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The Mallet Project: from an earthquake laboratory to laboratories on the territory
No full textOn December 16, 1857, an earthquake wreaked havoc across a huge area of the regions of Basilicata and Campania (Val d’Agri and Vallo di Diano). More than 180 villages in an area of over 20,000 km2 suffered very severe damage. More than 6,000 houses collapsed or became uninhabitable, and 19,000 people were killed. In the months of February and March 1858, the Irish engineer Robert Mallet undertook a mission to study the earthquake with a grant from the Royal Society of London. In 1862, he published his extraordinary study diary, in which the technical and scientific observations mingled with descriptive and literary details. This represents, from different angles, a unique ‘observatory’ over the landscape and the social, economic and cultural aspects of Val d’Agri and Vallo di Diano. In 2003, the Provinces of Salerno and Potenza started up a joint venture with the Storia Geofisica Ambiente of Bologna and with the scientific partnership of the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, with a view to setting up provincial laboratories dedicated to environmental education, and named after Robert Mallet. The Mallet Project proceeded up to 2009 on three agreements. Within the framework of the idea of a ‘Mallet Laboratories’ Project, there has been the opportunity to set up a network of study centers in the territories of these two provinces (Salerno and Potenza), which can promote research with great national and international breadth, starting with the world of schools and local communities. The study entitled Viaggio nelle aree del terremoto del 16 dicembre 1857 was published through the period from 2004 to 2009.</p
Portrait of the Author in (Him/Her)self
No full textA fragment of a philosophical essay by Jean-Luc Nancy and Federico Ferrari titled Iconographie dell’auteur (Paris, 2005), published for the first time in Polish, that addresses the problem of a relationship between the image of the author and his/her work
Comparison of Bacterial and Archaeal Microbiome in Two Bioreactors Fed with Cattle Sewage and Corn Biomass
No full textThe bacterial and archaeal communities of two full-scale biogas producing plants (P1 and P2), associated with a 999 kW
cogeneration unit, both located in North Italy, were analyzed at start up and fully operating phases, by means of various
molecular approaches: (i) Automated Ribosomal Intergenic Spacer Analysis; (ii) cloning and sequencing of PCR amplicons
of archaeal genes 16Srrna and mcrA; (iii) 16S rDNA high throughput next generation sequencing. P1 and P2 use the same
technology and both were fed with cattle manure and corn silage. During the study of P1 also the post digester (fed with
pig manure) was analyzed. The aim of this research was to characterize the bacterial and archaeal communities in two very
similar plants to profile the core microbiota. The results of this analysis highlighted that the two plants (producing comparable
quantities of volatile fatty acids, biogas, and energy) differed in anerobic microbiota (Bacteria and Archaea). Notably
the methanogenic community of P1 was dominated by the strict acetoclastic Methanosaeta (Methanothrix) (up to 23.05%)
and the unculturable Candidatus Methanofastidiosum (up to 32.70%), while P2 was dominated by the acetoclastic, but more
substrate-versatile, Methanosarcina archaeal genus (49.19%). The data demonstrated that the performances of plants with
identical design, in similar operating conditions, yielding comparable amount of biogas (average of 7237 m3
day−1 and 7916 m3 day−1 respectively for P1 and P2), VFA (1643 mg L−
1 and 1634 mg L−1) and energy recovery (23.90–24 MWh day−1), depend on the stabilization of effective and functionally optimized methanogenic communities, but these communities aretaxonomically different in the two biodigesters
Hemoreological changes and overproduction of cytokines from immune cells in mild to moderate dementia of teh Alzheimer’s type: adverse effects on cerebromicrovascular system
No full textCorrection to: The decrease of non-complicated acute appendicitis and the negative appendectomy rate during pandemic (European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, (2021), 10.1007/s00068-021-01663-7)
No full textThe original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. The Acknowledgement with the members of the Appendicitis- COVID study group is missing. The correct version of is given below. Acknowledgements Members of the Appendicitis-COVID study group: Monza: Marco Nizzardo, Luca Nespoli, Luca Fattori, Luca Degrate, Stefano Perrone, Marco Cereda Bergamo: Michele Pisano, Elia Poiasina, Paolo Bertoli Lodi: Michele Ballabio, Stefano Braga Pavia: Giorgio Graziano Pisa: DarioTartaglia, Francesco Arces Lecco: Marco Mariani, Fulvio Tagliabue Parma: Gennaro Perrone, Alfredo Annicchiarico, Mario Giuffrida Legnano: Giovanni Ferrari, Antonio Benedetti, Niccolò Allievi Ponte San Pietro: Michele Ciocca, Enrico Pinotti, Mauro Montuori San Raffaele: Michele Carlucci, Valentina Tomajer Cesena: Paola Fugazzola The original article has been corrected
Comment on “The Curious Case of the 1346 Earthquake Recorded Only by Very Young Chroniclers” by Romano Camassi and Viviana Castelli
No full textThe article by Camassi and Castelli (2013) (hereinafter CC13) deals with the 1346, northern Italy earthquake, one of hundreds of medieval earthquakes that were investigated in Italy from 1983 to 2007. Regrettably, the article does not add any new data but only proposes a revision and a reinterpretation of published materials. CC13 first criticized the variability of magnitude estimates assigned to this earthquake in catalogs published in Italy over the past 20 years, then went so far as to question whether the 1346 earthquake actually occurred. Their analysis, however, is fraught with demonstrable mistakes in the analysis of medieval texts, such that their conclusions are objectionable both from the point of view of historical criticism and from that of historical seismology. Such conclusions may critically affect the assessment of seismic hazard in a heavily populated and industrialized portion of the Po Plain (northern Italy), right at a time when the threat posed by strong earthquakes in this region is being rediscovered by the citizens and by their administrators following the 20 and 29 May 2012, Emilia events (Mw 6.0 and 5.9). As the coauthors of the catalogs being questioned, we feel an obligation to re-establish what is the evidence supporting 1346 being a real major earthquake and why its magnitude is still uncertain
Introduzione a: G. F. Cromaz Pagine goriziane. Liberal-nazionali e cattolici popolari italiani al Comune di Gorizia (1851-1914)
No full textThe author describes the activity of the communal administration in Gorizia from 1848 to 1918. He uses documents of the communal archive and of a former communal adviser, Luigi Faidutti, leader of christian-social party in the austrian Friuli. The essay gives an important place to discussion about the creation of a public water service
"Prefazione" a Luigi Iperti, "Storie di Frontiera. Il secondo dopoguerra ai confini occidentali", Genova, De Ferrari, 2020, pp. 13-16.
No full textSecuring XML documents with author-X
No full textAuthor-X is a Java-based system that addresses the security issues of access control and policy design for XML document administration. Author-X supports the specification of policies at varying granularity levels and the specification of user credentials as a way to enforce access control. Access control is available according to both push and pull document distribution policies, and document updates are distributed through a combination of hash functions and digital signature techniques. The Author-X approach to distributed updates allows a user to verify a document's integrity without contacting the document server
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