Publications by authors named "D Monopoli"
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- Plant-based diets (PBDs), which vary from vegetarian to vegan, are increasingly popular among both adults and youth, often influenced by family choices.
- The review assesses common PBDs for children and adolescents, focusing on their health benefits and potential risks, with an emphasis on the need for proper nutritional control and supplementation.
- Nutrition professionals should stay informed about PBDs to guide families effectively, ensuring children receive necessary nutrients for healthy growth and development.
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- Complementary feeding (CF) is the method of adding solid or liquid foods to an infant's diet when breast milk or formula no longer meets their nutritional needs, and pediatricians play a key role in educating families about this process.
- An exploratory survey of 1,620 primary care pediatricians (PCPs) revealed that while many understood CF approaches like baby-led weaning, only a minority recommended these methods widely.
- Most PCPs suggested starting CF between 4 to 6 months, but opinions on plant-based diets and the introduction of allergenic foods varied, indicating a need for better consensus and training among PCPs regarding CF.
At a developmental age, adequate physical activity is fundamental to overall health and well-being and preventing obesity. Moreover, establishing active behavior can help children and adolescents meet their growth and neurodevelopmental goals. Nutritional requirements vary according to intensity, frequency, and practiced physical activity or sport; therefore, pediatricians should give children and adolescents and their families adequate counseling, avoiding both nutrient deficiencies and excessive or inadequate supplement intake.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this work, liposomes loaded with the fungicide, Fludioxonil (FLUD), for the containment of fungal diseases in agriculture were developed. Three types of vesicles with different compositions were compared: (I) plain vesicles, composed of soy phosphatidylcholine and cholesterol; (II) PEG-coated vesicles, with an additional polyethylene glycol coating; and (III) cationic vesicles, containing didodecyldimethylammonium bromide. Nanometric-sized vesicles were obtained both by the micelle-to-vesicle transition method and by the extrusion technique, and encapsulation efficiency, drug loading content, and Zeta potential were determined for all the samples.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe telecommunications of the future rely on the concept of a three-dimensional architecture able to integrate terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks with the goal to ensure a reliable and high-speed connectivity to users located anywhere. In this context, free space optical communications constitute a candidate technology for feeder links, thanks to their advantages in terms of bandwidth and achievable data rates. Nonetheless, due to the propagation impediments encountered by an optical beam travelling through atmosphere, flexible and accurate instruments able to support the design of optical feeder links are needed.
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