The evolution of personalized healthcare and the pivotal role of European regions in its implementation

Personalized medicine (PM) moves at the same pace of data and technology and calls for important changes in healthcare. New players are participating, providing impulse to PM. We review the conceptual foundations for PM and personalized healthcare and their evolution through scientific publications where a clear definition and the features of the different formulations are identifiable. We then examined PM policy documents of the International Consortium for Personalised Medicine and related initiatives to understand how PM stakeholders have been changing.

Data-driven simulation of contagions in public venues

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a global research effort to define and assess timely and effective containment policies. Understanding the role that specific venues play in the dynamics of epidemic spread is critical to guide the implementation of fine-grained non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). In this paper, we present a new model of context-dependent interactions that integrates information about the surrounding territory and the social fabric.

ECOPOTENTIAL: Using Earth Observation to Protect Natural Ecosystems

Space exploration is revealing the abundance of other solar systems, but at the same time is showing the uniqueness of our Planet. Using sophisticated Earth Observation technologies such as the European "Sentinels", belonging to the greatest Earth Observation programme ever realised, Copernicus, we are now getting plenty of information at unprecedented high spatial and temporal resolution.

HDAC2-dependent miRNA signature in acute myeloid leukemia

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) arises from a complex sequence of biological and finely orchestrated events that are still poorly understood. Increasingly, epigenetic studies are providing exciting findings that may be exploited in promising and personalized cutting-edge therapies. A more appropriate and broader screening of possible players in cancer could identify a master molecular mechanism in AML. Here, we build on our previously published study by evaluating a histone deacetylase (HDAC)2-mediated miRNA regulatory network in U937 leukemic cells.

Frequency domain analysis of the gravitational wave energy loss in hyperbolic encounters

The energy radiated (without the 1.5PN tail contribution which requires a different treatment) by a binary system of compact objects moving in a hyperboliclike orbit is computed in the frequency domain through the second post-Newtonian level as an expansion in the large-eccentricity parameter up to next-to-next-to-leading order, completing the time domain corresponding information (fully known in closed form at the second post-Newtonian of accuracy).

Characterization of a vertical crack using Laser Spot Thermography

This paper deals with the solution of an inverse problem for the heat equation aimed at nondestructive evaluation of fractures, emerging on the accessible surface of a slab, by means of Active Thermography. In real life, this surface is heated with a laser and its temperature is measured for a time interval by means of an infrared camera. A fundamental step in iterative inversion methods is the numerical solution of the underlying direct mathematical model.

Attention Based Subgraph Classification for Link Prediction by Network Re-weighting

Supervised link prediction aims at finding missing links in a network by learning directly from the data suitable criteria for classifying link types into existent or non-existent. Recently, along this line, subgraph-based methods learning a function that maps subgraph patterns to link existence have witnessed great successes. However, these approaches still have drawbacks. First, the construction of the subgraph relies on an arbitrary nodes selection, often ineffective.

Table-top combined scanning X-ray small angle scattering and transmission microscopies of lipid vesicles dispersed in free-standing gel

A mm thick free-standing gel containing lipid vesicles made of 2-oleoyl-1-palmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC) was studied by scanning Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) and X-ray Transmission (XT) microscopies. Raster scanning relatively large volumes, besides reducing the risk of radiation damage, allows signal integration, improving the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), as well as high statistical significance of the dataset. The persistence of lipid vesicles in gel was demonstrated, while mapping their spatial distribution and concentration gradients.

A time-modulated Hawkes process to model the spread of COVID-19 and the impact of countermeasures

Motivated by the recent outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19), we propose a stochastic model of epidemic temporal growth and mitigation based on a time-modulated Hawkes process. The model is sufficiently rich to incorporate specific characteristics of the novel coronavirus, to capture the impact of undetected, asymptomatic and super-diffusive individuals, and especially to take into account time-varying counter-measures and detection efforts. Yet, it is simple enough to allow scalable and efficient computation of the temporal evolution of the epidemic, and exploration of what-if scenarios.