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The HCV Sicily Network: A web-based model for the management of HCV chronic liver diseases
2016
Epidemiological studies report that in Sicily reside about 30,000 citizens with a diagnosis of chronic hepatitis due to HCV. The availability of direct antiviral action (DAA) is a real therapeutic breakthrough, but the high cost of the therapeutic regimes limits their use and forced the National Health System to establish clinical priority for the treatment.The HCV Sicily Network is a web-based model of best medical practice, which was designed to improve the management and the treatment of HCV chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis. The network includes 41 centers and 84 gastroenterologists or infectivologists connected by a web platform that recorder the diagnosis and the clinic priority for the…
Antonio Belguardo. Un maestro nella Palermo tra XV e XVI secolo: il regesto documentario
2016
Le informazioni documentarie emerse in questi ultimi anni sulla figura di Antonio Belguardo permettono di tracciare con maggiore compiutezza il profilo biografico e la parabola professionale di uno dei più prolifici protagonisti della stagione tardogotica dell’architettura siciliana; la sua attività, per quanto sinora noto, si concentra prevalentemente a Palermo tra l’ultimo quarto del XV secolo e i primi decenni del XVI. New documents that have come to light on Antonio Belguardo allow us to draw a more complete biographic profile of one of the most prolific protagonists of Late Gothic Sicilian architecture; His activity, as far as we know, was mainly carried out in Palermo, between the las…
Principalis fabricator huius felicis urbis Panormi, in S. Montana, F. Scaduto, Antonio Belguardo a master of the late Gothic in Western Sicily and so…
2016
Le informazioni documentarie emerse in questi ultimi anni sulla figura professionale di Antonio Belguardo permettono di ricostruire una biografia attendibile e abbastanza completa di uno dei più importanti e dotati maestri dell’ultimo gotico in Sicilia occidentale e a Palermo, operante tra l’ultimo ventennio del Quattrocento e il primo Cinquecento. Il prestigio e il ruolo del maestro appaiono subito evidenti se si considerano l’intensa attività svolta, il successo presso una committenza “alta” e la rapida ascesa professionale e sociale comprovata dalla carica di capomastro regio (1536) e dalla carriera ecclesiastica del figlio Giovanni probabilmente identificabile con il vescovo di Telese, …
SUCCESSO E DECLINO DELLA SCUOLA GENOVESIANA IN SICILIA SUL FINIRE DEL XVIII E IL PRINCIPIO DEL XIX SECOLO
2021
In the Sicily of late 18th century, during the harshest contraposition between viceroyal government and parliamentary baronage, the Genovesian school gains a great success on the island among scholars and academicians as well as ruling class. In this particular moment of Sicilian history, the theme of reforms is at the top of the political agenda and the thought of Genovesi and his scholars spurs projects to reform the old institutions of the Kingdom, to modernize agriculture, raise productivity and introduce a fairer taxation. The reputation of the Neapolitan school is so well-known that all the parties are inspired by Its economic and political proposals. Furthermore, the Crown and the ba…
Morphological, karyological and taxonomic remarks on Ferulago nodosa (L.) Boiss. (Apiaceae)
2012
Abstract Western (Sicilian) and eastern (Balcan-aegean) populations of the Balcan-tyrrhenian Ferulago nodosa are reported to be different in some morphological characters, and were considered different species by some authors in XIX century. In this work, fruit and pollen morphologies have been compared in Sicilian and Cretan plants; also, the chromosome number of Sicilian plants has been ascertained. Preliminary results highlight a general homogeneity between the two populations, nevertheless showing significant differences in some parameters (fruit form, pollen size). For this reason, and considering the geographic disjunction of the Sicilian plants, the two populations are proposed to be…
Geological, hydrogeological and geochemical characterization of aquifers in coastal areas (Ragusa-Donnalucata Area, Sicily, Italy)
2005
Carbonate groundwater systems hosted in coastal areas are of particular concern, for multi-fold reasons. First, in Sicily - as in many other islands – coastal areas are the most densely populated: this increase of anthropogenic pressure considerably raises the potential risks of groundwater contamination. This is even more dangerous considering the fact that groundwater is often the main source of potable water for coastal communities, especially since rivers and ponds near the shore are brackish. Secondly, coastal areas are the sites of potential interactions between the groundwater systems and seawater, the morphology and the location of this interface being a complex function, of groundw…
The "Umberto Rizzitano Collection" at the Regional Library of Palermo
2016
Umberto Rizzitano was one of the most important Italian Orientalists. Born in Alexandria of Egypt in 1913 into a Sicilian family, he studied Arabic language and literature at the Oriental School of Rome under the supervision of Giorgio Levi della Vida, Michelangelo Guidi and Carlo Alfonso Nallino. He directed the Italian Institute of Culture in Cairo and the Istituto per l’Oriente in Rome. Revivifier of the glorious past of Arabic studies in Palermo after the death of the eminent and well-known orientalist Michele Amari, Umberto Rizzitano taught Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Palermo. Among his most important works we remember his Italian translations of the novel Zayna…
The use of artificial nest-boxes by Apodemus sylvaticus dichrurus in Sicily
2008
Reports of wood mouse arboreality are rather scarce outside Britain. I reviewed and analysed 267 visits and 16.456 checks of glirids artificial nest-boxes mounted on trees, in twelve sample areas of Meso- and Supra-Mediterranean woodlands (Sicily, 1995-2005). The wood mouse was recorded only 65 times (0.395%) using the artificial nest-boxes in nine sample areas, and based on this low frequency, the wood mouse can be considered as an occasional dweller of artificial nest-boxes. The resource selection index allowed checking the use respect to the availability of nest-boxes placed at different heights. These were likely reached by climbing the dense understorey and low tree branches up to 5 m,…
Ricerche di Archeologia cristiana e bizantina nella Sicilia occidentale
2017
The seventh Quaderno Digitale di Archeologia Postclassica contains the results of the researches conducted by the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Palermo and by the Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Sacra in the Early Christian catacomb of Villagrazia di Carini during the years 2013-2014. Emma Vitale and Fortunatina Vaccaro present the stratigraphic excavation carried out in the south-eastern district of the cemetery, while, in the third study of the book, Giuseppe Falzone analyzes two painted funerary inscriptions on the interior walls of Byzantine burials brought to light, in recent years, along the Decumanus Maximus of Lilybaeum.
Archaeological survey projects in Sicily: issues and best practices from eighties to present time
2017
A partire dagli anni '80 del secolo scorso sono state effettuate numerose indagini archeologiche in Sicilia, in zone dell'isola molto diverse: approcci metodologici, contesti geografici e cronologici, ed infine lo stato dell'edizione, non sempre sono confrontabili tra loro da molti punti di vista Visualizza. Lo scopo di questo lavoro è sia di esaminare questi progetti, prestando attenzione agli aspetti metodologici e di possibili distorsioni interpretative, sia di elaborare buone pratiche utili per nuovi progetti. Since the 80s of the last century several archaeological surveys were carried out in Sicily, in very different areas of the island: methodological approaches, geographical and chr…