Background Nowadays the gold standard of the incisional hernia surgical treatment seems to be the prosthetic repair. In the last 15 years many Authors published about the advantages of the laparoscopic treatment in front of the Open one, even if this issue till today remains controversial [1]. Anyway our group from 18 years is engaged on a clinical application of a third way of incisional herni...

Recent developments in biofuel demand and the rapid adoption of modern transgenic hybrids are changing production systems towards more corn after corn, more intensive tillage, higher plant populations, and ever higher crop residue levels at harvest. Meeting society’s needs for food, feed, and fuel from grain corn, and in the future from corn stover, requires continued refinement of tillage syst...

Since 1994 till today a few up to date have been made on the NRC (1994) recommendations for trace mineral requirements of broilers. The high prevalence of skeletal disorders in modern broilers could be a consequence of the uncoordinated growth rate and mineral nutrition. The commercial companies of broiler production often use a huge safety margin of trace minerals in feed formulation, which wi...

INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................. 1359 I. SANDEL’S THEORY OF JUSTICE: A “THICK REPUBLICANISM” ........... 1361 II. COMMON OWNERSHIP: LIBERAL AUTONOMY OR SUBSTANTIVE VALUES?............................................................................................ 1363 III. A NEW APPROACH TO THE COMMONS: RESOURCES, VALUES,...