UPGRADE appears bimonthly in English in this website (no printed edition is available) and is also published: In Spanish (full edition printed; summary, abstracts and some articles online) by Novática. In Italian (summary, abstracts and some articles online) by the Italian CEPIS society ALSI (Associazione Nazionale Laureati in Scienze dell'Informazione ed Informatica) and the Italian IT portal ...

background in recent years, accreditation of private hospitals followed by decentralisation of the italian national health service (nhs) into 21 regional health systems has provided a good empirical ground for investigating the tiebout principle of “voting with their feet”. we examine the infra-regional trade-off between greater patient choice (due to an increase in hospital services supply) an...

Swine production in Italy is characteristically oriented towards typical meat products. In 2007, the Italian pig population was more than 9 million head (Italian Pig Breeders Association ANAS, 2008). Pig farms numbered around 101,000 in 2007 and over 80% were concentrated in the four northern Italian regions of Lombardia, Emilia-Romagna, Piemonte and Veneto (ISTAT, 2008). This is why the dairy ...

Italian displays a rich variety of truncation patterns and therefore forms an ideal testing ground for the constraint interaction determining truncation in general. The goal of this paper is to describe the various truncation patterns of Italian and to define a set of constraints which, in their interaction, can capture the individual patterns. I will focus my attention on name truncation, whic...

In 2015 an ample and challenging discussion regarding professional associations is under way in Italy. Professional associations are self-government institutions that control and monitor the correctness and quality of the activities of the professionals registered in professional records recognized by the law. Professional associations have to prepare and update both their official registers an...

Finally Festival speaks Italian. In this work, the development of the first Italian version of the Festival TTS system is described. One male and one female voice for three different speech engines are considered: the Festival-specific residual LPC synthesizer, the OGI residual LPC Plug-In for Festival and the MBROLA synthesizer. The new Italian voices will be freely available for download for ...

The paper aims at discovering the role of the auditors in the italian listed companies, by proposing an updated conceptualization of the existing literature. In this way, the adoption of a qualitative methodology allows for the construction of a literature analysis on the role of the auditors in the italian listed companies. As source for the analysis the databases of the Italian Stock Exchange...

By using immunohistochemical techniques applied to confocal microscopy, the presence of aquaporin 3 water channel in the epidermis of Triturus italicus (Amphibia, Urodela) has been shown. We analysed the expression of aquaporin 3 (AQP3) during the larval, pre-metamorphic and adult phases; we also showed the localization of the water-channel protein AQP3 in free-swimming conditions and during ae...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to investigate whether access to paediatric emergency departments differed between foreign and Italian patients. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional study between January-December 2007 to analyse attendance's characteristics in the paediatric emergency departments of ten Italian public hospitals. The study population included each foreign patient and the ...