The pandemic caused by novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is generating a high number of cases and deaths, with negative effects on public health and economic systems. One of the current questions in the contemporary environmental and sustainability debate is how high air pollution and...

One of the fundamental problems in the crisis management of COVID-19 pandemic is to know the impact on public health of the second wave of the COVID-19 compared to first wave for designing effective policy responses to cope with this on-going socioeconomic and health crisis in society. The...

Aiming to show how manifold reorganizations of public research organizations affect the evolution of research activity within labs, this study focuses on Italian Research Council (CNR), one of Europe’s largest public research organizations, from 2000 to 2020 to identify types of research...

A new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) is the cause of a disease, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is rapidly spreading all over the world, generating a high number of deaths. The contemporary debate in environmental studies is facing new or relatively unexplored problems. One of the current...

The risk of mortality in breast cancer among women is a critical health issue worldwide. Scholars argue that breast cancer mortality rates have decreased in many advanced countries overall. How-ever, about 50% of world population in 2017 was in poor and developing countries (more than 3,652...

The goal of this study is a technology analysis of a revolution for the management of valvular heart diseases given by new technological system based on transcatheter artificial aortic valve, a delivery catheter and a loading system for the treatment of aortic stenosis (a narrowing of the aortic...

The breast cancer among women is a critical health and social issue worldwide. The goal of this study is to investigate breast cancer mortality in association with breast cancer incidence and socioeconomic factors between countries. Data of breast cancer incidence and mortality are from IARC/WHO...

Research evaluation of public institutes is important for measuring the performance of the science sector and improving the cost effectiveness and efficiency of public resource allocation. The purpose of this article is to construct a means of classifying publicly-funded R&D institutions and...

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to be a constant threat in 2022 and is important to design appropriate vaccination campaigns to face next pandemic impacts driven by new variants. This study develops a Machine Learning experiment that shows, between countries, a rapid reduction...

Since 2021, vaccinations for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) are more and more a health policy to cope with on-going pandemic crisis. Is this policy response enough to stop the diffusion of novel coronavirus and reduce the negative impact in society? The goal of this study here is to...