Self-organization in Rome: a map

Durante gli ultimi anni, diverse ricerche sono state realizzate a Roma sul tema dello spazio e dell’autorganizzazione e molte di queste contengono importanti mappature. Tuttavia, questi processi sono molto dinamici e la situazione a Roma cambia ogni anno. Per questa ragione a novembre 2017 abbiamo deciso di realizzare, per della conferenza “City and Self-organization”, tenutasi a Roma a dicembre 2017, un aggiornamento della situazione dell’autorganizzazione romana, legata all’utilizzo dello spazio, attraverso una mappa, al fine di comprendere meglio la portata e i significati del fenomeno. Le principali domande alla base del contributo sono: perché, anche se questi spazi sono così numerosi, non riescono ad influenzare le politiche urbane? Perché sono concentrate prevalentemente in alcuni quartieri della città e cosa rappresenta questa concentrazione? Quali sono le loro caratteristiche rispetto ad altri contesi europei? In che misura riescono a cambiare le istituzioni pubbliche?During the last years many different researches regarding social spaces have been realized in Rome, sometimes containing different maps representing these experiences. Nevertheless, these processes are very dynamic and the situation of Rome changes every year. For this reason in November, 2017 we decided to realize, during the International Conference “Cities and Selforganization” held in Rome on December 2017, an updated map of all the selforganization experiences within the city of Rome in order to better understand the reach and the meanings of this phenomenon. The main questions at the base of the present research are: why, even though these spaces are so copious, are not they able in influencing urban policies? Why are they concentrated mainly in some specific quarters of the city? What are their features compared to others European cities? To what extent are they able to change the public institutions

A system for beach video-monitoring: Beachkeeper plus

A suitable knowledge of coastal systems, of their morphodynamic characteristics and their response to storm events and man-made structures is essential for littoral conservation and management. Nowadays webcams represent a useful device to obtain information from beaches. Video-monitoring techniques are generally site specific and softwares working with any image acquisition system are rare. Therefore, this work aims at submitting theory and applications of an experimental video monitoring software: Beachkeeper plus, a freeware non-profit software, can be employed and redistributed without modifications. A license file is provided inside software package and in the user guide. Beachkeeper plus is based on Matlab ® and it can be used for the analysis of images and photos coming from any kind of acquisition system (webcams, digital cameras or images downloaded from internet), without any a-priori information or laboratory study of the acquisition system itself. Therefore, it could become a useful tool for beach planning. Through a simple guided interface, images can be analyzed by performing georeferentiation, rectification, averaging and variance. This software was initially operated in Pietra Ligure (Italy), using images from a tourist webcam, and in Mar del Plata (Argentina) using images from a digital camera. In both cases the reliability in different geomorphologic and morphodynamic conditions was confirmed by the good quality of obtained images after georeferentiation, rectification and averaging. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.Fil: Brignone, Massimo. University of Genoa; ItaliaFil: Schiaffino, Chiara F.. University of Genoa; ItaliaFil: Isla, Federico Ignacio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mar del Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras; ArgentinaFil: Ferrari, Marco. University of Genoa; Itali

A complicated case of pulmonary embolism in a patient with renal failure

We describe a case of pulmonary embolism with instable hemodynamics in a patient with renal failure; the case is complicated by heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT). Renal failure has a high prevalence in hospitalized patients and is a restriction on administration of low molecular weight heparins (LMWH) and fondaparinux. HIT is a potentially life-threatening complication, therefore a precocious diagnosis is essential. Therapy consists in the immediate stop of heparin’s administration and in the administration of non-heparin antithrombotic drugs

Adherence to antibiotic treatment guidelines and outcomes in the hospitalized elderly with different types of pneumonia

Background: Few studies evaluated the clinical outcomes of Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP), Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia (HAP) and Health Care-Associated Pneumonia (HCAP) in relation to the adherence of antibiotic treatment to the guidelines of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the American Thoracic Society (ATS) in hospitalized elderly people (65 years or older). Methods: Data were obtained from REPOSI, a prospective registry held in 87 Italian internal medicine and geriatric wards. Patients with a diagnosis of pneumonia (ICD-9 480-487) or prescribed with an antibiotic for pneumonia as indication were selected. The empirical antibiotic regimen was defined to be adherent to guidelines if concordant with the treatment regimens recommended by IDSA/ATS for CAP, HAP, and HCAP. Outcomes were assessed by logistic regression models. Results: A diagnosis of pneumonia was made in 317 patients. Only 38.8% of them received an empirical antibiotic regimen that was adherent to guidelines. However, no significant association was found between adherence to guidelines and outcomes. Having HAP, older age, and higher CIRS severity index were the main factors associated with in-hospital mortality. Conclusions: The adherence to antibiotic treatment guidelines was poor, particularly for HAP and HCAP, suggesting the need for more adherence to the optimal management of antibiotics in the elderly with pneumonia

Autorganizzazione e occupazioni abitative romane: una mappa (e un fenomeno) in movimento

Durante gli ultimi anni, diverse ricerche sono state realizzate a Roma sul tema dello spazio e dell’autorganizzazione e molte di queste contengono importanti mappature. Tuttavia, questi processi sono molto dinamici e la situazione a Roma cambia ogni anno. Per questa ragione a novembre 2017 abbiamo deciso di realizzare, per della conferenza “City and Self-organization”, tenutasi a Roma a dicembre 2017, un aggiornamento della situazione dell’autorganizzazione romana, legata all’utilizzo dello spazio, attraverso una mappa. Dopo aver ricostruito sinteticamente la storia di un lungo e radicato processo di lotta per la casa a Roma, ci siamo interrogati sull'efficacia delle occupazioni sul loro rapporto con le politiche urbane

A free software for sand and gravel embayed beach modelling: PhoEbuS - parabolic equation shape

none3noneSchiaffino C.F.; Brignone M.; Ferrari M.Schiaffino, CHIARA FRANCESCA; Brignone, Massimo; Ferrari, Marc

A system for beach video-monitoring: Beachkeeper plus

none4siM. Brignone; C. F. Schiaffino; M. FerrariBrignone, Massimo; Schiaffino, Chiara Francesca; Isla, Federigo Ignacio; Ferrari, Marc