Simone Biasco 1, Lianhe Li 2, Edmund H. Linfield 2, A. Giles Davies 2 and Miriam S. Vitiello 1,* 1 NEST, CNR—Istituto Nanoscienze and Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza San Silvestro 12, 56127 Pisa, Italy; [email protected] 2 School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK; [email protected] (L.L.); [email protected] (E.H.L.); [email protected]...

We illustrate the correspondence between uncertainty sets in robust optimization and some popular risk measures in finance, and show how robust optimization can be used to generalize the concepts of these risk measures. We also show that by using properly defined uncertainty sets in robust optimization models, one can construct coherent risk measures, and address the issue of the computational ...

This retrospective study aims to evaluate epidemiologic characteristics of patients attending stop smoking courses, based on group therapy, testing their influence on smoking cessation in univariate and multivariate model. A total of 123 patients were included in this study. Mean age was 53 (+/-11). Sixty-seven percent were women. At the end of the courses 66% of patients stopped smoking, after...

Cassava mosaic disease (CMD) and cassava brown streak (CBSD) are two important biotic constraints affecting (Manihot esculenta Crantz) production in sub-Saharan Africa, the deployment of varieties dually resistant to both diseases is most effective realistic way reducing losses. Crosses were carried out between a Tanzanian local cultivar (Namikonga) South American genotype (AR37-80) develop dua...

Wet brewers grains (WBG) were evaluated as a feed source for growing Angus heifers (201 kg, 313 d of age) during a 112-d wintering trial. Effects on growth, feed efficiency, serum Se and first breeding performance were examined. Three replications of four heifers each were fed the following diets: (1) corn silage with no protein supplement (CSNS); (2) corn silage plus 33.8% of the diet dry matt...

Las manifestaciones artísticas cobran valor cuando son apreciadas y se incorporan a la vida de los individuos, tal como acontece con estudiantes en Educación Primaria, porque les permite tener un desarrollo digno e integral. La percepción niños sobre las artes puede verse influenciada por el entorno escolar familiar; estos últimos engranajes tienen deficiencias, disminuye impacto positivo infan...

BACKGROUND: 3, 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, also known as "ecstasy") has been shown to exhibit neurotoxic effects on the hippocampus. However, exposure to sub-lethal insults of MDMA has been reported to result in neuroprotection. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of MDMA on hippocampal neuronal viability, caspase-3 activity, and mRNA expression of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) r...

This paper analyses and discusses the patenting activity of Public Research Organizations (PROs) in Southern European countries. Despite the importance of the topic, studies about the European experience are rare. By using an original database of “American” (USPTO) and “European” (EPO) patents held by PROs in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and Greece, we observe that the number of university pa...