University of Bari Aldo Moro

Impact of baricitinib on thyroid function and autoimmunity in severe alopecia areata: A pilot study

The data presented in this study are available on request from the corresponding author due to privacy reasons.

Procurement as an Innovation Lever for Big Science: Mechanisms, Measurement, and an Agenda for Change

Abstract Public procurement is one of the most direct and traceable channels through which Big Science investments generate wider socio-economic benefit, yet it remains significantly underexploited as an innovation lever. Drawing on the public procurement of innovation (PPI) lite...

Phenotype-based appropriateness of IGM-enriched polyclonal immunoglobulin use in critical illness: report of an expert consensus

Sepsis and septic shock result from a dysregulated host response to infection, encompassing both hyperinflammatory and immunosuppressed phenotypes. Although immunomodulatory adjunctive therapies have been extensively investigated over the past decades, none have demonstrated cons...

Multimodal Neurorehabilitation Including Auditory EEG Neurofeedback: A Proof of Concept Tested After Resection of a Giant Olfactory Groove Meningioma

Background/Objectives: Patients undergoing resection of large olfactory groove meningiomas may present with persistent cognitive, behavioral, motor, and functional impairments. Evidence regarding EEG neurofeedback as part of postoperative neurorehabilitation remains preliminary....

Epidemiology, impact on oncologic treatments, and management of community-acquired respiratory virus (CARV) infections in pediatric onco-hematology patients: a survey among Italian pediatric oncology hematology centres (AIEOP)

Abstract A survey was conducted across Italian Pediatric Onco‑Hematology centres to assess epidemiology of community‑acquired respiratory virus (CARV) infections, chemotherapy management, Oseltamivir use and vaccination policies. Most reported infections were mild and managed out...

Impact of GLP1Ra and SGLT2i on atrial fibrillation in overweight, non-diabetic patients: A meta-analysis of randomized evidence

Sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP1Ra) are breakthrough therapies for type 2 diabetes (T2DM), exhibiting pleiotropic effects. Their clinical use has expanded to lower-risk populations, including overweight and ob...

Pre-specified Protocol: Bibliometric Science Mapping of Fuzzy Neural Networks (2020-2026)

This deposit is the pre-specified protocol for a bibliometric science mapping of Fuzzy Neural Networks (FNN) and neuro-fuzzy architectures published between 2020 and 2026. It records the study design, the corpus construction procedure, and the analysis plan before any results are...

Radical Disconnection Logic Enables Direct Conversion of α-Amino Acids into Differentiated Vicinal Diamines

Abstract Functional group interconversions (FGIs) are foundational to synthesis, yet classical acid-to-aminomethyl transformations remain intrinsically step- and redox-intensive. Here we introduce a radical disconnection strategy that enables the direct conversion of α-amino acid...

Pre-specified Protocol: Bibliometric Science Mapping of Fuzzy Neural Networks (2020-2026)

This deposit is the pre-specified protocol for a bibliometric science mapping of Fuzzy Neural Networks (FNN) and neuro-fuzzy architectures published between 2020 and 2026. It records the study design, the corpus construction procedure, and the analysis plan before any results are...

Rheological Optimization of Reduced-Sugar Ice Cream Enriched with Inulin and Carob Flour

Sugar reduction is technologically challenging in ice cream because sugars contribute not only to sweetness but also to rheological properties. A D-optimal mixture design was applied to optimize the formulation of reduced-sugar ice cream using inulin and carob flour as functional...

Clinical impact of the BIOFIRE FILMARRAY Pneumonia Panel combined with antimicrobial stewardship education on pediatric patients with lower respiratory tract infection: a pre–post study from a tertiary center in Nara, Japan

ABSTRACT Lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) account for a large share of pediatric antimicrobial prescriptions. The BIOFIRE FILMARRAY Pneumonia Panel (FAPN; BioMérieux) detects 33 respiratory pathogens within approximately 1 h. We investigated the clinical impact of its s...

Two-dimensional shear wave elastography assessment of testicular stiffness in healthy cats

Two-dimensional shear wave elastography (2D-SWE) provides quantitative information on tissue stiffness over a broad field of view, but physiological values for feline testes remain poorly defined. This study aimed to characterize testicular stiffness in clinically healthy cats an...

Parental Phubbing and Children’s Socio-Emotional Adjustment in Early Primary School: An Exploratory Multi-Informant Study

Parental phubbing may subtly interfere with everyday parent-child interactions, yet little is known about its correlates during the early primary school years. This exploratory study examined associations between parental phubbing and socio-emotional adjustment in 58 Italian chil...

The Behavior of the External Limiting Membrane and Ellipsoid Zone in Diabetic Macular Edema: A Population AI-Assisted Optical Coherence Tomography Study

Purpose: To investigate the behavior of the external limiting membrane (ELM) and ellipsoid zone (EZ) in diabetic macular edema (DME) using artificial intelligence (AI)-based optical coherence tomography (OCT) quantification. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. OCT scans of...

DARE to wear: digital health promotion and disease prevention using wearable devices

Global healthcare systems are under increasing strain to ensure long-term sustainability, necessitating a transition towards proactive, preventive healthcare strategies. Wearable sensor technologies are uniquely positioned to facilitate this paradigm shift by allowing continuous...

A Brezis-Nirenberg type result for systems on stratified Lie groups

Abstract We provide Brezis-Nirenberg type results for subelliptic systems involving sub-Laplacian operators on Carnot groups, extending the results known for the scalar case. Precisely, we investigate existence and non-existence of solutions for critical growth systems with linea...

Disseminating queer and gender studies: rethinking social work theories and practices starting from university education

This article explores the relevance of disseminating gender and queer theories within Social Work curricula as a means to foster critical thinking and informed advocacy regarding the rights of LGBTQIA+ communities. After outlining the relationship between social work practice and...

Flexible Late Mousterian lithic technological organisation at Riparo l’Oscurusciuto (Italy): A typo-technological and 3D-based approach

Abstract The portion of the Riparo l’Oscurusciuto (Italy) stratigraphic sequence so far excavated provides an outstanding record of the local population history between ca. 55 − 42 kya BP: a key period for understanding the end of the Middle Palaeolithic and the onset of the Uppe...

Continuous Learning as a Key to Career Sustainability: A Moderated Mediation Model

Contemporary career sustainability increasingly depends on workers’ capacity to continuously develop their competencies and on organizations’ ability to support this process. Drawing on the sustainable career framework and Conservation of Resources theory, this study examines how...

Existence of Positive Solutions for a Class of Almost Critical Problems on an Annulus

Abstract. In this paper we will consider multipeak positive solutions for a class of slightly subcritical or slightly supercritical elliptic problems on an annulus with Dirichlet boundary conditions. By using the explicit form of the Green function and of the Robin function on th...