Abstract: A microscopy optoelectronic device for reconstructing a three-dimensional model of a sample, which can be connected to any PC in order to obtain three-dimensional surface micro-reliefs, includes a portable device body, having a casing and a frame supporting: a digital optical sensor; an optical group, coupled to the sensor including an objective lens directed towards a distal end of the device body, faceable towards the sample; a motor that translates the optical group and sensor with respect to said frame; a connector to connect the device body to an energy source and to a device that controls the position of the optical group and to transmit the digitalized images; and a light source that provides diffused lighting at the objective lens arranged to surround a front region with respect to the objective lens and also includes a luminescent and diffusing surface having a tubular portion coaxial to the optical group.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of sensitizing dyes of natural origin in the photoelectrochemical solar cells and to the process for obtaining such vegetal extracts from fruits and vegetables.

Abstract: The present invention concerns compounds of general Formula (I): method of preparation and uses thereof.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a nucleotide aptamer having the sequence: 5?-AUGAUCAAUCGCCUCAAUUCGACAGGAGGCUCAC-3?(SEQ ID NO: 1) for use in the treatment and/or prevention and/or diagnosis of an Axl receptor tyrosine kinase induced disorder and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the same. The invention also relates to a method for the diagnosis of an Axl receptor tyrosine kinase induced disorder in a patient from which a sample is obtained and related diagnostic kit.

Abstract: Avermectin and milbemycin compounds, particularly the substance ivermectin, for preparing an antiviral medicament for the treatment, prevention or amelioration of a Flavivirus infection, such as those caused by YFV (yellow fever virus), DENV (Dengue virus), JEV (Japanese encephalitis virus), TBEV (tick-borne encephalitis virus) or MODV (Modoc virus) are provided. The antiviral compositions of the present invention are suitable for oral administration to a Flavivirus-infected subject or a subject at risk of a infection, such as a human or other mammal.

Abstract: In a method for detecting flaws in continuous laser welding processes, including a sensor measures plasma emission spectrum in a range of wavelengths between ?max and ?min in N channels, each measuring radiation strength emitted in the band centred at wavelength ?i (1?i?N) and width ??i. Deviation detection is based upon calculating intensity relationships of signals measured at specific wavelengths and in comparison with pre-determined threshold values. A calibration phase ensures a series of K weldings is performed, under optimized conditions, for each a number J of spectra OJ,K, is acquired, each one corresponding to a vector of N intensity values at wavelengths ?i, 1?i?N, and a series of weldings K? is then performed, (K??K), a single welding parameter A is altered by a known quantity, for each welding being acquired a sequence of J? spectra AJ?,K?, (J??J), which are stored.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a bone substitute comprising a core based on hydroxyapatite (HA), obtained from at least one porous wood, or based on collagen fibres and hydroxyapatite, and a shell, based on hydroxyapatite (HA) or silicon carbide (SiC), obtained from at least one wood having a lower porosity than the at least one wood of the core. The porous wood has a total porosity of between 60% and 95%, preferably between 65% and 85%, and it is selected from amongst the choices of rattan, pine, abachi and balsa wood. The wood of the shell has a porosity of between 20% and 60%, preferably between 30% and 50%. The bone substitute is utilized for the substitution and regeneration of bone, preferably for bones subjected to mechanical loads, such as long bones of the leg and arm, preferably the tibia, metatarsus, femur, humerus or radius.

Abstract: A method for operating a scanning probe microscope at elevated scan frequencies has a characterization stage of sweeping a plurality of excitation frequencies of the vertical displacement of the scanning element; measuring the value attained by the reading parameter at the excitation frequencies; and identifying plateau regions of the response spectrum of the reading parameter. The reading parameter variation is limited within a predetermined range over a predefined frequency interval, thereby defining corresponding fast scanning frequency windows in which the microscope assembly is sufficiently stable to yield a lateral resolution comparable to the one obtained during slow measurements. The measurement stage includes driving the scanning element along at least a scanning trajectory over the surface of the specimen at a frequency selected among the frequencies included in a fast scanning frequency window.

Abstract: A quantum logic gate for qubits, suitable for receiving as inputs at least two polarization-encoded qubits, includes at least one partially polarizing beam splitter (PPBS), the beam splitter comprising a first waveguide and a second waveguide which are constructed in integrated optics, the first and second waveguides having a refractive index contrast of between 0.1% and 6% and a birefringence of between 10?6 and 6*10?5.

Abstract: The invention relates to a conductive fiber material comprising a base fiber material (1) including a textile fiber, a plurality of nanoparticles (20) deposited on an external surface (10) of said base fiber material, said nanoparticles including one or more metals or metal oxides and a conductive polymer layer deposited on said external surface including nanoparticles.

