Felicis, et fidelissimæ urbis Panormitanæ selecta aliquot ad civitatis decus, et commodum spectantia privilegia per instrumenta varia Siciliae

Collection of some privileges of the city of Palermo issued between 1140 and 1704.

Delito fiscal: un crimen de cuello blanco

2017

DELITO FISCAL: UN CRIMEN DE CUELLO BLANCO El fraude tributario supone un ataque directo contra el principio constitucional de contribuir al sostenimiento de los gastos públicos de acuerdo con la capacidad económica de cada persona recogido en el artículo 31 de la CE, amén de constituir un grave atentado contra el orden económico – social. Con estas dos premisas se debería justificar la tipificación del delito fiscal como fórmula para la persecución penal de las conductas defraudadoras más graves. En el ámbito de la delincuencia económica, el delito fiscal es el tipo más característico y con mayor peso específico. La instauración de un sistema fiscal complejo, necesario para mantener el Esta…

A test of transferability for landslides susceptibility models under extreme climatic events: application to the Messina 2009 disaster

2014

A model building strategy is tested to assess the susceptibility for extreme climatic events driven shallow landslides. In fact, extreme climatic inputs such as storms typically are very local phenomena in the Mediterranean areas, so that with the exception of recently stricken areas, the landslide inventories which are required to train any stochastic model are actually unavailable. A solution is here proposed, consisting in training a susceptibility model in a source catchment, which was implemented by applying the binary logistic regression technique, and exporting its predicting function (selected predictors regressed coefficients) in a target catchment to predict its landslide distribu…

Symmetry operators in computer vision

1996

Abstract Symmetry plays a remarkable role in perception problems. For example, peaks of brain activity are measured in correspondence with visual patterns showing symmetry . Relevance of symmetry in vision was already noted by Koler in 1929. Here, properties of a symmetry operator are reported and a new algorithm to measure local symmetries is proposed. Its performance is tested on segmentation of complex visual patterns and the classification of sparse images.

Museo di zoologia “P.Doderlein”

The Zoology Museum preserves several thousands of Invertebrate and Vertebrate specimens. Established in the second half of the 19th century, it is an important conservation centre for Sicilian and Mediterranean zoological material. Thanks to its peculiar structure, it gives visitors the same atmosphere in which zoology scientists worked in the second half of the 19th century.

CERISA

CERISA is part of the Mechanical Technology Laboratory of the Department of Industrial and Digital Innovation (DIID). The laboratory is specialized in the analysis and characterization of metallic materials. CERISA is equipped with all the necessary equipment for the most important tests of micro and macro mechanical characterization of materials and metal joints through destructive and non-destructive. CERISA is also equipped with several workstations for data processing and the implementation of simulations using FEM software.

Interdisciplinary Public Policy Mainz

Public institutions can only use their various policy instruments productively if they are able to adequately assess the effect they have on human behavior. Thus, the design of effective institutions and policies requires not only an understanding of the relevant and often interdependent social, economic, political, and legal contexts and mechanisms but it also requires a deep knowledge about how human beings make decisions. In order to obtain the necessary insights, the Interdisciplinary Public Policy (IPP) Research Unit constituted at JGU in 2014 incorporates a number of different disciplines: economics, business administration, computer science, political science, sociology, communicatio…

Biophotonics Laboratory

Main directions of scientific work: Development of optical methods and devices for medical and technological applications. early non-invasive skin cancer diagnostics and classification of skin lesions using multispectral diffuse reflectance and autofluorescence imaging techniques combined with artificial neural network analysis; early detection of sepsis on the knees using multispectral imaging techniques; contactless photoplethysmography imaging to monitor the time of exposure to anesthesia; assessment and presentation of oxygen saturation in the skin; laser beam contrast imaging for microbial growth analysis; time-resolved diffuse reflectance and in vivo skin autofluorescence using time-d…

Description de l'Égypte ou Recueil de observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'éxpédition de l'armée française

The library's collection contains a unique collection of original engravings "Description of the Egyptian ou. In Egypt during the French Army Expedition "2nd edition, published in Paris from 1821 to 1829. Large-format engravings depict pyramids, temples, sculptures and bas-reliefs, hieroglyphics, plants, animals, cities and their maps.\nThe collection of historically illustrative and artistically valuable engravings was created by French scientists during Napoleon's Egyptian expedition from 1798 to 1801. The engravings are the result of the collaboration of more than 150 famous scientists and researchers from various fields who accompanied Napoleon on an expedition to Egypt. Later, with the…

Sicilia sacra disquisitionibus: et notitiis illustrata. Ubi libris quatuor postquam de illius patriarcha, et metropolita

In the first volume, royal historian Pirri talks about the origins of the metropolitan churches of Palermo, Messina and Monreale, opening the work with a detailed chronology of the kings of Sicily.

Sacrae Rotae Romanae Decisiones coram reverendissimo P. domino Cyriaco Lancetta ...

