University of Pisa (UniPi)

The University of Pisa (Italian: Università di Pisa, UniPi) is an Italian public research university located in Pisa, Italy

Using artificial intelligence techniques to assess a child’s development and ongoing therapy

A simple video recording of an infant lying in bed can be analyzed with artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to extract quantitative information useful for assessing the child’s development as well as the efficacy of ongoing therapy. Subtle characteristics in the spontaneous movement of very young babies may reveal clinically important aspects of their neurodevelopment. Visual

Using artificial intelligence techniques to assess a child’s development and ongoing therapy

Tactile feedback adds ‘muscle sense’ to prosthetic hand

US, Italian researchers test ‘proprioceptive’ feedback with skin-stretch device Engineers working to add “muscle sense” to prosthetic limbs found that tactile feedback on the skin allowed blindfolded test subjects to more than double their ability to discern the size of objects grasped with a prosthetic hand. The results will be presented next month in Germany

Tactile feedback adds ‘muscle sense’ to prosthetic hand

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First woman head of research council tapped
on April 12, 2021 at 5:23 am
She was appointed by Education, University ... in her native Pisa. In 2017 she was named one of the top 25 women in the global robotics field. She has scientific and coordination responsibilities ...
Lions engage in contagious yawning, mimic behaviour to harmonise group movements
on April 10, 2021 at 9:38 pm
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AI Weekly: Continual learning offers a path toward more humanlike AI
on April 9, 2021 at 9:30 pm
ContinualAI recently announced Avalanche, a library of tools compiled over the course of a year from over 40 contributors to make continual learning research ... at the University of Pisa ...
The European Hexa-X project for the development of 6G technology starts
on April 8, 2021 at 9:00 pm
The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) is participating in the development of the European Hexa-X project, through the Network Technologies research group ... as the Aalto University of Finland, ...
Adult Separation Anxiety Raises Suicidality Risk
on April 8, 2021 at 4:40 pm
Separation anxiety has received little attention as a potential risk factor for suicidality. This study found substantially increased risk in people with mood and anxiety disorders.

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Five projects at the University of Pisa funded through the PRIMA programme for a total of €1.5M - Science Business
June 12, 2020
University of Pisa partners in cancer imaging biobank project - Science Business
September 13, 2018
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September 7, 2017
Anti‐inflammatory and antiviral roles of hydrogen sulfide: Rationale for considering H2S donors in COVID‐19 therapy - Citi - 2020 - British Journal of Pharmacology - Wiley Online Library - Wiley
August 11, 2020
Age‐related differences in the immune response could contribute to determine the spectrum of severity of COVID‐19 - Wiley
February 10, 2021

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Yawning helps lions synchronize their groups’ movements
on April 6, 2021 at 2:00 pm
A lion yawn is contagious, and when lions start yawning together, they start moving together. Synchronization may be key for group hunters like lions.
Gianluigi Colalucci, Vatican restorer whose work on the Sistine Chapel proved controversial – obituary
on April 6, 2021 at 10:01 am
Further evidence came in the discovery of a small chip of bright ... led by Professor James Beck of Columbia University in New York, began to express disquiet – even outrage.
The Discourses on Livy and the Origins of Political Conflictualism
on April 2, 2021 at 2:19 am
A short review cannot begin to do justice to the author's astonishing command of two millennia of primary sources and a vast array of modern scholarship or to the new light these essays shed on both ...
Horses can recognise their reflection in mirror and want to preen themselves, study finds
on March 28, 2021 at 3:27 am
The discovery means horses could be among the ... Dr Paolo Baragli from the University of Pisa in Italy said: 'Here, we report the first evidence of mirror self-recognition at the group level ...
Galileo Galilei
on August 17, 2020 at 2:49 am
This brilliance got him the chair of mathematics at the University of Pisa, where he immediately ... especially his support of the Copernican discovery that the earth revolved around the sun ...