University of Florence

Morphological and morphometric variability in Quaternary rhinoceroses as revealed by a small-sized adult Stephanorhinus etruscus skeleton from Poggio Rosso in Upper Valdarno (Early Pleistocene, Italy)

A nearly complete skeleton of Stephanorhinus etruscus from the Upper Valdarno Basin (Italy) provides a rare opportunity to investigate the morphological and morphometric variability of Early Pleistocene rhinoceroses. The specimen, IGF8212V, is here described and compared with S....

A Journey through Solvent Space: New Solvates of Probucol

Abstract A systematic expansion of the solid-form landscape of the antihyperlipidemic drug probucol was carried out using a diverse set of solvents spanning a broad physicochemical space, providing insight into the formation of probucol solvated forms. Five new solvates were disc...

Doxapram in Preterm Infants: From Respiratory Stimulation to Individualized Therapy—A Narrative Review

Background: Apnea of prematurity (AOP) remains one of the most common complications of preterm birth, and despite the established role of caffeine as first-line therapy, a proportion of extremely preterm infants continue to experience clinically significant apnea. Doxapram, a res...

Upcoming novel treatments for hidradenitis suppurativa: An overview of the pipeline

Abstract Recent developments in hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) have focused on targeting key inflammatory pathways implicated in the pathogenesis of the disease, including interleukin (IL)‐17, IL‐1, tumour necrosis factor (TNF), Janus kinase (JAK) and tyrosine kinase 2 (TYK2) sign...

Inside out: cutting-edge methods to decode external opportunities for startup growth

We examine how both internal resources and the external environment influence startup growth, addressing the challenge of measuring the knowledge structure in which the startup operates. We introduce, in relation to firm growth, two indicators belonging to the economic complexity...

Intraoperative neurophysiology monitoring in pediatric epilepsy surgery: a case series from a tertiary Italian center

Objectives To characterize intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring in pediatric epilepsy surgery in a single tertiary center. Methods We reviewed intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring procedures during pediatric epilepsy surgeries at Meyer Children’s Hospital, Florenc...

On subgroup growth of iterated wreath products in product action

Abstract We show that there are hereditarily just infinite groups of any subgroup growth type between n and $$n^{\log n}$$ n log n . This is obtained by calculating the subgroup growth type of a family of hereditarily just infinite profinite groups obtained via iterated wreath pr...

Telocytes in skeletal muscle: Emerging players in homeostasis and repair/regeneration.

Telocytes (TCs) have recently emerged as novel components of the skeletal muscle interstitium. They are distinguished from other stromal cells by their immunophenotypic profiles and, especially, unique ultrastructural traits. Specifically, TCs feature a small cell body and very l...

Stationary entanglement of a levitated oscillator with an optical field

Stationary entanglement between the motion of macroscopic objects and light is a long-standing goal of quantum optomechanics, with implications for both fundamental tests of quantum physics and emerging quantum technologies. We report the generation of quantum entanglement betwee...

The lived experience of trans persons: a bottom-up review co-written by experts by experience and academics.

We present here the first bottom-up review of the lived experience of trans persons, co-written by experts by experience and academics. We sourced the medical and non-medical literature, focusing on first-person narratives, and critically extracted experiential themes, which were...

A Digital Borsa (Stock Exchange) for Grain: Epistemic Infrastructure, Competition Law, and the Reconstitution of Market Legibility in EU and BRICS Commodity Governance

Transnational grain trade is indispensable to food security yet structurally resistant to legal visibility. Price-relevant facts, contractual risk allocations, and informational architectures are frequently constituted through private infrastructures, limiting their legibility to...

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...

Extended recovery room as a strategy to reduce inappropriate ICU admissions: an Italian hospital experience

The limited operational hours of Recovery Rooms (RR) frequently result in potentially avoidable intensive care unit (ICU) admissions for intermediate-risk surgical patients. "Project Futura," implemented at Santo Stefano Hospital (Prato, Italy) in March 2024, extended RR hours in...

Anomalous Transport in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou Model: A Review and Open Problems

Abstract This review provides an up-to-date account of energy transport in Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) chains, a key testbed for nonequilibrium statistical physics. We discuss the transition from the historical puzzle of thermalization to the discovery of anomalous heat trans...

Hot-springs through time, and how to find them

Hot-springs have fascinated geologists including James Hutton for centuries. Here we synthesise data collected over timescales from centuries to days to reveal rules governing hot-springs, including where and when they occur. Data reveal waters dominantly sourced from the surface...

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...

Information Infrastructure and Institutional Strategy: Academic Libraries in the Higher Education Policy Landscape

AbstractAcademic libraries increasingly serve as strategic components of higher education governance, extending beyond their traditional role as information repositories to support institutional sustainability, digital transformation, policy implementation, and knowledge producti...

CALR ‐mutated myeloproliferative neoplasms: Refining molecular risk beyond the driver

Calreticulin ( CALR )‐mutated myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) are generally associated with favourable outcomes, yet considerable heterogeneity persists across the disease course. Mawalkar et al. provide long‐term data across essential thrombocythaemia (ET), post‐ET myelofibr...

Lithium chloride in vitro treatment shows potential to rescue the neuronal phenotype caused by WDFY3 haploinsufficiency

We provide a comprehensive phenotypic characterization of loss-of-function (LoF) variants in WDFY3 based on the largest cohort reported to date (n = 32). Our findings define a monogenic disorder marked by neuropsychiatric features (including autism and ADHD), mild to moderate neu...

Bourdieusian conception of the state, migrants and radical democracy in the reflexive sociology of Abdelmalek Sayad

Abdelmalek Sayad’s sociology of migration can be interpreted as an eminent form of reflexive political sociology and has more than one connection with Bourdieu’s conception of the state as state thought and the sociological-political approach outlined by the French sociologist. F...