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Carli P., Frusciante L., Ercolano M.R. Complex traits analysis for dissecting traits affecting tomato organoleptic quality. Taste and Food Acceptance", Chemistry and Molecular Biology of Sweet, Bitter and Unami Tastes. Procida 14-17 aprile 2010
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Ercolano M.R., Carli P., Arima S., Fogliano V., Tardella L., Barone A. Complex network analysis of traits affecting tomato organoleptic quality. The 5th Solanaceae Genome Workshop. Cologne (Germany) 12-16 ottobre 2008, pag 172
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Faino L., Carli P., Carputo D., Frusciante L., Ercolano M.R Differential expression profiling for rapid identification of disease resistance genes in two tomato isogenic lines. Atti XLIX Convegno Annuale Siga Potenza 12-15 settembre D.47 (2005).
No full textGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Digital and Printed Text Comprehension in First Graders: The role of Medium and Word Reading Skills
No full textThe present study investigated the contribution of reading medium, word reading skills (i.e., word reading accuracy and fluency), and the interaction between these factors to text comprehension in beginner readers who use technology for school learning. In addition, the contribution of reading medium on beginner readers’ preference for text presentation was analyzed. First graders (N = 115; mean age = 6;8 years) read narrative and informational texts on paper and on a computer screen, and answered questions on the main idea, literal and inferential comprehension. Medium preference questions and a word reading task were also administered. Results from logistic mixed models showed that the main idea and literal comprehension were greater on screen and for higher word reading skills. Inferential comprehension was lower on screen at lower levels of word reading skills but became similar for the two mediums as word reading skills increased. Finally, results from linear mixed models showed that children had no clear medium preference. The main results show that beginner readers who use technology for learning and are fast and accurate in word reading display no comprehension disadvantage in digital reading
Post-pandemic trajectories of work in the city and public spaces
No full textDuring the Coronavirus emergency that we are still navigating (summer 2022), public space, despite having the quantitative capacity to withstand the impact of the pandemic, has not proven to have the flexibility needed to accommodate and put its new usage requirements in order. It is therefore essential to interject, as soon as possible, to bring elements of flexibility, organisation and optimisation to public space within the design of the city, which require the engagement of its citizens, above all in its management. This contribution identifies, through both pre and post-pandemic examples and international research, certain trajectories of work for the coming years, with regard to the need to define new standards for indoor and outdoor design and new models for activity in public spaces, in order to render them more practical and create the vision of the “15 minute city/neighbourhood”, as a possible healthcare facility to combat future episodes of infectious disease by way of the flexible and adaptive design of public space, in which multifunctional regeneration of infrastructure could have a more important role
EARLY MOTOR DEVELOPMENT: BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ACROSS THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF LIFE
No full textGreat variability is described in the delay and achievement of motor growth’s milestones, due to the influence of both genetic/inborn and contextual variables (e.g., socioeconomic status, parent-child interactions). According to the differential susceptibility model, specific temperamental traits, such as infant negative emotionality, define the perimeter of environmental effects on child development, limiting or extending parental effects. The principal aim of the present study is to investigate the interdependence of dispositional (child’s negative emotionality) and environmental (maternal depression) factors in determining the motor development's quality across the first two years of children’s life. Using a cross-sectional study, we assessed 299 infants, 0 to 24 months old, and their mothers. Infants’ motor development was assessed with the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales, 3rd Edition; maternal depression was measured using the Center for Epidemiological Studies - Depression, and Negative Emotionality with the Italian Questionnaires for Temperament.
Results highlighted that child’s overall motor growth is differently shaped by the interaction of infants’ negative emotionality and maternal depression across time. In particular, infants low in negative emotionality display no effect of depression on motor development. Conversely, infants with high negative emotionality are likely to be affected by maternal depression. Specifically, high maternal depression tends to foster the negative effect of infant’s negativity on motor development across time, while the absence of maternal depression significantly buffers infant’s negative temperament. Taken as a whole, our findings suggest a role of maternal depression and child’s temperament (negative emotionality) in shaping motor development trajectories. It appears that the temperamental trait of negative emotionality constitutes an individual vulnerability for the motor growth only when a child’s environment is unfavorable. Results are in line with the current neurobiological models of child development, where the infants’ inborn disposition of negative emotionality makes them more susceptible to the effects of the relational context
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