Ali, Minhaj Kirikkaleli, Dervis
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Integrated environmental assessment and management
Although numerous studies in the literature have been conducted to model CO2 emissions, there is a lack of empirical knowledge of consumption-based CO2 emissions, which are adjusted for international trade, specifically. Therefore, the present study aims to close this gap in the literature in the case of Italy, while capturing the asymmetric effect...
Antonini, Chiara Calandrini, Sara Bianconi, Fortunato
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BMC infectious diseases
In Italy, the beginning of 2021 was characterized by the emergence of new variants of SARS-CoV-2 and by the availability of effective vaccines that contributed to the mitigation of non-pharmaceutical interventions and to the avoidance of hospital collapse. We analyzed the COVID-19 propagation in Italy starting from September 2021 with a Susceptible...
Roldan, Alba
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Economics
The gold standard was a monetary system based on fixed exchange rates, whereby domestic prices were pegged to the international price level and a high level of control had to be exercised over the money supply. This meant that fiscal discipline also had to be maintained for a country to remain on the gold standard. In times of crisis, countries had...
Licata, Francesca Angelillo, Silvia Nobile, Carmelo Giuseppe Angelo Di Gennaro, Gianfranco Bianco, Aida
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Frontiers in Medicine
Background In Europe during 2019, just over half of those with HIV were diagnosed at a late stage of infection. Even though HIV testing is crucial for all strategies related to care, prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, we hypothesized that it is less practiced among university students, and, therefore, this study aimed to assess the uptake and fa...
De Liberato, Claudio Iatta, Roberta Scarito, Maria Alessia Grifoni, Goffredo Dante, Giampiero Otranto, Domenico
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Acta tropica
Strongyloides stercoralis is a soil-transmitted helminth with an unusual life cycle, causing canine and human strongyloidiasis, mainly endemic in tropical and subtropical areas. Following percutaneous or oral transmission of infective third-stage larvae in the vertebrate host, the parasite can cause autoinfection, leading to life-long infection. At...
Lewis, Feylyn Mercedies Becker, Saul Hlebec, Valentina Mrzel, Maja
For the first time, this article will provide a cross-national profile of adolescents who provide unpaid care to their ill or disabled family members in six European countries with varied levels of awareness, policy and service provision regarding adolescent young carers. Utilising an online survey, 2,099 adolescent young carers were identified in ...
Costa Font, Joan Levaggi, Rosella Turati, Gilberto
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Health economics, policy, and law
In the last decades, several European health systems have abandoned their vertically integrated health care in favour of some form of managed competition (MC), either in a centralised or decentralised format. However, during a pandemic, MC may put health systems under additional strain as they are designed to follow some form of 'organisational sel...
Mercato, Alessandra Cortimiglia, Claudia Abualsha’ar, Aseel Piazza, Aurora Marchesini, Federica Milani, Giovanni Bonardi, Silvia Cocconcelli, Pier Sandro Migliavacca, Roberta
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Frontiers in Microbiology
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) represents an increasing issue worldwide, spreading not only in humans and farmed animals but also in wildlife. One of the most relevant problems is represented by Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamases (ESβLs) producing Escherichia coli because they are the cause of important infections in human. Wild boars (Sus scrofa) a...
Barnaba, Francesca Alvan Romero, Nancy Bolignano, Andrea Basart, Sara Renzi, Matteo Stafoggia, Massimo
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Environment international
Desert dust storms pose real threats to air quality and health of millions of people in source regions, with associated impacts extending to downwind areas. Europe (EU) is frequently affected by atmospheric transport of desert dust from the Northern Africa and Middle East drylands. This investigation aims at quantifying the role of desert dust tran...
Lucarelli, Sonia Menotti, Roberto
There is a country in Europe where Constructivism has never taken roots: Italy. Although Constructivism in its various forms has been the most popular theoretical approach on the continent, the Italian peninsula remained surprisingly immune to this "epidemic". These results are even more interesting if we take a closer look at the Italian Internati...
