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“Mapping Roots, Charting Routes. Jewish Migrations from North Africa and the Middle East to Milan (1940s-1970s)”, Digital Visualization by Piera Rossetto (Original idea & scientific data elaboration), Sara Radice (User experience & interface design) and Fabio Sturaro (Software design & development)
No full textDigital visualisation of Jewish Migrations from North Africa and the Middle East to Milan (1940s-1970s)
The digital visualisation Mapping Roots, Charting Routes concerns the specific case of Jewish migrations from the Middle East and North Africa to Milan (Italy). It is based on 108 interviews conducted by the CDEC Foundation – Edoth Project (2011-2019) with Jews from Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Libya and Syria, who settled in the city between the 1940s and 1970s. The corpus includes 48 women and 60 men.
Mapping Roots, Charting Routes can be navigated by setting different filters: gender, home community, identity documents, year of settlement in Milan, place and cause of departure. The general map highlights the settlement trip to Milan from the country of origin. By clicking on the individual trajectory, dashed lines display the intermediate trips and an individual portrait opens.
Along with the anonymized personal data of the traveller, the individual portrait includes the countries of origin of the family members, the identity documents they possessed, the languages spoken in the family circle along with the professional activity and the cause of departure. In a future development of the project, more information will be added in this section.
The map is accompanied by a series of graphs and charts which elaborate the information in an aggregated form: according to the home community, that is the country of origin. For instance, the graphs display the correlation between the personal identity claimed by the interviewee with the identity documents possessed by her/his family.
Through this sample of interviews, the digital visualisation Mapping Roots, Charting Routes attempts to depict the overall complexity of the migratory phenomenon while paying attention to the peculiarity of each journey. It is an attempt to hold the ‘whole’ and the ‘fragment’ in the effort to come closer to the sense people make—and made—of their journey as individuals but also as part of a larger collective.
In a way, this is what digital humanities are about: keeping the human experience at the core while experimenting with computer assisted technologies to elaborate, visualize and connect the data of and about that very human experience.
For data protection reasons, the dataset is not made available to public.
Digital Visualization by Piera Rossetto (Original idea & scientific data elaboration), Sara Radice (User experience & interface design) and Fabio Sturaro (Software design & development
Livestock systems and environment on the Alps
No full textExtensive livestock systems in mountain areas have a relevant ecological rule. Traditional farms, based on use of local forages and pastures contribute to maintain environmental quality and biodiversity of mountain ecosystems. Mountain agriculture experimented a dramatic decline in the last years, a phenomenon mostly driven by socio-economic factors such as immigration into lowland where new economic opportunities are offered to rural people. The abandoning of traditional extensive farming has been associated with land use changes and loss of biodiversity. This paper analyse the evolution of livestock farms in the Alps, focusing on environmental sustainability of production systems
I servizi ecosistemici e l’indicazione “PDM” a sostegno delle filiere lattiero-casearie di montagna: il progetto TopValue
No full textLa valutazione della biodiversità vegetale nel contesto dei servizi ecosistemici offerti dall’azienda agro-zootecnica di montagna
