Insulin pumps and other smart devices have recently made significant advancements in the treatment of diabetes, a disorder that affects people all over the world. The development of medical AI has been influenced by AI methods designed to help physicians make diagnoses, choose a course of therapy, and predict outcomes. In this article, we thoroughly analyse how AI is being used to enhance and personalize diabetes treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn response to challenging circumstances, the human body can experience marked levels of anxiety and distress. Wearable devices offer a means of real-time and ongoing data collection, facilitating personalized stress monitoring. Therefore, we collected physiological signals (blood pressure volume and electrodermal activities), using Empatica E4, from 29 subjects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn response to challenging circumstances, the human body can experience marked levels of anxiety and distress. To prevent stress-related complications, timely identification of stress symptoms is crucial, necessitating the need for continuous stress monitoring. Wearable devices offer a means of real-time and ongoing data collection, facilitating personalized stress monitoring.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnvironmental pollution in the site of the high school 'Rolando da Piazzola' in Piazzola sul Brenta (Padua, Veneto Region, Northern Italy) was discovered by chance in 2020. Since then, investigations on the environmental damage have been ongoing, while the school is anyway working. The purpose of this article is twofold.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIchthyological investigations and technological advancements, such as the laying of submarine telegraph cables, promoted new dredging methods in the second half of the 19th century. In contrast to the idea of a lifeless deep ocean (Edward Forbes' azoic hypothesis), the discovery of deep water fauna and the challenge of defining its systematics opened up new theoretical perspectives. In this frame, which was already marked by the impact of Darwin's theory, naturalistic surveys in freshwater environments in western Switzerland intertwined with those of oceanographic expeditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe 'provisional hypothesis' of pangenesis seems to be associated with a reduction of the role of geographical isolation as a factor of speciation or novelty in Darwinian thinking. On the one hand, this fact draws the attention on the interacting processes concerning the internal dynamics of organisms' development together with their effects on evolution and, on the other, the defense of the gradual action of natural selection in changing living forms. Nevertheless, these ways reveal an intimate contrast which brings to a missed synthesis.
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