The President of the Italian Chapter, Giuseppe Gozzetti, informed the members of his requests to the International Board in order to obtain a more consistent involvement of Italian members in the activities of the Association and in the next World Congress in London. He then informed the audience about the progression of the multicentric study on biliary tract cancer in Italy. The preliminary e...

Infection of B lymphocytes and epithelial tissue by Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is associated with malignancy and autoimmunity. The cellular receptor for EBV has been identified as CD21 (CR2). A molecule, which is biochemically and immunologically similar to B-cell CD21, has been identified on a subpopulation of immature thymocytes, suggesting a role for this molecule in the regulation of T-cell d...

INTRODUCTION The terms 'enhanced recovery after surgery', 'enhanced recovery programme' (ERP) and 'fast track surgery' refer to multimodal strategies aiming to streamline peri-operative care pathways, to maximise effectiveness and minimise costs. While the results of ERP in colorectal surgery are well reported, there have been no reviews examining if these concepts could be applied safely to h...

We recently established a new experimental Internet service for creating customized source address blacklists for DShield.org contributors. This new service utilizes a radically different approach to blacklist formulation that we refer to as Highly Predictive Blacklists (HPB). A highly predictive blacklist is a list of malicious Internet addresses that is formulated through an analysis of the r...

In this paper, we provide a description of the Dublin City University’s (DCU) submissions in the IWSLT 2011 evaluation campaign.1 We participated in the Arabic-English and Chinese-English Machine Translation(MT) track translation tasks. We use phrase-based statistical machine translation (PBSMT) models to create the baseline system. Due to the open-domain nature of the data to be translated, we...