Monia Perugini, Esteban Herrera, Loredana Baldi, Mauro Esposito, Francesco Paolo Serpe, Michele Amorena,
Dioxin-like PCBs (dl-PCBs) are ubiquitous persistent organic pollutants of recognized negative effects on human health. Assessing highly polluted areas should be an important public health issue. This study proposes to use the milk of grazing animals as a bioindicator of dl-PCB contamination in the environment. The hypothesis is that milk concentration of dl-PCBs are related to soil concentrations of these compounds, and that soils are generally reflective of a larger environmental issue of dl-PCB ...
Tópico(s): Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
2012 - Elsevier BV | Chemosphere
Cristina Costa, Luisa Delsedime, Paolo Solidoro, Antonio Curtoni, Massimiliano Bergallo, Daniela Libertucci, S. Baldi, Mauro Rinaldi, Rossana Cavallo,
Tópico(s): Polyomavirus and related diseases
2010 - Elsevier BV | Transplantation Proceedings
Daniele Saletta, Giovanpaolo Pini Prato, Umberto Pagliaro, Carlo Baldi, Mauro Mauri, Michele Nieri,
This study was designed to verify if the dimension of the interdental papilla may be a prognostic factor for the clinical outcome of the coronally advanced flap (CAF) in the treatment of gingival recessions.Thirty-three Miller Class I recessions were treated in 33 patients using the CAF procedure. Two types of measurements were performed: 1) clinical measurements (probing depth, recession depth, width of keratinized tissue, clinical attachment level) were recorded at baseline and 3 months after surgery ...
Tópico(s): Dental Implant Techniques and Outcomes
2001 - Wiley | Journal of Periodontology
We prove a representation formula for the rate function of the Large Deviation Principle for the empirical distribution of an irreducible continuous time Markov process on a finite state space. We use this representation to characterize asymptotically efficient intensities for the Monte Carlo evaluation of probabilities of a large deviation for the empirical distribution.
Tópico(s): Stochastic processes and financial applications
1999 - Elsevier BV | Statistics & Probability Letters
H.M. Omar Farouque, Michael Leung, Sarah A. Hope, Mauro Baldi, Clyde B. Schechter, James D. Cameron, Ian T. Meredith,
Evidence suggests that flavonoid-containing diets reduce cardiovascular risk, but the mechanisms responsible are unclear. In the present study, we sought to determine the effect of flavanol-rich cocoa on vascular function in individuals with CAD (coronary artery disease). Forty subjects (61±8 years; 30 male) with CAD were recruited to a 6-week randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study. Subjects consumed either a flavanol-rich chocolate bar and cocoa beverage daily (total flavanols, 444 mg/day) ...
Tópico(s): Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases
2006 - Portland Press | Clinical Science
Kenwyn R. Gayler, Sotirios Kolivas, Alison Macfarlane, Glenn G. Lilley, Mauro Baldi, Robert J. Blagrove, Elizabeth Johnson,
Tópico(s): Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics
1990 - Springer Science+Business Media | Plant Molecular Biology
Alessandro Zorzi, Giulia Mattesi, Enrico Baldi, Mauro Toniolo, Federico Guerra, Filippo Maria Cauti, Alberto Cipriani, Manuel De Lazzari, Daniele Muser, Giulia Stronati, Lina Marcantoni, Massimiliano Manfrin, Leonardo Calò, Chiara Lanzillo, Martina Perazzolo Marra, Simone Savastano, Domenico Corrado,
Background Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) may be caused by an acute and reversible myocardial injury, a chronic and irreversible myocardial damage, or a primary ventricular arrhythmia. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging may identify myocardial edema (ME), which denotes acute and reversible myocardial damage. We evaluated the arrhythmic outcome of SCA survivors during follow-up and tested the prognostic role of ME. Methods and Results We included a consecutive series of 101 (71% men, median age 47 years) ...
