Publications by authors named "Pasquale Favia"
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- The study investigates if tracking changes in CT radiomic features and systemic inflammatory indices over time is better at predicting survival for advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors compared to a one-time assessment.
- Researchers analyzed data from 90 NSCLC patients, calculating variations in radiomic features from initial treatment to first disease assessment, and found that these changes (Δ-RAD) were more predictive of overall survival (OS) than baseline measures alone.
- The best predictive results came from combining Δ-RAD with longitudinal clinical and inflammatory data, achieving significant improvements in overall survival predictions and allowing better patient risk stratification.
Medieval southern Italy is typically viewed as a region where political, religious, and cultural systems coexisted and clashed. Written sources often focus on elites and give an image of a hierarchical feudal society supported by a farming economy. We undertook an interdisciplinary study combining historical and archaeological evidence with Bayesian modelling of multi-isotope data from human (n = 134) and faunal (n = 21) skeletal remains to inform on the socioeconomic organisation, cultural practices, and demographics of medieval communities in Capitanata (southern Italy).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe maritime expansion of Scandinavian populations during the Viking Age (about AD 750-1050) was a far-flung transformation in world history. Here we sequenced the genomes of 442 humans from archaeological sites across Europe and Greenland (to a median depth of about 1×) to understand the global influence of this expansion. We find the Viking period involved gene flow into Scandinavia from the south and east.
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