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A measurement of the dijet production cross section is reported based on proton-proton collision data collected in 2016 at by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of up to 36.3 . Jets are reconstructed with the anti- algorithm for distance parameters of and 0.

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Depressive Symptoms and Amyloid Pathology.

JAMA Psychiatry

January 2025

Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden.

Importance: Depressive symptoms are associated with cognitive decline in older individuals. Uncertainty about underlying mechanisms hampers diagnostic and therapeutic efforts. This large-scale study aimed to elucidate the association between depressive symptoms and amyloid pathology.

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Proper nutrition is essential during pregnancy to ensure an adequate supply of nutrients to the foetus and adequate maternal weight gain. In pregnancy complicated by diabetes (both gestational and pre-gestational), diet in terms of both the intake and quality of carbohydrates is an essential factor in glycaemic control. Maternal BMI at conception defines the correct weight increase during gestation in order to reduce maternal-foetal complications related to hypo- or hyper-nutrition.

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Expectation of survival of patients receiving HMA + VEN is influenced by pre-treatment comorbidity burden.

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A Genetic Make Up of Italian Lipizzan Horse Through Uniparental Markers to Preserve Historical Pedigrees.

Biology (Basel)

December 2024

Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l'Analisi dell'Economia Agraria (CREA), Research Centre for Animal Production and Aquaculture, Via Salaria 31, 00015 Monterotondo, Italy.

Lipizzan is a famous horse breed dating back to 1580 when the original stud of Lipica was established by the Hasburg Archduke Charles II. Currently, the Italian State Stud of Lipizzan Horses (ASCAL) is a conservation nucleus managed through strict mating rules where mitochondrial DNA sequences are used to verify the correct assignment of mares to a historical pedigree maternal lineage. Here, we analyzed the D-loop sequences of Lipizzan horses from the ASCAL in Monterotondo (Rome, Italy) in order to confirm their pedigree assignment to known female founder families.

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Photoswitches are widely investigated molecules because upon exposure to selected light irradiation, they are able to undergo structural, and hence optical, changes. To fully exploit their responsiveness to irradiation, the quantum efficiency of the forward and back reactions is a fundamental parameter, whose accurate determination is critical. In this work, the spectral evolution of a biomimetic switch, which undergoes / photoinduced isomerization, is spectrophotometrically examined.

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Objective: Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most common cause of cancer-related deaths in men worldwide. BRCA1/2 genes are reported altered in approximately 1% and 8% of PCa cases, respectively. To date, formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues have a consolidate use in the clinical practice, but with a significant drawback related to DNA/RNA degradation during the pre-analytical process.

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  • The CMS experiment conducted a search for charge-parity violation in decays using proton-proton collision data from 2018, analyzing around 10 billion events with b hadrons decaying into charm hadrons.
  • The flavor of the neutral D meson was determined through the charge of pions in the reconstructed decays, and an asymmetry measurement in the decays was reported, taking into account various uncertainties.
  • This research marks the first asymmetry measurement by the CMS in the charm sector and the first to use a fully hadronic final state in such analyses.
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  • The study focuses on detecting multijet signatures from proton-proton collisions at a high energy of 13 TeV, analyzing a dataset totaling 128 fb^{-1}.
  • A special data scouting method is utilized to pick out events with low combined momentum in jets.
  • This research is pioneering in its investigation of electroweak particle production in R-parity violating supersymmetric models, particularly examining hadronically decaying mass-degenerate higgsinos, and it broadens the limits on the existence of R-parity violating top squarks and gluinos.
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Brillouin Light Scattering (BLS) spectroscopy is a non-invasive, non-contact, label-free optical technique that can provide information on the mechanical properties of a material on the sub-micron scale. Over the last decade it has seen increased applications in the life sciences, driven by the observed significance of mechanical properties in biological processes, the realization of more sensitive BLS spectrometers and its extension to an imaging modality. As with other spectroscopic techniques, BLS measurements not only detect signals characteristic of the investigated sample, but also of the experimental apparatus, and can be significantly affected by measurement conditions.

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Boron shows a variety of properties, determining a chemistry rich and complementary to that of carbon, the neighbor atom in the Periodic Table. In this work, we investigated the strength and nature of the interaction involving B12 or B36 monomer, which represent molecular prototypes of borophene, the two-dimensional allotrope of elemental boron. For the representation of the intermolecular interaction, we developed new potential energy surfaces (PESs) that are based on accurate ab initio or density functional theory data.

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2025 Roadmap on 3D Nano-magnetism.

J Phys Condens Matter

November 2024

Institute of Applied Physics, Vienna University of Technology, Wiedner Hauptstr. 8-10/134, Wien, 1040, AUSTRIA.

The transition from planar (2D) to three-dimensional (3D) magnetic nanostructures represents a significant advancement in both fundamental research and practical applications, offering vast potential for next-generation technologies like ultrahigh-density storage, memory, logic, and neuromorphic computing. Despite being a relatively new field, the emergence of 3D nanomagnetism presents numerous opportunities for innovation, prompting the creation of a comprehensive roadmap by leading international researchers. This roadmap aims to facilitate collaboration and interdisciplinary dialogue to address challenges in materials science, physics, engineering, and computing.