Tópico(s): Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise
2021 - Wiley | Journal of the American Heart Association
Shigeru Sakuma, Adriano Piattelli, Niccolò Baldi, Mauro Ferri, Giovanna Iezzi, Daniele Botticelli,
To evaluate histomorphometrically early healing at implants placed in sites prepared with either a sonic device or conventional drills.Sixteen volunteer patients were recruited. Two titanium mini-implants were placed in the distal segments of the maxilla in recipient sites prepared with either a sonic device or conventional drills. Biopsy specimens containing the mini-implants were retrieved after 2 weeks in eight patients, and after 6 weeks in the other eight patients. Histomorphometric analyses ...
Tópico(s): Periodontal Regeneration and Treatments
2020 - Quintessence Publishing Company | The International Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Implants
Giovanni Corona, Walter Vena, Alessandro Pizzocaro, Francesco Pallotti, Donatella Paoli, Giulia Rastrelli, Elisabetta Baldi, Nicola Cilloni, Mauro Gacci, Federico Semeraro, Andrea Salonia, Suks Minhas, Rosario Pivonello, Alessandra Sforza, Linda Vignozzi, Andrea M. Isidori, Andrea Lenzi, Mario Maggi, Francesco Lombardo,
The short- and long-term andrological effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have not been clarified. Our aim is to evaluate the available evidence regarding possible andrological consequences of COVID-19 either on seminal or hormonal parameters. The safety of the COVID-19 vaccines in terms of sperm quality was also investigated.All prospective and retrospective observational studies reporting information on severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2) mRNA semen and male genitalia ...
Tópico(s): Ovarian function and disorders
2022 - Springer Science+Business Media | Journal of Endocrinological Investigation
G. Kaniadakis, Mauro Maria Baldi, Thomas S. Deisboeck, Giulia Grisolia, Dionissios T. Hristopulos, A.M. Scarfone, Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, Tatsuaki Wada, Umberto Lucia,
Abstract A great variety of complex physical, natural and artificial systems are governed by statistical distributions, which often follow a standard exponential function in the bulk, while their tail obeys the Pareto power law. The recently introduced $$\kappa $$ κ -statistics framework predicts distribution functions with this feature. A growing number of applications in different fields of investigation are beginning to prove the relevance and effectiveness of $$\kappa $$ κ -statistics in fitting empirical ...
Tópico(s): COVID-19 epidemiological studies
2020 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
Mauro Maria Baldi, Daniele Manerba, Guido Perboli, Roberto Tadei,
In this paper, we present a new problem arising at a tactical level of setting a last-mile parcel delivery service in a city by considering different Transportation Companies (TC), which differ in cost and service quality. The courier must decide which TCs to select for the service in order to minimize the total cost and maximize the total service quality. We show that the problem can be modeled as a new packing problem, the Generalized Bin Packing Problem with bin-dependent item profits (GBPPI), ...
Tópico(s): Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization
2018 - Elsevier BV | European Journal of Operational Research
Sara Lambiase, Francesco Paolo Serpe, Stefania Cavallo, Guido Rosato, Loredana Baldi, Bruno Neri, Mauro Esposito,
Hens' eggs collected in home-producing farms located in different areas of the Campania region of southern Italy were analysed for six NDL-polychlorobiphenyls (PCB indicators), 17 polychlorodibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorodibenzofurans (PCDFs), and 12 congeners of dioxin-like PCBs (DL-PCBs). In the investigated area, waste from civil, industrial and hospital activities was illegally dumped and in many cases burned, so the area is called the 'Land of fire'. This illicit practice has been considered ...
Tópico(s): Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment
2016 - Taylor & Francis | Food Additives & Contaminants Part A
Mauro Maria Baldi, Franziska Heinicke, Axel Simroth, Roberto Tadei,
Efficient methods have been proposed in the literature for the management of a set of railway maintenance operations. However, these methods consider maintenance operations as deterministic and known a priori. In the Stochastic Tactical Railway Maintenance Problem (STRMP), maintenance operations are not known in advance. In fact, since future track conditions can only be predicted, maintenance operations become stochastic. The STRMP is based on a rolling horizon. For each month of the rolling horizon, ...
