Publications by authors named "Raffaele Ianniello"
The current investments for smart infrastructure development in cities result in the proliferation of self-consistent and closed applications (often called "silos"), which provide services with strong vertical integration but without ease of mutual horizontal integration. This paper investigates the state of several initiatives addressing this problem. It arrives at a proposal for diminishing and, ideally, breaking down these silos.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNowadays, sensor-rich smartphones potentially enable the harvesting of huge amounts of valuable sensing data in urban environments, by opportunistically involving citizens to play the role of mobile virtual sensors to cover Smart City areas of interest. This paper proposes an in-depth study of the challenging technical issues related to the efficient assignment of Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) data collection tasks to volunteers in a crowdsensing campaign. In particular, the paper originally describes how to increase the effectiveness of the proposed sensing campaigns through the inclusion of several new facilities, including accurate participant selection algorithms able to profile and predict user mobility patterns, gaming techniques, and timely geo-notification.
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- - The study investigates how myo-inositol (MI) impacts ovarian function in women with a poor response to IVF, involving 72 participants divided into two groups: one receiving MI plus folic acid and the other receiving folic acid alone.
- - Results showed that the group taking MI had significantly lower gonadotropin units used and a higher rate of mature (M2) oocytes, indicating improved ovarian sensitivity.
- - The findings suggest that MI treatment may enhance ovarian response in poor responders during IVF cycles, potentially making it a beneficial addition to their treatment regimen.
A stimulation protocol mimicking the physiological pattern of FSH release may improve IVF outcome in women of advanced age. Urinary-FSH delivers a wider range of isoforms including the most acidic produced during the early follicular phase when oestradiol level is low, a common condition in women of advanced reproductive age. We hypothesized that a stimulation protocol using urinary-FSH during the early follicular phase and then shifting toward recombinant-FSH may improve oocyte quality and pregnancy rate in 35-40 years old patients in IVF program.
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