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Book Review of Donatella Di Cesare's "Resident Foreigners: A Philosophy of Migration"
No full textBook Review of "Resident Foreigners: A Philosophy of Migration"
Author: Donatella Di Cesar
Genetics of Mugilidae
No full textMullets (grey mullets) are a family (Mugilidae) and order of ray-finned fish found in temperate and tropical waters worldwide. There are approximately 80 species of mullet; these fish have been considered an important food source in Mediterranean Europe since Roman times. This book provides a long overdue update on the biology and ecology of mullets and features comprehensive coverage of the key features of the Mugilidae family, such as recent DNA evidence and morphological data that challenge the traditional taxonomy
Sulla critica del postmodernismo: spunti di riflessione
No full textThe aim of this contribution is twofold: in the first part the author tries to point out the distinctions between Postmodernity, Postmodernization and Postmodernism in Russia and to highlight the question of the applicability of the latter. In the second part of the article Donatella Possamai takes into consideration the influences of Internet on the development of a new Russian criticism, the possibility of fashioning a so-called ‘postmodernist criticism’, so drawing an overview of the general situation of criticism in contemporary Russia
Building Trust through Corporate Identity: An Analysis of CSR Reports and Webpages
No full textWithin the highly competitive scenario of the global economy, Donatella Malavasi investigates how the construction of identity and trust in some verbal resources is deployed by a sample of European leading companies in two different types of disclosures, CSR reports and websites. In particular, the author assumes that CSR reports are more technical and specialized documents, while webpages are rather ‘popularised’ disclosures targeted at a wider audience. Her analysis in "Building Trust through Corporate Identity: An Analysis of CRS Reports and Webpages" sets out to examine the variation in enterprises’ self-promotion as ‘impeccable’ and reliable corporate citizens in relation to the process of popularisation
Author Correction: Gluten consumption and inflammation affect the development of celiac disease in at-risk children
No full textThe original version of this Article contained an error in the spelling of the authors Renata Auricchio, Ilaria Calabrese, Martina Galatola, Donatella Cielo, Fortunata Carbone, Marianna Mancuso, Giuseppe Matarese, Riccardo Troncone, Salvatore Auricchio & Luigi Greco which were incorrectly given as Auricchio Renata, Calabrese Ilaria, Galatola Martina, Cielo Donatella, Carbone Fortunata, Mancuso Marianna, Matarese Giuseppe, Troncone Riccardo, Auricchio Salvatore & Greco Luigi. The original article has been corrected
Morphology and Morphometry Based Taxonomy of Mugilidae
No full textMembers of the family Mugilidae, generally known as mullets, are coastal marine fi shes with a worldwide distribution including all temperate, subtropical and tropical seas. They not only inhabit offshore and coastal waters, but also depending on the species, spend part or even their whole life cycle in coastal lagoons, lakes and/or rivers. A considerable period of time has passed since the last book was published on Mugilidae (Oren 1981). Many important and critical changes related to the taxonomy and systematics of this family have taken place since this last publication. We may perhaps be in the ‘middle of a revolution’, with regard to the phylogeny and taxonomy of mullets. New and more effi cient methodologies have developed in the past few decades, which improve the accurate discrimination of taxa; for example the sequencing of mitochondrial and/or nuclear genes (molecular taxonomy) and the geometric morphometrics (a relatively novel discipline which is based on the use of anatomical landmarks in order to evaluate differences in the shape of organisms). As could be expected, as a consequence of the application of these new techniques, new results have been obtained on Mugilidae, such as the appearance of cryptic species, but also confl icts have arisen at the generic and even subfamily levels. Table 1.1 summarizes the nominal genera of Mugilidae, in chronological order of appearance, with their status according to different authors. Much more work has to be done in order to clarify and consolidate the taxonomy and systematics of Mugilidae. Hence, the aim of this chapter is to review and discuss the present status of mugilid taxonomy around the world, and also to show both the traditional and new tools that can be employed to identify/ discriminate these fishes.Fil: González Castro, Mariano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mar del Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras; ArgentinaFil: Ghasemzadeh, Javad. Chabahar Maritime University; Irá
The Roman Stock Exchange between the 19th and 20th Centuries. A History of the Italian Stock Market
No full textThe goal of the author, Donatella Strangio, consists of a serious and
documented analysis of the evolution of the city through a particular
observatory, that of the Stock Exchange, considered not so much as an
exclusive or absolute protagonist of the financial market, but rather as a
subject and object of the history, certainly economic, but also social and
political, of Rome and the Papal State. In addition, this singular observa tory, despite its atypical nature, seems to be valuable for the purposes of
an overall analysis of the behaviour of the local, national and international
executive and entrepreneurial classes.
