cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
EMORRAGIA SUBARACNOIDEA: VALUTAZIONE NEUROPSICOLOGICA E CON RM 3T IN FASE PRECOCE: RISULTATI PRELIMINARI
Creators: name: BERTANI, GIULIO ANDREA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014

description: TITLE: Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: cognitive evaluation and 3T MRI imaging in the acute phase; preliminary results AUTHOR: Giulio Andrea Bertani ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION: Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a cerebrovascular disease characterized by high mortality and severe complications, in particular hydrocephalus and vasospasm. Traditional imaging techniques and outcome assessment scales (GOS, MRS) are unable to clarify the complex pathophysiological mechanisms of the disease or to adequately evaluate the impact on cognitive functions. AIMS: To investigate patients in the acute phase after SAH by advanced neuroimaging techniques (MRI) and in-depth neuropsychological evaluations, in order to assess acute cognitive deficits and to connect them to the numerous clinical and radiological variables which affect the course of the disease. METHODS: In the setting of a larger ongoing observational study, we selected 23 adult patients suffering from aneurysmal SAH. Following aneurysm treatment (clipping or coiling), patients underwent 3T brain MRI with MRA within 48 hours and 7-10 days, using a dedicated protocol; in the same times patient underwent neuropsychological assessments for language, memory, executive functions, praxis, orientation and personal autonomy. Monitoring of arterial flow by means of Transcranial Doppler (TCD) was performed. RESULTS: the majority of patients had marked cognitive deficits in all areas examined after SAH, with only marginal improvements at time 2. Early MRI showed ischemic volumes of less than 2 ml in 17 cases, between 2 and 10 ml in 3 and greater than 10 ml in 1; at T2 6 new lesions were detected, 5 less than 2 ml and 1 between 2 and 10 ml. The neuropsychological assessments showed multiple relationships with clinical and radiological parameters, location and side of the aneurysm, hydrocephalus and vasospasm; the correlation with ischemic lesions showed contradictory results. CONCLUSIONS: This study documents the pronounced cognitive impairment following SAH, despite a modest load in terms of ischemic lesions detected by MRI. It confirms that some features of the disease, such as the location and lateralization of the aneurysm, and the type of treatment have a deep influence on cognitive performances in the short term. This research also puts the basis for future selection of a battery of tests specifically designed to detect early subtle neuropsychological abnormalities, which are often associated with severe complications of SAH.
title: MRI analysis of Mtss1-deficient mice identifies a new candidate gene in the development of hydrocephalus
Creators: name: Wieners, Barbara
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Animal (veterinary) studies
subject: MR
subject: Statistics
subject: Cerebrospinal fluid
subject: Congenital
subject: Dilatation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Congenital hydrocephalus, the accumulation of excess cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the ventricles of the brain, affects one in every 1000 children born today, making it one of the most common human developmental disorders. Hydrocephalus is classified...
Isolation and Phase-Space Energization Analysis of the Instabilities in Collisionless Shocks
Creators: name: Brown, Collin R.
name: Juno, James
name: Howes, Gregory G.
name: Haggerty, Colby C.
name: Constantinou, Sage
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the generation of kinetic instabilities and their effect on the energization of ions in non-relativistic, oblique collisionless shocks using a 3D-3V simulation by $\texttt{dHybridR}$, a hybrid particle-in-cell code. At sufficiently high Mach number, quasi-perpendicular and oblique shocks can experience rippling of the shock surface caused by kinetic instabilities arising from free energy in the ion velocity distribution due to the combination of the incoming ion beam and the population of ions reflected at the shock front. To understand the role of the ripple on particle energization, we devise the new instability isolation method to identify the unstable modes underlying the ripple and interpret the results in terms of the governing kinetic instability. We generate velocity-space signatures using the field-particle correlation technique to look at energy transfer in phase space from the isolated instability driving the shock ripple, providing a viewpoint on the different dynamics of distinct populations of ions in phase space. We generate velocity-space signatures of the energy transfer in phase space of the isolated instability driving the shock ripple using the field-particle correlation technique. Together, the field-particle correlation technique and our new instability isolation method provide a unique viewpoint on the different dynamics of distinct populations of ions in phase space and allow us to completely characterize the energetics of the collisionless shock under investigation.
description: 32 pages, 14 figures, accepted by the Journal of Plasma Physics
We Call for iCAALL: International Collaboration in Asthma, Allergy and Immunology
Creators: name: Lockey, Richard F.
name: Wesley Burks, A.
name: Wallace, Dana V.
name: Ltvall, Jan
name: Ledford, Dennis K.
name: Rosenwasser, Lanny J.
name: Papadopoulos, Nikolaos G.
name: Weber, Richard W.
name: Fineman, Stanley M.
name: Pawankar, Ruby
name: Casale, Thomas B.
name: Akdis, Cezmi A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

