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Sir, Awake fibreoptic intubation remains the gold standard treatment for a patient with anticipated difficult airway according to guidelines. [1] Nevertheless several limitations have been described to this technique, particularly regarding patient collaboration and tracheal tube progression through the larynx and vocal cords. [4] The arytenoid and the inter arytenoid soft tissue are the main resistance points to ETT advancement and the tracheal tube impingement could result in a soft tissue injury with a possible challenging scenario.

Background. Renal transplantation is the gold standard treatment for end-stage renal disease, however, in 20% of cases, the graft develops a delayed graft function (DGF) that is associated with both early and late worsening of the outcome. The aim of our project was to explore the available scoring systems for DGF risk assessment in order to stratify the transplant recipients population for tailoring immunosuppressive therapy. Materials and methods. We conducted a systematic review of the literature to identify all the scoring systems predicting DGF to identify those applicable to the study population and subsequently comparing their appropriateness for defining the most accurate one. Results. We enrolled retrospectively a population of 247 renal transplanted patients where 41 cases (15.95%) developed DGF. For our population 3 of the 7 scoring systems to predict DGF available in scientific literature have resulted fit. The Irish score recognized 25 of 41 cases (60.98%), the Jeldres score 41 of 41 cases (100%), and the Chapal score only 7 of 41 (17.07%). Although the Irish score did not identify all cases of DGF, the analysis of data revealed that it is the most accurate, with area under the receiver operating characteristic almost overlapping. Conclusions. Our study identifies the Irish score as the most reliable for a population of transplant recipients in Italy. This first result has to be considered only as the base for the development of a new and more accurate predictive model for DGF risk assessment, which could benefit from the machine learning methods on a larger and multicentric population.

This chapter reviews the relations between technoscientific research and the military after the Second World War, and focuses on the United States. The Second World War radically transformed the research system by fostering 'big science', especially in physics, with its large machines and huge economic investments, and marrying science and technology, creating what is now known as technoscience. At the beginning of his presidency, Eisenhower tried to reduce defence spending, but the launch by the Soviet Union of the Sputnik in 1957 made the demand curve go upward again and, when his second mandate ended, the expenditure for research and development had become four times higher. Network-centric warfare is: an information superiority-enabled concept of operations that generates increased combat power by networking sensors, decision makers, and shooters to achieve shared awareness, increased speed of command, higher tempo of operations, greater lethality, increased survivability, and a degree of self-synchronization.

Guzzetti Luca. Pamela E. Mack, Viewing the Earth. The Social Construction of the Landsat Satellite System. In: Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. 53ᵉ année, N. 4-5, 1998. pp. 1061-1063.

Il caso della \"memoria dell'acqua\". - La frode scientifica. - Peer-review. - La controversia che non c'è stata. - L'unicorno in giardino.