222 results match your criteria: "Polytechnic University of Bari[Affiliation]"

Brain age, a biomarker reflecting brain health relative to chronological age, is increasingly used in neuroimaging to detect early signs of neurodegenerative diseases and support personalized treatment plans. Two primary approaches for brain age prediction have emerged: morphometric feature extraction from MRI scans and deep learning (DL) applied to raw MRI data. However, a systematic comparison of these methods regarding performance, interpretability, and clinical utility has been limited.

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dl-Limonene as an Alternative Sustainable Solvent to Xylenes for the Industrial Preparation of Release Formulations.

ChemistryOpen

December 2024

Department of Civil, Environmental, Land, Building and Chemical Engineering, DICATECh, Polytechnic University of Bari, Via Edoardo Orabona 4, 70125, Bari, Italy.

Many industrial processes use aromatic hydrocarbons as solvents, including benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene (BTEX). However, their use is discouraged due to their toxicological profile. Research is ongoing to find alternative more sustainable solvents.

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  • - Laser-based mid-IR photothermal spectroscopy (PTS) is a rapid and sensitive analytical method that utilizes advanced laser technology to capture the absorption characteristics of various materials, such as liquids or solids.
  • - This study utilizes an external cavity quantum cascade laser (EC-QCL) to analyze a thin film of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) on a silicon nitride micro-ring resonator, demonstrating its effectiveness in creating an on-chip photothermal sensor.
  • - The research highlights the optimal alignment and focusing techniques for the laser setup, showing that PTS can lead to compact, efficient sensors suitable for real-time monitoring in industrial applications.
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The spatial planning process is considered an extremely complex system, as it comprises different variables that interrelate and interact with each other. Effectively addressing this spatial complexity necessitates a multidisciplinary approach, as unified methodologies may prove insufficient. Specifically, in urban planning, it is increasingly crucial to prioritize bike lanes, bike stations, and pedestrian zones, for functional transportation infrastructures.

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The last decade was dominated by a serious problem that now affects all the planet's natural ecosystems: the increasing growth of plastics and microplastics that are difficult to dispose of. One strategy to mitigate this problem is to close the life cycle of one of them-polyethylene terephthalate (PET)-by reusing it within the most common building materials, such as mortars and concretes. The reuse of PET waste as aggregates also allows us to limit the CO emissions released during the production of natural aggregates.

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Mobility of trace elements in a coastal contaminated site under groundwater salinization dynamics.

Sci Rep

October 2024

Department of Civil, Environmental, Land, Building Engineering and Chemistry (DICATECh), Polytechnic University of Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70126, Bari, Italy.

Water pollution is a significant issue resulting from past long-term actions. The remediation projects carried out under law constraints for industrial plants, which have been the major contributors to environmental and water pollution, are currently providing a significant amount of data about contaminated soil, surface waters, and groundwater. Most of such plants worldwide are in coastal zones.

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Shedding light on the interaction between inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) and living microorganisms is at the basis of the development of biohybrid technologies with improved performance. Au NPs have been shown to be able to improve the extracellular electron transfer (EET) in intact bacterial cells interfaced with an electrode; however, detailed information on the role of NP-surface properties in their interaction with bacterial membranes is still lacking. Herein, we unveil how the surface functionalization of Au NPs influences their interaction with photosynthetic bacteria, focusing on cell morphology, growth kinetics, NPs localization, and electrocatalytic performance.

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Cities are complex systems characterised by interdependencies among infrastructural, economic, social, ecological, and human elements. Urban surface water flooding poses a significant challenge due to climate change, population growth, and ageing infrastructure, often resulting in substantial economic losses and social disruption. Traditional hydrological modelling approaches for flood risk management, while providing invaluable support in the analysis of hydrological dynamics of floods, lack an understanding of the complex interplay between hydrological and non-hydrological (i.

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The present work aims at providing a multi-disciplinary approach for environmental monitoring in marine-coastal areas. A monitoring campaign of 13 months (October 2022-October 2023) was carried out on sandy foreshore sediments (SFSs). The SFSs were analysed for potentially toxic elements (PTEs) and rare earth elements (REEs) content determination.

