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The cork oak in the Mountains of Palermo (Italy): ecological insights from the south-eastern edge of its distribution range
2020
Abstract: The uneven presence of the cork oak (Quercus suber L.) within its distribution range is not only determined by its climatic requirements but also by specific edaphic needs. Although most of the natural populations thrive in acidic soils deriving from metamorphic or volcanic rock outcrops, some cork oak populations are found growing in soils deriving from calcareous bedrock, which are considered less suitable. We carried out a multidisciplinary investigation at the south eastern edge of the Q. suber distribution range (Mountains of Palermo, NW Sicily), including soil, floristic, and vegetation surveys, aimed at: (i) assessing the native or introduced origin of some peculiar cork oa…
Wild and the City
2019
Celebrating the aesthetic, ethical and ecological values of alleged ‘spontaneous nature’ is therefore a recurrent mandate in many projects and inspires numerous urban policies. Someone adopts this perspective as the only one possible for the ‘salvation of the cities’, marrying the reasons of the most orthodox ecology with a sometimes fideistic approach. Someone else embraces the cause of the fusion between wildness and urbanity for new opportunistic marketing operations in the global urban trade, interweaving the religion of environmental sustainability with the enhancement of biodiversity, often understood as a real capitalization. Still others, on the contrary, look at this phenomenon wit…
La Città Selvatica: Paesaggi Urbani Contemporanei, a cura di Annalisa Metta e Maria Livia Olivetti
2021
Rescensione di Metta A., Olivetti M.L. (a cura di, 2019). La Città Selvatica: Paesaggi Urbani Contemporanei, Libria, Melfi
Designing Touchless Gestural Interactions for Public Displays In-the-Wild
2015
Public displays, typically equipped with touchscreens, are used for interactions in public spaces, such as streets or fairs. Currently low-cost visual sensing technologies, such as Kinect-like devices and high quality cameras, allow to easily implement touchless interfaces. Nevertheless, the arising interactions have not yet been fully investigated for public displays in-the-wild (i.e. in appropriate social contexts where public displays are typically deployed). Different audiences, cultures and social settings strongly affect users and their interactions. Besides gestures for public displays must be guessable to be easy to use for a wide audience. Issues like these could be solved with use…
Appunti per una biografia di Alexander Zemlinsky in Europa (1871-1938)
2012
Il saggio delinea un profilo biografico e artistico di Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942) nel periodo compreso fra l'esordio compositivo e l'esilio in America. In particolare, vengono considerati i suoi rapporti con Alma Mahler, con Arnold Schoenberg e, più in generale, con la Scuola musicale di Vienna e l'ambiente culturale della capitale austrica. Per quanto riguarda il linguaggio compositivo di Zemlinsky, viene considerato soprattutto il suo rapporto con l'idea del superamento della sintassi tonale nell'opera teatrale "Der Zwerg" (Il nano, 1919-21) e nella "Lyrische Symphonie" del 1922-23.
Franco Brevini, L'invenzione della natura selvaggia. Storia di un'idea dal XVIII secolo a oggi, Bollati
2013
Dai luoghi profondi. Prose sulla Wilderness.
2012
Curatela della traduzione italiana del volume Deep Enough for Ivorybills di James Kilgo.
Do we need earth jurisprudence? Looking for change in new old friends
2020
The article introduces the reader to the theory of Earth Jurisprudence through an analysis of the writings of Thomas Berry, Cormac Cullinan and Peter Burdon. After looking at the main revisions that the scholars of Earth Jurisprudence propose to the theory of law, the article recognizes the fact that they all move in the direction of natural law theories and questions the opportunity to take this path in order to change the relationship between human law and the environment.
“Tirare al selvatico”: modalità. Una voce del Vocabolario-Atlante delle pratiche venatorie siciliane .
2020
Viene presentato un saggio di voce del "Vocabolario-atlante delle pratiche venatorie siciliane", secondo il modello elaborato in seno all’Atlante Linguistico della Sicilia (ALS). Con una nuova messe di dati e tenendo conto del modello di voce elaborato per il Vocabolario-atlante, in questo contributo, che vuole essere un ideale ampliamento della voce "sparari" pubblicata nel 1980 da Giovanni Ruffino in questo stesso Bollettino, sono prese in esame le numerose locuzioni venatorie relative alle modalità di ‘tirare al selvatico’, concetto che nel lessico venatorio siciliano è generalmente espresso con il tipo lessicale "sparari". A sample of the entry of the "Vocabolario-atlante delle pratiche…
Dissection of the structure-forming activity from the structure-guiding activity of silicatein: a biomimetic molecular approach to print optical fibe…
2020
Silicateins, a group of proteins forming the proteinaceous axial filaments of the inorganic biosilica spicules of the siliceous sponges, are unique in their dual function to exhibit both structure-guiding (providing the structural platform for the biosilica product) and structure-forming activities (enzymatic function: biosilica synthesis from ortho-silicate). The primary translation product of the silicatein gene comprises a signal peptide, a pro-peptide and, separated by an autocatalytic cleavage site glutamine/aspartic acid [Q/D], the sequence of the mature silicatein protein. In order to dissect the biocatalytic, structure-forming activity of silicatein from its structure-guiding functi…