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Chapter
Bladder Cancer
Nowadays, scientific investigation in bladder cancer research is focused on finding a patient-tailored diagnostic and therapeutic approach.
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Chapter
Adjuvant Treatment: Old and New Immunotherapy in Non-Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer
Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is the first connection between bladder cancer and immunotherapy and still represents the gold standard treatment for intermediate and high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cance...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Piecewise Linear Approximation Method for the Evaluation of Lyapunov Exponents of Polynomial Nonlinear Systems
Lyapunov exponents of a dynamical system give information about its long-term evolution. Exponents estimation is not an easy task; it is computationally costly and, in presence of chaotic dynamics, it exhibits...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Identification of Chaotic Systems by Neural Networks
In this paper a traditional Multi Layer Perceptron with a tapped delay line as input is trained to identify the parameters of the Chua’s circuit when fed with a sequence of values of a scalar state variable. T...
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Chapter
A Follow-Up Electromyographic Investigation of ALS Patients Treated with High Dosage Gangliosides
In the last ten years many studies have shown that Bovine Brain Gangliosides (BBG) may play a role in synaptic transmission for the storage of neurotransmitters such as serotonin[1]; they interact with adenylc...
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Chapter
Motorneuron Sprouting and Spinal Plasticity in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: The “Window of Opportunity” for a Ganglioside Treatment
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a disease of unknown pathogenesis affecting the first and the second motorneuron with a progressive course which leads to the death of the patient within a very few years...
