A. Pinto

Publication List Details

Period

1977 - 2009

Number

62

Co-Authors

Multi-model Music Content Description and Retrieval Using IEEE 1599 XML Standard (2009)

PINTO, ALBERTO, A. Pinto

Multi-model Music Content Description and Retrieval Using IEEE 1599 XML Standard / A. Pinto. - In: Journal of Multimedia. - ISSN 1796-2048. - 4:1(2009 Feb). - p. 30-39.

ABSTRACT INTERFACE EVALUATION OF PORTUGUESE AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS WEBSITES (2008)

Sérgio Nunes, André Almeida, Bruno Giesteira, A Pinto, Paula Oliveira

In this paper, we present an observational descriptive study of news websites, focusing on aspects related to interface design, accessibility and usability. Interface design was evaluated by...

IEEE 1599 and Music Information Retrieval: the anatomy of a music search engine (2008)

PINTO, ALBERTO, A. Pinto, D. BAGGI, G. HAUS

IEEE 1599 and Music Information Retrieval: the anatomy of a music search engine / A. Pinto. - In: The use of symbols to represent music and multimedia objects : IEEE CS International Conference ; D....

A Proposed Smart Market for Sediment Discharge (2008)

Pinto, A., Cochrane, T.A., Raffensperger, J.F.

Society faces high costs due to environmental degradation from sediment discharge. Development can increase stream peak flows and sediment discharge. Excess sediment discharges threaten natural...

Indexing music collections through graph spectra (2007)

Pinto, A., Leuken, R.H. Van, Demirci, M.F., Wiering, F., Veltkamp, R.C.

Content based music retrieval opens up large collections, both for the general public and music scholars. It basically enables the user to find (groups of) similar melodies, thus facilitating...

Gemcitabine, ifosfamide, oxaliplatin and rituximab (R-GIFOX), a new effective cytoreductive/mobilizing salvage regimen for relapsed and refractory aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: results of a pilot study (2006)

Corazzelli, G., Russo, F., Capobianco, G., Marcacci, G., Cioppa, P. Della, Pinto, A.

Background: The prognosis of patients with aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) relapsing or progressing after front-line therapy remains poor. Since high-dose therapy (HDT) with autologous stem...

Ontology-based natural language parser for e-marketplaces (2005)

T. Di Noia, E. Di Sciascio, F. M. Donini, A. Pinto

Abstract. We propose an approach to Natural Language Processing exploiting knowledge domain in an e-commerce scenario. Based on such modeling an NLP parser is presented, aimed at translating...

Active constituents isolated from Psoralea glandulosa L. with antiinflammatory and antipyretic activities (2001)

Backhouse Erazo, Nadine, Delporte Vergara, Carla, Negrete, Rosa, Erazo, Silvia, Zúñiga, A., Pinto, A., ...

The antiinflammatory and antipyretic activities of the petroleum ether extract (PEE), dichloromethane extract (DME) and methanol extract (ME1) of the aerial part of Psoralea glandulosa L....

Randomised double-blind placebo-controlled study of interferon beta-1a in relapsing/remitting multiple sclerosis (1998)

Rice, G, Lesaux, J, Paty, D, Oger, J, Li, DKB, ...

Background Previous trials of interferon beta in multiple sclerosis (MS) have shown efficacy, but the degree of clinical benefit remains uncertain, and the optimum dose is not known. We undertook a...

Randomised double-blind placebo-controlled study of interferon beta-1a in relapsing/remitting multiple sclerosis (1998)

Ebers, GC, Rice, G, Lesaux, J, Paty, D, Oger, J, Li, DKB, ...

Background Previous trials of interferon beta in multiple sclerosis (MS) have shown efficacy, but the degree of clinical benefit remains uncertain, and the optimum dose is not known. We undertook a...

Randomised double-blind placebo-controlled study of interferon beta-1a in relapsing/remitting multiple sclerosis (1998)

Ebers, GC, Rice, G, Lesaux, J, Paty, D, Oger, J, Li, DKB, ...

Background Previous trials of interferon beta in multiple sclerosis (MS) have shown efficacy, but the degree of clinical benefit remains uncertain, and the optimum dose is not known. We undertook a...

The role of eosinophils in the pathobiology of Hodgkin's disease (1997)

Pinto, A., Aldinucci, D., Gloghini, A., Zagonel, A., Degan, M., Perin, V., ...

Background Even though the presence of a prominent tissue eosinophilia represents a common histopathologic feature of Hodgkin's disease (HD), eosinophils have been mainly regarded as ‘innocent’...

Evaluation of regional haemodynamics and alterations of vascular wall of the lower limbs in hypertensive subjects (1995)

PINTO, A., SCAGLIONE, R., GALATI, D., PATERNA, S., PARRINELLO, G., ARNONE, S., ...

This study was designed to analyse the relationship between arterial hypertension and changes in arterial blood flow and vascular wall damage of the lower limbs in hypertensive patients with various...

