Influence of attenuation models in seismic hazard evaluation for the north-eastern Sicily area

From the influence already revealed by attenuation models on the values of expected intensity for north-Eastern Sicity, the necessity arises to quantify the 'weigt' of these models and of their respective coefficients on the projection of intensity. A first evaluation is presented in this paper using the Sponheuer, Blake and Grandori models. A comparison of the expected intensity maps allows a first critical estimate, showing the greater adaptability of the Grandori model to describe the attenuation of intensity for the investigated area (AU)

[Therapy of urinary tract infections. Clinical experience comparing norfloxacin to other quinolones]. / Terapia delle infezioni del tratto urinario. Esperienza clinica di confronto tra la norfloxacina ed altri chinolonici.

The paper examines to treatment of 40 cases of urinary infections and compares the efficacy of pipemidic acid, norfloxacin, cinoxacin and ofloxacin. All these compounds demonstrated a good level of therapeutic efficacy, both in terms of management and effectiveness; in particular, norfloxacin and ofloxacin were preferable to the other compounds since they caused fewer side-effects.