Association between long-term exposure to air pollution and immune-mediated diseases: a population-based cohort study by Giovanni Adami, Angelo Fassio, Giovanni Orsolini, Davide Gatti, Maurizio Rossini, Ombretta Viapiana, Camilla Benini, Elena Fracassi, Giorgio Cattani, Marco Pontalti, Eugenia Bertoldo

“…Data on the monitoring of particulate matter (PM)10 and PM2.5 concentrations were retrieved from the Italian Institute of Environmental Protection and Research. …”
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Calves gastrointestinal nematodes and Eimeria prevalence and associated risk factors in dairy farms, southern Ethiopia by Maireg Hailu, Kassahun Asmare, Endrias Zewdu Gebremedhin, Vincenzo Di Marco Lo Presti, Maria Vitale, Desie Sheferaw

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Electrophysiological Predictors of Clinical Outcome in Traumatic Neuropathies: A Multicenter Prospective Study by Palma Ciaramitaro, Mauro Mondelli, Eugenia Rota, Bruno Battiston, Arman Sard, Italo Pontini, Giuliano Faccani, Giuseppe Migliaretti, Aristide Merola, Dario Cocito, Italian Network for Traumatic Neuropathies

“…Subjects referred to the Italian Traumatic Neuropathy Network between 2010 and 2011 (307 patients, for a total of 444 TN) were evaluated with serial clinical/EDX evaluations at 6, 12, 24, and 36 months of follow-up. …”
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On the tracks of an uninvited guest, the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus in Cyprus by Riccardo Piccinno, Giulia Fiorenza, Marlen Ines Vasquez, Jeremy Bouyer, Gregoris Notarides, Ludvik Marcus Gomulski, Soteris Meletiou, Mustafa Akiner, Antonios Michaelakis, Federico Forneris, Giovanni Maga, Giuliano Gasperi, Anna Rodolfa Malacrida

“…As the Balkan and Italian mosquitoes display high competence for CHIKV, questions arise about possible arbovirus outbreaks in Cyprus and highlight the need to implement surveillance and control measures. …”
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Psychological fitness for work: do we still have a long way to go? by Giuseppe Ferrari

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Paese che vai usanza che trovi, tra cosmo e campanile by Pietro Clemente

“…In the lecture, first of all ideally addressed to younger generations, the author retrospectively reflects on his contribution, along the work of many years, to these issues, particularly focusing on his attempt to interweave the Italian school of studies of folklore and anthropology with the attention, in the works of sociologist Giacomo Becattini and the urbanist Alberto Magnaghi, for the new forms of “consciousness of places”, and above all, with James Clifford’s work on the processes of “becoming indigenous in the XXIth Century” in Oceania and the Americas.…”
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Clonazepam as Agonist Substitution Treatment for Benzodiazepine Dependence: A Case Report by Angelo Giovanni Icro Maremmani, Luca Rovai, Fabio Rugani, Silvia Bacciardi, Matteo Pacini, Liliana Dell'Osso, Icro Maremmani

“…We present a case report in which an Italian patient affected by anxiety disorder and treated with BZDs presented a severe case of dependence on BZDs. …”
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Un pays à l’image d’une jambe humaine : anatomie de l’imaginaire géographique et paysager italien by Justine Balibar

“…In more precise terms, it poses the problem of understanding the Italian territory as a unified set of different regional landscapes.…”
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A institucionalização da participação comunitária no SUS e a função imunitária do direito by Lutiane de Lara, Neuza Maria de Fátima Guareschi

“…This paper analyzes the process of institutionalization of community participation as a collegiate level of the Unified Health System. The Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito’s approach of the Immunization Paradigm has been used as both a theoretical-methodological tool to analyze the relationship between life and law and a strategy to advance in the construction of policies oriented to a common framework. …”
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A study of two Chinese-style Clarinet Works Colors from China and Hommage to China from the Perspective of Cultural Holism by Congjie Zhao

“…This study selects two representative works - Colors from China and Hommage to China - from a series of recent Chinese-style clarinet works created by Italian composers Michele Mangani and Giuseppe Ricotta, and conducts detailed musical analysis of the two works from the perspective of Cultural Holism in order to present specific examples of innovative uses and combinations of Western and Chinese musical elements, thereby bringing about a clearer and deeper understanding of these works. …”
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The theology of creation in Vito Mancuso’s Radical Theology by C. C. Simut

