Fiscal Policy For The Crisis

Finanzmarktkrise; Geldpolitik; Finanzpolitik; Steuersenkung; Subvention; Vertrauen; Welt

Pseudo-outbreak of Mycobacterium gordonae in a teaching hospital: importance of strictly following decontamination procedures and emerging issues concerning sterilization

Aim of this study was to investigate a pseudo-outbreak of Mycobacterium gordonae analyzing isolates detected from clinical and environmental samples. Mycobacterium gordonae was detected in 7 out of 497 broncho-alveolar lavage (BAL) samples after bronchoscopy procedure in patients admitted to a teaching hospital between January and April 2013. During this pseudo-outbreak clinical, epidemiological, environmental and molecular investigations were performed. None of the patients met the criteria for non-tuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) lung disease and were treated for M. gordonae lung disease. Environmental investigation revealed M. gordonae in 3 samples: in tap water and in the water supply channel of the washer disinfector. All the isolates were subjected to genotyping by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). The PFGE revealed that only patients' isolates presented the same band pattern but no correlation with the environmental strain was detected. Surveillance of the outbreak and the strict adherence to the reprocessing procedure and its supplies resulted afterwards in no detection of M. gordonae in clinical respiratory samples. Clinical surveillance of patients was crucial to establish the start of NTM treatment. Regular screening of tap water and endoscopic equipment should be adopted to compare the clinical strains with the environmental ones when an outbreak occurs

Preventive medicine center and health care for students of medicine and health professions at the Sapienza University of Rome: a research protocol

This project aims to develop a Center of Preventive Medicine and Health Care for the students of Medicine and Health profession at Sapienza University of Rome. At the beginning of the university career students, both residents and nonresident s, have to face several difficulties such as: starting smoking or the increase in cigarette consumption ; the independent management of their own health (especially for non residents consequently to the distance of the family doctor) ; unhealthy diet; tuberculosis (TB) biological risk during their university training. These aspects , especially if present at the same time, act as a source stress and adversely affect the quality of life and the academic performance. Specific aims of the project will be: implementing an ambulatory of Preventive Medicine; implementing a virtual ambulatory of general medicine; creating a website on the problems mentioned above. Data collected will be computerized to keep an electronic health record (HER) and to use the information for the purposes of scientific research. The Centre will act in close relationship with the Central Administration, with the Headmasters of the Medical Faculties, and in close collaboration with the Center of Occupational Medicine of Sapienza University

The financial and fiscal stress interconnectedness : the case of G5 economies

In this paper, we focus on the financial and fiscal stress transmission for the G5 economies. Using financial and fiscal stress indexes, we assess the spillovers within each economy, as well as the cross-sectional effects. Two supplementary methodologies, measuring the degree of interconnectedness, are employed. Our findings indicate that the interactions between these two kinds of distress are intensive, especially during and after the Global Financial Crisis outbreak. The above reiterates the necessity for coordinated macroprudential policies, as a means to confine the adverse effects of excessive financial and fiscal stress

First record and a new taxon of Stammericaris Jakobi, 1972 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from the Philippines; with an amendment to the generic diagnosis and reassignment of three Palearctic species

We report on the finding of Stammericaris galichai sp. nov. in the hyporheic habitat of Cantingas River, Sibuyan Island, the Philippines. The new species is attributed to the genus based on the morphology of the male antennule (of the “pocket-knife” type); the presence of a hook on the inner margin of the basis of the male first pereopod; the male third pereopod with a long apophysis and two groups of outer spinules on the first exopodal segment; the endopodite of the male forth pereopod reduced, but corresponding to the basic morphology of the genus, and the basis ornamented with two spinules on inner margin, one of which long and inwardly-curved, one small and with apex consisting of three small lobes. Stammericaris galichai sp. nov. does not have one taxonomically and morphologically closest species within the genus, possibly due to its geographical isolation. Based on some aspects of the morphology of Stammericaris galichai sp. nov. (namely, the shape of the fifth pereopod) and other species of Stammericaris, the description of the genus is slightly amended, and the Palearctic taxa Parastenocaris balcanica Petkovski, 1959, P. nertensis Rouch, 1990, P. triphyda Cottarelli & Bruno, 1993 are transferred to the genus Stammericaris. Stammericaris galichai sp. nov. is the first representative of the genus for the Philippines, and for the entire Oriental Region. The faunistic and biogeographical relevance of the new species is discussed with particular focus on the discovery of this freshwater stygobitic species in a volcanic island which has never been in contact with other landmasses. A map of the distribution of Parastenocarididae hitherto known for the Philippines, including a new station in Mindoro for the endemic Parastenocaris distincta Cottarelli, Bruno & Berera, 2006, is also provide

New Gynandromorph Records for Chirocephalus diaphanus (Branchiopoda, Anostraca, Chirocephalidae)

We report and describe new Chirocephalus diaphanus Pr\ue9vost, 1803 gynandromorphs from Tunisia and review the literature of anostracan gynandromorphy and other, possibly associated, somatic aberrations, with comments on their evolutionary significance. Our material has three specimens that are specifi cally deformed on the left side of the head

Analisi del maintenance business model delle aziende metalmeccaniche

LAUREA MAGISTRALELo scopo di questa tesi è quello di studiare la gestione e l’organizzazione delle funzioni di manutenzione nelle aziende metalmeccaniche italiane. L’obiettivo è, quindi, di individuare tutti gli elementi caratterizzanti (attività, risorse, ecc.) e gli attori chiave tipici della manutenzione e studiare come essi partecipano alla creazione di valore. Parallelamente a questo obiettivo, si vuole analizzare come la manutenzione contribuisce al raggiungimento di elevate performance di: Salute e sicurezza sul luogo di lavoro, efficienza energetica, rispetto dell’ambiente e qualità del prodotto.The purpose of this thesis is to study the management and organization of maintenance functions in the Italian manufacturing companies. The goal is to identify all the elements that characterize (activities, resources, etc.) and the typical key players of the maintenance and study how they participate in the creation of value. In parallel to this goal, we want to analyze how the maintenance contributes to achieving high performance of: Health and safety at work, energy efficiency, environmental friendliness and quality of the product