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Open AccessThe TES-based Cryogenic AntiCoincidence Detector (CryoAC) of ATHENA X-IFU: A Large Area Silicon Microcalorimeter for Background Particles Detection
We are develo** the Cryogenic AntiCoincidence detector (CryoAC) of the ATHENA X-IFU spectrometer. It is a TES-based particle detector aimed to reduce the background of the instrument. Here, we present the re...
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Open AccessTumor enlargement in adrenal incidentaloma is related to glaucoma: a new prognostic feature?
The uncertainty on the management of small adrenal incidentalomas (AIs) still represents a challenge in real clinical practice. Considering the lack of knowledge on risk factors implicated in tumour enlargemen...
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Hemera: The European Community for Advanced Research in the Stratosphere
HEMERA is a large research community which operates in the field of tropospheric and stratospheric balloon-borne research. The Hemera project is aimed to improve the technologies related to the balloons and to...
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Long-term trajectories of bone metabolism parameters and bone mineral density (BMD) in obese patients treated with metabolic surgery: a real-world, retrospective study
Potential negative effects of metabolic surgery on skeletal integrity remain a concern, since long-term data of different surgical approaches are poor. This study aimed to describe changes in bone metabolism i...
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Science and Innovation with Stratospheric Balloons: The Olimpo & Lspe/Swipe Projects
The measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization and the spectral distortions produced on this radiation field by clusters of galaxies (Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect, SZE) are the current front...
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Open AccessA chemically etched corrugated feedhorn array for D-band CMB observations
We present the design, manufacturing, and testing of a 37-element array of corrugated feedhorns for Cosmic Microwave Background CMB) measurements between 140 and 170 GHz. The array was designed to be coupled t...
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Progress Report on the Large-Scale Polarization Explorer
The large-scale polarization explorer (LSPE) is a cosmology program for the measurement of large-scale curl-like features (B-modes) in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background. Its goal is to constr...
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The Demonstration Model of the ATHENA X-IFU Cryogenic AntiCoincidence Detector
The Cryogenic AntiCoincidence detector (CryoAC) of ATHENA X-IFU is designed to reduce the particle background of the instrument and to enable the mission science goals. It is a 4-pixel silicon microcalorimeter...
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In-Flight Performance of the LEKIDs of the OLIMPO Experiment
We describe the in-flight performance of the horn-coupled lumped element kinetic inductance detector arrays of the balloon-borne OLIMPO experiment. These arrays have been designed to match the spectral bands o...
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The Cryogenic AntiCoincidence Detector for ATHENA X-IFU: The Project Status
The ATHENA observatory is the second large class ESA mission to be launched on 2031 at L2 orbit. One of the two onboard instruments is X-IFU, a TES-based kilo-pixel array able to perform simultaneous high-grad...
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US and MR imaging findings to detect placental adhesion spectrum (PAS) in patients with placenta previa: a comparative systematic study
To compare the performance US and MR in identifying placental adhesion spectrum (PAS) in placenta previa (PP) and to establish a potential method of image interpretation.
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The Cryogenic AntiCoincidence Detector for ATHENA X-IFU: Improvement of the Test Setup Toward the Demonstration Model
The ATHENA X-IFU development program foresees to build and characterize an instrument Demonstration Model (DM), in order to probe the system critical technologies before the mission adoption. In this respect, ...
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Open AccessMTHFR, TS and XRCC1 genetic variants may affect survival in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes treated with supportive care or azacitidine
We evaluated the impact of genomic polymorphisms in folate-metabolizing, DNA synthesis and DNA repair enzymes on the clinical outcome of 108 patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) receiving best support...
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Open Access[18F]tetrafluoroborate-PET/CT enables sensitive tumor and metastasis in vivo imaging in a sodium iodide symporter-expressing tumor model
Cancer cell metastasis is responsible for most cancer deaths. Non-invasive in vivo cancer cell tracking in spontaneously metastasizing tumor models still poses a challenge requiring highest sensitivity and excell...
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Access to Health Services for Undocumented Immigrants in Apulia
This paper, part of a larger epidemiological study carried out between 2004 and 2010, analyzed immigrants frequenting the largest Apulian regional hospital (Bari Policlinico). Our aim was to evaluate the perce...
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18 Europees robotgeassisteerde laparoscopie-trainingscurriculum; resultaten van een pilotstudie
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Prevalence of Dio2 T92A polymorphism and its association with thyroid autoimmunity
The 3, 5, 3′-L-triiodothyronine (T3) partly derives by the deiodination of the prohormone 3, 5, 3′, 5′-L-tetraiodothyronine (T4) by the type 2 iodothyronine deiodinase (D2). The single-nucleotide polymorphism in ...
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La sindrome di Morton
Morton’s syndrome (MS) is a typical metatarsalgia, due to an intermetatarsal neuroma. Patients complain of burning pain in the lateral metatarsal region, extending into the third, fourth or both toes. Patients...
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High-dose short-term folate administration modifies ambulatory blood pressure in postmenopausal women. A placebo-controlled study
In humans low intake or low levels of folate are related to elevated homocysteine (Hcy) or blood pressure (BP). This study was performed to test whether in healthy postmenopausal women a 3-week administration ...
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Helicobacter pylori Seroprevalence in Selected Groups of Albanian Volunteers
Albania is a Mediterranean, South–East European develo** country where epidemiological data on infectious diseases are scarce. In this study, the seroprevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection in 1,088 Albania...