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Point source detection performance of Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope imaging observation
Creators: name: Huo, Zhuoxi
name: Li, Yiming
name: Li, Xiaobo
name: Zhou, Jianfeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) will perform an all-sky survey in hard X-ray band as well as deep imaging of a series of small sky regions. We expect various compact objects to be detected in these imaging observations. Point source detection performance of HXMT imaging observation depends not only on the instrument but also on its data analysis since images are reconstructed from HXMT observed data with numeric methods. Denoising technique plays an import part in HXMT imaging data analysis pipeline alongside with demodulation and source detection. In this paper we have implemented several methods for denoising HXMT data and evaluated the point source detection performances in terms of sensitivities and location accuracies. The results show that direct demodulation with 1-fold cross correlation should be the default reconstruction and regularization methods, although both sensitivity and location accuracy could be further imporved by selecting and tuning numerical methods in data analysis of HXMT imaging observations.
title: Noise performance assessment of the new ASiR-V: preliminary results
Creators: name: De Marco, Paolo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Radiation physics
subject: CT
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: Physics

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The number of CT examinations has increased over the past decades, and, correspondingly, the radiation exposure and related concerns about its adverse effects have also grown (1-3). Despite being no scientific evidence about the carcinogenic effect...
(100909) Joseph Lucas Clark
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Bone manifestations of Erdheim-Chester disease: expanding the imaging spectrum
Creators: name: Narváez, José Antonio
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Bones
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: CT
subject: PET-CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Biopsy
subject: Metabolic disorders

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: ABBREVIATIONS : Erdheim-Chester disease (ECD); Computerized tomography (CT); Positron emission tomography (PET); standard uptake value (SUV). AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Bone involvement is the most common manifestation of Erdheim-Chester disease...
A phase 1 study of heat/phenol-killed, E. coli -encapsulated, recombinant modified peanut proteins Ara h 1, Ara h 2, and Ara h 3 (EMP-123) for the treatment of peanut allergy
Creators: name: Sicherer, S. H.
name: Wood, R. A.
name: Grishin, A.
name: Lindblad, R.
name: Sampson, H. A.
name: Henning, A. K.
name: Stablein, D.
name: Burks, A. W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Immunotherapy for peanut allergy may be limited by the risk of adverse reactions.
A MICROSCOPIC PARTICLE-VIBRATION COUPLING APPROACH FOR ATOMIC NUCLEI. GIANT RESONANCE PROPERTIES ANDTHE RENORMALIZATION OF THE E FFECTIVE INTERACTION
Creators: name: BRENNA, MARCO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014

description: The atomic nucleus can be described, to a first approximation, as composed by independent particles, moving in an average potential created by all of them. Self-consistent mean-field (SCMF) methods are based on this basic idea, and they are known to produce overall successful results for ground state and excited state properties, such as masses, radii, deformations and giant resonance energies. In the first part of this work, we present our theoretical predictions on two different excitations: the pygmy dipole resonance and the isovector quadrupole resonance. The calculations are performed within a fully self-consistent framework, in which the Skyrme zero-range effective interaction is used. However, SCMF approaches present well-known limitations which require the inclusion of further correlations coming e.g. from the interweaving between single-particle and collective degrees of freedom (particle-vibration coupling ? PVC). In the second part of this work, we report on the application of a self-consistent model based on the PVC idea in the Skyrme framework to inclusive (namely, the strength function of giant resonances) and exclusive (the gamma-decay width of giant resonances) observables. The main limitation of our beyond mean-field model is the use of an effective interaction fitted at mean-field level to some selected experimental data. Therefore, when these interactions are used in beyond mean-field theories the parameters of the interactions need to be determined at the desired level of approximation. Moreover, due to the zero range character of the employed interaction, divergences arise. In the last and most innovative part of this thesis, we develop a possible way to cure the divergences, paving the way to the possibility of designing an effective interaction fitted at PVC level.
Vitamin E, γ-tocopherol, diminishes ex vivo basophil response to dust mite allergen
Creators: name: Wu, W.
name: Dreskin, S. C.
name: Robinette, C.
name: Kesic, M. J.
name: Lay, J.
name: Mills, K.
name: Hernandez, M.
name: Peden, D. B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Epidemiologic studies suggest that dietary vitamin E is a candidate intervention for atopic disease. We used in vitro and ex vivo exposures to test the hypothesis that the most common dietary isoform of vitamin E, γ-tocopherol (γT), could suppress FcεRI-mediated basophil activation.
title: A long time concealed bleeder
Creators: name: Kc, Bibek
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Interventional radiology
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Arterial access
subject: Embolisation
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: 84 years old gentleman presented with the complaint of easy fatiguability and shortness of breath on regular works. He has episodic black tarry stool which resolves spontaneously. On examinations, pallor was present with tachycardia. He was found to be normochromic and had haemoglobin of 5.8mg/dl. UGI endoscopy was within normal limits, no obvious source of bleeding could be identified in UGI endoscopy. He was sent to the radiology department for contrast-enhanced CT of abdomen with CT angiography of the abdomen.