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The first search for soft unclustered energy patterns (SUEPs) is performed using an integrated luminosity of 138  fb^{-1} of proton-proton collision data at sqrt[s]=13  TeV, collected in 2016-2018 by the CMS detector at the LHC. Such SUEPs are predicted by hidden valley models with a new, confining force with a large 't Hooft coupling. In events with boosted topologies, selected by high-threshold hadronic triggers, the multiplicity and sphericity of clustered tracks are used to reject the background from standard model quantum chromodynamics.

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The first search for the Z boson decay to ττμμ at the CERN LHC is presented, based on data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138  fb^{-1}. The data are compatible with the predicted background. For the first time, an upper limit at the 95% confidence level of 6.

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Association of non-cardiac comorbidities and sex with long-term Re-hospitalization for heart failure.

Eur J Intern Med

January 2025

Divisione di Cardiologia, and Centro Ricerche Cliniche e Traslazionali-CERICLET, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy.

Heart failure (HF) often coexists with non-cardiac comorbidities (NCC), but their association with long-term HF re-hospitalizations is not defined. Using the Lombardy Regional Health Database, that includes >10 million residents, we assessed the risk of re-hospitalization for HF after first HF discharge as a function of NCC, employing age- and sex-adjusted Cox proportional-hazard models. Kaplan Meier curves for HF re-hospitalizations were stratified for number of NCC.

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The need to develop synthetic bone substitutes with structures, properties, and functions similar to bone and capable of preventing microbial infections is still an ongoing challenge. This research is focused on the preparation and characterization of three-dimensional porous scaffolds based on hydroxyapatite (HA)-functionalized calcium carbonate loaded with silver nanoparticles and simvastatin (SIMV). The scaffolds were prepared using the foam replica method, with a polyurethane (PU) sponge as a template, followed by successive polymer removal and sintering.

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  • * It found that stronger beliefs in equal childcare (both in what is considered normal and what should be the case) are associated with the availability of parental leave policies.
  • * While the data suggests that changes in parental leave policies can shift perceptions of social norms over time, the study acknowledges that it cannot definitively determine cause-and-effect relationships due to its cross-sectional design.
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Using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of collected by the CMS experiment at , the decay is observed for the first time, with a statistical significance exceeding 5 standard deviations. The relative branching fraction, with respect to the decay, is measured to be , where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second is systematic, and the third is related to the uncertainties in and .

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A search for collective effects inside jets produced in proton-proton collisions is performed via correlation measurements of charged particles using the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. The analysis uses data collected at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt[s]=13  TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138  fb^{-1}. Jets are reconstructed with the anti-k_{T} algorithm with a distance parameter of 0.

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Effects of APOE isoforms in diabetic nephropathy patients of South India.

Acta Diabetol

October 2024

Dipartimento di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università di Perugia, Piazza L. Severi - Edificio B, Piano 1, Sant'Andrea delle Fratte, Perugia, 06132, Italy.

Background: Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a grave complication and the most common renal dysfunction of diabetes mellitus. Genetic factors, including Apolipoprotein E (APOE) isoforms, have been implicated in the pathogenesis of DN.

Methods: A total of 577 type 2 Diabetes mellitus subjects were categorized into diabetes non-nephropathic (Controls: n = 321), diabetes nephropathic (DN: n = 256) groups.

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  • - Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a rare chronic liver disease with no approved treatments; currently, ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) is used, but it doesn't improve survival or delay liver transplants.
  • - A range of new potential drugs is being developed, mainly focusing on FXR agonists like obeticholic acid, as well as other agents targeting bile acid metabolism and cholangiocyte function.
  • - Additional therapies under investigation include drugs that target gut bacteria, PPARs, anti-itching agents, and immunosuppressive medications, reflecting the connection between PSC and gut microbiota.
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Recent experiments have demonstrated the self-assembly and long-range ordering of concentrated aqueous solutions of DNA and RNA mononucleotides. These are found to form Watson-Crick pairs that stack into columns that become spatially organized into a columnar liquid-crystalline phase. In this work, we numerically investigate this phase behavior by adopting an extremely coarse-grained model in which nucleotides are represented as semi-disk-like polyhedra decorated with attractive (patchy) sites that mimic the stacking and pairing interactions.

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Current Landscape and Evolving Therapies for Primary Biliary Cholangitis.

Cells

September 2024

SC di Gastroenterologia ed Epatologia, Azienda Ospedaliera di Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy.

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  • Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC) is a chronic autoimmune liver disease that, if left untreated, can lead to severe liver damage, including cirrhosis, and may require a transplant.
  • The disease is influenced by genetic factors and specific environmental triggers, with an imbalance in gut microbiota (dysbiosis) being a significant factor.
  • Current treatments include bile acid-based therapies like ursodeoxycholic acid, but new therapies such as elafibranor and seladelpar are being explored to enhance treatment options and personalize care for patients.
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