[IL SEGNALAMENTO DEL DELINQUENTE BY SALVATORE OTTOLENGHI: THE STUDY OF DERMATOGLYPHICS IN ANTHROPOMETRIC CABINETS].

The dermatoglyphics are signs of the human variety, as they are absolutely different from one human being to another. For this reason, and for their characteristics of uniqueness, classification, and inalterability, the papillary ridges on the fingertips represent elements of a sure differentiation between one person and another. Fingerprints are, therefore, very helpful in identifying a human being.

[BOOSTING CITIZENS'AWARENESS: THE ANATOMICAL COLLECTIONS FOR TEACHING PAST AND PRESENT].

The challenge of eight museums of the University Museum System of the University of Siena for years has been that of annually offering to Siena schools a course of learning on the themes of science. The learning workshop is articulated in a frontal lesson, followed by a visit of the class in the proponent museum to better expound the chosen theme by the teacher. The fundamental role for such a didactic proposal is sustained by the conserved collections in the museum, used in the past to facilitate the university professor in their lessons, and that continue to show a strong didactic value helping the young student to "enter" in a captivating and easy manner into the world of science.

Evaluation of corticospinal tract impairment in the brain of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis by using diffusion tensor imaging acquisition schemes with different numbers of diffusion-weighting directions.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is characterized by degeneration of upper and lower motor neurons. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) indexes obtained along the corticospinal tracts distinguish ALS patients and control subjects. Diffusion tensor imaging can be estimated from at least 6 diffusion-weighted images; however an acquisition scheme with a higher number of diffusion directions allows a more robust estimation of DTI indexes.

[The female population of the S. Niccolò mental village in Siena].

The author deals with the population in the Sienese mental hospital (1810-1999) according to the various female presences. So, not only the patients, poor and rich, but also the attendants, the nurses, the matrons, the teachers, the nuns: a complex and never studied female universe.