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University of Florence
Recent research
- Health & MedicineOpen access
ABSTRACT Objective To identify data‐driven body composition phenotypes in patients with moderate‐to‐extreme anorexia nervosa (AN) using machine learning (ML) clustering of bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) parameters, and to test whether these phenotypes have specific psycho...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Fluvial sediment transport plays a key role in geomorphological and hydrological processes, influencing river morphology, watershed and coastal sediment balances, and the environmental response to climatic and anthropogenic changes. In Italy, the availability of homogeneous and l...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
The Italian geothermal play-typing, a blueprint for unlocking national geothermal development
Abstract Italy has a long history of geothermal use, but a comprehensive, updated national assessment has been lacking. This study is the first to systematically evaluate geothermal systems across Italy using the modern geothermal play concept. The primary objective is to provide...
- BiologyOpen access
The paper presents the results of monoaural and binaural acoustic measurements and speech-intelligibility tests conducted in two classrooms representative of typical school buildings in Italy. The sample of two classrooms was selected based on a statistical analysis of reverberat...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Abstract The development of antibacterial cotton textiles is of considerable interest for applications in healthcare, hygiene, and protective materials, where limiting microbial proliferation on fibrous surfaces is essential. However, many of the finishing strategies currently re...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Photoplethysmographic Signal Analysis for Vascular Ageing Assessment
OBJECTIVE: Vascular ageing (VA) is an age-related process characterised by vessel stiffening and altered endothelial function. Recognised as a major predictor of cardiovascular events, VA remains under-assessed in clinical practice due to limitations of current measurement system...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Background/aims To develop a quantitative, meta-analytic framework to synthesise defocus-curve evidence and describe functional visual performance of simultaneous vision intraocular lenses (SVIOLs) across clinically relevant visual ranges. Methods PubMed was searched from incepti...
- BiologyOpen access
Corema album is a perennial, dioecious shrub endemic to the Atlantic coast of the Iberian Peninsula and the Azores. It inhabits coastal dune ecosystems from Galicia to the Strait of Gibraltar, where it plays an important ecological role. The goal of this study was to assemble and...
- Physics & Space
A digital version of Rossi's coincidence circuit
After more than a century since their discovery, cosmic rays remain a very active and fascinating research field and the coincidence method developed in those early studies is still a fundamental tool in experimental nuclear and particle physics. In this paper, Bruno Rossi's coin...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
A risky business: navigating autocratization through ideological legitimation claims
Abstract Autocratization typically results from measures aiming at seizing, strengthening, and consolidating political power. However, it is not without risks: it may produce adverse reactions from multiple actors and possibly lead to the fall of its perpetrators from power. What...
- Engineering & Technology
Numerical modeling of a 3D printed soft pneumatic actuator
Purpose This study aims to develop and validate a finite element method (FEM) model for predicting the behavior of fused filament fabrication (FFF) 3D-printed soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs). The study focuses on improving the accuracy of numerical simulations by optimizing the c...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a heterogeneous condition influenced by clinical, metabolic, and behavioral factors. Traditional approaches to diabetes management often rely on single clinical indicators and may overlook meaningful patterns in patients’ self-care behaviors. This stud...
- Engineering & Technology
Asymmetric Interfacial Behavior of FRCM Systems Subjected to the Single-Lap Shear Test
Abstract The single-lap shear test is the most representative method for characterizing fabric-reinforced cementitious matrix (FRCM) systems under standard service conditions, as it tackles the interaction between the textile reinforcement and the matrix for a specific substrate....
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
A Granger causality-guided multi-graph transformer framework for traffic flow forecasting
Accurate traffic forecasting is challenging because of the difficulty of capturing time-varying propagation and multi-scale spatio-temporal interactions. Most existing deep learning models only learn correlations rather than directional dependencies, which limits interpretability...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Background/Objectives: Artificial intelligence (AI) is entering interventional pulmonology (IP) faster than its potential risks have been systematically catalogued. We explored whether general-purpose large language models (LLMs), now widely consulted informally by patients and c...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
A major challenge in computational models of cardiac electromechanics is the reconstruction of myocardial fiber architecture, as direct in vivo measurements of fiber orientation are not feasible. Consequently, rule-based methods are commonly adopted as surrogates, relying on empi...
- BiologyOpen access
This study examined the biological activity of camel milk (CM), control yogurt (YC), and carob-fortified yogurts (YPC and YSC) as fermented dairy-based functional formulations, using human colorectal adenocarcinoma HCT-8 cells. Cells were exposed to 10, 25, and 50 µg/mL for 24 h,...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Abstract Volcanic unrest associated with increased hydrothermal activity is often difficult to interpret, yet it may culminate in hazardous steam-driven explosions or slope failures without magma intrusion. At La Fossa Caldera (Vulcano Island, Italy), recently affected by the 202...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Abstract Antibacterial resistance continues to drive the need for exploring novel chemical spaces beyond conventional organic scaffolds. Metal-based compounds have emerged as a promising class of antibiotic candidates, demonstrating high hit rates against priority bacterial patho...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Unveiling the presence of microbial biodeteriogens in paper artifacts through HyperSpectral imaging
Microbial biodeterioration constitutes a pervasive deterioration mechanism in cellulose-based heritage materials, where enzymatic depolymerization and metabolite-induced chromatic alterations compromise both the structural integrity and the legibility of the artifact. The develop...