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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design and Development of New Wearable and Protective Equipment for Human Spaceflights
Exposure to microgravity poses challenges to the astronaut's musculoskeletal system, causing temporary issues that can be addressed through exercise routines. For long-duration space missions, wearable technol...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Portable BLE-Controllable Micropump Driver for Lab-on-Chip Applications
Research in the deployment of compact systems for microfluidic analysis is gathering attention from the industrial and academic world. In this work, we propose a portable battery-powered driver for active micr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Effect of Do** Concentration and Band Offset on the Efficiency of Homojunction Perovskite Solar Cells
In the field of renewable energy sources, perovskite solar cells have garnered significant attention thanks to remarkable power conversion efficiency and low fabrication cost. Among various attempts explored t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Analysis of the Divider Control Policy for a Fractional Low-Power Time Synchronization Algorithm
In the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) applications, time synchronization assumes a relevant role as in every distributed system. Various protocols and algorithms have been developed for this purpose. Recent...
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Article
Laser gyroscope precisely tracks the Earth’s rotation
Precise measurements of the length of an Earth day are essential for understanding global mass transport phenomena. A ring laser gyroscope provides absolute measurements of variations in the length of the day ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Debris Detection and Tracking Through On-Board LiDAR
The uncontrolled growth of space debris around the Earth is forcing satellites to increasingly disrupt their operations in order to prevent potentially catastrophic collisions. Currently, decisions on avoidanc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Metals Potential Removal Efficiency of Permeable Pavement
Permeable Pavement (PP) represents a good solution to solve stormwater management problems both in quantitative and qualitative way. In this way, the potential removal efficiency of a permeable pavement in tre...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Electro-Photonic Chip-Scale Microsystem for Label-Free Single Bacteria Monitoring
Monitoring of bacteria metabolism/viability at single level during the antibiotics action is a crucial functionality for systems supporting the development of new drugs able to kill bacteria resistant to all o...
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A Comprehensive Approach to Stormwater Management Problems in the Next Generation Drainage Networks
In an urban environment, sewer flooding and combined sewer overflows (CSOs) are a potential risk to human life, economic assets and the environment. In this way, traditional urban drainage techniques seem to b...
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Article
Open AccessA polymorphism of HMGA1 is associated with increased risk of metabolic syndrome and related components
The metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a common disorder, where systemic insulin-resistance is associated with increased risk for type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular disease. Identifying genetic traits influenc...
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Open AccessHMGA1 is a novel downstream nuclear target of the insulin receptor signaling pathway
High-mobility group AT-hook 1 (HMGA1) protein is an important nuclear factor that activates gene transcription by binding to AT-rich sequences in the promoter region of DNA. We previously demonstrated that HMG...
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Open AccessThe cAMP-HMGA1-RBP4 system: a novel biochemical pathway for modulating glucose homeostasis
We previously showed that mice lacking the high mobility group A1 gene (Hmga1-knockout mice) developed a type 2-like diabetic phenotype, in which cell-surface insulin receptors were dramatically reduced (below 10...
