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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Children and Adolescents with Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Emotional/Behavioral Symptoms and Parental Stress.
2022
The objective of our study was to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the emotional and behavioral symptoms in minors with neuropsychiatric disorders and on parental stress through a standardized neuropsychological assessment, comparing the data collected before the pandemic with those collected during the lock-down. Another goal of our study was to analyze the relationship between parental stress and behavioral/emotional symptoms in children. Our study was conducted on 383 families of patients who had already been referred at the Child Neuropsychiatry Unit of the University Hospital of Salerno for different neuropsychiatric conditions. All the parents completed two neuropsychol…
Dynamic analysis of prestressed cables with uncertain pretension
2002
This paper deals with finite element dynamic analysis of prestressed cables with uncertain pretension subjected to deterministic excitations. The theoretical model addressed for cable modeling is a two-dimensional finite-strain beam theory, which allows us to eliminate any restriction on the magnitude of displacements and rotations. The dynamic problem is formulated by referring the motion to the inertial frame, which leads to a simple uncoupled quadratic form for the kinetic energy. The effect of the externally applied stochastic pretension is approximately described by means of an uncertain 'axial' component of stress resultant, which is assumed constant along the cable in its dead load c…
Lesioni funzionali della cuffia dei rotatori; ruolo del “rotator cable” e del “rotator crescent”
2011
OBIETTIVO DIDATTICO. Descrivere due importanti componenti anatomiche del tendine del sovraspinato, il “rotator cable” ed il “rotator crescent”, ed il loro ruolo nelle lesioni della cuffia. Valutare le importanti implicazioni biomeccaniche e cliniche attribuite a questa struttura e la correlazione negativa tra "lesione della cuffia" e quadro clinico in termini di dolore e impotenza funzionale. INTRODUZIONE. La cuffia dei rotatori è un complesso funzionale composto da muscoli e tendini che provvedono a mantenere stabile la spalla. Il tendine del sovraspinato ne rappresenta la componente principale, e nel suo contesto si trova uno spesso gruppo di fibre perpendicolari al suo asse, descritto pe…
Concrete arch bridges built by lattice cantilevers
2013
In this paper a study about concrete arch bridges built by lattice cantilevers is presented. Lattice cantilevers are partial structures composed of deck, arch, piers and provisional steel diagonals, organized as reticular cantilever girders, in order to build arch bridges without the use of centrings, supports or temporary towers. Characteristics of this construction methodology with its variants are explained together with their implications in the erection sequence. Partial elastic scheme method is implemented in order to find initial forces of temporary cables and a forward analysis is carried out to follow the actual sequence of construction, by extending a procedure already applied to …
In the literature: June 2020.
2020
Immunotherapy based on checkpoint blockade has revolutionised cancer treatment during last years. Whereas this approach fails in a relevant group of patients, the knowledge on tumour microenvironment (TME) opened the possibility to the use of additional therapeutic strategies to potentiate antitumour immunity, including depletion of protumourigenic or immune suppressive and activation of specific immune populations using agonistic antibodies. Nevertheless, due to the complexity of the TME, many of these strategies have been indiscriminately advanced to the clinic without clear mechanistic hypotheses. Nowadays, single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq)-based transcriptome analyses identify T ce…
In the literature: August 2020.
2020
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) have become a key component of therapy for several solid tumours. In patients diagnosed with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC), immunotherapy has always been considered as a treatment option, and anti-PD-1-based therapies are approved in both the frontline and refractory settings. Response to PD-1 blockade has been associated with numerous tumour-intrinsic and microenvironment features. Genetic characterisation of ccRCC has significantly contributed to the knowledge of tumour biology and the mechanisms of disease progression, but the interplay of genomic alterations with patterns of immune infiltration in response to PD-1 blockade remains un…
Construction sequence analysis of long-span cable-stayed bridges
2018
Abstract In cantilever construction of long-span cable-stayed bridges the stressing sequence of stays is fundamental for establishing the final configuration of the bridge. The structural behaviour of these bridges is usually evaluated through a forward staged construction analysis, in which the values of the prestressing forces to be applied to stays are the main unknowns. A unified procedure for determining the initial cable forces and for analyzing the entire sequence is presented here, considering the geometric nonlinearity of stays through the Dischinger equivalent elastic modulus. The target is the simultaneous determination of the initial cable forces with the simulation of the const…
Power-Line Communication in Medium-Voltage System: Simulation Model and Onfield Experimental Tests
2012
The aim of this paper is to develop a complete model of a power-line communication (PLC) system operating on a medium-voltage (MV) network. The core-shield configuration was chosen for signal transmission in the power cables. In order to validate the developed model experimental, the medium-voltage network of the Favignana island was used to carry out detailed testing. The transmission was performed between two transformer substations in the presence of mains voltage (i.e., 24 kV). ST7540 FSK power-line transceivers, together with capacitive coupling interfaces, were used for the transmission and the reception of the communication signal. The correlation between the experimental measurement…
Venezuela's humanitarian crisis, resurgence of vector-borne diseases, and implications for spillover in the region
2019
In the past 5–10 years, Venezuela has faced a severe economic crisis, precipitated by political instability and declining oil revenue. Public health provision has been affected particularly. In this Review, we assess the impact of Venezuela's health-care crisis on vector-borne diseases, and the spillover into neighbouring countries. Between 2000 and 2015, Venezuela witnessed a 359% increase in malaria cases, followed by a 71% increase in 2017 (411 586 cases) compared with 2016 (240 613). Neighbouring countries, such as Brazil, have reported an escalating trend of imported malaria cases from Venezuela, from 1538 in 2014 to 3129 in 2017. In Venezuela, active Chagas disease transmission has be…
Oral trichomonosis: Description and severity of lesions in birds in Spain.
2020
Este artículo se encuentra disponible en la página web de la revista en la siguiente URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1383576920301264 This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Martínez-Herrero, M.C., Sansano-Maestre, J., Ortega, J., González, F., López-Márquez, I., Gómez-Muñoz, M.T. et al. (2020). Oral trichomonosis: description and severity of lesions in birds in Spain. Veterinary Parasitology, vol. 283, art. 109196, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vetpar.2020.109196. Este es el pre-print del siguiente artículo: Martínez-Herrero, M.C., Sansano-Maestre, J., Ortega, J., González, F., López-Márquez, I., Góme…