Tópico(s): Assembly Line Balancing Optimization
2015 - Elsevier BV | Omega
Sandra Misale, Ivana Božić, Jingshan Tong, Ashley Peraza-Penton, Alice Lallo, Federica Baldi, Kevin Lin, Mauro Truini, Livio Trusolino, Andrea Bertotti, Federica Di Nicolantonio, Martin A. Nowak, Lin Zhang, Kris C. Wood, Alberto Bardelli,
Abstract Molecular targeted drugs are clinically effective anti-cancer therapies. However, tumours treated with single agents usually develop resistance. Here we use colorectal cancer (CRC) as a model to study how the acquisition of resistance to EGFR-targeted therapies can be restrained. Pathway-oriented genetic screens reveal that CRC cells escape from EGFR blockade by downstream activation of RAS-MEK signalling. Following treatment of CRC cells with anti-EGFR, anti-MEK or the combination of the ...
Tópico(s): Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
2015 - Nature Portfolio | Nature Communications
Dimitrios Psimadas, Giovanni Baldi, Costanza Ravagli, Mauro Comes Franchini, Erica Locatelli, Claudia Innocenti, Claudio Sangregorio, George Loudos,
Metal oxide nanoparticles, hybridized with various polymeric chemicals, represent a novel and breakthrough application in drug delivery, hyperthermia treatment and imaging techniques. Radiolabeling of these nanoformulations can result in new and attractive dual-imaging agents as well as provide accurate in vivo information on their biodistribution profile. In this paper a comparison study has been made between two of the most promising hybrid core–shell nanosystems, bearing either magnetite (Fe3O4) ...
Tópico(s): Magnetic Properties and Synthesis of Ferrites
2013 - IOP Publishing | Nanotechnology
Roberto Tadei, Guido Perboli, Nicoletta Ricciardi, Mauro Maria Baldi,
Abstract The problem consists in finding a transshipment facilities location that maximizes the total net utility when the handling utilities at the facilities are stochastic variables, under supply, demand, and lower and upper capacity constraints. The total net utility is given by the expected total shipping utility minus the total fixed cost of the located facilities. Shipping utilities are given by a deterministic utility for shipping freight from origins to destinations via transshipment facilities ...
Tópico(s): Optimization and Mathematical Programming
2012 - Wiley | International Transactions in Operational Research
Mauro Maria Baldi, Guido Perboli, Roberto Tadei,
In this paper we introduce a new packing problem, the three-dimensional knapsack problem with balancing constraints (3BKP), the extension of the three-dimensional knapsack problem (3KP) where additional constraints related to the packing center of mass are given. The 3BKP consists in orthogonally packing a subset of three-dimensional weighted items into a knapsack in order to maximize the total profit of the loaded items. The items must not overlap and the packing center of mass must lie into a predefined ...
Tópico(s): Optimization and Search Problems
2012 - Elsevier BV | Applied Mathematics and Computation
Estrella García González, Enrico Selvi, Epifania Balistreri, Alfiya Akhmetshina, Katrin Palumbo, Sauro Lorenzini, Pietro Enea Lazzerini, Cinzia Montilli, Pier Leopoldo Capecchi, Monica Lucattelli, Caterina Baldi, Elena Gianchecchi, Mauro Galeazzi, Franco Laghi‐Pasini, Jörg H. W. Distler,
Background Cannabinoids modulate fibrogenesis in scleroderma. Ajulemic acid (AjA) is a non-psychoactive synthetic analogue of tetrahydrocannabinol that can bind the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPAR-γ). Recent evidence suggests a key role for PPAR-γ in fibrogenesis. Objective To determine whether AjA can modulate fibrogenesis in murine models of scleroderma. Material and methods Bleomycin-induced experimental fibrosis was used to assess the antifibrotic effects of AjA in vivo. In addition, ...
Tópico(s): Skin Diseases and Diabetes
2012 - BMJ | Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
Mauro Maria Baldi, Teodor Gabriel Crainic, Guido Perboli, Roberto Tadei,
In the Generalized Bin Packing Problem (GBPP), given two sets of compulsory and non-compulsory items characterized by volume and profit and a set of bins with given volume and cost, we want to select the subset of profitable non-compulsory items to be loaded together with the compulsory ones into the appropriate bins in order to minimize the total net cost. Lower and upper bounds to the GBPP are given. The results of extensive computational experiments show that the proposed procedures are efficient ...
