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The ecological role of Pyrus Spinosa Forssk. in the ecosystem recovery and land restoration of Mediterranean woodlands
2021
In the Mediterranean basin, large areas still call for active reforestation, having a very low woody cover, thus resulting less resistant and resilient to climate change and suffering from a higher risk of soil degradation processes. Knowing the effects on soil fertility and carbon sequestration of single woody species can be of great practical importance, although being rarely tested. We aimed to assess the effect of Pyrus spinosa on soil fertility (soil carbon and nitrogen), microbial biomass and carbon sequestration (in aboveground stems) of Mediterranean pasturelands. The research was carried out in Ficuzza Nature Reserve (NW Sicily), where large areas are composed of extensive pasturel…
Impact of Heavy Metals in Eggs and Tissues of C. caretta along the Sicilian Coast (Mediterranean Sea)
2022
In this study we compared the heavy metal concentration found in different tissues and eggs of the loggerhead sea turtle and evaluated the potential ecotoxicological risk for this important species. Eighteen heavy metal elements were determined in different tissues (liver, gonads, fat, kidney, heart, brain, and spleen) of nine individuals of Caretta caretta found stranded along the coasts of Messina (Sicily, Italy) and in the shell and yolk of six eggs from the island of Linosa (Sicily, Italy). For the analysis of the heavy metals, we used the analytical procedures in accordance with the EPA 200.8 method supplemented by EPA 6020b with three replicates for each measurement. The elements anal…
Clindamycin-induced restless syndrome
2008
Brief description: We presented a case of severe RLS associated with clindamycin (a lincosamide antibiotic frequently used in clinical practice) which was also a cause of a neurological emergency unit admission
Is Acetaldehyde a substance of abuse? Evidence from a free-access, three-bottle choice paradigm
2012
At present, neuroscience literature dealing with Acetaldehyde (ACD), ethanol first metabolite, as a drug of abuse, reported conditioned taste aversion paradigm and conditioned place preference, following ICV or i.p. administration. No reports exist on ACD oral self-administration probably because of its high volatility. For this reason, this pilot study was aimed at the evaluation of ACD concentration in aqueous solutions, and consequently to the rat drinking behaviour when acetaldehyde was presented in a free-access paradigm together with water and a sweet solution. Preliminarly we investigated the loss of ACD content in aqueous standard solutions. For the investigation of ACD concentratio…
Reply to the comment on “Carbonate deposition and diagenesis in evaporitic environments: The evaporative and sulphur-bearing limestones during the se…
2016
Abstract Manzi et al. (in press) took the opportunity offered by our paper to repeat again all the set of ideas supporting an interpretative model of the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC), a model they assert to be valid for the whole Mediterranean basin. What emerges from reading this long comment may be summarized in one criticism of our article: we have not systematically applied their interpretative model to our data! The aim of our paper was not to promote their ideas, but to submit the results of more than 20 years of field studies and petrographical and geochemical analyses on Sicilian and Calabrian sequences of the Messinian “Calcare di Base”. It is out of our purpose to enumerate aga…
The transition between the Marsili oceanic crust and the W Calabria rifted margin: rifting and drifting in the upper plate of the Ionian subduction z…
2012
The western Calabria continental margin forms the transition between the Late Pliocene to Recent Marsili spreading center and continental Calabria. Integrating highpenetration and -resolution upper crustal seismic images with seafloor morphology, ODP well data and geological/geophysical constraints we provide a detailed reconstruction of the architecture of the distal portion of the W Calabria rifted margin and of the adjacent Marsili “oceanic” domain (Fig. 1) and develop a scheme for the Pliocene to present rifting and drifting of the upper plate of the Ionian subduction zone. Our seismic data document the presence of stretched and thinned continental crust, less than 10 Km thick into the …
Presentazione
2013
Il testo propone un articolato commento alle posizioni teoriche e alle linee di ricerca progettuale espresse da Michele Argentino, professore ordinario di Design a Palermo circa la necessità di riconquistare il ruolo sociale alla creatività individuale, riprendendosi il desiderio di diventare nuovamente "Homo Faber". Il testo inoltre presenta gli obiettivi della nuova collana scientifica - diretta dall'autrice - dal Titolo " Design e Contesti": intercettare ambiti di ricerca trasversali alle discipline del progetto, favorire gli intrecci tra idee progettuali e percorsi di innovazione socio-culturale, sviluppare nuove strategie produttive compatibili con i diversi aspetti della sostenibilità.
Gli editoriali di «In Architettura»
2010
Right from the title of the first editorial of «In Architettura », “La rivoluzione insediativa. I nuovi doveri”, stands as a petit manifeste for the affirmation of new positions in the field of architecture. To the uncontrolled settlement revolution that took place in the thirty years of intense post-war urban development, Culotta proposes to respond with another settlement revolution, that of architectural design. The intentions are clear and ambitious and, for the part of the world to which they refer, avant-garde. If it is true that in the settlement revolution the universe was „built but not designed“ then it will also be true that the universe can be designed. It must also be true that…
QUALE [NUOVA] ARCHITETTURA DEL DIVENIRE? / WHICH [NEW] ARCHITECTURE OF BECOMING?
2014
L'avvento del computer nell’architettura nei primi anni '90 ha generato un nuovo modo di concepire il progetto, che di conseguenza si riflette sull'estetica d ell’ultimo periodo dell’architettura. Volgendo uno sguardo agli edifici, è evidente che non siamo di fronte ad uno stile, ma piuttosto a molteplici tendenze espressive presenti allo stesso tempo e in diversi luoghi. Non c’è dubbio che ci troviamo all'interno di una rivoluzione di metodi, di processi, di pensiero. The advent of computer in architecture in the early '90s generated a new way to conceive design, that is consequently reflected on the aesthetics of last period architecture. By giving a look at buildings, it is evident that …
Architettura e agricoltura. Figure simboliche di incorporazione, 1960-1972
2022
Nel secondo dopoguerra, la reazione dell’Architettura ai dogmi modernisti ha avuto come denominatore comune un rinnovato interesse per l’uomo, inteso come origine di un progetto situato. E’ in questo quadro che, negli anni Sessanta del Novecento, l’architettura ha dato nuovo spazio all’agricoltura, individuando in essa l’atto fondativo di ogni civiltà. Letti in ordine cronologico, alcuni esempi di quegli anni mostrano l’estensione della scalarità della disciplina ai territori produttivi e il debito linguistico nei confronti della biologia cellulare organica e della botanica. Il saggio discute alcuni progetti di Kurokawa, Superstudio, 9999, Archizoom, che, oscillando fra ultime utopie, atrof…