Background. Neutrophilic bronchial inflammation is a main feature of bronchiectasis, but not
much is known about its relationship with other disease features. Aim. To compare airway …

… Maria Alessandra BILOTTA,Nuovi elementi per la storia della produzione e della
circolazione dei manoscritti giuridici miniati nel Midi della … 2493 si veda MA BILOTTA, «Un …

Introduction & Aim: The role of bacterial colonization in contributing to the level of disease
severity in NCFB is still poorly evaluated. Methods: 139 outpatients with NCFB (58 with …

Introduction known. Consecutively 139 outpatients with NCFB (62 male, age: 62.0±14.2; 6
current smokers, 48 ex-smokers) were examined in our Methods. clinic. Diagnosis was …

RESULTS. Spirometric obstructive syndrome was demonstrated in 50 subjects, a restrictive
syndrome in 5, and normal spirometry in 31 subjects. Increased values of Residual Volume …

At the beginning of 2008, a number of the world’s major economies began to experience
the effects of the biggest economic financial crisis in history. By the end of that year, the …

Purpose In the last few years, bone has been recognized as an endocrine organ that modulates
glucose metabolism by secretion of osteocalcin, an osteoblast-specific hormone, that …

The COMSON project (COupled Multiscale Simulation and Optimization in Nanoelectronics)
is a Marie Curie Research Training Network (RTN) supported by the European Commission …

(i) Definition of inverse propensity score weights. 1 Denoting the sample size by n and the
estimated propensity score values by pi, 1,…, n, inverse propensity score weights were …

Real time traffic flow data in terms of road-segments traffic densities are relevant information
at the basis of several smart services, such as smart routing, smart planning for evacuations, …