Sapienza University of Rome

Prenatal Diagnosis of Congenital Diaphragmatic Eventration: Case Report and Structured Literature Review

Objective: To describe a prenatal case of congenital diaphragmatic eventration, describe prenatal presentation and summarize available postnatal outcomes of previously reported cases. Methods: We present a prenatally diagnosed case of congenital diaphragmatic eventration managed...

Steering Bioelectrochemical CO2 Reduction Toward Methanogens Suppression and Acetogen Bioaugmentation

Biological strategies for converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into valuable compounds are attractive approaches for a carbon-neutral future. Bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) represent an innovative strategy for the control of microbial metabolism, in which electrochemical techniques...

The ongoing oleoylethanolamide story: Therapeutic implications in the control of obesity and its comorbidities

The global burden of obesity continues to rise, demanding effective pharmacological strategies for individuals in whom prevention alone is insufficient. Recent incretin‐based and multi‐agonist therapies have delivered unprecedented weight loss, demonstrating that the simultaneous...

Fully nonlinear logistic equations with sanctuary

Abstract For the fully nonlinear stationary logistic equation $$\mathcal {F}(x,D^2u)+\mu u=k(x)u^p$$ F ( x , D 2 u ) + μ u = k ( x ) u p with $$p>1$$ p > 1 and $$k(x)\ge 0$$ k ( x ) ≥ 0 , in a bounded domain with Dirichlet boundary condition, we determine, in terms of $$\mu $$ μ...

Hospital Admissions for Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Among Elderly: A Retrospective Study From an Italian Southern Region During Years 2018–2023

ABSTRACT Introduction Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is one of the most common causes of acute respiratory infections in both children and adults over 60. RSV can cause severe lower respiratory tract infections in older adults, leading to an increase of morbidity and mortality...

Tailoring the Microarchitecture and Mechanical Properties of Styrene‐Hexyl Methacrylate PolyHIPEs via Microfluidic Emulsion Templating

Microfluidic emulsion templating enables unmatched control over pore size and ordering in polymerized high internal phase emulsions (PolyHIPE), yet its adoption for hydrophobic, chemically aggressive monomers is limited by the poor solvent compatibility of common chip materials a...

Cancer in systemic sclerosis: clinical associations and prognostic impact from the EUSTAR registry

BACKGROUND: Cancer represents a major cause of mortality in systemic sclerosis (SSc). Established risk factors are limited to specific subsets, particularly early diffuse anti-RNA polymerase III (POLR3)-positive disease, needing further exploration. METHODS: We performed a nested...

Shiny by Design: Establishing Diagnostic Criteria for Intentional Burnishing on Prehistoric Bone Artifacts

The identification of intentional burnishing on prehistoric osseous artifacts remains a persistent methodological challenge. Bone surfaces are highly reactive and readily record microwear traces but are susceptible to taphonomic alteration. This study investigates how the use of...

A nicotinic-dopaminergic hybrid probe enhances D2-like autoreceptor-mediated inhibition of dopamine release

β2-containing nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) and dopamine D 2 receptors (D 2 Rs) cooperate to shape striatal dopamine (DA) output, yet the mechanisms by which nicotinic-dopaminergic crosstalk influences D 2 -like autoreceptor-mediated inhibition of DA release remain u...

Thermal-hydraulic analysis of energy storage and intermediate heat transfer systems for tokamak fusion reactors

The pursuit of sustainable and clean energy has intensified global interest in nuclear fusion, particularly through tokamak reactors, which are seen as promising candidates for safe and efficient energy generation. A crucial aspect of their development is the study of the Balance...

Episodic super-Eddington accretion as a clue to Overmassive Black Holes in the early Universe

Abstract Early JWST observations are providing growing evidence for a ubiquitous population of accreting supermassive black holes (BHs) at high redshift, many of which appear overmassive compared to the empirically-derived local scaling relation between black hole mass and host g...

Taxonomic reassessment and palaeobiogeographical patterns of some Miogypsinidae species, larger benthic foraminifera

Abstract. The Miogypsinidae comprise orbitoidal larger benthic foraminifera with generally eccentric position of the nepionic stage and a fan of equatorial chamberlets; the members of this family are widely used in biostratigraphy of upper Oligocene–middle Miocene deposits. Here,...

Metabolic Dysfunction–Associated Steatotic Liver Disease: An Underrated and Emerging Cardiovascular Risk Factor

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is the most prevalent chronic liver disease worldwide and is increasingly recognized as a major contributor to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Beyond liver involvement, MASLD represents a systemic metabolic...

Spin Waves without Spin Waves: A Case for Soliton Propagation in Starling Flocks

Collective turns in starling flocks propagate linearly with negligible attenuation, indicating the existence of an underdamped sector in the dispersion relation. According to linear response theory, beside granting linear propagation of the phase perturbations, the real part of t...

The interplay between Bayesian inference and conformal prediction

Conformal prediction (CP) has emerged as a cutting-edge methodology in statistics and machine learning, providing prediction intervals with finite-sample frequentist coverage guarantees. Yet, its interplay with Bayesian statistics-often criticized for lacking frequentist guarante...

Multiscale network reorganization during the multidimensional recollection of naturalistic events

Abstract The recollection of complex events is multidimensional. Recent work has gathered evidence for varying degrees of functional specialization for different memory dimensions across the main cortical networks involved in cued recollection. However, how functional brain netwo...

Deep molecular profiling of lung neuroendocrine tumours and supra-carcinoids

BACKGROUND: Lung neuroendocrine tumours (NETs, also known as carcinoids) are rapidly rising in incidence worldwide but have unknown aetiology and limited therapeutic options beyond surgery. The current WHO classification, based on mitotic count and presence or absence of necrosis...

Rapid screening approach to evaluate MEC performance for biohydrogen production using synthetic and real organic waste-derived substrates

In this study, a rapid screening strategy was developed to accelerate the identification of optimal operating conditions in dual-cathode microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) for hydrogen production from synthetic and real waste-derived substrates. The approach consisted of progres...

Gravitational multipoles from scattering amplitudes in higher dimensions

A bstract We investigate the gravitational multipole structure derived from scattering amplitudes in both four- and higher-dimensional spacetimes, with particular focus on the five-dimensional case. We develop a systematic procedure to extract multipole data from scattering ampli...

When Can an Agent Attribute Properties to Itself? A Cognitive Algebra for Identity, Integrity, and Freedom

An agent's cognitive architecture may possess every regional carrier required for a capability and still emit a wrong verdict, because the content those carriers hold is corrupted. Over the MCK observer-relative classification (Bragetti, Asaro and Italiano, Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo....