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Body mass index and factors associated with overweight and obesity: a crosssectional in a small city of Western Sicily (Italy)
2012
<p><strong>Background</strong>: although the epidemiological features of overweight and obesity have been well described, especially for very populous urban areas, less evidences are available for small urban areas. The aim of the present work was to assess BMI and factors associated with overweight and obesity in a representative sample of general population of a small city of Western Sicily (Italy).</p><p><strong>Methods</strong>: four hundred and eleven randomly selected adult subjects from general population living in a small Sicilian city with 7 144 inhabitants were interviewed by a standardized questionnaire investigating life-styles, eating h…
Computational modelling of boron nitride nanostructures based on density-functional tight-binding
2014
Boorinitridin (BN) nanorakenteet ovat sekä rakenteellisesti että lujuusominaisuuksiensa puolesta hyvin samankaltaisia vastaavien hiilirakenteiden kanssa. Suurimpana erona on BN:n sähköinen eristävyys kun taas hiilirakenteet ovat johteita tai puolijohteita. BN onkin hyvin lupaava nanomateriaali ja sille on odotettavissa sovelluksia muun muassa muiden nanorakenteiden suojaajana ja komposiittimateriaalien nanokudosaineena. BN:n nanorakenteiden ominaisuuksia tutkitaan laskennallisesti yleensä joko tiheysfunktionaaliteorialla (DFT) tai tiukan sidoksen (TB) malleilla. Ensin mainittu on tarkka mutta laskennallisesti vaativa, kun taas jälkimmäinen on laskennallisesti kevyt mutta epätarkka. Tässä ty…
Identification and molecular characterization of an antigen of Babesia bigemina with homology to the Apical Membrane Antigen 1 (AMA-1) of Apicomplexa
2008
Babesia bigemina Apical Membrane Antigen-1: features of the gene and predictive information of the protein from Italian strains
2010
Babesia bigemina is a tick-borne haemoparasite affecting cattle in different parts of the world. One of the few antigens characterized in this species codifies for the Apical Membrane Antigen 1 (AMA-1), a transmembrane protein recently identified. In this work, we characterized the ama-1 gene from four Italian B.bigemina strains, two obtained from Ragusa, Sicily (ITA1 and ITA3), one obtained from Benevento, Campania (ITA2) and one coming from Perugia, Umbria (ITA4). Italian sequences were compared to the Australian strain, whose sequence is available in the Sanger Institute web site, and to some strains coming from different parts of the world. This study provides useful information on the …