Publications by authors named "I Falco"
Human enteric viruses and emerging viruses such as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, influenza virus and monkeypox virus, are frequently detected in wastewater. Human enteric viruses are highly persistent in water, but there is limited information available for non-enteric viruses. The present study evaluated the stability of hepatitis A virus (HAV), murine norovirus (MNV), influenza A virus H3N2 (IAV H3N2), human coronavirus (HCoV) 229E, and vaccinia virus (VACV) in reference water (RW), effluent wastewater (EW) and drinking water (DW) under refrigeration and room temperature conditions.
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- Adding essential oils to an edible coating could help the food industry combat foodborne pathogens, especially in berries.
- A study evaluated the effectiveness of a coating containing carvacrol and citral on reducing dangerous bacteria and viruses in frozen strawberries and blueberries.
- Results showed significant reductions in bacteria and Norovirus infectivity over time, with strawberries showing the highest effectiveness after eight weeks of storage.
Numerous optical biomedical imaging or therapeutic modalities suffer from unknown light fluence distribution at depths. Photoacoustic (PA) imaging, which enables imaging blood vessels at the acoustic resolution, probes the product between the fluence and effective optical absorption that depends on the size or density of blood vessels. In the case of unresolved vessels, fluence and absorption can not be decoupled using PA imaging alone without the use of inverse problems.
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- - This paper introduces VOC-ALS, a new database of voice recordings from 153 participants, including 102 ALS patients and 51 healthy controls, aimed at studying voice signals affected by ALS.
- - The recordings were made using a smartphone app during various speech tasks, such as vowel phonation and syllable repetition, allowing researchers to gather significant data on voice characteristics.
- - Metrics like harmonics-to-noise ratio and frequency variations were analyzed, showing potential for these measures to effectively identify ALS patients and assess the severity of their speech difficulties.
Gastroenteritis and hepatitis are the most common illnesses resulting from the consumption of food contaminated with human enteric viruses. Several natural compounds have demonstrated antiviral activity against human enteric viruses, such as human norovirus and hepatitis A virus, while little information is available for hepatitis E virus. Many in-vitro studies have evaluated the efficacy of different natural compounds against human enteric viruses or their surrogates.
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