The need for a regulation of the market for pediatric drugs has moved in the 2000s both the Food and Drug Administration and the European Medical Agency to set systems of requirements, rewards and incentives to ensure high quality standards for drug research in pediatrics. Under those rules, th...
We study the relationship between the quality of research and teaching in the Italian university system, at the study program level. We run a cross-sectional econometric analysis by using a very rich dataset collected by the Italian National Agency for t
A comprehensive assessment of dietary intake of chemical contaminants is needed to evaluate the long-term risk for public health and food risk assessment (European Food Safety Authority2006; US-EPA; WHO1996), considering that diet represents the most relevant source of majority of trace elements for...
This increase the "background noise" in our data, hampering the detection of more complex tendencies. Being limited to a discussion of unspecific stressors is espe- cially a limit in a study like this. The relationship of these features to different etiological factors (e.g., nutritional, ...
All methods measuring dietary intake are hampered by errors in precision (repeatability, reliability, reproducibility) and validity (accuracy) [10]. Energy intake (EI) misreporting is characterized by reports of EI habits that are implausibly low or high, that is, under-reporting (UR) or over-...
Keywords: mountain; sustainability; altitude; food; health 1. From Andean Potato to Italian Local Ecotypes 1.1. A Taste of History The potato finds its center of origin in South America, around Lake Titicaca (partly in Peru and partly in Bolivia), where the indigenous people (Quechua) have ...
Interestingly, while safety and effectiveness concerns have been somewhat dismissed by available reports [69], worries on the availability of vaccines were properly addressed, as the "kick-off" of the vaccination administration was actually hampered by a short supply of vaccines [70], even during ...