Meeting the challenge of population ageing requires a better understanding of frailty and disability, and appropriate strategies to ensure the resilience of the health and social care system, without destabilising public finances or over-burdening the economy. An increasing life expectancy will primarily affect the health care and the long-term care spending
This contribution develops a broader understanding of well-being in premodern towns and by using digital methods to map social and economic inequalities, thereby drawing on insights from research on socio-spatial equity from urban studies. The key questions are how socio-economic inequality was reflected in the urban social topography and to what extent these spatial patterns reproduced inequal…
Diseases & disorders
Polystyrene (PS) is a petroleum‐based plastic made from styrene (vinyl benzene) monomer.Sinceitwasfirstcommerciallyproducedin1930,ithasbeenusedforawiderange of commercial, packaging and building purposes. In 2012, approximately 32.7 milliontonnesofstyrenewereproducedglobally,andpolystyreneisnowaubiquitoushousehold…
This contribution develops a broader understanding of well-being in premodern towns and by using digital methods to map social and economic inequalities, thereby drawing on insights from research on socio-spatial equity from urban studies. The key questions are how socio-economic inequality was reflected in the urban social topography and to what extent these spatial patterns reproduced inequal…
This essay takes a further step in identifying the patterns of provenance of the Aragonese fragments of ars nova polyphony, thus recalibrating the way we think about the connection between the original manuscripts and local institutions and individuals
The Italian public-owned Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) are hospitals where the activities of scientific research, teaching, and patients care are fully integrated. AMCs have an enormous impact on society and country health. Recently, policymakers and practitioners give more and more great importance to the AMCs’ scientific activity for both welfare and national competitivity. The scientific…
Many of the challenges especially those associated with sustainability and conservation are indeterminate and wicked requiring the transcendence of typical disciplinary domains. This is both in terms of the teams and individuals associated with the solution development. The solutions themselves also need to be adaptable and open-ended
Digital isolators provide compelling benefits over legacy opto-couplers in terms of high speed, low power consumption, high reliability, small size, high integration, and ease of use. Billions of digital isolators using micro-transformers have been widely adopted in many markets including automotive, industry automation, medical, and energy.
A successful fight against COVID-19 greatly depends on citizens’ adherence to the restrictive measures, which may not suffice alone. Making use of a containment index, data on sanctions, and Google’s movement trends across Italian regions, complemented by other sources, we investigate the extent to which compliance with the mobility limitations has affected the number of deaths over time in…