5-Aza-2'-deoxycytidine induces growth inhibition and upregulation of epidermal growth factor receptor on human epithelial cancer cells (1994)

Caraglia, M., Pinto, A., Correale, P., Zagonel, V., Genua, G., Leardi, A., ...

Background The epidermal growth factor (EGF-R) receptor is an important growth regulator of epithelial cancer cells, and is presently considered a tumor-associated antigen (TAA) which is...

Regression of structural vascular changes in hypertensives after captopril treatment (1992)

NOVO, S., ABRIGNANI, M. G., PINTO, A., STRANO, A.

In order to investigate whether hypertension-related structural vascular changes may be influenced by antihypertensive treatment, 10 patients were studied suffering from essential arterial...

Expression of myelomonocytic antigens is associated with unfavourable clinicoprognostic factors in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (1991)

Pinto, A., Vecchio, L. Del, Carbone, A., Roncadin, M., Volpe, R., Serraino, D., ...

The cross-lineage expression of five myelomonocytic antigens (CD11b, CD11c, CD13, CD14, and CD15) was analysed in neoplastic lymphocytes from 100 consecutive B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia...

Does Health Intervention Ameliorate the Effects of Poverty Related Diseases?--1. Experience in Rural South India (1985)

Scheer, P., Pinto, A., Tuqa, S., Ebrahim, G. J., Abel, R., Mukherjee, D.

In a community-based health programme in SouthIndia it was possible to demonstrate reduction in child mortality, especially so amongst the children of the disadvantaged. The various activities in...

The Problem of Cytomegalovirus Infection in Renal Allograft Recipients (1984)

KURTZ, J. B., THOMPSON, J. F., TING, A., PINTO, A., MORRIS, P. J.

A prospective study of the effects of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection on 145 recipients of 155 renal allografts is reported. Immunosuppression was either with azathioprine and low-dose pred nisolone...

Platelet activation after adrenergic stimulation in hypertensive patients: effects of acebutolol (1983)

DAVI', G., NOVO, S., PINTO, A., CUSTRO, N., AVERNA, M., MATTINA, A., ...

In 12 patients with arterial hypertension (stages I and II according to WHO), adrenergic stimulation was induced by the immersion of a hand in ice water for 2 min. Blood samples were withdrawn...

Inhibition of the self-renewal capacity of blast progenitors from acute myeloblastic leukemia patients by site-selective 8-chloroadenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate.

Pinto, A, Aldinucci, D, Gattei, V, Zagonel, V, Tortora, G, Budillon, A, ...

The physiologic balance between the two regulatory subunit isoforms, RI and RII, of cAMP-dependent protein kinase is disrupted in cancer cells; growth arrest and differentiation of malignant cells...

A retrovirus carrying the polyomavirus middle T gene induces acute thrombocythemic myeloproliferative disease in mice.

Fusco, A, Portella, G, Grieco, M, Tajana, G, Di Minno, G, Polli, N, ...

Mice inoculated with an artificially constructed retrovirus carrying the middle T gene of polyomavirus develop acute myeloproliferative disease with severe thrombotic and hemorrhagic disorder and...

Dissociation between transformed and differentiated phenotype in rat thyroid epithelial cells after transformation with a temperature-sensitive mutant of the Kirsten murine sarcoma virus.

Colletta, G, Pinto, A, Di Fiore, P P, Fusco, A, Ferrentino, M, Avvedimento, V E, ...

Differentiated rat thyroid epithelial cells, infected in vitro with a temperature-sensitive mutant of the Kirsten murine sarcoma virus, expressed at the permissive temperature (33 degrees C) some...

Effects on differentiation by the promyelocytic leukemia PML/RARalpha protein depend on the fusion of the PML protein dimerization and RARalpha DNA binding domains.

Grignani, F, Testa, U, Rogaia, D, Ferrucci, P F, Samoggia, P, Pinto, A, ...

The block of terminal differentiation is a prominent feature of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) and its release by retinoic acid correlates with disease remission. Expression of the APL-specific...

Interferon alpha2 recombinant and epidermal growth factor modulate proliferation and hypusine synthesis in human epidermoid cancer KB cells.

Caraglia, M, Passeggio, A, Beninati, S, Leardi, A, Nicolini, L, Improta, S, ...

We previously found that interferon alpha2 recombinant (IFNalpha) increases the expression of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGF-R) in the human epidermoid cancer KB cell line. Here we report the...

Nodular pulmonary amyloidosis.

Pinto, A, Rasmussen, S L, Campbell, T M, Lester, W M

An elderly man had a 10-year history of multiple pulmonary nodules that he had refused to have investigated. He died of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. At autopsy the nodules were shown to...

Inhibition of the self-renewal capacity of blast progenitors from acute myeloblastic leukemia patients by site-selective 8-chloroadenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate.

Pinto, A, Aldinucci, D, Gattei, V, Zagonel, V, Tortora, G, Budillon, A, ...

The physiologic balance between the two regulatory subunit isoforms, RI and RII, of cAMP-dependent protein kinase is disrupted in cancer cells; growth arrest and differentiation of malignant cells...

