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Non alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is one of the manifestations of the metabolic syndrome. The latter is mainly determined by the presence of overweight and type 2 diabetes, whose prevalence is rapidly raising in developed Countries (almost 40 % in adult US Americans in 2013 – 2016) [1] in keeping with more food availability, cheap trash food, rich in fat, and soft drinks rich in sugar. The trend is even more worrisome, if one considers also the rapidly

Ovarian cancer is one of the most aggressive gynaecologic malignancies in women worldwide. The lack of proper screening programs and the characteristic abdominal spreading with minimal clinical symptoms give rise of its high lethality. Most patients show advanced disease at diagnosis and have a poor prognosis. The surveillance of ovarian cancer patients after initial treatment is a challenging question in clinical practice and there is no consensus in literature about the most appropriate follow-up strategy for these women.

This paper aims to analyze the international legality of the armed attack by the US to Afghanistan and Sudan in 1998.

This paper presents a methodology for comparing income rank volatility profiles over time and across distributions.
While most of the existing measures are affected by changes in marginal distributions, this paper
proposes a framework based on individuals’ relative positions in the distribution that is neutral to structural
changes that occur in that distribution. Applying this approach to West Germany and the US over three decades,
we show that while poorer individuals in both countries are the most volatile in all periods investigated, the