Academic literature on the topic 'Selected lists (Italian)'

Chondrichthyans are one of the most threatened marine taxa worldwide. This is also the case in the Mediterranean Sea, which is considered an extinction hotspot for rays and sharks. The central position of the Italian peninsula makes it an ideal location for studying the status and changes of this sea. There is a lack of biological, ecological and historical data when assessing shark populations, which is also highlighted in the Red List of Threatened Species compiled by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Historical data can provide important information to better understand how chondrichthyan populations have changed over time. This study aims to provide a clearer understanding of the changes in distribution and abundance of eight shark species in the Italian seas that are currently classified as at risk of extinction by the IUCN. In this respect, a bibliographic review was conducted on items from the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century, focusing on the selected species. The results show that all sharks were considered common until the beginning of the 20th century but have declined since, with a clear negative trend, mainly in the past 70 years. The strong local decline has been attributed to overexploitation, bycatch, habitat loss, depletion of prey items and environmental pollution. Furthermore, historical data also allow us to avoid the issue of a ‘shifting baseline’, in which contemporary abundances are assumed to be “normal”. Using historical data to further our knowledge of the marine environment is becoming increasingly common, and is fundamental in understanding human impact and evaluating mitigation measures to manage and conserve marine species and environments.

In the 20th anniversary year of the European Geopark Network, and 5 years on from the receipt of the UNESCO label for the geoparks, this research focuses on geotourism contents and solutions within one of the most recently designated geoparks, admitted for membership in 2013: the Sesia Val Grande UNESCO Global Geopark (Western Italian Alps). The main aim of this paper is to corroborate the use of fieldtrips and virtual tours as resources for geotourism. The analysis is developed according to: i) geodiversity and geoheritage of the geopark territory; ii) different approaches for planning fieldtrip and virtual tours. The lists of 18 geotrails, 68 geosites and 13 off-site geoheritage elements (e.g., museums, geolabs) are provided. Then, seven trails were selected as a mirror of the geodiversity and as container of on-site and off-site geoheritage within the geopark. They were described to highlight the different approaches that were implemented for their valorization. Most of the geotrails are equipped with panels, and supported by the presence of thematic laboratories or sections in museums. A multidisciplinary approach (e.g., history, ecology) is applied to some geotrails, and a few of them are translated into virtual tours. The variety of geosciences contents of the geopark territory is hence viewed as richness, in term of high geodiversity, but also in term of diversification for its valorization.

The European Union faces a complex economic conjunction where different factors affect and reduce the number of feasible and sustainable projects according to the legislation and the available resources. In this context, one of the available solutions to the current energy crisis could be the implementation of Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) to support the European dual transition targets. The idea of an energy community is still being defined in the literature and from a legislative perspective. The increasing REC dimension and numerosity demand in-depth studies on opportunities and threats in a still unexplored market. To clarify the Italian and European state of the art of these communities, this study in the first section addresses the socioeconomic and policy conditions needed for the foundation and development of energy communities by analyzing the in-force legislation. The analysis of the current regulation has been conducted to verify how RECs affect local communities and their degrees of freedom and action in regions. The second part of the study aimed to define threats and opportunities in creating new professional profiles and local job opportunities in this new thriving market. In this study, we collected interviews and surveys with market operators, both on the service providers’ side (ESCo) and the communities’ side (promoters), to identify conflicts and advantages associated with establishing communities. The participants were initially selected through publicly available lists, and after verifying the contact correctness, they were contacted by email or phone. The results of the interviews have been processed into a SWOT analysis, showing how national policies currently need to catch up in implementing this efficiency tool and how the restricted number and the variety of the existing communities increase the difficulty in creating cohesive and universal guidelines. Finally, local markets can still not correctly manage this innovative tool’s uncertainty despite being interested in it.

