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The clinical pattern of subclinical/silent celiac disease:an analysis on 1026 consecutive cases.
No full textThe Forest Sector in EU Member States' National Recovery and Resilience Plans: a preliminary analysis
Full text linkThe role of forests in reaching the environmental policies targets of the European Union (EU) is being increasingly recognised. Consequently, investing in the forest sector takes on a fundamental role. Different funding opportunities are already in place in the EU, but there are some limitations in accessing them. New funding opportunities arose more recently. To support the recovery process of Member States (MS) after the Covid-19 pandemic, the EU is making significant efforts through NextGenerationEU, funding MS after the European Commission (EC) approval of the National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs). No specific guidelines are present to finance the forest sector. The aim of this paper is to investigate how the forest sector has been taken into account in the NRRPs through an analysis of the contents of 26 NRRPs. Financial investments in the sector by action types have also been analysed. Finally, commonalities and differences between MS have been extracted by means of a cluster analysis. Results show that the majority of MS dedicate a portion of their funds to the forest sector and there were no investments in the sector in only four countries. One-third of MS have foreseen a dedicated portion of the funds to the sector. The forest-related themes most represented in the NRRPs are: biodiversity protection, climate adaptation, forest-based ecosystem services management, climate mitigation, rural development and innovation. The cluster analysis identifies three MS clusters, giving evidence about the MS behaviour in a non-ordinary funding situation. The first one is characterised by more traditional countries, while in the other two clusters innovation plays an important role. The second cluster orients innovation towards wood-related products, while innovation in the third cluster is addressed to support forest multifunctionality. Results can support national and European decision-makers to plan national strategies, funds allocation, or to act at European level knowing which are the priorities given by the different MS
Effects of vigilance decrease on exogeneous and endogeneous visual orienting
No full textIt is an aim of this study to assess whether a decrese of vigilance, obtained by means of a sleep deprivation, affects automatic and voluntary orienting of attention. Visual orienting was induced by both central (endogenous) and peripheral (exogenous) cues. Results show that the decrease of vigilance do not affect peripheral orienting, but induces a selective reduction of the facilitation effects, in the central cueing task. The specific impairment in the ability to intentionally follow the cue, suggests that the reducion of allerting produces a worsening of the voluntary control of attention
Silica thin coating deposited on soda-lime glass and silicon wafer: Accelerated aging effects
No full textInthis work we investigate the effects of accelerated aging tests on silica thin films deposited by sol-gel technology on soda-lime glasses and on (100) p-type silicon wafers. The adopted procedure avoided any type of termal treatment
Prevalence and clinical features of selective immunoglobulin A deficiency in coeliac disease: an Italian multicentre study. Italian Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology (SIGEP) and "Club del Tenue" Working Groups on Coeliac Disease.
No full textPREVALENCE AND CLINICAL FEATURES OF SELECTIVE IMMUNOGLOBULIN A DEFICIENCY IN COELIAC DISEASE: AN ITALIAN MULTICENTRE STUDY.
No full textGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Bismuth oxychloride nanoflakes: Interplay between composition-structure and optical properties
No full textStrongly (001) oriented BiOCl nanoflakes have been prepared at room temperature by the controlled hydrolysis of bismuth chloride in the presence of acetylacetone. The nanoflakes thermally treated in air up to 600 °C have been studied by X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). Composition, structure and morphology of the nanoflakes have been correlated to their electronic absorption and luminescence properties. Irrespective of the thermal treatments, the samples are characterized by transmittance higher than 98% in the near-infrared region. In the mildly annealed specimen (≤ 200 °C), the absorption bands in the ultraviolet can be effectively exploited for the selective excitation of the blue (394 nm) and green (520 nm) photoluminescence, the latter being visible only for λexc > 310 nm. Conversely, at higher temperature only the blue emission is observed which, on the basis of the observed trend, can be assigned to emitting centres located in the oxide sheet of the Bi–O–Cl stacks
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