University of Rome Tor Vergata

Mechanical behaviour of meta-sandwich structures with spinodal-shell core: Modelling, analysis and experiments

Shell-based spinodal architectures have recently attracted significant attention as mechanical metamaterials due to their highly tuneable effective properties. In this work, the suitability of shell-based spinodal metamaterials as core materials for lightweight sandwich structure...

Wall and chamber structure for a special biserial algebra coming from perverse sheaves on $\mathbb{P}^{n}$

We describe the wall and chamber structure of a special biserial algebra whose module category is equivalent to the category of (middle) perverse sheaves on the complex projective space \mathbb{P}^{n} . In particular, by the well-known classification of indecomposable modules for...

Fuel blending impact on decarbonizing cold energy for district cooling and data centers

Fuel blends are seen as a transitional strategy for decarbonising combustion-based energy conversion processes while retaining dispatchable service for electricity-critical cooling loads. This paper presents a 0-dimensional model for fuel-mixing integrated into a mixed-integer li...

Demographic effects of earthquakes in Central and Southern Italy

This paper evaluates the demographic effects of two major earthquakes – L’Aquila 2009 and Central Italy 2016 – that struck a large area in Central and Southern Italy. Using municipality-level data (2002–2023) and a difference-in-differences design with multiple groups and periods...

Full Convergence of Regularized Methods for Unconstrained Optimization

Typically, the sequence of points generated by an optimization algorithm may have multiple limit points. Under convexity assumptions, however, (sub)gradient methods are known to generate a convergent sequence of points. In this paper, we extend the latter property to a broader cl...

A Physical Therapy Clinical Framework for Temporomandibular Disorders: Integrating DC/TMD, ICOP and Multidimensional Patient Phenotyping

Temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) are clinically heterogeneous, and patients sharing the same diagnosis may differ substantially in pain mechanisms, functional impairments, behavioral contributors, comorbidities, psychosocial burden, prognosis, and treatment response. Although t...

Safety and Efficacy of Acute Normovolemic Hemodilution in Female Patients

Importance Female patients undergoing cardiac surgery have a higher transfusion burden, yet they remain underrepresented in randomized clinical trials. Although the ANH trial showed no significant reduction in the proportion of patients receiving allogeneic blood transfusions wit...

Excitonic Physics in Emerging 2D Semiconductors: A First-Principles Many-Body Perspective from Photodetection to Solar Energy Conversion

Abstract Chemically and structurally diverse two-dimensional semiconductors exhibit a broad range of excitonic and optical phenomena that have direct implications for optoelectronic functionality. We examine these materials from a first-principles many-body perspective, emphasizi...

Polarization and echo chambers in Reddit’s political discourse

Online social media have become important arenas for political debate, with election periods amplifying ideological engagement. Polarization and echo chamber effects were shown to be important for platforms like Twitter or Facebook but less for others like Reddit. Here we challen...

Comparability of self-reported and accelerometer-based physical activity assessment in patients with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy

Quantifying physical activity (PA) is clinically relevant in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). Wearable accelerometers provide objective measures, whereas self-reported questionnaires are a widely used, cost-effective alternative. However, their comparability in FSHD...

Preliminary evidence of long‐term safety and effectiveness of anti‐ CGRP drugs for migraine prevention in people with comorbid epilepsy: A 52‐week follow‐up retrospective study

Abstract Migraine and epilepsy frequently coexist, but evidence on the safety of calcitonin gene‐related peptide (CGRP)‐targeting therapies in people with epilepsy is lacking. We evaluated long‐term migraine and epilepsy outcomes in a real‐world multicenter retrospective cohort o...

Community-based monitoring of neonatal jaundice using the point-of-care Bilistick® System 2.0

Neonatal jaundice often peaks after discharge, creating the need for reliable post-discharge monitoring. This study evaluated the feasibility and safety of a hospital-to-community pathway using the Bilistick® System 2.0 within routine Community Health Family Services (CHFS). This...

The Electrodynamical Nature of Chiral Nanoplasmonics from the Quantum Regime to the Mesoscale

Abstract Chiral plasmonic nanostructures are rapidly emerging as ideal substrates for enantioselective sensing, chiral near-field engineering, and plasmon-assisted catalysis, owing to their exceptional sensitivity to structural handedness. However, whether an atomistic classical...

The GRAVITY score (grading severity and frequency in hemorrhoidal disease): development and initial evaluation of a composite patient-reported outcome measure

Abstract Background Hemorrhoidal disease (HD) is characterized by heterogeneous symptoms including bleeding, prolapse, pain, itching, and soiling. Currently available patient-reported outcome measures evaluate complementary but distinct symptom dimensions. The aim of this study w...

Willingness to Participate in HIV Cure Research Among Young People Living with Perinatally Acquired HIV in the Centre Region of Cameroon: A Cross-Sectional Survey

Young people living with perinatally acquired HIV (YPLHIV) represent a unique population for HIV cure research, offering opportunities to assess interventions in a group for whom adherence to antiretroviral treatment (ART) is particularly challenging. Understanding their perspect...

Exploring Blastocystis: hidden complexity in a common intestinal microbe

Graphical Abstract Graphical overview of the present Blastocystis review: historical perspective, clinical presentation, microbial characteristics, putative pathogenic strategies, epidemiology, diagnosis and biosafety, treatment and resistance and key open questions.

How personality traits shape susceptibility to mental distress in times of crisis: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic

Empirical evidence indicates that societal crises and adverse conditions can negatively impact population mental health. The Big Five personality traits – neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness –significantly influence stress responses. In this...

Everything you always wanted to know about sleep, but you were afraid to ask: expert concise guide and recommendations on assessing sleep-wake disturbances within a psychiatric context in contemporary times

OBJECTIVE: While disrupted sleep has long been linked to mental disorders there has been a notable decrease in interest and sleep-wake disorders have received low priority in psychiatric care. The aim of the paper was to present a concise guide for evaluating common sleep-wake di...

Diagnosing Lennox–Gastaut syndrome in adulthood: A scoping review of diagnostic challenges and age‐related electroclinical evolution

OBJECTIVE: Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) is a developmental and epileptic encephalopathy typically diagnosed in childhood. The 2022 International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) criteria provide a diagnostic framework built on pediatric data, but their applicability in adulthood i...

Structural dynamics and pH ‐regulated membrane binding of the TRAF2 ‐ NC trimer

Tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factor 2 (TRAF2) is a key adaptor in TNF receptor-signaling that operates as a trimeric assembly. Here we investigate the structural and functional properties of a TRAF2 construct spanning the trimerization and receptor-binding domains (T...