HVSR Analysis of Rockslide Seismic Signals to Assess the Subsoil Conditions and the Site Seismic Response by Alessia Lotti, Veronica Pazzi, Gilberto Saccorotti, Andrea Fiaschi, Luca Matassoni, Giovanni Gigli

“…Many Italian rock slopes are characterized by unstable rock masses that cause constant rock falls and rockslides. …”
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Evaluating the Safety and Satisfaction of HYAcorp MLF2 for Noninvasive Buttock Augmentation: A Multicenter Study by Piero Crabai, MD, Luis Campos-Martínez, MD, Francesco Marchetti, MD, Fabio Fantozzi, MD, Ruben Marques, PhD, Silvia Fontenete, PhD

“…This retrospective, observational, descriptive multicenter study analyzed the outcomes of using a body HA filler (HYAcorp MLF2) for buttock augmentation across 4 Italian centers, with a 6-month follow-up period. …”
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Development of animal feeding additives from mushroom waste media of shochu lees by Fumio Yagi, Yuji Minami, Masayoshi Yamada, Kyohei Kuroda, Masahito Yamauchi

“…Methods Several polysaccharide hydrolase activities in the extracts were measured and the following feedstuffs were partially digested by the extracts: Italian ryegrass, rice straw, and sweet potato runner. …”
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Rapid growing mass of the mandible due to an oral metastasis of thymoma: Case report of an extremely rare localization and review of published cases by Francesco Scilla, Cosimo Rupe, Gioele Gioco, Luca Raffaelli, Filippo Lococo, Ciro Mazzarella, Guido Rindi, Romeo Patini, Carlo Lajolo

“…Case report: A 62-year-old Italian male patient was referred to the Oral Medicine Department at the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. …”
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Integrating taxonomic, genetic and ecological data to explore the species richness of wild bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Anthophila) of the Culuccia Peninsula (NE Sardinia, Italy) by Matteo Annessi, Alessandra Riccieri, Marilena Marconi, Sabrina Rossi, Andrea Di Giulio

“…A total of 212 COI sequences were obtained for 61 different species, many of which had not yet been sequenced from Italian populations. Five of the collected taxa are Sardo-Corsican endemics, whereas six species are newly recorded from Sardinia. …”
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SQM Ageing and Atmospheric Conditions: How Do They Affect the Long-Term Trend of Night Sky Brightness Measurements? by Pietro Fiorentin, Stefano Cavazzani, Andrea Bertolo, Sergio Ortolani, Renata Binotto, Ivo Saviane

“…The long-term trends measured by weather stations at different altitudes and conditions indicated an increase in solar irradiance in the Italian study sites. The comparison among the daily irradiance increase, the reduction in the aerosol optical depth, and the NSB measurements highlighted a darker sky for sites contaminated by light pollution (LP) and a brighter sky for sites not affected by LP, showing a significant and predominant role of atmospheric conditions in relation to NSB change. …”
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Real life outcome analysis of breast cancer brain metastases treated with Trastuzumab Deruxtecan by Alessandra Fabi, Alessandro Rossi, Roberta Caputo, Simona Pisegna, Simone Scagnoli, Francesco Pantano, Giuliana D’Auria, Palma Fedele, Agnese Fabbri, Claudio Vernieri, Michela Palleschi, Luisa Carbognin, Gianluigi Ferretti, Elena Di Monte, Ida Paris, Francesco Pavese, Ornella Garrone, Antonio Franco, Michelino De Laurentiis, Gianluca Franceschini, Giovanni Scambia, Diana Giannarelli, Riccardo Masetti, Andrea Botticelli

“…We conducted a multicenter, observational, retrospective real-world analysis on 39 cases collected at 12 Italian Oncological Units. Patients with brain metastases (BMs) from HER2 + BC treated with T-DXd in various treatment lines were enrolled. …”
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Managing Water-Ecosystem-Food Nexus using participatory approaches: insights from an innovative methodological approach developed in two Mediterranean areas by Dimitrios Malamataris, Vassilios Pisinaras, Alessandro Pagano, Valentina Baratella, Silvia Vanino, Manuel Bea, Konstantinos Babakos, Anna Chatzi, Stefano Fabiani, Raffaele Giordano, Petros Kafkias, Estrella López-Moya, Christina Papadaskalopoulou, Ivan Portoghese, Dimitris Tassopoulos, Andreas Panagopoulos

“…The stakeholders proposed 24 NbSs in the Italian case study, most of which were related to agricultural landscape management, while in the Greek case study, 2 of the 4 top-ranked measures were NbSs. …”
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Biological Characteristics and Medical Treatment of Breast Cancer in Young Women—A Featured Population: Results from the NORA Study by P. Pronzato, G. Mustacchi, A. De Matteis, F. Di Costanzo, E. Rulli, I. Floriani, M. E. Cazzaniga

“…From 2000–2002, patients (𝑁>3500) were enrolled at 77 Italian hospitals. Women aged ≤50 years (𝑁=1013) were stratified into age groups (≤35, 36–40, 41–45, and 46–50 years). …”
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New Insights on the Seismic Activity of Ostuni (Apulia Region, Southern Italy) Offshore by Pierpaolo Pierri, Marilena Filippucci, Vincenzo Del Gaudio, Andrea Tallarico, Nicola Venisti, Vincenzo Festa

