University of Bologna

Bacillus haynesii VWC18 Drives Growth and Flowering Improvements in Euphorbia pulcherrima and Cyclamen persicum: A Sustainable Approach for Ornamental Crop Performance

This study evaluated the microbial strain Bacillus VWC18, isolated from waste vegetable compost, as a plant growth-promoting rhizobacterium (PGPR) for two high-value ornamental crops: poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima) and cyclamen (Cyclamen persicum). Identified as Bacillus hayn...

Exempla desiderarem Spinoza and the Facies Totius Universi

This article analyzes the expression Facies totius Universi ( FTU ), contained in Letter 64 to Schuller, in order to offer some considerations concerning Spinoza’s philosophy of imaginative language, particularly concerning his use of examples. The most recent readings of Spinoza...

Fostering public value through a collaborative organizational culture in highly vulnerable social contexts

Purpose This study aims to investigate how internal collaborative culture within public educational institutions influences the creation of public value, particularly in contexts of social and economic vulnerability. While public value theory has evolved from managerial to co-pro...

Celiac Disease Management in School Environments: An Interdisciplinary Narrative Review of Operational, Psychosocial, and Nutritional Barriers

Background: Pediatric celiac disease (CD) prevalence is rising, estimated at 2% to 3% in select screening cohorts. Affected children face significant environmental, psychosocial, and nutritional barriers within institutional school settings. Methods: This narrative review synthes...

Gradient descent in phase retrieval

Abstract Alternating projections, like Griffin-Lim and Fast Griffin-Lim algorithms, are among the most widely used iterative methods for phase retrieval. In this paper, we build upon the appendix of the original paper by Griffin and Lim and formulate them as gradient descent algo...

Building Families—Implementing Balanced Sexual and Reproductive Health

ABSTRACT One of the main initiatives of the World Health Organization (WHO) is the promotion of Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH). Sexuality, infertility, and contraception are three interconnected pillars of SRH, each essential for achieving global equity in family planning a...

Building families—Implementing balanced sexual and reproductive health

Abstract One of the main initiatives of the World Health Organization (WHO) is the promotion of Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH). Sexuality, infertility, and contraception are three interconnected pillars of SRH, each essential for achieving global equity in family planning a...

Structure-Transport Relationships in Aqueous Fructose Solutions: A Combined Molecular Dynamics and NMR Diffusion Study

Abstract Fructose is widely used in the food industry and is proposed as a sustainable biomass feedstock for chemical manufacturing. Upon dissolution in water, it undergoes mutarotation into different tautomers, primarily β-d-fructopyranose (68%) and β-d-fructofuranose (22%), as...

Agri-Food Wastes as Natural Source of Bioactive Antioxidants: Fourth Edition

The increasing production of agri-food waste represents one of the major challenges to the sustainability of modern food systems [...]

Acute Limb Ischemia During Pregnancy: A Case Report and Narrative Review of the Literature

Background: Pregnancy is a well-recognized hypercoagulable state that increases the risk of thrombotic complications, most commonly venous thromboembolism. In contrast, arterial thrombosis, including acute limb ischemia (ALI), is exceedingly rare but potentially catastrophic, and...

Scalp Biopsies for Alopecia

Background: Hair loss is one of the most common reasons patients seek dermatologic evaluation. Although clinical examination and trichoscopy establish the diagnosis in most cases, scalp biopsy remains essential when findings are inconclusive, when cicatricial alopecia is suspecte...

Azacitidine maintenance after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in high-risk AML: a single-center retrospective study

In patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT), disease relapse remains the leading cause of transplant failure [ 1 ]. Growing evidence indicates that immune escape represents a major mechanism driving post-...

Utilization of Carbon Fiber Spinal Instrumentation in Primary Spinal Tumors: Outcome Analysis from the AO Spine Primary Tumor Research and Outcomes Network

Background The use of carbon fiber-reinforced polyetheretherketone (CFR-PEEK) instrumentation in spinal surgery has emerged as an alternative to traditional titanium-based implants in recent years. This study aims to evaluate the use and performance of carbon fiber instrumentatio...

A Satellite‐Based Estimate of the Contribution of Filamentary Structures to Lateral Carbon Transport in the Pacific and Atlantic Upwelling Systems

Abstract Cross‐shelf interactions and the associated lateral transport of organic carbon remain poorly quantified and constrained by observations, despite their importance for the ocean carbon cycle. Filaments generated by instabilities of coastal currents are one pathway for thi...

Benchmarking Core-Level X-ray Absorption with MRSF-TDDFT, RASPT2, and Stochastic GAS Using the XABOOM Set

Abstract Rapid advances in X-ray free-electron laser facilities are producing X-ray absorption spectra (XAS) with unprecedented detail, creating a pressing need for theoretical methods that are both accurate and computationally efficient to interpret subtle spectral features. In...

Seamless Transition Between Continuous and Discontinuous Modes Suitable for Natural-Sampled PWM in Variable-Frequency Two-Level VSI Operations

In high-speed drive applications, including drone propulsion systems and high-speed spindle drives, switching frequency is often limited by thermal constraints or cost considerations when the adoption of wide-bandgap power devices is not economically justified. Under these condit...

The public perception of animal welfare in dairy cow farming: a systematic literature review approach

Animal welfare (AW) in dairy farming has garnered significant public attention, driven by evolving societal values that prioritize ethical treatment and the expression of natural behaviours. This systematic literature review aims to map how the public perceives AW in dairy cow fa...

Breiman's conjecture and normalized jumps of subordinators

We prove Breiman's conjecture under the first-moment assumption. Let Y₁, Y₂, … be iid nonnegative random variables with ℙ{Y₁ > 0} > 0, normalized by their sum. If the resulting randomly weighted sum converges to a nondegenerate law for one fixed integrable, nonconstant mark distr...

Breiman's conjecture and normalized jumps of subordinators

We prove Breiman's conjecture under the first-moment assumption. Let Y₁, Y₂, … be iid nonnegative random variables with ℙ{Y₁ > 0} > 0, normalized by their sum. If the resulting randomly weighted sum converges to a nondegenerate law for one fixed integrable, nonconstant mark distr...

Oveporexton for Narcolepsy Type 1 — Results from Two Phase 3 Trials

BACKGROUND: Narcolepsy type 1 is characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, disrupted sleep, sleep paralysis, and hypnagogic or hypnopompic hallucinations. Oveporexton (TAK-861), an oral orexin receptor 2-selective agonist, reduced symptoms of narcolepsy type 1 in...