description: 84 years, male
The First Data Release of the KODIAQ Survey
Creators: name: O'Meara, J. M.
name: Lehner, N.
name: Howk, J. C.
name: Prochaska, J. X.
name: Fox, A. J.
name: Swain, M. A.
name: Gelino, C. R.
name: Berriman, G. B.
name: Tran, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present and make publicly available the first data release (DR1) of the Keck Observatory Database of Ionized Absorption toward Quasars (KODIAQ) survey. The KODIAQ survey is aimed at studying galactic and circumgalactic gas in absorption at high-redshift, with a focus on highly-ionized gas traced by OVI, using the HIRES spectrograph on the Keck-I telescope. KODIAQ DR1 consists of a fully-reduced sample of 170 quasars at 0.29 < z_em < 5.29 observed with HIRES at high resolution (36,000 <= R <= 103,000) between 2004 and 2012. DR1 contains 247 spectra available in continuum normalized form, representing a sum total exposure time of ~1.6 megaseconds. These co-added spectra arise from a total of 567 individual exposures of quasars taken from the Keck Observatory Archive (KOA) in raw form and uniformly processed using a HIRES data reduction package made available through the XIDL distribution. DR1 is publicly available to the community, housed as a higher level science product at the KOA. We will provide future data releases that make further QSOs, including those with pre-2004 observations taken with the previous-generation HIRES detectors.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures, Submitted to AJ. All data products available at the Keck Observatory Archive beginning May 15, 2015. URL: https://koa.ipac.caltech.edu/applications/KODIAQ
title: Irradiation Behaviour of High Entropy Alloys
Creators: name: Fu, Honglun
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2022

description: Four high entropy alloys (HEA), CoCrCuFeNi, Co1.5CrFeNi1.5Ti0.5Mo0.1, both adopting an FCC structure, and TaNbHfZrTi, and AlCoCrFeNiSi, adopting a BCC structure, have been irradiated with He and 3 MeV Ni ions, as part of the process of understanding their application within fission based nuclear reactors. When irradiated nano-indentation analysis shows that the FCC and BCC respond differently. The FCC phases show a decrease in hardness with increasing ion fluence, for example at depth of 100nm CoCrCuFeNi shows a decrease from ~7.5 GPa to ~4.5 GPa. However, the BCC phases show an initial increase in hardness with ion fluence, for example at a depth of 100nm TaNbHfZrTi, shows an intial increase from ~9.5 GPa to ~ 10.2 GPa, with a subsequent drop to ~8.75 GPa. Transmission electron microscopy based analysis shows that ion beam induced damage is visible in the samples, with 3 MeV Ni inducing differing levels of visible damage. Analysis of He irradiated samples suggests that there might be beginnings of bubble formation, but the evidence is not clear cut.
title: Enhancing non-cancerous lesions on CESM
Creators: name: Tzimas, Christos
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Mammography
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Non-cancerous breast lesions are very common and are found in everyday routine breast examination.These lesions are not life-threatening. Fibroadenomas, adenomas, intraductal papillomas are the usual enhancing non-cancerous conditions we deal with...
LA POESIA POLITICO-ENCOMIASTICA ARAGONESE. MODELLI, GENERI, TEMI
Creators: name: ROZZONI, ALESSANDRA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014

