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Chapter and Conference Paper
Remote Monitoring of COPD Patients During Non-invasive Mechanical Ventilation by a New Tele-medicine Device
Chronic obstructive pulmonary (COPD) disease is a progressive illness that will intensify over time. Exacerbation are frequent and likely caused by bacterial and viral respiratory infections. The management of...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Double Approach to Study VOC Composition in Biofluids of Young Men Living in the “Land of Fires” in Campania Region
Air pollution is involved in many pathologies. The pollutants act through several mechanisms that can affect numerous physiological functions, including reproduction. In this work we used a double approach to ...
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Article
In vitro profiling of endothelial volatile organic compounds under resting and pro-inflammatory conditions
The evaluation of volatile organic compounds(VOCs) emitted by human body offers a unique tool to set up new non-invasive devices for early diagnosis and long-lasting monitoring of most human diseases. However,...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Evaluation of the Volatile Organic Compounds Released from Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells and THP1 Cells Under Normal and Proinflammatory Conditions
Leukemia is a group of cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and result in high numbers of abnormal and dysfunctional white blood cells. Many studies were carried out to investigate metabolism of these...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Iron Oxides Nanoparticles Langmuir-Schaeffer Multilayers for Chemoresistive Gas Sensing
Gas sensors based on mixtures of iron oxides nanoparticles (NPs) modified with Pd NPs at the different NPs Pd: Fe3O4/γ-Fe2O3 proportions were prepared and characterized. Nanoparticles diameter was 6–7 nm. NPs fil...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Virtual Olfactory Device In EEG And Olfactory Conditioning Task: an OERP Study
Aim of this study is to investigate innovative olfactory applications of cognitive neuroscience in order to improve basic knowledge as well as to develop novel devices for enhancing synaesthetic experiences th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Breath Analysis by a GC/MS Coupled to a Gas Sensor Detector
A peculiar experimental configuration of a gas chromatograph (GC) coupled, by a splitter, to two detectors, i.e. a mass spectrometer (MS) and a semiconducting gas sensor (SGS), operating in dual mode, was arra...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Electrical and Morphological Characterization of TiO2 Electrospun Nanofibers
Titanium oxide nanofibers were successfully prepared via thermal treatment of electrospun composite polymer (PVP)/TiO2 nanofibers. The morphology and crystal structure were characterized by SEM and TEM. It was co...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Odorant Binding Proteins as Sensing Layers for Novel Gas Biosensors: An Impedance Spectroscopy Characterization
In this work, an ab-initio study of the electrical response to odorants of a self-assembled monolayer of a pig OBP immobilized onto a miniaturized Si-substrate equipped with gold interdigitated electrodes (IDE...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Synthesis and Gas Sensing Properties of ZnO Quantum Dots
ZnO nanocrystals were prepared by a wet chemical method based on alkaline-activated 10 hydrolysis and condensation of zinc acetate solutions. With this procedure, the mean crystallite size of the obtained powd...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Preparation and Electrical-Functional Characterization of Gas Sensors Based on TiO2 Nanometric Strips Using Impedance Spectroscopy
TiO2 nanometric aligned polycrystalline wires (“strips”) have been prepared by top down patterning of a TiO2 thin film. An electrical-functional characterization of the prepared TiO2 strips based sample was carri...
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Article
Outcome and Predictive Factors of Mortality in Hospitalized HIV-Patients in Burkina Faso
The aim of this study was to describe the clinical presentation and predictors of death in a HIV population hospitalized in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
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Article
NiO nanostructured films with Pt coating prepared by magnetron sputtering
Nanostructured NiO thin films were prepared by dc reactive magnetron sputtering in a mixture of oxygen and argon and subsequently coated by Pt on an NiO film surface. Pt very thin overlayers with a thickness o...
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In2O3 Thin Films Obtained Through a Chemical Complexation Based Sol-Gel Process and Their Application as Gas Sensor Devices
A new approach is presented for preparing In2O3 thin films starting from inorganic precursors, based on a very simple but effective modification of the usual precipitation-peptization process. Indium nitrate was ...
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Article
Medullary thyroid cancer, papillary thyroid microcarcinoma and Graves’ disease: An unusual clinical coexistence
We describe the unusual case of a Caucasian woman who had a diagnosis of medullary thyroid cancer and papillary microcarcinoma 5 years after a diagnosis of Graves’ disease. The patient came to our observation ...
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Atomic force microscopy characterization of sputtered vanadium oxide thin films grown on Al2O3 substrate
O5) thin films, which are good candidates for the realization of gas detectors, have been grown on rough alumina substrates and characterized by atomic force microscopy (AFM). The films were prepared by radiofre....
