Publications by authors named "L Della Seta"
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- The food industry is increasingly researching vegetable fats and oils for their mechanical properties and lipid composition to promote healthier products.
- This study examines how manipulating the distribution of fatty acids in cocoa butter affects its chemical-physical features and potential as an alternative to other fats like palm oil.
- Experimental methods used include DSC, rheological testing, PXRD, and NMR spectroscopy to analyze thermal properties, mechanical features, solid-state phases, and fatty acid composition, highlighting the effectiveness of NMR over traditional methods.
In the last few years, many educational and therapeutic interventions for young people with neurodevelopmental disorders are based on systematic monitoring of the outcomes. These interventions are typically conducted using single-case experimental designs, (SCEDs) a set of methods aimed at testing the effect of an intervention on a single subject or a small number of subjects. In SCEDs, an effective process of decision-making needs accurate, precise, and reliable data but also that caregivers and health professionals can gather information with minimal effort.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFActivated hard carbons, obtained from the pyrolysis of various waste biomasses, were prepared and characterized for use as the active material for the fabrication of battery electrodes. The preparation consisted of a pyrolysis process, followed by an activation with KOH and a further high-temperature thermal process. TG and DTA were used to discriminate the steps of the activation process, while SEM, XRD, and Raman characterization were employed to evaluate the effects of activation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The efficient management of relational competences in healthcare professionals is crucial to ensuring that a patient's treatment and care process is conducted positively. Empathy is a major component of the relational skills expected of health professionals. Knowledge of undergraduate healthcare students' empathic abilities is important for educators in designing specific and efficient educational programmes aimed at supporting or enhancing such competences.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The nursing shortage is of worldwide concern, with nursing student retention acknowledged as a priority. As a fundamental step towards exploring factors that can guide the implementation of strategic approaches to retain undergraduate nursing students and prevent their attrition, the aim of this study is to examine the motivation for choosing nursing studies of first-year nursing students within the theoretical framework of self-determination theory.
Methods: We conducted a study at the Medical School of the University of Palermo.