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University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

EducationModena, Italy
About: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia is a education organization based out in Modena, Italy. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Transplantation. The organization has 8179 authors who have published 22418 publications receiving 671337 citations. The organization is also known as: Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia & Universita degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia.


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01 Feb 2018-Appetite
TL;DR: Findings from a field experiment suggest that a specific educational intervention, directed at increasing consumers' perceived skills related to food preparation planning behaviors, reduces domestic food waste.

147 citations

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TL;DR: The results reported in this paper indicate that thyme can be considered as a potential antimicrobial agent for the treatment of some respiratory tract infections in man.
Abstract: The aim of this study was to examine the cytotoxicity and the antibacterial effects of a variety of essential oils on major respiratory tract pathogens The cytotoxicity of 13 essential oils was evaluated on Vero cells The antibacterial activity was evaluated by the Kirby Bauer paper method, minimum inhibitory and bactericidal concentration against Streptococcus pyogenes, agalactiae, pneumoniae and Klebsiella pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, Staphylococcus aureus and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia isolated from clinical specimens The antibiotic sensitivity of these isolates was examined Some oils showed inhibition of bacterial growth against most of the organisms examined Cinnamon and thyme showed the strongest action followed by clove The results reported in this paper indicate that thyme can be considered as a potential antimicrobial agent for the treatment of some respiratory tract infections in man

147 citations

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TL;DR: Observations indicate the need to evaluate the efficacy of combined antiviral and ‘metabolic’ approaches vs standard antiviral regimes in patients with steatosis and HCV chronic infection.
Abstract: The overall prevalence of steatosis in patients with Hepatitis C virus (HCV) chronic infection is 55.5% (range 34.8-81.2%). This is a two to threefold increase compared with the prevalence of steatosis in chronic hepatitides because of other aetiologies and of the figures expected on the grounds of a steatosis-HCV chance association. HCV genotype 3 (HCV-3) has specific epidemiological features; furthermore, as compared with HCV-non-3 genotypes, it is associated with a higher prevalence (74.1%vs 47.9%, P < 0.01) and with more severe grades of steatosis (prevalence of grade 3 steatosis 29.6 vs 5.5 P < 0.01). Host and viral factors play a role, although to a variable extent, in the pathogenesis of HCV-3 and non-3 steatosis. HCV load and body mass index are associated with steatosis in HCV-3 and in HCV-non-3 patients respectively. Serum cholesterol levels and liver steatosis at baseline follow an inverse relationship in HCV infection. As hypocholesterolaemia corrects only in those sustained responders to antiviral treatment both in genotype 3 and in non-3 genotypes, the occurrence of a virally induced, acquired and reversible hypobetalipoproteinaemia seems plausible. Steatosis affects the natural course of HCV infection: it is associated with fibrosis, a possible mediator of increased risk to develop type 2 diabetes, it impairs the response to antiviral treatment in HCV-3 patients and might constitute a risk factor for the development of hepatocellular carcinoma. These observations indicate the need to evaluate the efficacy of combined antiviral and 'metabolic' approaches vs standard antiviral regimes in patients with steatosis and HCV chronic infection.

147 citations

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TL;DR: These preliminary results confirmed that MRI is a very useful tool to screen subjects at high genetic risk for breast carcinoma, not only in pre-, but also in post-menopausal age, with a low probability of false positive cases.
Abstract: This report presents the preliminary results of the first phase (21 months) of a multi-centre, non-randomised, prospective study, aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), X-ray mammography (XM) and ultrasound (US) in early diagnosis of breast cancer (BC) in subjects at high genetic risk. This Italian national trial (coordinated by the Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome) so far recruited 105 women (mean age 46.0 years; median age 51.0; age range 25-77 years), who were either proven BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation carriers or had a 1 in 2 probability of being carriers (40/105 with a previous personal history of BC). Eight cases of breast carcinomas were detected in the trial (mean age 55.3 years, median age 52.5; age range 35-70 years; five with previous personal history of BC). All trial-detected BC cases (8/8) were identified by MRI, while XM and US correctly classified only one. MRI had one false positive case, XM and US none. Seven "MRI-only" detected cancers (4 invasive, 3 in situ) occurred in both pre- (n = 2) and post-menopausal (n = 5) women. With respect to the current XM screening programmes addressed to women in the age range 50-69 years, the global incidence of BC in the trial (7.6%) was over ten-fold higher. The cost per "MRI-only" detected cancer in this particular category of subjects at high genetic risk was substantially lower than that of an XM-detected cancer in the general women population. These preliminary results confirmed that MRI is a very useful tool to screen subjects at high genetic risk for breast carcinoma, not only in pre-, but also in post-menopausal age, with a low probability of false positive cases.

147 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, experimental results and theoretical models are used to assess the effective thermal conductivity of porous inorganic polymer cements, often indicated as geopolymers, with porosity between 30 and 70.
Abstract: Experimental results and theoretical models are used to assess the effective thermal conductivity of porous inorganic polymer cements, often indicated as geopolymers, with porosity between 30 and 70. vol.%. It is shown that the bulk chemical composition affects the microstructure (grains size, pores size, spatial arrangement of pores, homogeneity, micro cracks, bleeding channels) with consequently the heat flow behaviour through the porous matrix. In particular, introduction of controlled fine pores in a homogeneous matrix of inorganic polymer cements results in an increase of pore volume and improvement of the thermal insulation. The variation of the effective thermal conductivity with the total porosity was found to be consistent with analytical models described by Maxwell-Eucken and Landauer.

147 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Carlo M. Croce1981135189007
Gregory Y.H. Lip1693159171742
Geoffrey Burnstock141148899525
Peter M. Rothwell13477967382
Claudio Franceschi12085659868
Lorenzo Galluzzi11847771436
Leonardo M. Fabbri10956660838
David N. Reinhoudt107108248814
Stefano Pileri10063543369
Andrea Bizzeti99116846880
Brian K. Shoichet9828140313
Dante Gatteschi9772748729
Roberta Sessoli9542441458
Thomas A. Buchholz9349433409
Pier Luigi Zinzani9285735476
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Performance
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202376
2022230
20212,354
20202,083
20191,633
20181,450