Tópico(s): Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation
2012 - Elsevier BV | Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review
Mauro Maria Baldi, Teodor Gabriel Crainic, Guido Perboli, Roberto Tadei,
In the Variable Cost and Size Bin Packing Problem with optional items, a set of items characterized by volume and profit and a set of bins of different types characterized by volume and cost are given. The goal consists in selecting those items and bins which optimize an objective function which combines the cost of the used bins and the profit of the selected items. We propose two methods to tackle the problem: branch-and-price as an exact method and beam search as a heuristics, derived from the ...
Tópico(s): Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods
2012 - Springer Science+Business Media | Annals of Operations Research
Guido Perboli, Roberto Tadei, Mauro Maria Baldi,
Tópico(s): Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods
2011 - Elsevier BV | Discrete Applied Mathematics
Catia Orrico, Gianandrea Pasquinelli, Laura Foroni, D. Muscarà, Pier Luigi Tazzari, Francesca Ricci, Marina Buzzi, Eleną Baldi, Natascia Muccini, Mauro Gargiulo, Andréa Stella,
Objectives and designTo establish whether in diabetic patients with peripheral artery obstructive disease (PAOD) vasa vasorum (vv) neoangiogenesis is altered with increased arterial damage.MaterialsThirty-three patients with PAOD and critical lower limb ischaemia, 22 with type II diabetes.MethodsImmunohistochemistry for endothelial cell markers (CD34 and von Willebrand Factor); real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) to quantify arterial wall expression of vascular endothelial ...
Tópico(s): Lymphatic System and Diseases
2010 - Elsevier BV | European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Antonio Zanutta, Paolo Baldi, Gabriele Bitelli, Mauro Cardinali, Arkhipov Alexander V.,
The results of two survey methods, geological photointerpretation and historical photogrammetry, are compared in order to evaluate the temporal evolution of a unstable slope located in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines (Italy). Historical aerial photos of the area, derived from photogrammetric surveys conducted in 1954 (scale 1:60000), in 1971 (scale 1:20000), and in 1976 (scale 1:17000) were available. A photogrammetric flight was further conducted in 2000, at a scale of 1:4400, with a traditional GPS ground ...
Tópico(s): Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
2009 - National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology | Annals of Geophysics
Giovanni Baldi, Daniele Bonacchi, Mauro Comes Franchini, Denis Gentili, Giada Lorenzi, Alfredo Ricci, Costanza Ravagli,
Monodisperse and stable cobalt ferrite (CoFe2O4) nanoparticles (5.4 nm) have been produced, coated with mono- and difunctional phosphonic and hydroxamic acids, and fully characterized (using thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), dynamic light scattering (DLS), IR spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) measurements). Cobalt leakage of the coated nanoparticles has been also studied. Magnetic measurements show the possible applications in ...
Tópico(s): Iron oxide chemistry and applications
2007 - American Chemical Society | Langmuir
Mauro Maria Baldi, Maurizio Bruglieri,
Abstract The generalized bin packing problem (GBPP) is a novel packing problem arising in many transportation and logistic settings, characterized by multiple items and bins attributes and the presence of both compulsory and non‐compulsory items. In this paper, we study the computational complexity and the approximability of the GBPP. We prove that the GBPP cannot be approximated by any constant, unless . We also study the particular case of a single bin type and show that when an unlimited number ...
Tópico(s): Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization
2016 - Wiley | International Transactions in Operational Research
Giacomo Giulio Baldi, Silvia Stacchiotti, Valentina Mauro, Angelo Paolo Dei Tos, Alessandro Gronchi, Ugo Pastorino, Leonardo Duranti, Salvatore Provenzano, Andrea Marrari, Michela Libertini, Silvana Pilotti, Paolo G. Casali,
We explore the pattern of late recurrence (LR) in solitary fibrous tumor (SFT), focusing on histopathologic characteristics, clinical presentation and patients (pts) outcome. Clinical records of all pts with confirmed pathologic diagnosis of SFT treated at our Institution from 2005 to 2011 were reviewed. We analysed the data of pts who relapsed ≥10 years after initial diagnosis. A total of 14 pts were identified. The primary site of origin was pleura (5 pts), pelvis (4 pts), head and neck (3 pts) and retroperitoneum ( ...
