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1. Type 2 diabetes pathway-specific polygenic risk scores elucidate heterogeneity in clinical presentation, disease progression and diabetic complications in 18,217 Chinese individuals with type 2 diabetes

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Yu, Gechang, Tam, Claudia H. T., Lim, Cadmon K. P., Shi, Mai, Lau, Eric S. H., Ozaki, Risa, Lee, Heung-man, Ng, Alex C. W., Hou, Yong, Fan, Baoqi, Huang, Chuiguo, Wu, Hongjiang, Yang, Aimin, Cheung, Hoi Man, Lee, Ka Fai, Siu, Shing Chung, Hui, Grace, Tsang, Chiu Chi, Lau, Kam Piu, Leung, Jenny Y. Y., Cheung, Elaine Y. N., Tsang, Man Wo, Kam, Grace, Lau, Ip Tim, Li, June K. Y., Yeung, Vincent T. F., Lau, Emmy, Lo, Stanley, Fung, Samuel, Cheng, Yuk Lun, Szeto, Cheuk Chun, Chow, Elaine, Kong, Alice P. S., Tam, Wing Hung, Luk, Andrea O. Y., Weedon, Michael N., So, Wing-yee, Chan, Juliana C. N., Oram, Richard A., and Ma, Ronald C. W.

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2025
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4. A formula using day 4 parameters to predict next-day peripheral blood stem cell yield in healthy haematopoietic stem cell donors

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Tan, Jing-Yuan, Koh, Liang-Piu, Woon, Yeow-Kheong, Heng, Kee-Khiang, Tan, Angeline Hwee-Yim, Soh, Teck-Guan, Quek, Jeffrey Kim-Siang, Ng, Lawrence Cheng-Kiat, Than, Hein, Lim, Francesca Wei-Inng, Ang, Chieh-Hwee, Tuy, Tertius, Gan, Gina, Salleh, Rohani Binte, Xie, Gaoge, Lieow, Jedidah, Lee, Jing-Jing, Seng, Zi-Jing, Wong, Lyn-Lee, Poon, Michelle, Tan, Lip-Kun, Goh, Yeow-Tee, Hwang, William Ying-Khee, Ho, Aloysius Yew-Leng, and Linn, Yeh-Ching

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2025
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5. BrainMass: Advancing Brain Network Analysis for Diagnosis with Large-scale Self-Supervised Learning

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Yang, Yanwu, Ye, Chenfei, Su, Guinan, Zhang, Ziyao, Chang, Zhikai, Chen, Hairui, Chan, Piu, Yu, Yue, and Ma, Ting

Subjects
Computer Science - Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science, Quantitative Biology - Neurons and Cognition
Abstract

Foundation models pretrained on large-scale datasets via self-supervised learning demonstrate exceptional versatility across various tasks. Due to the heterogeneity and hard-to-collect medical data, this approach is especially beneficial for medical image analysis and neuroscience research, as it streamlines broad downstream tasks without the need for numerous costly annotations. However, there has been limited investigation into brain network foundation models, limiting their adaptability and generalizability for broad neuroscience studies. In this study, we aim to bridge this gap. In particular, (1) we curated a comprehensive dataset by collating images from 30 datasets, which comprises 70,781 samples of 46,686 participants. Moreover, we introduce pseudo-functional connectivity (pFC) to further generates millions of augmented brain networks by randomly dropping certain timepoints of the BOLD signal. (2) We propose the BrainMass framework for brain network self-supervised learning via mask modeling and feature alignment. BrainMass employs Mask-ROI Modeling (MRM) to bolster intra-network dependencies and regional specificity. Furthermore, Latent Representation Alignment (LRA) module is utilized to regularize augmented brain networks of the same participant with similar topological properties to yield similar latent representations by aligning their latent embeddings. Extensive experiments on eight internal tasks and seven external brain disorder diagnosis tasks show BrainMass's superior performance, highlighting its significant generalizability and adaptability. Nonetheless, BrainMass demonstrates powerful few/zero-shot learning abilities and exhibits meaningful interpretation to various diseases, showcasing its potential use for clinical applications.

