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*Correspondence to: Dr M. P. Coleman, Cancer and Public Health Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK. Tel: +44-20-7927-2478; Fax: +44-20-7436-4230; E-mail: [email protected] †Members of the EUROCARE Working Group are listed in the Acknowledgements. Cancer and Public Health Unit, Departmen...

The ratification of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is a departure point for several considerations on their presence in environmental matrices. In this paper, the Italian situation is presented with emphasis on the most toxic compounds--chemicals with dioxin-like toxic action, and the activity in the area of interest of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità. Biotic, as wel...

A new study by researchers at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy, Geriatric Unit & Laboratory of Gerontology and Geriatrics, IRCCS "Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza," San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, Italy, and Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Roma, Italy, estimates the association between change or constant habits in coffee consumption and the incidence of mild cognitive impairment (M...

1Center for the Biology of Disease, VIB, Leuven, Belgium; 2Center for Human Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; 3Department of Hematology, Oncology and Molecular Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy; 4Division of Hematology, Department of Cellular Biotechnologies and Hematology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy; 5Inserm U944 and Hematology Laboratory, Hôpital Saint-Loui...

A worldwide scientific discussion has been started in 2010 on the need for standardisation, assessment, and delivery of recommendations in the field of plantar pressure distribution measurement at different levels: hardware performance, measuring protocols, data processing, parameters and indicators in diagnosis and therapy. The Italian National Institute of Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanità...

Author details Unit of Neuroepidemiology, Foundation IRCCS Neurological Institute C. Besta, Milan, Italy. Multiple Sclerosis Unit, Foundation IRCCS S. Lucia Rehabilitation Hospital, Rome, Italy. Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies, University of Catania; MS Center, Neurology Clinic, University Hospital Policlinico Vittorio Emanuele, Catania, Italy. Department o...

Caryn Bern, Jill Adler-Moore, Juan Berenguer, Marleen Boelaert, Margriet den Boer, Robert N. Davidson, Concepcion Figueras, Luigi Gradoni, Dimitris A. Kafetzis, Koert Ritmeijer, Eric Rosenthal, Catherine Royce, Rosario Russo, Shyam Sundar, and Jorge Alvar Division of Parasitic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia; California State Polytechnic University, Pomona...

A measurement of the direct CP violating charge asymmetries of the Dalitz plot linear slopes Ag = (g + − g)/(g + g) in K → πππ and K → πππ decays by the NA48/2 experiment at CERN SPS is presented. A new technique of asymmetry measurement involving simultaneous K and K beams and a large data sample collected allowed a result of an unprecedented precision. The charge asymmetries were measured to ...

A methodology based upon recurrence quantification analysis is proposed for the study of orthographic structure of written texts. Five different orthographic data sets (20th century Italian poems, 20th century American poems, contemporary Swedish poems with their corresponding Italian translations, Italian speech samples, and American speech samples) were subjected to recurrence quantification ...