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Increased immunological efficiency in young mice by short-term treatment with L-thyroxine
Treatment of young mice with L-thyroxine increases theircapacity to form hemolytic plaques after sheep erythrocyte immunization. Such an increment is indepedent from the quantity of antigenic challenge, from s...
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The Prostate in the Elderly
Prostatic pathology, especially benign prostatic hyperplasia and adenocarcinoma, represents the most common cause of urologie problems in the aging male. Benign or malignant enlargement of the prostate can cau...
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Clinical and Surgical Management of Giant Pituitary Adenomas
Giant pituitary adenomas are a difficult problem to deal with. They are herein considered as Grade IV of Vezina and Sutton, with a clear suprasellar expansion, producing visual defects, endocrinological disord...
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Pituitary Adenoma with Cavernous Sinus Involvement
During the past few years, because of a better understanding of the anatomy of the sellar and parasellar regions and of the cavernous sinus, it has been possible to develop a series of microsurgical techniques...
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Spontaneous Remission Versus Rehabilitation of Aphasia
Most patients who have suffered acute onset of aphasia improve over the succeeding months. The precise course of recovery, its speed and duration, and reasons for this are still largely unknown. One question t...
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Image Sequence Coding Using Motion Compensated Subband Decomposition
Over the last two decades, the well known Descartes’ phrase “I think therefore I am” became “I communicate therefore I am”. The importance of communication is recognized at all levels, political, social, econo...
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Age-related impairment and thymus- induced recovery of DNA synthesis in primary cultures of hepatocytes
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Semantic amnesia without dementia: documentation of a case
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...
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Intervention in Aging. V: “Theories and models on aging”
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Aphasia therapy
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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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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Linear programming selection of internal financial laws and a knapsack problem
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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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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Time-dependent induction of anxiogenic-like effects after central infusion of urocortin or corticotropin-releasing factor in the rat
Rationale: Corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) and urocortin (Ucn) belong to the CRF-related family, share a high degree of structural homology and bind to CRF receptors. However, compared with CRF, Ucn was show...
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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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Effect of shift work on body mass index: results of a study performed in 319 glucose-tolerant men working in a Southern Italian industry
OBJECTIVE: To examine the influence of shift work on metabolic and cardiovascular risk factors in subjects working in an industry sited in Apulia, Southern Italy.
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Analytical control of photocatalytic treatments: degradation of a sulfonated azo dye
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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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 ...
