University of Bologna

Growth factor polygenic disposition shapes associations of childhood adversity with gray matter and clinical profiles in depression: A two‐cohort imaging‐genetics study

Aim Adverse childhood experiences (ACE) are associated with greater symptom severity and treatment resistance in major depressive disorder (MDD), but their effects vary markedly across individuals. Growth factor polygenic profiles may contribute to this differential susceptibilit...

Swarm Learning And Clinical Data: Evaluating The Benefit of a New Node For The Whole Network

Abstract Digital technologies in healthcare have significantly enhanced clinical decision-making with complex data analysis. However, single clinical centers often lack sufficient data volume or diversity for effective modeling. Distributed learning solutions help to overcome the...

AI-in-the-human-loop: an operational model for mature human-AI collaboration

Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models are powerful tools but come with risks and caveats for proper usage. In this work, we are concerned with effective human-AI collaboration. As in any team, it is key that all team members properly understand the probl...

Changing the world from Latin America: Milton Santos between transnational networking and multilingual worldings

On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Brazilian radical geographer Milton Santos (1926–2001), we publish here for the first time the text of a guest lecture that he gave at the Fourth Meeting of Latin American Geographers (EGAL) in Mérida, Venezuela, in 1993. Unusually...

The metaplectic semigroup with applications to evolution equations generated by non-selfadjoint quadratic Hamiltonians

Abstract In these notes, we review the construction of the metaplectic semigroup and its applications to evolution equations generated by non-selfadjoint quadratic Hamiltonians arising as Weyl quantizations of complex quadratic forms in phase space. After recalling the classical...

ShyBFM v1.0: unstructured grid advection-diffusion-reaction modelling for coastal biogeochemical processes

This study presents ShyBFM, a high-resolution coupled physical–biogeochemical modelling system based on an unstructured grid. The physical component is the parallel computing finite element, ocean circulation model SHYFEM-MPI, while the marine ecosystem is described through the B...

Compositional Characterization of an Infant Formula Containing Fresh Whole Cow’s Milk: A Descriptive Comparison with Commercial Infant Formulas

Human milk is universally recognized as theref optimal source of nutrition for infants. However, breastfeeding may not always be possible or may need to be interrupted because of maternal or infant health conditions. In these situations, infant formulas represent an important nut...

OpenCitations as a community-based open scholarly infrastructure and its recent steps towards sustainability

Slides from the short talk given by Chiara Di Giambattista at the PUBMET 2026 conference, based on the abstract “OpenCitations as a community-based open scholarly infrastructure and its recent steps towards sustainability” by Silvio Peroni and Chiara Di Giambattista

A Fermion Primer

This is a review paper intended to illustrate a few critical issues concerning Dirac, Weyl, and Majorana fermions and their differences. The first part consists of a basic introduction to fermions, with further detail on fermions in 4d, focusing in particular on what differentiat...

Interactions of land use and climate change disproportionately impact Lepidoptera of the five major insect orders

Abstract Land use and climate change are two major environmental pressures that interact to impact insect biodiversity. The wide ecological diversity, including life histories, among insects suggests that some groups will be more sensitive to these pressures than others, and it i...

Mental health disparities in LGBTQIA+ populations: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex, asexual (LGBTQIA+) populations face unique social, political, psychological and health care-related challenges that contribute to marked mental health disparities. However, the overall strength and credibility of evidenc...

Predictors of Early Posttransplant Complications and Clinical Outcomes in Kidney Transplant Recipients Aged ≥65 y.

Background: Older adults represent a growing proportion of kidney transplant (KT) recipients, but early posttransplant morbidity remains substantial. We aimed to identify pretransplant factors associated with a complicated early posttransplant course in recipients aged ≥65 y and...

Global Boundedness of Weak Solutions with Finite Energy to a General Class of Dirichlet Problems

Abstract. As explained in detail in the prologue to this manuscript, boundedness of weak solutions for general classes of elliptic equations in divergence form is a classic tool for achieving higher regularity. We propose here some global boundedness results under general assumpt...

Accuracy of percutaneous ultrasound-guided needle biopsy of abdominal lymph nodes for the diagnosis of malignant disease.

The differential diagnosis of suspected neoplastic disease involving deep lymph nodes remains challenging, particularly in the abdomen, where biopsies are technically more complex and associated with higher procedural risks. The present retrospective single-center study aimed to...

The WoKaS-Iso database: workflow for a global compilation of oxygen-18 and deuterium records in karst springs and cave drip water for enhanced understanding of karst systems

For analysing karst hydrogeological systems, observations of karst springs and cave drips are considered indispensable. In addition to hydrometric observations, knowing the oxygen and hydrogen stable isotope ratios has improved the understanding of vadose zone and aquifer dynamic...

Classification of Lagrangian planes in generalised Kummer manifolds

Abstract We prove that the class of a line contained in a Lagrangian plane on a dimension 2 n hyperkähler manifold X of Kummer type has Beauville-Bogomolov-Fujiki square $$-\frac{n+1}{2}$$ - n + 1 2 in "Equation missing" and order 2 in the discriminant group of $$H^2(X,\mathbb {Z...

Principal Component Analysis for High‐Dimensional Approximate Factor Models in Time Series: Assumptions, Asymptotic Theory, and Identification

ABSTRACT We consider estimation of large approximate factor models in high‐dimensional panels of stationary time series using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). We review the key results establishing the necessary and sufficient conditions for consistency and asymptotic normalit...

Postpandemic Trends in Pediatric Respiratory Virus Hospitalizations: A Multicenter Study, 2019–2025

ABSTRACT Background The COVID‐19 pandemic profoundly altered the circulation of respiratory viruses in children, changing the epidemiology of acute lower respiratory tract infections. In the postpandemic period, respiratory pathogens showed marked temporal variability. The 2024–2...

The double-edged role of spatial proximity: evidence from museums in crisis time

Cultural institutions often operate within spatially interdependent systems, yet little is known about how spatial dependence behaves under major external shocks. This paper examines whether the intensity and direction of spatial spillovers among museums changed during the pandem...

Heart Donation After Controlled Circulatory Death in Noncardiac Surgery Hospitals With a Mobile Heart Team: A Case Series From an Italian Regional Program and Integrated Review of the Literature

ABSTRACT Controlled donation after circulatory death (cDCD) with thoracoabdominal normothermic regional perfusion (TA‐NRP) has emerged worldwide as a strategy to expand the heart donor pool. In Italy, however, its implementation is constrained by a particularly restrictive settin...