Background Digital technologies have evolved dramatically in recent years, finding applications in a variety of aspects of everyday life. Smartphones and mobile apps are being used for a steadily increasing number of tasks, including health monitoring. A large number of nutrition and diet apps are available, and some of them are very popular in terms of user downloads, highlighting a trend toward diet monitoring and assessment. Objective We sought to explore the perspectives of end users on the features, current use, and acceptance of nutrition and diet mHealth apps with a survey. We expect that this study can provide user insights to assist researchers and developers in achieving innovative dietary assessments. Methods A multidisciplinary team designed and compiled the survey. Before its release, it was pilot-tested by 18 end users. A 19-question survey was finally developed and was translated into six languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Greek. The participants were mainly recruited via social media platforms and mailing lists of universities, university hospitals, and patient associations. Results A total of 2382 respondents (1891 female, 79.4%; 474 male, 19.9%; and 17 neither, 0.7%) with a mean age of 27.2 years (SD 8.5) completed the survey. Approximately half of the participants (1227/2382, 51.5%) had used a nutrition and diet app. The primary criteria for selecting such an app were ease of use (1570/2382, 65.9%), free cost (1413/2382, 59.3%), and ability to produce automatic readings of caloric content (1231/2382, 51.7%) and macronutrient content (1117/2382, 46.9%) (ie, food type and portion size are estimated by the system without any contribution from the user). An app was less likely to be selected if it incorrectly estimated portion size, calories, or nutrient content (798/2382, 33.5%). Other important limitations included the use of a database that does not include local foods (655/2382, 27.5%) or that may omit major foods (977/2382, 41%). Conclusions This comprehensive study in a mostly European population assessed the preferences and perspectives of potential nutrition and diet app users. Understanding user needs will benefit researchers who develop tools for innovative dietary assessment as well as those who assist research on behavioral changes related to nutrition.

SummaryThe paper presents a new tool for approaching foreign languages. The “A1 for everyone” (A1FE1) project aims to promote multilingualism (meaning the ability of an individual to use different languages) in tune with the focuses of EU language policy, i.e. “to make a wider range of languages available to learners to allow individual choice”. A1FE1 aims to create a series of compact manuals, language introduction guides, different from self-study courses or tourist phrasebooks, which should allow everyone to reach level A1 (“Breakthrough”) in a foreign language (L2), using the technologies available today and a new reader-tailored approach. In fact it is not a guide for a single language being translated into several others, but each L2 guide is written specifically for a type of L1 users, since combinations of typologically distant languages (Danish for Spanish, Czech for Finnish) must tackle the same A1 material in a different way compared to especially genetically similar languages (Danish for Swedish, Czech for Slovaks). The paper introduces the Italian language guide for Lithuanians (Italų kalba šnekantiems lietuviškai). There are two main principles in this project: the comparative and contrastive approach, which proceeds from what is familiar (L1) to illustrate what is new (L2) and the central role of the lexicon as vehicle of communication and unifying element of the three components of grammar (phonetics, morphology and syntax). This is the reason why the bulk of each guide consists of four sections presenting the sounds, the basic forms, logical connections and words of the L2, followed by a two-way minimal dictionary full with communicative examples. The level descriptors of the Common European Framework are not language-specific, hence A1 structures and lexicon should be selected according to teaching practice resources available in the countries where the L2 is spoken, such as syllabuses, word frequency lists, etc. Audio recordings of all L2 material presented in the guides and additional videos following the books’ structure can be accessed online. Italų kalba šnekantiems lietuviškai will serve in fact as a prototype, outlining practical and problematic aspects to take into consideration when drafting other guides. After its release, feedback from users and field experts will help evaluate the real development possibilities of the project, including the involvement of institutions at European level.

