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Open AccessTime-resolved triggering and runout analysis of rainfall-induced shallow landslides
Rainfall-induced shallow landslides often turn into flows. These phenomena occur worldwide and pose severe hazard to infrastructure and human lives on mountainous areas. Risk assessment, and the design of miti...
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Open AccessCIRCUS: an autonomous control system for antimatter, atomic and quantum physics experiments
A powerful and robust control system is a crucial, often neglected, pillar of any modern, complex physics experiment that requires the management of a multitude of different devices and their precise time sync...
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Open AccessBehavior of biocide-free foul control paints for ships’ hulls in the immediate proximity of ICCP anodes
Impressed current cathodic protection systems are used in combination with organic coatings to prevent corrosion of hulls. The reaction species which are formed in the proximity of the anodes, like chlorinated...
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Open AccessMulti-risk assessment in a historical city
Natural hazards pose a significant threat to historical cities which have an authentic and universal value for mankind. This study aims at codifying a multi-risk workflow for seismic and flood hazards, for sit...
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Regulatory Mechanisms of Muscle Mass: The Critical Role of Resistance Training in Children and Adolescent
Muscle mass and strength are subjected to several regulations. We found endocrine signals such as growth hormone, insulin-like growth factor 1, testosterone, thyroid hormones, and glucocorticoids among them. N...
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Open AccessImpact of hypogonadism on bone mineral density and vertebral fractures in HIV-infected men
Hypogonadism and osteoporosis are frequently reported in HIV-infected men and, besides multifactorial pathogenesis, they might be directly linked because of testicular involvement in bone health. We evaluated ...
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Open AccessHypogonadism and liver fibrosis in HIV-infected patients
Hypogonadism is frequent in HIV-infected men and might impact on metabolic and sexual health. Low testosterone results from either primary testicular damage, secondary hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction, or fr...
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Management of Transport Infrastructures: A Procedure to Assess the Landslide Risk
In recent years, several landslides had a strong impact on the road network, creating the need to define criteria for management and mitigation of hydrogeological risk through landslide zoning correlated with ...
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Open AccessLymphocyte homeostasis is maintained in perinatally HIV-infected patients after three decades of life
While immunosenescence, defined as reduced production of new lymphocytes, restriction of T-cell receptor repertoire and telomeres shortening, has been extensively evaluated in HIV-infected children and adults,...
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Open AccessTMS Over the Cerebellum Interferes with Short-term Memory of Visual Sequences
Growing evidence suggests that the cerebellum is not only involved in motor functions, but it significantly contributes to sensory and cognitive processing as well. In particular, it has been hypothesized that...
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Engineering Geological and Petrographic Characterization of Migmatites Belonging to the Calabria-Peloritani Orogen (Southern Italy)
The laboratory characterization of migmatite rocks, affected by tunneling works in southern Calabria (Italy), has been carried out with the purpose of investigating the relationship between some potentially in...
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Infective endocarditis in patients with hepatic diseases
Few data have been published regarding the epidemiology and outcome of infective endocarditis (IE) in patients with chronic hepatic disease (CHD). A retrospective analysis of the Studio Endocarditi Italiano (S...
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Emulsion detectors for the antihydrogen detection in AEgIS
The AEgIS experiment at CERN aims to perform the first direct measurement of gravitational interaction between matter and antimatter by measuring the deviation of a cold antihydrogen beam in the Earth gravitat...
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The AEgIS experiment
The AEgIS experiment is presently almost completely installed at CERN. It is currently taking data with antiprotons, electrons and positrons. The apparatus is designed to form a cold, pulsed beam of antihydrog...
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The AEgIS Experiment
The AEgIS experiment aims at performing the first test of the Weak Equivalence Principle of General Relativity in the antimatter sector by measuring the gravitational acceleration acting on a beam of cold anti...
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Measuring the gravitational free-fall of antihydrogen
Antihydrogen holds the promise to test, for the first time, the universality of free-fall with a system composed entirely of antiparticles. The AEgIS experiment at CERN’s antiproton decelerator aims to measure...
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Clinical and epidemiological features of HIV/AIDS infection among migrants at first access to healthcare services as compared to Italian patients in Italy: a retrospective multicentre study, 2000–2010
Migrants account for approximately 8.7 % of the resident population in Italy. The immigration status deeply influences access to prevention and care, thus contributing to increase the burden of HIV/AIDS among...
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Role of bone mineral density in predicting morphometric vertebral fractures in patients with HIV infection
This study investigated the bone of HIV patients both in terms of quantity and quality. It was found that HIV-infected patients did fracture independently of the degree of bone demineralization as in other for...
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Open AccessA moiré deflectometer for antimatter
The precise measurement of forces is one way to obtain deep insight into the fundamental interactions present in nature. In the context of neutral antimatter, the gravitational interaction is of high interest,...
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New Italian guidelines for malaria prophylaxis in travellers to endemic areas
As a consequence of the rapid evolution of malaria prophylaxis recommendations throughout the world, the Italian Society of Tropical Medicine (SIMET—Società Italiana di Medicina Tropicale) has set up a working...
