Search results for "South Italy"
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A review on introduced alien insect pests and their associated parasitoids on eucalyptus trees in Sicily
2018
A review is reported in the present paper on invasive alien insects introduced in Sicily on Eucalyptus trees, together with unpublished results from recent surveys. As to the latter ones, observations were conducted especially on Thaumastocoris peregrinus (Carpintero & Dellapé) (Hemiptera, Thaumastocoridae), the most recently introduced species. Overall, eight alien insect pests have been accidentally introduced in the island on Eucalyptus, belonging to the orders Hemiptera (Aphalaridae, 2 spp.; Thaumastocoridae, 1 sp.), Coleoptera (Cerambycidae, 2 spp.; Curculionidae, 1 sp.) and Hymenoptera (Eulophidae, 2 spp.). Two encyrtid parasitoids, Avetianella longoi Siscaro and Psyllaephagus bliteus…
Planning in the Era of Information and Communication Technologies. Discussing the "label: Smart" in South-European cities with environmental and soci…
2016
In the last decades, planners have explored various approaches to sustainable urban planning and development. Scholars widely argued the limits to uncontrolled physical growth, to the exploitation of resources, and the necessity of finding alternatives. Within the general framework of sustainability, urban planners are in the search for approaches aimed at coping with current uncertainties that cities have to face, based on the deterioration of natural-socio-cultural environments and uncontrollable economic and financial flows. Notwithstanding, the rise of post-industrial urban economies has introduced Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as successful devices that are proposed…
The Greeks in the West: genetic signatures of the Hellenic colonisation in southern Italy and Sicily
2015
Greek colonisation of South Italy and Sicily (Magna Graecia) was a defining event in European cultural history, although the demographic processes and genetic impacts involved have not been systematically investigated. Here, we combine high-resolution surveys of the variability at the uni-parentally inherited Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA in selected samples of putative source and recipient populations with forward-in-time simulations of alternative demographic models to detect signatures of that impact. Using a subset of haplotypes chosen to represent historical sources, we recover a clear signature of Greek ancestry in East Sicily compatible with the settlement from Euboea during the…
Regional-scale modeling of reference evapotranspiration: Intercomparison of two simplified temperature- and radiation-based approaches
2015
Two regionalized models for the distributed estimation of daily reference evapotranspiration, the temperature-based Hargreaves (HE) and the radiation-based Makkink (MK) equations, are applied in Southern Italy during the years 2007 and 2008. Spatially distributed meteorological inputs, such as air temperature and incoming solar radiation, were derived from geostatistical interpolation of ground data and from the Land Surface Analysis Satellite Application Facility (LSA-SAF) surface radiation product, respectively. Comparison of the latter with 83,394 daily measurements provided by 128 weather stations shows a not negligible seasonal error in daily solar radiation that is corrected by means …
Assessing changes in rainfall erosivity in Sicily during the twentieth century
2007
Changes in rainfall erosivity are an expected consequence of climate change. Long-term series of the single storm erosion index, EI, may be analysed to detect trends in rainfall erosivity. An indirect approach has to be applied for estimating EI, given that long series of rainfall intensities are seldom available. In this paper, a method for estimating EI from the corresponding rainfall amount, he, was developed for Sicily. This method was then applied at 17 Sicilian locations, representative of different climatic zones of the region, to generate a long series (i.e. from 1916 to 1999 in most cases) of EI values. Linear and step (step located at 1970) trends in annual and seasonal erosivity …
Storia di due alberi. Il tecnopaesaggio meridiano nei film industriali del miracolo economico
2021
The transformation of Southern landscape after the construction of new infrastructures is a crucial theme in most techno-films released during the Italian economic miracle. Here, the traditional landscape is integrated with elements formerly unknown, giving birth to an original hybrid of technics and nature. This paper analyses the images of this rising “techno-landscape” by questioning the strategies that represent it as a form, as a point of view, and as an experience, thus making it a distinctive element of Italian modernity.
La tentazione autoritaria. L'Itala liberale e il governo dei migliori
2012
In this essay argues that the Italy of the end of the millennium and the sunset of the nineteenth century were united by an authoritarian temptation. A shiny, modern and reactionary political project of the Government of the best that you can find in Southern Italy, and focus on the debate, his lab and in the great war his testbed. A generation of great nationalist intellectuals (and meridionalisti) began looking for an alternative political model to the liberal-democrat, much more suitable, according to them, the transformations that modernity had started in Italy and Europe.
Mycological investigations and conservation of fungi in Sicily (South Italy)
2004
An overview of the research projects recently activated in Sicily (South Italy) for the assessment of fungal diversity together with considerations on stress factors responsible of changes in the composition of mycological flora and decline of fungal communities, respectively, are here reported. The paper also deals with the problems concerning fungal conservation and the needs to co-ordinate future actions at European level.
Gender, Identities, and Material Culture in the Italic Peninsula: Burial Practices and Loom Weights in Perspective
2021
AbstractThis paper discusses the complex relationship between material culture and gender studies from a methodological point of view, with the aim of contributing to discussions in the field of Classical archaeology. First, we provide a few historiographical benchmarks for key epistemological developments, while evidencing the methodological difficulties inherent in the variability of our interpretations of burial practices and data. Then, in a second section, a case study focuses on simple objects of daily life. Discussing approaches inspired by gender studies, and considering the place of loom weights, we wish to tackle the presumption of textile work as an eminently female activity. The…