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1. Concurrency Model of BDI Programming Frameworks: Why Should We Control It?

Author

Baiardi, Martina, Burattini, Samuele, Ciatto, Giovanni, Pianini, Danilo, Omicini, Andrea, and Ricci, Alessandro

Subjects
Computer Science - Multiagent Systems
Abstract

We provide a taxonomy of concurrency models for BDI frameworks, elicited by analysing state-of-the-art technologies, and aimed at helping both BDI designers and developers in making informed decisions. Comparison among BDI technologies w.r.t. concurrency models reveals heterogeneous support, and low customisability.

Published
2024

2. On the external concurrency of current BDI frameworks for MAS

Author

Baiardi, Martina, Burattini, Samuele, Ciatto, Giovanni, Pianini, Danilo, Ricci, Alessandro, and Omicini, Andrea

Subjects
Computer Science - Multiagent Systems
Abstract

The execution of Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) agents in a Multi-Agent System (MAS) can be practically implemented on top of low-level concurrency mechanisms that impact on efficiency, determinism, and reproducibility. We argue that developers should specify the MAS behaviour independently of the execution model, and choose or configure the concurrency model later on, according to the specific needs of their target domain, leaving the MAS specification unaffected. We identify patterns for mapping the agent execution over the underlying concurrency abstractions, and investigate which concurrency models are supported by some of the most commonly used BDI platforms. Although most frameworks support multiple concurrency models, we find that they mostly hide them under the hood, making them opaque to the developer, and actually limiting the possibility of fine-tuning the MAS.

Published
2024

4. About Digital Twins, agents, and multiagent systems: a cross-fertilisation journey

Author

Mariani, Stefano, Picone, Marco, and Ricci, Alessandro

Subjects
Computer Science - Multiagent Systems, I.2.11, D.2.10, D.2.11
Abstract

Digital Twins (DTs) are rapidly emerging as a fundamental brick of engineering cyber-physical systems, but their notion is still mostly bound to specific business domains (e.g. manufacturing), goals (e.g. product design), or application domains (e.g. the Internet of Things). As such, their value as general purpose engineering abstractions is yet to be fully revealed. In this paper, we relate DTs with agents and multiagent systems, as the latter are arguably the most rich abstractions available for the engineering of complex socio-technical and cyber-physical systems, and the former could both fill in some gaps in agent-oriented engineering and benefit from an agent-oriented interpretation -- in a cross-fertilisation journey., Comment: Digital Twin, Agent, Multiagent system, Cyber-physical system;16 pages; accepted and presented at EMAS2022 (workshop of AAMAS: https://emas.in.tu-clausthal.de/2022/#accepted)

Published
2022
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5. Nanoscale inhomogeneity of charge density waves dynamics in La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$NiO$_4$

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Campi, Gaetano, Bianconi, Antonio, Joseph, Boby, Mishra, Shrawan Kr, Muller, Leonard, Zozulya, Alexey, Nugroho, Agustinus Agung, Roy, Sujoy, Sprung, Michael, and Ricci, Alessandro

Subjects
Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons, Condensed Matter - Superconductivity, Quantum Physics
Abstract

While stripe phases with broken rotational symmetry of charge density appear in many complex correlated systems, the heterogeneity of spatial ordering and dynamics remains elusive. This missing info is at the heart of understanding the structure and function relation in quantum complex materials. We focus here on the spatial heterogeneity of the motion of charge density wave (CDW) at nanoscale in the archetypal case of La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$NiO$_{4+y}$ perovskite at low temperature. We report compelling evidence that the unconventional increasing motion of CDW at T < 50K is related with the decreasing of its correlation length using resonant soft X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS). The key result of this work is the direct visualization of nanoscale spatial inhomogeneity of CDW relaxation dynamics by scanning micro X-ray diffraction (SmXRD) showing a nanoscale landscape of percolating short range dynamic CDW puddles competing with large quasi-static CDW puddles giving rise to a novel form of nanoscale phase separation of the incommensurate stripes order landscape., Comment: 15 pages, 3 figures

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2022
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8. The “state of the art” of intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring: An Italian neurosurgical survey

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Ricciuti, Riccardo Antonio, Mancini, Fabrizio, Guzzi, Giusy, Marruzzo, Daniele, Dario, Alessandro, Della Puppa, Alessandro, Ricci, Alessandro, Barbanera, Andrea, Talacchi, Andrea, Schwarz, Andreas, Germanò, Antonino, Raco, Antonino, Colamaria, Antonio, Santoro, Antonio, Boccaletti, Riccardo, Conti, Carlo, Cenci, Nunzia, Cossandi, Christian, Bernucci, Claudio, Lucantoni, Corrado, Costella, Giovanni Battista, Garbossa, Diego, Zotta, Donato Carlo, De Gonda, Federico, Esposito, Felice, Giordano, Flavio, D'Andrea, Giancarlo, Piatelli, Gianluca, Zona, Gianluigi, Spena, Giannantonio, Tringali, Giovanni, Barbagallo, Giuseppe, Giussani, Carlo, Gladi, Maurizio, Landi, Andrea, Lavano, Angelo, Morabito, Letterio, Mastronardi, Luciano, Locatelli, Marco, D'Agruma, Michele, Lanotte, Michele Maria, Montano, Nicola, Santonocito, Orazio Santo, Pompucci, Angelo, de Falco, Raffaele, Randi, Franco, Bruscella, Sara, Sartori, Ivana, Signorelli, Francesco, Tosatto, Luigino, Trignani, Roberto, Esposito, Vincenzo, Innocenzi, Gualtiero, Paolini, Sergio, Vitiello, Vincenzo, Cavallo, Michele Alessandro, and Sala, Francesco

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2024
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9. Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy: World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) to the Italian Neurosurgical Society (SINch) Recommendations

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Francesco Costa, Carla Daniela Anania, Umberto Agrillo, Assietti Roberto, Bernucci Claudio, Bistazzoni Simona, Bongetta Daniele, Brembilla Carlo, Cappelletto Barbara, Cocciaro Ardico, Costella Giovanni Battista, De Falco Raffaele, De Rosa Andrea, Del Vecchio Carlo, Dobran Mauro, Fiorenza Vito, Garbossa Diego, Guizzardi Giancarlo, Iaccarino Corrado, Irace Claudio, Incerti Michele, Gualtiero Innocenzi, Landi Alessandro, Lastrucci Giancarlo, Maida Giuseppe, Mastrantuoni Ciro, Maugeri Rosario, Meglio Vincenzo, Montemurro Nicola, Nina Pierpaolo, Parlangeli Andrea, Pinna Giovanni, Pretti Pier Federico, Rapanà Armando, Ricci Alessandro, Rispoli Rossella, Romoli Stefano, Per Filippo Sbaffi, Somma Teresa, Tessitore Enrico, Vitali Matteo, Alberto Zerbi, Zona Gianluigi, and Andrea Barbanera

Subjects
cervical spondylotic myelopathy, recommendations, guidelines, evidence-based medicine, Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system, RC346-429
Abstract

Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) is a progressively growing pathology to afford by a spinal surgeon due to the aging of the population, associated with better treatment management and the best diagnosis and treatment solutions are greatly discussed. Nowadays that scientific literature is progressively increasing to identify the gold standard in diagnosis and treatment can be very challenging. This is particularly evident in spinal surgery with many different indications not only in different countries but also in the same local reality. In this scenario, many neurosurgical societies works to identify some guideline or recommendations to help spinal surgeons in daily practice. Furthermore, in an era in which legal issues are increasingly present in clinical practice to have some indications globally accepted can be very useful. World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) few years ago starts this process creating a list of recommendations originating from a worldwide steering committee to respect all the local reality. The spinal section of Italian Neurosurgical Society decides to adopt the WFNS recommendations with some revision basing on Italian scenario. The steering committee of the Spinal Section of Italian Neurosurgical Society identify 7 groups to review the literature of the last 10 years about different topics on CSM and to analyses the WFNS recommendations to adapt it to the Italian daily practice. The statements were discussed and voted in 2 sessions to obtain the final version. A list of recommendations on natural course and clinical presentation; diagnostic tests; conservative and surgical treatment; anterior, posterior and combined surgical treatment; role of neurophysiological monitoring and follow-up and outcome was created with only few new or revised statements respect the ones of WFNS. The Spine Section of Italian Neurosurgical Society create a list of recommendations that represent the more contemporary treatment concepts for CSM as presented in the highest quality clinical literature and best clinical practices available on this subject.

