Software release development process, that we refer to as “release trajectory”, involves development activities that are usually sorted in different categories, such as incorporating new features, improving software, or fixing bugs, and associated to “issues”. Release trajectory management is a difficult and crucial task. Managers must be aware of every aspect of the development process for man...

j Abstract There is growing evidence that stress causes a decrease of neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus and antidepressant treatment in turn stimulates the cell proliferation in the dentate gyrus. This has led to the hypothesis that a decreased neurogenesis might be linked to the pathophysiology of major depression. The article reviews the relationship of depressive-like behavior and neurogenes...

Real-time personal health monitoring is gaining new ground with advances in wireless communications. Wireless body area networks (WBANs) provide a means for low-powered sensors, affixed either on the human body or in vivo, to communicate with each other and with external telecommunication networks. The healthcare benefits of WBANs include continuous monitoring of patient vitals, measuring posta...

It is with great pleasure that I introduce this specia l i s sue of Aging Successfully that focuses on Preventive Gerontology. Aging successfully is dependent on the individual himself or herself. While health professionals can act as a guide through life’s journey, it is only through one’s own efforts that the best outcomes can be assured. This issue provides tools that all of us can use to ag...

Microbial species participate in the genesis of a substantial number of malignancies worldwide, and conservative estimates indicate that >15% of all cancer cases are attributable to infectious agents. Helicobacter pylori is the most common bacterial infection worldwide, and colonization typically lasts for decades in the absence of targeted antimicrobial therapy. One biological cost to this lon...

j Abstract After legislative changes in 1978, Italian psychiatry underwent a thorough overhaul, with the gradual closure of all Mental Hospitals. A nation-wide network of Departments of Mental Health now deliver outpatient and inpatient care, but also run semi-residential and residential facilities (the latter with 2.9 beds per 10,000 inhabitants). Hospital care is delivered through small psych...

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What is your greatest research ambition? I want to 'watch' behaviour happening in the nervous system of an intact or semi-intact fruit fly. This will require instrumentation that will allow us to record optically from brain neurons with previously defined functions. We will soon have available many of the cell lines needed to perform these experiments. Many technical hurdles remain before the e...