Academic Articles & Research Papers

Association of negative opinions towards telepsychiatry with its prior use and the level of geriatric psychiatry care among nursing home stakeholders

Objectives: Despite the benefits of geriatric telepsychiatry, the lack of support from the staff remains one of the major challenges it faces. We wanted to explore whether negative opinions towards telepsychiatry in nursing home (NH) stakeh...

Impact of the Age of Cecal Material Transfer Donors on Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology in 5xFAD Mice

Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder affecting around 30 million patients worldwide. The predominant sporadic variant remains enigmatic as the underlying cause has still not been identified. Since efficient therap...

Spatial and temporal distribution of vertical ground movements at Mt. Vesuvius in the period 1973-2009

Since the early ’70s vertical ground movements at Mount Vesuvius area have been investigated and monitored by the Osservatorio Vesuviano (Isti-tuto Nazionale di Geofisica Vulcanologia - Osservatorio Vesuviano since 2001). This monitoring be...

Vulsino volcanic aquifer in Umbria Region : Hydrogeological survey for the characterization of the presence of arsenic and aluminium and the correct use of groundwater

In December 2009 and the first months of 2010, a large water crisis took place in the Orvieto area, because of sudden high concentration of aluminum (Al) in the groundwater of the vulsino aquifer. This represents a supply for Orvieto’s popu...

Medico-Legal Applications of the Human Microbiome and Critical Issues Due to Environmental Transfer: A Review

Microbiome has recently seen an increase in its forensic applications. It could be employed to identify a suspect when DNA is not available; it can be used to establish postmortem interval (PMI). Furthermore, it could prove to be fundamenta...

Does wet-cupping therapy improve repeated sprint ability, perceived wellness, and rating of perceived exertion in young active males?

Wet-cupping therapy (WCT) is one of the oldest known medical techniques, used as a traditional and complementary therapy with a wide application all around the world for general health. Research on the effects of WCT on sports performance a...

Human rights and humanitarian forensic action: the experience in Uruguay

Humanitarian Forensic Action (HFA) is considered a new field of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Sciences where the forensic science is applied to different humanitarian activities. In Uruguay, the HFA has been developed based on internationa...

Building evidences in Public Health Emergency Preparedness (“BePHEP” Project)—a systematic review

Abstract Introduction Humanitarian crises exacerbate the vulnerability of already fragile healthcare systems and significantly increase the risk of infectious disease outbreaks in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This systematic re...

Hospitalisations for physical abuse in infants and children less than 5 years, 2013‒2021: a multinational cohort study using administrative data from five European countries

Objectives Child physical abuse (CPA) is a global public health problem associated with lifelong negative consequences, yet reliable epidemiologic data are lacking. We did a multinational cohort study to analyse trends in CPA hospitalisatio...

ETNK1 mutations induce a mutator phenotype that can be reverted with phosphoethanolamine

ETNK1 mutations are recurrent in leukemia but how they contribute to oncogenesis is still unclear. Here, the authors show that ETNK1 mutations increase mitochondrial activity, ROS and H2AX levels and that these effects can be rescued upon p...

Exploring Volatile Profiles and De-Flavoring Strategies for Enhanced Acceptance of Lentil-Based Foods: A Review

Lentils are marketed as dry seeds, fresh sprouts, flours, protein isolates, and concentrates used as ingredients in many traditional and innovative food products, including dairy and meat analogs. Appreciated for their nutritional and healt...

Assessing the impact of forest structure disturbances on the arboreal movement and energetics of orangutans—An agent-based modeling approach

Agent-based models have been developed and widely employed to assess the impact of disturbances or conservation management on animal habitat use, population development, and viability. However, the direct impacts of canopy disturbance on th...

Regularity results for a model in magnetohydrodynamics with imposed pressure

The magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) problem is most often studied in a framework where Dirichlet type boundary conditions on the velocity field is imposed. In this Note, we study the (MHD) system with pressure boundary condition, together with z...

Coordination of Plug-In Electric Vehicle Charging in a Stochastic Framework: A Decentralized Tax/Incentive-Based Mechanism to Reach Global Optimality

We address the problem of charging plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) in a decentralized way and under stochastic dynamics affecting the real-time electricity tariff. The model is formulated as a Nash equilibrium seeking problem, where player...

A History of Mathematics: An Introduction

Part I. Ancient Mathematics 1. Egypt and Mesopotamia 1.1 Egypt 1.2 Mesopotamia 2. The Beginnings of Mathematics in Greece 2.1 The Earliest Greek Mathematics 2.2 The Time of Plato 2.3 Aristotle 3. Euclid 3.1 Introduction to the Elements 3.2 ...

The Chicken or the Egg? The Direction of the Relationship Between Mathematics Anxiety and Mathematics Performance

This review considers the two possible causal directions between mathematics anxiety (MA) and poor mathematics performance. Either poor maths performance may elicit MA (referred to as the Deficit Theory), or MA may reduce future maths perfo...

Editorial: Use of AR/MR/VR in the context of occupational safety and health

Analyzing the Transparency and the Efficiency of Innovative Transparent Electrodes for Space Solar Cell Applications

In this work a study about the behavior of nanomaterial-based innovative transparent electrodes is presented, with a special focus on graphene, for space photovoltaic applications, in particular their transparency and the efficiency of the ...

Mass variation observing system by high low inter-satellite links (MOBILE) – a new concept for sustained observation of mass transport from space

As changes in gravity are directly related to mass variability, satellite missions observing the Earth’s time varying gravity field are a unique tool for observing mass transport processes in the Earth system, such as the water cycle, rapid...

Adopting AI Enhances Humanitarian Operations While Demanding Critical Trade-Offs

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly impacting the cooperation sector, transforming how humanitarians are operating in the field. AI tools now allow for improved health diagnostics and quality services. In conflict areas, organizati...