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Narrow-band UVB phototherapy and psoralen–ultraviolet A photochemotherapy in the treatment of cutaneous mastocytosis: a study in 20 patients
Background: In mastocytosis, the skin is almost invariably involved, and cutaneous symptoms deeply affect patients' quality of life. Methods: A retrospective observational analysis of patients affected by cutaneous mastocytosis (CM) and indolent systemic mastocytosis (ISM) treated with phototherapy/photochemotherapy (PUVA or NB-UVB) has been conducted. For each patient, total numbers of PUVA or NB-UVB exposures, the cumulative UV dose (J/cm2), serum tryptase profile, and pruritus, before and after treatment, according to the visual analogue scale (VAS) were considered. Skin lesions of each patient were assessed, before and after treatment, according to a cutaneous scale score. Results: Twenty patients affected by CM and ISM were studied; in particular, 10 patients received NB-UVB therapy, and other 10 patients received PUVA. A statistically significant mean reduction of pruritus in both groups (P < 0.01) was observed. The number of treatments necessary to obtain symptom relief was significantly lower in the PUVA group, but the mean exposure dose was significantly higher, if compared to the NB-UVB group. Serum tryptase levels showed a downward trend. The cutaneous score improved in both groups. Limitations: This study was a retrospective study with a small sample size and without a control group. Conclusion: This work provides evidence that both NB-UVB and PUVA represent a safe and useful second-line therapy of the cutaneous symptoms in mastocytosis
Location-Based Discovery and Network Handover Management for Heterogeneous IEEE 802.11ah IoT Applications
This research was funded by the Flemish IDEAL-IoT project (FWO SBO, grant nr. S004017N). The author Serena Santi is funded by the Flemish FWO SB grant (nr. 1S82120N). The author Filip Lemic was supported by the EU MSCA grant (nr. 893760). The computational resources were provided by the VSC (Flemish Supercomputer Center), funded by FWO and the Flemish Government -department EWI
Erratum: Lack of immunity against rubella among Italian young adults. [BMC Infect Dis., 17, (2017) (199)] Doi: 10.1186/s12879-017-2295-y
After publication of this article [1], the authors noted that the given names and family names of all authors had been inverted, and are therefore incorrect in the original article. In the original article, the author names appear as the following: Gallone Maria Serena, Gallone Maria Filomena, Larocca Angela Maria Vittoria, Germinario Cinzia and Tafuri Silvio. However, this is incorrect, and the author names should appear as per the below: Maria Serena Gallone, Maria Filomena Gallone, Angela Maria Vittoria Larocca, Cinzia Germinario, Silvio Tafuri. The author names have been corrected in the author list and the citation for this Erratum
Chronic myelogenus leukemia and exposure to ionizing radiation: a retrospective study of 443 patients
Extramedullary disease in Ph1 positive chronic myelogenous leukemia: frequency,clinical features and prognostic significance
Justice, markets, and the family: an interview with Serena Olsaretti
Serena Olsaretti (Naples, Italy, 1971) is a political philosopher at
Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), where she holds a research
professorship with the Catalan Institute of Research and Advanced
Studies (ICREA). Before moving to Barcelona, she was University Senior
Lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy of Cambridge University. She
obtained a BA, MPhil, and DPhil degree in political philosophy from
Oxford University. Her DPhil thesis was supervised by G.A. Cohen.
Olsaretti’s research interests range widely, including the ethics of
markets, justice and the family, feminist philosophy, theories of
responsibility, and theories of well-being. She is the author of Liberty,
desert and the market (2004), and the editor of Desert and justice (2003),
Preferences and well-being (2006), and the Oxford handbook of
distributive justice (forthcoming). Her work has appeared in various
journals, including Analysis, Economics & Philosophy, Philosophy & Public
Affairs, and Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. Olsaretti is one of the
editors of Law, Ethics, and Philosophy. She is the principal investigator
of Family justice: an analysis of the normative significance of procreation
and parenthood in a just society, a research project funded by a
European Research Council (ERC) consolidator grant.
The Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (EJPE)
interviewed Olsaretti about becoming a political philosopher, her work
on the ethics of markets and justice and the family, the ERC-project that
she directs, her views on teaching, and her advice for political
philosophy graduates aspiring to an academic career.This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme (Grant Agreement Number: 648610)
Giurisprudenza romana nei papiri. Tracce per una ricerca
The volume presents a collection of essays devoted to circulation and transmission of Roman
legal knowledge in Late Antiquity, focusing on the description, edition and commentary of legal
fragments, on papyrus and parchment, from III to V c. AD; this period, between the classical age of
Roman legal jurisprudence and the great enterprise of the Digest of Justinian, is usually considered of
decadence in the traditional legal scholarship. The papyrus and parchment fragments, mostly found
in archaeological excavation in the Eastern Part of the Roman Empire or kept in Western Libraries
for centuries, contain texts different in topics and lengths: some are copies of works of classical
legal literature (e.g., Ulpian), some others are Greek or Latin-Greek legal commentaries; a few of
them bear text which are not known from other sources, therefore is not possible to guess if they are
original works or commentaries in somebody else work; there are excerpts from different authors
and works, interlinear and marginal glosses of considerable length. The same variety can be seen
in their book formats (from fine parchments books to re-used papyrus leaves, from pocket books to
wide margin pages, suitable to host long annotations) and scripts (from Latin legal uncial to cursive
scripts; a considerable bilingual and digraphical evidence is here discussed, too). All this diversity is
a significant witness of the lively word of Roman legal scholarship in Late Antiquity. Scholars from
different Italian and foreign universities (Bari, Naples, Parma, Pavia, Rome, Siena, Zurich) present
in this book the results of their investigations in the frame of the PRIN 2009 project ‘Legal literature
in Late Antiquity (III-V c. AD). History and Geography’. Ulrico Agnati (Parma) e Serena Ammirati
(Roma Tre-Pavia) present a re-edition and commentary of P.Oxy. XVII 2089, whose text is about
marital legacies. Author and title of the work are unknown. Sergio Alessandrì offer a new exegesis
of PSI XIV 1449, from book 32 of Ulpian, Ad edictum; Andrea Lovato discusses the contents of
P.Fay. 10 and P.Berol. inv. 11533, a papyrus fragment about imperial dispositions on the legacy of
the soldiers; and of Cod. Vind. 1b, which bears Ulpian Institutions; the essay of Federico Battaglia
(Zurich) focuses on the structure and the definitions of PSI XIII 1348; to Valerio Marotta (Pavia)
we owe a new commentary on P.Berol. inv. 6757, known as Fragmentum de iudiciis; Stefania
Pietrini (Siena)’s paper is about the meaning of the marginal glosses preserved through P.Ant. III
152, on dowry and the related legal actions; Jolanda Ruggiero (Roma, Sapienza) presents the wellknown
Fragments with the Sententiae of Paul, Leiden, BPL 2589. Fragments different in content
are nonetheless very important to reconstruct the legal thinking of Late Antiquity: Maria Chiara
Scappaticcio (Naples) edits and comments the legal glosses in P.Ryl. III 477, a papyrus collection
of Cicero’s speeches; Serena Ammirati offers a survey of bilingual Greek-Latin glossaries and their
graphic and textual interaction with legal fragments; Dario Mantovani (Pavia)’s reflections about the
origin of Digest offer a new insight on the continuity in the transmission of Roman classical legal
scholarship, which helps to frame all the fragments discussed in the book
Justice, markets, and the family: an interview with Serena Olsaretti
Serena Olsaretti (Naples, Italy, 1971) is a political philosopher at
Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), where she holds a research
professorship with the Catalan Institute of Research and Advanced
Studies (ICREA). Before moving to Barcelona, she was University Senior
Lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy of Cambridge University. She
obtained a BA, MPhil, and DPhil degree in political philosophy from
Oxford University. Her DPhil thesis was supervised by G.A. Cohen.
Olsaretti’s research interests range widely, including the ethics of
markets, justice and the family, feminist philosophy, theories of
responsibility, and theories of well-being. She is the author of Liberty,
desert and the market (2004), and the editor of Desert and justice (2003),
Preferences and well-being (2006), and the Oxford handbook of
distributive justice (forthcoming). Her work has appeared in various
journals, including Analysis, Economics & Philosophy, Philosophy & Public
Affairs, and Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. Olsaretti is one of the
editors of Law, Ethics, and Philosophy. She is the principal investigator
of Family justice: an analysis of the normative significance of procreation
and parenthood in a just society, a research project funded by a
European Research Council (ERC) consolidator grant.
The Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (EJPE)
interviewed Olsaretti about becoming a political philosopher, her work
on the ethics of markets and justice and the family, the ERC-project that
she directs, her views on teaching, and her advice for political
philosophy graduates aspiring to an academic career
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