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Role of viscoelasticity in the adhesion of mushroom-shaped pillars.

Bioinspir Biomim

October 2024

Mechanics, Mathematics and Management, Polytechnic University of Bari, via E. Orabona 4, Bari, 70125, ITALY.

The contact behaviour of mushroom-shaped pillars has been extensively studied for their superior adhesive properties, often inspired by natural attachment systems observed in insects. Typically, pillars are modeled with linear elastic materials in the literature; in reality, the soft materials used for their fabrication exhibit a rate-dependent constitutive behaviour. Additionally, conventional models focus solely on the detachment phase of the pillar, overlooking the analysis of the attachment phase.

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A time-dependent explainable radiomic analysis from the multi-omic cohort of CPTAC-Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma.

Comput Methods Programs Biomed

December 2024

Department of Electrical and Information Engineering (DEI), Polytechnic University of Bari, Via Edoardo Orabona, 4, Bari, 70126, Italy; Apulian Bioengineering srl, Via delle Violette, 14, Modugno, 70026, Italy.

Background And Objective: In Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDA), multi-omic models are emerging to answer unmet clinical needs to derive novel quantitative prognostic factors. We realized a pipeline that relies on survival machine-learning (SML) classifiers and explainability based on patients' follow-up (FU) to stratify prognosis from the public-available multi-omic datasets of the CPTAC-PDA project.

Materials And Methods: Analyzed datasets included tumor-annotated radiologic images, clinical, and mutational data.

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  • Dromedary urinotherapy is a traditional remedy used for various illnesses, including cancer, but prior research lacked thorough investigation into osmolarity and cell morphology effects.
  • This study explored how dromedary urine and hyperosmolar solutions affect the viability and morphology of human renal cell lines, finding significant antiproliferative effects in tumor cells at lower osmolarities.
  • The study also identified three antioxidant compounds in the urine via metabolomics, emphasizing the need to consider osmolarity in research and suggesting camel urine should not be directly used for treatment without further investigation.
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Non-Targeted Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Analysis for Food Authenticity: A Comparative Study on Tomato Samples.

Molecules

September 2024

Department of Civil, Environmental, Land, Building Engineering and Chemistry (DICATECh), Polytechnic University of Bari, Via Orabona, 4, I-70125 Bari, Italy.

Non-targeted NMR is widely accepted as a powerful and robust analytical tool for food control. Nevertheless, standardized procedures based on validated methods are still needed when a non-targeted approach is adopted. Interlaboratory comparisons carried out in recent years have demonstrated the statistical equivalence of spectra generated by different instruments when the sample was prepared by the same operator.

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The paper demonstrates the effectiveness of the SNOWED dataset, specifically designed for identifying water bodies in Sentinel-2 images, in developing a remote sensing system based on deep neural networks. For this purpose, a system is implemented for monitoring the Po River, Italy's most important watercourse. By leveraging the SNOWED dataset, a simple U-Net neural model is trained to segment satellite images and distinguish, in general, water and land regions.

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Material extrusion (MEX) additive manufacturing has successfully fabricated assembly-free structures composed of different materials processed in the same manufacturing cycle. Materials with different mechanical properties can be employed for the fabrication of bio-inspired structures (i.e.

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Hospitals play a critical role in ensuring continuous and effective healthcare delivery, especially during crises. However, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed vulnerabilities in hospital systems, prompting a need to enhance resilience-the ability to withstand, absorb, respond to, recover from, and learn from disasters. A systematic literature review, grounded in the resource-based view, identified organizational characteristics, in terms of resources and capabilities, and their synergistic effects that bolster hospital resilience.

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Bio-Based Materials as a Sustainable Solution for the Remediation of Contaminated Marine Sediments: An LCA Case Study.

Polymers (Basel)

July 2024

Department of Environmental Engineering and Management, "Cristofor Simionescu" Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Protection, "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi, 700050 Iasi, Romania.

