Publications by authors named "M Pini"
Article Synopsis
- Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) impacts nearly 1 billion people globally, causing chronic intermittent hypoxia (CIH) that leads to organ damage, especially affecting the heart and visceral white adipose tissue (WAT).
- The study aimed to explore if CIH causes premature senescence in visceral WAT, which in turn may trigger changes in heart structure and function.
- Results showed that CIH caused significant changes in WAT and early signs of heart damage, but these effects could be mitigated through surgical removal of fat tissue or deletion of specific genes, highlighting visceral WAT senescence as a promising target for combating OSA-related issues.
Isolated attosecond pulse (IAP) generation usually involves the use of short-medium gas cells operated at high pressures. In contrast, long-medium schemes at low pressures are commonly perceived as inherently unsuitable for IAP generation due to the nonlinear phenomena that challenge favourable phase-matching conditions. Here we provide clear experimental evidence on the generation of isolated extreme-ultraviolet attosecond pulses in a semi-infinite gas cell, demonstrating the use of extended-medium geometries for effective production of IAPs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) is reported to improve survival in patients with chronic respiratory failure. We aimed to describe effectiveness, burden, and cost of illness of patients treated with portable oxygen concentrators (POC) compared to other LTOT options.
Methods: This retrospective comparative analysis included adult patients with chronic respiratory insufficiency and failure (CRF) upon a first delivery of LTOT between 2014 and 2019 and followed until December 2020, based on the French national healthcare database SNDS.
We report on the complete temporal characterization of ultrashort pulses, generated by resonant dispersive wave emission in gas-filled hollow-capillary fibers, with energy in the microjoule range and continuously tunable from the deep-ultraviolet to the ultraviolet. Temporal characterization of such ultrabroad pulses, particularly challenging in this spectral region, was performed using an all-in-vacuum setup for self-diffraction frequency resolved optical gating (SD-FROG). Sub-3-fs pulses were measured, tunable from 250 nm to 350 nm, with a minimum pulse duration of 2.
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