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The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) had an impact with Dimorphos (a satellite of the asteroid Didymos) on 26 September 20221. Ground-based observations showed that the Didymos system brightened by a facto...
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Open AccessMRgFUS thalamotomy for the treatment of tremor: evaluation of learning curve and operator’s experience impact on the procedural and clinical outcome
MRgFUS Vim ablation is increasingly used for the treatment of tremor in ET e PD patients but there is little published research on the importance of operator experience in this procedure. This study aims to ev...
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Open AccessSIMBIO-SYS: Scientific Cameras and Spectrometer for the BepiColombo Mission
The SIMBIO-SYS (Spectrometer and Imaging for MPO BepiColombo Integrated Observatory SYStem) is a complex instrument suite part of the scientific payload of the Mercury Planetary Orbiter for the BepiColombo mis...
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Open AccessIs it possible to identify the inguinal nerves during hernioplasty? A systematic review of the literature and meta-analysis of cadaveric and surgical studies
Patients who undergo inguinal hernioplasty may suffer from persistent postoperative pain due to inguinal nerve injuries. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to provide comprehensive data on...
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SARIM PLUS—sample return of comet 67P/CG and of interstellar matter
The Stardust mission returned cometary, interplanetary and (probably) interstellar dust in 2006 to Earth that have been analysed in Earth laboratories worldwide. Results of this mission have changed our view a...
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Open tension-free Lichtenstein repair of inguinal hernia: use of fibrin glue versus sutures for mesh fixation
To investigate pain and other complications following inguinal hernioplasty performed by the Lichtenstein technique with mesh fixation by fibrin glue or sutures.
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Open AccessRetrospective assessment of inguinal hernia repair in elderly outpatients
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Open AccessTriple F—a comet nucleus sample return mission
The Triple F (Fresh From the Fridge) mission, a Comet Nucleus Sample Return, has been proposed to ESA’s Cosmic Vision program. A sample return from a comet enables us to reach the ultimate goal of cometary resear...
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Open AccessHealth-related quality of life in patients with anterior cruciate ligament insufficiency undergoing arthroscopic reconstruction: a practice-based Italian normative group in comorbid-free patients
Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) insufficiency has not been assessed in comorbid-free patients to date. An observational study was therefore conducted on a practice-ba...
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Treatment for persistent chronic neuralgia after inguinal hernioplasty
Following an inguinal hernia repair with open or laparoscopic technique, 1–15% of patients show persistent neuralgia, a severe, potentially debilitating, complication. Several therapeutic procedures have been ...
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Virtis: An Imaging Spectrometer for the Rosetta Mission
The VIRTIS (Visual IR Thermal Imaging Spectrometer) experiment has been one of the most successful experiments built in Europe for Planetary Exploration. VIRTIS, developed in cooperation among Italy, France a...
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The Grain Impact Analyser and Dust Accumulator (GIADA) Experiment for the Rosetta Mission: Design, Performances and First Results
The Grain Impact Analyser and Dust Accumulator (GIADA) onboard the ROSETTA mission to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko is devoted to study the cometary dust environment. Thanks to the rendezvous configuration o...
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Higher-Order Method for the Solution of a Nonlinear Scalar Equation
A new iterative method to find the root of a nonlinear scalar function f is proposed. The method is based on a suitable Taylor polynomial model of order n around the current point x ...
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The Giada Experiment for the Rosetta Mission
The Grain Impact Analyser and Dust Accumulator (GIADA) instrument, on board the ESA Rosetta mission, shall analyse the physical and dynamical properties of grains ejected by the target comet and monitor the co...
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Inguinal hernioplasty: the gold standard of hernia repair
On the basis of a critical review of 936 inguinal hernioplasties performed in 8 years, the authors present their good long-term results with tension-free techniques including the original Lichtenstein techniqu...
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Characterization of Cosmic Materials in the Laboratory
One of the main objectives of modern astrophysics is the characterisation of properties and evolution of materials present in space. Production, processing and analysis of cosmic dust analogues in the laborato...
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Characterization of Cosmic Materials in the Laboratory
One of the main objectives of modern astrophysics is the characterisation of properties and evolution of materials present in space. Production, processing and analysis of cosmic dust analogues in the laborato...
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Cosmic Dust and Laboratory Simulation: Wishes, Results and Open Problems
Cosmic dust plays an active role in several processes occurring in the interstellar medium, in star formation regions and around evolved stars. Thus, the identification of its properties is one of the major go...
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UV Irradiation of Small Carbon Grains
We present preliminary results of an experiment aimed at simulating the UV processing of hydrogenated amorphous carbon grains occurring in the interstellar medium. UV exposure of these grains induces significa...
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Search for Cosmic-Microwave-Background anisotropies at degree angular scales: The ARGO 1993 experiment
We describe a balloon-borne telescope, optimized for observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies in the mm wavelength region, at angular scales around 10. We stress the scientific motivatio...
