Different Types of Training Lead to Different Levels of Cardiovascular Energy Dissipation: Young Soccer Players Versus Ballet Dancers.

Introduction: Arterial wall viscosity is a source of energy dissipation that takes place during mechanical transduction. In our previous studies, a "global" damping effect in endurance training athletes was introduced, verifying that endurance-athletes dissipate greater pulsatile energy in the circulation compared with healthy untrained subjects.

Objective: To investigate the wall energy dissipation in the vascular bed for each beat and within the conceptual framework of ventricular-arterial coupling, in order to elucidate if different types of training could lead to differentiated levels of cardiovascular energy dissipation.

One year of surgical mask testing at the University of Bologna labs: Lessons learned from data analysis.

The outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic highlighted the worldwide lack of surgical masks and personal protective equipment, which represent the main defense available against respiratory diseases as COVID-19. At the time, masks shortage was dramatic in Italy, the first European country seriously hit by the pandemic: aiming to address the emergency and to support the Italian industrial reconversion to the production of surgical masks, a multidisciplinary team of the University of Bologna organized a laboratory to test surgical masks according to European regulations. The group, driven by the expertise of chemical engineers, microbiologists, and occupational physicians, set-up the test lines to perform all the functional tests required.

New Eco-Sustainable Feed in Aquaculture: Influence of Insect-Based Diets on the Content of Potentially Toxic Elements in the Experimental Model Zebrafish ().

According to the concept of circular economy, insects represent good candidates as aquafeed ingredients. Nevertheless, there are some potential chemical risks linked with insect consumption. In this study, we reared the teleost , used as an experimental model, with five experimental diets characterized by increasing levels (0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%) of full-fat (Hi) prepupae, substituting for fish meal (FM) and fish oil (FO).

A methodology for Response Gap Analysis in offshore oil spill emergency management.

In case of offshore oil spills, the success of emergency response largely depends on the meteorological and oceanographic conditions during and after the spill, which are expressed by a set of different environmental factors. A "gap" in the response may be caused by unfavourable environmental factors that could limit its effectiveness or even impede it. In this context, Response Gap Analysis (RGA) studies identify the environmental factors negatively influencing the emergency response in a given sea area and aim at assessing the percentage of time during which the response would be without success or impossible to deploy.

Erratum: Illuminati et al. Determination of Cd, Pb, and Cu in the Atmospheric Aerosol of Central East Antarctica at Dome C (Concordia Station). 2021, , 1997.

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