Club of Rome

Substance Use in the Club Scene of Rome: A Pilot Study

OBJECTIVE Over the last few years, a wide number of unregulated substances have been marketed on the Web and in smart and head shops; they are usually advertised as legal alternatives to commonly known drugs and are defined as "smart drugs," "legal highs," and "novel psychoactive substances" (NPS). Aim of our work is to describe use habits and distribution of NPS in a population of young adults...

Introduction. The Rome Foundation and Rome III.

It is a great pleasure to introduce the commentaries by Drs Kellow and Quigley on the pros and cons of the new Rome III criteria. Perhaps most of the readership is only familiar with these published diagnostic criteria. However, the Rome Foundation has a larger mission and directive to move the field of functional gastrointestinal (GI) and motility disorders forward through research and educati...

Surveying the roofs of Rome

This study is aimed at investigating a portion of the city of Rome by means of remotely sensed Multispectral Infrared And Visible Imaging Spectrometer (MIVIS) data. A particular attention was devoted to building roofs described not only as the last defining touch given to a building, the aesthetic conclusion to a whole construction process, but also as expression and sign of a society’s level o...

Être médecin à Rome

controllers were not alone in seeking to end such traditional ideas and practices. Women were informed by magistrates and medical men that life did exist before quickening and that any interference-not that just carried out by a third party with a sharp instrument-could be described as an attempt at abortion. But by the 1920s lawyers and doctors were expressing their own unhappiness with the 18...

Exhibiting in Rome