Mediterranean climate patterns and wine quality in North and Central Italy.

Results show that the year-to-year quality variation of wines produced in North and Central Italy depends on the large-scale climate variability, and that the wine quality improvement in the last four decades is partially due to an increase of temperature and to a decrease of precipitation in West and Central Mediterranean Europe (WME; CME). In addition, wine quality is positively correlated with air temperature throughout the entire active period of the grapevine, weakly negatively correlated with precipitation in spring, and well negatively correlated in summer and fall. The month-to-month composites of the NAO anomaly show that, in years of good quality wine, this anomaly is negative in late spring, oscillates around zero in summer, and is positive in early fall; while, in years of bad quality wine, it is positive in late spring and summer, and negative in early fall, i.

An evaluation of duckweed-based pond systems as an alternative option for decentralised treatment and reuse of wastewater in Zimbabwe.

A study was carried out in Zimbabwe to evaluate the performance of duckweed ponds as an option for treating and reusing wastewater in small, decentralised communities. The study focused on nitrogen and phosphorus removal, operational problems, and duckweed application. Two full-scale trial plants at Nemanwa and Gutu-Mupandawana growth points were used.

Survival of Listeria monocytogenes in Three Zimbabwean Fermented Milk Products.

The growth and survival of Listeria monocytogenes was studied in traditionally fermented unpasteurized and pasteurized milk and in an industrially fermented milk marketed in Zimbabwe. Inoculated milk samples were incubated at 20°C for 24 h, and then one set of samples of each type of milk was stored at ambient (20°C) and a duplicate set at refrigeration (5°C) temperatures for a further 96 h. The industrially fermented milk was least favorable to the survival of L.

Thrombosis of abdominal aortic aneurysms.

The usual complication of abdominal aortic aneurysms is rupture. Although thrombosis of peripheral aneurysms is common, thrombosis of abdominal aortic aneurysms is rare. Sudden thrombosis of abdominal aortic aneurysms constitutes a surgical emergency, with a mortality of 50 percent.

Ruptured mycotic salmonella aortic aneurysm treated with combined cefotaxime antibiotic and staged surgical management.

A case of salmonella infrarenal aortic aneurysm that ruptured and was treated with staged operative procedures and a highly effective antibiotic is reported and analyzed. An emergency situation with a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm required prompt surgical intervention with an aortobifemoral graft insertion. In the immediate postoperative period it was realized that a prosthetic graft was placed in the bed of a mycotic aneurysm.

Fibromuscular annular pancreas. A variant of pancreatic malformation?

All reported cases of annular pancreas consist of histologically normal pancreatic tissue. The most widely accepted theory of the pathogenesis of the pancreatic annulus agrees with, and is partially based on this fact. The pancreatic annulus encircling the stenotic second part of the duodenum in our patient was composed of fibromuscular tissue with lymph glands and a few pancreatic acini scattered among the smooth muscle fibers.

[Appendiceal carcinoma].

Three cases of carcinoma of the vermiform appendix are reported. The rarity of the disease has been emphasized as well as the resulting lack of clinical experience. Medical literature on the subject has been reviewed.