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Life Cycle Assessment and Integrated Waste Management
No full textQuesto rapporto raccoglie i lucidi utilizzati dall'ing. P. Masoni nel corso della presentazione invitata tenuta all'Italian-Russian Workshop on Environmental Quality in Urban Areas, Ravenna 23-27 November 1998. Il workshop era finalizzato allo scambio di conoscenze tra esperti italiani e russi, coprendo sia gli aspetti scientifici che tecnologici della qualit ̋ ambientale delle aree urbane. Esso À stato promosso e finanziato dal Ministero per gli Affari Esteri. La relazione qui riportata presenta, dopo una sintesi dello stato dell'arte della metodologia di valutazione del ciclo di vita (Life Cycle Assessment, LCA) alcuni spunti relativi all'utilizzabilit ̋ di tale metodologia per l'ottimizzazione energetico-ambientale dei sistemi integrati di gestione dei rifiuti (Integrated Waste Management)
Applications Exploiting e-Infrastructures Across Europe and India Within the EU-IndiaGrid Project
Full text linkIn the last few years e-Infrastructures across Europe and India faced remarkable developments. Both national and international connectivity improved considerably and Grid Computing also profited of significant developments.
As a consequence scientific applications were in the position of taking substantial benefits from this progress. The most relevant cases are represented by High Energy Physics (with
the contribution to the program of Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva) and Nano Science (exploiting NKN-TEIN3-GEANT interconnection for crystallography experiments with the remote access & control of experimental facility at the ESRF Synchrotron based in Grenoble, France directly from Mumbai, India). Other relevant application areas include Climate Change research, Biology, and several areas in Material Science.
Within this framework, in the last five years period two specific EU funded projects (the EU-IndiaGrid and EU-IndiaGrid2) played a bridging role supporting several applications that exploited these advanced e-Infrastructures for the benefit of Euro-India common research programs.
A crucial important part in the projects activity was the support offered to selected applications which ranges from the training the user communities behind up to the porting
of their scientific applications on the grid computing infrastructure.
This article aims to present and review the main e Infrastructures development in India and their full exploitation by scientific applications with a focus on the role played by the EUIndiaGrid and EU-IndiaGrid2 projects
Picture books e uso narrativo della lingua inglese
No full textIl contributo si rivolge agli insegnanti della scuola primaria e focalizza l’apprendimento di una
lingua straniera, nel caso concreto dell’inglese, con la modalità narrativa dello storytelling.
L’autrice propone l’uso di picture books redatti per madrelingua che, grazie alle particolarità
linguistiche che li caratterizzano come il lessico in contesto e la ripetizione di strutture,
permettono un approccio autentico e creativo alla lingua straniera coinvolgendo abilità diverse,
sia orali che scritte. Licia Masoni analizza diversi esempi linguistici tratti dai materiali descritti
ponendo l’accento sulle dimensioni sonora, ritmica, artistica, ludica, o più specificamente
fraseologica e tematica della lingua in essi utilizzata. Conclude poi il suo contributo auspicando
che l’acquisizione di una lingua straniera attraverso la narrazione crei nei bambini un’abitudine
all’oralità che li stimoli ad utilizzare la lingua straniera anche in contesti quotidiani
Stephanocampta masoni Yoshimoto 1990
