Background The non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the new epidemics in Northern hemisphere. This condition is associated with anxiety and depression, but data on their impact on the ...cardiovascular risk is elusive. We looked to anxiety and depression in NAFLD in correlation with echocardiography parameters. Methods 77 subjects (39 NAFLD patients, 38 controls); Liver steatosis was assessed by hepatic ultrasonography and SteatoTestTM; cardiovascular parameters by echocardiography. Anxiety was evaluated using Lehrer Woolfolk Anxiety Symptom Questionnaire (LWASQ),and depression using Beck depression inventory (BDI). Results NAFLD patients presented higher BDI scores (p: 0.009) and LWASQ global scores (p: 0.045), vs. controls. LWASQ somatic factor was significantly associated with global longitudinal strain (GLS) in linear analysis (-0.0404, p: 0.0021), while lost significance following multivariate analysis (-0.0166, p-value = 0.124). Although group (NAFLD vs. controls) predicted BDI (6.0378, p:0.005), LWASQ global score (27.5661, p: 0.016), and LWASQ somatic factor (17.5088, p: 0.004) in linear regression, they lost significance in multivariate analysis. Moreover, the relationship between interventricular septal wall thickness (IVSWT) and BDI, LWASQ global score and LWASQ somatic factor was significant in linear analysis, but statistical significance disappeared after multivariate analysis. Conclusions Although NAFLD patients presented increased anxiety and depression risk in univariate analysis, this association lost significance in multivariate analysis. A significant association between GLS levels and LWASQ somatic factor, in addition to IVSWT in anxiety and depression in univariate analysis was observed, but was lost after multivariate analysis.
In the last 30 years, the incredible experimental progress made in the studies of neutrino oscillation allowed to better understand the pattern of neutrino masses and neutrinos mixing. However, ...further investigation are necessary, in particular concerning a series of experimental anomalies, observed in different neutrino experiments, which are uncorrelated with each other but all hinting at oscillation phenomena. The goal of the new Short Baseline Neutrino program is to perform sensitive searches for νe appearance and νμ disappearance in the Booster Neutrino Beam in order to understand experimental anomalies in neutrino physics and to perform the most sensitive search for sterile neutrinos at the eV mass-scale. The experiment includes three Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber detectors located along the Booster Neutrino Beam line at Fermilab. In this paper, the functioning of the Short Baseline Neutrino far detector, ICARUS-T600, is shown. In particular, this work is focused on the detector light collection system and on its upgrade concerning the wavelength shifting of the liquid argon scintillation from vacuum ultra-violet into visible light.
This work deals with vehicular monitoring within smart cities through Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) techniques and vehicle discrimination object detection (YOLO), in order to obtain ...timely statistical data. The combined use of the two techniques allows to obtain much more refined data than a simple vehicle counter. Moreover, the collected data undergoes a process of anonymization in accordance with the European regulations for the protection of personal data (GDPR). The use of convolutional neural networks (CNN) made it possible to obtain vehicle tracking statistics, returning daily, weekly, monthly and yearly habits with the ultimate goal of allowing a monitoring and control of the city traffic conditions. The results obtained showed a high accuracy in the classification of vehicles and a wide range of statistics concerning the occurrences of each vehicle within the area of interest.
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