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Use of ICS in COPD: From Blockbuster Medicine to Precision Medicine
2017
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major cause of mortality worldwide, whose burden is expected to increase in the next decades, because of numerous risk factors, including the aging of the population. COPD is both preventable and treatable by an effective management including risk factor reduction, prevention, assessment, and treatment of acute exacerbations and co-morbidities. The available agents approved for COPD treatment are long-acting or ultra-long-acting β2-agonists (LABAs) and long-acting muscarinic antagonists (LAMAs) bronchodilators, as well as inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) in combination with LABAs. ICS use has been restricted only to selected COPD patients by th…
Rifiuti: riformare il sistema, abbandonare l'emergenza
2014
L’uso delle discariche in Italia supera il 40% dei rifiuti prodotti, due punti in più rispetto alla media europea. A pesare sul dato italiano sono i pessimi dati del sud: Molise e Basilicata 80% circa; Calabria e Puglia 70% circa; Campania 50% circa. Il primato è della Sicilia, che “butta” in discarica il 90% delle materie prime contenute nei rifiuti prodotti.
Sichelgaita di Salerno, principessa longobarda, nei «Gesta Roberti Wiscardi» di Guglielmo il Pugliese
2020
L’articolo è dedicato alla raffigurazione della principessa longobarda Sichelgaita di Salerno, seconda moglie di Roberto il Guiscardo, nei «Gesta Roberti Wiscardi» di Guglielmo il Pugliese, l’unico poema epico-storico dei secc. XI-XII che tratti della conquista normanna dell’Italia meridionale. In questa nota, Sichelgaita viene presentata attraverso il suo profilo storico e biografico e alla luce della disamina di alcuni passi del poema (in particolare, II 416-443). This paper is devoted to the figure of Robert Guiscard’s second wife, the Lombard princess Sichelgaita of Salerno, in William of Puglia’s «Gesta Roberti Wiscardi», the only epic-historical poem of XIth-XIIth centuries that deals…
Carlo Scarpa in Sicilia 1952-1978.
2012
Il contributo degli architetti siciliani ai concorsi per le nuove chiese italiane della CEI
2015
Il saggio analizza il contributo degli architetti siciliani ai concorsi per le nuove chiese italiane della CEI. Nell’ambito di tale lunga esperienza promossa dalla CEI, il contributo degli architetti siciliani alla realizzazione delle nuove chiese italiane appare particolarmente significativo e si distingue per una costante presenza in tutti i concorsi e per la qualità dei risultati raggiunti attraverso l’esplorazione di temi progettuali tutti interni al processo di rinnovamento liturgico e rituale. Pasquale Culotta e Giuseppe (Bibi) Leone sono i primi a esordire nell’iniziale concorso indetto nel 1998 con il progetto per la parrocchia di San Giovan Battista in Lecce. L’anno successivo, Vin…
Caratterizzazione geomorfologica e sedimentaria di un margine continentale sottoalimentato: analisi sismo-acustica del sistema piattaforma-scarpata d…
2014
“Smoke, Choline-Acetyl-Transferase, Muscarinic Receptors and fibroblast proliferation in COPD
2009
Acetylcholine (ACh), synthesized by choline acetyltransferase (ChAT), and muscarinic M1, M2, and M3 receptors (MRs) are involved in fibroblast proliferation. We evaluated ChAT, MRs, and extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) 1/2 and nuclear factor (NF) κB activation in lung fibroblasts from patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), control smokers, and controls. Human fetal lung fibroblasts (HFL-1) stimulated with interleukin (IL)-1β, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, and cigarette smoke extracts (CSEs) were evaluated for ChAT and MR expression. We tested the effects of ACh on fibroblast proliferation and its ability to bind fibroblasts from patients with COPD, control s…
Examining the predictors of prosocial behavior in young offenders and nonoffenders
2021
Research on young offenders has primarily focused on identifying predictors of the maladaptive, aggressive behavior; there is a scarcity of evidence on factors that relate to prosocial behavior in these adolescents. The current study examined the link from parenting, emotional instability, and prosocial reasoning to prosocial behavior, while also examining the mediating roles of empathic concern (EC) and perspective taking (PT) in a sample of Spanish adolescent offenders compared to a sample of nonoffenders. Participants were 440 adolescents: 220 young offenders residing in four Youth Detention Centres of Valencia (67.3% men) and 220 enrolled in public and private schools within the metrop…
An analysis of the price escalation of non-linear water tariffs for domestic uses in Spain
2015
Abstract Efficient and sustainable water resource use and management is becoming increasingly important, especially in regions under water stress. The use of increasing block pricing involving an escalation or progressivity of unit prices in tariff systems is an economic instrument that contributes to achieving this objective. More progressive tariffs are expected to contribute to a better allocation of resources and avoid their wastage. This article analyses the determinants of the price escalation of water supply tariffs in Spain, a country subject to a high water stress throughout most of its territory. The main objective is to discern whether differences in the degree of progressivity i…
CCDC 831126: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
2011
Related Article: E.Nauha, E.Kolehmainen, M.Nissinen|2011|CrystEngComm|13|6531|doi:10.1039/c1ce05730h