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Antonella Plaia

Full Professor of Statistics, University of Palermo
Verified email at unipa.it
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Air quality indices: a review

A Plaia, M Ruggieri - Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio …, 2011 - Springer
National directives on air quality oblige nations to monitor and report on their air quality,
allowing the public to be informed on the ambient pollution levels. The last is the reason for the …

Efficacy of sublingual immunotherapy with grass allergens for seasonal allergic rhinitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

D Di Bona, A Plaia, V Scafidi, MS Leto-Barone… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2010 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: The benefit of sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) with grass allergens for
seasonal allergic rhinitis has been extensively studied, but data on efficacy are still equivocal. …

Efficacy of grass pollen allergen sublingual immunotherapy tablets for seasonal allergic rhinoconjunctivitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

D Di Bona, A Plaia, MS Leto-Barone… - JAMA internal …, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) and meta-analyses of sublingual immunotherapy
(SLIT) for the treatment of seasonal allergic rhinoconjunctivitis (SARC) have shown a …

Single imputation method of missing values in environmental pollution data sets

A Plaia, AL Bondi - Atmospheric Environment, 2006 - Elsevier
Missing data represent a general problem in many scientific fields above all in environmental
research. Several methods have been proposed in literature for handling missing data and …

Efficacy of subcutaneous and sublingual immunotherapy with grass allergens for seasonal allergic rhinitis: A meta-analysis–based comparison

D Di Bona, A Plaia, MS Leto-Barone, S La Piana… - Journal of allergy and …, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Subcutaneous (SCIT) and sublingual (SLIT) immunotherapy are the 2 most
prescribed routes for administering allergen-specific immunotherapy. They were shown to …

Long‐term tillage and crop sequence effects on wheat grain yield and quality

…, AS Frenda, G Di Miceli, S Saia, A Plaia… - Agronomy …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Much research around the world has compared the performance of cereals grown under
conventional and conservation tillage systems; however, relatively few long‐term experiments …

Cost‐effectiveness of sofosbuvir‐based triple therapy for untreated patients with genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C

S Petta, G Cabibbo, M Enea, FS Macaluso, A Plaia… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We assessed the cost‐effectiveness of sofosbuvir (SOF)‐based triple therapy (TT)
compared with boceprevir (BOC)‐ and telaprevir (TVR)‐based TT in untreated genotype 1 (G1) …

[HTML][HTML] Nitrogen uptake and nitrogen fertilizer recovery in old and modern wheat genotypes grown in the presence or absence of interspecific competition

…, B Frangipane, G Amato, AS Frenda, A Plaia… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Choosing genotypes with a high capacity for taking up nitrogen (N) from the soil and the
ability to efficiently compete with weeds for this nutrient is essential to increasing the …

Association between the interleukin-1β polymorphisms and Alzheimer's disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis

D Di Bona, A Plaia, S Vasto, L Cavallone, F Lescai… - Brain research …, 2008 - Elsevier
The pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin(IL)-1β is a main component in inflammatory pathways
and is overexpressed in the brain of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. Several studies …

Efficacy of allergen immunotherapy in reducing the likelihood of developing new allergen sensitizations: a systematic review

D Di Bona, A Plaia, MS Leto‐Barone, S La Piana… - Allergy, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Background Guidelines and position papers indicate that allergen immunotherapy (AIT) is
the only disease‐modifying treatment, including prevention of the onset of new allergen …