Published
2024

6. Unravelling the polarity of InN quantum dots using a modified approach of negative-spherical-aberration imaging

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Rajak, Piu, Islam, Mahabul, Jiménez, J. J., Mánuel, J. M., Aseev, P., Gačević, Ž., Calleja, E., García, R., Morales, Francisco M., and Bhattacharyya, Somnath

Subjects
Physics - Applied Physics
Abstract

InN quantum dots (QDs) are considered to be promising nanostructures for different device applications. For any hexagonal AB stacking semiconductor system, polarity is an important feature which affects the electronic properties. Therefore, the determination of this characteristic on any wurtzite (semi)polar III nitride compound or alloy is essential for defining its applicability. In this paper, the polarity of InN QDs grown on silicon by indium droplet epitaxy plus nitridation and annealing was determined by a modified approach combining exit wave reconstruction with negative spherical aberration high resolution lattice imaging using TEM. Comparing the micrographs of two QDs from the same TEM specimen with the simulated images of InN slab structures generated under the same conditions as of the experiments, it was confirmed that the QDs of the present study are N polar. Given that the settlement of material's polarity has always been a tedious, indirect and controversial issue, the major value of our proposal is to provide a straightforward procedure to determine the polar direction from atomic-resolution focal series images., Comment: 7 pages 5 figures

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2024
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13. The Bour's theorem for invariant surfaces in three-manifolds

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Domingos, Iury, Onnis, Irene I., and Piu, Paola

Subjects
Mathematics - Differential Geometry, 53C42, 53C40
Abstract

In this paper, we apply techniques from equivariant geometry to prove that a generalized Bour's theorem holds for surfaces that are invariant under the action of a one-parameter group of isometries of a three-dimensional Riemannian manifold., Comment: Minor changes in the introduction and the bibliography. All comments are welcome!

Published
2023

15. Circulating metabolomic markers linking diabetic kidney disease and incident cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetes: analyses from the Hong Kong Diabetes Biobank

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Jin, Qiao, Lau, Eric S. H., Luk, Andrea O., Tam, Claudia H. T., Ozaki, Risa, Lim, Cadmon K. P., Wu, Hongjiang, Chow, Elaine Y. K., Kong, Alice P. S., Lee, Heung Man, Fan, Baoqi, Ng, Alex C. W., Jiang, Guozhi, Lee, Ka Fai, Siu, Shing Chung, Hui, Grace, Tsang, Chiu Chi, Lau, Kam Piu, Leung, Jenny Y., Tsang, Man-wo, Cheung, Elaine Y. N., Kam, Grace, Lau, Ip Tim, Li, June K., Yeung, Vincent T. F., Lau, Emmy, Lo, Stanley, Fung, Samuel, Cheng, Yuk Lun, Chow, Chun Chung, Yu, Weichuan, Tsui, Stephen K. W., Tomlinson, Brian, Huang, Yu, Lan, Hui-yao, Szeto, Cheuk Chun, So, Wing Yee, Jenkins, Alicia J., Fung, Erik, Muilwijk, Mirthe, Blom, Marieke T., ‘t Hart, Leen M., Chan, Juliana C. N., and Ma, Ronald C. W.

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2024
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18. Derivation and stability analysis of macroscopic multi-lane models for vehicular traffic flow

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Piu, Matteo, Herty, Michael, and Puppo, Gabriella

Subjects
Mathematics - Analysis of PDEs, 76A30, 35L60, 35B35
Abstract

The mathematical modeling and the stability analysis of multi-lane traffic in the macroscopic scale is considered. We propose a new first order model derived from microscopic dynamics with lane changing, leading to a coupled system of hyperbolic balance laws. The macroscopic limit is derived without assuming ad hoc space and time scalings. The analysis of the stability of the equilibria of the model is discussed. The proposed numerical tests confirm the theoretical findings between the macroscopic and microscopic modeling, and the results of the stability analysis.