Published
2023
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10. Measurement of Spin Dynamics in a Layered Nickelate Using X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy: Evidence for Intrinsic Destabilization of Incommensurate Stripes at Low Temperatures

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Ricci, Alessandro, Poccia, Nicola, Campi, Gaetano, Mishra, Shrawan, Müller, Leonard, Joseph, Boby, Shi, Bo, Zozulya, Alexey, Buchholz, Marcel, Trabant, Christoph, Lee, James CT, Viefhaus, Jens, Goedkoop, Jeroen B, Nugroho, Agustinus Agung, Braden, Markus, Roy, Sujoy, Sprung, Michael, and Schüßler-Langeheine, Christian

Subjects
Physical Sciences, Condensed Matter Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Engineering, General Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
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We study the temporal stability of stripe-type spin order in a layered nickelate with x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy and observe fluctuations on timescales of tens of minutes over a wide temperature range. These fluctuations show an anomalous temperature dependence: they slow down at intermediate temperatures and speed up on both heating and cooling. This behavior appears to be directly connected with spatial correlations: stripes fluctuate slowly when stripe correlation lengths are large and become faster when spatial correlations decrease. A low-temperature decay of nickelate stripe correlations, reminiscent of what occurs in cuprates as a result of a competition between stripes and superconductivity, hence occurs via loss of both spatial and temporal correlations.

Published
2021

11. Measurement of spin dynamics in a layered nickelate using x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy: Evidence for intrinsic destabilization of incommensurate stripes at low temperatures

Author

Ricci, Alessandro, Poccia, Nicola, Campi, Gaetano, Mishra, Shrawan, Müller, Leonard, Joseph, Boby, Shi, Bo, Zozulya, Alexey, Buchholz, Marcel, Trabant, Christoph, Lee, James C. T., Viefhaus, Jens, Goedkoop, Jeroen B., Nugroho, Agustinus Agung, Braden, Markus, Roy, Sujoy, Sprung, Michael, and Schüßler-Langeheine, Christian

Subjects
Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract

We study the temporal stability of stripe-type spin order in a layered nickelate with X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy and observe fluctuations on time scales of tens of minutes over a wide temperature range. These fluctuations show an anomalous temperature dependence: they slow down at intermediate temperatures and speed up both upon heating and cooling. This behavior appears to be directly connected with spatial correlations: stripes fluctuate slowly when stripe correlation lengths are large and become faster when spatial correlations decrease. A low-temperature decay of nickelate stripe correlations, reminiscent of what occurs in cuprates due to a competition between stripes and superconductivity, hence occurs via loss of both spatial and temporal correlations., Comment: Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters

Published
2019
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12. A method for minimizing the magnetic cross-talk in twin-aperture cos-theta superconducting dipoles

Author

Ricci, Alessandro Maria and Fabbricatore, Pasquale

Subjects
Physics - Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Applied Physics
Abstract

We present an analytic method to minimize the magnetic cross-talk in twin-aperture cos-theta dipoles. In the single-aperture cos-theta layout, the coil design can be performed with an analytic approach, based on a sector coil approximation. This method allows a fast evaluation of the field harmonics and an almost exhaustive scan on the positions and dimensions of the sectors, for coil layouts made of a different number of sectors. This increases the probabilities to find the coil shape which best fits the specifications. In a twin-aperture arrangement, the magnetic cross-talk can be not negligible and, to the aim of an analytic minimization of the unwanted multipoles, an extension of the single-aperture sector model is required. This is the case of the recombination dipole D2 for the High Luminosity LHC and of the 16-T bending dipole for the Future Circular Collider (FCC). This analytical method has been used to find alternative coil designs for both dipoles., Comment: 10 pages, 11 figures, 5 tables

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2019
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13. Direct Visualization of Spatial inhomogeneity of Spin Stripes Order in La1.72Sr0.28NiO4

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Campi, Gaetano, Poccia, Nicola, Joseph, Boby, Bianconi, Antonio, Mishra, Shrawan, Lee, James, Roy, Sujoy, Nugroho, Agustinus Agung, Buchholz, Marcel, Braden, Markus, Trabant, Christoph, Zozulya, Alexey, Muller, Leonard, Viefhaus, Jens, Schussler-Langeheine, Christian, Sprung, Michael, and Ricci, Alessandro

Subjects
Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics, Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract

In several strongly correlated electron systems, defects, charge and local lattice distortions are found to show complex inhomogeneous spatial distributions. There is growing evidence that such inhomogeneity plays a fundamental role in unique functionality of quantum complex materials. La1.72Sr0.28NiO4 is a prototypical strongly correlated material showing spin striped order associated with lattice and charge modulations. In this work we present the spatial distribution of the spin organization by applying micro X-ray diffraction to La1.72Sr0.28NiO4, mapping the spin-density-wave order below the 120K onset temperature. We find that the spin-density-wave order shows the formation of nanoscale puddles with large spatial fluctuations. The nano-puddle density changes on the microscopic scale forming a multiscale phase separation extending from nanoscale to micron scale with scale-free distribution. Indeed spin-density-wave striped puddles are disconnected by spatial regions with different stripe orientation or negligible spin-density-wave order. The present work highlights the complex nanoscale phase separation of spin stripes in nickelate perovskites and opens the question of the energetics at domain interfaces, Comment: 12 pages, 2 figures

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2019
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14. Magnetic design of twin aperture cos-theta superconducting dipoles with a semi-analytic approach

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Ricci, Alessandro Maria, Fabbricatore, Pasquale, and Farinon, Stefania

Subjects
Physics - Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Applied Physics
Abstract

The magnetic design is a basic aspect of the superconducting magnets for particle accelerators. When dealing with single aperture cos-theta type dipoles, at the first order, the design can be performed with an analytic approach based on a sector dipole approximation followed by a numerical optimization. For double aperture dipoles the magnetic cross-talk between apertures makes this approach unfeasible. We have developed a semi-analytic model, which starting from a sector dipole approximation, allows to consider the cross-talk between the two apertures. We also demonstrate that the iron yoke contribution to harmonics, although dominant, does not change the optimal configuration found in its absence. As examples, we show two possible electromagnetic designs for the D2 dipole of the High Luminosity upgrade of LHC. The semi-analytic model can be generalized to a larger class of magnets., Comment: 7 pages, 8 figures

Published
2019

20. Medusa, a multithread 4-body decay fitting and simulation software

Author

Ricci Alessandro Maria, Alves Junior Antonio Augusto, Brundu Davide, Contu Andrea, Dordei Francesca, and Muzzetto Piera

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

We present a new C++14 compliant application to perform physics data analyses of generic 4-body decays in massively parallel platforms. Medusa is highly based on Hydra, a header-only library which hides most of the complexities of writing parallel code for different architectures. Medusa has been tested through the measurement of the CP-violating phase ϕsin b-hadron decays exploiting the data collected by the LHCb experiment. Medusa executes the optimization of the full model, running over 500000 events, until 330 times faster than a non-parallelized program. Medusa is freely available on GitHub under GPL v.3.0 license.

