We conclude that long-term GHRT induces a significant decrease of the increased insulin sensitivity in GHD patients to levels observed in body mass index-matched control subjects. This is accompanied by an increase in basal and total insulin secretion as well as in glucose effectiveness as a possible compensatory mechanism.

Microvascular angina per se is not associated with hyperinsulinaemia or insulin resistance when other confounding factors are excluded in patient selection.

In the proposed paper we deal with the problem of the numerical evaluation of the coupling among the electromagnetic fields eenerated by two aperture antennas. h e used theoretical method has been based on the plane wave scattering theory, leading to a very efficient formula for the evalutation of the electromagnetic coupling coefficient.Numerical computed examples are shown for the particular cases of the electromagnetic coupling between two (rectangular/circular) aperture radiators.

In this paper a vision system for the control quality in a factory of corrugated cardboard is described. The problem under study is the automatic detection and monitoring of the sheets of cardboard constituting a unit of sale. A precise measurement of the number of sheets is a difficult task, since, during the process, some sheets must be discarded, because of their inferior quality, or because they have been damaged during the transport. Usually, the number of the sheets is estimated from the ratio between the weight of the unit and the nominal weight of a single sheet. Since the weight of a sheet is uncertain, an estimation based on the weight ratio is poor and its reliability is very low. A different solution is proposed in this paper: it estimates the number of the sheets via a suitable vision system. It offers a very high precision (the middle error is smaller of 2%) and it has the advantages to avoid invasive interactions with the process of production and to be a low cost solution.