Abstract Abstract 5192 Background: The risk of second leukemia/myelodisplastic syndrome (MDS) in non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) survivors has been described in several studies, but the available evidence has yielded different results. Thus, we performed a systematic review and a meta-analysis on population-based and cohort studies to provide a quantitative assessment of the risk of secondary leukemia/MDS after NHL. Aims of our research were to estimate the pooled Relative Risk (RR) of secondary leukemia/MDS and the RRs associated with impact of different therapies in particular the effect of radiation treatments. Methods: A Medline search of articles published between January 1985 and December 2010 was conducted to identify relevant observational studies. We included studies that met each of the following criteria: 1) published in English-language; 2) original papers (no reviews, comments, letters, or editorials); 3) including naïve patients with any stage of NHL; 4) investigating the risk of secondary leukemia/MDS in NHL survivors; 5) reporting RR, specified as standardized incidence ratios or data allowing such outcomes to be derived. The reference lists of the selected articles were inspected to identify additional papers. When two or more articles reported duplicate data, we included the most recently updated data or most informative study. We did not exclude papers on the base of therapeutic regimens. The Meta-analysis of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (MOOSE) guidelines were followed. Pooled RR and 95% confidence interval (CI) were calculated using random effect models. Meta-regression and tests on heterogeneity and sensitivity analysis was conducted. The publication bias was also evaluated. Results: Fifteen papers met the inclusion criteria reporting RRs for leukemia/MDS. These studies included 278,782 patients affected by NHL of which 575 presented a second leukemia/MDS. RRs ranged from 2.0–251.8 and we found a meta-RR for secondary leukemia/MDS of 8.69 (95%CI: 3.66–20.64). In addition, we evaluated the effect of therapeutic regimens and radiotherapy (RT) and/or total body irradiation (TBI) exposure, limiting the analysis to the studies that clearly described the chemotherapies (CHT) and RT and/or TBI. We found a significant increased risk of second leukemia/MDS for patients exposed to irradiation (considering studies where the % of patients treated with RT and/or TBI was >30%) in comparison with unexposed patients: meta-RR was 20.20 (95%CI: 4.65–87.89) and 6.48 (95%CI:2.41–17.39) respectively. By regression analysis we identified a significant association between RT and/or TBI and secondary leukemia/MDS (P=0.004). No publication bias was observed. Regarding CHT with alkylating agents we found a meta-RR of 9.83 (95%CI: 2.45–58.84), and in a sub-group analysis of the studies that reported informations of CHT plus RT in comparison with the studies that reported data of CHT alone we found an increased risk for the patients undergoing CHT plus RT: meta-RR 13.35 (95%CI: 1.75–19.46) and 5.83 (95%CI: 1.75–19.46) respectively. Conclusion: Our comparative analysis on the incidence of second leukemia/MDS presents several issues including the heterogeneity of NHL, the source of data, the time during which the studies were performed, the different schedule of CHT, the dose of RT used in the different period of time and the length of follow-up. Although these problems could reduce the accuracy of the meta-analysis, our results indicate that NHL treatment is associated with a significantly higher risk of second leukemia/MDS, in particular after RT and/or TBI. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare. Acknowledgments: the study has been supported by funds of the Italian Ministry of Education (FIRB 2011, CINECA code RBAP11TF7Z) and the Italian Association “Angela Serra per la Ricerca sul Cancro”, Modena. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.

<p>Vengono presentati i risultati di un’indagine faunistica condotta nel Parco Regionale di Montevecchia e della Valle del Curone, localizzato all’estremità meridionale del sistema Sudalpino, in provincia di Lecco. Viene fornito un elenco delle 92 specie di Crisomelidi censite (tre delle quali risultano nuove per la fauna lombarda: <em>Aphthona</em> <em>sicelidis</em>, <em>Dibolia</em> <em>femoralis</em>, <em>Crepidodera</em> <em>fulvicornis</em>) con indicazioni corologiche, fenologiche e la lista delle piante nutrici, ricavate in parte dalla letteratura e in parte da osservazioni sul campo. Vengono inoltre fornite alcune considerazioni sistematiche e biogeografiche relative alla specie <em>Aphthona</em> <em>sicelidis</em>. Le raccolte sono state effettuate prevalentemente in 9 stazioni situate all’interno del parco regionale e selezionate in base a criteri fitosociologico-vegetazionali. L’analisi zoogeografica mostra che il gruppo corologico maggiormente rappresentato è quello delle specie ad ampia distribuzione nella regione Olartica (57 specie = 62%), seguito dagli elementi ad ampia distribuzione in Europa (26 specie = 28%), e nel bacino mediterraneo (5 specie = 6%); i gruppi delle specie afrotropicali e orientali presenti anche nell’area mediterranea sono rappresentati da una sola specie (<em>Chaetocnema</em> <em>hortensis</em>), i gruppi di origine Neartica invece sono rappresentati da tre specie (<em>Diabrotica virgifera, Ophraella communa, Leptinotarsa decemlineata</em>).</p><p> </p><p>This paper is the result of a faunistic research on the Chrysomelidae fauna of Montevecchia and Curone Valley Natural Park. The Park is located south of the Alps, in Lombardy, in the province of Lecco. The author provides a list of 92 species collected. Three of these are new for the Lombardy fauna: <em>Aphthona sicelidis,</em> <em>Dibolia</em> <em>femoralis</em> and <em>Crepidodera fulvicornis</em>. The paper contains chorological and phenological notes for many species and taxonomical remarks on <em>Aphthona</em> <em>sicelidis</em>. Most specimens have been collected in 9 sampling-sites placed inside the Park and selected according to physiognomic-vegetational criteria. The zoogeographical analysis shows that the list of species is dominated by Olarctic species (57 species = 62%), followed by European elements (26 species = 28%) and Mediterranean species (5 species = 6%). Afrotropical and Oriental species also present in the Mediterranean area are represented by a single species (<em>Chaetocnema hortensis</em>), the groups of Nearctic origin instead are represented by three species (<em>Diabrotica virgifera, Ophraella communa, Leptinotarsa decemlineata</em>).</p>