Contaminated sediments may induce long-term risks to humans and ecosystems due to the accumulation of priority and emerging inorganic and organic pollutants having toxic and bio-accumulation properties that could become a secondary pollution source. This study focused on the screening of novel bio-based materials to be used in the decontamination of marine sediments considering technical and environmental criteria. It aimed to compare the environmental impacts of cellulose-based adsorbents produced at lab scale by using different syntheses protocols that involved cellulose functionalization by oxidation and branching, followed by structuring of an aerogel-like material via Soxhlet extraction and freeze-drying or their combination.

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Ex Situ Stabilization/Solidification Approaches of Marine Sediments Using Green Cement Admixtures.

Materials (Basel)

July 2024

Department of Civil, Environmental, Land, Building Engineering and Chemistry (DICATECh), Polytechnic University of Bari, Via E. Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy.

The routine dredging of waterways produces huge volumes of sediments. Handling contaminated dredged sediments poses significant and diverse challenges around the world. In recent years, novel and sustainable ex situ remediation technologies for contaminated sediments have been developed and applied.

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The purpose of this finite element analysis (FEA) was to evaluate the stress distribution within the prosthetic components and bone in relation to varying cement thicknesses (from 20 to 60 μm) utilized to attach a zirconia crown on a conometric cap. The study focused on two types of implants (Cyroth and TAC, AoN Implants, Grisignano di Zocco, Italy) featuring a Morse cone connection. Detailed three-dimensional (3D) models were developed to represent the bone structure (cortical and trabecular) and the prosthetic components, including the crown, cement, cap, abutment, and the implant.

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In the frontline high-dose phase 3 FIL-MCL0208 trial (NCT02354313), 8% of enrolled mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) patients could not be randomised to receive lenalidomide (LEN) maintenance vs observation after autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) due to inadequate hematological recovery and 52% of those who started LEN, needed a dose reduction due to toxicity. We therefore focused on the role played by CD34 + hematopoietic stem cells (PBSC) harvesting and reinfusion on toxicity and outcome. Overall, 90% (n = 245) of enrolled patients who underwent the first leukapheresis collected ≥ 4 × 10 PBSC/kg, 2.

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The peculiar behavior of arsenoplatin-1, ([Pt(µ-NHC(CH)O)ClAs(OH)], AP-1), in aqueous solution and the progressive appearance of a characteristic and intense blue color led us to carry out a more extensive investigation to determine the nature of this elusive chemical species, which we named "AsPt blue". A multi-technique approach was therefore implemented to describe the processes involved in the formation of AsPt blue, and some characteristic features of this intriguing species were revealed.

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The compositions of Dutch lightweight packaging waste (LWP) and sorted products named "PET (Polyethylene terephthalate) trays" have been determined on object level. Additionally, the PET trays from both waste types were sorted in 16 categories representing their packaging use and material build-up. The material composition of at least 10 representative trays from each category was determined with chemical and thermal analysis, based on which the average material composition per category was established.

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Thermal spraying (TS) is one of the main processes for obtaining surfaces with the desired protective properties in various industrial applications. TS is an energy-intensive treatment required to heat the application material and consumes different resources. To assess the environmental impact of TS, it becomes necessary to integrate an approach that jointly analyses and evaluates the economic and environmental variables influencing the system.

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Recovery of Plastics from WEEE through Green Sink-Float Treatment.

Materials (Basel)

June 2024

Department of Civil, Environmental, Land, Building Engineering and Chemistry (DICATECh), Polytechnic University of Bari, Via E. Orabona n. 4, 70125 Bari, Italy.

Increasing demand for electrical and electronic equipment results in the generation of a rapidly growing waste stream, known by the acronym WEEE (waste electrical and electronic equipment). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of green sink-float treatment in sorting plastic polymers typically found in WEEE (PP, ABS, PA6, PS, and PVC). Molasses, a by-product of sugar bio-refining, was added in various concentrations to water to form solutions at different densities.

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