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2024
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21. Nanoscale correlated disorder in out-of-equilibrium myelin ultrastructure

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Campi, Gaetano, Di Gioacchino, Michael, Poccia, Nicola, Ricci, Alessandro, Burghammer, Manfred, Ciasca, Gabriele, and Bianconi, Antonio

Subjects
Physics - Biological Physics, Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract

Ultrastructural fluctuations at nanoscale are fundamental to assess properties and functionalities of advanced out-of-equilibrium materials. We have taken myelin as a model of supramolecular assembly in out-of-equilibrium living matter. Myelin sheath is a simple stable multi-lamellar structure of high relevance and impact in biomedicine. Although it is known that myelin has a quasi-crystalline ultrastructure there is no information on its fluctuations at nanoscale in different states due to limitations of the available standard techniques. To overcome these limitations, we have used Scanning micro X-ray Diffraction, which is a non-invasive probe of both reciprocal and real space to visualize statistical fluctuations of myelin order of the sciatic nerve of Xenopus Laevis. The results show that the ultrastructure period of the myelin is stabilized by large anti-correlated fluctuations at nanoscale, between hydrophobic and hydrophilic layers. The ratio between the total thickness of hydrophilic and hydrophobic layers defines the conformational parameter, which describes the different states of myelin. Our key result is that myelin in its out-of-equilibrium functional state fluctuates point-to-point between different conformations showing a correlated disorder described by a Levy distribution. As the system approaches the thermodynamic equilibrium in an aged state the disorder loses its correlation degree and the structural fluctuation distribution changes to Gaussian. In a denatured state at low pH, it changes to a completely disordered stage. Our results clarify also the degradation mechanism in biological systems by associating these states with variation of the ultrastructural dynamic fluctuations at nanoscale., Comment: 21 pages, 6 fugures

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2017
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23. Casemix, management, and mortality of patients receiving emergency neurosurgery for traumatic brain injury in the Global Neurotrauma Outcomes Study: a prospective observational cohort study

