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Association between sarcopenia and quality of life among adults aged ≥ 65 years from low- and middle-income countries
2022
Background Sarcopenia has been associated with a lower quality of life (QoL). However, studies on this association from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are scarce. Aims To examine the association between sarcopenia and QoL, in a large nationally representative sample of older adults from six LMICs. Methods Cross-sectional, community-based data from the WHO study on global ageing and adult health (SAGE) were analysed. Non-severe sarcopenia was defined as having low skeletal muscle mass (SMM) and weak handgrip strength but no slow gait speed, while severe sarcopenia was defined as having low SMM, weak handgrip strength, and slow gait speed. QoL was assessed with the 8-item WHO QoL in…
How to preserve and handle fish liver samples to conserve RNA integrity
2019
As transcriptomic studies are becoming more and more common, it is important to ensure that the RNA used in the analyses is of good quality. The RNA integrity may be compromised by storage temperature or freeze-thaw cycles, but these have not been well studied in poikilothermic fishes. This work studied the effects of tissue storage time and temperature, and freeze-thaw cycles of tissue and extracted RNA on RNA integrity in brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) liver. The storage time and temperature had an effect on RNA integrity, but RNA suitable for quantitative reverse transcription PCR (RT-qPCR) (RIN > 7) was still obtained from samples preserved at − 20 °C for 6 months. Freeze-thaw cycles of …
Condition and Sperm Characteristics of Perch Perca fluviatilis inhabiting Boreal Lakes Receiving Metal Mining Effluents.
2020
AbstractOne of the world’s largest, but low-grade, sulfide nickel deposits in northeastern Finland has been exploited by a bioheapleaching technology since 2008. Bioheapleaching is a relatively new, cost-effective technology, but humid climate, e.g., in boreal temperate environments, causes challenges to the management of the water balance in the ore heaps with wide catchment area, and the mining effluents have caused substantial metal and salting contamination of the receiving waterbodies. In our study, the impacts of metal-extracting bioheapleaching mine effluents on muscle and liver element concentrations, body condition, liver and testes mass, and sperm count and motility of male perch …
Early distal remodeling after elephant trunk repair of thoraco-abdominal aortic aneurysms
2016
Hemodynamic alterations occur when the elephant trunk (ET) technique is adopted to treat extensive aortic aneurysms. In planning the 2nd stage operation to complete ET repair, surgeons must weigh an adequate recovery time after initial surgery against the risk of postoperative ET-related complications. The purpose of this study was to understand the mechanistic link between the flow alteration caused by the ET graft and the development of premature aortic rupture before the 2nd stage operation. Specifically, fluid-structure interaction (FSI) analysis was performed using the CT imaging data of aorta at different stages of ET repair, and then computational variables were compared to those obs…
Gozos, y loores al dulcissimo nombre de Maria, y Jesus Sacramentado, cuya Cofadria està fundada en la Iglesia Parroquial de S. Estevan de Valencia.
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Alkali-Activated Adsorbents from Slags: Column Adsorption and Regeneration Study for Nickel(II) Removal
2021
Alkali-activated adsorbents were synthesized by mixing three different slags from the steel industry: blast furnace slag (BFS), ladle slag (LS), and Lintz–Donawitz converter slag (LD). These powdered slag-based geopolymers (GP) were used to remove nickel(II) from aqueous solutions in fixed-bed column studies. The experiments were conducted in pH 6 using a phosphate buffer with initial nickel(II) concentration of 50 mg/L. Samples were taken at time intervals of between 5 and 90 min. Three adsorption–desorption cycles were implemented with a flow rate of 5 mL/min. The geopolymers were characterized by Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), Field Emissi…
LA CRITICA MUSICALE ITALIANA DAVANTI A L’ORFEO: 1909-1935
2021
L'Orfeo di Claudio Monteverdi venne riscoperto e messo in scena a partire dai primi anni del Novecento. L'articolo prende in esame le prime rappresentazioni italiane tra il 1909 e il 1935 e discute i testi di alcuni esponenti della critica italiana, tra cui Andrea Della Corte e Franco Abbiati.
«LE ARMONIE IMITTANO… LI STREPPITI DE’ VENTI… IL BELAR DELLE PECORE, IL NITRIR DE’ CAVALLI». NATURA E PASSIONI IN MONTEVERDI
2018
Monteverdi esprime la sua idea di imitazione della natura in una lettera del , e laapplica in diverse composizioni. In particolare è interessante analizzare il madrigal A un giro sol, dal quarto libro, in cui Monteverdi mette in musica due affetti opposti: la gioia e la luminosità della natura, e la sofferenza del poeta innamorato. Il primo viene espresso attraverso una musica puramente diatonica, il secondo tramite il cromatismo e le dissonanze. L’aproccio di Monteverdi mostra anche somiglianze con la pittura di paesaggio del suo tempo, come risulta evidente dalla comparazione con gli scritti di Giovanni Battista Agucchi. Monteverdi expresses his idea about the musical imitation of nat…
Accuracy of SCORTEN to predict the prognosis of Stevens‐Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis: a systematic review and meta‐analysis
2019
BACKGROUND The SCORTEN score is a specific predictor of the probability of death for patients diagnosed with Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS)/toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN). OBJECTIVES To evaluate the overall accuracy of SCORTEN and the influence of several moderators such as age, sex, geographical region and age of the study. METHODS A systematic search was performed on MEDLINE, The Cochrane Library, EMBASE, SCOPUS and Web of Knowledge, with no restriction on language (last update 5 February 2019 for all databases). Original studies on the use of SCORTEN were eligible. The standardized mortality ratio (SMR), defined as the quotient between the number of deaths observed and the number expec…