description: The thesis aims to identify the salient and peculiar features of the Aragonese political poetry. First of all I have defined a corpus of texts that focuses on encomiastic themes and secondly I have provided an overview of the genres used, with particular attention to the most exploited narrative models (especially Petrarch?s Triumphs). Each chapter concetrates on a single author noting the elements of continuity and discontinuity with respect to the group of Aragonese poets. The Aragonese political poetry shows a strong link with the history: beyond the transfiguration and the hyperbolic exaltation, events and real characters are always easily recognizable and also the insistence on some symbols is always justified by a recall to a real fact. Aragonese Poetry has also a strong ethic nature, inheritance of political treatises of Maio and Pontanus. The political theme often assumes such an importance that determines the develop of the entire narrative and ideological work, replacing the erotic and penitential subjects. In various ways and in different forms Aragonese poets actively contribute to create a propaganda system made of symbols and allegories celebrating the ruling family and show a keen awareness of the political concepts they proposed in their works.
Bose-Einstein condensation of photons in microcavity plasmas
Creators: name: Figuiredo, J. L.
name: Terças, H.
name: Mendonça, J. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bose--Einstein condensation of a finite number of photons propagating inside a plasma-filled microcavity is investigated. The nonzero chemical potential is provided by the electrons, which induces a finite photon mass allowing condensation to occur. We derive an equation that models the evolution of the photon-mode occupancies, with Compton scattering taken into account as the mechanism of thermalization. The kinetic evolution of the photon spectrum is solved numerically, and we find evidences of condensation for realistic plasma densities, $n_e\sim 10^{14} - 10^{15}\; \text{cm}^{-3}$, compatible with microplasma technology. The critical temperature is almost linear in the number of photons, and we find high condensate fractions at microcavity-plasma temperatures, for experimentally reasonable cavity lengths ($ 100-500 \; μ$m) and photon numbers ($10^{10}-10^{12}$).
EXTRACTION, PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYPHENOLS FROM UVA DI TROIA AD ACINO PICCOLO SEEDS AND SKINS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS
Creators: name: CATALANO, DARIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: The aim of this Ph.D. project was to study the phenolic composition of Uva di Troia ad acino piccolo (Uva di Troia with small berry) seeds and skins in relation to the vinification process, in order to create a new nutritional supplement based on the benefits of the phenolics extracted. This grape biotype represents an autochthonous Vitis vinifera L. grape variety of Apulia region (South Italy) and is supposed to have significant levels of polyphenols and a great wine aging potential. Grape samples were collected at four different fermentation stages (from no fermentation to complete fermentation), called thesis. The extraction of seeds was performed with a multi-step extraction by maceration either with ethanol or acetone in water and the extracts obtained were characterized by Reversed Phase Liquid Chromatography coupled to Diode Array Detector (RPLC-DAD). Finally, extracts were successfully purified with Ethyl acetate. On the other hand, skins were subjected to a single step extraction with methanol and the extracts were analyzed by RPLC-UV; only Thesis 1 skin extract was also purified using a synthetic adsorbent resin. Data obtained show that the phenolic content of both grape seeds and skins decreases from the beginning of fermentation to the end of the process; these results are related to the extraction of the active compounds by the must during vinification. Moreover, Uva di Troia ad acino piccolo seeds represent a rich font of Flavan-3-ols and further studies will be conducted to produce new nutraceuticals based on this vegetable matrix. Particularly, Thesis 2 seeds represent the best fraction because the partial fermentation allows the concomitant production of wine and of the polyphenolic phytocomplex.
Factors Associated with Potential Medication-Herb/Natural Product Interactions in a Rural Community
Creators: name: Patel, Rajul
name: Callahan, Leigh
name: Gregory, Philip
name: Norton, Linda
name: Jordan, Joanne
name: Blalock, Susan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Use of both conventional medicines and herbs/natural products are increasing in the United States (US). Consequently, individuals are more likely to be exposed to potentially harmful interactions between these products.
(100906) Emily Clark
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
SYNTHESIS AND BIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF SOME UNSATURATED SIALIC ACID ANALOGUES AS POTENTIAL SIALIDASE INHIBITORS
Creators: name: AGNOLIN, IRENE SOFIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: This work represents a part of a larger research project directed to study the correlation between the different structures of unsaturated Neu5Ac derivatives and their inhibitory activity against viral, bacterial and mammalian sialidases. So, interested in finding the general features to define a potent and selective inhibitor of a particular kind of sialidase, we have set up many rapid, simple and efficient protocols to introduce new substituents into the DANA structure. In this thesis we accomplish: - the synthesis of new C-4? aminated DANA derivatives; - the first synthesis of N-perfluorinated C-4 epimers of DANA, clarifying also their mechanism formation and the key role of the oxazoline derivative; - the first Ritter-like reaction performed on Neu5Ac derivatives, to obtain new 4?-N-acetylated Neu5Ac2en derivatives; - The extension of the Ritter reaction leading to formulate a general nucleophilic substitution at C-4 position of e Neu5Ac glycals, synthesizing a great number of compounds by the rapid introduction of alcohols, thiols, sulfonamides and alogens; -The set up of a general method to introduce nucleophiles at C-2 position of Neu5Ac analogues to obtain new 3,4 unsaturated alkylglycosides, to be biologically tested, or to be used as synthetic intermediate to functionalize C-3 and C-4 positions of neuraminic acid derivatives; - The preliminary fluorimetric sialidase inhibition assays of part of the obtained compounds, against Vibrio cholerae, Newcastle disease virus, Clostridium perfringens and mammalian Neu3 sialidases. We obtain interesting results especially regarding the NDV neuraminidase inhibition data, suggesting the possibility to design a selective NDV NA inhibitor by tuning the substituent at C-5 position.
(100907) Laura Clark
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Paediatric radiologist: make the difference in the diagnosis of malrotation in newborn?
Creators: name: Tudisca, Chiara
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Paediatric
subject: Abdomen
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Contrast agent-oral
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Education and training

