Salt Taste, Nutrition, and Health

The potential immune alterations in insect pests and pollinators after insecticide exposure in agroecosystem

Agroecosystems are the habitat of pests and beneficial insects from different orders, which are exposed to agro-practices, especially treatments with chemicals. Insecticides are a wide group of chemicals used in agroecosystems that affect insect ecology and physiology in different ways.&#x...

Eating Behavior after Bariatric Surgery (EBBS) Questionnaire: a New Validated Tool to Quantify the Patients' Compliance to Post-Bariatric Dietary and Lifestyle Suggestions

In the management of bariatric surgery follow-up, a multidisciplinary approach allows to evaluate the weight loss maintenance and the dietary and lifestyle changes adherence. The main aim of this study is to create and to validate a questionnaire (eating behavior after bariatric surgery...

Experimental identification of static and dynamic stiffness of polymeric vibration dampers

Polymeric dampers are frequently used in the automotive field in order to filter engine produced vibrations and thus protecting electronic devices. An accurate knowledge of damper stiffness is therefore important for a proper design of such mechanical filters. Since viscoelastic materials ex...