Tópico(s): Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment
2013 - Springer Science+Business Media | Clinical Sarcoma Research
Raffaele Piccolo, Dario Bruzzese, Ciro Mauro, A Aloia, Cesare Baldi, Marco Boccalatte, G Bottiglieri, Carlo Briguori, Gianluca Caiazzo, Paolo Calabrò, Maurizio Cappelli-Bigazzi, Ciro De Simone, Emilio Di Lorenzo, Paolo Golino, Vittorio Monda, Rocco Perrotta, Gaetano Quaranta, Enrico Russolillo, Marino Scherillo, Tullio Tesorio, Bernardino Tuccillo, Giuseppe Valva, Bruno Villari, Giuseppe Tarantini, Attilio Varricchio, Giovanni Esposito, Marisa Avvedimento, R Bianchi, Stefano Capobianco, Gerardo Carpinella, Mario Crisci, Luca Esposito, Luciano Fattore, Luigi Fimiani, Dario Formigli, Marco Golino, Eugenio Laurenzano, Attilio Leone, Fabio Magliulo, Tullio Niglio, Roberto Padalino, Fabio Pastore, Federica Serino, Fortunato Scotto di Uccio, Gabriella Visconti,
... COVID-19 Outbreak Raffaele Piccolo, Dario Bruzzese, Ciro Mauro, Antonio Aloia, Cesare Baldi, Marco Boccalatte, Giuseppe Bottiglieri, Carlo Briguori, Gianluca Caiazzo, ... University of Naples Federico II, Italy. , Ciro MauroCiro Mauro Interventional Cardiology and Cardiological Care Unit, A.O.R.N. Cardarelli, Naples, Italy (C.M.). , Antonio AloiaAntonio Aloia Division of Cardiology, Presidio Ospedaliero di Vallo della Lucania, Italy (A.A.). , Cesare BaldiCesare Baldi Interventional Cardiology Unit. A.O.U. San Giovanni ...
Tópico(s): Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity
2020 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | Circulation
Mauro Maria Baldi, Marco Ghirardi, Guido Perboli, Roberto Tadei,
We consider the stochastic capacitated transshipment problem for freight transportation where an optimal location of the transshipment facilities, which minimizes the total cost, must be found. The total cost is given by the sum of the total fixed cost plus the expected minimum total flow cost, when the throughput costs of the facilities are random variables with unknown probability distribution. By applying the asymptotic approximation method derived from the Extreme Value Theory, a deterministic ...
Tópico(s): Urban and Freight Transport Logistics
2012 - Elsevier BV | Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
Paolo Solidoro, Cristina Costa, Daniela Libertucci, Francesca Sidoti, Massimo Boffini, Davide Ricci, Luisa Delsedime, Rossana Cavallo, S. Baldi, Mauro Rinaldi,
Among solid organ recipients lung transplant recipients are at highest risk to be affected by cytomegalovirus infection (CMV) or to die from CMV disease. Two strategies are usually adopted in the clinical management of transplant recipients: antiviral prophylaxis and pre-emptive therapy.In our center we adopted from 2007 a combined prophylaxis with anti-CMV immunoglobulins in the first post-transplant year and antiviral therapy (gancyclovir or valgancyclovir) from post-transplant day 15 for 3 weeks ...
Tópico(s): Polyomavirus and related diseases
2013 - Elsevier BV | Transplantation Proceedings
Massimo Boffini, Davide Ricci, Cristina Barbero, Riccardo Bonato, M. Ribezzo, Eliane Viana Mancuso, Matteo Attisani, Erika Simonato, Paola Magistroni, Morteza Mansouri, Paolo Solidoro, S. Baldi, Daniela Pasero, Antonio Amoroso, Mauro Rinaldi,
Among the strategies to increase the number of lung transplants, ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) represents a novel technique to expand the donor pool.Data from donors referred to our center were retrospectively analyzed to identify grafts that could potentially be potentially reconditioned by EVLP and for comparison with those obtained by clinical application of EVLP program in our center.Among 75 rejected lungs, 23 organs have been identified as potentially treatable with EVLP with a hypothetic increase ...
Tópico(s): Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments
2013 - Elsevier BV | Transplantation Proceedings