University of Milano-Bicocca

Star formation powers optical line emission from the CGM

Using integral field spectroscopy, we explore the disk-halo interface, or the inner circumgalactic medium (CGM), of individual galaxies by constructing and analyzing emission-line maps for a large sample (72) of normal, low-redshift galaxies spanning three orders of magnitude in...

Mangrove reproductive dynamics and the role of honeybee introduction in the vulnerable ecosystems of the Northwestern Arabian Peninsula

Abstract Mangrove forests are increasingly threatened worldwide and a growing number of regeneration initiatives have surged, aimed at reversing their decline. A critical factor influencing the effectiveness of these efforts is the reproductive success of mangrove plants. In this...

Strong Coupling in Bulk Nanoplasmonic Nanoplatelet Perovskite Scintillators

ABSTRACT Control of light emission underpins photonics and radiation detection. Strong coupling between excitons and confined electromagnetic modes forms light–matter states known as polaritons, enabling emission control. In scintillators, such effects have been investigated main...

Online and in-person Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills training for university students: a non-randomized comparative trial of feasibility and outcomes

Introduction There is a growing need to implement cost-effective interventions for university students and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) - Skills Training (ST) has shown promising results as a stand-alone intervention in various settings.Aims This pre-post study aims to eval...

The Impact of the Number and the Size of Clusters on Prediction Performance of the Stratified and the Conditional Shared Gamma Frailty Cox Proportional Hazards Models

ABSTRACT Researchers in biomedical research often analyze data that are subject to clustering. Development and validation of risk prediction models generally assumes independence of observations. For survival outcomes, the Cox proportional hazards (PH) regression model is commonl...

Discrimination of Acrylamide Levels in Potato Chips Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

Controlling acrylamide formation in potato chips remains a major challenge for the food industry due to its carcinogenic potential. Its formation is influenced by multiple factors, including the composition of the raw material and the processing conditions. Therefore, the develop...

The Characterization of a Compact CLLB:Ce Scintillation Detector for Mixed-Field Monitoring at a Muon Facility

Compact scintillation detectors with simultaneous gamma and neutron sensitivity are increasingly relevant for mixed-field monitoring and nuclear measurements under size and cost constraints. This work characterizes a compact Cs2LiLaBr6:Ce (CLLB:Ce) detector with integrated SiPM r...

Low-Molecular-Weight Heparin Versus Unfractionated Heparin for Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis in Adult Traumatic Brain Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is associated with a high risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE), yet the optimal strategy for thromboprophylaxis remains uncertain. Low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) and unfractionated heparin (UFH) are commonly used agents...

Study of Supernova Neutrinos at ESSnuSB

In this paper, we have studied the sensitivity of the ESSnuSB far detector to supernova neutrinos. ESSnuSB is a proposed long-baseline neutrino experiment in Sweden, which will use a 538 kt water Cherenkov detector to probe the leptonic phase δCP by studying the second oscillatio...

Explaining COVID-19 Tokyo metro station-level ridership disruption and recovery: pre-pandemic demand, built environment and centrality

COVID-19 caused severe and uneven metro ridership declines. This study examines station-level annual ridership change in Tokyo from 2020 to 2023 relative to 2019, integrating pre-pandemic demand, built environment, and network centrality. Its main contribution is to identify how...

Applying convolutional neural networks to X-ray images to improve postharvest detection of fruit fly infestation

Early detection of fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) infestation in traded fruit is important for maintaining phytosanitary security, particularly for quarantine pests. This study evaluated the integration of micro-focus X-ray computed tomography (µCT) and deep learning as a non-d...

Galaxy luminosity functions from far-UV to submillimetre at z = 0 in the COLIBRE simulations

Abstract We present predictions from the colibre cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation for the present-day galaxy luminosity functions (LFs) at wavelengths ranging from the far-ultraviolet (FUV) to the submillimetre. The simulations are post-processed with t...

Helicity conservation of the Riemann–Silberstein vector

Abstract In this paper, we consider Riemann–Silberstein (RS) helicity (RSH) given by the sum of the electric and magnetic helicities. We show that this quantity is chiral under parity transformation and invariant under duality. In the case of null fields in free space, we prove t...

Microbial adhesion promotes Piezo1 activation to initiate innate immunity

Abstract How mammals mount an effective immune response against infectious agents remains unresolved. Here we identify microbial adhesion to myeloid cells as a critical initiating event that precedes pattern recognition receptor (PRR) engagement. Using a skin infection model with...

Association Between Proton Pump Inhibitor Use and Gastric Neuroendocrine Neoplasms in Autoimmune Gastritis: A Real‐World Propensity Score‐Matched Study From the Autoimmune gastRitis Italian netwOrk Study grOup

ABSTRACT Background and Aims Autoimmune gastritis (AIG) is characterized by chronic hypergastrinemia and is associated with an increased risk of gastric neuroendocrine neoplasms (gNENs). Because proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) further increase gastrin secretion, concerns have been...

Overtourism: what’s next?

In 2019, this journal asked whether overtourism was a genuinely new issue or merely a new label for a long-debated phenomenon, concluding that the phenomenon was old but the term was new and worthy of future study. Seven years on – and after a pandemic that first interrupted and...

Natural Selection as a Process That Increases Metabolic Entropy Production? A Regime-Dependent Analysis in Open Chemostat Systems with Michaelis–Menten Kinetics and Mutation–Selection Dynamics

We analyse whether Darwinian natural selection acts as a metabolic-entropy-production-increasing process in a model of an open chemostat ecosystem, where Michaelis–Menten uptake kinetics are grounded in a thermodynamically consistent mesoscopic chemical-reaction-network model, an...

Transcriptomic profile and endothelial changes during differentiation syndrome in acute promyelocytic leukemia

Abstract Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is curable with all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) and arsenic trioxide (ATO), but differentiation syndrome (DS) remains a potentially life-threatening complication, with poorly understood pathogenesis. We investigated clinical, molecular a...

The Role of Clomiphene Citrate in Gonadotropin Stimulation Protocols in Poor Responders: A Mini-Review of Recent Clinical Evidence

Diminished ovarian reserve (DOR) and poor ovarian response (POR) remain among the most challenging conditions in assisted reproductive technology, and no optimal stimulation strategy has been established. Clomiphene citrate (CC), a selective estrogen receptor modulator that augme...

Assistive technologies (lumbar supports and other devices) for treating chronic low back pain

RATIONALE: Low back pain (LBP) is a major global health problem. It is the most common cause of activity limitation amongst individuals younger than 45 years, and one of the most frequent reasons for visits to a doctor. The 2019 Global Burden of Disease study named LBP as the lea...