Abstract The decline observed in many populations of highly sensitive lichens has led to the inclusion of some species on regional Red Lists, but this has seldom been accompanied by an examination of the genetic variation of the fungal and algal symbiotic partners. Here, the red-listed epiphytic lichen Seirophora villosa was surveyed in 14 Mediterranean coastal populations to examine the genetic diversity of both partners. The geographical distribution of four-locus haplotypes followed the same trend in mycobiont and photobiont data sets, some being widespread and others restricted to single localities. The fungus showed a moderate selectivity in its photobiont choice, associating with two undescribed Trebouxia microalgae with a biased distribution across the western Mediterranean. One alga species occurred exclusively in the Italian Peninsula. This region also hosted the highest number of haplotypes for both symbionts. The use of 454-pyrosequencing revealed no clear signs of algal coexistence within selected thalli. The phylogenetic reconstruction for the mycobiont showed uncertain limits among Seirophora spp., stressing the need for further taxonomic evaluation. Additionally, we found that Ramalina lacera, a co-occurring epiphytic lichen in the studied area, shared photobiont genotypes with S. villosa. Our results thus suggest that the protection not only of the red-listed species S. villosa, but also of the whole epiphytic lichen community investigated here might be advisable.

Purpose Boards of Directors and other organisational leaders make decisions about the information security governance systems to implement in their companies. The increasing number of cyber-breaches targeting businesses makes this activity inescapable. Recently, researchers have published comprehensive lists of recommended cyber measures, specifically to inform organisational boards. However, the young cybersecurity industry has still to confirm and refine these guidelines. As a starting point, it would be helpful for organisational leaders to know what other organisations are doing in terms of using these guidelines. In an ideal world, bespoke surveys would be developed to gauge adherence to guidelines, but this is not always feasible. What we often do have is data from existing cybersecurity surveys. The authors argue that such data could be repurposed to quantify adherence to existing information security guidelines, and this paper aims to propose, and test, an original methodology to do so. Design/methodology/approach The authors propose a quantification mechanism to measure the degree of adherence to a set of published information security governance recommendations and guidelines targeted at organisational leaders. The authors test their quantification mechanism using a data set collected in a survey of 156 Italian companies on information security and privacy. Findings The evaluation of the proposed mechanism appears to align with findings in the literature, indicating the validity of the present approach. An analysis of how different industries rank in terms of their adherence to the selected set of recommendations and guidelines confirms the usability of our repurposed data set to measure adherence. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, a quantification mechanism as the one proposed in this study has never been proposed, and tested, in the literature. It suggests a way to repurpose survey data to determine the extent to which companies are implementing measures recommended by published cybersecurity guidelines. This way, the proposed mechanism responds to increasing calls for the adoption of research practices that minimise waste of resources and enhance research sustainability.

