Dental injury in general anesthesia: a comparison between direct laryngoscopy and McGRATH® VLS.

Abstract INTRODUCTION Dental injury occurs in 0.06 - 0.13 % of general anesthesia procedures requiring endotracheal intubation, and it is still a reason of complaint against anesthesiologists. Maxillary central incisors are the most common teeth injured. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study is to measure the forces applied on teeth using a direct laryngoscope or a McGRATH® video-laryngoscope. MATERIALS AND METHODS: 39 Anesthesiologists were divided into 2 groups, one of experienced anesthe...

Soft Decoding Techniques for Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and Weak Energy Optical Communication

The focus of this research activity is to work on pragmatic information reconciliation applied to QKD schemes based on single photon or weak pulse laser (WPL) sources, so as to use feed-forward techniques which minimize the interaction between transmitter and receiver. The core ideas of the thesis are employing Forward Error Correction (FEC) coding as opposed to two-way communication for information reconciliation in QKD schemes, exploiting all the available information for data processing at...

Development and validation of a novel testing procedure for the evaluation of rutting susceptibility of bituminous binders

The research reported herein deals with evaluation of rutting susceptibility of different asphalt binders thorough various parameters and correlating them with parameters resulted from tests carried out on their corresponding mixtures. Several factors influence the occurrence of rutting in asphalt mixtures including aggregate properties, composition (aggregate gradation and binder content), and volumetric. However Asphalt binders play a major role in affecting rutting resistance of asphalt mi...

NUMERICAL TOOLS FOR FRACTURE MECHANICS PREDICTION OF PASSIVELY AND ACTIVELY COUPLED STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS

This study is aimed at developing a numerical tool to predict the fracture mechanics of passively and actively coupled structural systems. These definitions are related to the wide recently growing up in the technology of composite materials equipped with functional layers made of smart materials such as piezoelectric, electrostrictive, magnetostrictive and others. Their main function is providing a local conversion of energy for several goals. Very often they are used as a sensor to monitor ...

L'altra monumentalità , 1937-1951

Obiettivo del lavoro di ricerca ਠla ricostruzione delle vicende attorno al tema della monumentalità  durante la prima metà  del XX secolo. Protagonista di pubblicazioni frammentarie e discontinue l'argomento non ha ancora trovato un'investigazione approfondita che gli riconosca la profonda influenza che ha esercitato nella cultura architettonica contemporanea. L'analisi dei precedenti storici di epoca moderna costituisce l'introduzione al lavoro, il cui prologo contempla l'origine europea d...

Forecasting cost at completion with growth models and Earned Value Management

Reliable forecasting of the final cost at completion is one of the vital components of project monitoring. Accuracy and stability in the forecast of an ongoing project is a critical criterion that ensures the project's on budget and timely completion. The purpose of this dissertation is to develop a new Cost Estimate at Completion (CEAC) methodology to assist project managers in the task of forecasting the final cost at completion of ongoing projects. This forecasting methodology interpolates...

Water Resources Availability and Hydropower Production under Current and Future Climate Scenarios: The Case of Jhelum River Basin, Pakistan

An agro-based country, Pakistan is largely dependent on the Indus basin irrigation system (IBIS), one of the largest irrigation networks in the world, mainly contributed by snow- and glacier-melt runoff from Indus River and its tributaries. A significant proportion of water in the Jhelum River is contributed by its snow- and glacier-fed sub-catchments situated in the Himalayan and Pir Panjal ranges along with monsoon rainfall from low-altitude regions. This study presents the change in snow c...

A reference data access service in support of emergency management. Data quality assessment protocol, publication and exploitation of the results

In the field of natural disasters recovery and reduction and of emergency management geo-referenced information is strongly needed. In my personal experience obtained in the three years period spent at ITHACA, during the shorter at GFDRR Labs and through the work done indirectly with UN-WFP, after a natural disaster occurs, the experts in geomatics are often asked to provide answers to questions such as: where did it occur? How many people have been involved? How many infrastructures have bee...

Computational Screening of Cu-based Catalysts for CO2 electrochemical valorization