Abstract: Electroporation devices are provided which include a forceps-type member carrying first and second electrodes and a grip member carrying a third electrode. The third electrode is independently movable with respect to the first and second electrodes in order to vary the spatial configuration of the electrical field generated by the device and thus enable an improved range of action and efficacy. Methods for carrying out electroporation with such devices are also provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to selected proline-rich peptides of salivary derivation with a strong antiviral activity and also an anti-reservoir activity with respect to the HIV virus, said peptides as medicaments for the treatment, prevention and eradication of HIV on human beings, pharmaceutical compositions comprising at least one of said peptides, pharmaceutical kits comprising at least one of said peptides and therapeutic methods for the treatment, prevention and eradication of HIV on human beings.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a lighting device (1) that comprises a first light source (2) comprising one or more LED devices (21). At least a deformable reflective element (3) is optically coupled to said first light source, so as to receive light from said first light source, said reflective structure comprising at least a first portion (31) having a reflective surface (310) that reflects at least partially the light (L1) received from said first light source, and a second portion (32) that is solidly coupled to said first portion. Driving means (4) are operatively coupled to said second portion (32), which induce a deformation of said second portion that in turn causes a deformation of the reflective surface (310) of said first portion. The position of the focus point (F) of the light (L2) reflected by said reflective surface can thus be varied in a controlled manner.

Abstract: Thermionic solar converter with a linear arrangement of the components, suitable for the direct conversion of solar energy into electrical energy and the combined generation of heat and energy, in the form of an elongated transparent vacuum tube comprising: a cathode (5) and at least one anode (6), said cathode and anode being arranged longitudinally alongside each other along the tube: grid electrodes (10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16) for generating electric fields; means (18) for directly cooling the at least one anode; means (7) for electrically connecting the electrodes from the inside to the outside; an optical access window (4) along the surface area of the tube; wherein: the cathode is made of conductive refractory material, is suspended centrally inside the tube with an elongated form and forms the element for capturing the solar energy, on which the sunlight is directly focused in order to perform the thermionic conversion, without any intermediate heat transfer means; the electrical connection means form a l

Abstract: A phase-locked delay device, including: an input port configured to receive an input electromagnetic radiation pulse; said input pulse being to be propagated along a propagation direction and having a first linear polarization different from both a first direction, which is orthogonal to the propagation direction, and a second direction, which is orthogonal to the first direction and the propagation direction; an adjustable Babinet-Soleil module optically coupled to said input port, having a first polarization direction parallel to said first direction. The adjustable Babinet-Soleil module is structured to: provide from the input pulse a first pulse polarized along the first direction and a second pulse collinear to said first pulse and polarized along the second direction, and introduce an adjustable group delay between the first pulse and the second pulse ranging from a minim value ?Tm and a maximum value ?TM; the maximum value ?TM being a value greater than 10 fs.

Abstract: The invention relates to a plant and a process for the looping-type combustion of solid carbon-containing fuels with a carbon dioxide (CO2) flow output. Said process carries out the conversion of carbon without the help of solid carriers of the MyOx type, or of sulphate/sulphide type, and comprises the steps of: (i) Oxidation, wherein the carbon-containing solids are contacted with a gaseous flow comprising oxygen, for a time period and at a temperature sufficient to allow formation of a surface oxidized complex; (ii) Desorption, wherein the surface oxidized complexes generated by adsorption of oxygen in item (i) are released in a gaseous form by decomposition in the absence of O2.

Abstract: An apparatus for spin polarizing a particle beam is adapted to process an input particle beam in such a way as to generate an at least partially spin polarized output particle beam. A vortex beam generator for imparting orbital angular momentum to the input particle beam. An electromagnetic field generator generates a transverse magnetic field, space-variant and symmetric with respect to the axis of the input particle beam, in such a way as to change the spin of the particles and attach thereto different values of orbital angular momentum in dependence on their input spin values. A beam component separating group spatially separates the particles in dependence on their orbital angular momentum values, in such a way as to obtain the at least partially spin polarized output particle beam.

Abstract: The present invention falls within the field of molecular biology, and in particular it refers to peptides, polypeptides, protein molecules, uses, methods, processes, systems and compositions for minimizing the presence of molecules in a material and/or interfering with effects associated to such molecules. In particular, the present invention can appear in the form of anti-septic shock pharmacological composition and systems of purification from bacterial endotoxins.

Abstract: The present disclosure concerns peptides able to interfere and in particular impair the inhibiting activity of MDM2/MDM4 heterodimer towards p53 and maintain the association between MDM4 and p53 so to restore the p53 oncosuppressive function in cancer cells harboring wild type p53 protein, directing its function specifically towards an apoptotic outcome.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the diagnosis and/or prognosis of tauopathies, in particular Alzeimer's disease. The method is based on the detection and quantification of a 20-22 kDa NH2-tau fragment.