Full text linkChiasmocleis avilapiresae Peloso & Sturaro 2008, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Chiasmocleis avilapiresae</i> sp. nov. <p>Figs. 1–7; Table 1</p> <p> <b>Holotype.</b> MPEG 23299 (field number MAR 979), an adult female, from Estação Científica do Programa Pró-Biodiversidade da Amazônia (PPBio), Floresta Nacional Caxiuanã, municipality of Portel, state of Pará, Brazil (~ 1 o 59’S, 51 o 39’W; represented by a star in Fig. 9), collected in a pitfall trap by M.A. Ribeiro-Jr and S.H. Abrantes on 27 March 2007.</p> <p> <b>Paratopotypes.</b> MPEG 23300–06, 23318, seven adult females and one adult male respectively, collected by M.A. Ribeiro-Jr. and D.L. Arcoverde, on 26 January to 13 February 2007; MPEG 23307-17, 23319-26, 17 females and two males, collected by M.A. Ribeiro-Jr and S.H. Abrantes, on 16 March to 2 April 2007. MPEG 23318 and 23324 are cleared and stained; MPEG 23303 was dissected for myological studies.</p> <p> <b>Paratypes</b> (numbers in parenthesis refer to localities in Fig. 9). INPA 17258-59, two females, from (<b>1</b>) Reserva Extrativista do Baixo Juruá, Rio Juruá, Juruá, state of Amazonas, Brazil (~ 3º45’S, 66º05’W), collected by V. T. Carvalho, S. Novelle and L. Lopes, on 20–29 May 2006; MPEG 5169, adult female, from (<b>2</b>) Porto Urucu, Amazonas, Brazil (~ 4 o 53’S, 65 o 20’W), collected by M.S. Hoogmoed and T.C. Ávila Pires, on 21 November 1989; INPA 14218, 14224, two females, from (<b>3</b>) Lago Ayapuã, Rio Purus, Beruri, Amazonas, Brazil (~ 4 o 24’S, 62 o 15’W), collected by F. Waldez, on 1-30 June 2005; USNM 266139–41, three adult males, from (<b>4</b>) Cachoeira Nazaré, western bank of Rio Ji-Paranã, state of Rondônia, Brazil (~ 9 o 45’S, 61 o 55’W), collected by A.L. Gardner, on 18–23 November 1986; USNM 284500–01, 565956, one female and two males, respectively, from (<b>5</b>) Nova Brasília, Rondônia, Brazil (~ 11 o 09’S, 61 o 34’W) and USNM 565955, female, from (<b>6</b>) Rio Morim, Nova Colina, Rondônia, Brazil (~ 10 o 50’S, 61 o 43’W); collected by P.E. Vanzolini, R.I. Crombie and C.M. de Carvalho, 2–8 November 1984; CFBH 5132-33, an adult female and a juvenile respectively, from (<b>7</b>) Fazenda Jaburi, Espigão D’Oeste, Rondônia, Brazil (~ 11 o 36’S, 60 o 44’W), collected by P.S. Bernarde, on 2–14 April 2001; INPA 13102, female, (<b>8</b>) Igarapé Estrema, Left bank of Rio Aripuanã, Aripuanã, Amazonas, Brazil (~ 6 o 17’S, 60 o 23’W), collected by the INPA Herpetology field expedition, on 3 May 2005; MNRJ 14231–80 respectively, 31 females, 13 males, five juveniles and one of undetermined sex, from (<b>9</b>) Aripuanã, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil (~ 10 o 10’S, 59 o 28’W), collected by U. Caramaschi and R. N. Feio, on 1–5 November, 2005; MPEG 18571–73, 23287–98, three adult females and 12 juveniles from (<b>10</b>) Acampamento base Sapopema, Parque Nacional da Amazônia, Itaituba, Para, Brazil (~ 04 o 40’S, 56 o 33’W), collected by M.S. Hoogmoed and H.S. Silva-Filho, on 26 January to 18 February 2005; MPEG 23280, adult female, from (<b>11</b>) Tapuama, Rio Xingu, Altamira, Pará, Brazil (3 o 36’39’’S, 52 o 20’26’’W), collected by R. Bernardi and D. André, on 6 March 2008; MPEG 23277–79, three adult females, from (<b>12</b>) Fazenda Caracol, Rio Xingu, Anapu, Pará, Brazil (3 o 27’10’’S, 51 o 40’31’’W) collected by A. Lima, F. Rodrigues, M.J. Sturaro, and P.L. V. Peloso, on 15 March 2008; MPEG 22787, one adult female, from (<b>13</b>) Fazenda Riacho, Monte Verde, Portel, Pará, Brazil (~ 3 o 15’S, 50 o 19’W), collected by J.O. Gomes and T.C. Ávila-Pires on 23 March 2007; MPEG 23338, one female, from (<b>14)</b> Barragem da Pêra, Serra dos Carajás, Parauapebas, Pará, Brazil (~ 6 o 04’S, 49 o 54’W), collected by E. Carvalho-Jr and J.A. Chaves on 27 January 2005; MPEG 23339-41, three females, from (<b>15</b>) Noroeste II, Serra dos Carajás, Parauapebas, Pará, Brazil, (~ 6 o 04’S, 49 o 54’W), collected by E. Carvalho-Jr and J.A. Chaves on 1 November to 30 December 2005.</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> A member of <i>Chiamocleis</i> based on: (1) clavicle and procoracoid present; (2) clavicle reduced, not reaching the scapula, extending beyond medial part of coracoid; (3) procoracoid touching the coracoids; (4) palatines absent.