Ricerc@Sapienza

While accumulating literature is demonstrating the role of the dopamine transporter (DAT) in predicting emotional–behavioural difficulties in adults of at risk populations, only few studies have focused on the possible association between the methylation status of the DAT promoter and the psychopathological risk of mothers, fathers and children in normative samples.

The aim of this study was to define clusters of activity in a population-based cohort during the first 5 years after diagnosis and to identify early prognostic risk factors.

We explore the structure of a series of protic Ionic Liquids based on the choline cation and amino acid anions. In the series, the length and the branching of the amino acid alkyl chain varies. Ab initio molecular dynamics, X-ray diffraction measurements, and infrared spectra have been used to provide a reliable picture of the short-range structure and of the short-time dynamic process that characterize the fluids. We have put special emphasis on the peculiar and complicated network of hydrogen bonds that stem from the amphoteric nature of the anion moiety.

One of the first actions to make in the analysis of hyperspectral and multispectral images is the unsupervised exploration of the spatio-spectral domains. Unsupervised exploration techniques are methods that obtain information about the spatial distribution of compounds on the images, some of their spectral signatures, their main sources of variation, and also help to detect defectuous pixels or spectra, by only using the spatial and spectral information of the images acquired in an unsupervised manner.