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Problematic internet use prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic
2021
The health and socio-economic challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic have led to greater reliance on the internet to meet basic needs and responsibilities. Greater engagement in online activities may have negative mental and physical health consequences for some vulnerable individuals, particularly under mandatory self-isolation or ‘lockdown’ conditions. The present study investigated whether changes in levels of involvement in online activities during the COVID-19 pandemic (i.e., watching TV series,online sexual activities, video games, social networks, gambling, online shopping, and instant messaging) were associated with problematic internet use, as well as whether certain psychol…
C9ORF72 in a Large Series of Italian and Sardinian Familial and Sporadic ALS Patients (IN9-1.003)
2012
Objective: To assess the frequency and the phenotype of a large series of Italian sALS and fALS with C9ORF72 repeat expansions. Background Recently we found that large expansions of hexanucleotide repeats (GGGGCC) in the first intron of the C9ORF72 gene, located in the chromosome 9p21, are related to familial and sporadic ALS cases(Renton et al, 2011). Design/Methods: We assessed 126 index fALS (106 Italians, 20 of Sardinians) and 601 sALS (485 Italians, 116 Sardinians), negative for other ALS-related genes mutations. Patients were collected through the ITALSGEN consortium. Repeat primer PCR to screen the presence of the hexanucleotide expansion in the first intron of C9ORF72 have been perf…
Soil interpretation in the context of anthropedogenic transformations and pedotechniques application
2018
Abstract Following a long and vigorous study carried out by the International Committee on Anthropogenic Soils (ICOMANTH), the Soil Taxonomy (ST) classification system recently incorporated a number of changes to include Human-Altered and Human-Transported soils, generally called anthropogenic soils. These changes underwent careful scrutiny as they affect the current classification of existing soil series, and as the proposals and logics are as yet untested against existing data and descriptions. Particular attention was given to the diagnostic characteristics of the anthropogenic soils and to the Subgroups for Human-Altered and Human-Transported soils. In this study, we consider a frequent…
Empirical analysis of daily cash flow time-series and its implications for forecasting
2019
Usual assumptions on the statistical properties of daily net cash flows include normality, absence of correlation and stationarity. We provide a comprehensive study based on a real-world cash flow data set showing that: (i) the usual assumption of normality, absence of correlation and stationarity hardly appear; (ii) non-linearity is often relevant for forecasting; and (iii) typical data transformations have little impact on linearity and normality. This evidence may lead to consider a more data-driven approach such as time-series forecasting in an attempt to provide cash managers with expert systems in cash management.
El “criado pesado”: la caracterización en la serie Águila Roja
2018
El presente articulo, partiendo de los mas recientes estudios sobre el discurso telecinematico, pretende contribuir a la investigacion en el ambito de la linguistica aplicada a las series televisivas, las cuales constituyen uno de los productos culturales populares mas influyentes en la sociedad contemporanea. El corpus de estudio esta compuesto por los guiones completos de la exitosa serie Aguila Roja, emitida por Radio Television Espanola entre 2009 y 2016. Compaginando tecnicas de la linguistica de corpus y del analisis del discurso, este estudio examina la caracterizacion de Satur, uno de los personajes principales de la ficcion, a traves de la co-construccion del significado elaborada …
Crystal structure analysis of supramolecular arrangements in bis(1-isoquinolinecarboxamide)alkanes and their Ag(i) complexes
2017
A homologous series of bis(1-isoquinolinecarboxamide)alkane derivatives (3a–f) with two to seven carbon atoms in the alkyl bridge and their Ag(I) complexes (4a–f) have been synthesized. Four ligand and five Ag(I) complex crystal structures were obtained by single crystal X-ray diffraction and analyzed in terms of: a) their structural patterns based on intra- and intermolecular hydrogen bonds which were compared to those of bis(2-quinolinecarboxamide)alkanes (1n) and bis(6-quinolinecarboxamide)alkanes (2n) attending to specific geometrical parameters and b) the Ag(I) coordinate bond effect on these patterns and the amide-to-amide hydrogen bonds. The crystal structures of the ligands 3a, 3c, …
Simultaneous determination of C1−C8 n-alkyl acetates and corresponding mono-, di- and trichloroacetates on glass capillary columns with programmed te…
1982
Gas chromatography of mixtures of aliphaticn-alkyl acetates (CH3−COOR), chloroacetates (CHCl2−COOR), dichloroacetates (CHCl2−COOR) and trichloroacetates (CCl3−COOR), where the alcohol chain length (R) varied between 1 and 8, has been studied on SE-30, Carbowax 20M and OV-351 glass capillary columns with programmed temperatures from 50°C at 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10°C/min. Compounds in the homologous series are eluted in the direct order from methyl ton-octyl acetate. The isomeric chloro esters are eluted on SE-30 according to their boiling points in the order: mono-, di- and trichloro isomer, whereas on polar columns di- and trichloro esters are eluted in the reverse order. The complete separation …
Gas chromatography of homologous esters
1984
Abstract The gas chromatographic retention behaviour of the butanoyl and 2-, 3- and 4-chlorobutanoyl esters of C 3 —C 5 saturated aliphatic branched-chain and unsaturated C 3 —C 6 alcohols on SE-30 and OV-351 glass capillary columns operated iso-thermally at several temperatures is reported. Retention index increments at 80, 120 and 160°C show the effects of chain branching and the olefinic and acetylenic unsaturation in the alkyl chain and the effect of the position of the chlorine substituent in the acyl chain. The results are compared with the behaviour of the corresponding n -alkyl esters and the chlorinated propanoyl esters.
On the stability of the 24-meric hemocyanin from Eurypelma californicum.
1998
The stability of the 24-meric hemocyanin from Eurypelma californicum towards various denaturants (GdnHCl, urea, urea derivatives and salts of the Hofmeister series) indicates that the quaternary structure is stabilized by hydrophilic and polar forces. Thus, the interaction between the seven different subunit types of this cheliceratan hemocyanin is comparable with that of the closely related crustacean hemocyanins. In contrast, no significant influence of divalent ions such as Ca2+ and Mg2+ on the stability is observed at pH 8.0 and pH 8.5 but not at pH 7.0. Studies, both in the presence of urea and GdnHCl indicate that the denaturation process consists of a dissociation of the oligomeric s…
Structure and reactivity of a mononuclear gold(II) complex.
2017
Mononuclear gold(II) complexes are very rare labile species. Transient gold(II) species have been suggested in homogeneous catalysis and in medical applications, but their geometric and electronic structures have remained essentially unexplored: even fundamental data, such as the ionic radius of gold(II), are unknown. Now, an unprecedentedly stable neutral gold(II) complex of a porphyrin derivative has been isolated, and its structural and spectroscopic features determined. The gold atom adopts a 2+2 coordination mode in between those of gold(III) (four-coordinate square planar) and gold(I) (two-coordinate linear), owing to a second-order Jahn–Teller distortion enabled by the relativistical…