</p> <p> A large species for the genus; maximum SVL = 26.8 mm in males and 37.8 mm in females. Body ovoid and robust, head triangular, snout rounded in dorsal and lateral views, IOD about 2–3 times the IND. Four distinctive fingers and five toes present; all but first finger fringed in males, less fringed in females; fingers not webbed; finger I well developed with a distinct subarticular tubercle present between the proximal phalanges; distinct subarticular tubercles present on all fingers; toes fringed, less distinct in females; toes usually extensively webbed in males and only basally webbed in females (see Variation below). Males with dermal spines on fingers and toes; both sexes with dermal spines on dorsum and toes, more numerous and more developed in males. Males with many spines on anterior portion of chin. A light horizontal line on the posterior thigh is always present. <i>Chiasmocleis avilapiresae</i> is further characterized by having procoracoids and clavicles; clavicles do not reach the coracoids and they are entirely supported by the procoracoid cartilage; coracoids do not meet medially; procoracoids calcified near their contact with the coracoids; epicoracoids and anterior area of sternum slightly calcified. Eight procoelous presacral vertebrae present; sacral diapophyses expanded laterally; urostyle without lateral expansions; phalangeal formula of hands 2-2-3-3 and of foot 2-2-3-4-3.</p> <p> <b>Description of the holotype (Figs. 2, 3).</b> Body ovoid, robust; head short, triangular, snout short, wider than long, rounded in dorsal and lateral views; nostril not protuberant, directed anterolaterally; internarial distance slightly smaller than distance between eye and nostril and about the same as the eye diameter; canthus rostralis only slightly defined; loreal region oblique, slightly convex; eyes small, slightly protruding; interorbital area slightly concave, without cranial crests; occipital fold absent; postorbital fold present, tympanum not visible externally; upper jaw projecting beyond lower; lower lip with truncate, trilobed anterior margin; tongue large, ovoid, covering approximately ¾ of mouth floor, with free lateral and posterior borders; choanae small, rounded, widely separated, positioned anterolaterally, anterior to eye; vomerine teeth absent.</p> <p>Arm and forearm slender, without tubercles or crests. Hand not webbed, fingers slightly fringed, fingers without dermal spines; finger I well developed, with a visible subarticular tubercle; relative finger length I<II<IV<III; finger tips with small disks, except in finger I. Subarticular tubercles well developed, nearly rounded; supranumerary tubercles absent; palmar tubercle large, divided into two parts, inner larger, rhomboid, outer smaller ovoid; thenar tubercle large, rounded, at base of finger II.</p> <p> Legs short (combined THL, TBH and FL lengths 1.5 times the SVL), relatively robust; lacking tubercles; tibial and tarsal ridges absent; foot basally webbed, webbing formula I2 - –3II2 - –3 + III2 + –4 - IV4 + –2 + V; toes with well developed disks in all but first finger; fringes present on unwebbed portions of toes. Relative toe length I<II<V<III<IV; toes lack dermal spines; subarticular tubercles well developed; supranumerary tubercles absent; inner metatarsal tubercle present, oval, outer metatarsal tubercle absent.</p> <p>Skin smooth with very few scattered dermal spines on dorsum, slightly more numerous around the cloacal region; absent ventrally and on members.</p> <p> <b>Measurements of the holotype (mm).</b> SVL 34.9, HL 6.9, HW 9.6, ED 2.2, IOD 5.3, IND 2.3, END 2.7, THL 13.9, TBL 14.6, FL 22.4, 3FD 0.7, 4TD 1.1.</p> <p> <b>Color of the holotype in preservative.</b> Dorsum uniformly greyish brown; arm olive brown; forearm dark brown at inner side and olive brown at outer side; fingers cream with dark spots; dorsal surfaces of thigh and tibia same color as dorsum; cloacal region and posterior surface of thigh dark brown with a transverse white line on each side above; throat cream with brown reticutation; belly cream with irregular brown spots; ventral surface of thigh cream with few dark brown spots; ventral surface of tibia cream with several dark brown spots. Color in life of the holotype is unavailable.</p> <p> <b>Variation.