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Open AccessBART, the new robotic assistant: big data, artificial intelligence, robotics, and telemedicine integration for an ICU 4.0
We are in the era of Health 4.0 when novel technologies are providing tools capable of improving the quality and safety of the services provided. Our project involves the integration of different technologies ...
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Open AccessConvergent Approaches to AI Explainability for HEP Muonic Particles Pattern Recognition
Neural networks are commonly defined as ‘black-box’ models, meaning that the mechanism describing how they give predictions and perform decisions is not immediately clear or even understandable by humans. Ther...
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Open AccessConsumption of Energy Drinks among Italian University students: a cross-sectional multicenter study
The aim of the study was to evaluate the caffeinated Energy Drinks (EDs) consumption among a large sample of Italian undergraduates and its association with some of the major lifestyle risk factors.
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Open AccessThe FLURESP European commission project: cost-effectiveness assessment of ten public health measures against influenza in Italy: is there an interest in COVID-19 pandemic?
The FLURESP project is a public health research funded by the European Commission, with the objective to design a methodological framework to assess the cost-effectiveness of existing public health measures ag...
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Open AccessCalls to the anti-violence number in Italy during COVID-19 pandemic: correlation and trend analyses of violence reports during 2020
We hypothesized that during the 2020 pandemic there has been a significant change along the year, depending on the SARS-CoV-2 impact on the population and varying difficulties implied in the norms that were ad...
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Open AccessNonthyroidal illness syndrome (NTIS) in severe COVID-19 patients: role of T3 on the Na/K pump gene expression and on hydroelectrolytic equilibrium
Nonthyroidal Illness Syndrome (NTIS) can be detected in many critical illnesses. Recently, we demonstrated that this condition is frequently observed in COVID-19 patients too and it is correlated with the seve...
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Open AccessMulti-omic approach identifies a transcriptional network coupling innate immune response to proliferation in the blood of COVID-19 cancer patients
Clinical outcomes of COVID-19 patients are worsened by the presence of co-morbidities, especially cancer leading to elevated mortality rates. SARS-CoV-2 infection is known to alter immune system homeostasis. W...
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Open AccessSCD1, autophagy and cancer: implications for therapy
Autophagy is an intracellular degradation system that removes unnecessary or dysfunctional components and recycles them for other cellular functions. Over the years, a mutual regulation between lipid metabolis...
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Open AccessH-Ras gene takes part to the host immune response to COVID-19
Ras gene family members play a relevant role in cancer, especially when they are mutated. However, they may play additional roles in other conditions beside cancer. We performed gene expression analysis using ...
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Open AccessGene signature and immune cell profiling by high-dimensional, single-cell analysis in COVID-19 patients, presenting Low T3 syndrome and coexistent hematological malignancies
Low T3 syndrome is frequent in patients admitted to intensive care units for critical illness and pneumonia. It has been reported also in patients with COVID-19, Hodgkin disease and chronic lymphocytic leukemi...
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Open AccessA cross-sectional study investigating lifestyle and weight perception of undergraduate students in southern Italy
The aim of the study was to explore lifestyle of undergraduate students in southern Italy and to investigate their determinants.
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A context-driven privacy enforcement system for autonomous media capture devices
The evolution of the Internet of Things and the related market has renewed the concept of media recording and sharing by means of a new kind of home-consumer devices, capable of continuous and autonomous media...
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Automatic heart activity diagnosis based on Gram polynomials and probabilistic neural networks
The paper proposes a new approach to heart activity diagnosis based on Gram polynomials and probabilistic neural networks (PNN). Heart disease recognition is based on the analysis of phonocardiogram (PCG) digi...
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Open AccessMold contamination in a controlled hospital environment: a 3-year surveillance in southern Italy
Environmental monitoring of airborne filamentous fungi is necessary to reduce fungal concentrations in operating theaters and in controlled environments, and to prevent infections. The present study reports re...
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Open AccessKnowledge about tuberculosis among undergraduate health care students in 15 Italian universities: a cross-sectional study
The Italian Study Group on Hospital Hygiene of the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health conducted a multicentre survey aiming to evaluate undergraduate health care students’ knowle...
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Open AccessAir sampling procedures to evaluate microbial contamination: a comparison between active and passive methods in operating theatres
Since air can play a central role as a reservoir for microorganisms, in controlled environments such as operating theatres regular microbial monitoring is useful to measure air quality and identify critical si...
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Open AccessBody piercing and tattoos: a survey on young adults' knowledge of the risks and practices in body art
The practice of tattooing and piercing has expanded in western society. In order to verify young adults' knowledge of the risk and practices related to body art, an investigation was conducted among freshmen o...
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Open AccessLegionella spp. and legionellosis in southeastern Italy: disease epidemiology and environmental surveillance in community and health care facilities
Following the publication of the Italian Guidelines for the control and prevention of legionellosis an environmental and clinical surveillance has been carried out in Southeastern Italy. The aim of the study i...
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Open AccessItalian multicenter study on infection hazards during dental practice: Control of environmental microbial contamination in public dental surgeries
The present study assessed microbial contamination in Italian dental surgeries.
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Clinical–Environmental Surveillance of Legionellosis: An Experience in Southern Italy
In Italy, although the number of cases of legionellosis notified to the health authorities has significantly increased in recent years, the incidence is still believed to be underestimated. To verify the true ...
