About The Patan Syndrome

Biodiversity ': do the math!

From 18 to 29 October 2010 in Nagoya (Japan) is the United Nations Conference on Biological Diversity.

The representatives of 192 states party to the Convention on Biological Diversity are grappling to find a common agreement on 20 goals due to three fundamental objectives. The aim is to achieve over the next decade, a slowdown if not a real block of the continued decline of biodiversity on earth. These objectives possono essere riassunti in questo modo.

1. Definire un piano d’azione per i prossimi 10 anni (la prossima conferenza sul tema ci sarà nel 2020).

2. Stabilire le fonti e l’entità dei finanziamenti.

3. Concretizzare un protocollo per un’equa spartizione delle risorse naturali.

Ryu Matsumoto, ministro dell’Ambiente giapponese, ha ricordato che gli obbiettivi proposti dalla Conferenza nel 2002 per il 2010 non sono stati raggiunti e che il tasso di estinzione delle specie oggi sta avvenendo 1000 volte più velocemente del tasso naturale.

Poiché le difficoltà negli accordi sono legate principalmente ad interessi di tipo economico, a Nagoya will be offered a new mechanism for compensation of damage to biodiversity. This initiative is Bbop, Business and Biodiversity Offsets Program, and is based on a system where private companies will have to "compensate" the loss of biodiversity in an area through the development of investments in the protection of biological diversity in other areas. This principle of compensation for damage to biodiversity will be incorporated in the criteria for lending institutions as the International Finance Corp, an organization of the World Bank involving the financial world as well.
The monetary value of nature is underlined by a report: 'The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity' (Teeb) ; questo è il nome del rapporto presentato alla conferenza ONU in cui vengono riportati alcuni esempi di come la natura sia alla base delle attività umane. Per fare un esempio in Australia sono stati piantati 400.000 alberi per normalizzare il microclima, far calare l’inquinamento e migliorare la qualità dell’aria a livello urbano, abbattendo i costi energetici derivanti dal condizionamento dell’aria dell’incremento di CO2. I benefici prodotti ammonterebbero a una cifra tra i 20 ed i 67 milioni di dollari per il periodo
2008-2012.
Anche le barriere coralline sono state monetizzate e sebbene coprano solo l’1.2% delle aree marine porterebbero all’uomo un valore stimato tra 30 ed i 172 miliardi di dollari infatti circa 30 milioni di persone nelle comunità costiere ed insulari dipendono dalle risorse che provengono dalle barriere coralline Altro esempio di organismi di “valore” è rappresentato dagli insetti impollinatori il cui lavoro nelle coltivazioni di tutto il mondo varrebbe fino a 214 miliardi di dollari.

Il responsabile dello studio TEEB, Pavan Sukhdev, ha affermato: “Sebbene gli ecosistemi e la biodiversità abbiano un enorme valore economico per la società, questo non è percepito e tale mancanza di visibilità economica è una delle cause principali della loro allarmante perdita. La dotazione di risorse naturali, o patrimonio naturale, è altrettanto importante resource man-made, that the material heritage. Recognize and remunerate the value of the benefits that society derives from natural capital has become a political priority "

. A new point of view that if one part may cause some concern has certainly an essential foundation of truthfulness and looks to problem from a different angle. Basically the idea is to shift the focus of political and economic and financial world over what now seems to move everything ... common sense? not your wallet!

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National Day of People with Down syndrome

Sunday, October 10, will be the National Day of people with Down syndrome, organized by CoorDown - National Coordination Associations of persons with Down syndrome non-profit organization under the patronage of the President of the Republic.


There will be more than 200 points of contact on the squares and shopping centers scattered throughout Italy, where dozens of volunteers will distribute information materials on Down syndrome and offer a board / message chocolate (made with cocoa from the Fair Trade ) in exchange for a contribution to help the projects of the 80 associations that refer to CoorDown.

The goal this year is focused on the inclusive education of children with Down syndrome, In fact, the 'advertising information, which sees the exception as a sponsor of Veronica Pivetti reads this message:

when school is barrier-free

when the school helps to grow

when the school has the skills and supports necessary for

children with Down syndrome

then yes the school is complete!

this nation-intensive public awareness in order to produce a new culture that goes beyond platitudes that even approach people with Down syndrome. Today, in fact many people with Down syndrome included actively in society: people who work, guide, study, drive and live independently. Currently in Italy in 1000 a child born with this condition.

Down syndrome is a genetic condition such that whoever is the bearer has an extra chromosome in the cell nucleus of these people instead of the normal 46 chromosomes are present 47, a chromosome that is, there is no 21 more. This is why Down syndrome is also called Trisomy 21. In 98% of cases of Down syndrome is not hereditary. There are three types of chromosome abnormalities in Down's syndrome but who have the same effect:

1. the complete trisomy 21 (95% of cases) in all body cells are three 21 chromosomes instead of two.

2. Trisomy 21 mosaicism in the free (2% of cases) in the body of the person with the syndrome are present in both normal cells with 46 chromosomes and cells with 47 chromosomes.

3. trisomy 21 by translocation (3% of cases) only one type of trisomy, which can be hereditary.

Maternal Age Effect

less than 30 years 1 in 500

30 to 34 years 1 of 580

35 to 39 years 1 to 280

40 to 44 1 to 70 years

over 45 years 1 in 38

The consequence of this chromosome is a disability characterized by a variable degree of delay in mental development, physical and motor.

have not been identified to clarify the exact causes of occurrence of Down syndrome are still unknown, but several studies have however shown that the risk increases with maternal age:

Even if the risk rises with maternal age, this does not eliminate the possibility that children born with Down syndrome also young women, but an older woman is more likely. The other risk factor showed you have had a previous child with Down syndrome. Down syndrome can be diagnosed even before birth around the 16th - 18th week of gestation or amniocentesis between the 12th and the 13th week with the CVS. Some useful information can also come from the Tri-test is a maternal blood test performed between the 15th and 20th week of gestation for the determination of three particular substances.
Down syndrome is named after the British physician John Langdon Down (Torpoint, November 18, 1828 - Normansfield, Hampton Wick, England, October 7, 1896) Down, at the age of 18 he went to London to study Medicine, obtained the degree of its efforts are directed to classify the disease The results were based on measurements of the diameter of the head and palate patients with noche other comments supported the use of photographs. He was a pioneer of clinical photographs in the history of medicine. He founded a nursing home in Normansfield that today is known worldwide and only recently the importance of this very kind doctor has been recognized worldwide.
In 1961 a group of geneticists wrote to the Lancet proposing four terms to describe the disease and the publisher chose the name "Down syndrome". WHO more later approved it.