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2022
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19. Disentangling structural and electronic properties in V$_{2}$O$_{3}$ thin films: a genuine non-symmetry breaking Mott transition

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Mazzola, Federico, Chaluvadi, Sandeep Kumar, Polewczyk, Vincent, Mondal, Debashis, Fujii, Jun, Rajak, Piu, Islam, Mahabul, Ciancio, Regina, Barba, Luisa, Fabrizio, Michele, Rossi, Giorgio, Orgiani, Pasquale, and Vobornik, Ivana

Subjects
Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract

Phase transitions are key in determining and controlling the quantum properties of correlated materials. Here, by using the powerful combination of precise material synthesis and angle resolved photoelectron spectroscopy, we show evidence for a genuine Mott transition undressed of any symmetry breaking side effects in the thin-films of V$_{2}$O$_{3}$. In particular, and in sharp contrast with the bulk V$_{2}$O$_{3}$ crystals, we unveil the purely electronic dynamics approaching the metal-insulator transition, disentangled from the structural transformation that is prevented by the residual substrate-induced strain. On approaching the transition, the spectral signal evolves surprisingly slowly over a wide temperature range, the Fermi wave-vector does not change, and the critical temperature appears to be much lower than the one reported for the bulk. Our findings are on one side fundamental in demonstrating the universal benchmarks of a genuine non-symmetry breaking Mott transition, extendable to a large array of correlated quantum systems and, on the other, given that the fatal structural breakdown is avoided, they hold promise of exploiting the metal-insulator transition by implementing V$_{2}$O$_{3}$ thin films in devices.

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2022
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21. Stability analysis of microscopic models for traffic flow with lane changing

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Piu, Matteo and Puppo, Gabriella

Subjects
Mathematics - Classical Analysis and ODEs
Abstract

This paper investigates the mathematical modeling and the stability of multi-lane traffic in the microscopic scale, studying a model based on two interaction terms. To do this we propose simple lane changing conditions and we study the stability of the steady states starting from the model in the one-lane case and extending the results to the generic multi-lane case with the careful design of the lane changing rules. We compare the results with numerical tests, that confirm the predictions of the linear stability analysis and also show that the model is able to reproduce stop & go waves, a typical feature of congested traffic.

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2022
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22. All-optical spin injection in silicon revealed by element specific time-resolved Kerr effect

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Laterza, Simone, Caretta, Antonio, Bhardwaj, Richa, Flammini, Roberto, Moras, Paolo, MatteoJugovac, Rajak, Piu, Islam, Mahabul, Ciancio, Regina, Bonanni, Valentina, Casarin, Barbara, Simoncig, Alberto, Zangrando, Marco, Ribic, Primoz Rebernik, Penco, Giuseppe, De Ninno, Giovanni, LucaGiannessi, Demidovich, Alexander, Danailov, Miltcho, Parmigiani, Fulvio, and Malvestuto, Marco

Subjects
Condensed Matter - Materials Science
Abstract

Understanding how a spin current flows across metal-semiconductor interfaces at pico- and femtosecond timescales has implications for ultrafast spintronics, data processing and storage applications. However, the possibility to directly access the propagation of spin currents on such time scales has been hampered by the simultaneous lack of both ultrafast element specific magnetic sensitive probes and tailored metal-semiconductor interfaces. Here, by means of free electron laser-based element sensitive Kerr spectroscopy, we report direct experimental evidence of spin currents across a Ni/Si interface in the form of different magnetodynamics at the Ni M2,3 and Si L2,3 absorption edges. This further allows us to calculate the propagation velocity of the spin current in silicon, which is on the order of 0.2 nm/fs.

Published
2021

24. Bour's theorem and helicoidal surfaces with constant mean curvature in the Bianchi-Cartan-Vranceanu spaces

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Caddeo, R., Onnis, Irene I., and Piu, P.

