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Heritage Education for Primary Age Through an Immersive Serious Game
Heritage education is an activity that is increasingly present in the educational paths of schools and museums. Cognitive mechanisms and representative devices must be thoroughly analysed and designed in order...
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Leishmaniosis: New Insights in a Changing World
Canine leishmaniosis caused by Leishmania infantum is a zoonotic disease of serious veterinary concern in the Mediterranean basin. In Portugal has been reported in dogs, cats and synanthropic rodents. Epidemiolog...
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Main biomarkers associated with age-related plasma zinc decrease and copper/zinc ratio in healthy elderly from ZincAge study
Zinc (Zn) plays an essential role in many biological processes including immune response. Impaired Zn status promotes immune dysfunction, and it has been associated with enhanced chronic inflammation during ag...
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The Mar Piccolo basin is an internal sea basin located along the Ionian coast (Southern Italy), and it is surrounded primarily by fractured carbonate karstic environment. Because of the karstic features, the m...
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Association among 1267 A/G HSP70-2, −308 G/A TNF-α polymorphisms and pro-inflammatory plasma mediators in old ZincAge population
Proinflammatory cytokines and heat shock proteins play relevant roles in the pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases. We investigated whether Hsp70 1267 A/G and TNF-α −308 G/A polymorphisms are associated with p...
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Morphometric analysis of sinkholes in a karst coastal area of southern Apulia (Italy)
Salento, the southern portion of Apulia region (SE Italy), is a narrow and elongated peninsula in carbonate rocks, with prevailing low coastlines, locally interrupted by high rock cliffs. The long stretches of...
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Review on Production Processes and Mechanical Properties of Dual Phase Austempered Ductile Iron
During the last few years, researchers have sought new ductile iron (DI) applications focusing on the development of mixed microstructures, such as ferritic-bainitic or ferritic-martensitic. These kinds of str...
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Optimized synthesis of phosphatidylserine
The synthesis of phosphatidyl serine containing saturated fatty acids was thoroughly studied and optimized in order to establish a protocol amenable to large-scale synthesis. The key step was a one-pot multico...
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Fractal characterisation of boundary irregularity in skin pigmented lesions
A growing literature shows researcher's interest in fractal analysis, arising from its ability to describe and characterise quantitatively the complexity of several tumour profiles. The aim of the work was to ...
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The degradation of Methyl Orange (C14H14N3SO3Na), chosen as a model sulfonated azo dye, was investigated in aqueous solutions containing suspended polycrystalline TiO2 particles under irradiation with simulated s...
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Measuring the performance of ethical mutual funds: a DEA approach
The solidarity and social responsibility features that characterize the ethical mutual funds satisfy the fulfillment of humanitarian aims, but may lower the investment profitability. Hence, when we measure the...
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The natural course of acalculia in left-brain-damaged patients
Acalculia is a frequent disorder in left-brain-damaged patients but nothing is known about its natural course. We report a study on 51 vascular acalculic patients examined at least twice. Our results indicate...
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We formulate and solve explicitly a linear programming problem that arises from the problem of choosing an internal financial law of a given financial project such that the associated discount vector maximize...
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A Network Based Replay Portal
Technologies based on cable modems currently use the capacity of a single TV channel to offer 25–30 Mb/s downstream for Internet access. With the advent of Digital TV and the significant bandwidth savings it g...
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From the point of view of rehabilitation, two groups of aphasic patients can be recognized. They differ in the severity of the aphasic disorder, in the type of evaluation that can and should be utilized to pla...
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We described the case of a patient affected by a progressive semantic memory disorder associated with prevalent temporal lobe atrophy. This deficit seems to be “pure” in the sense that it has not been found to...
