Publications by authors named "F Spiga"

Background: Reported results of clinical trials assessing higher-dose anticoagulation in patients hospitalized for COVID-19 have been inconsistent.

Purpose: To estimate the association of higher- versus lower-dose anticoagulation with clinical outcomes.

Data Sources: Randomized trials were identified from the World Health Organization's International Clinical Trials Registry Platform and ClinicalTrials.

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  • Obesity in teenagers is a big issue worldwide, affecting more than 25% of young people in many regions, including North and South America and Europe.
  • To help prevent obesity, programs focus on encouraging healthier eating and more physical activity.
  • A recent review looked at 74 studies to see which methods successfully helped teens reduce weight and improve their health over time.
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  • Obesity in children is a big health problem, and experts want to find the best ways to help kids eat healthier and be more active.
  • This study looks at different programs that try to prevent obesity by changing what kids eat or how much they exercise, measuring things like body weight over time.
  • Researchers reviewed lots of studies to see if these programs worked and collected data from over 189,000 kids to find the best methods for keeping them healthy.
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Inhibition of IL-4/IL-13 signaling has dramatically improved the treatment of atopic dermatitis (AD). However, in many patients, clinical responses are slow to develop and remain modest. Indeed, some symptoms of AD are dependent on IL-31, which is only partially reduced by IL-4/IL-13 inhibition.

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Application Experiences on a GPU-Accelerated Arm-based HPC Testbed.

Proc Int Conf High Perform Comput Asia Pac Reg HPC Asia 2023 Workshops (2023)

February 2023

This paper assesses and reports the experience of ten teams working to port, validate, and benchmark several High Performance Computing applications on a novel GPU-accelerated Arm testbed system. The testbed consists of eight NVIDIA Arm HPC Developer Kit systems, each one equipped with a server-class Arm CPU from Ampere Computing and two data center GPUs from NVIDIA Corp. The systems are connected together using InfiniBand interconnect.

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