Subjects
Mathematics - Differential Geometry, 53A10, 53C40, 53C42
Abstract

In this paper we generalize a classical result of Bour concerning helicoidal surfaces in the three-dimensional Euclidean space R^3 to the case of helicoidal surfaces in the Bianchi-Cartan-Vranceanu (BCV) spaces, i.e. in the Riemannian 3-manifolds whose metrics have groups of isometries of dimension $4$ or $6$, except the hyperbolic one. In particular, we prove that in a BCV-space there exists a two-parameter family of helicoidal surfaces isometric to a given helicoidal surface; then, by making use of this two-parameter representation, we characterize helicoidal surfaces which have constant mean curvature, including the minimal ones., Comment: 17 pages, 4 figures

Published
2021

25. The Aging Biomarker Consortium represents a new era for aging research in China

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Ren, Jie, Song, Moshi, Zhang, Weiqi, Cai, Jian-Ping, Cao, Feng, Cao, Zhongwei, Chan, Piu, Chen, Chang, Chen, Guobing, Chen, Hou-Zao, Chen, Jun, Chen, Xiao-Chun, Ci, Weimin, Ding, Bi-Sen, Ding, Qiurong, Gao, Feng, Gao, Shaorong, Han, Jing-Dong J., He, Qi-Yang, Huang, Kai, Ju, Zhenyu, Kong, Qing-Peng, Li, Ji, Li, Jian, Li, Jingyi, Li, Xin, Liu, Baohua, Liu, Feng, Liu, Jun-Ping, Liu, Lin, Liu, Qiang, Liu, Qiang, Liu, Xingguo, Liu, Yong, Luo, Xianghang, Ma, Shuai, Ma, Xinran, Mao, Zhiyong, Nie, Jing, Peng, Yaojin, Qu, Jing, Ren, Ruibao, Song, Weihong, Songyang, Zhou, Sun, Liang, Sun, Yi Eve, Sun, Yu, Tian, Mei, Tian, Xiao-Li, Tian, Ye, Wang, Jianwei, Wang, Shusen, Wang, Si, Wang, Wengong, Wang, Xia, Wang, Xiaoning, Wang, Yan-Jiang, Wang, Yunfang, Wong, Catherine C. L., Xiang, Andy Peng, Xiao, Yichuan, Xiao, Zhi-Xiong, Xie, Zhengwei, Xiong, Wei, Xu, Daichao, Yang, Ze, Ye, Jing, Yu, Wei, Yue, Rui, Zhang, Cuntai, Zhang, Hongbo, Zhang, Liang, Zhang, Xinchao, Zhang, Yong, Zhang, Yun-Wu, Zhang, Zhuohua, Zhao, Tongbiao, Zhao, Yuzheng, Zhou, Zhongjun, Zhu, Dahai, Zou, Weiguo, Pei, Gang, and Liu, Guang-Hui

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2023
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28. Biomarkers of aging

