The demand for freshwater resources is expected to increase dramatically, thus protecting diminishing water resources has become one of the most pressing environmental issues and will likely become more complicated as climate change, species invasions, and pollution further degrade water quality

The course presents biological and psychological aspects of anorexia nervosa (AN) in adolescence and an overview of treatment options, based on a comprehensive evaluation of the patient and the family. AN is an increasingly frequent disorder in adolescence. The perception of body weight and shape

The summer school has been created as a three-year project and the first edition was hosted by the University of East Sarajevo (15-21 September 2014). The second year of the Summer School is being organized by the University of Milano-Bicocca in 2015 (Minorities in Democracy), and the third will be

Prediction models play an important role in medicine to guide treatment decisions and to inform patients on their prognosis. The vast majority of prediction models developed in the medical literature have been designed to predict (disease-free) survival from diagnosis or start of treatment. But in

The Summer School links three elements qualifying EXPO 2015 - our land and the development of the related resources: in primis our food, sustainable approach as a global value, and ICT, as a condition of global development, for its ability to go through space and time, and to improve reputation and

After a broad overview of green energy development in the world and in Europe, energy production from renewables, environmental markets (CO2- EUAs certificates), water demand management and forestry management will be introduced. Leading scientists from Europe and industrial and institutional

The crustose coralline algae (CCA) are one of the most widespread group of marine benthic habitat engineers. CCA bio-concretions are hotspots of biodiversity and providers of several goods and services to society, i.e. as highly productive fishing sites. Since CCA are completely calcified, they are

Feeding people involves different forms of collaboration among multiple actors and stakeholders. These play different roles in the supply chain and the related processes across organizations and communities that collect raw materials, transform them and then distribute food products to the end

The summer school is at its third edition and involves students from Italian universities (Milano Bicocca and Calabria), from the Loyola University of Chicago (US) and the Huazhong Agriculture University di Wuhan (China). The school will discuss problems arising from a rapidly ageing population and