“… Vito Mancuso, a young Italian theologian of lay inspiration, has been causing a great deal of theological unrest within Italy’s conservative quarters because of his radical program intended to re-found Christianity in order for it to be understood by contemporary men and women. …”
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The SPES3 Experimental Facility Design for the IRIS Reactor Simulation by Mario Carelli, Lawrence Conway, Milorad Dzodzo, Andrea Maioli, Luca Oriani, Gary Storrick, Bojan Petrovic, Andrea Achilli, Gustavo Cattadori, Cinzia Congiu, Roberta Ferri, Marco Ricotti, Davide Papini, Fosco Bianchi, Paride Meloni, Stefano Monti, Fabio Berra, Davor Grgic, Graydon Yoder, Alessandro Alemberti

“…Within the framework of an Italian R&D program on Nuclear Fission, managed by ENEA and supported by the Ministry of Economic Development, the SPES3 facility is under design and will be built and operated at SIET laboratories. …”
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Hydrogeology of the lower sector of Basento and Cavone river basins (southern Italy) by Silvio Coda, Pasquale Allocca, Domenico Calcaterra, Nicola Castello, Delia Cusano, Pantaleone De Vita, Daniele Lepore, Paola Petrone, Giacomo Prosser, Vincenzo Allocca

“…In this paper, starting from official Italian geological maps, a hydrogeological conceptual model and geodatabase were developed through hydrogeological characterization of lithological formations, analysis of topographic cartography and satellite images, as well as an extensive hydrogeological survey. …”
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The wandering « Leg of an Indian King ». The cultural biography of a friction idiophone now in the Pigorini Museum in Rome, Italy by Davide Domenici

“…Collected in the Mixtec Kingdom of Tututepec (Oaxaca, Mexico) during the 16th century, it passed through different Italian collections before reaching its present location in Rome toward the end of the 19th century. …”
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On Tense, agreement, and the syntax of null and overt subjects by Gerardo Fernández-Salgueiro

“… In this paper I argue that the position and realization of subjects in adverbial non-finite clauses in Italian, Spanish, Galician, and European Portuguese can provide valuable insight into the licensing conditions for pro and postverbal subjects in finite clauses in these pro-drop languages. …”
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Proximal Myopathy due to m.5835G>A Mutation in Mitochondrial MT-TY Gene by C. Simoncini, V. Montano, G. Alì, R. Costa, G. Siciliano, M. Mancuso

“…Here we report the case of an Italian 53-year-old woman presenting with a proximal myopathy and the m.5835G>A mutation in MT-TY gene coding for the mitochondrial tRNA Tyrosine gene.…”
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Marchiafava-Bignami Disease: a Reality. A Case Report by Masleidy Valladares Valle, Juan Ibrahim García Leonard, Ada Sánchez Lozano

“…It was first described in 1903 by the pathologists Marchiafava and Bignami in three Italian alcoholic patients who drink red wine. The case of a 55-year-old patient is reported, alcoholic, who attended with generalized epileptic seizures and impaired level of consciousness. …”
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Modelli e specchi, mode e tendenze. Esercizi di decostruzione e ricostruzione per l’antropologia italiana by Francesco Faeta

“…Starting  from a tight analysis around the contemporary legitimacy of the notion of Italian anthropology, the Author explores some of the recurring features of this tradition of study, highlighting the limits and lacks, for outlining then topicss that characterize the specific national reflection and indicate some of the paths out of the crisis of credibility from which the overall discipline seems to be, nowadays, plagued. …”
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Projeto by Geraldo Augusto Fernandes

“…This project, however, will take into account more aspects that were not contemplated by the Italian scholar. For this article, I will use the POEMAS DE FORMAS MISTAS as an example, demonstrating their origins, evolution and persistence in the 15th/16th centuries.…”
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Sentiment Analysis Models with Bayesian Approach: A Bike Preference Application in Metropolitan Cities by Antonino Vitetta

“…In this work a model based on the Bayesian approach is specified, calibrated, and validated in the case of bike preference in some Italian metropolitan cities. The model takes into account the discrete choice approach. …”
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