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E. M. Forster Revisited: Epistemic Disconnection, Otherness and Beyond, ed. by Gloria Lauri-Lucente, Francesco Marroni and Tania Zulli, Merope 61-62 (Gennaio-Luglio 2015)
No full textStructural and conformational modification of bioactive peptides through the proline – alpha-aminoacid-chimeras approach
No full textProceedings of the International Minicourse-Workshop "Interplay between ()-semigroups and PDEs: theory and applications", Bari, 22-26 Settembre 2003
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One year follow up of spinal cord injury patients using a reciprocating gait orthosis: Preliminary results
No full textOne year follow up of spinal cord injury patients using a reciprocating gait orthosis: preliminary report.
Scivoletto G, Petrelli A, Lucente LD, Giannantoni A, Fuoco U, D'Ambrosio F, Filippini V.
Source
Spinal Cord Unit, I.R.C.C.S., S. Lucia, via Ardeatina 306, 00179 - Rome, Italy.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE:
To examine the influence of social, physical and psychological factors in determining the usage/non usage of reciprocating gait orthosis (RGO) in spinal cord injury (SCI) patients.
DESIGN:
Prospective clinical trial.
SETTING:
A large rehabilitation hospital in Rome, Italy.
PARTICIPANTS:
Twenty four SCI patients of traumatic aetiology (all fulfilling the criteria to prescribe the device). Methods: Social, physical and neurological examination according to ASIA standards; psychological enquiry by means of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) and the scale for self rating anxiety and depression of the Cognitive Behavioural Assessment.
RESULTS:
After 1 year follow up 11 (46%) of our patients no longer used the RGO. There was no statistically significant difference between patients who used the RGO and those who rejected the orthosis with regard to social and physical data. There was a significant difference (P=0.005 at the end of training and P=0.003 at 1 year follow up) with regard to functional ambulation level. With regard to psychological enquiry RGO-non users showed a higher frequency of values over the mean in the E scale (extroversion) of the EPQ than RGO-users (P=0.05).
CONCLUSIONS:
None of the identified parameters were useful to predict the use/rejection of the orthosis. Although they need to be confirmed, our psychological data suggest that extensive psychological testing could be useful to sharpen the ability to predict
Lifespan Estimates for a Special Quasilinear Time-Dependent Damped Wave Equation
No full textIn this paper we consider a quasilinear Cauchy problem for the scale invariant damped wave equation with a particular structure of the nonlinear term that guarantees a blow up result and a lifespan estimate, assuming radial initial data having slow decay. In particular the range of admissible exponents p depends on μ, n and the rate of the initial data decay
(S)-Aziridine-2-carboxylic acid. A constrained and reactive aminoacd unit for the synthesis of bioactive peptide analogues
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