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Bao, Hainan, Cao, Jiani, Chen, Mengting, Chen, Min, Chen, Wei, Chen, Xiao, Chen, Yanhao, Chen, Yu, Chen, Yutian, Chen, Zhiyang, Chhetri, Jagadish K., Ding, Yingjie, Feng, Junlin, Guo, Jun, Guo, Mengmeng, He, Chuting, Jia, Yujuan, Jiang, Haiping, Jing, Ying, Li, Dingfeng, Li, Jiaming, Li, Jingyi, Liang, Qinhao, Liang, Rui, Liu, Feng, Liu, Xiaoqian, Liu, Zuojun, Luo, Oscar Junhong, Lv, Jianwei, Ma, Jingyi, Mao, Kehang, Nie, Jiawei, Qiao, Xinhua, Sun, Xinpei, Tang, Xiaoqiang, Wang, Jianfang, Wang, Qiaoran, Wang, Siyuan, Wang, Xuan, Wang, Yaning, Wang, Yuhan, Wu, Rimo, Xia, Kai, Xiao, Fu-Hui, Xu, Lingyan, Xu, Yingying, Yan, Haoteng, Yang, Liang, Yang, Ruici, Yang, Yuanxin, Ying, Yilin, Zhang, Le, Zhang, Weiwei, Zhang, Wenwan, Zhang, Xing, Zhang, Zhuo, Zhou, Min, Zhou, Rui, Zhu, Qingchen, Zhu, Zhengmao, Cao, Feng, Cao, Zhongwei, Chan, Piu, Chen, Chang, Chen, Guobing, Chen, Hou-Zao, Chen, Jun, Ci, Weimin, Ding, Bi-Sen, Ding, Qiurong, Gao, Feng, Han, Jing-Dong J., Huang, Kai, Ju, Zhenyu, Kong, Qing-Peng, Li, Ji, Li, Jian, Li, Xin, Liu, Baohua, Liu, Feng, Liu, Lin, Liu, Qiang, Liu, Qiang, Liu, Xingguo, Liu, Yong, Luo, Xianghang, Ma, Shuai, Ma, Xinran, Mao, Zhiyong, Nie, Jing, Peng, Yaojin, Qu, Jing, Ren, Jie, Ren, Ruibao, Song, Moshi, Songyang, Zhou, Sun, Yi Eve, Sun, Yu, Tian, Mei, Wang, Shusen, Wang, Si, Wang, Xia, Wang, Xiaoning, Wang, Yan-Jiang, Wang, Yunfang, Wong, Catherine C. L., Xiang, Andy Peng, Xiao, Yichuan, Xie, Zhengwei, Xu, Daichao, Ye, Jing, Yue, Rui, Zhang, Cuntai, Zhang, Hongbo, Zhang, Liang, Zhang, Weiqi, Zhang, Yong, Zhang, Yun-Wu, Zhang, Zhuohua, Zhao, Tongbiao, Zhao, Yuzheng, Zhu, Dahai, Zou, Weiguo, Pei, Gang, and Liu, Guang-Hui

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2023
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30. Genome-wide association study using whole-genome sequencing identifies risk loci for Parkinson’s disease in Chinese population

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Pan, Hongxu, Liu, Zhenhua, Ma, Jinghong, Li, Yuanyuan, Zhao, Yuwen, Zhou, Xiaoxia, Xiang, Yaqin, Wang, Yige, Zhou, Xun, He, Runcheng, Xie, Yali, Zhou, Qiao, Yuan, Kai, Xu, Qian, Sun, Qiying, Wang, Junling, Yan, Xinxiang, Zhang, Hainan, Wang, Chunyu, Lei, Lifang, Liu, Weiguo, Wang, Xuejing, Ding, Xuebing, Wang, Tao, Xue, Zheng, Zhang, Zhentao, Chen, Ling, Wang, Qing, Liu, Yonghong, Tang, Jiayu, Zhang, Xuewei, Peng, Shifang, Wang, Chaodong, Ding, Jianqing, Liu, Chunfeng, Wang, Lijuan, Chen, Haibo, Shen, Lu, Jiang, Hong, Wu, Xinyin, Tan, Hongzhuan, Luo, Dan, Xiao, Shuiyuan, Chen, Xiang, Tan, Jieqiong, Hu, Zhengmao, Chen, Chao, Xia, Kun, Zhang, Zhuohua, Foo, Jia Nee, Blauwendraat, Cornelis, Nalls, Mike A., Singleton, Andrew B., Liu, Jun, Chan, Piu, Zheng, Houfeng, Li, Jinchen, Guo, Jifeng, Yang, Jian, and Tang, Beisha

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2023
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32. Vascular, inflammatory and metabolic risk factors in relation to dementia in Parkinson’s disease patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

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Wang, Ting, Yuan, Feilan, Chen, Zhenze, Zhu, Shuzhen, Chang, Zihan, Yang, Wanlin, Deng, Bin, Que, Rongfang, Cao, Peihua, Chao, Yinxia, Chan, Lingling, Pan, Ying, Wang, Yanping, Xu, Linting, Lyu, Qiurong, Chan, Piu, Yenari, Midori A, Tan, Eng-King, and Wang, Qing