No full textStephanocampta masoni (Yoshimoto, 1990) (Figs 4–11) Hadromymar masoni Yoshimoto 1990: 86. Stephanocampta masoni (Yoshimoto): Huber & Lin 1999: 40. Non-type material examined. Costa Rica, Heredia: Estación Biológica La Selva: 50–150 m, iv–v. 1993, P. Hanson [1 ♀, UCRC]; 10 ° 43 'N 84 °02'W, 16.viii. 1995, ALAS [1 ♀, UCRC]. 16 km SSE of La Virgen, 10 ° 16 'N 84 °05'W, 1050–1150 m, INBio-OET-ALAS Transect, ii. 2001, M. Sharkey [2 ♂, UCRC]. Taxonomic notes. Yoshimoto (1990) described S. masoni from three females: the holotype from Costa Rica (Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde, Puntarenas, 1500 m elevation), one paratype from Ecuador (Sacha [Lodge], Napo), and one paratype from Panama (15 km NW of El Hato de Volcán, Chiriquí, 1200 m elevation). The type series is deposited in the Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (CNC). While sorting UCRC Neotropical specimens of Stephanocampta, the second author of this communication noticed that more than one species appeared to be represented by specimens from Costa Rica, and that these did not appear to be conspecific with the S. masoni paratype from Ecuador. John T. Huber (CNC) was requested to check the type series of S. masoni and measure the length of its holotype (indicated in the original description as 2.0 mm) and the number of funicular segments (originally described as 6 -segmented). Dr. Huber informed us that the correct body length of the holotype is 0.455 mm, that the funicle is 7 -segmented (F 2 is very short, about as long as wide). The body length of a drymounted, critical point-dried non-type female from Estación Biológica La Selva is 0.528 mm. Moreover, the female paratype from Ecuador is not a Stephanocampta but a Camptoptera sp. (J.T. Huber, personal communication). An antenna and a fore wing that were imaged in Yoshimoto (1990, fig. 17 and fig. 61, respectively) are mounted on a slide; these had been removed, along with one hind wing, from the paratype from Panama, which is conspecific with the holotype (J.T. Huber, pers. comm.). The specimen of S. masoni used for the scanning electron micrograph (Yoshimoto 1990, fig. 131) must have been yet another specimen, which was not part of the type series because it has both pairs of wings. To facilitate recognition of S. masoni, we illustrate both sexes based on the UCRC non-type specimens from Costa Rica. Images of the female from Estación Biológica La Selva (head: Fig. 4, antenna: Fig. 5, mesosoma and metasoma: Fig. 6, and fore and hind wings: Fig. 7) were kindly compared by Dr. Huber with the holotype and the paratype from Panama. We also provide a brief description of the male because it was unknown previously, though Huber & Lin (1999) had mentioned one undetermined male of a Stephanocampta sp. Description. MALE. Body length of a dry-mounted, critical point-dried specimen 0.3 mm, that of a slide-mounted specimen 0.578 mm. Head dark brown to black, rest of body dark brown; appendages light brown to brown. Antenna (Fig. 8) with scape 5.2 × as long as wide; flagellum 10 -segmented, F 1 about 0.8 × length of F 3, F 2 ring-like (much wider than long). Mesosoma (Fig. 9) longer than metasoma (Fig. 10). Fore wing (Fig. 11) 7.7 × as long as wide; hind wing (Fig. 11) about 18 × as long as wide. Genitalia (Fig. 10) length 60 µm.Published as part of Aquino, Daniel A. & Triapitsyn, Serguei V., 2014, New World Stephanocampta (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) — descriptions of a new species from Argentina and of the male of S. masoni, pp. 446-450 in Zootaxa 3866 (3) on pages 448-449, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3866.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/22736
Psilus masoni Muesebeck 1980
No full textPsilus masoni Muesebeck, 1980: 3, 6, 13, figs 12, 28, 39, 53, 54. Valid name Psilus masoni Muesebeck, 1980. Summary of types Paratype ♂.Published as part of Notton, David G., 2014, A catalogue of the types of Diapriinae (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) at the Natural History Museum, London, pp. 1-123 in European Journal of Taxonomy 75 on page 85, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2014.75, http://zenodo.org/record/386277
