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Chapter and Conference Paper
People Counting in the Times of Covid-19
Estimating the number of people within a public building with multiple entrances is an interesting problem, especially when limitations on building occupancy hold as during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this artic...
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Article
Spine Bone Texture Assessed by Trabecular Bone Score (TBS) to Evaluate Bone Health in Thalassemia Major
Due to the increasing survival of thalassemic patients, osteopathy is a mounting clinical problem. Low bone mass alone cannot account for the high fracture risk described; impaired bone quality has been specul...
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Revealing the electronic band structure of quasi-free trilayer graphene on SiC(0001)
Recently, much attention has been devoted to trilayer graphene because it displays stacking and electric field dependent electronic properties well-suited for electronic and photonic applications [1-8]. Severa...
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Engineering the electronic structure of epitaxial graphene by transfer do** and atomic intercalation
Homogeneous graphene layers can be grown epitaxially on SiC(0001), promising scalable graphene technology. However, covalent bonds at the SiC–graphene interface induce strong n -do** of the graphene. This dopin...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Tailoring the Electronic Structure of Epitaxial Graphene on SiC(0001): Transfer Do** and Hydrogen Intercalation
Graphene grown on the (0001) basal plane of silicon carbide, i.e. on the SiC(0001) surface, is an extremely promising candidate for future nano-electronic applications. However, hurdles such as strong electron...
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Article
A comparison between metabolic syndrome post-hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and spontaneously occurring metabolic syndrome
Background: Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is used in the treatment of several hematological and non-hematological disorders. An increasing number of long-term survivors r...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Comparative Bioaffinity Studies for In-Vitro Cell Assays on MEMS-Based Devices
Nowadays, bioaffinity studies of materials are playing a key role in the realization of microdevices for a wide number of biological applications in cell-based assays such as drug screening, cell tracking and ...
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Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in long-term survivors of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Our purpose was to determine the prevalence and features of metabolic syndrome (MS) in a series of long-term hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) survivors. We assessed the clinical, metabolic and en...
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Article
The virtual case: a new method to completely digitize cytological and histological slides
The purpose of this study was to present a new method for handling histological/cytological cases. Thanks to the introduction of information technology in pathology, including the amenities afforded by robotic...
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Prevention of spontaneous neu-expressing mammary tumor development in mice transgenic for rat proto-neu by DNA vaccination
The HER-2/neu proto-oncogene is overexpressed in 20–30% of human breast cancers and is associated with high recurrence risk. The oncogenic potential of HER-2/neu, together with its elevated expression in tumor...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Exploiting Classifier Combination for Early Melanoma Diagnosis Support
Melanoma is the most dangerous skin cancer and early diagnosis is the main factor for its successful treatment. Experienced dermatologists with specific training make the diagnosis by clinical inspection and t...
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Chapter
Light Adaptation in Retinal Rods of the Newt
It is known that guanosine 3’5’-cyclic monophosphate (cyclic GMP) is the internal transmitter of phototransduction (Caretta and Cavaggioni, 1983; Fesenko et al., 1985; Yau and Nakatani, 1985b; Haynes et al., 1...