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Abbas, Ghayur, Abdallah, Omar Ibrahim, Abdel-Lateef, Ahmed, Abdifatah, Khalif, Abdullateef, Awfa, Abeygunaratne, Ruvini, Aboellil, Mostafa, Adam, Abass, Adams, Robert, Adeleye, Amos, Adeolu, Augustine, Adji, Novan Krisno, Afianti, Nur, Agarwal, Sudarsan, Aghadi, Ifeanyi Kene, Aguilar, Paúl Martín Méndez, Ahmad, Syeda Rida, Ahmed, Daniyal, Ahmed, Nafees, Aizaz, Haider, Aji, Yunus Kuntawi, Alamri, Alex, Alberto, Augusto Jacinto Mussindo, Alcocer, Luis Alcocer, Alfaro, Lesly Gonzales, Al-Habib, Amro, Alhourani, Ahmad, Ali, Syed Muhammad Rafay, Alkherayf, Fahad, AlMenabbawy, Ahmed, Alshareef, Aliyah, Aminullah, Muhammad Adil s/o, Amjad, Madeha, Amorim, Robson Luis Oliveira de, Anbazhagan, Sathiaprabhu, Andrade, Almir, Antar, Waleed, Anyomih, Theophilus T.K., Aoun, Salah, Apriawan, Tedy, Armocida, Daniele, Arnold, Paul, Arraez, Miguel, Assefa, Temesgen, Asser, Andres, Athiththan, S.P., Attanayake, Deepal, Aung, Maung Maung, Avi, Allan, Ayala, Victor Enrique Antolinez, Azab, Mohammed, Azam, Gaousul, Azharuddin, Mohd, Badejo, Olukemi, Badran, Mohamed, Baig, Azam Ali, Baig, Rehman Ali, Bajaj, Ankur, Baker, Paul, Bala, Renu, Balasa, Artur, Balchin, Ross, Balogun, James, Ban, Vin Shen, Bandi, Bharath Kumar Reddy, Bandyopadhyay, Soham, Bank, Matthew, Barthelemy, Ernest, Bashir, Mohammed Talha, Basso, Luciano Silveira, Basu, Surajit, Batista, Auricelio, Bauer, Marlies, Bavishi, Devi, Beane, Abi, Bejell, Shmuel, Belachew, Anteneh, Belli, Antonio, Belouaer, Amani, Bendahane, Najia El Abbadi, Benjamin, Okanga, Benslimane, Youssef, Benyaiche, Chaymae, Bernucci, Claudio, Berra, Luigi Valentino, Bhebe, Arnold, Bimpis, Alexios, Blanaru, Diana, Bonfim, Jean Claude, Borba, Luis A B, Borcek, Alp Ozgun, Borotto, Erika, Bouhuwaish, Ahmad Elmabri Mohammad, Bourilhon, Facundo, Brachini, Gioia, Breedon, Joshua, Broger, Maximilian, Brunetto, Giacoma Maria Floriana, Bruzzaniti, Placido, Budohoska, Natalia, Burhan, Hira, Calatroni, Maximiliano Luis, Camargo, Catherine, Cappai, Pier Francesco, Cardali, Salvatore Massimiliano, Castaño-Leon, Ana M, Cederberg, David, Celaya, Mikel, Cenzato, Marco, Challa, Lakshmi Madhavi, Charest, Dhanny, Chaurasia, Bipin, Chenna, Rabah, Cherian, Iype, Ching'o, Juliana Henry, Chotai, Tejas, Choudhary, Ajay, Choudhary, Nabeel, Choumin, Florence, Cigic, Tomislav, Ciro, Juan, Conti, Carlo, Corrêa, Antônio Carlos de Souza, Cossu, Giulia, Couto, Maíra Piani, Cruz, Aurora, D'Silva, Divya, D'Aliberti, Giuseppe Antonio, Dampha, Lamin, Daniel, Roy Thomas, Dapaah, Andrew, Darbar, Aneela, Dascalu, Gabriel, Dauda, Happy Amos, Davies, Owain, Delgado-Babiano, Andrea, Dengl, Markus, Despotovic, Marko, Devi, Indira, Dias, Celeste, Dirar, Mohamed, Dissanayake, Melina, Djimbaye, Hananiah, Dockrell, Simon, Dolachee, Ali, Dolgopolova, Julija, Dolgun, Muge, Dow, Abdalrouf, Drusiani, Davide, Dugan, Artjom, Duong, Dinh Tuan, Duong, Trung Kien, Dziedzic, Tomasz, Ebrahim, Ali, El Fatemi, Nizar, El Helou, Antonios El, El Maaqili, Rachid El, El Mostarchid, Brahim El, El Ouahabi, Abdessamad El, Elbaroody, Mohammad, El-Fiki, Ahmed, El-Garci, Ahmed, El-Ghandour, Nasser M.F., Elhadi, Muhammed, Elleder, Vanessa, Elrais, Safa, El-shazly, Mohamed, Elshenawy, Mohamed, Elshitany, Hesham, El-Sobky, Omar, Emhamed, Marwa, Enicker, Basil, Erdogan, Onur, Ertl, Sebastian, Esene, Ignatius, Espinosa, Omar Ocampo, Fadalla, Tarig, Fadelalla, Mohammed, Faleiro, Rodrigo Moreira, Fatima, Nida, Fawaz, Charbel, Fentaw, Assefa, Fernandez, Carla Eiriz, Ferreira, Ana, Ferri, Francesco, Figaji, Tony, Filho, Emerson L B, Fin, Loic, Fisher, Benjamin, Fitra, Fitra, Flores, Alexis Palpan, Florian, Ioan Stefan, Fontana, Vincenzo, Ford, Lauren, Fountain, Daniel, Frade, Jose Maria Roda, Fratto, Antonio, Freyschlag, Christian, Gabin, Aranzazu Sánchez, Gallagher, Clare, Ganau, Mario, Gandia-Gonzalez, Maria Luisa, Garcia, Andoni, Garcia, Borja Hernandez, Garusinghe, Sanjeewa, Gebreegziabher, Biniam, Gelb, Adrian, George, Jerome St, Germanò, Antonino Francesco, Ghetti, Ilaria, Ghimire, Prajwal, Giammarusti, Alessandro, Gil, Jose Luis, Gkolia, Panagiota, Godebo, Yoseph, Gollapudi, Prakash Rao, Golubovic, Jagos, Gomes, Jeremias Fernando, Gonzales, Javier, Gormley, William, Gots, Alexander, Gribaudi, Giulia Letizia, Griswold, Dylan, Gritti, Paolo, Grobler, Ruan, Gunawan, Rudy, Hailemichael, Birhanu, Hakkou, Elmehdi, Haley, Mark, Hamdan, Alhafidz, Hammed, Ali, Hamouda, Waeel, Hamzah, Nurul Ashikin, Han, Nyein Latt, Hanalioglu, Sahin, Haniffa, Rashan, Hanko, Martin, Hanrahan, John, Hardcastle, Timothy, Hassani, Fahd Derkaoui, Heidecke, Volkmar, Helseth, Eirik, Hernández-Hernández, Miguel Ángel, Hickman, Zachary, Hoang, Le Minh Chau, Hollinger, Alexa, Horakova, Lenka, Hossain-Ibrahim, Kismet, Hou, Boru, Hoz, Samer, Hsu, Janine, Hunn, Martin, Hussain, Madiha, Iacopino, Giorgia, Ideta, Mylena Miki Lopes, Iglesias, Irene, Ilunga, Ali, Imtiaz, Nafiz, Islam, Rafiza, Ivashchenko, Serge, Izirouel, Karim, Jabal, Mohamed Sobhi, Jabal, Soubhi, Jabang, John Nute, Jamjoom, Aimun, Jan, Irfan, Jarju, Landing BM, Javed, Saad, Jelaca, Bojan, Jhawar, Sukhdeep Singh, Jiang, Ting Ting, Jimenez, Fernando, Jiris, Jorge, Jithoo, Ron, Johnson, Walt, Joseph, Mathew, Joshi, Rameshman, Junttila, Eija, Jusabani, Mubashir, Kache, Stephen Akau, Kadali, Satyavara Prasad, Kalkmann, Gabriela F, Kamboh, Usman, Kandel, Hitham, Karakus, Ahmet Kamil, Kassa, Mengistu, Katila, Ari, Kato, Yoko, Keba, Martin, Kehoe, Kristy, Kertmen, Huseyin Hayri, Khafaji, Soha, Khajanchi, Monty, Khan, Mohammed, Khan, Muhammad Mukhtar, Khan, Sohail Daud, Khizar, Ahtesham, Khriesh, Amir, Kierońska, Sara, Kisanga, Paul, Kivevele, Boniface, Koczyk, Kacper, Koerling, Anna-Lucia, Koffenberger, Danielle, Kõiv, Kennet, Kõiv, Leho, Kolarovszki, Branislav, König, Marton, Könü-Leblebicioglu, Dilek, Koppala, Santhoshi Devi, Korhonen, Tommi, Kostkiewicz, Boguslaw, Kostyra, Kacper, Kotakadira, Srinivas, Kotha, Arjun Reddy, Kottakki, Madhu Narayana Rao, Krajcinovic, Nenad, Krakowiak, Michal, Kramer, Andreas, Krishnamoorthy, Selvamuthukumaran, Kumar, Ashok, Kumar, Pankaj, Kumar, Pradhumna, Kumarasinghe, Nilaksha, Kuncha, Gowtham, Kutty, Raja K., Laeke, Tsegazeab, Lafta, Ghazwan, Lammy, Simon, Lapolla, Pierfrancesco, Lardani, Jacopo, Lasica, Nebojsa, Lastrucci, Giancarlo, Launey, Yoann, Lavalle, Laura, Lawrence, Tim, Lazaro, Albert, Lebed, Vitalii, Leinonen, Ville, Lemeri, Lawrence, Levi, Leon, Lim, Jia Yi, Lim, Xiao Yi, Linares-Torres, Jorge, Lippa, Laura, Lisboa, Lurdes, Liu, Jinfang, Liu, Ziyuan, Lo, William B, Lodin, Jan, Loi, Federico, Londono, Daniella, Lopez, Pedro Antonio Gomez, López, Cristina Barceló, Lotbiniere-Bassett, Madeleine De, Lulens, Rihards, Luna, Facundo Hector, Luoto, Teemu, M.V., Vijaya Sekhar, Mabovula, Ndyebo, MacAllister, Matthew, Macie, Alcina Americo, Maduri, Rodolfo, Mahfoud, Moufid, Mahmood, Ashraf, Mahmoud, Fathia, Mahoney, Dominic, Makhlouf, Wissam, Malcolm, George, Malomo, Adefolarin, Malomo, Toluyemi, Mani, Manoranjitha Kumari, Marçal, Tomás Gazzinelli, Marchello, Jacopo, Marchesini, Nicolò, Marhold, Franz, Marklund, Niklas, Martín-Láez, Rubén, Mathaneswaran, Vickneswaran, Mato-Mañas, David José, Maye, Helen, McLean, Aaron Lawson, McMahon, Catherine, Mediratta, Saniya, Mehboob, Mehreen, Meneses, Alisson, Mentri, Nesrine, Mersha, Hagos, Mesa, Ana Milena, Meyer, Cristy, Millward, Christopher, Mimbir, Salomao Amone, Mingoli, Andrea, Mishra, Parashruram, Mishra, Tejesh, Misra, Basant, Mittal, Siddharth, Mohammed, Imran, Moldovan, Ioana, Molefe, Masechaba, Moles, Alexis, Moodley, Preston, Morales, Mario Augusto Narváez, Morgan, Lucy, Morillo, German Del Castillo, Moustafa, Wahab, Moustakis, Nikolaos, Mrichi, Salma, Munjal, Satya Shiva, Muntaka, Abdul-Jalilu Mohammed, Naicker, Denver, Nakashima, Paulo E H, Nandigama, Pratap Kumar, Nash, Samantha, Negoi, Ionut, Negoita, Valetina, Neupane, Samundra, Nguyen, Manh Hung, Niantiarno, Fajar Herbowo, Noble, Abbi, Nor, Mohd Arman Muhamad, Nowak, Blazej, Oancea, Andrei, O'Brien, Frazer, Okere, Oghenekevwe, Olaya, Sandra, Oliveira, Leandro, Oliveira, Louise Makarem, Omar, Fatma, Ononeme, Okezi, Opšenák, René, Orlandini, Simone, Osama, Alrobah, Osei-Poku, Dorcas, Osman, Haytham, Otero, Alvaro, Ottenhausen, Malte, Otzri, Shuli, Outani, Oumaima, Owusu, Emmanuel Abem, Owusu-Agyemang, Kevin, Ozair, Ahmad, Ozoner, Baris, Paal, Elli, Paiva, Mauro Sérgio, Paiva, Wellingson, Pandey, Sharad, Pansini, Gastone, Pansini, Luigi, Pantel, Tobias, Pantelas, Nikolaos, Papadopoulos, Konstantinos, Papic, Vladimir, Park, Kee, Park, Nick, Paschoal, Eric Homero Albuquerque, Paschoalino, Mylla Christie de Oliveira, Pathi, Rajesh, Peethambaran, Anilkumar, Pereira, Thiago Andrade, Perez, Irene Panero, Pérez, Claudio José Piqueras, Periyasamy, Tamilanandh, Peron, Stefano, Phillips, Michael, Picazo, Sofía Sotos, Pinar, Ertugrul, Pinggera, Daniel, Piper, Rory, Pirakash, Pathmanesan, Popadic, Branko, Posti, Jussi P., Prabhakar, Rajmohan Bhanu, Pradeepan, Sivanesalingam, Prasad, Manjunath, Prieto, Paola Calvachi, Prince, Ron, Prontera, Andrea, Provaznikova, Eva, Quadros, Danilo, Quintero, Nezly Jadid Romero, Qureshi, Mahmood, Rabiel, Happiness, Rada, Gabriel, Ragavan, Sivagnanam, Rahman, Jueria, Ramadhan, Omar, Ramaswamy, Padma, Rashid, Sakina, Rathugamage, Jagath, Rätsep, Tõnu, Rauhala, Minna, Raza, Asif, Reddycherla, Naga Raju, Reen, Linus, Refaat, Mohamed, Regli, Luca, Ren, Haijun, Ria, Antonio, Ribeiro, Thales Francisco, Ricci, Alessandro, Richterová, Romana, Ringel, Florian, Robertson, Faith, Rocha, Catarina Mayrink Siqueira Cabral, Rogério, Juvenal de Souza, Romano, Adan Anibal, Rothemeyer, Sally, Rousseau, Gail Rousseau Gail, Roza, Ranette, Rueda, Kevin David Farelo, Ruiz, Raiza, Rundgren, Malin, Rzeplinski, Radoslaw, S.Chandran, Raj, Sadayandi, Ramesh Andi, Sage, William, Sagerer, André Norbert Josef, Sakar, Mustafa, Salami, Mohcine, Sale, Danjuma, Saleh, Youssuf, Sánchez-Viguera, Cristina, Sandila, Saning'o, Sanli, Ahmet Metin, Santi, Laura, Santoro, Antonio, Santos, Aieska Kellen Dantas Dos, Santos, Samir Cezimbra dos, Sanz, Borja, Sapkota, Shabal, Sasidharan, Gopalakrishnan, Sasillo, Ibrahim, Satoskar, Rajeev, Sayar, Ali Caner, Sayee, Vignesh, Scheichel, Florian, Schiavo, Felipe Lourenzon, Schupper, Alexander, Schwarz, Andreas, Scott, Teresa, Seeberger, Esther, Segundo, Claudionor Nogueira Costa, Seidu, Anwar Sadat, Selfa, Antonio, Selmi, Nazan Has, Selvarajah, Claudiya, Şengel, Necmiye, Seule, Martin, Severo, Luiz, Shah, Purva, Shahzad, Muhammad, Shangase, Thobekile, Sharma, Mayur, Shiban, Ehab, Shimber, Emnet, Shokunbi, Temitayo, Siddiqui, Kaynat, Sieg, Emily, Siegemund, Martin, Sikder, Shahidur Rahman, Silva, Ana Cristina Veiga, Silva, Ana, Silva, Pedro Alberto, Singh, Deepinder, Skadden, Carly, Skola, Josef, Skouteli, Eirini, Słoniewski, Pawel, Smith, Brandon, Solanki, Guirish, Solla, Davi Fontoura, Solla, Davi, Sonmez, Ozcan, Sönmez, Müge, Soon, Wai Cheong, Stefini, Roberto, Stienen, Martin Nikolaus, Stoica, Bogdan, Stovell, Matthew, Suarez, Maria Natalia, Sulaiman, Alaa, Suliman, Mazin, Sulistyanto, Adi, Sulubulut, Şeniz, Sungailaite, Sandra, Surbeck, Madlen, Szmuda, Tomasz, Taddei, Graziano, Tadele, Abraham, Taher, Ahmed Saleh Ahmed, Takala, Riikka, Talari, Krishna Murthy, Tan, Bih Huei, Tariciotti, Leonardo, Tarmohamed, Murad, Taroua, Oumayma, Tatti, Emiliano, Tenovuo, Olli, Tetri, Sami, Thakkar, Poojan, Thango, Nqobile, Thatikonda, Satish Kumar, Thesleff, Tuomo, Thomé, Claudius, Thornton, Owen, Timmons, Shelly, Timoteo, Eva Ercilio, Tingate, Campbell, Tliba, Souhil, Tolias, Christos, Toman, Emma, Torres, Ivan, Torres, Luis, Touissi, Youness, Touray, Musa, Tropeano, Maria Pia, Tsermoulas, Georgios, Tsitsipanis, Christos, Turkoglu, Mehmet Erhan, Uçkun, Özhan Merzuk, Ullman, Jamie, Ungureanu, Gheorghe, Urasa, Sarah, Ur-Rehman, Obaid, Uysal, Muhammed, Vakis, Antonios, Valeinis, Egils, Valluru, Vaishali, Vannoy, Debby, Vargas, Pablo, Varotsis, Phillipos, Varshney, Rahul, Vats, Atul, Veljanoski, Damjan, Venturini, Sara, Verma, Abhijit, Villa, Clara, Villa, Genaro, Villar, Sofia, Villard, Erin, Viruez, Antonio, Voglis, Stefanos, Vulekovic, Petar, Wadanamby, Saman, Wagner, Katherine, Walshe, Rebecca, Walter, Jan, Waseem, Marriam, Whitworth, Tony, Wijeyekoon, Ruwani, Williams, Adam, Wilson, Mark, Win, Sein, Winarso, Achmad Wahib Wahju, Ximenes, Abraão Wagner Pessoa, Yadav, Anurag, Yadav, Dipak, Yakoub, Kamal Makram, Yalcinkaya, Ali, Yan, Guizhong, Yaqoob, Eesha, Yepes, Carlos, Yılmaz, Ayfer Nazmiye, Yishak, Betelehem, Yousuf, Farhat Basheer, Zahari, Muhammad Zamzuri, Zakaria, Hussein, Zambonin, Diego, Zavatto, Luca, Zebian, Bassel, Zeitlberger, Anna Maria, Zhang, Furong, Zheng, Fengwei, Ziga, Michal, Clark, David, Joannides, Alexis, Adeleye, Amos Olufemi, Bajamal, Abdul Hafid, Bashford, Tom, Biluts, Hagos, Budohoski, Karol, Ercole, Ari, Fernández-Méndez, Rocío, Figaji, Anthony, Gupta, Deepak Kumar, Härtl, Roger, Iaccarino, Corrado, Khan, Tariq, Rubiano, Andrés, Shabani, Hamisi K, Sichizya, Kachinga, Tewari, Manoj, Tirsit, Abenezer, Thu, Myat, Tripathi, Manjul, Trivedi, Rikin, Devi, Bhagavatula Indira, Servadei, Franco, Menon, David, Kolias, Angelos, and Hutchinson, Peter

