An important challenge of HIV research today is ‘functional cure’ or HIV remission, that is interventions to keep viral load at low or undetectable level after interrupting combined antiretroviral treatment (cART). It has been suggested that so-called ‘elite controllers’ may provide important clues in this quest [1]. By definition elite controllers are able to maintain their viral loads below t...

PURPOSE We use the historical data from the European Study of Daily Fecundability and we develop an algorithm to determine the fertile window in a woman's cycle according to the rules of the C.A.Me.N. symptothermal method proposed by the Centro Ambrosiano Metodi Naturali. Our aim is to identify variables acting on the probability of conception by considering the fertile window and factors that ...

Negative and positive symptoms were investigated longitudinally in 39 young schizophrenic patients at two followup assessments approximately 2.5 and 5 years after hospital discharge. Negative symptoms, such as flat affect and poverty of speech, which were assessed at the first followup, were found to be effective prognostic signs in schizophrenic patients for predicting later poor role function...

• Metodi statistici per lo studio della distribuzione spaziale del rischio di malattia (disease mapping) • Metodi statistici per la stima del rischio di malattia in presenza di potenziali sorgenti di inquinamento 1

The current investigation studied the early course of positive thought disorder and its relationship to other aspects of schizophrenic outcome. Forty-eight schizophrenics diagnosed using the Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC), 51 psychotic nonschizophrenics, and 67 nonpsychotic patients were studied at index hospitalization and at a 1.5-year followup. Most thought-disordered schizophrenics and ...