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Bifidobacteria modulate immune response in pediatric patients with cow’s milk protein allergy
In children with an allergy to cow’s milk proteins (CMA), the altered composition of intestinal microbiota influences the immune tolerance to milk proteins (CMP). This study aims to investigate the effect of p...
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Open AccessWhy people were less compliant with public health regulations during the second wave of the Covid-19 outbreak: The role of trust in governmental organizations, future anxiety, fatigue, and Covid-19 risk perception
Trust in governmental organizations is a crucial factor in terms of encouraging people to conform to public health regulations, such as those recommended to slow down the spread of SARS-CoV-2. However, trust i...
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Quantile Composite-Based Path Modeling with R: A Hands-on Guide
The aim of the chapter is to provide step-by-step instructions to implement, estimate, and interpret a Quantile Composite-based Path Model, exploiting the qcpm package (https://rdrr.io/cran/qcpm/), freely avai...
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Open AccessQuantile composite-based path modeling: algorithms, properties and applications
Composite-based path modeling aims to study the relationships among a set of constructs, that is a representation of theoretical concepts. Such constructs are operationalized as composites (i.e. linear combina...
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Overcoming convergence problems in PLS path modelling
The present paper deals with convergence issues of Lohmöller’s procedure for the computation of the components in the PLS-PM algorithm. More datasets and proofs are given to highlight the convergence failure o...
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Open AccessComposite-Based Path Modeling for Conditional Quantiles Prediction. An Application to Assess Health Differences at Local Level in a Well-Being Perspective
Quantile composite-based path modeling is a recent extension to the conventional partial least squares path modeling. It estimates the effects that predictors exert on the whole conditional distributions of th...
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Open AccessSpecific antibody titer decay in neonates prenatally exposed to Toxoplasma gondii and their mothers
For infants exposed in utero to Toxoplasma gondii, current guidelines recommend monitoring the specific antibody titer until 12 months of age. In this study, we investigated the antibody titer decay in the mother...
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Open AccessLaparoscopic gastrectomy for stage II and III advanced gastric cancer: long‑term follow‑up data from a Western multicenter retrospective study
There has been an increasing interest for the laparoscopic treatment of early gastric cancer, especially among Eastern surgeons. However, the oncological effectiveness of Laparoscopic Gastrectomy (LG) for Adva...
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Open AccessHeteronormativity in Italy: Psychometric Characteristics of the Italian Version of the Heteronormative Attitudes and Beliefs Scale
Heteronormativity describes a hierarchical societal system that encompasses heterosexuality and binary gender identity as normal and natural, defining boundaries of acceptable heterosexuality and gender identi...
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Open AccessCeliac disease in pediatric patients according to HLA genetic risk classes: a retrospective observational study
Celiac disease (CD) is an autoimmune enteropathy in which HLA-DQ haplotypes define susceptibility. Our aim was to evaluate if belonging to a certain HLA-DQ class risk could be associated to the clinical, serol...
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Open AccessComparative analysis of density histograms and visual scores in incremental and volumetric high-resolution computed tomography of the chest in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients
Volumetric high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) of the chest has recently replaced incremental CT in the diagnostic workup of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Concomitantly, visual and quantitative s...
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Open AccessDo isolates from pharyngeal and rectal swabs match blood culture bacterial pathogens in septic VLBW infants? A pilot, cross-sectional study
Serial body site swabbing is used to monitor horizontal spread of aggressive bacterial species in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Since colonization/carriage is thought to precede systemic infection, ...
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Optical coherence tomography angiography findings in Huntington’s disease
To evaluate the retinal and choriocapillaris vascular networks in macular region and the central choroidal thickness (CCT) in patients affected by Huntington disease (HD), using optical coherence tomography an...
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Open AccessGeneralized properties for Hanafi–Wold’s procedure in partial least squares path modeling
Partial least squares path modeling is a statistical method that allows to analyze complex dependence relationships among several blocks of observed variables, each one represented by a latent variable. The co...
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Open AccessTrends, risk factors and outcomes of healthcare-associated infections in a neonatal intensive care unit in Italy during 2013–2017
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) occur frequently in intensive care units (NICUs). The aim of this study was to analyze the results of surveillance of HAIs in a III level NICU in Naples, Italy during 20...
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Open AccessEpigenetic silencing of the ANKRD26 gene correlates to the pro-inflammatory profile and increased cardio-metabolic risk factors in human obesity
Obesity is a major worldwide threat to human health. Increasing evidence indicates that epigenetic modifications have a major impact on the natural history of this disorder. Ankyrin Repeat Domain 26 (Ankrd26) is ...
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Therapeutic sequences in patients with grade 1−2 neuroendocrine tumors (NET): an observational multicenter study from the ELIOS group
Many different treatments are suggested by guidelines to treat grade 1−2 (G1−G2) neuroendocrine tumors (NET). However, a precise therapeutic algorithm has not yet been established. This study aims at identifyi...
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Community Trust: A Social Indicator Related to Community Engagement
A review of the literature has highlighted that some studies have defined an indicator of trust regarding one’s geographical community, but that few studies refer to the community, in relation to the role of i...
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Six-minute walk test is reliable and sensitive in detecting response to therapy in CIDP
The current clinical measures (ONLS, R-ODS, mRS, and MRC) may not be so sensitive in capturing minimal variations or measuring fatigue in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP). Our a...
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Non-symmetrical composite-based path modeling
Partial least squares path modeling presents some inconsistencies in terms of coherence with the predictive directions specified in the inner model (i.e. the path directions), because the directions of the lin...
