The Dolomites and Digital Innovation, Two Years After What has changed in the web presence of the mountain huts along the Alta Via 1 Dolomiti during the Covid-19 pandemic

Reasons to research on digital innovation in an apparently timeless environment like the Dolomites, a mountain range in the northern Italian Alps included in the UNESCO Heritage List since 2009, do abound. Mountain tourism in the Alps has dramatically increased during the Covid-19 pandemic, attracting visitors from locked-down cities, and placing overtourism risks here and there. The question has risen whether digital innovation, which helps providing overtourism management through communicat...

Sclerostin regulation, microarchitecture, and advanced glycation end-products in the bone of elderly women with type 2 diabetes

Increased circulating sclerostin and accumulation of advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) are two potential mechanisms underlying low bone turnover and increased fracture risk in type 2 diabetes (T2D). Whether the expression of the sclerostin-encoding SOST gene is altered in T2D, and whether it is associated with AGEs accumulation or regulation of other bone formation-related genes is unknown. We hypothesized that AGEs accumulate and SOST gene expression is upregulated in bones from subject...

Lung thermal ablation: Comparison between an augmented reality computed tomography (ct) 3d navigation system (sirio) and standard ct-guided technique

(1) Background: The aim of this retrospective study is to assess safety and efficacy of lung radiofrequency (RFA) and microwave ablation (MWA) using an augmented reality computed tomography (CT) navigation system (SIRIO) and to compare it with the standard CT-guided technique. (2) Methods: Lung RFA and MWA were performed with an augmented reality CT 3D navigation system (SIRIO) in 52 patients. A comparison was then performed with a group of 49 patients undergoing the standard CT-guided techni...

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