by 59 ARPA-Piemonte monitoring network. The wind statistical analyses have followed different phases: - analyses of wind frequency and wind directions and spotting of the anemological basins; - annual and monthly average of wind directions; - annual monthly and hourly average of the wind force with spotting of breezes; - analyses of daily and hourly wind calm; - analyses of the strongest windblasts with records of critical cases; - analyses of the number of days of föhn and types of weather (Borghi-Giuliacci method)

CLIMATOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE WIND IN PIEDMONT

The object of the following study is to individualize the common anemological features in the Piemonte region. The executed analysis avails itself of a multiannual sample of wind data (from 1990 to 2000) collected by 59 ARPA-Piemonte monitoring network. The wind statistical analyses have followed different phases: - analyses of wind frequency and wind directions and spotting of the anemological basins; - annual and monthly average of wind directions; - annual monthly and hourly average of the wind force with spotting of breezes; - analyses of daily and hourly wind calm; - analyses of the strongest windblasts with records of critical cases; - analyses of the number of days of föhn and types of weather (Borghi-Giuliacci method)

The future of Cybersecurity in Italy: Strategic focus area

This volume has been created as a continuation of the previous one, with the aim of outlining a set of focus areas and actions that the Italian Nation research community considers essential. The book touches many aspects of cyber security, ranging from the definition of the infrastructure and controls needed to organize cyberdefence to the actions and technologies to be developed to be better protected, from the identification of the main technologies to be defended to the proposal of a set of horizontal actions for training, awareness raising, and risk management

Screening ethnically diverse human embryonic stem cells identifies a chromosome 20 minimal amplicon conferring growth advantage

The International Stem Cell Initiative analyzed 125 human embryonic stem (ES) cell lines and 11 induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell lines, from 38 laboratories worldwide, for genetic changes occurring during culture. Most lines were analyzed at an early and late passage. Single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis revealed that they included representatives of most major ethnic groups. Most lines remained karyotypically normal, but there was a progressive tendency to acquire changes on prolonged culture, commonly affecting chromosomes 1, 12, 17 and 20. DNA methylation patterns changed haphazardly with no link to time in culture. Structural variants, determined from the SNP arrays, also appeared sporadically. No common variants related to culture were observed on chromosomes 1, 12 and 17, but a minimal amplicon in chromosome 20q11.21, including three genes expressed in human ES cells, ID1, BCL2L1 and HM13, occurred in >20% of the lines. Of these genes, BCL2L1 is a strong candidate for driving culture adaptation of ES cells

Robotic-assisted gastroplication in a morbidly obese adolescent: Early improvement in metabolic and neurohormonal parameters

Bariatric surgery has to be considered in the management of severely obese adolescents when all conservative measures have been proven to be unresponsive. Short term metabolic and neurohormonal profile changes after robotic-assisted gastroplication are evaluated. The benefits and the usefulness of this surgical - reversal procedure in adolescent need to be defined. Fiveteen years old girl with body mass index 42.2 kg/m2, hyperinsulinism, hyperandrogenism, amenorrhea, polycystic ovarian syndrome, hypertension with left ventricular hypertrophy. Gastric volume after surgical procedure reduction was 80-100 mL. One month postoperatively significant weigh loss was obtained. Insulin levels, insulin-resistance, leptin and ghrelin concentration were substantially ameliorated. We can conclude that bariatric surgery should be considered for a minority of severely obese adolescents under the supervision of a multidisciplinary pediatric team. Our experience confirmed that the gastroplication is safe, feasible and effective and furthermore is a reversible technique. The early improvement of the obesity co-morbities is allowed. The increased surgical accuracy in robotic assistance could limit postoperative complications rate in obese adolescents