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2022
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25. X-rays writing/reading of Charge Density Waves in the CuO2 plane of a simple cuprate superconductor

Author

Campi, Gaetano, Ricci, Alessandro, Poccia, Nicola, Fratini, Michela, and Bianconi, Antonio

Subjects
Condensed Matter - Superconductivity
Abstract

It is now well established that superconductivity in cuprates competes with charge modulations giving electronic phase separation at a nanoscale. More specifically, superconducting electronic current takes root in the available free space left by electronic charge ordered domains, called charge density wave (CDW) puddles. This means that CDW domain arrangement plays a fundamental role in the mechanism of high temperature superconductivity in cuprates. Here we report about the possibility of controlling the population and spatial organization of the charge density wave puddles in a single crystal La2CuO4+y through X - ray illumination and thermal treatments. We apply a pump - probe method based on X - ray illumination as pump and X - ray diffraction as a probe setting a writing and reading procedure of CDW puddles. Our findings are expected to allow new routes for advanced design and manipulation of superconducting pathways in new electronics., Comment: 11 Pages 4 figures

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2017
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26. Gender disparity in access to advanced therapies for patients with Parkinson's disease: a retrospective real-word study.

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Maccarrone, Giuseppe, Saporito, Gennaro, Sucapane, Patrizia, Rizi, Chiara, Bruno, Federico, Catalucci, Alessia, Letizia Pistoia, Maria, Splendiani, Alessandra, Ricci, Alessandro, Di Cesare, Ernesto, Rizzo, Marina, Totaro, Rocco, and Pistoia, Francesca

Subjects
DEEP brain stimulation, PARKINSON'S disease, SUBCUTANEOUS infusions, GENDER inequality, DISEASE duration
Abstract

