For people living with type 1 diabetes, the Holy Grail of a closed-loop artificial system, combining glucose measurement and insulin delivery without requiring input from the individual with the condition, remains elusive.1 At present, the optimum approach appears to be a combination of insulin pump therapy and real-time continuous glucose monitoring.2 However, despite patient acceptance of thi...

The European Spallation Source facility will be one of the fundamental instruments for science and engineering of the future. A 2.5 GeV proton accelerator is to be built for the neutron production. INFN-LNS is involved in the Design Update for the proton source and Low Energy Beam Transport (LEBT) line. The proton source is required to produce a low emittance 90 mA beam, 2.86 ms pulsed with a r...

There is an increasing body of literature regarding violence toward mental health professionals in clinical settings, but little is known about the frequency of assaults on forensic evaluators. Forensic evaluators play a very different role in the evaluee's life than do treating clinicians. This study examined the incidence of aggressive behavior specifically directed toward forensic clinicians...

A microwave discharge ion source (MDIS) operating at the Laboratori Nazionali del Sud of INFN, Catania has been used to compare the traditional electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) heating with an innovative mechanisms of plasma ignition based on the electrostatic Bernstein waves (EBW). EBW are obtained via the inner plasma electromagnetic-to-electrostatic wave conversion and they are absorbed by...

BACKGROUND Loss of anterior permanent teeth can have a detrimental effect on children's quality of life and the therapeutic approaches are always a challenge. From a physiologic and psychological standpoint, the use of dental implants has several advantages in replacing missing teeth. However, several studies have shown that conventional implants are not indicated in patients that are still gro...

Metered-dose inhalers (MDIs) have been associated with a high rate of misuse. Medical personnel also have a poor understanding of MDI technique. Hospitalized patients had their MDI technique observed before and after a series of inservices were provided to hospital personnel on correct MDI use. The rate of misuse did not change with 55 of 72 (76 percent) patients making errors in the first grou...

BACKGROUND An ideal implant should have a surface that is conducive to osseointegration. In vitro cell culture studies using disks made of same materials and surface as of implants may provide useful information on the events occurring at the implant-tissue interface. In the current study, we tested the hypothesis that there is no difference in the proliferation and differentiation capacities o...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, and it accounts for approximately 500,000 hospitalizations for exacerbations each year. New definitions of acute COPD exacerbation have been suggested, but the one used by Anthonisen et al. is still widely accepted. It requires the presence of one or more of the following findings: increase i...