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Intestinal obstruction is one of the most common surgical emergencies in infants who present to the pediatrician with vomiting and constipation, as well as uncontrollable crying. The etiology is varied, but in most cases due to intestinal...
Winemaking: “with one stone, two birds”? a holistic review of the bio-functional compounds, applications and health benefits of wine and wineries’ by-products
Creators: name: TSOUPRAS, ALEXANDROS
name: Ling Jun Ni, Victoria
name: O’Mahony, Éimhín
name: Karali, Maria
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The plethora of bio-functional compounds present in fermented alcoholic beverages like wine, as well as the valorisation of bioactives from wineries’/breweries’ by-products like grape pomace and grape seed, has gained significant interest in the functional foods sector. This functional beverage, wine, has always accompanied humanity, for religion or for health, especially in the Mediterranean, while the benefits of its moderate consumption were documented even by the Greek physician Hippocrates of Kos (460–370 BC). After a big gap, an outbreak of research on wine benefits has surfaced only since the 1990s, when the term “French paradox” was introduced to the US public during a CBS show, while recent evidence has outlined that the beneficial effects of wine consumption are derived by the synergisms of its bio-functional compounds and their digestion derived metabolites. Within this article, the proposed health benefits of moderate wine consumption, as a functional component of a balanced diet (i.e., the Mediterranean diet) against inflammation related chronic disorders, is thoroughly reviewed. The various bio-functional compounds of both wine and wineries’ by-products, such as their bioactive phenolics, unsaturated fatty acids, polar lipids and dietary fibres, and their functional antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and antithrombotic health promoting properties, are also thoroughly evaluated. The mechanisms of action and synergism, by which the health benefits are elicited, are also explored. Functional properties of non-alcoholic wine products are also introduced. Emphasis is also given to applications of wineries’ by-products bioactives, as ingredients of bio-functional foods, supplements and nutraceuticals. Limitations and future perspectives for this popular functional alcoholic beverage (wine) and its rich in bioactives by-products are also addressed
Heralded entangled coherent states between spatially separated massive resonators
Creators: name: Asadian, Ali
name: Abdi, Mehdi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We put forward an experimentally feasible scheme for heralded entanglement generation between two distant macroscopic mechanical resonators. The protocol exploits a hybrid quantum device, a qubit interacting with a mechanical resonator as well as a cavity mode, for each party. The cavity modes interfere on a beam-splitter followed by suitable heralding detections which post-select a hybrid entangled state with success probability 1/2. Subsequently, by local measurements on the qubits a mechanical entangled coherent state can be achieved. The mechanical entanglement can be further verified via monitoring the entanglement of the qubit pair. The setup is envisioned as a test bench for sensing gravitational effects on the quantum dynamics of gravitationally coupled massive objects. As a concrete example, we illustrate the implementation of our protocol using the current circuit QED architectures.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
Building Shared Experience to Advance Practical Application of Pathway-Based Toxicology: Liver Toxicity Mode-of-Action
Creators: name: Subramanian, Kalyanasundaram
name: Andersen, Melvin
name: Shah, Imran
name: Senior, John
name: Harris, Georgina
name: Duché, Daniel
name: Hartung, Thomas
name: Goyak, Katy O.
name: Schultz, Terry
name: Matevia, Marilyn
name: Toole, Colleen
name: Rae, Jessica Caverly
name: Vinken, Mathieu
name: Landesmann, Brigitte
name: Minsavage, Gary
name: Watkins, Paul
name: Jaeschke, Hartmut
name: Westmoreland, Carl
name: Willett, Catherine
name: Rowan, Andrew
name: Seed, Jennifer
name: Avigan, Mark
name: Kleensang, Andre
name: Martos, Suzanne
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: A workshop sponsored by the Human Toxicology Project Consortium (HTPC), “Building Shared Experience to Advance Practical Application of Pathway-Based Toxicology: Liver Toxicity Mode-of-Action” brought together experts from a wide range of perspectives to inform the process of pathway development and to advance two prototype pathways initially developed by the European Commission Joint Research Center (JRC): liver-specific fibrosis and steatosis. The first half of the workshop focused on the theory and practice of pathway development; the second on liver disease and the two prototype pathways. Participants agreed pathway development is extremely useful for organizing information and found that focusing the theoretical discussion on a specific AOP is helpful. It is important to include several perspectives during pathway development, including information specialists, pathologists, human health and environmental risk assessors, and chemical and product manufacturers, to ensure the biology is well captured and end use is considered.
title: Adding post-mortem CT to the post-mortem exams isn’t a threat but a blessing for the (classic) autopsy
Creators: name: Bakers, Frans
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Forensic / Necropsy studies
subject: Professional issues
subject: CT
subject: Health policy and practice
subject: Education
subject: Forensics

