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Clinical–Environmental Surveillance of Legionellosis: An Experience in Southern Italy
In Italy, although the number of cases of legionellosis notified to the health authorities has significantly increased in recent years, the incidence is still believed to be underestimated. To verify the true ...
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Open AccessItalian multicenter study on infection hazards during dental practice: Control of environmental microbial contamination in public dental surgeries
The present study assessed microbial contamination in Italian dental surgeries.
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Open AccessLegionella spp. and legionellosis in southeastern Italy: disease epidemiology and environmental surveillance in community and health care facilities
Following the publication of the Italian Guidelines for the control and prevention of legionellosis an environmental and clinical surveillance has been carried out in Southeastern Italy. The aim of the study i...
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Open AccessBody piercing and tattoos: a survey on young adults' knowledge of the risks and practices in body art
The practice of tattooing and piercing has expanded in western society. In order to verify young adults' knowledge of the risk and practices related to body art, an investigation was conducted among freshmen o...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Innovative Hybrid Neuro-wavelet Method for Reconstruction of Missing Data in Astronomical Photometric Surveys
The investigation of solar-like oscillations for probing the star interiors has encountered a tremendous growth in the last decade. For ground based observations the most important difficulties in properly ide...
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Open AccessAir sampling procedures to evaluate microbial contamination: a comparison between active and passive methods in operating theatres
Since air can play a central role as a reservoir for microorganisms, in controlled environments such as operating theatres regular microbial monitoring is useful to measure air quality and identify critical si...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Hybrid Neuro–Wavelet Predictor for QoS Control and Stability
For distributed systems to properly react to peaks of requests, their adaptation activities would benefit from the estimation of the amount of requests. This paper proposes a solution to produce a short-term f...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Cascade Neural Network Architecture Investigating Surface Plasmon Polaritons Propagation for Thin Metals in OpenMP
Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) confined along metal-dielectric interface have attracted a relevant interest in the area of ultracompact photonic circuits, photovoltaic devices and other applications due to ...
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Open AccessKnowledge about tuberculosis among undergraduate health care students in 15 Italian universities: a cross-sectional study
The Italian Study Group on Hospital Hygiene of the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health conducted a multicentre survey aiming to evaluate undergraduate health care students’ knowle...
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Open AccessMold contamination in a controlled hospital environment: a 3-year surveillance in southern Italy
Environmental monitoring of airborne filamentous fungi is necessary to reduce fungal concentrations in operating theaters and in controlled environments, and to prevent infections. The present study reports re...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Can We Process 2D Images Using Artificial Bee Colony?
This paper is to discuss a matter of preprocessing 2D input images by selected methods of Evolutionary Computation. In the following sections we try to analyze possibility of using Artificial Bee Colony algori...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Is the Colony of Ants Able to Recognize Graphic Objects?
This paper is to discuss a matter of ants swarm intelligence for 2D input images recognition systems. In the following sections we try to analyze possibility of using artificial ants colony algorithm to analyz...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Object-Oriented Neural Network Toolbox Based on Design Patterns
Generally, the resolution of a problem by using soft-computing support requires several attempts for setting up a proper neural network. Such attempts consist of designing and training a neural network and can...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Multi-class Nearest Neighbour Classifier for Incomplete Data Handling
The basic nearest neighbour algorithm has been designed to work with complete data vectors. Moreover, it is assumed that each reference sample as well as classified sample belong to one and the only one class....
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Toward Work Groups Classification Based on Probabilistic Neural Network Approach
This paper presents the application of some Computational Intelligence methods for obtaining a classifier analysing employees to form work groups. The proposed bio-inspired solution analyses employees using da...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Extracting Location Names from Unstructured Italian Texts Using Grammar Rules and MapReduce
Named entity recognition aims at locating elements in a given text and classifying them according to pre-defined categories, such as the names of persons, organisations, locations, quantities, etc. This paper ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Application of Genetic Algorithms in the Construction of Invertible Substitution Boxes
Existing literature shows that genetic algorithms can be successfully used for automated construction of S-boxes. In this paper we show the usage of genetic algorithm, more specifically NSGA-II, as an aid in d...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Characterisation and Modeling of Organic Solar Cells by Using Radial Basis Neural Networks
Neural network architectures have been proven useful to model the intrinsic characteristics of photovoltaic cells. The possibility to get rid of an a priori model is one of the many advantages of such an appro...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Self Organizing Maps for 3D Face Understanding
Landmarks are unique points that can be located on every face. Facial landmarks typically recognized by people are correlated with anthropomorphic points. Our purpose is to employ in 3D face recognition such l...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Cloud Oriented Support for Motion Detection in Video Surveillance Systems Using Computational Intelligence
This paper proposes a cloud-oriented architecture for video analysis and motion detection. The core algorithm as been based on a typical computational intelligence method called Firefly Algorithm jointly with ...