Abstract Background PASSI d'Argento (PdA) is an Italian population-based surveillance system, coordinated by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) and carried out by the Local Health Units (LHUs). PdA monitors wide-ranged health related-behaviours in the elderly (65+) living in Italy as per the three pillars of the “Active Healthy Ageing” framework: Health, Participation, Security. Methods The PdA sample is randomly selected from the LHU lists, stratified by sex and age. 22,811 records have been collected in 2016-2017 on a representative sample of residents aged over65, not being hospitalised, in long-term care, in a nursing home or prison. Results 3,019 respondents resulted cancer-diagnosed elderly (CDE) reporting cancer diagnosis or confirmation, leukaemia and lymphomas included (annual average prevalence of 12.8%, Confidence Intervals 95%: 12.1-13.4%; one million and 729 thousand people). CDE refer: poorer health conditions (22%) than Chronic Elderly Patients (CEP; 18%) and Healthy Elderly (HE; 5%), sight impairment (12%), hearing loss (15%) and chewing problems (14%). CDE (10%) and CEP (11%) are more prone to fall than HE do (6%). Disability accounts for 21% in CDE and CEP vs. 12% in HE. A multivariate analysis confirms a compromised psychophysical health profile in CDE vs. HE, and vs. CEP. CDE behave still unhealthily, are insufficiently advised by health professionals, do not comply with the seasonal flu vaccination [Health]. CDE face increased risk for isolation or cognitive decline: they experience lower social connectedness (17%) than CEP (20%) and HE (28%) [Participation], and perceive higher neighbourhood insecurity (19%) than how CEP (17%) and HE (13%) do [Security]. Conclusions PdA data on the poor biopsychosocial health profile of CDE highlight to what extent healthy behaviours and prevention can ameliorate their quality of life PdA calls for global action strategies in Italy, which aim at taking complete charge of CDE and also CEP. Key messages In Italy, elderly cancer survivors show poor biopsychosocial health profile and overall quality of life. By modifying behaviours, elderly suffering from any cancer or chronic disease can age healthily.

Abstract Doing business in Italy is not easy. This chapter looks at how poor regulatory quality affects the life of companies and their appetite for investing in the country. Italy’s rank is deficient in labour market areas, the burden of regulation, the financing ecosystem, contract enforcement, property rights, and investor protections. And Italy does not attract foreign direct investment. Overall, Italians are rather unhappy with foreign companies because―so the story goes―they are outside the range of democratic control. In some cases, it may be accurate, but otherwise, it simply means that they can close their shop if it is no longer profitable. For Italian entrepreneurs, this is more difficult because if they close down a factory, they may have a hard time with other activities. Connections with politics are essential for Italian companies so that they can try to avoid creating tension with the political establishment. The burden of regulation is partly the effect of low mutual trust between citizens and authorities, as is made clear by the coexistence of widespread fiscal evasion and very intricate tax regulations. Corporate governance is generally rather disrespectful of minority interests, despite a good set of legal rules: most Italian companies are owned by single families, which typically place members of the family itself in top positions in the firm; independent directors, even when selected in minority lists, cannot act as they are expected to do by the rules. Corporate nepotism displaces professional managers and meritocracy.

The Name of the Rose is a 1986 film by Jean-Jacques Annaud, a novel adaptation, and a co-production of German, French, and Italian companies. The Name of the Rose, as it is known, is a 'historical mystery without police' by Umberto Eco, in which the 'political' authority war between the ruling power and the papacy institution, the conflicts between sects, and the pressures of religion on the people in Europe at the beginning of the 14th century, were woven like needlework through a seven-day slice of life and the seven sins associated with seven deaths. It is a tough novel with a detailoriented approach and philosophical weight in which Eco's deep knowledge is reflected in every line. The Name of the Rose is a book that has been translated into many languages, has been selected in the list of The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time by the British Crime Writers' Association, and has been criticized for its approach to religion, but has also received much acclaim. Due to these features, it is a long and luscious work that carries serious risks to be adapted into cinema, and every detail has a meaning that cannot be ignored. Yet, in every frame of the film, in all open and closed spaces, the misery of the famine years of the Middle Ages, the bitter face of poverty, and the oppression of religion can be seen and felt. As those who have read the novel will remember, Eco began to describe the structure and the environment from the moment the protagonists started to see the monastery from afar. Once inside the monastery, all structures of the complex were explained in detail in terms of their place, size, form, relations with each other, and decoration. Undoubtedly, it is not possible to reflect this much detail properly in a limited time; however, it must be admitted that Annaud managed to reflect the general historical and architectural atmosphere as best as he could. The scenes in which we watch the eerie depictions of the reliefs, which also observe uneasiness and even fear, make the audience at least as uncomfortable as Adso.Cinema, which expresses its concerns through moving images, is a field of study that reveals its existence in other art branches and has to follow the technology closely. Literature and cinema, which have a common dramatic source, have always progressed art in art, and in The Name of the Rose, the relationship and affiliation of architecture, which is a visual field of study focused on intervention in space and designing the space for cinema has come to life in a much stronger and more violent way.