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Autopsy is considered the gold standard of post-mortem quality control. However, autopsy rates are declining worldwide in the last decades and some say it is already dead (1). In the recent years interest in post-mortem CT has been increasing with...
PRINCIPIO DELLA DOMANDA E ASSORBIMENTO DEI MOTIVI NEL PROCESSO AMMINISTRATIVO DI LEGITTIMITA'
Creators: name: LATTANZI, GIACOMO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2020

description: The research studies whether administrative courts must follow the order of the claims brought forward in administrative complaint (ricorso), as well as the related issue regarding to the possible integration of a claim into another. After a description of the long standing case law disagreement on such matters, resulted in the ruling of the Plenary Chamber (Adunanza plenaria) no. 5/2015, the study will highlight with adequate justification the insufficiency of the preator approach (and, even if in a minor extent, of the scholars? theories) with respect to, in particular, the case in which the claimant has not brought its claims in a specific order. Without prejudice to the subjective nature of administrative rulings, case law and scholars, although they recognize (as it seems correct) binding attitude to conditional aggregations of grounds, deny any importance to the principle of correspondence between complaints and rulings (principio della domanda) with respect to the ordo procedendi whenever there is not a specific order of complaints brought forward. This research aims at demonstrating the ? also in the last instance ? in proceedings governed by the ?principle of party disposition?, even if it is not acceptable that the first complaint assessed by the court is the one characterized by the most ?radical? unlawfulness (solution proposed by the plenary chamber of the Council of State (Consiglio di Stato)), it is also not acceptable to have a prior assessment of the unlawfulness which would result in the most favorable outcome of the claimant (solution preferred in the literature). The only solution that seems to be consistent with the underlying premise is that courts must strictly follow, in the assessment of the claims, the order in which they have been articulated in the complaint.
Large Gauge Effects and the Structure of Amplitudes
Creators: name: Cristofoli, Andrea
name: Elkhidir, Asaad
name: Ilderton, Anton
name: O'Connell, Donal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that large gauge transformations modify the structure of momentum conservation leading to non-vanishing three-point amplitudes in a simple toy model of a gravitational wave event. This phenomenon resolves an apparent tension between perturbative scattering amplitude computations and exact methods in field theory. The tension is resolved to all orders of perturbation theory once large gauge effects are included via a modified LSZ prescription; if they are omitted, perturbative methods only recover a subset of terms in the full non-perturbative expression. Although our results are derived in the context of specific examples, several aspects of our work have analogues in dynamical gravitational scattering processes.
description: 41 pages, one tikz figure
Welfare in goat kids during the peri-weaning period : endocrine/metabolic asset and functional development
Creators: name: MAGISTRELLI, DAMIANO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2008

