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Studio delle comunità di insetti associati alla decomposizione cadaverica in una area periferica della città di Parma
No full textPreliminary observations on necrophagous insects visiting a pig carrion and decomposition effects on soil fauna.
No full textEntomological evidence can be a useful tool in forensic studies; however, to precise information about time and place of death maximally, it is necessary to have climatic and biogeographic parameters of the site where the object of studies is located.
As no data are reported on Parma province on necrophagous insects visiting corpses, a pig carrion was placed in a rural place along the right side of Baganza channel and necrophagous insects were studied during the colonization process. The study started the 28th October 2005 and it finished on the 5th December 2005. Despite low temperatures (average temperature 10° C) many insects were found.
Calliphoridae, Muscidae and Fannidae were the most represented families. Results, as reported in previous studies performed in similar environments, show that the first flies to reach the carrion were Lucilia caesar (Linnaeus, 1758) and Calliphora vomitoria (Linnaeus, 1758)2 which deposed eggs on the second day. To evaluate the time elapsed since the death (PMI), the developmental time of various necrobiont flies was measured using Marchenko's method.
In order to evaluate effects of decomposition processes on edaphic mesofauna different soil samples taken beneath the carrion and at one meter distance were analysed and compared. Differences in microarthropods community structures of these two samples were found
Studio delle modificazioni temporali della comunità di Acari e Collemboli nel suolo sotto carcasse di origine animale: implicazioni forensi
No full textCharacterization of necrophagous entomofauna in a typical agricultural area in Emilia-Romagna region (Northern Italy)
No full textVariations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Effect of temperature and diet on Plodia interpunctella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) development with special reference to Isomegalen diagram and accumulated degree days
No full textImmature development times of the Indian meal moth, Plodia interpunctella were studied in the laboratory at four different constant temperatures (20, 23, 25, 27°C) reared on a standard diet (D1) and chocolate (D2). The minimal duration of development from oviposition to adult emergence was inversely related to temperature, ranging from 2.3±0.36 days to 50.5±0.5 days for D1 and from 36.7±0.53 days to 106.73±1.10 days for D2 for 27°C and 20°C, respectively. The minimum development threshold (tL), obtained from linear regression model of the development rates at the four studied constant temperature regimes, for total immature development is 15.3°C and 17.1°C for D1 and D2, respectively and the accumulated degree days (ADD) for P. interpunctella is 249.51°C for D1 and 358.4°C for D2 above the threshold
Harmonic generation in an ionized gas medium with a 100-femtosecond, high repetition rate laser source at intermediate intensities
No full textBlack soldier fly (Hermetia illucens L.) as a high-potential agent for bioconversion of municipal primary sewage sludge
No full textThe treatment of municipal wastewater produces clean water and sewage sludge (MSS), the management of which has become a serious problem in Europe. The typical destination of MSS is to spread it on land, but the presence of heavy metals and pollutants raises environmental and health concerns. Bioconversion mediated by larvae of black soldier fly (BSFL) Hermetia illucens (Diptera, Stratiomyidae: Hermetiinae) may be a strategy for managing MSS. The process adds value by generating larvae which contain proteins and lipids that are suitable for feed and/or for industrial or energy applications, and a residue as soil conditioner. MSS from the treatment plant of Ladispoli (Rome province) was mixed with an artificial fly diet at 50% and 75% (fresh weight basis) to feed BSFL. Larval performance, substrate reduction, and the concentrations of 12 metals in the initial and residual substrates and in larval bodies at the end of the experiments were assessed. Larval survival (> 96%) was not affected. Larval weight, larval development, larval protein and lipid content, and waste reduction increased in proportion the increase of the co-substrate (fly diet). The concentration of most of the 12 elements in the residue was reduced and, in the cases of Cu and Zn, the quantities dropped under the Italian national maximum permissible content for fertilizers. The content of metals in mature larvae did not exceed the maximum allowed concentration in raw material for feed for the European Directive. This study contributes to highlight the potential of BSF for MSS recovery and its valorization. The proportion of fly diet in the mixture influenced the process, and the one with the highest co-substrate percentage performed best. Future research using other wastes or by-products as co-substrate of MSS should be explored to determine their suitability
[Newspaper Clipping: Author Claims Evidence of Second JFK Assassin #1]
No full textNewspaper article titled "Author Claims Evidence of Second JFK Assassin." The article states that author Richard J. Whalen concluded "that there is circumstantial evidence to support the theory of a second assassin in the shooting of President John F. Kennedy.
Also By The Same Author: AKTiveAuthor, a Citation Graph Approach to Name Disambiguation
No full textThe desire for definitive data and the semantic web drive for inference over heterogeneous data sources requires co-reference resolution to be performed on those data. In particular, name disambiguation is required to allow accurate publication lists, citation counts and impact measures to be determined. This paper describes a graph-based approach to author disambiguation on large-scale citation networks. Using self-citation, co-authorship and document source analyses, AKTiveAuthor clusters papers, achieving precision of 0.997 and recall of 0.818 over a test group of eight surname clusters
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