It is a great pleasure to introduce the commentaries by Drs Kellow and Quigley on the pros and cons of the new Rome III criteria. Perhaps most of the readership is only familiar with these published diagnostic criteria. However, the Rome Foundation has a larger mission and directive to move the field of functional gastrointestinal (GI) and motility disorders forward through research and educati...

A decade after Rome III, in 2016, Rome IV criteria were published. There are major differences between Rome IV and the earlier iteration, some of which are in line with Asian viewpoints. The clinical applicability of the Rome IV criteria of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in Asian perspective is reviewed here. Instead of considering functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) to be largely psy...

T. González-Lezana,1 J. Rubayo-Soneira,2 S. Miret-Artés,1 F. A. Gianturco,3 G. Delgado-Barrio,1 and P. Villarreal1,* 1Instituto de Matemáticas y Fı́sica Fundamental, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientı́ficas, Serrano, 123, 28006 Madrid, Spain 2Instituto Superior de Ciencia y Tecnologı́a Nucleares, Ciudad de La Habana, 6163 Cuba 3Department of Chemistry, The University of Rome, Cittá Univers...

Review of Giulia Iannuzzi, Geografie del tempo. Viaggiatori europei tra i popoli nativi nel Nord America Settecento, Rome: Viella, 2022, reviewed by Emanuele Giusti

Objective(s): Liver transplantation is the most important therapy for end-stage liver disease and ischemia reperfusion (I/R) injury is indeed a risk factor for hepatic failure after grafting. The role of miRNAs in I/R is not completely understood. The aim of this study was to investigate the potential protective role of the mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) and ischemic pr...

Timeshare contracts are expressly protected as consumer under Article 6(4)(c) Rome I. With the extended notion of timeshare in Directive 2008/122/EC, question is whether timeshare-related should be contracts. Additionally, unlike I, 17 Brussels Ia does not explicitly include into its material scope nor mention concept timeshare. It gives rise to whether, and if yes, how, Ia. This article argues...

This study investigated the level of labor protection as per international contract. Thus, way applicable law is applied to relations in Jordan and other Arab countries such Kuwait Bahrain, Rome I Regulation were discussed (Council European Union, 2008). was done evaluate compared countries. Attempts made raise problem, delineate ongoing situation Jordan, suggest suitable solutions. The analyti...

In this paper we introduce a new spatio-temporal methodology for biosurveillance entitled the Repeated Two-sample Rank (RTR) procedure. It is designed to sequentially incorporate information from individual observations and thus can operate on data in real-time as it arrives into an automated biosurveillance system. In addition, upon a signal of a possible outbreak, the methodology suggests a w...