description: Animal welfare occurs when all those factors that may reduce the ability of an animal to adapt to the environment are avoided. Those factors are named stressors and can be analyzed. Stress can affect the endocrine/metabolic asset, nutritional status, normal growth and development, productivity and even the environmental impact of farm animals. In the life of young ruminants, the most dramatic event is weaning, which often coincides with a period of growth stasis. Weaning is the process of switching young animals from milk to solid feed. This change needs adaptation in digestive activity and in rumen functions. In light of this, the aim of the present study was to evaluate welfare status of goat kids, during the peri-weaning period, with a view to obtaining information that may help to minimize the stress of this crucial period. For this purpose, 11 Saanen goat kids, at birth, were immediately separated from their mothers and divided into two groups: MILK and WMIX. All kids were fed colostrum for the first three days of life. MILK group received goat milk ad libitum for the rest of the study period, while WMIX group was progressively weaned. Weaning program ended on day 48 of age. During the experimental period, physiological parameters were analyzed. Animals? behaviour and haematic parameters of welfare were also studied. The adopted weaning process minimized the stress of the transition from milk to solid diet. During this transition, milk-borne insulin played a possible role in the development of pancreatic amylase synthesis and activity. Anyway, further studies are required to determine whether milk-borne insulin passes the gastro-intestinal mucosa of suckling kids and contributes to the functional development of the pancreas.
Lewy Body Dementia: Caregiver Burden and Unmet Needs
Creators: name: Kaufer, Daniel I.
name: Galvin, James E.
name: Duda, John E.
name: Lippa, Carol F.
name: Zarit, Steven H.
name: Taylor, Angela
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Lewy body dementia (LBD) is a common cause of dementia but to date, little is known about caregiver burden. The Lewy Body Dementia Association (www.LBDA.org) conducted a web-based survey of 962 caregivers (mean age 56y; 88% women). The most common initial symptoms were cognitive (48%), motor (39%), or both (13%). Caregivers expressed concerns about fear of future (77%), feeling stressed (54%), loss of social life (52%) and uncertainty about what to do next (50%). Caregivers reported moderate to severe burden; 80% felt the people around them did not understand their burden and 54% reported feelings of isolation with spousal caregivers reporting more burden than non-spousal caregivers. Only 29% hired in-home assistance while less than 40% used respite or adult day care, geriatric case managers or attended a support group meeting. Lack of service utilization occurred despite two-thirds of caregivers reporting medical crises requiring emergency services, psychiatric care or law enforcement. Caregivers reported preferences for web-based information, directories of LBD expert providers, information on LBD research and location of local support groups. These findings highlight significant unmet needs for LBD caregivers and provide targets for intervention to reduce caregiver burden. Community resources such as the Lewy Body Dementia Association may serve this end, while also providing practical information and support for caregivers.
(100901) Catherine Brock
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
STUDY OF POSITRONIUM CONVERTERS IN THE AEGIS ANTIMATTER EXPERIMENT
Creators: name: TREZZI, DAVIDE
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2010

description: This PhD thesis is focused on the AEGIS (Antimatter Experiment: Gravity, Interferometry, Spectroscopy) antimatter experiment. The main work consisted in the design, realization and characterization of an electron beam. This machine, now fully operational, will be used for ageing measurements of positron to positronium converters for the AEGIS experiment. In addition, I have been working on the design of the final AEGIS positron source and participating in the studies and modelling needed for the choice of the appropriate converter for the experiment. Finally, I made measurements of positronium formation in liquid scintillators, of interest for solar neutrino detectors.
A class of black holes in dRGT massive gravity and their thermodynamical properties
Creators: name: Ghosh, Sushant G.
name: Tannukij, Lunchakorn
name: Wongjun, Pitayuth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present exact spherical black hole solutions in de Rham, Gabadadze and Tolley (dRGT) massive gravity for a generic choice of the parameters in the theory, and also discuss the thermodynamical and phase structure of the black hole in both the grand canonical and canonical ensembles (for charged case). It turns out that the dGRT black hole solutions includes the known solutions to the Einstein field equations, such as, the monopole-de Sitter-Schwarzschild ones with the coefficients for the third and fourth terms in the potential and the graviton mass in massive gravity naturally generates the cosmological constant and the global monopole term. Furthermore, we compute the mass, temperature, and entropy of dGRT black hole solutions and also perform thermodynamical stability. It turns out that the presence of the graviton mass completely changes the black hole thermodynamics, and it can provide the Hawking-Page phase transition which is also true for the obtained charged black holes. Interestingly, the entropy of a black hole is unaffected and still obeys area law. In particular, our results, in the limit $m_g \rightarrow 0$, reduced exactly to \emph{vis-$\grave{a}$-vis} the general relativity results.
description: 29 pages, 20 figures, typos fixed
title: Screening-detected breast cancer: differences in overall breast composition between discordant vs concordant recalls
Creators: name: Orsi, Marcello Alessandro
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Oncology
subject: Mammography
subject: Screening

