University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"

Embedding clinical event sequences enhances infection risk prediction in asplenic patients

Asplenic patients are predisposed to severe infections and other harmful health outcomes due to their compromised immune function. Accurately predicting these risk events is crucial to facilitate timely and personalised clinical interventions. This study aims to evaluate embeddin...

Ethics in entrepreneurship: the lesson taught in the Leucian Code promulgated by King Ferdinand IV of Bourbon in 1789

Purpose Scholars continually propose new models, conceptual frameworks and approaches to advance research on ethics in entrepreneurship. As a result, a heterogeneous set of proposals has emerged that, rather than fostering research on this topic, risks delaying or hindering it. S...

Chronological Age and Adaptive Outcomes Following Neuropsychomotor and Aquatic Interventions in Children with Autism: A Secondary Analysis

Background: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) can be conceptualized not as a static condition but as a dynamic disorder of developmental regulation, in which neuroplastic potential is translated into functional gains only through structured, experience-dependent therapeutic input. N...

A Potential Link Between Dyslipidemia and Inflammation in Patients with Schizophrenia: Insights from Sterols and HDL Profile Analysis

Dyslipidemia and inflammation are two hallmarks of schizophrenia (SCZ), but the link between these two conditions remains elusive. We studied 40 SCZ patients and 40 age- and sex-matched healthy controls (CTRL) analyzing serum total, low-density lipoprotein (LDL), and high-density...

An Unusual Case of Takotsubo Syndrome with Extreme QTc Prolongation: A Case Report

Abstract Introduction Takotsubo syndrome is a transient stress-induced cardiomyopathy characterized by reversible left ventricular dysfunction and dynamic electrocardiographic abnormalities. QTc prolongation is common and may increase the risk of malignant ventricular arrhythmias...

Climate change may increase landslide frequency despite generally drier conditions in the Mediterranean area

Abstract. This study presents a methodological framework to investigate the impacts of climate change on rainfall-triggered landslides at the subregional scale. Focusing on a ∼170 km2 area in the Partenio Mountains in southern Italy, we employed regional rainfall projections (COR...

Lumbar Plexus Disorders Presenting as Low Back Pain: A Narrative Review of a Practical Diagnostic Imaging Approach

Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most common causes of medical consultation worldwide and is typically attributed to degenerative spinal disorders. However, a subset of patients presents with LBP related to extra-spinal conditions, including disorders of the lumbar plexus. These...

Forecast reconciliation of agricultural GHG emissions in Europe with fuzzy clustering

Abstract We propose a novel statistical procedure which combines forecasting reconciliation techniques and unsupervised clustering algorithms to forecast annual greenhouse gases emissions at the territorial level. Specifically, we aim at predicting future emissions from the agric...

Algorithmic Sacredness and Algorithmic Pluralism: Content Moderation and the Symbolic Dispossession of Contemporary European Paganism

This paper examines mainstream platform moderation as it encounters contemporary pagan religious practice in Europe and reads what it finds as a symptom of a wider condition: the algorithm functions less as a neutral tool than as a productive instrument of an extractive political...

Multimodal Assessment of Tissue Response After Thyroid Radiofrequency Ablation: Clinical, Imaging, Histopathological and Molecular Insights

Background: Ultrasound-guided radiofrequency ablation (RFA) has become an established minimally invasive treatment for selected benign and autonomously functioning thyroid nodules. Although clinical outcomes are well documented, the biological mechanisms underlying tissue remodel...

Influence of geometry on the collapse of masonry arches under horizontal loading

Abstract Kinematic limit analysis is widely used to identify collapse conditions in masonry arches. The collapse configuration can be defined by the hinge positions corresponding to the minimum collapse multiplier. The kinematic evolution of the mechanism may represent a compleme...