Publications by authors named "A Troisi"
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic had an important psychological impact on children and their families. This study aims to explore paediatric health services users' perceptions of quality of care (QOC) and COVID-19-related fears, and their evolution over time in relation to COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: In a multicentre cross-sectional study involving 11 public hospitals providing paediatric care across the Italian territory, we collected data from services users through a validated questionnaire.
Effective Model Reduction Scheme for the Electronic Structure of Highly Doped Semiconducting Polymers.
J Chem Theory Comput
November 2024
Article Synopsis
- * A new model is developed to analyze the effects of chemical structure, long-range interactions, and repulsion among charge carriers (holes) in order to understand hole distribution in these materials.
- * The findings indicate that the model accurately captures the hole density profile and energy distribution in doped PEDOT, while also revealing that spin configuration influences the properties of the chains based on chain length, carrier density, and disorder.
In various bioelectronic applications, conductive polymers come into contact with biological tissues, where water is the major component. In this study, we investigated the interface between the conductive polymer poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) and water, focusing on how the morphology of the PEDOT:PSS is altered by water permeation. We constructed well-equilibrated PEDOT:PSS-water systems in both PEDOT- and PSS-rich phases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSeveral seminal plasma components, besides NGF, are implicated as ovulation-inducing factors in mammals. This study investigated the IL1B and its receptor IL1R1 in the testis (T), male accessory glands, prostate (P) and seminal vesicles (SV), and uterus (U) of adult rabbits using immunohistochemistry (IHC) and quantitative reverse transcription PCR (RT-qPCR). We also assessed the presence of IL1B in seminal plasma through Western blotting (WB) and examined the interaction between IL1B and NGF in vitro by measuring their production with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in the presence of NGF and IL1B alone or with their respective receptor antagonists.
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- Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is an important tool for studying excitation properties in organic electronics and has promise for high-throughput virtual screening (HTVS).
- Most research has concentrated on excitation energies, but this study assesses the accuracy of oscillator strengths and exciton reorganization energies using experimental absorption spectra of 71 molecules.
- The M06-2X/def2-TZVP/PCM method shows the best correlation with experimental results, while the M06-2X/6-31G(d)/PCM method is noted for its good balance between efficiency and accuracy for practical applications in TDDFT.