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Quali sono le specie arboree a rapido accrescimento per la Sicilia?

2018

A dispetto dell’uso diffuso massiccio della locuzione “specie a rapido accrescimento”, riferita a specie utilizzate per la produzione di biomassa, mancano ad oggi riferimenti certi che servano a definire le suddette specie. Si consideri, inoltre, che la locuzione è utilizzata, oltre che in articoli e testi tecnici, anche in testi che hanno carattere applicativo e/o costituiscono norme di riferimento come, ad esempio, le misure dei Piani di Sviluppo Rurale. Una definizione ormai datata della FAO (1967), riferita ai paesi in via di sviluppo, riporta: “Fast-growing species are considered as those capable of a mean annual increment of at least 10 cubic meters per hectare”. Nel frattempo, da qua…

Institutional perspectives in transition : research groups’ profiles and embeddedness in organisational and national context

2019

Research into differentiation and profiling of knowledge producing institutions through the lenses of institutional logics and field embeddedness have proliferated in recent years. By discussing this process in the context of research groups, as those basic units in which knowledge production epistemically and practically takes place, this article offers a contribution to the theoretical discussion on organisational differentiation. Based on a small-N comparative case study of research groups operating in different national and organisational contexts on a single, highly competitive and interdisciplinary applied sciences field, nanosciences, the article proposes research group profiles as h…

Il progetto EFIAN per Noto Antica, indagine storica e rappresentazione digitale: un connubio necessario

2017

Il progetto “Experimental Fruition Ingenious Ancient Noto” (E.F.I.A.N) cofinanziato dal M.I.U.R nell’ambito di fondi dedicati all’incentivazione delle start up, costituisce l’ultima iniziativa, in ordine di tempo, rivolta allo studio, alla salvaguardia e alla valorizzazione del sito archeologico di Noto Antica, città distrutta e poi abbandonata in seguito al terremoto del 1693 che devastò la Sicilia sud-orientale. Lo scopo del progetto EFIAN, avviato nel 2014 e concluso nell’ ottobre 2016, è stato quello di incrementare le potenzialità attrattive della antica Noto, nell’ambito del turismo culturale, attraverso i supporti multimediali, fruibili sia nella sede museale di Noto, destinata alla …

Fuzzy logic-decision-making system dedicated to evaluation of logistics project effectiveness

2016

Background: Project effectiveness is synonymous with project success. It is measured or assessed in terms of the degree to which project objectives are achieved. This paper presents an approach to evaluating the effectiveness of logistics projects. The starting point is the analysis of the current state of knowledge in the area of assessing project effectiveness, including logistics projects. The purpose of the study was to identify the critical factors determining the success of logistics projects and develop a model of logistics project effectiveness. Methods: The paper is based on the available recent scientific-theoretical research and publications and on practical studies in 25 enterpr…

Motherhood‐induced gene expression in the mouse medial amygdala: Changes induced by pregnancy and lactation but not by pup stimuli

2021

During lactation, adult female mice display aggressive responses toward male intrud-ers, triggered by male- derived chemosensory signals. This aggressive behavior is not shown by pup- sensitized virgin females sharing pup care with dams. The genetic mechanisms underlying the switch from attraction to aggression are unknown. In this work, we investigate the differential gene expression in lactating females ex-pressing maternal aggression compared to pup- sensitized virgin females in the me-dial amygdala (Me), a key neural structure integrating chemosensory and hormonal information. The results showed 197 genes upregulated in dams, including genes encoding hormones such as prolactin, growth h…

Chemical Variability and Pharmacological Potential of Propolis as a Source for the Development of New Pharmaceutical Products

2022

This review aims to analyze propolis as a potential raw material for the development and manufacture of new health-promoting products. Many scientific publications were retrieved from the Scopus, PubMed, and Google Scholar databases via searching the word "propolis". The different extraction procedures, key biologically active compounds, biological properties, and therapeutic potential of propolis were analyzed. It was concluded that propolis possesses a variety of biological properties because of a very complex chemical composition that mainly depends on the plant species visited by bees and species of bees. Numerous studies found versatile pharmacological activities of propolis: antimicro…

Does oral health affect food comfortability and bolus properties during consumption of dairy products in elderly population?

2017

The elderly population is growing increasingly. In 2030, 1/3 of the population will be over 60 years old. However this population has specific nutritional needs and often, oral impairments such as loss of tooth and/or decrease of salivary flow. Therefore it is necessary to develop foods adapted for the elderly, in terms of organoleptic properties and nutritional composition. In this context, the purpose of this work is to study the impact of oral impairments of elderly persons on food comfortability and bolus properties during the consumption of dairy products.76 elderly persons (ages 66 to 88, 42 women and 34 men), with or without oral health problems in terms of dental and/or salivary sta…

Configuration of Strawberry Yield, Nutritional and Functional Traits in Response to LPE Application in a Two-Year Study

2023

Lysophosphatidylethanolamine (LPE) is a promising natural lysophospholipid which can be employed as a growth regulator for horticultural purposes. The present research was accomplished to investigate the effects of LPE (0 or 10 ppm) on the yield and quality of “Savana” strawberry plants grown during two consecutive cultivation cycles (I (2020–2021); II (2021–2022)). Plants cultivated in year I and treated with LPE revealed the highest total yield (838.3 g plant−1), marketable yield (735.4 g plant−1) and average marketable fruit weight (39.8 g plant−1). Fruits from year II plants treated with LPE had the highest total phenolics concentration (491.4 m…

Microbispora sp. ATCC-PTA-5024 proteomic analysis to study metabolic pathway changes before and during lantibiotic production

2011

Centrality Dependence of the Charged-Particle Multiplicity Density at Midrapidity in Pb-Pb Collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV

2016

The pseudorapidity density of charged particles, dNch=dη, at midrapidity in Pb-Pb collisions has been measured at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of √sNN=5.02 TeV. For the 5% most central collisions, we measure a value of 1943±54. The rise in dNch=dη as a function of √sNN is steeper than that observed in proton-proton collisions and follows the trend established by measurements at lower energy. The increase of dNch=dη as a function of the average number of participant nucleons, hNparti, calculated in a Glauber model, is compared with the previous measurement at √sNN=2.76 TeV. A constant factor of about 1.2 describes the increase in dNch=dη from √sNN=2,76 to 5.02 TeV for all central…