</b> Measurements of the type specimens are given in Table 1. The species shows marked sexual dimorphism, with females being larger than males (Student’s <i>t</i> test for SVL; <i>t=</i> 9.894, df=89, p=0.000). Fingers slightly fringed in both sexes, fringes more developed in males; fingers with dermal spines in males, absent in females. Toes with dermal spines in males, lacking or very few spines in females. Males and females with dermal spines on body, spines in males more developed and more numerous, sometimes lacking in females. Males with many spines on anterior portion of chin (Fig. 6), absent in females. Females may present several spines around the cloaca. Variation in male and female foot webbing formula are, respectively: I(1 + – 1 +)–(2 + –2 -)II(2–1 +)–(3 + –2 +)III(2 - –1 +)–(3 + –2)IV(4–2)–(2 - –1 +)V and I(2–2 -)–(3–3 +)II(2–2 -)–(4–3 +)III(3 - –2 -)–(4 + – 3 –)IV(4–4 +)–(3–2)V.</p> <p>A mid-dorsal light stripe is present in about 20% of the individuals examined. The light horizontal stripe on the posterior portion of the thigh in invariably present in all specimens. Throat pattern varies from uniformly light to uniformly dark (generally in males); however, most specimens show a reticulated pattern of dark marks against a light background (Fig. 7). Venter varies from light with almost no dark markings to having a few small scattered small brown to black dots and from having few large spots to showing a reticulated pattern, with dark markings against a light venter.</p> <p>Variation of color in life; MPEG 18571 (field notes by M.S. Hoogmoed): Dorsum brown with indication of slightly lighter dorso-lateral bands. Forelimbs beige. Belly white, with large black spots at perimeter of belly and under thighs. Ventral side of shanks with black and white marbling. A narrow white line on posterior surface of thigh.</p> <p>MPEG 23279 (Fig. 1; our own field notes): Snout whitish. Dorsum greyish brown with scattered withe spots; dorsolateral region reddish. Forelimbs yellow. Hindlimbs marbled with red, brown and grey tones. Throat, belly and under surface of thigh cream with dark brown spots. A narrow horizontal white line on back of thighs.</p> <p>MPEG 23287 (fieldnotes by M.S. Hoogmoed): Dorsum grey brown with small white spots, white spots also present on hind limbs. Forelimbs orange-yellow. A narrow white line on back of thighs.</p> <p> <b>Osteology.</b> Description based on two cleared and stained specimens (one male, MPEG 23318; and one female, MPEG 23324). The skull of <i>C. avilapiresae</i> is slightly wider than long (about 1.1 times), with its widest point at the angle of the jaws. The nasals are not in contact medially, although very close; nasals are in contact or just overlap the frontoparietals posteriorly. Frontoparietals paired, not in contact medially, overlap posterolaterally with the prootic and posteriorly with the exoccipital. Maxilary arch incomplete, maxilla do not reach the quadratojugal, which is much reduced. Alary process of the premaxilla almost vertical. Vomer present, divided in an anterior and a posterior portion; posterior portion of the vomer apparently fused to the sphenetmoid. Palatines are absent.</p> <p>Pectoral girdle with procoracoid cartilages and clavicles present; omosternum not present; sternum present, broad, with round posterior margin, mainly cartilaginous but it shows some degree of mineralization in the anterior portion (Fig. 4). Coracoids do not touch or overlap medially; procoracoid in contact with coracoid. Clavicles slightly curved (MPEG 23324) to almost straight (MPEG 23318), entirely supported by procoracoid cartilage; clavicles not in contact laterally with coracoids, with which it forms an acute angle; clavicles broadly separated medially.</p> <p>Eight presacral vertebrae, all procoelous (Fig. 5). All presacrals with lateral processes; process more robust in presacrals II, III, and IV; processes projected anteriorly in Presacrals I, II, VII and VIII; projected posteriorly in presacrals III and IV, slightly posteriorly in presacral V; process in presacral VI is perpendicular to the vertebral column axis. Sacral diapophyses expanded laterally; urostyle without lateral projections.</p> <p>Phalangeal formula in hands 2-2-3-3, and in foot 2-2-3-4-3 (Fig. 5). Terminal phalanges knobbed, with irregularly expanded tips (Fig. 5). Prepollical and prehallical elements present.