University of Turin

How close is close enough? Calibrating and validating RSSI-based proximity sensors for livestock social interaction studies

Abstract Background Understanding social contacts in livestock is essential for behavioural research, welfare assessment and modelling pathogen transmission. Proximity sensors based on received signal strength indicator (RSSI) offer a promising tool to quantify fine-scale social...

The burden of male breast cancer (MBC) in the GBD Central, Eastern, and Western Europe Regions from 1990 to 2023: Results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023

PURPOSE: Male breast cancer (MBC) is underrepresented in cancer statistics: this study aimed to assess the burden of MBC in Central, Eastern, and Western Europe from 1990 to 2023, using data from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2023. METHODS: Estimates from GBD 2023 were...

Placebo and nocebo effects on pain through the lens of the predictive brain: Neurobiological mechanisms and translational implications

Placebo and nocebo effects on pain provide a model for investigating how cognitive and contextual factors modulate the physiological processes underlying nociception and its regulation. However, existing accounts remain fragmented and lack a unifying mechanistic framework linking...

Oak masting under climate change: when spatially heterogeneous shifts in flowering phenology reshape pollen limitation

Masting, the irregular, synchronised production of seeds within tree populations, drives forest regeneration and ecosystem dynamics. Its response to climate change may depend on phenological shifts in key reproductive stages, yet this link remains poorly understood. Using 30 yr o...

Deep molecular profiling of lung neuroendocrine tumours and supra-carcinoids

BACKGROUND: Lung neuroendocrine tumours (NETs, also known as carcinoids) are rapidly rising in incidence worldwide but have unknown aetiology and limited therapeutic options beyond surgery. The current WHO classification, based on mitotic count and presence or absence of necrosis...

MoCaNLO: a Monte Carlo integrator for NLO calculations

Abstract We present the Monte Carlo integration code MoCaNLO, which computes cross sections and distributions for processes at high-energy colliders like the LHC at leading and next-to-leading order (NLO) in the strong and electroweak couplings. It relies on the Recola package fo...

How Norms Depend on the Presence and Status of Observers: The Relational Contingency of Everyday Behaviors in 90 Societies

Norms are fundamental to social life, but basic questions about how they are affected by social context remain. Specifically, how do normative constraints depend on the presence and status of observers, and how do such relational contingencies vary across cultures? Using data fro...

The familiness matrix: A configurational instrument to capture heterogeneity in family firm logics

Familiness is central to understanding both the distinctiveness and the heterogeneity of family firms. Prior research has developed important scales and conceptualizations of family influence, socioemotional goals, and familiness-related dynamics. However, the literature still la...

Supporting upper limb movements with a soft robot after a brachial plexus injury

Brachial plexus injury causes severe arm weakness, forcing patients to rely on compensatory movements for daily activities. Most robotic solutions target isolated elbow or hand function, whereas multi-joint assistance remains limited. Here we show that a soft wearable exosuit pro...

Epstein–Barr Virus DNA Detection Without Detectable Expression of Selected Viral Transcripts in Pediatric Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Background: Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) has long been linked to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), mainly through molecular mimicry, altered B-cell biology, defective antiviral immune surveillance and intermittent viral reactivation. However, the detection of EBV DNA in clinical sa...

The basic variety in learners of closely related languages

Abstract Longitudinal studies conducted within the ESF project in the 1980s revealed recurrent interlanguage stages developed by learners of different L2s and with different L1s, where similar morphological categories and syntactic properties emerged gradually and consistently, r...

Reduced-frequency bictegravir, emtricitabine, and tenofovir alafenamide in virologically suppressed adults with HIV: a single-centre randomised phase 2 pilot trial in Spain

Background Reduced-frequency oral antiretroviral therapy may lessen treatment burden, but the exposure thresholds required to maintain virological suppression and the role of the HIV reservoir remain undefined. Methods BETAF-RED was a 48-week, single-centre, randomised, open-labe...

Enhancing Pragmatic Communication in Healthy Aging: A Preliminary Investigation of the Long-Term Effects of the Advanced Cognitive Pragmatic Treatment

Abstract The aging process is associated with changes in cognitive and communicative skills, including pragmatic one, the ability to appropriately use language and other expressive means in social contexts. Despite its importance for quality of life and autonomy, the decline of p...

Universal modular properties of generalized Gibbs ensembles and chiral deformations

A bstract We study modular properties of conformal field theories perturbed by holomorphic fields. We prove an asymptotic formula for the modular S-transform of a generalized partition function that includes zero modes of higher spin holomorphic currents. The derivation makes use...

Intraoperative Adverse Events in Robot-assisted Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy (RAMIE)

Objective: Assess the incidence and management of intraoperative adverse events (IAEs) during robot-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy (RAMIE) and evaluate their impact on postoperative outcomes. Background: IAEs are an inherent component of surgical practice and owing to...

Hormone therapy ( HT ) in women with premature ovarian insufficiency or early menopause: Time to think of a new paradigm for healthy aging. A joint FIGO and IMS position paper

Premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) and early menopause (EM) affect millions of women worldwide. Compared with normal menopause, they confer a longer duration of estrogen deficiency and are associated not only with a shorter lifespan, but with a reduced healthspan, owing to an...

Misperceptions of charismatic species' conservation status: Zoo visits and virtual exposure shape perceptions of extinction risk

Abstract Biodiversity loss is accelerating globally, yet species are not equally affected, and public perceptions of extinction risk often diverge from scientific assessments. Understanding what shapes public perceptions is critical for effective conservation communication, parti...

Targeting CD38 Across Autoimmune and Plasma Cell–Driven Immune-Mediated Diseases: Rationale, Clinical Evidence, and Emerging Therapeutic Landscape

Autoimmune diseases remain a major cause of chronic morbidity despite substantial advances in targeted immunomodulatory therapies. In many autoantibody-mediated conditions, disease refractoriness and relapse are driven by long-lived plasma cells, which are largely resistant to co...

Building a Physics-Aware AI Ecosystem for Solid-State Hydrogen Storage Materials

Abstract Hydrogen storage remains a central bottleneck for scalable hydrogen energy systems due to the multiscale and coupled nature of the thermodynamics, kinetics, and microstructural evolution of hydrogen storage materials (HSMs). Although artificial intelligence (AI) has acce...

On the Lawson-Osserman conjecture

Abstract We prove that if $u : B_{1} \subset \mathbb{R}^{2} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{n}$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>u</mml:mi> <mml:mo>:</mml:mo> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>B</mml:mi> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> </mml:msub> <mml:mo>⊂</mml:mo> <mml:msup> <mml:...