Background: Gender differences in the access to advanced therapies for Parkinson's disease (PD) are poorly investigated. Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the presence of any gender disparity in the access to advanced therapies for PD. Design: Retrospective study. Methods: Data from patients with consistent access to the Parkinson's and Movement Disorder Center of L'Aquila over the last 10-year period were screened. Patients selected for advanced therapies were included. Results: Out of 1,252 patients, 200 (mean age ± SD 71.02 ± 9.70; 72% males; median Hoen Yahr level: 3, minimum 1 maximum 5) were selected for advanced therapies: 133 for Magnetic Resonance guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) thalamotomy (mean age ± SD 70.0 ± 8.9; 77% males), 49 for Levodopa/Carbidopa Intestinal Gel (LCIG) infusion (mean age ± SD 74.3 ± 11.4; 59% males), 12 for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) (mean age ± SD 71.2 ± 6.3; 75% males), and 7 for Continuous Subcutaneous Apomorphine Infusion (CSAI) (mean age ± SD 69.7 ± 5.5; 43% males). No sex differences were found in relation to age (MRgFUS group: males vs. females 70.2 ± 8.9 vs. 70.8 ± 8.9, p-value = 0.809; LCIG group: males vs. females 73.5 ± 13.0 vs. 75.5 ± 8.5, p-value = 0.557; DBS group: males vs. females 77.2 ± 8.1 vs. 67.3 ± 8.6, p-value = 0.843; CSAI group: males vs. females 73.3 ± 4.0 vs. 67.0 ± 5.2, p-value = 0.144) and disease duration (MRgFUS group: males vs. females 8.3 ± 4.4 vs. 9.6 ± 6.7, p-value = 0.419; LCIG group: males vs. females 14.5 ± 5.81 vs. 17.3 ± 5.5; p-value = 0.205; DBS group: males vs. females 15.0 ± 9.6 vs. 15.5 ± 7.7, p-value = 0.796; CSAI group: males vs. females 11.7 ± 3.7 vs. 10.3 ± 3.7, p-value = 0.505). Conclusion: The predominance of males is higher than that expected based on the higher prevalence of PD in men. Women are less confident in selecting advanced therapies during the natural progression of their disease. Factors accounting for this discrepancy deserve further investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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27. Effect of type of anticoagulant, transportation time, and glucose in the culture media on neutrophil viability and function test results in dairy cattle.

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Chandrappa, Sanjana Malledevarahalli, Xie, Lei, Andueza, Sebastian Gonzalez, Sadeghi, Hafez, Rashid, Muhammad Hussnain, Niazi, Mehrnaz, Qiao, Kaixi, Dong, Qiang, Vincenti, Leila, Ricci, Alessandro, Pascottini, Osvaldo Bogado, and Opsomer, Geert

Subjects
REFRIGERATED containers, DAIRY cattle, BLOOD sampling, DEXTROSE, FLOW cytometry, ETHYLENEDIAMINETETRAACETIC acid
Abstract

In dairy cattle research, in vitro assessment of innate immune function is commonly evaluated by flow cytometry via the quantitative analysis of circulating polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) functionalities specifically focusing on the capacities for phagocytosis (PC) and oxidative burst (OB). Variations in these PMN functions, however, may not only be influenced by the health status of the animals but also by technical, non-animal related factors. Our objectives were to assess the PMN viability, PC and OB capacities from blood samples collected in tubes coated with different anticoagulants (acid citrate dextrose (ACD) and ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA)) and stored for 0, 3, 6, 9, and 12 h at 4°C (to mimic transportation timeframe). Furthermore, we evaluated the PMN functionalities (PC and OB) in samples incubated in culture medium with glucose (7.2 mM) versus no glucose. Over five replicates, coccygeal blood samples were collected from three nulliparous Holstein heifers (5 ACD and 5 EDTA per heifer) and allocated in a refrigerated container (4°C) for 0, 3, 6, 9, and 12 h. At each time point, PMN were isolated using gradient centrifugation. Immunolabeled PMN (CH138A) were subjected to a tricolor fluorescent staining to evaluate their viability (viable, apoptotic, and necrotic PMN). Phagocytosis and OB were assessed by incubating PMN with fluorescent beads and by phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate stimulation, respectively. The effects of anticoagulant type, storage time, and presence of glucose in the culture medium on PMN viability and function parameters were fitted in mixed linear regression models. The proportion of viable PMN at 0 h was similar for ACD and EDTA (92 ± 4.6% and 93 ± 4.6%, respectively) but it decreased to 78 ± 4.6% for ACD and 79 ± 4.6% for EDTA after 6 h of storage. The proportion of viable PMN was not different between ACD and EDTA at any time point. The proportion of PMN that engulfed beads (PC percentage) and the PC median fluorescence intensity (MFI) reached their highest value after 3 h of storage compared with the other time points. However, the anticoagulant type (ACD versus EDTA) and the presence of glucose in the culture medium did not influence these PC parameters. Oxidative burst MFI was higher in PMN incubated in glucose-supplemented culture medium versus no glucose. We demonstrated that technical factors interfere with the evaluation of PMN viability and functionality, which can potentially lead to bias in the findings of a research hypothesis. To conclude, the present study showed that the optimal timeframe for performing PMN function analyses is within 3 hours after blood sampling. Furthermore, the presence of 7.2 mM glucose in the culture medium, a common concentration in formulation of cell culture medium, increases the in vitro OB capacity, potentially masking any impairments in in vivo PMN dysfunctionality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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28. Lattice, Charge and Spin phase inhomogeneity in complex striped quantum matter

Author

Bianconi, Antonio and Ricci, Alessandro

Subjects
Condensed Matter - Superconductivity
Abstract

The Superstripes 2016 conference, held on June 23-29, 2016 in the island of Ischia in Italy celebrated the 20th anniversary of this series of conferences. For 20 years structural, electronic, and magnetic phase inhomogeneities in quantum matter have been the scientific focus for a growing physics community interested in complexity in quantum matter. It has been the meeting point for different scientific communities facing the challenging project to unveil the complex space and time landscapes in quantum matter. The interesting spatial inhomogeneity length scale of multiple coexisting phase ranges from atomic to mesoscopic and the time fluctuations are spread over multiple time scales. The response of these materials changes using different experimental techniques with different spatial and time resolution probing different aspects of the quantum complexity., Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure, Int. Conf. Superstripes 2016, Ischia, italy June 23-29, 2016

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2016
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29. Dislocations as a boundary between charge density wave and oxygen rich phases in a cuprate high temperature superconductor

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Poccia, Nicola, Ricci, Alessandro, Campi, Gaetano, and Bianconi, Antonio

Subjects
Condensed Matter - Superconductivity
Abstract

Multiple functional ionic and electronic orders are observed in high temperature superconducting cuprates. The charge density wave order is one of them and it is spatially localized in spatial regions of the material. It is also known that the oxygen interstitials introduced by chemical intercalation self-organize in different oxygen rich regions corresponding with hole rich regions in the Cu$O_2$ layers left empty by the charge density wave order domains. However, what happens in between these two order is not known, and neither there is a method to control this spatial separation. Here we demonstrate by using scanning nano X-ray diffraction, that dislocations or grain boundaries in the material can act as boundary between charge density wave and oxygen rich phases in a optimally doped La$_2$CuO$_4$$_+$$_y$ high temperature superconductor. Dislocations can be used therefore to control the anti-correlation of the charge density wave order with the oxygen interstitials in specific portion of the material., Comment: 5 pages, 2 Figures

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2016
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30. Tuple-Based Coordination in Large-Scale Situated Systems

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Casadei, Roberto, Viroli, Mirko, Ricci, Alessandro, Audrito, Giorgio, Goos, Gerhard, Founding Editor, Hartmanis, Juris, Founding Editor, Bertino, Elisa, Editorial Board Member, Gao, Wen, Editorial Board Member, Steffen, Bernhard, Editorial Board Member, Woeginger, Gerhard, Editorial Board Member, Yung, Moti, Editorial Board Member, Damiani, Ferruccio, editor, and Dardha, Ornela, editor

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2021
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31. Engineering World-Wide Multi-Agent Systems with Hypermedia

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Ciortea, Andrei, Boissier, Olivier, Ricci, Alessandro, Goos, Gerhard, Founding Editor, Hartmanis, Juris, Founding Editor, Bertino, Elisa, Editorial Board Member, Gao, Wen, Editorial Board Member, Steffen, Bernhard, Editorial Board Member, Woeginger, Gerhard, Editorial Board Member, Yung, Moti, Editorial Board Member, Weyns, Danny, editor, Mascardi, Viviana, editor, and Ricci, Alessandro, editor

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2019
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32. AgentSpeak(ER): Enhanced Encapsulation in Agent Plans

