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Correction: Distribution of moniliformin in industrial maize milling and flaking process (Mycotoxin Research, (2024), 40, 4, (659-665), 10.1007/s12550-024-00560-3)
No full textIn the original version of this article, the given and family names of "Terenzio Bertuzzi, Alessio Abate, Paola Giorni" were incorrectly structured. Given here are the corrected author names. The original article has been corrected
Whatever Happened to ... Moore and Bertuzzi? .
No full textDr. Bowal retains copyright over these articles PDF has been uploaded according to Law Now's publishing requirements. 01/14/2015The article presents information on a case between ice hockey players including Steve Moore and Todd Bertuzzi who play for different hockey teams in the National Hockey League (NHL). It informs that in the case Bertuzzi was ejected from the game and suspended indefinitely pending final league disciplinary review and sanction. It further informs that Bertuzzi was pleaded guilty to the crime of assault causing bodily harm in the year 2004..Ye
Una protesta senza movimento? L’animalismo in Italia e la centralità dell’advocacy individuale
No full textThe article investigates forms of organized interest for animal rights and wellbeing. The field consists in a variegated composition of individual and collective actors, quite different in terms of ideological values and action strategies. The author presents a historical overview of the phenomenon during the twentieth century. However, the main focus of the paper is on the present situation, and specifically on the importance assumed by the personal action frames and individual repertoires of contention. Through an online survey (704 responses) and 20 semi-structured interviews, the author frames animal advocacy within a number of typical characteristics of modernity, and especially the process of individualization. Considering these elements, the forms of protest and advocacy are widespread, while an actual movement identity is in crisis
Political Generations and the Italian Environmental Movement(s): Innovative Youth Activism and the Permanence of Collective Actors
No full textDuring recent years, Italian social movements have experienced a period of crisis,
in part due to diffuse antipolitical feelings and latent social conflict. However,
environmental issues and especially territorial mobilizations remain relevant, due to
the appearance of new contentious actors and to the permanence of long-standing
organizations and important local grassroots campaigns. Based on 19 semistructured
interviews with activists belonging to informal groups and formal associations,
this article discusses the role of age and generations within the variegated Italian
environmental archipelago, in which organizational and collective aspects prove to
currently have a relevant role. Indeed, age does not represent an important fracture,
representing a partial anomaly if confronted with the other case studies discussed
in this special issue. The only diversities between cohorts are related to the forms
of action preferred and (eventually) adopted, while the common perception of
job precariousness among young activists is not translated into a single frame and
common path of resistance. More than a Millennials’ identity, it is rather appropriate
to speak of various and divergent political generations: individuals belonging to
different cohorts share some ideologies and visions of the world, especially related
to territorial belongings or to specific ways of looking at environmental issues. Also
for this reason, a final comparison between contemporary young activists and those
of previous generations is proposed to address the generation(s) in movement(s) in
a dynamic perspective
Political Generations and the Italian Environmental Movement(s): Innovative Youth Activism and the Permanence of Collective Actors
No full textThe welfare evaluation of laying hens reared with alternative housing systems
No full textHens housed in battery cages are more concentrated per surface unit (450 cm2/bird). Associated to this breeding system are economic, hygienic and healthy advantages. However, the battery cage housing of laying hens is strongly criticised for the poor bird’s “quality of life”. For this reason EU regulations will exclude the use of battery cages in the near future. Several papers have emphasised that in any particular system there are certain specific aspects, which are critical to the welfare of birds housed in it (Appleby and Hughes, 1991)...
Islet cell transplantation
No full textIslet cell transplantation is an attractive alternative therapy to conventional insulin treatment or vascularized whole pancreas transplantation for type 1 diabetic patients. It represents a successful example of somatic cell therapy in humans based on complex procedures for islet isolation from whole pancreas. The islets, that are only 1% of the total pancreas tissue, are isolated by two steps method starting with collagenase digestion that operates a rapid dissociation of the stromal component of the gland, while preserving islet anatomical integrity. After digestion, islets are then separated from exocrine tissue by centrifugation in density gradients. Transplantation consists of a simple injection of few milliliter-purified tissue in the portal vein through a percutaneous trans- hepatic approach performed in local anesthesia. Several studies have now demonstrated that islet transplant can replace pancreatic endocrine function without major side effects and with liver viability preservation in selected patients affected by longterm type 1 diabetes. It can restore endogenous insulin secretion, achieve insulin independence in more than 80% of patients, and recover the metabolism of glucose, protein and lipids. Improved control of glycated HbAlc, reduced risk of recurrent hypoglycemia and of diabetic complications are also seen as important benefits of islet cell transplantation, irrespective of the status of insulin independence. Many protocols are now on going for reduction of immunosuppression therapy in recipients, induction of tolerance, and prolongation of graft function
Monitoring phenolic compounds in rice during the growing season in relation to fungal and mycotoxin contamination
No full textTotal phenolic content (TPC) and several phenolic acids present in rice grains were compared with fungal infection and mycotoxin presence throughout the growing season. Samples of 4 rice varieties were collected in 2018 and 2019 at 3 different plant phenological stages. Total fungal and main mycotoxigenic fungi incidence were checked and mycotoxin content was analysed. On the same samples, TPC and the concentration of 8 main phenolic acids (chlorogenic acid, caffieic acid, syringic acid, 4-hydroxybenzoic acid (4-HBA), p-coumaric acid, ferulic acid, protocatecuic acid and gallic acid) were measured. The results showed significant differences between years for both fungal incidence and mycotoxin presence. In 2018 there was a lower fungal presence (42%) than in 2019 (57%) while, regarding mycotoxins, sterigmatocystin (STC) was found in almost all the samples and at all growing stages while deoxynivalenol (DON) was found particularly during ripening. An interesting relationship was found between fungal incidence and TPC, and some phenolic acids seemed to be more involved than others in the plant defense system. Ferulic acid and protocatecuic acid showed a different trend during the growing season depending on fungal incidence and resulted to be positively correlated with p-coumaric acid and 4-HBA that seem involved in mycotoxin containment in field
Regeneración de plantas de aguaí (Chrysophyllum gonocarpum, Sapotaceae) por cultivo in vitro de segmentos nodales
No full textFueron cultivados in vitro segmentos nodales de aguaí (Chrysophyllum gonocarpum) de: a) árboles adultos (5 y 15 años de edad); b) brotes epicórmicos de tallos leñosos de árboles de 15 años de edad obtenidos mediante brotación forzada en una cámara con alta humedad y c) plantas de 1 año de edad. En todos los explantes cultivados en medio MS - Murashige y Skoog (1962) - con 0,7% de agar, hubo regeneración de vástagos, pero únicamente enraizaron los de plantas jóvenes (1 año de edad); el mejor medio para el enraizamiento de vástagos fue MS diluido a ½ + IBA 1mg/L.Fil: Bertuzzi, S. M.. Universidad Nacional del Nordeste; ArgentinaFil: Mroginski, Luis Amado. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Nordeste. Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste. Universidad Nacional del Nordeste. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias. Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste; Argentin
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