Optimism’s Explicative Role for Chronic Diseases

Optimism’s Explicative Role for Chronic Diseases

The increasing interest about dispositional optimism's role in health status and its positive modulating effect on health outcomes has led to a remarkable scientific production in the last decade. To date lot is known for which diseases optimism is relevant, instead much less is known about how optimism interacts with other factors, both biological and psychological, in determining health statu...

Towards Explicative Inference for OWL

Automated reasoning in OWL is capable of inferences that are nontrivial for people to understand. We argue that the understanding of inferences would benefit from stepwise explanations. To build a system that supports such explicative inference, we propose a framework based on inference rules and proof tactics for OWL ontologies. In particular, the goal is to present inferences in a suitable an...

Silymarin and Its Role in Chronic Diseases.

Silymarin is the active constituent of Silybum marianum (milk thistle) which is a C-25 containing flavonolignan. Milk thistle has a lot of traditional values, being used as a vegetable, as salad, as bitter tonic, and as galactogogue in nursing mothers and in various ailments such as liver complications, depression, dyspepsia, spleenic congestions, varicose veins, diabetes, amenorrhea, uterine h...

Role of autophagy in chronic kidney diseases.

Chronic kidney diseases (CKD), a common pathway of various glomerular diseases, which carries great morbidity and mortality to people. CKD is characterized by progressive kidney fibrosis and remodeling. CKD is also associated with the depletion of glomerular and tubular cells. Autophagy is a highly conserved process that degrades cellular long-lived proteins and organelles. It plays an importan...

Food Insecurity and Chronic Diseases: The Editorial