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The purpose of screening mammography is to discriminate between normal and abnormal screening mammograms in women who are asymptomatic for breast malignancy (1). Many works tested interobserver variability in mammography interpretation (2)(3):...
Unitarity bounds on extensions of Higgs sector
Creators: name: Lu, Bo-Qiang
name: Huang, Da
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is widely believed that extensions of the minimal Higgs sector is one of the promising directions for resolving many puzzles beyond the Standard Model (SM). In this work, we study the unitarity bounds on the models by extending the two-Higgs-doublet model with an additional real or complex Higgs triplet scalar. By noting that the SM gauge symmetries $SU(2)_L\times U(1)_Y$ are recovered at high energies, we can classify the two-body scattering states by decomposing the direct product of two scalar multiplets into their direct sum of irreducible representations of electroweak gauge groups. In such state bases, the s-wave amplitudes of two-body scalar scatterings can be written in the form of block-diagonalized scattering matrices. Then the application of the perturbative unitarity conditions on the eigenvalues of scattering matrices leads to the analytic constraints on the model parameters. Finally, we numerically investigate the complex triplet scalar extension of the two-Higgs-doublet model, finding that the perturbative unitarity places useful stringent bounds on the model parameter space.
description: 30 pages, 2 figures;
STUDIO SULLA REGOLAZIONE NEURO-UMORALE DEL RITMO CIRCADIANO DELLA PRESSIONE ARTERIOSA IN PAZIENTI CON SINDROME DELLE APNEE OSTRUTTIVE DEL SONNO
Creators: name: GRITTI, ANNA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2010

description: CIRCADIAN RHYTHM OF BLOOD PRESSURE AND ITS NEUROHUMORAL REGULATION IN OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME Background. Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is a treatable cause of secondary and resistant hypertension, that must be taken in serious consideration to better estimate the cardiovascular (CV) risk in hypertensive (HT) patients. Untreated OSAS can worsen the CV function through several mechanisms, including sympathetic activation, oxidative stress, inflammation and endothelial dysfunction. Although the blood pressure control is significantly improved by continous positive airway pressure (CPAP), the activation of the renin angiotensin system (RAAS) in OSAS patients and its modification after CPAP are still an object of debate. Objective. To evaluate 1) the prevalence of OSAS, detected by polysomnography, in a cohort of resistant HT or moderate-severe HT patients, 2) the association between OSAS and the circadian rhytm of blood pressure assessed by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM), 3) the association between OSAS and plasma renin activity (PRA), plasma aldosterone and urinary catecholamines, 4) the effect of CPAP on circadian rhytm of blood pressure and previous neurohumoral parameters. Methods. 17 consecutive hypertensive patients admitted at the Hypertension Clinic of S. Giuseppe Hospital, Milan, were screened for OSAS and circadian rhythm of blood pressure between July 2007 and August 2010. RAAS and catecholamins were assessed at the study entry. Among OSAS patients RAAS and catecholamines were further assesed one day after the initiation of CPAP. Results. Among the 17 enrolled patients, 13 (76.5%) resulted affected by OSAS. A dipper profile was observed in only 30% of the 10 OSAS patients evaluated by ABPM. PRA (ng/ml/min) was lower in non-OSAS compared to OSAS patients (0.5 + 0.2 vs 1.6 + 0.7 in mild OSAS and 1.5 + 2.3 in severe OSAS, p < 0.05). Catecholamines (mcg/8h) were lower in non-OSAS compared to severe OSAS (11 + 1 vs 17 + 7, p < 0.05). 24-hours systolic blood pressure (24h SBP), sleep systolic blood pressure (sleep SBP) and sleep heart rate (sleep HR) were lowered after the first day of CPAP (24h SBP 135 + 18 vs 140 + 17 mmHg, p < 0.05; sleep SBP 132 + 20 vs 138 + 19 mmHg; sleep HR 62 + 5 vs 65 + 6). CPAP was not associated with significant modifications of neurohumoral parameters. Conclusions. OSAS is highly prevalent in hypertensive population and it is associated with a non-dipper profile, a greater activation of the RAAS and the sympathetic system. CPAP improves the blood pressure control, probably via multiple pathways more complex then simple RAAS and sympathetic system.