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Detailed Ion Temperature Information from the Neutron Emission Spectrum
Neutron emission recorded with a spectrometer comes from the plasma within the region defined by a collimator and is a line integral along the chord viewed. The resulting spectrum, S(En), is, for a thermal plasma...
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The importance of smoking and medical history for development of small bowel carcinoid tumor: a European population-based case–control study
Objective: Little is known about the etiology of small bowel carcinoid tumor (SBC), but a few studies have pointed to certain medical and lifestyle factors as potential risk factors. This study aims to evaluate ...
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Prediction of mesothelioma and lung cancer in a cohort of asbestos exposed workers
Background Several papers have reported state-wide projections of mesothelioma deaths, but few have computed these predictions in selected exposed groups. Objective To predict the future ...
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On the relationship between smoking bans and incidence of acute myocardial infarction
During the last few years several studies have reported a substantial reduction of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in the general population few months after the enforcement of comprehensive smoking bans. We...
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Hormonal exposures and the risk of uveal melanoma
Several studies suggest that hormonal mechanisms may be associated with the development of uveal melanoma. Therefore, the association between the risk of uveal melanoma and exposure to hormonal exposures was i...
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Open AccessThe Pap smear screening as an occasion for smoking cessation and physical activity counselling: baseline characteristics of women involved in the SPRINT randomized controlled trial
Gender-specific smoking cessation strategies have rarely been developed. Evidence of effectiveness of physical activity (PA) promotion and intervention in adjunct to smoking cessation programs is not strong. S...
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Pesticide exposure in farming and forestry and the risk of uveal melanoma
Since pesticides are disputed risk factors for uveal melanoma, we studied the association between occupational pesticide exposure and uveal melanoma risk in a case–control study from nine European countries.
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Open AccessEstimating the probabilities of making a smoking quit attempt in Italy: stall in smoking cessation levels, 1986-2009
No data on annual smoking cessation probability (i.e., the probability of successfully quit in a given year) are available for Italy at a population level. Mathematical models typically used to estimate smokin...
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Open AccessItaly SimSmoke: the effect of tobacco control policies on smoking prevalence and smoking attributable deaths in Italy
While Italy has implemented some tobacco control policies over the last few decades, which resulted in a decreased smoking prevalence, there is still considerable scope to strengthen tobacco control policies c...
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Open AccessThe Pap smear screening as an occasion for smoking cessation and physical activity counselling: effectiveness of the SPRINT randomized controlled trial
The organized Cervical Cancer Screening Programme (CCSP) in Italy might represent an occasion to deliver smoking cessation (SC) counselling to women attending the Pap test examination. Evidence of effectivenes...
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Decennial trends of social differences in smoking habits in Italy: a 30-year update
To update educational inequalities in smoking in Italy up to 2009, with an in-depth analysis of female prevalence.
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Compliance with the smoking ban in Italy 8 years after its application
The aim of this paper is to report compliance with the smoking ban and the spread of smoke-free homes after 3–8 years since the Italian smoking ban implementation, according to the ongoing Italian surveillance...
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Characterization of Dipeptide-based Sorbent Materials using Combined Thermodynamic and Inelastic Neutron Scattering Techniques
Using a combination of x-ray diffraction, volumetric adsorption and inelastic neutron scattering (INS) the adsorption properties of methane within the channels of L-Isoleucyl-L-Valine (IV) and L-Valyl-L-Alanin...
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Open AccessAdvance care planning – a multi-centre cluster randomised clinical trial: the research protocol of the ACTION study
Awareness of preferences regarding medical care should be a central component of the care of patients with advanced cancer. Open communication can facilitate this but can occur in an ad hoc or variable manner....
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Disclosing mineralogical phases in medioeval iron nails by non-destructive neutron techniques
There is not only one methodology for the study of mineralogical phases in archaeological samples. In this paper, we discuss a strategy applied to ancient iron nail samples completely based on non-destructive ...
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From tiny gold filigrees to majestic iron tie rods: Neutron facilities for the benefit of cultural heritage
Neutrons are a well-suited tool in support of heritage science: they are non-destructive and can deeply penetrate into the cultural artefacts. Concerning the archaeometallurgy field, for example, it is possibl...
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Open AccessAccelerating Neutron Tomography experiments through Artificial Neural Network based reconstruction
Neutron Tomography (NT) is a non-destructive technique to investigate the inner structure of a wide range of objects and, in some cases, provides valuable results in comparison to the more common X-ray imaging...
