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Open AccessBiodiversity patterns of cyanobacterial oligotypes in lakes and rivers: results of a large-scale metabarcoding survey in the Alpine region
In this work, we characterised the cyanobacterial communities in the plankton and littoral biofilm of 38 lakes and in the biofilm of 21 rivers in the Alps and surrounding subalpine regions by 16S rRNA gene met...
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Firmware Dynamic Analysis Through Rewriting
The proliferation of IoT devices and their increasing integration into daily life has led to significant security concerns. Due to the presence of a multitude of easily exploitable security vulnerabilities, th...
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SigIL: A Signature-Based Approach of Malware Detection on Intermediate Language
The Internet of Things (IoT) has brought about significant advancements in connectivity but has also introduced security challenges due to the diverse range of IoT devices. Traditional security solutions strug...
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Open AccessIdentification and prediction of attacks to industrial control systems using temporal point processes
The task of identifying malicious activities in logs and predicting threats is crucial nowadays in industrial sector. In this paper, we focus on the identification of past malicious activities and in the predi...
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Emotion Recognition in Preschool Children: The Role of Age, Gender and Emotional Categories
This study aims to contribute to the research on emotion recognition through facial cues during preschool age, which is a critical period for human cognitive development. The work investigates differences betw...
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Toward an Interoperable Catalogue of Multimodal Depression-Related Data
The need to establish an intelligent tool for semi-automatic diagnosis of depression on high-quality data, requires trustworthy, interoperable and multimodal data repositories. Such databases should be based o...
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Are the Gambler’s Fallacy or the Hot-Hand Fallacy due to an Erroneous Probability Estimate?
Through two experiments we investigated, in a laboratory setting, whether a series of identical outcomes in a supposed random game would induce the gambler’s fallacy or the hot-hand fallacy. By using two indic...
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The Pathology of FXTAS
In 2002, a syndrome of tremor, ataxia, cognitive decline, and the presence of unique ubiquitin staining intranuclear inclusions in the brain was discovered in premutation males carrying an expansion of between...
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Semantic Web Technologies for Object Tracking and Video Analytics
As demonstrated in several research contexts, some of the best performing state of the art algorithms for object tracking integrate a traditional bottom-up approach with some knowledge of the scene and aims of...
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Black coats in an admixed wolf × dog pack is melanism an indicator of hybridization in wolves?
The use of functional mutations, in addition to standard noncoding molecular markers, can help to detect hybridization and gene introgression in wild canid populations. We analyzed ancestry of a canid pack bre...
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Monitoring wolves (Canis lupus) by non-invasive genetics and camera trap**: a small-scale pilot study
Monitoring populations of elusive large carnivores like wolves (Canis lupus), which are often distributed at low density in widespread forested areas, is difficult or exceedingly expensive. Aiming to assess the p...
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Time-Resolved Surveys of Stellar Clusters
We describe the information that can be gained when a survey is done multi-epoch, and its particular impact in open cluster research. We first explain the irreplaceable information that multi-epoch observation...
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Genome-wide SNP and haplotype analyses reveal a rich history underlying dog domestication
The development of the domestic dog is a fascinating example of a dramatic radiation in form and function that has occurred rapidly in association with the expansion of human civilization. An extensive genome-...
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Open AccessReduction of serum IGF-I levels in patients affected with Monoclonal Gammopathies of undetermined significance or Multiple Myeloma. Comparison with bFGF, VEGF and K-ras gene mutation
Serum levels of IGF-I in patients affected with multiple myeloma (MM) have been scarcely studied. The present study is aimed to explore this point comparing 55 healthy subjects, 71 monoclonal gammopaties of un...
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Establishment of cell lines from serial samples from two patients with lung tumours before and after chemotherapy
Six cell lines were derived from pleural effusions of two lung cancer patients and established in vitro in our laboratory. Cell line AE1 was obtained from a small cell lung cancer (SCLC) before the patient had re...
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Establishment, characterization and chemosensitivity of two human glioma derived cell lines
Two continuous human glioma derived cell lines, LI and DF, were established in our laboratory. Both cell lines showed cytological features andin vitro behavior similar to those of the respective original neoplasm...
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Influence of scheduling on therapeutic and toxic effect of AMSA in Lewis lung carcinoma
The antitumor activity and toxic effect of AMSA were studied in Lewis lung carcinoma (3LL) at various stages of growth. The total dose of drug injected IP was 15 mg/kg, which is equivalent to the LD10. Different ...