Subjects
Aging, Prevention, Neurodegenerative, Neurosciences, Diabetes, Acquired Cognitive Impairment, Parkinson's Disease, Brain Disorders, Nutrition, Clinical Research, Dementia, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Neurological, Good Health and Well Being, Age Factors, Aged, Biomarkers, Blood Glucose, China, Cholesterol, LDL, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Female, Fibrinogen, Homocysteine, Humans, Hyperlipidemias, Inflammation, Male, Middle Aged, Parkinson Disease, Prognosis, Retrospective Studies, Risk Assessment, Risk Factors, Vascular Diseases, vascular inflammation, risk factor, dementia, Parkinson's disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Physiology, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Developmental Biology
Abstract

There are limited data on vascular, inflammatory, metabolic risk factors of dementia in Parkinson's disease (PD) with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) (PD-DM). In a study of 928 subjects comprising of 215 PD with DM (including 31 PD-DM with dementia, PD-DMD), 341 PD without DM (including 31 PD with dementia, PDD) and 372 DM without PD (including 35 DM with dementia, DMD) patients, we investigated if vascular, inflammatory, metabolic, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) markers were associated with dementia in PD-DM. Lower fasting blood glucose (FBG15μmol/L, OR=3.131; 95%CI: 1.243-7.888; p=0.015) and hyperlipidemia (OR=3.075; 95%CI: 1.142-8.277; p=0.026), increased age (OR=1.043; 95%CI: 1.003-1.084; p=0.034) were the most significant risk factors in PDD patients. Lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C4g/L, OR=4.066; 95%CI: 1.467-11.274; p=0.007) were the most significant risk factors in PD-DMD patients. The area under the curve (AUC) for fibrinogen and LDL-C was 0.717 (P=0.001), with a sensitivity of 80.0% for the prediction of PD-DMD.In summary, we identified several factors including LDL-C and fibrinogen as significant risk factors for PD-DMD and these may have prognostic and treatment implications.

Published
2020

36. Loxodromes on invariant surface in three-manifolds

Author

Caddeo, R., Onnis, Irene I., and Piu, P.

Subjects
Mathematics - Differential Geometry, 53A99, 53C22, 53C42, 14M17
Abstract

In this paper, we prove important results concerning the loxodromes on an invariant surface in a three-dimensional Riemannian manifold, some of which generalize classical results about loxodromes on rotational surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$. In particular, we show how to parametrize a loxodrome on an invariant surface of $\mathbb{H}^2\times \mathbb{R}$ and $\mathbb{H}_3$ and we exhibit the loxodromes of some remarkable minimal invariant surfaces of these spaces. In addition, we give an explicit description of the loxodromes on an invariant surface with constant Gauss curvature., Comment: 19 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0912.0468

Published
2018

37. Phase 2 Study of Anti-Human Cytomegalovirus Monoclonal Antibodies for Prophylaxis in Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation

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Maertens, Johan, Logan, Aaron C, Jang, Junho, Long, Gwynn, Tang, Jih-Luh, Hwang, William YK, Koh, Liang Piu, Chemaly, Roy, Gerbitz, Armin, Winkler, Julia, Yeh, Su-Peng, Hiemenz, John, Christoph, Sandra, Lee, Dong-Gun, Wang, Po-Nan, Holler, Ernst, Mielke, Stephan, Akard, Luke, Yeo, Adeline, Ramachandra, Sangana, Smith, Kristin, Pertel, Peter, and Segal, Florencia