</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> The specific epithet honors Dr. Teresa C. S. de Ávila Pires, “T.C.”, professor and researcher at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Teresa has worked to understand and protect the Amazonian herpetofauna for over 20 years, focusing mainly on the taxonomy, systematics and biogeography of lizards.</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> Known from scattered localities in the Brazilian Amazon basin, south of the Solimões and Amazonas rivers, in the states of Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Pará, and Rondônia (Fig. 9).</p> <p> <b>Natural history.</b> R.I. Crombie’s fieldnotes note that specimens from Nova Colina and Nova Brasília, Rondônia, were collected in primary forest or in clearings/pastures. Specimens occurred near isolated pools in stream flood plain, always on the bank of ponds distant 0.5–1 m from water, under leaves or pieces of bark. Crombie’s notes do not mention calling activity.</p> <p> Specimens from Anapu, Itaituba and from the type locality (Caxiuanã, Pará) were collected in pitfall traps inside primary forest. Other microhylids collected in the same areas were <i>Chiasmocleis jimi</i>, <i>Ctenophryne geayi,</i> and <i>Hamptophryne boliviana. Chiasmocleis avilapiresae</i> occurs in sympatry with <i>C. bassleri</i> in at least three localities (Espigão do Oeste, Rondônia; Aripuanã, Mato Grosso and Itaituba, Pará). In Caxiuanã several specimens of the new species were found in stomachs of <i>Ceratophrys cornuta</i>, and one specimen was regurgitated by a <i>Leptodactylus paraensis</i> (M.A. Ribeiro-Jr, personal communication). A gravid female from the type locality contained approximately 1920 eggs. Advertisement call and tadpoles are unknown.</p>Published as part of <i>Peloso, Pedro Luiz Vieira & Sturaro, Marcelo José, 2008, A new species of narrow-mouthed frog of the genus Chiasmocleis Méhelÿ 1904 (Anura, Microhylidae) from the Amazonian rainforest of Brazil, pp. 39-52 in Zootaxa 1947</i> on pages 40-4
Relazione tra il pascolamento bovino, microbiologia del suolo e cicli dei nutrienti nei pascoli di alta quota
No full textThe following work illustrates an exploratory approach as regards the characterization of high altitude pastures from the point of view of the functional soil microbiology, linked to the nitrogen cycle. The study took place over two years, from 2018 to 2019, involving 4 different pastures between Trentino and Veneto. Topsoil samples were taken, from which DNA was subsequently extracted and purified. The extracted DNA was amplified through the application of real-time PCR with primer for target genes related to nitrification and denitrification processes. The genes studied were the nosZfor denitrification and the amoA, archea and bacterial variant, for nitrification. The statistical analysis was based on the evaluation of the presence and absence of genes in the study areas in the various periods considered. Differences were observed between nitrifying and denitrifying genes during the two years of the test. AmoAgenes are found linked to local morphological factors, such as altitude, while nosZdo not. These also show less variability, appearing with greater constancy, taking over that high altitude pastures have good denitrification potential
Effect of Pt Nanoparticles on the Plasmonic and Chemoresistive Gas Sensing Properties of ZnO:Ga Film
No full textIn this paper, we used gallium doped zinc oxide (GZO) nanocrystals as novel plasmonic and chemoresistive sensors for the detection of hazardous gases including hydrogen (H2) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2). GZO nanocrystals with a tunable surface plasmon resonance in the near infrared are obtained using a colloidal heat-up synthesis. Thanks to the strong sensitivity of the plasmon resonances to chemical and electrical changes occurring at the surface of the nanocrystals, such optical features can be used to detect the presence of toxic gases. The same material can be used also as chemoresistive sensors. The effect of Pt nanoparticles (NPs), a well-known catalyst for H2 splitting, have been studied both for the optical and chemoresistive gas response. Both thermal and blue-light (λ = 430 nm) activation were investigated
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