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Open AccessThermal noise-limited beam balance as prototype of the Archimedes vacuum weight experiment and B-L dark photon search
We describe the behavior of a beam balance used for the measurement of small forces, in macroscopic samples, in tens of mHz frequency band. The balance, which works at room temperature, is the prototype of the...
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Open-Source Medical Device for in Vitro Diagnosis of Malaria
Malaria remains one of the greatest public health challenges at a global level. Early diagnosis can substantially reduce the number of victims. However, in low-middle income countries, which are mostly affecte...
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Open AccessArray analysis of seismic noise at the Sos Enattos mine, the Italian candidate site for the Einstein Telescope
The area surrounding the dismissed mine of Sos Enattos (Sardinia, Italy) is the Italian candidate site for hosting Einstein Telescope (ET), the third-generation gravitational wave (GW) observatory. One of the ...
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Open AccessCasimir energy for N superconducting cavities: a model for the YBCO (GdBCO) sample to be used in the Archimedes experiment
In this paper we study the Casimir energy of a sample made by N cavities, with \(N\gg 1\) ...
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Open AccessStructural organization of erythrocyte membrane microdomains and their relation with malaria susceptibility
Cholesterol-rich microdomains are membrane compartments characterized by specific lipid and protein composition. These dynamic assemblies are involved in several biological processes, including infection by in...
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Open AccessPicoradiant tiltmeter and direct ground tilt measurements at the Sos Enattos site
We report the tilt sensitivity reached by the ARCHIMEDES tiltmeter in the 2–20 Hz frequency region, where seismic noise is expected to give an important limitation to the sensitivity in the next future Gravita...
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An in-depth study of the volatile variability of chinotto (Citrus myrtifolia Raf.) induced by the extraction procedure
A variety of extraction methodologies were applied to chinotto (Citrus myrtifolia) fruits from Sicily, along with sensory and chemical analyses. By gas chromatographic techniques, either in monodimensional (GC-FI...
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Determination of Squalene in Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oils (EVOOs) by UPLC/PDA Using a Single-Step SPE Sample Preparation
In this paper, a simple extraction and fast detection procedure was used to determine squalene (SQ) in extra virgin olive oils (EVOOs). SQ was purified from EVOOs by an efficient single-step solid phase extrac...
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Open AccessDifferential antibody response to the Anopheles gambiae gSG6 and cE5 salivary proteins in individuals naturally exposed to bites of malaria vectors
Mosquito saliva plays crucial roles in blood feeding but also evokes in hosts an anti-saliva antibody response. The IgG response to the Anopheles gambiae salivary protein gSG6 was previously shown to be a reliabl...
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Analysis of Plasmodium falciparum diversity in natural infections by deep sequencing
Next-generation sequencing is used here to analyse Plasmodium falciparum genome variation directly from clinical blood samples, as well as cultured isolates, from Africa, Asia and Oceania.
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A serum fucose-binding lectin (DlFBL) from adult Dicentrarchus labrax is expressed in larva and juvenile tissues and contained in eggs
The purification, cloning, sequencing, molecular properties and expression of a fucose-binding lectin from the serum of Dicentrarchus labrax (DlFBL) have been previously reported. We now describe the distribution...