Charnia masoni Holotype RTI
No full textSupplementary Figure 1: Reflectance transformation image of the Charnia masoni holotype (LEIUG 2328)
Euphaea masoni Selys 1879
No full textEuphaea masoni Selys, 1879 (Figs 14b, 15d, 16c, 18e, 18j) Euphaea masoni: Martin (1904), p. 218 [‘ Tonkin, Annam’]; Williamson (1904), p. 182 [Male specimen from Tonkin]; van Tol & Rozendaal (1995), pp. 103–104, Figs 22 –23 [Specimens from Ha Tinh, Thua Thien Hue, Lang Son, Bac Giang, Da Nang and Lang Son Provinces]; Yokoi & Kano (2002), p. 24 (species list); Yokoi & Souphanthong (2004), p. 54 (species list); Yokoi & Souphanthong (2005), p. 38 (species list); Do & Dang (2007), p. 35 [Distribution map; including records from 15 named provinces]; Zhang (2010), p. 25 (species list); Kosterin (2010), pp. 24–60, Figs 15, 22, 40; Kosterin (2011), pp. 87–88, Figs 69–70; Phan et al. (2011), Figs 42–43, pp. 29–31 [Specimens from Phu Tho Prov.]; Sasamoto et al. (2011), p. 2 (species list); Kosterin (2014), p. 25, Fig. 9; Dow et al. (2016), Fig. 5, p. 6. Euphaea guerini: Asahina (1969), p. 7 [Records of E. guerini and the later described E. guerini inouei are mixed]. Euphaea guerini masoni: Asahina (1977), pp. 174–178, Figs 34–39, 43–44, 46–49 [No new Vietnamese material listed]; Yokoi & Mitamura (1995), p. 7 (species list); Yokoi (1999), p. 3 (species list); Mitra (2002), Fig. 26, pp. 39–40; Euphaea guerini inouei: Asahina (1977), p. 178, Figs 40–42 [Holotype from Bobla Waterfall, Lam Dong Prov.; paratypes from Blao (= Bao Loc), Lam Dong Prov. and Buon Ma Thuot, Dak Lak Prov.]; Asahina (1996), p. 190, Fig. 12. Euphaea masoni inouei: Kosterin (2016), pp. 22–24, Fig. 24. Pseudophaea masoni: Fraser (1933), pp. 110, 123. Pseudophoea [sic!] masoni: Fraser (1919), p. 461. Materials examined. [Vietnam] 2♂, Ha Giang Prov., 6–7.V.2011, F. Hayashi leg. (FHC); 2♂, Ba Be National Park, Bac Kan Prov., 3–8.VI.2012, F. Hayashi leg. (FHC); 1♂, Tam Dao National Park, Vinh Phuc Prov., 18.VIII.2013, T. Kompier leg. (TKC); 1♂ 1♀, Xuan Son National Park, Phu Tho Prov., 25.V.2014, Q.T. Phan leg. (PQTC); 1♂, Xuan Son National Park, Phu Tho Prov., 13.IV.2014, T. Kompier leg. (TKC); 3♂ 3♀, Tan Hoa, Minh Hoa District, Quang Binh Prov., 14.IV.2016, Q.T. Phan leg. (PQTC); 4♂, Ba Na Nature Reserve, Da Nang City, 15.III.2012, Q.T. Phan leg. (PQTC); 2♂ 2♀, Bhalee, Tay Giang District, Quang Nam Prov., 17.IX.2015, F. Hayashi leg. (FHC); 2♂, Mang Den, Kon Plong District, Kon Tum Prov., 20.IX.2015, F. Hayashi leg. (FHC); 2♂, H’mun, Bar Maih, Chu Se District, Gia Lai Prov., 24.IV.2016, Q.T. Phan leg. (PQTC); 3♂ 1♀, Hoa Phu, Da Nang, 24.IX.2017, Q.T. Phan leg. (PQTC); 2♂, Bao Loc, Lam Dong Prov., 16.III.2016 (PQTC); 2♀, Bao Loc, Lam Dong Prov., 12.VI.2016, T. Kompier leg. (TKC); 1♂, Lam Dong Prov., 16.V.2016, T. Kompier leg. (TKC); 3♂, Ba To, Quang Ngai Prov., 7.IX.2017, Pham Thi Nhi leg. (PQTC); 3♂ 2♀, Da Lat, Lam Dong Prov., 31.III.1962, Inoue leg. (NSMT). [China] 2♂, Jinhuacha, Guangxi Prov., 7.VI.2014, F. Hayashi leg. (FHC). [Laos] 2♂, Vientiane, 3.IX.2015, S. Nomakuchi leg. (FHC); 2♂, Xaignabouli Prov., 26.III.2016, X. Liu leg. (FHC). Other materials confirmed by field observations. [Vietnam] Some individuals, Ha Giang Prov., VII.2014, T. Kompier; Some individuals, Cao Bang Prov., VI, VII, XII.2014, IV, V, VI.2015, T. Kompier; Some individuals, Bac Kan Prov., VII.2013, VI, VII, VIII, X, XII.2014, IV, VI, IX.2015, T. Kompier; Some individuals, Lang Son Prov., XI.2013, IV, V, VI, X.2014, IV, V, VI, VII.2015, VII.2016, T. Kompier; Some individuals, Bac Giang Prov., VI.2015, T. Kompier; Some individuals, Lao Cai Prov., VI.2015, T. Kompier; Some individuals, Yen Bai Prov., IV, VII.2014, V, VI, X.2015, VII.2016, T. Kompier; Some individuals, Xuan Son National Park, Phu Tho Prov., X, XII.2013, III, IV, V, VI, VII, IX, X, XI.2014, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI.2015, IV, V, VII, VIII.2016, T. Kompier; Some individuals, Tam Dao National Park, Vinh