A retrovirus carrying the polyomavirus middle T gene induces acute thrombocythemic myeloproliferative disease in mice.

Fusco, A, Portella, G, Grieco, M, Tajana, G, Di Minno, G, Polli, N, ...

Mice inoculated with an artificially constructed retrovirus carrying the middle T gene of polyomavirus develop acute myeloproliferative disease with severe thrombotic and hemorrhagic disorder and...

Dissociation between transformed and differentiated phenotype in rat thyroid epithelial cells after transformation with a temperature-sensitive mutant of the Kirsten murine sarcoma virus.

Colletta, G, Pinto, A, Di Fiore, P P, Fusco, A, Ferrentino, M, Avvedimento, V E, ...

Differentiated rat thyroid epithelial cells, infected in vitro with a temperature-sensitive mutant of the Kirsten murine sarcoma virus, expressed at the permissive temperature (33 degrees C) some...

Effects on differentiation by the promyelocytic leukemia PML/RARalpha protein depend on the fusion of the PML protein dimerization and RARalpha DNA binding domains.

Grignani, F, Testa, U, Rogaia, D, Ferrucci, P F, Samoggia, P, Pinto, A, ...

The block of terminal differentiation is a prominent feature of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) and its release by retinoic acid correlates with disease remission. Expression of the APL-specific...

Interferon alpha2 recombinant and epidermal growth factor modulate proliferation and hypusine synthesis in human epidermoid cancer KB cells.

Caraglia, M, Passeggio, A, Beninati, S, Leardi, A, Nicolini, L, Improta, S, ...

We previously found that interferon alpha2 recombinant (IFNalpha) increases the expression of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGF-R) in the human epidermoid cancer KB cell line. Here we report the...

Nodular pulmonary amyloidosis.

Pinto, A, Rasmussen, S L, Campbell, T M, Lester, W M

An elderly man had a 10-year history of multiple pulmonary nodules that he had refused to have investigated. He died of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. At autopsy the nodules were shown to...

CD30 ligand expression in nonmalignant and Hodgkin's disease-involved lymphoid tissues.

Gruss, H. J., Pinto, A., Gloghini, A., Wehnes, E., Wright, B., Boiani, N., ...

The CD30 ligand (CD30L) is a type II transmembrane glycoprotein of the tumor necrosis factor ligand superfamily. Recent cloning of CD30L has enabled studies to explore its function and tissue...

CD40 ligand is constitutively expressed in a subset of T cell lymphomas and on the microenvironmental reactive T cells of follicular lymphomas and Hodgkin's disease.

Carbone, A., Gloghini, A., Gruss, H. J., Pinto, A.

Although CD40 has been extensively studied in B- and T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs)/leukemias, and more recently in Hodgkin's disease (HD), little is known about the expression of its ligand...

Prognostic comparative study of S-phase fraction and Ki-67 index in breast carcinoma

Pinto, A, Andre, S, Pereira, T, Nobrega, S, Soares, J

Aims—To investigate the prognostic value of recently proposed flow cytometric S-phase fraction (SPF) variables (average SPF and SPF tertiles) compared with conventional SPF, and to compare the one...

Dexamethasone improves vascular hyporeactivity induced by LPS in vivo by modulating ATP-sensitive potassium channels activity

Lippolis, L, Autore, G, Popolo, A, Marzocco, S, Sorrentino, L, ...

Septic shock represents an important risk factor for patients critically ill. This pathology has been largely demonstrated to be a result of a myriad of events. Glucocorticoids represent the main...

Castor oil increases intestinal formation of platelet-activating factor and acid phosphatase release in the rat.

Pinto, A., Calignano, A., Mascolo, N., Autore, G., Capasso, F.

1. When castor oil was administered by gavage to rats, the duodenum and jejunum but not ileum and colon produced large amounts (5-6 fold greater than control) of platelet activating factor (Paf). 2....

Effect of methylguanidine on rat blood pressure: role of endothelial nitric oxide synthase.

Sorrentino, R., Pinto, A.

1. The effect of acute i.v. administration of methylguanidine (MG) on mean arterial blood pressure (MABP) was investigated in anaesthetized male Wistar rats. 2. MG (1-30 mg kg-1 i.v.) produced an...

Effects of adrenomedullin and calcitonin gene-related peptide on airway and pulmonary vascular smooth muscle in guinea-pigs.

Pinto, A., Sekizawa, K., Yamaya, M., Ohrui, T., Jia, Y. X., Sasaki, H.

1. The airway and pulmonary vascular effects of adrenomedullin were studied in the guinea-pig isolated trachea, main bronchi and pulmonary artery in vitro and compared to the effects of calcitonin...

The inhibition by hydrocortisone of prostaglandin biosynthesis in rat peritoneal leucocytes is correlated with intracellular macrocortin levels.

Carnuccio, R., Di Rosa, M., Flower, R. J., Pinto, A.

Hydrocortisone inhibits prostaglandin generation by rat peritoneal leucocytes by releasing the polypeptide phospholipase inhibitor, macrocortin. The susceptibility of these cells to hydrocortisone is...