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Ricci, Alessandro, Bordini, Rafael H., Hübner, Jomi F., Collier, Rem, Goos, Gerhard, Founding Editor, Hartmanis, Juris, Founding Editor, Bertino, Elisa, Editorial Board Member, Gao, Wen, Editorial Board Member, Steffen, Bernhard, Editorial Board Member, Woeginger, Gerhard, Editorial Board Member, Yung, Moti, Editorial Board Member, Weyns, Danny, editor, Mascardi, Viviana, editor, and Ricci, Alessandro, editor

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2019
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33. The “state of the art” of intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring: An Italian survey

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Ricciuti, Riccardo Antonio, primary, Mancini, Fabrizio, additional, Guzzi, Giusy, additional, Marruzzo, Daniele, additional, Dario, Alessandro, additional, Puppa, Alessandro della, additional, Ricci, Alessandro, additional, Barbanera, Andrea, additional, Talacchi, Andrea, additional, Schwarz, Andreas, additional, Germanò, Antonino, additional, Raco, Antonino, additional, Colamaria, Antonio, additional, Santoro, Antonio, additional, Boccaletti, Riccardo, additional, Conti, Carlo, additional, Cenci, Nunzia, additional, Cossandi, Christian, additional, Bernucci, Claudio, additional, Lucantoni, Corrado, additional, Costella, Giovanni Battista, additional, Garbossa, Diego, additional, Zotta, Donato Carlo, additional, De Gonda, Federico, additional, Esposito, Felice, additional, Giordano, Flavio, additional, D'Andrea, Giancarlo, additional, Piatelli, Gianluca, additional, Zona, Gianluigi, additional, Spena, Giannantonio, additional, Tringali, Giovanni, additional, Barbagallo, Giuseppe, additional, Giussani, Carlo, additional, Gladi, Maurizio, additional, Landi, Andrea, additional, Lavano, Angelo, additional, Morabito, Letterio, additional, Mastronardi, Luciano, additional, Locatelli, Marco, additional, D'Agruma, Michele, additional, Lanotte, Michele Maria, additional, Montano, Nicola, additional, Santonocito, Orazio Santo, additional, Pompucci, Angelo, additional, de Falco, Raffaele, additional, Randi, Franco, additional, Bruscella, Sara, additional, Sartori, Ivana, additional, Signorelli, Francesco, additional, Tosatto, Luigino, additional, Trignani, Roberto, additional, Esposito, Vincenzo, additional, Innocenzi, Gualtiero, additional, Paolini, Sergio, additional, Vitiello, Vincenzo, additional, Cavallo, Michele Alessandro, additional, and Sala, Francesco, additional

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2024
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36. Exploiting Simulation for MAS Development and Execution—The JaCaMo-Sim Approach

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Ricci, Alessandro, Croatti, Angelo, Bordini, Rafael H., Hübner, Jomi F., Boissier, Olivier, Goos, Gerhard, Founding Editor, Hartmanis, Juris, Founding Editor, Bertino, Elisa, Editorial Board Member, Gao, Wen, Editorial Board Member, Steffen, Bernhard, Editorial Board Member, Woeginger, Gerhard, Editorial Board Member, Yung, Moti, Editorial Board Member, Baroglio, Cristina, editor, Hubner, Jomi F., editor, and Winikoff, Michael, editor

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2020
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37. From Virtual Worlds to Mirror Worlds: A Model and Platform for Building Agent-Based eXtended Realities

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Croatti, Angelo, Ricci, Alessandro, Goos, Gerhard, Founding Editor, Hartmanis, Juris, Founding Editor, Bertino, Elisa, Editorial Board Member, Gao, Wen, Editorial Board Member, Steffen, Bernhard, Editorial Board Member, Woeginger, Gerhard, Editorial Board Member, Yung, Moti, Editorial Board Member, Bassiliades, Nick, editor, Chalkiadakis, Georgios, editor, and de Jonge, Dave, editor

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2020
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38. From Programming Agents to Educating Agents – A Jason-Based Framework for Integrating Learning in the Development of Cognitive Agents

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Bosello, Michael, Ricci, Alessandro, Goos, Gerhard, Founding Editor, Hartmanis, Juris, Founding Editor, Bertino, Elisa, Editorial Board Member, Gao, Wen, Editorial Board Member, Steffen, Bernhard, Editorial Board Member, Woeginger, Gerhard, Editorial Board Member, Yung, Moti, Editorial Board Member, Dennis, Louise A., editor, Bordini, Rafael H., editor, and Lespérance, Yves, editor

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2020
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39. Agent-Based Mixed Reality Environments in Healthcare: The Smart Shock Room Project

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Croatti, Angelo, Bottazzi, Manuel, Ricci, Alessandro, Goos, Gerhard, Founding Editor, Hartmanis, Juris, Founding Editor, Bertino, Elisa, Editorial Board Member, Gao, Wen, Editorial Board Member, Steffen, Bernhard, Editorial Board Member, Woeginger, Gerhard, Editorial Board Member, Yung, Moti, Editorial Board Member, Demazeau, Yves, editor, Holvoet, Tom, editor, Corchado, Juan M., editor, and Costantini, Stefania, editor

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2020
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40. The JaCa-Android Framework for Programming BDI-Based Personal Agents on Mobile Devices

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Croatti, Angelo, Ricci, Alessandro, Goos, Gerhard, Founding Editor, Hartmanis, Juris, Founding Editor, Bertino, Elisa, Editorial Board Member, Gao, Wen, Editorial Board Member, Steffen, Bernhard, Editorial Board Member, Woeginger, Gerhard, Editorial Board Member, Yung, Moti, Editorial Board Member, Demazeau, Yves, editor, Holvoet, Tom, editor, Corchado, Juan M., editor, and Costantini, Stefania, editor

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2020
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41. Temperature dependent As K-edge EXAFS studies of LaFe1-xCoxAsO (x = 0.0 and 0.11) single crystals

Author

Joseph, Boby, Ricci, Alessandro, Poccia, Nicola, Ivanov, Valentin G., Ivanov, Andrey A., Menushenkov, Alexey P., Saini, Naurang L., and Bianconi, Antonio

Subjects
Condensed Matter - Superconductivity
Abstract

We report the experimental results of temperature dependent polarized As K-edge extended x-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) of LaFe1-xCoxAsO (x=0.0 and 0.11) single-crystals. By aligning the Fe-As bond direction in the direction of the x-ray beam polarization we have been able to identify an anomaly in the Fe-As bond correlations at the tetragonal to orthorhombic transition at 150K, while previous investigations with standard unpolarized EXAFS of undoped LaFeAsO powder samples were not able to detect any such anomaly. Using our approach we have been able to identify in the superconducting doped sample, LaFe0.89Co0.11AsO, a broad anomaly around 60 K. The low temperature anomaly has good correlations with the temperature dependence of several properties like resistivity, magnetic susceptibility, linear thermal expansion, etc indicating the emergence of the dynamical oscillations of the Fe - As pairs, Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures

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2016
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42. Exploring universality of transversity in proton-proton collisions

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Radici, Marco, Ricci, Alessandro M., Bacchetta, Alessandro, and Mukherjee, Asmita

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

We consider the azimuthal correlations of charged hadron pairs with large total transverse momentum and small relative momentum, produced in proton-proton collisions with one transversely polarized proton. One of these correlations directly probes the chiral-odd transversity parton distribution in connection with a chiral-odd interference fragmentation function. We present predictions for this observable based on previous extractions of transversity (from charged pion pair production in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering) and of the interference fragmentation function (from the production of back-to-back charged pion pairs in electron-positron annihilations). All analyses are performed in the framework of collinear factorization. We compare our predictions to the recent data on proton-proton collisions released by the STAR collaboration at RHIC, and we find them reasonably compatible. This comparison confirms for the first time the predicted role of transversity in proton-proton collisions and it allows to test its universality., Comment: 5 pages, revtex4-1 with pdflatex, 4 figures in pdf format

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2016
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45. Distributed Transparency in Endogenous Environments: The JaCaMo Case

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Limón, Xavier, Guerra-Hernández, Alejandro, Ricci, Alessandro, Hutchison, David, Series Editor, Kanade, Takeo, Series Editor, Kittler, Josef, Series Editor, Kleinberg, Jon M., Series Editor, Mattern, Friedemann, Series Editor, Mitchell, John C., Series Editor, Naor, Moni, Series Editor, Pandu Rangan, C., Series Editor, Steffen, Bernhard, Series Editor, Terzopoulos, Demetri, Series Editor, Tygar, Doug, Series Editor, Weikum, Gerhard, Series Editor, El Fallah-Seghrouchni, Amal, editor, Ricci, Alessandro, editor, and Son, Tran Cao, editor

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2018
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46. Manipulating electronic states at oxide interfaces using focused micro X-rays from standard lab-sources

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Poccia, Nicola, Ricci, Alessandro, Coneri, Francesco, Stehno, Martin, Campi, Gaetano, Demitri, Nicola, Bais, Giorgio, Wang, X. Renshaw, and Hilgenkamp, H.

