Silvia Rossi

Searching For s-Process-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars (2009)

Cruz, Monique, Rossi, Silvia, Beers, Timothy C.

We present preliminary results for estimation of barium ([Ba/Fe]) and strontium ([Sr/Fe]) abundances ratios using medium-resolution spectra (1-2 {\AA}). We established a calibration between the...

Defining the cell surface proteoglycan metastatic signature of cancer cells: role of Glypican-5 in the control of cell motility (2009)

Rossi, Silvia

Surveying literature data, what emerges is that cellular function and phenotype are highly influenced by cell surface proteoglycans (PGs), present at the cell-tissue-organ interface where they are...

L'abitato arginato di Castion di Erbè (Vr) alla luce dei risultati dello studio cronotipologico della ceramica vascolare e considerazioni sulla prima età del ferro nel territorio veronese. (2009)

Rossi, Silvia

Title: The early Iron Age site of Castion di Erbè (Verona): Cultural and historical dynamics emerging from the study of typology and chronology of the pottery. This is the first complete study of...

Homocysteine measurement by an enzymatic method and potential role of homocysteine as a biomarker in dogs (2008)

ROSSI, GABRIELE, GIORDANO, ALESSIA, PALTRINIERI, SAVERIO, ROSSI, SILVIA

Homocysteine measurement by an enzymatic method and potential role of homocysteine as a biomarker in dogs / S. Rossi, G. Rossi, A. Giordano, S. Paltrinieri. - In: Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic...

Personal Experience with Cultural Heritage Intra-Role Coordination Using Channeled Multicast (2007)

Scientifica E Tecnologica, Busetta P, Merzi M, Rossi S, Legras F, ...

This report has been submittedforted 17881 outside of ITC and will probably be copyrighted if accepted for publication. It has been issued as a Technical Reportfort 17 dissemination of its contents....

The endocannabinoid system is dysregulated in multiple sclerosis and in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (2007)

Centonze, Diego, Bari, Monica, Rossi, Silvia, Prosperetti, Chiara, Furlan, Roberto, Fezza, Filomena, ...

The ability of cannabinoids to modulate both inflammatory and degenerative neuronal damage prompted investigations on the potential benefits of such compounds in multiple sclerosis (MS) and in animal...

Broadband UBVRCIC photometry of horizontal-branch and metal-poor candidates from the HK and Hamburg/ESO surveys. I (2007)

Beers, Timothy C., Flynn, Chris, Rossi, Silvia, Sommer-Larsen, Jesper, Wilhelm, Ronald, Marsteller, Brian, ...

We report broadband UBV and/or BVRCIC CCD photometry for a total of 1857 stars in the thick-disk and halo populations of the Galaxy. The majority of our targets were selected as candidate field...

Web contents and structural adaptivity by knowledge tree: The Herculaneum Excavation Hypermedia (2007)

Silvia Rossi, Vincenzo Scognamiglio, Ernesto Burattini

The aim of this work is the design and the implementation of a prototype for supporting a user through the navigation in a web-site. We exploit the potentiality of having a representation of an...

Bright metal-poor stars from the Hamburg/ESO survey. I. Selection and follow-up observations from 329 fields (2006)

Frebel, Anna, Christlieb, Norbert, Norris, John E., Beers, Timothy C., Bessell, Michael S., Rhee, Jaehon, ...

We present a sample of 1777 bright (9 < B < 14) metal-poor candidates selected from the Hamburg/ESO Survey (HES). Despite saturation effects present in the red portion of the HES objective-prism...

Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars. I. A SOAR/OSIRIS Pilot Study (2006)

Beers, Timothy C., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Marstellar, Brian, Lee, YoungSun, Rossi, Silvia, Plez, Bertrand

We report on an abundance analysis for a pilot study of seven Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor (CEMP) stars, based on medium-resolution optical and near-infrared spectroscopy. The optical spectra are used...

