Modern urbanism is called to face current challenges ranging from intensive demographic growth, economic and social stagnation to resources salvation and climate changes.Under the broader scope of sustainability, we argue that the transition to a holistic perspective of smart and regenerative planning and design is the way to face and yet to preven
Patient referral patterns and the spread of hospital-acquired infections through national health care networks.
Rates of hospital-acquired infections, such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), are increasingly used as quality indicators for hospital hygiene.Alternatively, these rates may vary between hospitals, because hospitals differ in admission and referral of potentially colonized patients.We assessed if different referral patterns bet
Dynamic Outlier Detection in the Calibration by Comparison Method Applied to Strain Gauge Weight Sensors
The present work proposes a robust method of analyzing sets of data series shifted in time in respect to each other utilizing the process of dynamic calibration by comparison.Usually the Pearson’s correlation analysis coefficient is applied for this purpose.However, in some cases the method does not bring satisfactory results, as it can be se
The neurostructural bases of empathy: morphometric evidence for a multicomponential approach
The neural bases of individual differences in empathy subcomponents are still debated.We employed brain morphometry to investigate the neurostructural bases of individual and sex differences in specific empathy facets in 124 healthy individuals who completed the Balanced-Emotional-Empathy-Scale (BEES), and both the emotional/cognitive and self/othe