CALCAGNO P.

Introduction. With the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the terms quarantine, contagion and infection have again become part of our everyday speech, prompting historians to reflect on the settings in which they were originally used and to make comparisons with the present time. How did people cope with epidemics in the past? What measures were taken?...

Pedestrian flow management and control inside stations are becoming key topics in order to avoid congestion phenomena and to guarantee the required social distancing during the pandemic emergency. In this context, this paper is aimed at developing simulation-based optimization and control strategies able to take into account space...

As a result of law 180/78, a community-based model of mental health care was developed and the first nonhospital residential facilities were implemented, following specific principles that had been formulated for therapeutic communities in Italy. Taking into account the new national guidelines in this field, the purpose of this article is to...

Major depression shortens life while the effectiveness of frontline treatments remains modest. Exercise has been shown to be effective both in reducing mortality and in treating symptoms of major depression, but it is still underutilized in clinical practice, possibly due to prevalent misperceptions. For instance, a common misperception is that...