A Catalog of Candidate Field Horizontal-Branch and A-Type Stars. III. A 2MASS-Cleaned Version (2006)

Beers, Timothy C., Almeida, Tiago, Rossi, Silvia, Wilhelm, Ronald, Marsteller, Brian

We present coordinates and available photometric information (either from previous or recent broadband UBV observations, and near-infrared photometry from the 2MASS Point Source Catalog) for 12056...

Broadband UBVRI Photometry of Horizontal-Branch and Metal-Poor Candidates from the HK and Hamburg/ESO Surveys. I (2006)

Beers, Timothy C., Flynn, Chris, Rossi, Silvia, Sommer-Larsen, Jesper, Wilhelm, Ronald, Marsteller, Brian, ...

We report broadband UBV and/or BVRI CCD photometry for a total of 1857 stars in the thick-disk and halo populations of the Galaxy. The majority of our targets were selected as candidate field...

The Frequency of Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars in the Galaxy from the HERES sample (2006)

Lucatello, Sara, Beers, Timothy, Christlieb, Norbert, Barklem, Paul, Rossi, Silvia, Marsteller, Brian, ...

We estimate the frequency of Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor (CEMP) stars among very metal-poor stars, based on an analysis of 349 stars with available high-resolution spectra observed as part of the...

Interactions (2006)

Oliviero Stock, Itc-irst Trento, Paolo Busetta, Itc-irst Trento, Silvia Rossi

Artificial agents, as well as humans, not only interact with individual peers but often need to communicate with groups. Indeed, group communication is frequently required in agent conversation...

The Metallicity Distribution Function of the Halo of the Milky Way (2005)

Beers, Timothy C., Christlieb, Norbert, Norris, John E., Bessell, Michael S., Wilhelm, Ronald, Prieto, Carlos Allende, ...

We report on the distribution of metallicities, [Fe/H], for very metal-poor stars in the halo of the Galaxy. Although the primary information on the nature of the Metallicity Distribution Function...

Estimation of Carbon Abundances in Metal-Poor Stars. I. Application to the "Strong G-band" stars of Beers, Preston, & Shectman (2005)

Rossi, Silvia, Beers, Timothy C., Sneden, Chris, Sevastyanenko, Tatiana, Rhee, Jaehyon, Marsteller, Brian

We develop and test a method for the estimation of metallicities ([Fe/H]) and carbon abundance ratios ([C/Fe]) for carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars, based on application of artificial neural...

Distributive and collective readings in group protocols (2005)

Silvia Rossi, Sanjeev Kumar, Philip R. Cohen

Collaborative applications require protocols that specify how distributed entities interact with one another in order to achieve a specified behavior. Many different kinds of relationships can be...

With a little help from a friend: Applying overhearing to teamwork (2005)

Silvia Rossi, Paolo Busetta

Software agents must have some degree of autonomy in order to be able to adjust to changing and sometimes unpredictable situations due to communication problems. Introducing so-called overhearers for...

Service Delivery in Smart Environments by Implicit Organizations (2004)

Paolo Busetta, Tsvi Kuflik, Mattia Merzi, Silvia Rossi

We present a novel technique to combine services, provided by mobile as well as fixed devices, on-the-fly and in a context-sensitive way within smart environments containing groups of people. The key...

Towards monitoring of group interactions and social roles via overhearing (2004)

Silvia Rossi, Paolo Busetta

Abstract. We are investigating how to provide intelligent, pervasive support of group of people within so-called “smart environments”. Our current main assumption, based on literature in...

Therapeutic doses of L-dopa reverse hypersensitivity of corticostriatal D2-dopamine receptors and glutamatergic overactivity in experimental parkinsonism (2004)

Picconi, Barbara, Centonze, Diego, Rossi, Silvia, Bernardi, Giorgio, Calabresi, Paolo

Levodopa (L-dopa) therapy is still considered the gold-standard in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. However, the synaptic and cellular mechanisms involved in the amelioration of motor symptoms...

Therapeutic doses of L-dopa reverse hypersensitivity of corticostriatal D2-dopamine receptors and glutamatergic overactivity in experimental parkinsonism (2004)

Picconi, Barbara, Centonze, Diego, Rossi, Silvia, Bernardi, Giorgio, Calabresi, Paolo

Levodopa (l‐dopa) therapy is still considered the gold‐standard in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. However, the synaptic and cellular mechanisms involved in the amelioration of...