“…The analysis of the 2018 event shows that the ambiguity of the solution of the fault plane reported by INGV (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia) on the Italian National Earthquake Centre website can be solved considering existing seismic profiles, exploration well logs and the Quaternary activity of faults in the epicentral area. …”
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Gastric Cancer Maximum Tumour Diameter Reduction Rate at CT Examination as a Radiological Index for Predicting Histopathological Regression after Neoadjuvant Treatment: A Multicent... by Maria Antonietta Mazzei, Giulio Bagnacci, Francesco Gentili, Andrea Nigri, Veronica Pelini, Carla Vindigni, Francesco Giuseppe Mazzei, Gian Luca Baiocchi, Frida Pittiani, Paolo Morgagni, Enrico Petrella, Gianni Mura, Beatrice Verdelli, Maria Bencivenga, Simone Giacopuzzi, Daniele Marrelli, Franco Roviello, Luca Volterrani

“…Eighty-six patients (53 M, mean age 62.1 years) with resectable AGC (≥T3 or N+), treated with NAC and radical surgery, were enrolled from 5 centres of the Italian Research Group for Gastric Cancer (GIRCG). …”
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Evaluation of the impact of vine pruning periods on grape production and composition: an integrated approach considering different years and cultivars by Isabella Ghiglieno, Luca Facciano, Leonardo Valenti, Federico Amari, Gabriele Cola

“…The experimentation was conducted from 2011 to 2013 in two of the main Italian wine-growing areas: Franciacorta, in Northern Italy, and Montefalco, in Central Italy. …”
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Improvements of Decision Support Systems for Public Administrations via a Mechanism of Co-creation of Value by Tindara Abbate, Clara Bassano, Giuseppe D’Aniello, Sergio Miranda, Mirko Perano, Paolo Piciocchi, Luigi Rarità

“…The proposed approach has been experimented on a small test case and the results show that its objective evaluation represents an improvement for a decision support system for the re-organization of Italian Public Administrations where, unfortunately often, people are engaged in activities that are not so close to their competences.…”
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Lack of reactivation of tuberculosis in patients with psoriasis treated with secukinumab in a real-world setting of latent tuberculosis infection by Matteo Megna, Cataldo Patruno, Maria Rita Bongiorno, Alessio Gambardella, Claudio Guarneri, Caterina Foti, Serena Lembo, Francesco Loconsole, Gabriella Fabbrocini

“…However, there is a low reported incidence of conversion to positive TBC status among patients with psoriasis treated with second-generation biologic therapies, particularly anti-interleukin (IL)-17 therapies such as secukinumab.Objectives To evaluate the safety profile of secukinumab in psoriasis patients with latent TBC infection.Methods Real-life data were collected by retrospective chart review on patients with moderate-to-severe psoriasis who showed positivity for TBC screening at baseline and underwent secukinumab treatment for psoriasis at six Italian centers. Patients received secukinumab 300 mg at week 0/1/2/3/4, then every 4 weeks.Results Fifty-nine patients were enrolled; 30.5% also had psoriatic arthritis and other comorbidities were common. …”
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Employees’ attitudes and work-related stress in the digital workplace: an empirical investigation by Maddalena Cavicchioli, Fabio Demaria, Francesca Nannetti, Anna Chiara Scapolan, Tommaso Fabbri

“…., job satisfaction, person-organization fit, engagement, and work-life interface) on stress levels.MethodsDrawing on data from Microsoft 365 activity records and an online survey of employees in an Italian AI firm, this study applies Factor Analysis and Generalized Additive Models to analyze the above-mentioned interactions in a highly digitalized context.ResultsFindings indicate that the time–space intensification and extension of the working experience has a significant impact in terms of increasing work-related stress when exceeding certain number of off-hours digital actions and virtual meetings. …”
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What Resilience Skills Do Emergency Workers Need During a Widespread Phase of a Socio-Health Emergency? A Focus on the Role of Hardiness and Resilience by Valeria Giostra, Tiziana Maiorano, Monia Vagni

“…This study has the main objective of analyzing how the possible protective factors hardiness and resilience intervene in the relationship with emergency stress, secondary trauma, and burnout in a sample of 476 Italian Red Cross volunteers using an online transactional survey during the second phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Incidence, Characteristics, and Management of Patients with Recurrent Myocardial Infarctions: Insights from the EYESHOT POST-MI by Leonardo De Luca, Furio Colivicchi, Domenico Gabrielli, Donata Lucci, Gabriele Grippo, Francesco Piemonte, Bruno Villari, Andrea Di Lenarda, Fabrizio Oliva, Michele Massimo Gulizia

“…In 3 months of enrolment, 165 Italian cardiology centers included 1633 consecutive post-MI patients. …”
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Pharmacist prescriber in Italy and possible changes to current legislation: survey of attitudes among pharmacists, family doctors and users by Francesca Baratta, Irene Pignata, Lorenzo Ravetto Enri, Paola Brusa

“…The extension of the duties of the Italian pharmacist to include prescribing would be extremely important considering the challenges the National health system is facing regarding the shortage of healthcare workers.Methods In this article, we report the findings of a survey on the role of the pharmacist prescriber conducted among pharmacists, family doctors, and pharmacy users in the North-West of Italy. …”
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From Social Infrastructure to Civic Center. The School as Laboratory of Collaborative Governance Models by Daniela Ciaffi, Emanuela Saporito, Ianira Vassallo

“…In the second half of the last century, after World War II, the Italian government defined an important period of public policies and projects to build a national welfare system in order to bridge the social and cultural gaps of a country with many different territorial situations. …”
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New horizons for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis treatment through PosturalSpine^® D’Amanti Method by Francesca Campoli, Maria Chiara Parisi, Antonino Zoffoli, Donatella Di Corrado, Vincenzo Francavilla, Elvira Padua, Giuseppe Messina

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