The influence of mother’s personality on the decision about the elective cesarean section: a pilot study with a sample of 16 new mothers

To investigate the psychological profile of a sample of new mothers, who requested an elective caesarean section (CS), compared with a group of women who had a CS in emergency. Women who chose CS without medical indications showed more somatic anxiety levels, expressed with a hypochondriac rumination and an obsessive way to control their body. This seems associated with more neuroticism and more symptoms of depression which may lead to a higher risk of develop postnatal depression

La bibliofilia del Balzo e l’aspetto sacro del collezionismo

This contribution originates from Angilberto del Balzo’s inventories, count of Ugento and duke of Nardò and from the research carried out by the département des Manuscrits and the Réserve des Livres Rares section of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. Thanks to the studies conducted on the "lo conte de Ducente"’s inventory lists (Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 8741 D) and the ones on countess Antonia del Balzo’s (Guastalla, Biblioteca Civica Maldotti, Fondo Davolio Marani, b. 23), a devotional bibliophile sensitivity is revealed, which, in reality, permeates all the members of del Balzo’s court. The work aims to unveil the historical-artistic and codicological reconstruction of the artifacts, including the unpublished  codes. The study expanded the cultural panorama of the Terra d’Otranto and gives back a corpus of books, to the theological section of del Balzo’s collection, which have been considered lost up to now.Il presente contributo trae origine dagli inventari di Angilberto del Balzo, conte di Ugento e duca di Nardò e dalle ricerche effettuate presso il département des Manuscrits e la sezione Réserve des Livres Rares della Bibliothèque nationale de France di Parigi. Grazie agli studi condotti sulle liste inventariali (Parigi, BnF, ms. Latin 8741 D) de “lo conte de Ducente” e a quelle della contessa Antonia del Balzo (Guastalla, Biblioteca Civica Maldotti, Fondo Davolio Marani, b. 23), è emersa una sensibilità bibliofila di stampo devozionale che, in realtà, attraversa tutti i membri della corte del Balzo.  L’intervento mira a rendere nota la ricostruzione storico-artistica e codicologica dei manufatti, comprensiva dei codici inediti. Lo studio ha permesso di ampliare il panorama culturale della Terra d’Otranto e di restituire, alla sezione teologica della collezione del Balzo, un corpus di libri ritenuto disperso

Risk of neural tube defects according to maternal body mass index: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Introduction: The aim of our systematic review and meta-analysis was to evaluate the risk of neural tube defects (NTDs) according to the pre-pregnancy body mass index. Materials and methods: Electronic databases were searched (MEDLINE, EMBASE, Web of Sciences, Scopus, ClinicalTrial.gov, OVID, and Cochrane Library). Selection criteria included prospective and retrospective cohort studies reporting the prevalence of fetal NTDs in obese, overweight, and underweight pregnant women. Odds ratios (ORs) comparing risk among these subsets of pregnancies with normal weight mothers were determined with 95% confidence intervals (CI). The evaluated outcome was the association between maternal underweight, overweight, and obesity and the risk of NTDs. Results: We included ten studies published between 2000 and 2017, including underweight, overweight, and obese pregnant women with fetal NTD (cases) and pregnant women with recommended BMI with fetal NTD (controls). Compared with normal BMI women, obese mothers were at significantly higher risk of fetal NTDs (0.53 vs. 0.33%; OR 1.62 95% CI 1.32-1.99, p < .0001), while no difference for the risk of NTDs was found when comparing overweight (0.34 vs. 0.32%; OR 1.09 95% CI 0.92-1.3, p = .3) and underweight (0.65 vs. 0.24%; OR 1.34 95% CI 0.73-2.47, p = .34) with normal weight pregnant women. Discussion: Obese pregnant women are at significantly higher risk NTDs, while no significant difference has been found in overweight and underweight pregnant women. Key message Obese pregnant women are at significantly higher risk of NTDs, such as spina bifida compared with normal weight women. No difference was found when comparing overweight and underweight with normal weight women

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Key Technologies for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope Coronagraph Instrument

Submitted in response to the 2018 NAS Exoplanet Science Strategy call. 5 pages, 2 figuresThe Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Coronagraph Instrument (CGI) is a high-contrast imager and integral field spectrograph that will enable the study of exoplanets and circumstellar disks at visible wavelengths. Ground-based high-contrast instrumentation has fundamentally limited performance at small working angles, even under optimistic assumptions for 30m-class telescopes. There is a strong scientific driver for better performance, particularly at visible wavelengths. Future flagship mission concepts aim to image Earth analogues with visible light flux ratios of more than 10^10. CGI is a critical intermediate step toward that goal, with a predicted 10^8-9 flux ratio capability in the visible. CGI achieves this through improvements over current ground and space systems in several areas: (i) Hardware: space-qualified (TRL9) deformable mirrors, detectors, and coronagraphs, (ii) Algorithms: wavefront sensing and control; post-processing of integral field spectrograph, polarimetric, and extended object data, and (iii) Validation of telescope and instrument models at high accuracy and precision. This white paper, submitted to the 2018 NAS Exoplanet Science Strategy call, describes the status of key CGI technologies and presents ways in which performance is likely to evolve as the CGI design matures