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Distribution of biomass and site location of combustion and gasification power plants in western Sicily

2012

The substitution of conventional fossil fuels with biomass for energy production results both in the reduction of greenhouse gases emissions and in the replacement of non-renewable energy sources. The use of biomass for energy production responds to the growing pressure of government policies towards the achievement of better environmental sustainability of power generation processes. This is particularly true for the agricultural areas of Sicily, where the realization of new economic dynamics can lead to development of a local economic system. However, at present, generating energy from biomass is rather expensive due to both technological limits related to low conversion efficiencies, and…

VALUTAZIONE DELL’INCIDENZA DEL LINFEDEMA SECONDARIO ALLA PROCEDURA DELLA BIOPSIA DEL LINFONODO SENTINELLA NEL TRATTAMENTO DEL MELANOMA DEL TRONCO E D…

BIODEGRADACJA ZWIĄZKÓW FOSFONOWYCH PRZEZ GRZYBY

2020

Phosphonates are the group of organophosphorus compounds, which are characterized by the presence of covalent bond(s) between carbon and phosphorus atom in their structure. Both; the natural and synthetic phosphonic compounds, are encountered in various ecosystems, however because of their wide range of applications, the latter ones are considerably more frequently discussed. Regarding the broad spectrum of biological activity, capability to chelate metal cations and environmental stability of direct carbon to phosphorus bond under physiological conditions, phosphonic compounds found a variety of applications e.g. as pesticides, drugs, anticorrosive agents, additives to surfactants and flam…

Bisfosfonati: utilità terapeutiche e reazioni avverse di interesse odontostomatologico

2020

I bifosfonati hanno la capacità di modulare il turnover osseo, controllare e ridurre il rimodellamento in corso di riassorbimento.Il loro meccanismo d’azione si basa sulla capacità di inibire il riassorbimento osseo mediato dagli osteoclasti.

Dourges : projet d'extension de la plateforme multimodale Delta 3 : rapport de diagnostic

2014

Le diagnostic archéologique réalisé en amont de l'extension de la plateforme Delta 3 a permis de compléter et d'approfondir les connaissances concernant le territoire de Dourges. Les vestiges mis au jour couvrent plusieurs millénaires et concernent les périodes protohistoriques (âge du Bronze et Hallstatt) et historiques (de l'Antiquité jusqu'à l'époque moderne). Pour les périodes protohistoriques, il s'agit d'éléments épars qui ne semblent pas constituer à proprement parler un site. Cependant, des signes ténus d'occupation sont avérés dans ce secteur dés l'âge du Bronze ainsi que durant le premier âge du Fer. L'absence de vestiges de certaines périodes, particulièrement celles du second âg…

Fast Green’s Function Method for Ultrafast Electron-Boson Dynamics

2020

The interaction of electrons with quantized phonons and photons underlies the ultrafast dynamics of systems ranging from molecules to solids, and it gives rise to a plethora of physical phenomena experimentally accessible using time-resolved techniques. Green's function methods offer an invaluable interpretation tool since scattering mechanisms of growing complexity can be selectively incorporated in the theory. Currently, however, real-time Green's function simulations are either prohibitively expensive due to the cubic scaling with the propagation time or do neglect the feedback of electrons on the bosons, thus violating energy conservation. We put forward a computationally efficient Gree…

Searches for lepton number violating $K^+$ decays

2019

The NA62 experiment at CERN reports a search for the lepton number violating decays K+ -> pi(-)e(+)e(+) and K+ -> pi(-)mu(+)mu(+) using a data sample collected in 2017. No signals are observed, and upper limits on the branching fractions of these decays of 2.2 x 10(-10) and 4.2 x 10(-11) are obtained, respectively, at 90% confidence level. These upper limits improve on previously reported measurements by factors of 3 and 2, respectively.

The prognostic and predictive role of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (FoxP3 + and CD8 +) and tumor-associated macrophages in early HER2 + breast canc…

2023

Purpose In HER2-positive (HER2 +) breast cancer, tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) and tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) may influence the efficacy of the HER2-antibody trastuzumab and the patient’s outcome. In this HER2 + patient cohort, our aim was to study the numbers of FoxP3 + regulatory TILs and CD8 + cytotoxic TILs, their correlations with CD68 + and CD163 + TAMs, and the prognostic and predictive value of the studied factors. Methods We evaluated 139 non-metastatic HER2 + breast cancer patients operated between 2001 and 2008. The FoxP3+TIL count (FoxP3+TILs) was assessed using the hotspot method, and the CD8 + TIL count (CD8+mTILs) utilizing a digital image analysis from invas…

Anesthesia for Euthanasia Influences mRNA Expression in Healthy Mice and after Traumatic Brain Injury

2014

Tissue sampling for gene expression analysis is usually performed under general anesthesia. Anesthetics are known to modulate hemodynamics, receptor-mediated signaling cascades, and outcome parameters. The present study determined the influence of anesthetic paradigms typically used for euthanization and tissue sampling on cerebral mRNA expression in mice. Naïve mice and animals with acute traumatic brain injury induced by controlled cortical impact (CCI) were randomized to the following euthanasia protocols (n=10-11/group): no anesthesia (NA), 1 min of 4 vol% isoflurane in room air (ISO), 3 min of a combination of 5 mg/kg midazolam, 0.05 mg/kg fentanyl, and 0.5 mg/kg medetomidine intraperi…

Opening New Window in Upper Clival Region: Results from Anatomic Study.

2018

Considering its position located anteriorly to the brainstem, the retrosellar area, in particular the upper clival region and the interpeduncular cistern, is one of the most difficult regions to surgically approach. To date, many different operative solutions have been described, given that this region is attainable by both lateral and median approaches. Lateral routes include the frontolateral, subtemporal, and frontotemporozygomatic approaches with relative variants that have been extensively reported. Among the lateral approaches, the frontotemporozygomatic one is considered particularly useful because it allows better visualization of the retrosellar and suprasellar areas minimizing the…