1School of Computer Science, University of Portsmouth, Mercantile House, Portsmouth, U.K. 2Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 3Centro Nazionale Universitario di Calcolo Elettronico (CNUCE), Instituto del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Area della Ricerca CNR, Pisa...

Laura Costantin,1* Yuri Bozzi,2* Cristina Richichi,3 Alessandro Viegi,1 Flavia Antonucci,2 Marcella Funicello,3 Marco Gobbi,3 Tiziana Mennini,3 Ornella Rossetto,4 Cesare Montecucco,4 Lamberto Maffei,1,2 Annamaria Vezzani,3 and Matteo Caleo2 1Scuola Normale Superiore and 2Istituto di Neuroscienze, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 56100 Pisa, Italy, 3Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario N...

The International Council of Nurses (ICN) has repeatedly expressed grave concern regarding theworldwide shortage of nurses and the lack of progress in addressing the supply and utilisation of nurses. The factors contributing to the nursing shortage seem to be very similar worldwide, including the ageing workforce, the reduction in student intake, poor workforce planning, the changing work clima...

English. In this paper, we illustrate the creation of a NER for the Public Administration (PA) domain. We discuss the creation of an annotated corpus with documents from the Italian Albo Pretorio Nazionale and provide results of the system evaluation. Italiano. In questo lavoro mostriamo la creazione di un NER per il dominio della Pubblica Amministrazione (PA). Presentiamo la creazione del corp...

The objective of the study was to determine the relationship, if any, between leadership preparation programs types and, how well school administrators are prepared to set a widely shared vision, develop a school culture, effectively management school operations and resources, collaborate with faculty and community members, act with integrity and understand the context of education in Gama (Bra...

The primary objective of the National Research Council (NRC) Decadal Survey recommended SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) Mission is to measure the water elevation of the global oceans, as well as terrestrial water bodies (such as rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and wetlands), to answer key scientific questions on the kinetic energy of ocean circulation, the spatial and temporal variability ...

Henry Mantsch (see Fig. 1) was born in Romania in 1935. He studied chemistry at the Cluj-Napoca University from 1953 till 1958. Subsequently, he obtained his PhD degree in Physical Chemistry in 1964 from the Institute of Chemistry of the Romanian Academy of Sciences. His PhD thesis focused on infrared spectroscopy. Henry moved to the Technical University in Munich as Humboldt Research Fellow fo...

The US National Research Council defines abrupt climate change as a change of state that is sufficiently rapid and sufficiently widespread in its effects that economies are unprepared or incapable of adapting. This may be too restrictive a definition, but abrupt climate change does have implications for the choice between the main response options: mitigation (which reduces the risks of climate...

• The use of HEPS is an effective and promising non-structural measure to help mitigate flood risk in Milano urban area, synergic with the existing structural engineering works. • A forecast horizon of two days is required for an operational chain over the Milano basins, and accurate quantitative forecasts are necessary at least one day in advance. • The pragmatic set of “shifted” configuration...