Publications by authors named "Bianchi R"

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  • Leaf fluorescence is a key method for monitoring plant health and photosynthetic activity, providing insights into plant development and stress levels through red and far-red chlorophyll fluorescence maps.
  • Research on loblolly pine plantations in North Carolina revealed that younger stands have significantly higher red fluorescence yield compared to mature ones, suggesting a link to photosynthetic limitations in aging trees.
  • To improve the analysis of fluorescence data affected by pixel mixing in satellite images, the Canopy Cover Fluorescence Index (CCFI) was proposed, demonstrating the potential to better understand forest dynamics and responses to climate change.
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A 1-year-old male American pit bull terrier was presented with a history of proprioceptive deficits and mild lameness of the right hindlimb, which progressed after 5 months to paraparesis, culminating in tetraparesis after 2 weeks. Necropsy findings were limited to the spinal cord and consisted of multiple, intradural, extramedullary, slightly red masses which produced segmental areas of medullary swelling located in the cervical intumescence, thoracolumbar column, sacral segment and cauda equina. Histological evaluation revealed a tumour, composed of epithelial, stromal and blastemal cells, with structures resembling tubules, acini and embryonic glomeruli.

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We examined the association of burnout with borderline personality (BP) traits in a study of 1,163 educational staff (80.9% women; mean age: 42.96).

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Objectives: to compare the 1-year outcome between bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS), everolimus-eluting stent (EES), and drug-eluting balloon (DEB) for in-stent restenosis (ISR) treatment.

Background: BVS has been proposed as alternative for ISR treatment. To date a direct comparison between BVS and DES or DEB for ISR treatment is lacking.

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Background: To investigate the activity and safety of afatinib in the preoperative treatment of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN).

Patients And Methods: This study was an open-label, randomized, multicenter, phase II window of opportunity trial. Treatment-naïve SCCHN patients selected for primary curative surgery were randomized (5 : 1 ratio) to receive afatinib during 14 days (day -15 until day -1) before surgery (day 0) or no treatment.

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This paper presents a direct measurement of the decay width of the top quark using events in the lepton+jets final state. The data sample was collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.2 fb .

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A search is performed for new phenomena in events having a photon with high transverse momentum and a jet collected in of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of = 13 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The invariant mass distribution of the leading photon and jet is examined to look for the resonant production of new particles or the presence of new high-mass states beyond the Standard Model. No significant deviation from the background-only hypothesis is observed and cross-section limits for generic Gaussian-shaped resonances are extracted.

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A search for neutral heavy resonances is performed in the decay channel using collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of , collected at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. No evidence of such heavy resonances is found. In the search for production via the quark-antiquark annihilation or gluon-gluon fusion process, upper limits on as a function of the resonance mass are obtained in the mass range between 200 and up to 5 for various benchmark models: a Higgs-like scalar in different width scenarios, a two-Higgs-doublet model, a heavy vector triplet model, and a warped extra dimensions model.

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A search for doubly charged Higgs bosons with pairs of prompt, isolated, highly energetic leptons with the same electric charge is presented. The search uses a proton-proton collision data sample at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV corresponding to 36.1 of integrated luminosity recorded in 2015 and 2016 by the ATLAS detector at the LHC.

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A measurement of the mass of the boson is presented based on proton-proton collision data recorded in 2011 at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC, and corresponding to of integrated luminosity. The selected data sample consists of candidates in the channel and candidates in the channel. The -boson mass is obtained from template fits to the reconstructed distributions of the charged lepton transverse momentum and of the boson transverse mass in the electron and muon decay channels, yielding where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second corresponds to the experimental systematic uncertainty, and the third to the physics-modelling systematic uncertainty.

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A search for weakly interacting massive dark-matter particles produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and missing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses of proton-proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at  TeV in 2015 and 2016.

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This paper presents a measurement of the polarisation of leptons produced in decays which is performed with a dataset of proton-proton collisions at TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.2 fb recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2012. The decays are reconstructed from a hadronically decaying lepton with a single charged particle in the final state, accompanied by a lepton that decays leptonically.

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Measurements of longitudinal flow correlations are presented for charged particles in the pseudorapidity range using 7 and 470 of Pb+Pb collisions at and 5.02 TeV, respectively, recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. It is found that the correlation between the harmonic flow coefficients measured in two separated intervals does not factorise into the product of single-particle coefficients, and this breaking of factorisation, or flow decorrelation, increases linearly with the separation between the intervals.

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The modification of the production of , , and ( ) in +Pb collisions with respect to their production in collisions has been studied. The +Pb and datasets used in this paper correspond to integrated luminosities of and respectively, collected in 2013 and 2015 by the ATLAS detector at the LHC, both at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.02 TeV.

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A search for the direct production of charginos and neutralinos in final states with at least two hadronically decaying tau leptons is presented. The analysis uses a dataset of collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb , recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV.

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The differential cross-section for the production of a boson in association with a top quark is measured for several particle-level observables. The measurements are performed using of collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2015 and 2016. Differential cross-sections are measured in a fiducial phase space defined by the presence of two charged leptons and exactly one jet matched to a -hadron, and are normalised with the fiducial cross-section.

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A search for heavy resonances decaying into a pair of bosons leading to and final states, where stands for either an electron or a muon, is presented. The search uses proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13  corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1  collected with the ATLAS detector during 2015 and 2016 at the Large Hadron Collider.

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The results of a search for new heavy bosons decaying to an electron or muon and a neutrino using proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of  TeV are presented. The dataset was collected in 2015 and 2016 by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 36.1  .

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  • The analysis involves searching for massive colored resonances that decay into two jets using data from the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, collected in 2015 and 2016.
  • No significant anomalies were found compared to background predictions, leading to the exclusion of certain mass ranges for the lightest supersymmetric particle, which is identified as the top squark.
  • Results indicate that top squarks with specified mass ranges are excluded at a 95% confidence level, and additional limits on colored octet resonances are also established.
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The elliptic flow of prompt and non-prompt was measured in the dimuon decay channel in Pb+Pb collisions at   with an integrated luminosity of with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The prompt and non-prompt signals are separated using a two-dimensional simultaneous fit of the invariant mass and pseudo-proper decay time of the dimuon system from the decay. The measurement is performed in the kinematic range of dimuon transverse momentum and rapidity   , , and 0-60% collision centrality.

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A measurement of and production is presented. It is based on a data sample from Pb+Pb collisions at and collisions at recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2015, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of and in Pb+Pb and , respectively. The measurements of per-event yields, nuclear modification factors, and non-prompt fractions are performed in the dimuon decay channel for GeV in dimuon transverse momentum, and in rapidity.

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The inclusive and fiducial production cross-sections are measured in the lepton+jets channel using of proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Major systematic uncertainties due to the modelling of the jet energy scale and -tagging efficiency are constrained by separating selected events into three disjoint regions. In order to reduce systematic uncertainties in the most important background, the process is modelled using + jets events in a data-driven approach.

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Previous studies have shown that weighted angular moments derived from jet constituents encode the colour connections between partons that seed the jets. This paper presents measurements of two such distributions, the jet-pull angle and jet-pull magnitude, both of which are derived from the jet-pull angular moment. The measurement is performed in events with one leptonically decaying  boson and one hadronically decaying  boson, using of collision data recorded by the ATLAS detector at delivered by the Large Hadron Collider.

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