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Recovering biodiversity and ecosystem functions in a dismissed quarry: a virtuous case study in Southern Italy
No full textExtraction and mining activities cause long-term impacts on local ecosystems, inevitably
affecting biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Scientific research is helping to raise
the awareness of mining companies toward the environmental issues created by their
activities and promoting a change in paradigm toward the searching for concrete
solutions counteracting and reversing the effects of resources exploitation by means of
ecological restoration. The AMER S.R.L. company, in collaboration with the University
of Salerno, offers a virtuous example of monitoring, management and ecological
restoration of a dismissed limestone quarry in Southern Italy. Its program, leveraging on
a circular economy perspective, uses various organic and inorganic recovered materials
for the infill and restoration of the quarry, with the aim to promote the revegetation of the area by indigenous plant communities. In this context, the present research aims at
monitoring the evolution of the system in order to develop adaptive and effective
strategies for its ecological restoration. The results of the initial characterisation of the
area show a landscape characterized by a highly heterogenous mosaic of habitats,
mainly consisting of four plant physiognomies (mixed woodland, shrubland dominated
by deciduous species, garrigue, dry grassland) insisting on a calcite bedrock. The infill
material, characterized by 8,87±0,72% organic matter and an alkaline pH (9,09±0,10), promoted the initial colonization by synanthropic and tolerant species mainly belonging
to Chenopodiaceae, Graminaceae, Solanaceae and Caryophyllaceae. Interestingly,
several species were found to be highly colonized by arbuscular mycorrhizas belonging
to the Glomus genus, which would likely support the further revegetation of the area. In
this context, germination tests are underway in order to select species able to colonize
the novel substrate and accelerate system recovery, which will be investigated in situ in
terms of seasonal dynamics of vegetation and edaphic structural and functional
biodiversity, as well as of soil chemical and physical characteristics. The continuous
monitoring will provide the needed information to ensure the adaptability of the
restoration intervention to the evolving system, which will represent a benchmark for the development of sustainable strategies tackling the recovery of dismissed quarries
Il primo tempio civico per la devozione mariana nell'età della Controriforma - Una nuova lettura della chiesa dedicata alla Madonna detta "del Paradiso"
No full textIl recente intervento di restauro ha offerto l'occasione per un ulteriore approfondimento di ricerche e studi sulla chiesa di Santa Maria degli Angeli detta del Paradiso, dal nome di una fonte che le cronache del tempo ricordavano di acqua buonissima che si trovava nelle vicinanze: fu il primo importante luogo di culto dedicato esclusivamente alla devozione mariana edificato a Modena nell'età della Controriforma
Da tempio civico a cappella conventuale: Santa Maria degli Angeli, detta il Paradisino
No full textIndagine storica e analisi stilistica e costruttiva di una chiesa ad uso palatino commissionata dai duchi d'Este a Moden
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Parola detta e sasso tirato non tornano indietro
No full textTracciando la storia del pro-verbio «parola detta e sasso tirato non tornano indietro», cerchiamo di offrire un esempio illustrativo della sopravvivenza dellatradizione gnomico-proverbiale greco-latina nelle lingue moderne, tramite il suo passaggio attraver-so la latinità medievale e rinascimentale. L’equiva-lenza proverbiale della parola detta con la pietra lanciata che non ha ritorno, è documentata, quasi con la stessa formulazione, dal secolo V a.C., in un frammento del poeta tragico Euripide (fr. 1044, Kannicht), ed in altri testi greci. Poi si ritrova anche nella letteratura latina antica, e due passi di Orazio hanno contribuito particolarmente alla vasta diffu-sione in latino medievale e nelle lingue moderne dell’idea proverbiale che analizziamo. Fin dal XIII secolo, la nostra idea proverbiale è frequentemente documentata nelle letterature delle lingue verna-colari, e le raccolte di proverbi e sentenze del Ri-nascimento e quelle posteriori raccolgono anche in modo profuso le sue differenti varianti
Villa Pisani detta ̋Villa Nazionale“
No full textScheda riguardante gli affreschi ottocenteschi in Villa Pisani detta ̋Villa Nazionale" a Stra di Giuseppe Borsato, Giovancarlo Bevilacqua e Pietro Mor
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Sessualità e diritto. Atti Congressuali del XXXII Congresso Nazionale detta Società italiana di Medicina legale e dette assicurazioni e del XIV Convegno di Criminologia e Psichiatria forense
No full textIl volume è diviso in quattro parti, la prima delle quali attiene al tema generale "Sessualità e diritto", che viene esaminato in rapporto agli aspetti della ricerca, del controllo e della soppressione della fertilità, detta patologia materno fetale e delle sue problematiche medico-legali, del transessualismo, della criminalistica medico-legale nei reati a presunta valenza sessuale, detta valutazione medico-legale del danno alla funzione sessuale edotta capacità di procreare.Nelle partì successive vengono analizzati, in un'ottica multi ed inter-disciplinare, i rapporti tra il progetto di riforma del codice penale presentato nel 1995 e la Medicina legale, la problematica del danno biologico ed il tema del ruolo della Medicina legale nel nuovo sistema previdenziale
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