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Trade-offs between sampling effort and data quality in habitat monitoring
No full textThe transect method has been widely used to monitor habitat conservation status and has been recently recommended as the best tool to monitor steep ecological gradients, such as those in coastal systems. Despite that, the effectiveness of the transect approach can be limited when considering the sampling effort in terms of time needed for sampling. Our work aimed at evaluating the efficacy of the transect approach in a Mediterranean coastal system. Specifically we aimed at evaluating the sampling effort versus the completeness of datasets obtained by performing belt transects in different ways specifically designed to progressively reduce the sampling effort: (i) sampling plots adjacently (“adjacent-plot transect”); (ii) sampling plots alternately (“alternate-plot transect”); (iii) sampling one plot at each plant community along the vegetation zonation (“zonation-plot transect”). We evaluated method efficiency in terms of number and type of habitats identified, spatial extent, species richness and composition, through multivariate analyses, null models and rarefaction curves. The sampling effort was measured in terms of time needed for sampling. The zonation-plot transect had the lowest sampling effort, but provided only an approximation of the state of the dunal communities. The alternate-plot transect showed the best trade-off between the sampling effort and the completeness of information obtained, and may be considered as a efficient option in very wide coastal systems. Our research provides guidelines that can be used in other coastal systems to choose the most cost-effective monitoring method thereby maximising the efficient use of monitoring resources
The reinforced fiscal derivation, the civil postulates of faithful representation of measuring of the economical facts object of accounting/correctness/understandabilit y and the civil and penalty legitimacy of the financial reporting The role of understandability in civil and penalty matters
No full textI PARADIGMI NORMATIVI DELL’AMMINISTRAZIONE PSICHIATRICA. Servizi territoriali e strumenti per l’autodeterminazione terapeutica a quarant’anni dalla Legge Basaglia
No full textThe paper tries to bring a systematic unity of the legal institutes ruling the therapeutic treatment for mental illness. With reference to the structure of public health services, the extension of contractual liability as prescribed by art. 1218 (Italian civil code), might allow to avoid that the lack of a positive law could lead to a lack of rights. The fact that the therapeutic treatment can be imposed to the patient just to ensure public safety is not in compliance with article 32 (of the Italian Constitution) and with the principle of solidarity. The case of the “tutor and administrator of incapa-ble” deciding whether agreeing on the treatment or not must be subsumed under ar-ticle 32 paragraph 2 of the Italian Constitution, Public administration’s “weak identity” in the psychiatric environment affects the health professionals’ liabilities
From Shadow to Light. Inscriptions in Liminal Spaces of Roman Sacred Architecture (11th–12th Century)
No full textBeyond Water Stress: Structural Adjustment and Macroeconomic Consequences of the Emerging Water Scarcity
No full textCervantes y Venecia: una nota a El licenciado Vidriera sobre las crónicas de Indias
No full textThe cervantine encomium of Venice in The licenciate Vidriera is a small corography that includes a comparison with Mexico, according to a similarity forged in a chain of Indian chronicles. So, this passage constitutes a good example of Cervantes’ interest of America and its historiographical tradition, while it allows to explain the offered image of the city in contrast of other negative contemporary opinions.El elogio cervantino a Venecia en El licenciado Vidrieraes una pequeña corografía que abarca una comparación con México, de acuerdo con una semejanza forjada en una cadena de crónicas de Indias. Así, el pasaje constituye un buen ejemplo del interés de Cervantes tanto por América como por su tradición historiográfica, al tiempo que también permite explicar la imagen ofrecida de la ciudad en contraste con otras negativas visiones coetáneas
Il Discorso dell'essenza del fato di Baccio Baldini. Riflessioni a margine e testo
No full textThis contribution describes specific aspects of the dispute on the concept of fate developed during the Renaissance, starting from the publication and commentary of the Discorso dell’essenza del fato published by Baccio Baldini in 1578. This text emerged from the cultural context of the Florentine Academy and reacted to an array of philosophical and philological works circulating during the same period. The genesis, methodology and literary fortune of Baldini’s work will be analysed in relation to explicit and implicit models
DOPO PASSAROWITZ: COMMERCIO, INFORMAZIONE E SANITÀ PUBBLICA FRA L’ADRIATICO E IL TIRRENO
No full textFollowing the Peace of Passarowitz, the Mediterranean Sea saw an increase in the circulation of goods and people as well as of information, and also a wider informative system on how diseases spread. The essay offers a Mediterranean and European overview, focusing on the ports of Venice, Trieste and Livorno. It then considers the global debate on smallpox vaccination, and finishes considering the role of seaports in the 18th-century cultural, health and scientific information routes, as well as the continuous negotiation between institutions and social classes on health protection and freedom of commerce, that ended in creating new strategies and new communication products
Benign-by-design advanced nanomaterials for environmental and energy-related applications
No full textSociety is facing significant daunting challenges in the 21st century, mostly related to the availability of resources, climate change, energy demands, water supply, and efficiency of processes for a more sustainable development. The future generations will have to address those issues through a multidisciplinary approach encompassing disciplines including (bio)chemistry, materials science, and engineering in an unprecedented coordinated monitoring and modeling of many factors, from social to economic, and environmental standpoints. This major task will be
possible only by a multistakeholder global strategy involving not only natural and social scientists and
engineers but also the industrial world, the civil society, and government
