The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, has named the laureates of the 2008 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education. They were selected on the recommendation of an international jury whose meeting this year was held in Bahrain for the first time.

China’s Shanghai TV University is rewarded for its project Turning the Digital Divide into Digital Opportunity: The Project for Building the Digital Lifelong Learning System in Shanghai. The project reaches 230 community learning centres in the Shanghai area and addresses the needs for digital literacy of students, lifelong learners, working adults, senior residents and members of the general public from diversified backgrounds. 

La microcolposcopia è una indagine che consente di osservare in vivo le cellule degli strati più superficiali dell’epitelio della cervice uterina .
Un primo tentativo di studiare le cellule in vivo è stato effettuato da Antoine e Grumberger con la messa a punto del microcolposcopio. Nel 1952 Walz progettava  un colpomicroscopio compatto, monoculare con ingrandimenti variabili da 17x a 250x, ma le dimensioni dell’apparecchiatura, del diametro di 23 mm, rendevano lo strumento particolarmente ingombrante e non adatto allo scopo, per cui la tecnica è stata ben presto abbandonata.

The Videocolposcopy of cervical canal

Corresponding Authors: Sergio Izzo *, MD,  Salvatore Negrotti**, MD.
* Department of Obstetric and Gynecology, A.O.R.N. ed Alta Specialità Sant’Anna e San Sebastiano  - Caserta
* AFaR , Associazione FateBeneFratelli per la Ricerca
**Department of Obstetric and Gynecology, Belcolle Hospital, Viterbo , Italy

Sommario:
La videocolposcopia dell’endocollo (VCSE) è una tecnica diagnostica, derivata dall’endocervicoscopia (ECS) che consente di studiare il canale cervicale per tutta la sua lunghezza, allo scopo di rilevare lesioni displasiche. e neoplastiche, eventualmente localizzate a tale livello.
Già nel corso di un normale esame isteroscopico è possibile, in uscita, esaminare l’endocervice; la VCSE si avvale egualmente dell’isteroscopio come strumento diagnostico ma la sua tecnica di esecuzione è ben diversa perché  richiede l’applicazione di acido acetico come colorante vitale della mucosa del canale cervicale; quindi, per certi aspetti, è sovrapponibile alla colposcopia, da  cui mutua le basi scientifiche e  il linguaggio descrittivo; è  per tali motivi che  noi la definiamo  come videocolposcopia dell’endocollo.

Winners in the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA), conducted under the patronage of UNESCO, were announced at a special ceremony held on 11 November on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The UNESCO Award for outstanding contribution to the promotion of cultural diversity went to the Iranian documentary feature film Tinar.
More than 700 film industry luminaries from the Asia-Pacific region, Europe and the United States attended the second annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards. The Awards were determined by an International Jury headed by Academy Award nominated Australian Director Bruce Beresford. 

Geneva - Outbreaks of food contamination occur regularly across the world, and illness and death from diseases caused by unsafe food are a constant threat to populations everywhere. However, the full picture of the impact and costs of foodborne diseases - in industrialized as well as developing countries - is to date unknown. Many foodborne disease outbreaks go unrecognized, unreported or uninvestigated and may only be visible if connected to major public health or economic impact.

GOMA/GENEVA -- The World Health Organization (WHO) and health partners have launched an intensive operation to prevent and control the increase in the number of cholera cases, which have tripled in some areas to 150 a week, amid the recent escalation of violence in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Insecurity, massive population displacement (at least 250 000 people since early August), weak health services and a lack of safe water and proper sanitation facilities have caused a marked increase in the number of people with cholera in North and South Kivu.

13 November 2008 - GOMA/GENEVA -- The World Health Organization (WHO) and health partners have launched an intensive operation to prevent and control the increase in the number of cholera cases, which have tripled in some areas to 150 a week, amid the recent escalation of violence in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Insecurity, massive population displacement (at least 250 000 people since early August), weak health services and a lack of safe water and proper sanitation facilities have caused a marked increase in the number of people with cholera in North and South Kivu.

31 October, 2008 ¦ GOMA/GENEVA -- The World Health Organization and Italy will be sending 10 tonnes of medical supplies to help the tens of thousands of people affected by the ongoing insecurity in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Intensive efforts are needed to prevent the spread of communicable diseases among the fleeing population and to treat the physical trauma caused by the violence. 
The World Health Organization is coordinating the health response to the emergency, and today convened an urgent meeting of partners including UN agencies, international and national nongovernmental organization and government health providers. The meeting was held to identify the urgent health needs confronting those in the affected areas. 

Conferenza sul tema:
LA CRISI DELLE TEORIE ECONOMICHE E IL POSSIBILE
CONTRIBUTO DELLA FISICA DEI SISTEMI COMPLESSI

Mauro Gallegati* e Luciano Pietronero**
*Dipartimento di Economia, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona
**Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma La Sapienza e Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, CNR  Roma

Mercoledi 29 alle 15:00 nell'aula Amaldi del Dipartimento di Fisica di Roma la Sapienza (P.le A. Moro)
La conferenza sarà seguita da un dibattito.

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