Assessing university-business collaborations for moderate innovators: Implications for university-led innovation policy evaluation.

The growing literature on University-Industry Collaborations (UICs) highlights how learning processes get unevenly located in space, within centers of innovative activity, where the local presence of research-oriented universities plays a crucial role. Through a mixed-methods approach, this article explores the firm-level drivers of innovation and the interactions between a sample of companies and the local university in a moderate innovation EU region. Findings highlight that firms' size, sector, leadership's commitment to digitalization, and collaborations with the university explain companies' innovative performance.

[Neuroendocrine response in surgery: comparison between inhalation anesthesia (isoflurane) and intravenous anesthesia (propofol)].

The objectives of the study: 1) comparison between the two anesthesiological techniques both of which were applied to the various surgical groups (patients undergoing emergency surgery for abdominal pathologies and patients undergoing bone marrow biopsy); 2) a comparison between pre- and intraoperative stress levels. The experimental design consists of a comparative survey aimed at ascertaining the existence of statistically significant differences in pre- and intraoperative hormone levels (objective 1) and differences in hormone profiles depending on the anesthesiological technique used (objective 2). Patients were artificially ventilated; intraoperative monitoring included: automatic non-invasive AP every 3 minutes; cardiac monitoring; ETCO2; SaO2; all patients showed a normal postoperative evolution.

[Strychnine poisoning. A clinical case].

A patient was admitted following ingestion of 300 mg of strychnine. Early diagnosis and timely reanimation treatment led to his full recovery though he had swallowed a quantity of strychnine greater than the medium lethal dose (50-100 mg for adult).

[Horton arteritis and Kaposi's sarcoma: description of a case].

Occurrence of Kaposi's sarcoma was observed in a 70-years-old patient with Horton's temporal arteritis after one year of corticosteroid therapy. The possibility that Kaposi's disease may be related to the steroid therapy is discussed.