AGATA MALTESE1, MARGHERITA SALERNO2, GABRIELE TRIPI3,4, PALMIRA ROMANO5, ANNACLAUDIA RICCIARDI5, ANNABELLADI FOLCO1, TERESA DI FILIPPO1, LUCIA PARISI1 1Department of Psychological, Pedagogical and Educational Sciences, University of Palermo, Italy 2Sciences for Mother and Child Health Promotion, University of Palermo, Italy 3Department PROSAMI, University of Palermo, Italy 4Childhood Psychiatri...

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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The discrimination between paroxysmal and sustained (persistent or permanent) atrial fibrillation (AF) has not been considered in the approach to secondary stroke prevention. We aimed to assess the differences in clinical outcomes between mostly anticoagulated patients with sustained and paroxysmal AF who had previous ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack. METHOD...

"Secondary predation" occurs when one predator feeds on a second predator, which has in turn eaten a target prey. Detection of prey remains within predators using monoclonal antibodies cannot distinguish between primary and secondary predation, potentially leading to quantitative and qualitative food chain errors. We report the first fully replicated experiments to measure secondary predation e...