Publications by authors named "F Agostini"

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  • This review addresses the lack of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for rehabilitation in osteoporosis patients by summarizing recent guidelines and best practices.
  • A total of 19 CPGs were evaluated for quality using the AGREE II instrument, showing varying levels of quality and agreement among appraisers.
  • The findings highlight inconsistencies in exercise recommendations across guidelines, stressing the need for careful consideration by healthcare providers when implementing these recommendations in clinical practice.
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Recent research highlights a growing interest in early interactions between fathers and their infants, acknowledging the significant influence these interactions have on developmental outcomes. However, there is a limited understanding of the specific characteristics of paternal infant-directed speech (IDS), especially in the context of premature birth. This study aimed to analyze the functional and morpho-syntactic features of paternal IDS to full-term (FT) and preterm (PT) infants at 3 months, comparing it with maternal communicative style.

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  • DNA damage is a key factor in cancer and chronic diseases, making early detection in affected cells essential for understanding and preventing these conditions.
  • Evaluating genotoxic damage in alveolar macrophages serves as a practical method to assess this damage since they closely interact with lung cells and are easily obtainable.
  • Studies using these macrophages enhance our understanding of DNA damage mechanisms in the lungs, which can inform risk management and support cancer chemoprevention efforts.
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Over one billion people worldwide suffer from neurological conditions that cause mobility impairments, often persisting despite rehabilitation. Chronic neurological disease (CND) patients who lack access to continuous rehabilitation face gradual functional decline. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) provides a comprehensive framework for assessing these patients.

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This perspective offers an overview of the applications of the exact factorization of the electron-nuclear wavefunction to the domain of theoretical photochemistry, where the aim is to gain insights into the ultrafast dynamics of molecular systems simulations of their excited-state dynamics beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. The exact factorization offers an alternative viewpoint to the Born-Huang representation for the interpretation of dynamical processes involving the electronic ground and excited states as well as their coupling through the nuclear motion. Therefore, the formalism has been used to derive algorithms for quantum molecular-dynamics simulations where the nuclear motion is treated using trajectories and the electrons are treated quantum mechanically.

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