In the last decades, the growing in-orbit population of resident objects has become one of the main concerns for space agencies and institutions worldwide, and several Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) related initiatives have been promoted to tackle this issue. Indeed, the presence of the so-called space debris may jeopardise the operative mission of active satellites, given that the possible impact with a space debris ranges from cumulative erosion of satellite surface to the possible satellite destruction, with the generation of thousands of additional pieces of debris and inevitable environmental drawbacks and possible cascade effects. Within this framework, the Flight Test Wing of the Italian Air Force is currently upgrading the ISOC 3.0 Suite, an integrated platform providing multiple functions and services in the SST and SSA domains. As previous versions, ISOC 3.0 Suite will be a web-based platform giving users the ability to connect and use the system both locally and remotely. The embedded softwares are being designed and implemented in partnership with industry and academia. This work describes the prototypal version of the conjunction analysis tool developed for the ISOC 3.0 Suite thanks to a collaboration involving the Italian Air Force, Leonardo Company and Politecnico di Milano. The software architecture has been designed to guarantee the highest performance in terms of computational times. The process starts screening the catalogue of resident space objects, containing their orbital states (possibly provided with uncertainty) and other possible physical information (otherwise assumed). This phase can be run either searching for conjunctions involving a particular satellite, or to detect any sort of conjunction, regardless which objects are involved. First, a geometrical filter searches for those satellites pairs for which the larger perigee (between the two objects) is larger than the smaller apogee, according to a threshold quantity. For those pairs which pass the filter, it is checked whether the two objects cross a region of relative closeness at the same time and, for each pair satisfying such a condition, the Minimum Orbital Intersection Distance (MOID) between their orbits is computed. Both the relative distance check and the MOID computation are performed, either through an unperturbed or a perturbed model (depending on the user request). If the computed MOID satisfies a threshold quantity, the pair is returned as a possible conjunction, and it is analysed in detail. The objects involved in a possible conjunction are propagated across a time interval defined by the user, and the relative distance is computed on a time grid. The epoch related to the minimum relative distance is taken as first guess of an optimization process aimed at computing the Time of Closest Approach (TCA), according to the assumption that at TCA the relative distance and the relative velocity are orthogonal. The algorithm can also manage cases in which multiple TCAs are identified in the analysis time window. At this point, both primary and secondary objects are propagated to the resulting TCA, together with their covariances. In this phase, if no covariance is associated to any involved catalogued object, the algorithm exploits a tailored routine to estimate it from its orbit characteristics. Based on these quantities, both the Miss Distance (MD) and the Probability of Collision (PoC) are computed for each TCA. In particular, the PoC is computed according to the short-term encounter model, that is assuming a high relative velocity between the two satellites, either through a numerical or an analytical method (in the latter case two different algorithms can be called). Furthermore, it is up to the user to select either the nominal or the maximum PoC, the latter being computed on a set of candidates retrieved by increasing and decreasing the involved objects covariance. All these quantities are later written in a Conjunction Data Message (CDM), according to the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) formats. For those conjunctions characterized by either a MD or a PoC which overcomes alert levels, the algorithm allows the user to plan an impulsive Collision Avoidance Maneuver (CAM), given the MD and PoC thresholds to satisfy afterwards, together with a maneuvering epoch list the CAM may be planned at. If a tangential maneuver is requested, a numerical procedure computes the impulse magnitude needed to satisfy the required thresholds. Otherwise, an optimal out-of-plane CAM is computed through an analytical unperturbed approach which aims either at matching the target PoC or the target MD. The process is repeated for all the listed maneuvering epochs. The results are then verified through a perturbed propagation, and MD and PoC after the maneuver are recomputed both at the original TCA and at the one occurring after having performed the CAM. Finally, it will be up to the user to select the most suitable maneuver. The work presents the suite, and describes the validation process through both real and synthetic data.

Presents the inauguration of the Inter-American Biennial? II video art? Exhibited at the Italian-Latin American Institute (IILA) in Rome, Italy, in June 2005, and the International Film Festival of Santa Fe de Bogota in October 2005. During the exhibition in Washington, D. C., distributed a color catalog with the list of the selected films. For display in Rome and Latin America also printed in Spanish and Italian a color catalog with other materials.