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The Project of the Green Infrastructure in Lombardy Region. A Resilient Spatial Structure for the Landscape Plan
No full textThis contribution describes the ongoing revision process of the Lombardy Region Landscape plan (PPR). As part of the landscape plan revision, the regional Ecosystem services (ES) mapping plays a key role in addressing strategies for biodiversity conservation and landscape protection. The aim is to update the plan’s fact-finding contents and integrate landscape environmental, ecological and anthropic components and use a methodological approach to define plan contents, including spatial design elements and regulations. The design of the Green and Blue Infrastructure (GBI) and its different characterisation are supported and directly connected to the mapping and evaluation of ES, to preserve and protect landscape values and define strategies and planning actions to increase natural assets for human well-being, in a resilient multi-scale perspective
Isolation, characterization and partial sequence of cyanogen bromide fragments and thiol peptides from pig kidney D-amino-acid oxidase.
No full textA partial characterization of the primary structure of D-amino-acid oxidase (D-Amino-acid:oxygen oxidoreductase (deaminating), EC 1.4.3.3.) from hog kidney has been achieved by a CNBr cleavage of the 14C-carboxymethylated protein. Four fragments have been isolated and purified and their alignment made possible by overlapping with methionine-containing peptides derived from tryptic digestion of the 14C-carboxymethylated protein. A partial sequencing of the CNBr fragments has been carried out by the automated Edman procedure and by manual sequence analysis. Chymotryptic peptides containing the 5 alkylated thiols of the monomer enzyme (Curti, B., Ronchi, S., branzoli, U., Ferri, G. and Williams, Jr., C. H. (1973) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 327, 266-273) have been isolated and their sequence determined. The present results do not show any significant homologies with the known sequences of other flavoproteins
The New Urban Plan of Rescaldina Municipality. An Experience for Improving Ecosystem Services Provision
No full textThis contribution presents the results of an urban planning process experience conducted in the Municipality of Rescaldina (located in the northern Milan metropolitan area, Lombardy region, north-west of Italy).
The new local Urban plan (including the Strategic Environmental Assessment) was developed based on Ecosystem Services (ES) addressing urban transformations and future development strategies towards the improvement of their performance as well as the promotion of human health and well-being. The integration of an ES-based approach in Planning involved the deployment of a local Green Infrastructure as the backbone for the design of urban and suburban public and private spaces, using Nature-based solutions. The ES-based GI is a core strategy of both the SEA and the Urban plan, the assumption into both strategic and prescriptive frameworks of the Urban plan ensures its operability
The internet and the customer-supplier relationship
No full textThis title was first published in 2003. An exhaustive and synthetic framework for the use of Internet tools in customer-supplier relationships is one aspect of e-business that is still missing from existing literature. This book analyses the main management implications related to the adoption of the Internet in the supply chain and unifies different research studies and contributions in order to build such a framework. It is based on wide empirical evidence including four in-depth case studies in both Europe and the US, a cross-industry survey of more than 160 US companies and website research describing emerging Internet initiatives in B2B relationships. By creating a concrete link between theory and practice it should appeal to academics and practitioners alike
Clustering the built form at LAU2 level for addressing sustainable policies. Insights from the Belgium case study
No full textPopulation growth has determined two different types of urban development: the vertical growth, tending to compactness, and the horizontal one which privileges a more dispersed and sprawled expansion. Those two urban forms have different impacts on environmental sustainability influencing, among others, the microclimate conditions of a city, the energy demand and its economic cost, and the provision of Ecosystem Services. European policies are oriented towards sustainable development of urban areas reducing the environmental footprint and restoring degraded ecosystem through a Green infrastructure deployment. Understanding the urban form, and specifically, the typology of the building form is crucial for policymakers and urban planners to define strategies for a higher degree of sustainability. The lack of data and the heterogeneity of information across Europe on the built form have hindered the operationalisation of European strategies and their downscaling into national or regional policies. The paper aims to fill this gap proposing a methodology based on a cluster analysis that estimates the built form of Belgium at LAU2 level for addressing single specific actions towards environmental sustainability goals. The cluster analysis uses data traditionally surveyed by national censuses, ensuring the replicability of the method for the upcoming 2021 census, and also the opportunity to update it continuously
Amino acid sequence around the pyridoxal 5'-phosphate binding sites of 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase.
No full text6-Phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6-phospho-D-gluconate: NADP+ 2-oxidoreductase(decarboxylating), EC 1.1.1.44) from Candida utilis is inhibited by reaction with pyridoxal 5'-phosphate. The aldehydic group of this compound forms a Schiff base with the epsilon-amino group of a lysine residue: reduction of this enamine with tritiated borohydride can label this amino acid. Two tryptic peptides, TS2 and TS3, have been isolated from the labelled protein and found to have the following amino acid sequences: TS2: Ile-Leu-Asx-Glx-Ala-Gly-Gly-Lys(P-Pxy)-Gly-Glx-Thr-Lys TS3: Thr-Val-Ser-Lys(P-Pxy)-Val-Asp-His-Phe-Ile-(Glx,Asx,Glx)-Ala-Lys where Lys(P-Pxy) indicates the modified lysine residue. The similarities between the amino acid sequences around the pyridoxal phosphate binding lysines of 38 peptides, obtained from enzymes which have pyridoxal phosphate as cofactor or inhibitor, are discussed and a prediction is made on the presence of reverse turns in these peptides
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
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