Therapeutic doses of L-dopa reverse hypersensitivity of corticostriatal D2-dopamine receptors and glutamatergic overactivity in experimental parkinsonism (2004)

Picconi, Barbara, Centonze, Diego, Rossi, Silvia, Bernardi, Giorgio, Calabresi, Paolo

Levodopa (L-dopa) therapy is still considered the gold-standard in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. However, the synaptic and cellular mechanisms involved in the amelioration of motor symptoms...

Group Communication for Realtime Role Coordination and Ambient Intelligence (2003)

Paolo Busetta, Mattia Merzi, Silvia Rossi, Massimo Zancanaro

Abstract. We propose a form of group communication, called channeled multicast, for active rooms and other scenarios featuring strict real-time requirements, inherently unreliable communication, and...

Intra-Role Coordination Using Group Communication: A Preliminary Report (2003)

Paolo Busetta, Mattia Merzi, Silvia Rossi, Francois Legras

We propose group communication for agent coordination within “active rooms” and other pervasive computing scenarios featuring strict real-time requirements, inherently unreliable communication,...

Real-time Role Coordination For Ambient Intelligence (2003)

Paolo Busetta, Mattia Merzi, Silvia Rossi, F. Legras

We propose group communication for agent coordination within “active rooms” and other pervasive computing scenarios featuring strict real-time requirements, inherently unreliable communication,...

Intra-Role Coordination Using Group Communication: A Preliminary Report (2003)

Paolo Busetta, Mattia Merzi, Silvia Rossi, Francois Legras

We propose group communication for agent coordination within “active rooms ” and other pervasive computing scenarios featuring strict real-time requirements, inherently unreliable communication,...

Intra-Role Coordination Using Group Communication: A Preliminary Report (2003)

Paolo Busetta, Mattia Merzi, Silvia Rossi, Francois Legras

We propose group communication for agent coordination within "active rooms" and other pervasive computing scenarios featuring strict real-time requirements, inherently unreliable...

Real-time Role Coordination For Ambient Intelligence (2003)

Paolo Busetta, Mattia Merzi, Silvia Rossi, Francois Legras

We propose group communication for agent coordination within “active rooms ” and other pervasive computing scenarios featuring strict real-time requirements, inherently unreliable communication,...

A stellar relic from the early Milky Way (2002)

Christlieb, Norbert, Bessell, Michael S., Beers, Timothy C., Gustafsson, Bengt, Korn, Andreas, Barklem, Paul S., ...

The chemical composition of the most metal-deficient stars reflects the composition of the gas from which they formed. These old stars provide crucial clues to the star formation history and the...

Metal Abundances and Kinematics of Bright Metal-Poor Giants Selected from the LSE Survey: Implications for the Metal-Weak Thick Disk (2002)

Beers, Timothy C., Drilling, John S., Rossi, Silvia, Chiba, Masashi, Rhee, Jaehyon, Fuhrmeister, Birgit, ...

We report medium-resolution (1-2 A) spectroscopy and broadband (UBV) photometry for a sample of 39 bright stars (the majority of which are likely to be giants) selected as metal-deficient candidates...

Characterization of yeast pyruvate kinase 1 as a protein kinase A substrate, and specificity of the phosphorylation site sequence in the whole protein

Portela, Paula, Moreno, Silvia, Rossi, Silvia

Pyk1 (pyruvate kinase 1) from Saccharomyces cerevisiae was characterized as a substrate for PKA (protein kinase A) from bovine heart and yeast. By designing Pyk1 synthetic peptides containing...

Characterization of yeast pyruvate kinase 1 as a protein kinase A substrate, and specificity of the phosphorylation site sequence in the whole protein

Portela, Paula, Moreno, Silvia, Rossi, Silvia

Pyk1 (pyruvate kinase 1) from Saccharomyces cerevisiae was characterized as a substrate for PKA (protein kinase A) from bovine heart and yeast. By designing Pyk1 synthetic peptides containing...