University of Genoa

Susceptibility haplotypes in non-cystic fibrosis newborns with elevated immunoreactive trypsinogen

Cystic fibrosis (CF) represents the most prevalent life-threatening autosomal recessive disorder in Europe, primarily affecting the respiratory tract, exocrine pancreatic function, and lipid metabolism. Immunoreactive trypsinogen (IRT) quantification constitutes the first-tier te...

Does an Unconventional Source with a High Silica Content (Obsidian) or a High Alumina Content (Bauxite) Affect the Type of Potassium Zeolite Formation? Preliminary Data on Synthetic Products’ Efficiency in Ammonium Removal

In this paper, obsidian (OS) and bauxite (BX) are used to synthesize zeolites via KOH prefusion, followed by a conventional hydrothermal process (HY) or an unconventional vapor-phase crystallization method (VPC) at 90 °C. The results indicate that, due to their chemical and miner...

Visceral-to-subcutaneous fat ratio is a time-stable predictor of survival and toxicity in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma

Abstract Purpose Nutritional status significantly impacts the prognosis of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Computed tomography (CT) has become a key tool for assessing body composition (BC), with abnormal patterns increasingly linked to reduced survival. However, BC...

Serum Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein Dynamics, Disease Progression, and Therapy Response in Multiple Sclerosis

Importance: Capturing individual multiple sclerosis (MS) progression is difficult; few studies have evaluated glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) in large longitudinal cohorts with independent validation. Objective: To investigate whether serum GFAP levels and treatment-relate...

Development of a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach for monitoring marine port environments

Monitoring is an essential tool to understand the environment, periodically check processes in place, and highlight the occurrence of natural or human-induced changes, especially in case of anthropic environments, such as ports and their water bodies. To ensure that as much infor...

Spinors Beyond Dirac, Weyl and Majorana: The Flag-Dipoles

Abstract We recall the Lounesto classification of 1/2-spin spinor fields, based on the vanishing of spinorial bilinear quantities: the classes are the regular spinor fields (i.e. the Dirac field), as well as singular spinor fields, also known as flag-dipole spinor fields, admitti...

Influence of Relative Permeability Formulations on Hysteretic Seepage in Infinite Slopes

ABSTRACT The paper investigates the impact of two classical relative permeability formulations, one expressed in terms of pore water pressure and the other in terms of degree of saturation, on the predicted seepage in an infinite slope subjected to surface pore pressure variation...