Subjects
Condensed Matter - Materials Science, Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract

Recently, x-ray illumination, using synchrotron radiation, has been used to manipulate defects, stimulate self-organization and to probe their structure. Here we explore a method of defect-engineering low-dimensional systems using focused laboratory-scale X-ray sources. We demonstrate an irreversible change in the conducting properties of the 2-dimensional electron gas at the interface between the complex oxide materials LaAlO3 and SrTiO3 by X-ray irradiation. The electrical resistance is monitored during exposure as the irradiated regions are driven into a high resistance state. Our results suggest attention shall be paid on electronic structure modification in X-ray spectroscopic studies and highlight large-area defect manipulation and direct device patterning as possible new fields of application for focused laboratory X-ray sources., Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures

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2014
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48. Staged magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound thalamotomy for the treatment of bilateral essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease related tremor: a systematic review and critical appraisal of current knowledge.

Author

Cesarano, Simone, Saporito, Gennaro, Sucapane, Patrizia, Bruno, Federico, Catalucci, Alessia, Pistoia, Maria Letizia, Splendiani, Alessandra, Ricci, Alessandro, Di Cesare, Ernesto, Totaro, Rocco, and Pistoia, Francesca

Subjects
ESSENTIAL tremor, TREMOR, PARKINSON'S disease, CRITICAL currents, PATIENT satisfaction, NEURODEGENERATION, TREATMENT delay (Medicine)
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Introduction: Essential tremor (ET) and Parkinson’s Disease (PD) are debilitating neurodegenerative disorders characterized by tremor as a predominant symptom, significantly impacting patients’ quality of life. Magnetic Resonanceguided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) Thalamotomy is an innovative therapeutic option for the treatment of unilateral medically refractory tremor with fewer adverse effects compared to traditional surgical interventions. A recent CE approval allows appropriate patients to have their second side treated. Objective: The objective of this systematic review was to analyze available current knowledge about the use of MRgFUS for the treatment of bilateral ET and PD related tremor, to identify the effectiveness and the risks associated with bilateral treatment. Methods: Eligible studies were identified by searching published studies in PubMed and Scopus databases from May 2014 to January 2024 and by identifying ongoing studies registered on the clinicaltrials.gov website. Data were summarized by considering the following information topics: the number of patients involved, the selected lesion target, the assessment tool used to evaluate clinical changes, the observed improvement, the reported side effects, and the time interval between the two treatments. The study was registered in PROSPERO (ID: CRD42024513178). Results: Nine studies were eligible for this review, 7 for ET and 2 for PD. The involved population included a variable number of patients, ranging from 1 to 11 subjects for ET and from 10 to 15 subjects for PD. The main lesional targets were the ventral intermediate nucleus of the thalamus, the pallidothalamic tract and the cerebellothalamic tract bilaterally. All studies investigated the tremor relief through the Clinical Rating Scale for Tremor (CRST) in patients with ET, and through the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) in patients with PD. A variable degree of improvement was observed, with all patients expressing overall satisfaction with the bilateral treatment. Adverse events were mild and transient, primarily involving gait disturbances, dysarthria, and ataxia. A standardized protocol for administering the two consecutive treatments was not identifiable; typically, the timing of the second treatment was delayed by at least 6 months. Conclusion: Available evidence supports the effectiveness and safety of staged bilateral MRgFUS treatments for ET and PD-related tremor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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49. Cognitive safety of focused ultrasound thalamotomy for tremor: 1-year follow-up results of the COGNIFUS part 2 study.

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Saporito, Gennaro, Sucapane, Patrizia, Bruno, Federico, Catalucci, Alessia, Masciocchi, Carlo, Pistoia, Maria Letizia, Splendiani, Alessandra, Ricci, Alessandro, Di Cesare, Ernesto, Marini, Carmine, Mazza, Monica, Totaro, Rocco, and Pistoia, Francesca

Subjects
ESSENTIAL tremor, PARKINSON'S disease, TREMOR, BECK Depression Inventory, VERBAL learning
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Introduction: In the COGNitive in Focused UltraSound (COGNIFUS) study, we examined the 6-month cognitive outcomes of patients undergoing MRgFUS thalamotomy. This study endorsed the safety profile of the procedure in terms of cognitive functions that cannot be evaluated in real-time during the procedure unlike other aspects. The aim of the COGNIFUS Part 2 study was to investigate the cognitive trajectory of MRgFUS patients over a 1-year period, in order to confirm long-term safety and satisfaction. Methods: We prospectively evaluated the cognitive and neurobehavioral profile of patients with essential tremor (ET) or Parkinson's Disease (PD) related tremor undergoing MRgFUS thalamotomy at 1 year-follow-up following the treatment. Results: The sample consists of 50 patients (male 76%; mean age ± SD 69.0 ± 8.56; mean disease duration ± SD 12.13 ± 12.59; ET 28, PD 22 patients). A significant improvement was detected at the 1 year-follow-up assessment in anxiety and mood feelings (Hamilton Anxiety rating scale 5.66 ± 5.02 vs. 2.69 ± 3.76, p = <0.001; Beck depression Inventory II score 3.74 ± 3.80 vs. 1.80 ± 2.78, p = 0.001), memory domains (Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test, immediate recall 31.76 ± 7.60 vs. 35.38 ± 7.72, p = 0.001 and delayed recall scores 5.57 ± 2 0.75 vs. 6.41 ± 2.48), frontal functions (Frontal Assessment Battery score 14.24 ± 3.04 vs. 15.16 ± 2.74) and in quality of life (Quality of life in Essential Tremor Questionnaire 35.00 ± 12.08 vs. 9.03 ± 10.64, p = 0.001 and PD Questionnaire -8 7.86 ± 3.10 vs. 3.09 ± 2.29, p = 0.001). Conclusion: Our study supports the long-term efficacy and cognitive safety of MRgFUS treatment for ET and PD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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50. Multiscale distribution of oxygen puddles in 1/8 doped YBa2Cu3O6.67

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Ricci, Alessandro, Poccia, Nicola, Campi, Gaetano, Coneri, Francesco, Caporale, Alessandra Stella, Innocenti, Davide, Burghammer, Manfred, Zimmermann, Martin v., and Bianconi, Antonio

Subjects
Condensed Matter - Superconductivity, Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics, Condensed Matter - Materials Science, Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract

Despite intensive research a physical explanation of high Tc superconductors remains elusive. One reason for this is that these materials have generally a very complex structure making useless theoretical models for a homogeneous system. Little is known on the control of the critical temperature by the space disposition of defects because of lack of suitable experimental probes. X-ray diffraction and neutron scattering experiments used to investigate y oxygen dopants in YBa2Cu3O 6+y lack of spatial resolution. Here we report the spatial imaging of dopants distribution in-homogeneity in YBa2Cu3O6.67 using scanning nano X-ray diffraction. By changing the X-ray beam size from 1 micron to 300 nm of diameter, the lattice inhomogeneity increases. The ordered oxygen puddles size distribution vary between 6-8 nm using 1x1 {\mu}m2 beam, while it is between 5-12 nm with a fat tail using the 300x300 nm2 beam. The increased inhomogeneity at the nanoscale points toward an intrinsic granular complexity., Comment: letter, 4 figures

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2014
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