Phuc Prov., VIII, IX.2 0 13, IV, V, VI, VII, X.2014, VII.2015, III.2016, T. Kompier; Some individuals, Ha Tay Prov., VI.2015, T. Kompier; 1♂, Ba Vi National Park, Ha Noi City, 14.IX.2013, T. Kompier; Some individuals, Hoa Binh Prov., VI.2014, T. Kompier; Some individuals, Thanh Hoa Prov., V, VI.2015, T. Kompier; Some individuals, Nghe An Prov., V, VI.2015, T. Kompier; Some individuals, Ha Tinh Prov., V, VI.2015, V.2016, T. Kompier; Some individuals, Quang Binh Prov., IV, V, VI.2016, T. Kompier; Some individuals, Quang Tri Prov., V, VI.2016, T. Kompier; Some individuals, Thua Thien-Hue Prov., V.2016, T. Kompier; Some individuals, Quang Nam Prov., IX.2015, IV, V, VI.2016, T. Kompier; Some individuals, Gia Lai Prov., VI.2016, T. Kompier; Some individuals, Lam Dong Prov., V, VI.2016, V.2017 T. Kompier; 3 exs, Quang Ninh Prov., 25.VI.2017, T. Kompier; Some individuals, Dong Nai Prov., VIII, XI.2014, II.2015, II,2016, I.2017, T. Kompier. Notes. Earlier authors, such as Selys (1879) and Martin (1904), correctly ranked Euphaea masoni and E. guerini as two distinct species. Confusingly, Asahina (1977) downgraded masoni as a subspecies of guerini, a decision which was shown to be incorrect by Van Tol & Rozendaal (1995). Asahina (1977) described subspecies Euphaea guerini inouei (= E. masoni inouei) on the basis of ten males and three females from Lam Dong and Dak Lak provinces in southern Vietnam. Earlier Asahina (1969) had mixed the inouei specimens among specimens of the real E. guerini. According to the original description, the subspecies inouei is distinguished from masoni by the black markings on the FW extending less and by the more extensive hyaline part at the apex of the HW compared to Euphaea masoni (see also Asahina 1977). Van Tol & Rozendaal (1995) wrote: “ Whether inouei can be considered a distinct taxon, or only the extreme end of a clinal variation within masoni, should be investigated further.” Hämäläinen & Karube (2001) also urged the need to study the obvious clinal variation of masoni within its whole range in order to find out if subspecific splitting has a sound basis. Kosterin (2010, 2014) reported individual variation for these characters in Euphaea masoni in south-western Cambodia. The genital ligula and anal appendages of inouei are identical to those of masoni. It should be noted here that recently Hämäläinen (2016: 25, Note 39) listed Euphaea inouei as a good species based on morphological and unpublished molecular evidence. Here we have not attempted to separate our specimens from Vietnam into the taxa masoni and inouei, but list all of them simply as masoni. However, the wing upperside of males from Vietnam (and eastern Cambodia) show a strong iridescent coppery-red flash in sunshine and the HW underside, except for its distal part, shows a slight deep-blue flash. At the same time males from Thailand and south-western Cambodia of the typical Euphaea masoni, described from the border between Myanmar and Thailand, show only a very slight purple shine on the wing upperside and no flash on the wing underside (Kosterin 2014, 2016). These differences indicate the possibility that the Vietnamese populations concern a different taxon from Euphaea masoni sensu stricto. Euphaea masoni resembles E. guerini, E. hirta, and E. saola sp. nov. in body and wing coloration and structure of the anal appendages. However, males of these species can be separated by their abdominal setae tuft patterns visible in lateral view (Fig. 15). In Euphaea masoni, only S3 has setae (Fig. 15d), but in other species tufts of setae are present on several other abdominal segments (Fig. 15a–c). The upper hindwing of Euphaea masoni males shows an iridescent coppery-red flash. In Euphaea hirta this flash is even brighter. By contrast, this flash is green, not red, in E. guerini and E. saola sp. nov. Vesicle of Euphaea masoni (Fig. 18e) is similar to those of E. guerini (Fig. 18c) and E. hirta (Fig. 18d) with its