About the Authors

Concetta De Pasquale

Contributed equally to this work with: Concetta De Pasquale, Daniela Conti, Maria Luisa Pistorio, Pasquale Fatuzzo, Massimiliano Veroux, Santo Di Nuovo

Affiliations Vascular Surgery and Organ Transplant Unit, Department of Medical, Surgery Sciences and Advanced Technologies “G.F. Ingrassia”, University of Catania, Catania, Italy, Department of Educational Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Daniela Conti

Contributed equally to this work with: Concetta De Pasquale, Daniela Conti, Maria Luisa Pistorio, Pasquale Fatuzzo, Massimiliano Veroux, Santo Di Nuovo

d.conti@shu.ac.uk

Affiliation Faculty of Arts, Computing, Engineering and Science, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Maria Luisa Pistorio

Contributed equally to this work with: Concetta De Pasquale, Daniela Conti, Maria Luisa Pistorio, Pasquale Fatuzzo, Massimiliano Veroux, Santo Di Nuovo

Affiliation Vascular Surgery and Organ Transplant Unit, Department of Medical, Surgery Sciences and Advanced Technologies “G.F. Ingrassia”, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Pasquale Fatuzzo

Contributed equally to this work with: Concetta De Pasquale, Daniela Conti, Maria Luisa Pistorio, Pasquale Fatuzzo, Massimiliano Veroux, Santo Di Nuovo

Affiliation Department of Medical and Paediatric Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Massimiliano Veroux

Contributed equally to this work with: Concetta De Pasquale, Daniela Conti, Maria Luisa Pistorio, Pasquale Fatuzzo, Massimiliano Veroux, Santo Di Nuovo

Affiliation Vascular Surgery and Organ Transplant Unit, Department of Medical, Surgery Sciences and Advanced Technologies “G.F. Ingrassia”, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Santo Di Nuovo

Contributed equally to this work with: Concetta De Pasquale, Daniela Conti, Maria Luisa Pistorio, Pasquale Fatuzzo, Massimiliano Veroux, Santo Di Nuovo

Affiliation Department of Educational Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Data curation: DC MLP. Formal analysis: DC MLP. Investigation: CD DC MLP. Methodology: SD. Project administration: CD SD. Resources: CD MV PF. Supervision: CD SD. Validation: MV PF. Visualization: DC. Writing – original draft: CD DC. Writing – review & editing: CD DC MLP PF MV SD.