Focussing on six key historical moments, the book starts from the
decline in the Pope’s temporal power—the aforementioned breach of
Porta Pia-: an epochal event, here linked to previous institutional and
social transformations as well as to the level of nineteenth–twentieth
century internal and external relations. As the subtitle of the work explic itly states (Structure and activity of the Rome stock market between the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries: a history of the Italian stockexchange),
the periodization adopted by the Author is also unconventional.
Starting from 1821—and nevertheless attentive to some important
pre-existing joints—Strangio examines the dynamics triggered by the
Commerce Regulations to clarify how the Roman stock exchange reacted
with respect to the Risorgimento and subsequently to the establishment
of the Kingdom of Italy. Embracing both the liberal period and that of
the “Belle époque”, the study finally reaches the First World War (as
the author recalls, it was with the Great War that the “long nineteenth
century” ended and a new system of contacts and of exchanges appeared,
thanks to which the Eternal City abandoned the welfare model that had
distinguished it most in previous centuries), and then proceeds to the
following decades. This long-term approach allows Donatella Strangio to
convincingly demonstrate how, far from confining it to a more restricted
space, becoming the Italian capital greatly facilitated the evolution of the urban development trends in Rome, finally released from the nefarious
effects of the papal public debt, from which it had suffered for some time,
aggravated by the “amputation” of the territory of the Patrimony of St.
Peter, after 1861. The rhythms imposed by being the capital influenced
all sectors and economic sectors of the city, from industry to the tertiary
sector.
Rome Capital City therefore traces the historical evolution of the
legislation that is the object of its investigation, the role of financial inter mediaries, and the functions of the decision-making and control bodies
that were part of the Rome Stock Exchange, in particular in light of the
consolidation of the British capitalist model and the Northern European
one.
An unusual picture emerges, a picture that portrays the complex finan cial mechanisms of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries but also the
broad world of Roman entrepreneurship, which, moreover, can benefit
from the in-depth analysis of stock exchanges between 1860 and 1870,
as well as share prices up to the Great War, the Depression and the
consolidation of the Fascist period
Phylogenetic analysis of mediterranean mugilids by allozymes and 16S mt-rRNA genes investigation: Are the mediterranean species of Liza monophyletic
No full textThe family Mugilidae (Pisces, Mugiliformes) includes species which are present in all tropical and temperate regions. Six species, Chelon labrosus, Mugil cephalus, Liza aurata, L. ramada, L. saliens, Oedalechilus labeo, are commonly found in the Mediterranean. These species have been widely studied through morphological, biochemical, and molecular markers. However, their phylogenetic relationships, and therefore the assumed monophyly of Liza species, still remain unclear. To further investigate this topic, gene-enzyme systems and sequences of the partial 16S rRNA mitochondrial gene were analyzed in Italian samples of all six Mediterranean species. The phylogenetic reconstructions indicated M. cephalus as being the most divergent species and the existence of a main cluster including all the Mediterranean species of Liza and C. labrosus. The parametric bootstrap approach adopted to test alternative phylogenetic hypotheses indicated that the Mediterranean species of Liza do not form a monophyletic group exclusive of Chelon
Cytogenetic analysis of Liza ramada (Pisces, Perciformes) by different staining techiques and fluorescent in situ hybridization
No full textPhylogeographic relationships among worldwide populations of the cosmopolitan marine species, the striped gray mullet (Mugil cephalus), investigated by partial cytochrome b gene sequences. BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMATICS AND ECOLOGY, 39: 121-131(2011)
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