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A global occurrence database of the Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus
2021
The Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus is a portunid native to the western Atlantic, from New England to Uruguay. The species was introduced in Europe in 1901 where it has become invasive; additionally, a significant northward expansion has been emphasized in its native range. Here we present a harmonized global compilation of C. sapidus occurrences from native and non-native distribution ranges derived from online databases (GBIF, BISON, OBIS, and iNaturalist) as well as from unpublished and published sources. The dataset consists of 40,388 geo-referenced occurrences, 39,824 from native and 564 from non-native ranges, recorded in 53 countries. The implementation of quality controls imp…
Diversity, virulence, and antimicrobial resistance of the KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST307 clone
2017
ABSTRACT : The global spread of Klebsiella pneumoniae producing Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC) has been mainly associated with the dissemination of high-risk clones. In the last decade, hospital outbreaks involving KPC-producing K. pneumoniae have been predominantly attributed to isolates belonging to clonal group (CG) 258. However, results of recent epidemiological analysis indicate that KPC-producing sequence type (ST) 307, is emerging in different parts of the world and is a candidate to become a prevalent high-risk clone in the near future. Here we show that the ST307 genome encodes genetic features that may provide an advantage in adaptation to the hospital environment and t…
A New World Tribe in Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore
2012
Santi, apostoli e patroni. Storie di agiografia e di potere nell’Inghilterra anglosassone
2018
L’agiografia è un potente veicolo di propaganda e i testi agiografici medievali forniscono una chiave di lettura anche riguardo ai temi dell’etnia e dell’identità dei popoli germanici. Per quanto riguarda il mondo germanico riveste particolare rilievo il culto di quei santi che appaiono più strettamente legati alle formazioni politiche che vanno emergendo in Europa occidentale. Si tratta di culti sostenuti dalle autorità non solo ecclesiastiche ma anche e soprattutto civili, dai sovrani e dai loro entourage. Non si tratta in ogni caso di movimenti prodromici alla affermazione di culti sovraregionali o all’introduzione del concetto di patrono nel senso pieno del termine. I casi presi in esam…
'Mirabilia Indiae e le radici del discorso coloniale', in Maschere dell’Impero, ed. Carmelo Di Piazza – Daniela Corona – Marcella Romeo (Diagonali, 3…
2005
The essay takes into examination the medieval treatment of the so-called Marvels of India, with particualr regard to Anglo-saxon texts
Rev. of T.-A. Cooper, Monk-Bishops and the English Benedictine Reform Movement: Reading London, BL, Cotton Tiberius A. III in Its Manuscript Context,…
2018
A review article on the Book of T._A Cooper on ms. Cotton Tiberius A.III
EPI-CT: design, challenges and epidemiological methods of an international study on cancer risk after paediatric and young adult CT
2015
Computed tomography (CT) has great clinical utility and its usage has increased dramatically over the years. Concerns have been raised, however, about health impacts of ionising radiation exposure from CTs, particularly in children, who have a higher risk for some radiation induced diseases. Direct estimation of the health impact of these exposures is needed, but the conduct of epidemiological studies of paediatric CT populations poses a number of challenges which, if not addressed, could invalidate the results. The aim of the present paper is to review the main challenges of a study on the health impact of paediatric CTs and how the protocol of the European collaborative study EPI-CT, coor…
Matrimonio e Chiesa d’Inghilterra oggi
2015
It seems to take growing root in the West a certain idea of marriage, which appears to descend from the French secularism model, in being “counter-traditional”, respectful of the individual autonomy, and devoted to an “integral” application of the principle of equality. The proof is that it putted down roots in legal contexts poles apart from the above model, for their way to set the space and the relevance of religion in the public sphere. The study examines the emblematic English case, where this notion has led to the introduction of “same-sex marriage”, without the peculiar framework of the relations between the State and his national Church, with his singular legal tecnical implications…
Limits to Learning: the Transfer of Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the Early Middle Age
2013
An unpublished De lapidibus in its manuscript tradition, with particular regard to the Anglo-Saxon area
2007
Il saggio offre un’edizione critica e l’analisi dettagliata di un interessante lapidario latino, finora mai pubblicato, che circolava nell’Inghilterra del tardo periodo anglosassone. Nella tradizione manoscritta (che comprende, allo stato attuale, otto codici), tale opera, intitolata ‘De lapidibus’, si trova associata a testi scientifici, ovvero trattati di geometria, di musica, di tipo computistico, sulla natura dei metalli, o ancora i cosiddetti de sphaera ceali e de mensuris. Il ‘De Lapidibus’ era assai verosimilmente destinato ad un uso didattico e si inserisce in quella vasta e intricata rete di rapporti e scambi culturali e di circolazione di idee e di intellettuali che nel corso del …