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May 2014

Digital media standards for improved user experience

di Leonardo Chiariglione
Pubblicato il 29/05/2014
Technology and applied sciences

Standards are a vital component of communication. In 1984, while working for CSELT, the research center of what is today Telecom Italia, I submitted RACE IVICO (Integrated Video Codec), a project aimed at developing a European microelectronic technology for digital video in partnership with representatives of most relevant European industries. The project was approved but two years later was terminated because of the jarring differences with the European audio-visual policy of that time (digital audio-video planned to play a role in the first decade of the 21st century),

APRE organizes the ERC National Day's Call Launch

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di redazione
Submitted by redazione on 23 May, 2014 - 17:21

APRE, the Agency for the Promotion of European Research, on behalf of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) and in collaboration with the European Commission and the University of Rome La Sapienza, has scheduled on may 26th 2014 the National Day launch of the call Advanced Grant from the European Research Council's National Day Call Launch.  

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Antimicrobial resistance throughout the world

di Cristina Da Rold
Pubblicato il 23/05/2014
Infections

Through the years and the development of pharmacology, Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing public health threat of broad concern to countries. Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) produced a global report on surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in collaboration with Member States. This report monitors the situation worldwide, showing that the percentage of antibiotic resistance to various diseases is growing year after year all over the world, especially in developed countries, and the resistance to common