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    The Role of Play in Promoting Resilience

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    In this chapter, the author addresses the issue of play, questioning the role it plays in the life and development of the child and if it can be a promoter of well-being and resilience when children are faced with adverse situations. Play in its various forms of expression is not just a pastime or a waste of time; it is a vital element of childhood that fosters development and should be promoted in all circumstances, even where living conditions are particularly difficult and hostile. It is therefore legitimate to ask oneself about the importance of promoting play and recreational activities in hospitals, that is, in those places that by their very function manage illness and the suffering it entails. Helping young people cope with the hardships brought about by a stay in hospital means drawing attention to the fact that whatever the outcome, before being a patient, a child is always a child, where their right to well-being is seen as not only the “absence of disease or infirmity” but as “a state of total physical, mental, and social well-being.

    The role of polychaetes in bioerosion of submerged mosaic floors in the Underwater Archaeological Park of Baiae (Naples, Italy)

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    The study investigated the role of boring polychaetes in the bioerosion of a submerged Roman mosaic floor in the Underwater Archaeological Park of Baiae (Naples, Italy). Three boring species, Dodecaceria concharum, Polydora ciliata, and Pseudopolydora antennata, were found. The initial colonization phases of boring polychaetes were investigated on experimental limestone panels placed underwater in the same marine area. The results showed that the ecological succession was characterized by a first stage of colonization with abundant spionids and a second stage with a boring mature community dominated by D. concharum. The study of silicone casts of the bored traces allowed confirmation that the ichnospecies belonging to the ichnogenera Maeandropolydora could be attributed to the action of spionid worms, whereas D. concharum is able to produce tongue- and ribbon-shaped borings (ichnogenus Caulostrepsis), and variously contorted galleries (ichnogenus Maeandropolydora) by settling inside borings produced by other polychaetes and increasing the complexity of the gallery system by modifying them. The study of the epilithic polychaete community highlighted that the site is characterized by a low hydrodynamism. Therefore, the most suitable in situ preservation interventions would be the covering of the mosaics with sand layers or geotextiles
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