University of Bari Aldo Moro

Five Conserved microRNAs Dominate the Small-RNA Pool of Three Arid-Zone Camel-Forage Plants: De Novo Repertoires and a Species-Matched Test of Cross-Kingdom Targeting in the Dromedary

Background: Camel husbandry underpins food security in drylands, and dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) milk is valued as a functional food whose composition is thought to be shaped by the desert forage that camels browse. Dietary plant microRNAs (miRNAs) have been proposed as one m...

Maximal Minimal Spacing for Random Points

Abstract From $$N+1$$ N + 1 random points on a line we wish to select $$M+1$$ M + 1 points so as to maximize the minimal spacing between them. We consider an initial configuration with independent and identically distributed spacings. Equivalently, the points are arrival times of...

Assessing noise perceptions in Italian adolescents: validation of the Italian youth attitude to noise scale (YANS-it)

OBJECTIVE: To translate, culturally adapt, and validate the Italian version of the Youth Attitude to Noise Scale (YANS-It) and to assess Italian adolescents' attitudes towards noise exposure. DESIGN: Cross-cultural adaptation and validation study using forward-backward translatio...

Dog Breeding in Italy: A Technical Overview of Husbandry and Reproductive Management

ABSTRACT Background Appropriate reproductive management is essential for improving pregnancy outcomes and neonatal survival in dogs. However, information on the practices adopted by Italian dog breeders remains limited. Objectives This study aimed to describe reproductive and neo...

URecJPQ: memory-efficient multimodal recommendation models through RecJPQ in large-scale scenarios

Abstract Training state-of-the-art recommendation models on large-scale industrial datasets can be a challenging task due to the high number of users and items which are typically represented through ID embeddings. Such embeddings typically require a large amount of memory resour...

Intensity–complexity post-triage prioritization to shorten waiting times in emergency departments

Abstract Emergency department triage reliably identifies patients at immediate risk, although it compresses heterogeneous clinical profiles into a small number of urgency categories, leaving discretion in how patients are prioritized within the same category. We propose a second-...

Nuclear mitochondrial sequences in great ape Telomere-to-Telomere genomes

Mitochondrial sequences have integrated into the nuclear genome since the origin of eukaryotes. Recent insertions that retain homology to extant mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), termed NUMTs, confound mtDNA sequence analysis. Here, we use great ape Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) genomes to...

Minimal Surfaces via Complex Quaternions

Abstract. Minimal surfaces play a fundamental role in differential geometry, with applications spanning physics, materials science, and geometric design. In this paper, we explore a novel quaternionic representation of minimal surfaces, drawing an analogy with the well-establishe...

Factors affecting the effectiveness of massive open online course in health professional education: an updated rapid review

A rapid review published in 2020 summarised factors and barriers influencing the effectiveness of MOOCs, to inform decisions regarding health professions education in the early days of the pandemic. No subsequent rapid reviews have updated this work to include evidence produced d...

Diagnostic Delay and Clinical Follow-Up Across Oral Lichen Planus Phenotypes: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Background: Oral lichen planus is a chronic oral potentially malignant disorder requiring timely diagnosis and long-term follow-up, yet its diagnostic pathway remains poorly characterised. This study assessed diagnostic and follow-up intervals in patients with oral lichen planus...

C-GUARD: Context-Adaptive Conformal Gating for Improving Robustness Against Evasive Windows PE Malware

Machine Learning (ML)-based malware detectors perform exceptionally well on standard benchmarks, but their robustness to evasive malware remains fragile. On EMBER2024, strong tree-based models achieve high accuracy on clean test sets yet miss a large number of evasive Windows PE...

Adolescents’ Interactions with AI-Powered Chatbots: A Scoping Review of Psychosocial and Well-Being Research (2022–2025)

AI-powered chatbots are increasingly embedded in adolescents’ lives, yet fragmentation of empirical knowledge on their psychosocial impact across contexts, outcomes, and methods represents a research gap. To address this gap, the present scoping review mapped and integrated empir...

Buddy Wire–Augmented Intravascular Lithotripsy in Refractory Calcified Coronary Lesions: A Five‐Case Series

Heavily calcified coronary lesions remain a major challenge in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), often limiting the effectiveness of intravascular lithotripsy (IVL). We report a five-case series in which IVL failed to achieve adequate lesion modification but was successfu...

Developing Empathy Quest: A Digital Game Based Learning Tool About Teachers’ Emotional Intelligence

Socio-emotional skills are essential for teachers’ wellbeing, classroom functioning, and promotion of students’ social–emotional development. Digital game-based learning (DGBL) represents a promising approach to promote these competencies through engaging and experiential learnin...

Mitigating the Impacts of Macro- and Microplastics on Marine Ecosystems: An Overview of Supporting Strategies and Cleanup Systems

In recent years, plastic litter in marine ecosystems has emerged as a global concern. Consequently, efforts to control, mitigate, and remove micro- and macroplastics from marine systems have intensified. In order to thoroughly analyze this topic, the present work provides a compr...

A Modified Delphi consensus on early management of combined cardiovascular risk factors in adult patients with type 2 diabetes in Italy

BACKGROUND: Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a complex chronic disease often associated with other metabolic conditions that increase the risk of cardiovascular (CV) disease and early mortality. Hence, early, integrated management of T2D may prevent long-term CV complications. METHODS: T...

From Ischemic Injury to Arrhythmogenic Substrate: Molecular and Histopathological Insights into Post-Infarction Sudden Cardiac Death

Myocardial infarction is a major cause of cardiovascular death and a key substrate for sudden cardiac death. Traditionally, histopathological analysis of infarction has focused on the temporal sequence of morphological changes, from coagulative necrosis to inflammatory infiltrate...

Operation Melilli, forensic humanitarian medico legal activities on the largest known Mediterranean disaster: the shipwreck of April 18th, 2015

On April 18th, 2015, a boat carrying about 1,000 migrants sank in the Strait of Sicily, prompting one of the most complex recovery missions ever conducted in the Mediterranean. Operation Melilli was the first time a European Government authorized the recovery of a sunken migrant...

Sustained seizure reduction, treatment simplification, and high retention with cenobamate: A 12‐month real‐world study in refractory and ultra‐refractory focal epilepsy

Abstract Objective To assess the 12‐month clinical impact of cenobamate (CNB) in adults with drug‐resistant focal epilepsy in clinical practice, exploring whether outcomes differed according to prior antiseizure medication (ASM) exposure. Methods This single‐center, retrospective...

Efficacy and safety of scaling and root planing for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

To evaluate the effects of scaling and root planing (SRP) on stage of hepatic steatosis measured by abdominal ultrasound (US) in patients affected by Metabolic Associated Fatty Liver Disease (MAFLD) and periodontitis. In this preliminary retrospective observational study, 205 adu...