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    Narrow-band UVB phototherapy and psoralen–ultraviolet A photochemotherapy in the treatment of cutaneous mastocytosis: a study in 20 patients

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    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

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    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

    Serena Hung: a published author at 18

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    Profile of Serena Hun

    Erratum: Lack of immunity against rubella among Italian young adults. [BMC Infect Dis., 17, (2017) (199)] Doi: 10.1186/s12879-017-2295-y

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    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

    Justice, markets, and the family: an interview with Serena Olsaretti

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    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 &amp; Philosophy, Philosophy &amp; 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

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    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

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    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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