Collection of the sentences of Sacra Rota from January 13, 1710 to December 10, 1714, taken from the autographs of Ciriaco Lancetta, auditor of the Sacra Rota.

Neighborhood walkability and older people's participation in leisure activities

2022

Background The neighborhood environment may enhance or restrict older people's opportunities to participate in leisure activities, and thus impact quality of life. Walkability depicts the environment's suitability for walking to different destinations. Little is known concerning about the relation between environment walkability and participation in leisure activities. Our purpose was to study whether neighborhood's objective and perceived walkability were related to participation in various leisure activities outside the home. Methods Cross-sectional data of LISPE consisted of 848 community-dwelling people aged 75-90 living in the municipalities of Jyväskylä and Muurame, Finland. Participa…

Istorie del suo tempo di Mons. Paolo Giovio da Como, vescovo di Nocera; tradotta per m. Lodovico Domenichi, et novissimamente ristampata, et corretta.

Renaissance work about the world known in that time, focusing particularly on italian events, with a geographic table of the mentioned places.The first part covers the period from 1494 to 1517.

A novel copper compound, CuNV110, induces apoptosis in tumor cells by dissociation of the Hsp60- pro-caspase 3 complex

2015

The biological activity of CuNV1110, a novel copper chemical compound, has been recently studied on cancer cells and it has been showed that it reduces the cell viability, in a dose and time dependent manner, and induces cell apoptosis. In this study we evaluated the possible mechanisms by which CuNV1110 induces cell apoptosis. In particular we looked at its effects on Hsp60 levels and caspase 3 activation. We used an in vitro model of a pulmonary mucoepidermoid carcinoma (NCI-H292 cells). We found that CuNV1110 reduces the cell viability and induces cell apoptosis in a dose/time dependent manner. Then, we found that Hsp60 levels decrease with the increasing concentrations of CuNV110; by co…

Crypt of the Repentite

The crypt came to light by chance in 2005, during some renovation works of an old religious complex in via Divisi and is currently intended for University Departments. It is still intact in its original beauty. Burial place for the “Repentite”, it preserves a valuable 17th century altar, almost intact.

Rodło Archive Collection

The Rodło Archive collection is one of the most valuable collections in the Library of the University of Opole. Some of the documents date back to the first years of the Union’s of Poles in Germany activity. It was the Polish organization in Germany, existing since 1922.The Archive was established on the initiative of Edmund Osmańczyk (Polish journalist, political scientist and politician, activist of the Polish minority in Germany ) and his assistant Helena Lehr. The time limit of the Archive is 1960 / 1970–1990. In 1999, the resource was donated to the University of Opole by Helena Lehr. Since then, it has been stored and made available in the reading room of the UO Main Library. Archival…

Iosephi Binghami ... Origines sive antiquitates ecclesiasticae. Ex lingua anglicana in latinam vertit

Translation from English into Latin of a vast religious-historical work which gives a systematic account of Christian antiquities, grouped by headings.The seventh volume contains book XVI.

Log velocity profile and bottom displacement for a flow over a very flexible submerged canopy

2007

Management of shallow lagoons and salt marsh environments usually requires use of numerical models in order to understand the hydrodynamic characteristics of these basins. In order for these models to give reliable results one has to have good knowledge of the interaction between the flow and the aquatic vegetation, which strongly alters the hydrodynamic characteristics. Many experimental and theoretical studies are available in the technical literature, but, because of the very different vegetation and flow characteristics, they do not yet allow one to have a clear and general knowledge of the phenomena, in terms of both flow resistance and velocity distribution. The latter is very importa…

Research Group in Reproductive Medicine

The mission of the Reproductive Medicine research group is to advance the understanding of processes associated with human reproduction for translational application, improving the efficiency of assisted reproductive treatments and maternal-fetal health. They follow a particular approach in the fields of regenerative medicine related to the endometrium and genomic studies on embryonic viability and endometrial receptivity, as well as other factors that cause infertility.

Institute of Chemical Physics consists of Nanomaterials Lab

The main research directions - investigation of properties and possible applications of nanostructured materials such as nanowires, nanotubes, nanoparticles.

Physical Activity Levels and Related Energy Expenditure during COVID-19 Quarantine among the Sicilian Active Population: A Cross-Sectional Online Sur…

2020

Background: During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the Italian government has adopted containment measures to control the virus’s spread, including limitations to the practice of physical activity (PA). The aim of this study was to estimate the levels of PA, expressed as energy expenditure (MET–minute/week), among the physically active Sicilian population before and during the last seven days of the COVID-19 quarantine. Furthermore, the relation between this parameter and specific demographic and anthropometric variables was analyzed. Methods: 802 Sicilian physically active participants (mean age: 32.27 ± 12.81 years; BMI: 23.44 ± 3.33 kg/m2) were included in the study and…