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    San Zenone a Cesena: cenni storici

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    Il saggio ricostruisce la storia della chiesa di San Zenone a Cesena, dalla diffusione del culto del vescovo veronese in città, fino alla costruzione, ad opera del ticinese Pietro Carlo Borboni negli anni Sessanta del Settecento, dell'edificio attuale. Particolare attenzione è dedicata alla ricostruzione, attraverso le fonti dirette disponibili, delle trasformazioni subite da questo edificio in relazione alle trasformazioni del settore urbano in cui è collocato

    Polyculture as a tool to increase the economic income: A study case in the Gulf of Castellammare

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    Polyculture is a practice involving integration between organisms of different trophic levels (i.e. fish with low-trophic-level organism like molluscs and/or algae). This paper, reporting on a field experiment carried out during 2004 in the Gulf of Castellammare (South Tyrrhenian), showed that mussels transplanted in areas under fish farm influence grew up better than mussels transplanted far from fish farm. Thus, results pointed out polyculture as a reliable tool for i) increasing local bivalve production, ii) obtaining the reduction of importation from other countries and iii) increasing the environmental sustainability of fish aquaculture

    Growth of Mytilus galloprovincialis (mollusca, bivalvia) close to fish farms: a case of integrated multi-trophic aquaculture within the Tyrrhenian Sea

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    A current practice of marine aquaculture is to integrate fish with low-trophic-level organisms (e.g. molluscs and/or algae) during farming to minimise effects of cultivation on the surrounding environment and to potentially increase economic income. This hypothesis has been tested in the present article experimentally, by co-cultivating fish and mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) in the field. Integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) experiments were started in July 2004 by transplanting mussel seed at two depths (-3 and -9 m) within 1,000 m downstream to fish cages and at 1,000 m upstream from cages. Mussels were cultured in nylon net bags for 12 months and the growth recorded biometrically. The outcome of our field experiment corroborated the idea of IMTA effectiveness. In fact, in the study area, the organic matter from fish-farm biodeposition caused changes in the chemical environment (i.e. controls and impacted sites were significantly different for organic matter availability and chlorophyll-a) and this induced changes in growth performance of co-cultivated mussels. Mussels cultivated close to cages, under direct organic emission, reached a higher total length, weight and biomass than mussel cultivated far from farms

    Tizio Dorandi (Ed.), Filodemo. Storia dei Filosofi. La Stoà da Zenone a Panezio (PHerc. 1018).

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    Ballériaux Omer. Tizio Dorandi (Ed.), Filodemo. Storia dei Filosofi. La Stoà da Zenone a Panezio (PHerc. 1018).. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 65, 1996. pp. 375-376

    Heart beat rate: a physiological response to thermal stress in blue mussels species.

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    Non-native species often have ecological impacts on invaded communities. The quanti#cation of features of invaders and recipient ecosystems facilitating and/or interfering with successful invasion remains a challenge because of several factors may in!uence the success of invasions. Among them, life history strategies (e.g., reproductive potential, body size), ability to avoid predators, disease resistance and physiological compensatory mechanisms to adapt to changing habitats are among the most important factors. The latter has been often invoked as the key to success for many intertidal invasive invertebrates and have been suggested as key indicators of invasibility rate and the ultimate distribution on worldwide coastal intertidal habitats. The physiological ability to adapt to cycling thermal stress conditions is one important aspect of these species to thrive of intertidal habitats. The present study reports on the physiological e"ect of thermal stress both at low tide and high tide of Mytilus galloprovincialis, a Mediterranean species which is an invader in Northern American intertidal habitats and M. trossulus, a sibling species. Heart beat rate (HBR) of the species was measured in high tide standard condition (12°C, 28 ‰ of salinity) and at 4 di"erent body temperatures (20°, 25°, 30°, 35°C) during low tide condition (aerial exposure). HBR of M. trossulus, during high tide condition was signi#cantly higher (23.66 ± 2.52 beat*min-1, p<0.001) than that of M. galloprovincialis (19.62 ± 0.26 beat*min-1); this is consistent with the evolutionary adaptation to a lower habitat temperature (temperature compensation) in the former species. During low tide conditions at di"erent body temperatures, mussels of the two species showed similar behaviour. Both species increase quickly their HBR after emersion, showing a tachycardia typical of initial emersion condition than HBR fell sharply to bradycardia up to the time which mussels are re-immersed in water
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