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TL and OSL cross-dating for Valcorrente site in Belpasso (Catania, Italy)
The prehistoric village of Valcorrente (Catania) has been inhabited for a long period, from Late-Final Neolithic to Early Bronze Age. For archaeologists, the site represents an important source of information ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Modal Analysis of the Palazzo Lombardia Tower in Milano
The ‘Palazzo Lombardia’ Tower, located at the heart of the city of Milan, Italy, has been recently completed. The new building, 161.30m high, is currently the tallest in Italy, and one of the strongest feature...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
ESR and U/Th Dating Methodologies Applied to Carbonates from Southern Italy
Since the dating of a stalactite from the Akiyoshi cave in Japan by Ikeya (1975), significant progress has been made in the utilisation of electron spin resonance spectroscopy (ESR) for the assessment of past ...
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Open AccessPhase II study of cetuximab in combination with cisplatin and docetaxel in patients with untreated advanced gastric or gastro-oesophageal junction adenocarcinoma (DOCETUX study)
The conventional treatment options for advanced gastric patients remain unsatisfactory in terms of response rate, response duration, toxicity, and overall survival benefit. The purpose of this phase II study w...
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Cotrel-Dubousset instrumentation for the treatment of severe scoliosis
In a multicentric study, 36 cases (40 curves) of severe scoliosis were analysed; 19 were idiopathic and 17 neurological, Cobb angles ranged from 70° to 145°, all had undergone three-rod Cotrel-Dubousset (CD) ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Role of Helicobacter pylori Gastritis in Ulcerogenesis and Carcinogenesis
Recent studies suggest that Helicobacter pylori (HP) gastritis is a major risk factor for both peptic ulcer disease [36] and cancer [16, 31, 32]. However, the histologic factors and mechanisms leading from gastri...
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Neosartorya fischeri var fischeri (Wehmer) Malloch and Cain 1972 (Anamorph: Aspergillus fischerianus Samson and Gams 1985) as a cause of mycotic keratitis
The first case of mycotic keratitis caused by Neosartorya fischeri var. fischeri the telemorph of Aspergillus fischerianus, is described. The patient, a 62-year-old man, had no history of trauma to his infected l...
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Focusing on late effects in long-term survivors of childhood leukemia and lymphomas
Major advances have occurred in the treatment of children with cancer, leading to a high percentage of cure especially in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), Hodgkin’s disease (HD) and non-Hodgkin’s Lymphomas ...
