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The recreational value of botanic garden events: A case study of the Zagara plant fair in Palermo, Italy
2022
Botanic gardens are defined by their mission to maintain living plant collections for scientific research, conservation, display and education. This mission represents the potential ecosystem services that botanic gardens aim to produce, with display and education specifically regarding recreational ecosystem services (RES). Visitors must directly experience botanic gardens to transform these potential RES into real benefits, yet the public may not be interested in studying plants during their leisure time. Thus, botanic gardens turn to events to attract visitors. The objective of this study is to estimate the RES benefits created by a botanic garden event and profile the visitors that it b…
3D-Printable Model of a Particle Trap: Development and Use in the Physics Classroom
2019
Quadrupole ion traps are modern and versatile research tools used in mass spectrometers, in atomic frequency and time standards, in trapped ion quantum computing research, and for trapping anti-hydrogen ions at CERN. Despite their educational potential, quadrupole ion traps are seldom introduced into the physics classroom not least because commercial quadrupole ion traps appropriate for classroom use are expensive and difficult to set up. We present an open hardware 3D-printable quadrupole ion trap suitable for the classroom, which is capable of trapping lycopodium spores. We also provide student worksheets developed in an iterative design process, which can guide students while discovering…
Ciència, científics i literatura. El paper de la literatura en la divulgació de la ciència i la tecnologia
2014
La presència de la ciència i la tecnologia a través de les seues idees innovadores i avanços tecnològics s'ha vist reflectida en nombroses obres ben conegudes i representatitives de la literatura universal. Aquest fet es dóna, sobretot, a partir del segle XIX quan comença l'impacte social més notori de l'activitat científica en la societat. Amb aquest article volem mostrar com el debat entre les ciències i les humanitats, qüestionat ja per autors com Snow, és estèril, ja que la influència mútua d'aquestes dues formes de pensament mostra que són igualment humanes i s'han influït constantment, més encara com ens acostem a l'actualitat. En l'article s'esmenten innombrables exemples de novel·le…
Dal mare al museo. Il recupero di uno scheletro di stenella striata, Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen 1833)
2022
In 2021, the Museum of Zoology “P. Doderlein” of the University of Palermo acquired a new specimen, the complete skeleton of Stenella coeruleoalba, a striped dolphin stranded in 2018 in Marinella di Selinunte, Castelvetrano (Sicily, Southern Italy). The project herein described is the result of a collaboration among the Bio-Reconstruction Laboratory of the IAS-CNR of Capo Granitola, the IZS of Palermo, the company Naturaliter and the Museum of Zoology “P. Doderlein”. In Natural History Museums, cetaceans are an excellent tool to facilitate scientific dissemination aimed at the conservation of marine biodiversity. The work herein described is presented as an example of good practices in reco…