Publications by authors named "L Fattorini"
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- Noncommunicable diseases are increasing due to unhealthy lifestyles, prompting organizations like WHO and ACSM to advocate for healthy diets and regular workplace physical activity to improve employee health.
- The study involved 605 workers from an Italian automotive company, assessing their motor abilities and fitness based on their occupational roles: blue-collar, manager, and white-collar.
- Results showed blue-collar workers excelled in upper-limb strength but lagged in flexibility and reaction time, whereas white-collar workers performed better in flexibility and reaction times.
Hyperbaric effects on heart rate in professional SCUBA divers in thermal water.
Front Sports Act Living
September 2024
Introduction: Diving in SCUBA modality modifies human physiology in many ways. These modifications have been studied since Paul Bert in a seminal work. This area of research is very sensible to technological development.
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- Around 90% of varicella (chickenpox) infections are mild, but adults can experience more severe cases, prompting a study in Florence, Italy, to assess immunity levels post-vaccination.
- A survey of 430 adults (ages 18-94) showed that 89.5% tested positive for varicella antibodies, with no significant differences based on sex or nationality.
- The findings indicated that while vaccination efforts have improved immunity, there is still a notable susceptibility (11.6%) among women aged 18-49, emphasizing the need for ongoing vaccination campaigns and awareness.
Remote sensing products are typically assessed using a single accuracy estimate for the entire map, despite significant variations in accuracy across different map areas or classes. Estimating per-pixel uncertainty is a major challenge for enhancing the usability and potential of remote sensing products. This paper introduces the open access tool, a novel statistical design-based approach that specifically addresses this issue by estimating per-pixel uncertainty through a bootstrap resampling procedure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn land plants plastid type differentiation occurs concomitantly with cellular differentiation and the transition from one type to another is under developmental and environmental control. Plastid dynamism is based on a bilateral communication between plastids and nucleus through anterograde and retrograde signaling. Signaling occurs through the interaction with specific phytohormones (abscisic acid, strigolactones, jasmonates, gibberellins, brassinosteroids, ethylene, salicylic acid, cytokinin and auxin).
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