Subjects
Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Clinical Sciences, Infectious Diseases, Transplantation, Cancer, Clinical Trials and Supportive Activities, Prevention, Patient Safety, Biotechnology, Immunization, Clinical Research, Stem Cell Research - Nonembryonic - Human, Stem Cell Research, 6.1 Pharmaceuticals, Evaluation of treatments and therapeutic interventions, Infection, Administration, Intravenous, Adult, Aged, Antibodies, Viral, Antiviral Agents, Cytomegalovirus Infections, Female, Graft vs Host Disease, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Placebos, Treatment Outcome, Viral Load, Young Adult, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, human cytomegalovirus, prophylaxis, Microbiology, Medical Microbiology, Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Medical microbiology, Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences
Abstract

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) can cause significant disease in immunocompromised patients, and treatment options are limited by toxicities. CSJ148 is a combination of two anti-HCMV human monoclonal antibodies (LJP538 and LJP539) that bind to and inhibit the functions of viral HCMV glycoprotein B (gB) and the pentameric complex, consisting of glycoproteins gH, gL, UL128, UL130, and UL131. In this phase 2, randomized, placebo-controlled trial, we evaluated the safety and efficacy of CSJ148 for prophylaxis of HCMV in patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. As would be expected in the study population, all the patients (100%) reported at least one treatment-emergent adverse event. There were 22 deaths during this study, and over 80% of the patients receiving placebo or CSJ148 developed at least one adverse event of grade 3 or higher severity. No subject who received antibody developed a hypersensitivity- or infusion-related reaction. CSJ148-treated patients showed trends toward decreased viral load, shorter median duration of preemptive therapy, and fewer courses of preemptive therapy. However, the estimated probability that CSJ148 decreases the need for preemptive therapy compared to placebo was 69%, with a risk ratio of 0.89 and a 90% credible interval of 0.61 to 1.31. The primary efficacy endpoint was therefore not met, indicating that CSJ148 did not prevent clinically significant HCMV reactivation in recipients of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplants. (This study has been registered at ClinicalTrials.gov under identifier NCT02268526 and at EudraCT under number 2017-002047-15.).

Published
2020

42. FixaTons: A collection of Human Fixations Datasets and Metrics for Scanpath Similarity

Author

Zanca, Dario, Serchi, Valeria, Piu, Pietro, Rosini, Francesca, and Rufa, Alessandra

Subjects
Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Abstract

In the last three decades, human visual attention has been a topic of great interest in various disciplines. In computer vision, many models have been proposed to predict the distribution of human fixations on a visual stimulus. Recently, thanks to the creation of large collections of data, machine learning algorithms have obtained state-of-the-art performance on the task of saliency map estimation. On the other hand, computational models of scanpath are much less studied. Works are often only descriptive or task specific. This is due to the fact that the scanpath is harder to model because it must include the description of a dynamic. General purpose computational models are present in the literature, but are then evaluated in tasks of saliency prediction, losing therefore information about the dynamics and the behaviour. In addition, two technical reasons have limited the research. The first reason is the lack of robust and uniformly used set of metrics to compare the similarity between scanpath. The second reason is the lack of sufficiently large and varied scanpath datasets. In this report we want to help in both directions. We present FixaTons, a large collection of datasets human scanpaths (temporally ordered sequences of fixations) and saliency maps. It comes along with a software library for easy data usage, statistics calculation and implementation of metrics for scanpath and saliency prediction evaluation.

Published
2018

43. Constant angle surfaces in Lorentzian Berger spheres

Author

Onnis, Irene I., Passamani, Apoena Passos, and Piu, Paola

Subjects
Mathematics - Differential Geometry, 53B25, 53C50
Abstract

In this work, we study helix spacelike and timelike surfaces in the Lorentzian Berger sphere $\s_{\varepsilon}^3$, that is the three-dimensional sphere endowed with a $1$-parameter family of Lorentzian metrics, obtained by deforming the round metric on $\s^3$ along the fibers of the Hopf fibration $\s^3\to \s^2({1}/{2})$ by $-\varepsilon^2$. Our main result provides a characterization of the helix surfaces in $\s_{\varepsilon}^3$ using the symmetries of the ambient space and a general helix in $\s_{\varepsilon}^3$, with axis the infinitesimal generator of the Hopf fibers. Also, we construct some explicit examples of helix surfaces in $\s_{\varepsilon}^3$., Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures

Published
2017

46. Dendritic cell therapy with CD137L-DC-EBV-VAX in locally recurrent or metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma is safe and confers clinical benefit

Author

Nickles, Emily, Dharmadhikari, Bhushan, Yating, Li, Walsh, Robert J., Koh, Liang Piu, Poon, Michelle, Tan, Lip Kun, Wang, Ling-Zhi, Ang, Yvonne, Asokumaran, Yugarajah, Chong, Wan Qin, Huang, Yiqing, Loh, Kwok Seng, Tay, Joshua, Soo, Ross, Koh, Mickey, Ho, Liam Pock, Chan, Marieta, Niam, Madelaine, Soh, Melissa, Luah, Yen Hoon, Lim, Chwee Ming, Kaliaperumal, Nivashini, Au, Veonice B., Talib, Najwa Binte Said Nasir, Sng, Reina, Connolly, John E., Goh, Boon Cher, and Schwarz, Herbert

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2022
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48. Movement disorder society criteria for clinically established early Parkinson's disease

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Berg, Daniela, Adler, Charles H, Bloem, Bastiaan R, Chan, Piu, Gasser, Thomas, Goetz, Christopher G, Halliday, Glenda, Lang, Anthony E, Lewis, Simon, Li, Yuan, Liepelt‐Scarfone, Inga, Litvan, Irene, Marek, Kenneth, Maetzler, Corina, Mi, Taomian, Obeso, José, Oertel, Wolfgang, Olanow, C Warren, Poewe, Werner, Rios‐Romenets, Silvia, Schäffer, Eva, Seppi, Klaus, Heim, Beatrice, Slow, Elizabeth, Stern, Matthew, Bledsoe, Ian O, Deuschl, Günther, and Postuma, Ronald B

Subjects
Neurodegenerative, Neurosciences, Brain Disorders, Aging, Prevention, Parkinson's Disease, 4.1 Discovery and preclinical testing of markers and technologies, 4.2 Evaluation of markers and technologies, Detection, screening and diagnosis, Neurological, Aged, Female, Humans, International Cooperation, Male, Middle Aged, Parkinson Disease, Reproducibility of Results, Sensitivity and Specificity, Severity of Illness Index, Societies, Medical, Parkinson's disease, diagnosis, criteria, Clinical Sciences, Human Movement and Sports Sciences, Neurology & Neurosurgery
Abstract

BackgroundIn 2015, the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society published clinical diagnostic criteria for Parkinson's disease (PD). Although recent validation studies suggest high accuracy, one unmet need is for highly specific criteria for clinical trials in early/de novo PD.ObjectivesThe objective of this study was to generate and test a PD diagnostic criteria termed "clinically established early PD."MethodsWe modified the Movement Disorder Society criteria to increase specificity for early PD by removing all disease duration components and changing red flags to absolute exclusions. We then estimated the sensitivity/specificity of clinically established early PD criteria in patients with disease duration

Published
2018

50. Using a Simulation Game to Make Learning about Angles Meaningful. An Exploratory Study in Primary School

Author

Piu, Angela, Fregola, Cesare, and Santoro, Anna

Abstract

As indicated in numerous research studies, schoolchildren encounter many difficulties and obstacles in learning the multifaceted concept of the angle. In order to explore the possibility of enhancing schoolchildren's understanding of such a concept, the authors present a study that aims at investigating some structural characteristics of Angolandia, a simulation game for learning about angles specifically designed according to theoretical-methodological choices for which references were initially drawn from the literature on simulation games and teaching mathematics. This research, involving 31 children from two, 4th-year primary school classes who played Angolandia, reports the observations made as the game was played, an analysis of a written interview on the angle with children before and after the educational activity and an interview with their teachers. These initial data are discussed and considered as the point of departure for systematic experimentation and future developments.

Published
2016

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