posterior margin rounded. Females of Euphaea masoni can be distinguished from those of E. hirta, E. guerini, and E. saola sp. nov. by wider yellowish stripes on head, thorax, and abdomen (Fig. 16c), although identification is complicated as a result of different stages of maturity being more or less extensively marked. For additional differences with Euphaea hirta see below under that species. Distribution. Vietnam (Ha Giang, Cao Bang, Bac Kan, Lang Son, Bac Giang, Lao Cai, Yen Bai, Phu Tho, Vinh Phuc, Ha Tay, Ha Noi, Hoa Binh, Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Ninh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri, Thua Thien-Hue, Da Nang, Quang Nam, Dak Lak, Kon Tum, Gia Lai, Lam Dong, Ninh Thuan, Dong Nai and Tay Ninh Provinces), China (Guangxi and Yunnan Provinces) (Zhang 2010), Laos (Phongsali, Luang Namtha, Oudomxay, Houaphan, Xaignabouli, Vientiane, Bolikhamxay and Attapeu Provinces) (Fraser 1933, Yokoi 1999, Yokoi & Kano 2002, Yokoi & Souphanthong 2004, 2005, this study), Cambodia (Ratanakiri and Mondulkiri Provinces) (Kosterin 2014, 2016), Myanmar (without exact localities; including the holotype from Tenasserim Range, Burma [Selys 1879]), Thailand (most provinces) (Hämäläinen 2017), Malaysia (Perlis state) (Dow et al. 2016), India (Manipur and Nagaland) (Mitra 2002), Bangladesh (Chittagong division) (Khan 2017b).Published as part of Phan, Quoc Toan, Kompier, Tom, Karube, Haruki & Hayashi, Fumio, 2018, A synopsis of the Euphaeidae (Odonata: Zygoptera) of Vietnam, with descriptions of two new species of Euphaea, pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4375 (2) on pages 182-183, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4375.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/115844
Tecnica colturale del frumento duro toscano in funzione della qualità: i risultati del Progetto Quacom
No full textHalysidota masoni
No full text<i>Halysidota masoni</i> (Schaus, 1895) <p> <i>Phaegoptera masoni</i> Schaus, 1895b: 29.</p> <p>TYPE LOCALITY. — Mexico, [Veracruz], Jalapa.</p> <p>TYPE SPECIMEN. — Lectotype female designated by Watson (1971: 57) (USNM).</p>Published as part of <i>Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2)</i> on page 320, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5395344">http://zenodo.org/record/5395344</a>
Anatomy of the Ediacaran rangeomorph Charnia masoni
Full text linkThe Ediacaran macrofossil Charnia masoni Ford is perhaps the most iconic member of the Rangeomorpha: a group of seemingly sessile, frondose organisms that dominates late Ediacaran benthic, deep‐marine fossil assemblages. Despite C. masoni exhibiting broad palaeogeographical and stratigraphical ranges, there have been few morphological studies that consider the variation observed among populations of specimens derived from multiple global localities. We present an analysis of C. masoni that evaluates specimens from the UK, Canada and Russia, representing the largest morphological study of this taxon to date. We describe substantial morphological variation within C. masoni and present a new morphological model for this species that has significant implications both for interpretation of rangeomorph architecture, and potentially for existing taxonomic schemes. Previous reconstructions of Charnia include assumptions regarding the presence of structures seen in other rangeomorphs (e.g. an internal stalk) and of homogeneity in higher order branch morphology; observations that are not borne out by our investigations. We describe variation in the morphology of third and fourth order branches, as well as variation in gross structure near the base of the frond. The diagnosis of Charnia masoni is emended to take account of these new features. These findings highlight the need for large‐scale analyses of rangeomorph morphology in order to better understand the biology of this long‐enigmatic group
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