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Comparison of machine learning and logistic regression as predictive models for adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes of preeclampsia: A retrospecti…

2022

IntroductionPreeclampsia, one of the leading causes of maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality, demands accurate predictive models for the lack of effective treatment. Predictive models based on machine learning algorithms demonstrate promising potential, while there is a controversial discussion about whether machine learning methods should be recommended preferably, compared to traditional statistical models.MethodsWe employed both logistic regression and six machine learning methods as binary predictive models for a dataset containing 733 women diagnosed with preeclampsia. Participants were grouped by four different pregnancy outcomes. After the imputation of missing values, statistic…

Tra madre e padre. Immagini di educazione familiare nel cinema degli anni Cinquanta

2017

Questo contributo propone un’analisi delle relazioni genitoriali poste in essere nelle famiglie italiane degli anni Cinquanta. Seguendo le suggestioni della recente Visual History, viene scelto il cinema come fonte cui attingere per ricostruire i rapporti tra madre e padre che, nel “decennio più lungo del secolo breve”, si avviavano ad una lenta ridefinizione. Il codice paterno, che il cinema neorealista descrive in tutta la sua problematicità, e il codice materno, che il melò consegna al pubblico nella sua ambiguità, sono descritti come due mondi separati che solo nel genere della commedia sembrano inaugurare una loro ricomposizione, se pur difficoltosa e solo abbozzata. Il modello offerto…

MATERNAL COPING STRATEGIES IN RESPONSE TO A CHILD’S CHRONIC AND ONCOLOGICAL DISEASE. A CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY – ITALY & PORTUGAL

2013

Background: A child’s chronic or oncological disease is a stressful condition for parents, that may affect the adaptive management helpful for warranting the child’s wellbeing to a disease. Particularly, this study focuses on the possible connections between the variable “culture” and parental strategies to cope with child’s severe disease, by a comparison between Italian and Portuguese mothers. Design and Methods: This research inquires differences and cross-cultural elements among the coping strategies used by Italian and Portuguese mothers of child with chronic or oncological disease. Participants are two mothers’ groups: 59 Italian mothers (M=37,7; SD=4,5) and 36 Portuguese mothers (M=3…

Maternal Depression, Attachment Disorders and Psychopatology in Childhood. A Clinical Study

2011

The role of parental effect and relatedness on early development of vendace and whitefish in short and long winter

2015

Tutkimuksessa testattiin ilmastonmuutoksen vaikutuksia muikun (Coregonus albula) ja siian (C. lavaretus) alkioiden kuolevuuteen, alkioiden kasvuun, kuoriutumisaikaan ja kuoriutumiskokoon. Koejärjestely toteutettiin sekä muikulla että siialla yksilöllisinä ristiinhedelmöityksinä tavoitteena selvittää naaraan ja koiraan vaikutusta sekä niiden yhdysvaikutusta mitattaviin muuttujiin. Sen lisäksi muikun emokalojen sukulaisuutta tutkittiin mikrosatelliittien avulla, jotta nähtäisiin voiko sisäsiitosdepressio selittää eroja jälkeläisten kuolevuudessa eri emoparien välillä. Munia haudottiin lyhyen talven sekä pitkän talven lämpöoloissa. Siian alkioiden kuolleisuus oli huomattavasti alhaisempaa kuin…

MATERNAL EXPOSURE TO STRESSFUL/TRAUMATIC EVENTS AND AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS IN OFFSPRING: PRELIMINARY FINDINGS OF A CASE CONTROL PILOT STUDY.

2023

The correlation between maternal exposure to stressful and traumatic events during pregnancy and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in offspring has been studied in the literature. Fewer studies, however, have considered the mother's exposure to traumatic events during childhood. This work focuses on maternal exposure to these events in childhood and/or adulthood, relating it to autism spectrum disorder in offspring. A questionnaire was used to assess whether and to what type of event the mothers have been exposed, and to assess eventual peri-traumatic dissociation related to the traumatic event. The mothers involved in this study were recruited at the Child Neuropsychiatry Outpatient Clinic of…

Extracellular vesicles in the human maternal-embryo crosstalk during the preconception period

2020

ANTECEDENTES: nuestro grupo demostró que el endometrio humano secreta exosomas (EXOs) al líquido endometrial (LE) con un contenido en miRNAs específico que puede ser internalizado por el embrión para favorecer la adhesión embrionaria. OBJETIVOS: definir y caracterizar los diferentes tipos de vesículas extracelulares (VEs) secretados por el endometrio humano al LE y estudiar su contenido en DNA, determinar si es internalizado por el embrión y si afecta a su regulación energética. MATERIALES Y MÉTODOS: El aislamiento de las VEs del LE se realizó mediante centrifugación diferencial. Se estudió su morfología, marcadores moleculares, tamaño y concentración a lo largo del ciclo menstrual. Su cont…

Clinical Manifestation and Obstetric Outcomes in Pregnant Women with SARS-CoV-2 Infection at Delivery: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis

2022

This retrospective cohort study aimed to analyze the clinical manifestations, complications, and maternal-fetal outcomes in patients affected by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection during delivery. The cohort included 61 pregnant women positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection at the time of delivery. Patients were divided into two groups: symptomatic and asymptomatic. We found a significantly higher rate of leukocytosis (p < 0.00078) and lymphopenia (p < 0.0024) in symptomatic women compared with asymptomatic ones. Other laboratory parameters, such as CRP (p = 0.002), AST (p = 0.007), LDH (p = 0.0142), ferritin (p = 0.0036), and D-dimer (p = 0.00124), were …

Childhood Obesity and Maternal Personality Traits: A New Point of View on Obesity Behavioural Aspects.

2021

The epidemic spread of childhood obesity in Western society has interested many researchers, who agree in defining it as a multifactorial disease in which not only eating habits and sedentary lifestyle play a role, but also genetic predisposition. The aim of this study was to analyze the personality profile of a group of mothers of children with obesity and to compare this profile to that of a group of mothers of children without obesity. A total of 258 mothers participated in the study (126 mothers of children with obesity and 132 mothers of children without obesity). Weight and height were measured and the body mass index was calculated. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory sec…

Data from: Paternal signature in kin recognition cues of a social insect: concealed in juveniles, revealed in adults

2014

Kin recognition is a key mechanism to direct social behaviours towards related individuals or avoid inbreeding depression. In insects, recognition is generally mediated by cuticular hydrocarbon (CHC) compounds, which are partly inherited from parents. However, in social insects, potential nepotistic conflicts between group members from different patrilines are predicted to select against the expression of patriline-specific signatures in CHC profiles. Whereas this key prediction in the evolution of insect signalling received empirical support in eusocial insects, it remains unclear whether it can be generalized beyond eusociality to less-derived forms of social life. Here, we addressed this…