Francesco Blast

Mechanochemical Processing of Blast Furnace Slag for its Reuse as Adsorbent

Mechanochemical Processing of Blast Furnace Slag for its Reuse as Adsorbent Salvatore Andini, Fabio Montagnaro*, Luciano Santoro, Grazia Accardo, Raffaele Cioffi, Francesco Colangelo Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Monte Sant’Angelo, 80126 Napoli (I) Dipartimento per le Tecnologie, Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Centro Direzionale Is...

Comprehensive 3D Model of Shock Wave-Brain Interactions in Blast-Induced Traumatic Brain Injuries PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:

Complete remission through blast cell differentiation in PLZF/RARalpha-positive acute promyelocytic leukemia: in vitro and in vivo studies.

Acute leukemia with the t(11;17) expressing the PLZF-RARalpha gene fusion is a rare variant of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) that has been associated with poor clinical response to all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) treatment. However, some recent reports have put into question the absolute refractoriness of this leukemia to ATRA. We describe here a patient with PLZF/RARalpha APL who was treat...

Treatment of Low-Blast Count AML using Hypomethylating Agents

In 2002, the WHO classification reduced the proportion of blasts in the bone marrow (BM) necessary for the diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) from 30% to 20%, eliminating the RAEB-t subtype of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). However, this AML subtype, defined as low-blast count AML (LBC-AML, with 20-30% BM-blasts) is characterized by peculiar features, as increased frequency in elderly ...

The problem of axonal injury in the brains of veterans with histories of blast exposure

INTRODUCTION Blast injury to brain, a hundred-year old problem with poorly characterized neuropathology, has resurfaced as health concern in recent deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. To characterize the neuropathology of blast injury, we examined the brains of veterans for the presence of amyloid precursor protein (APP)-positive axonal swellings typical of diffuse axonal injury (DAI) and comp...

Layered space-time codes with iterative receiver and space-time soft-output decoding in a Rayleigh fading environment

In this paper, we propose a modified BLAST architecture which employs space-time trellis codes at each layer as constituent codes, and an iterative parallel interference canceller (PIC) at the receiver. The PIC performs both interference regeneration and cancellation; and furthermore, the scheme employs maximum-likelihood soft-output decoders, based on the Viterbi algorithm. These decoders calc...