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Diel feeding habits of juveniles of Mullus surmuletus (Linneo, 1758) in the lagoon of the Stagnone di Marsala (Western Sicily, Italy)
1999
Diet composition, feeding rhythm, gastric evacuation rate and daily ration were investigated in juvenile Mulhis surmuletus (Linneo, 1758). Fish were collected in the lagoon of the Stagnone di Marsala in western Sicily, in July 1995, during a 24 h sampling period. Copepoda, Polychaeta, Amphipoda and Tanaidacea were shown to be the most frequent prey items. The feeding index values showed two different daily feeding times. A unimodal trend in the daily rhythm of food consumption was derived, with a peak in feeding between 1200 and 2000 h. Gastric evacuation in juvenile M. surmuletus is best described by an exponential model, with a gastric evacuation rate R = 0.66 g h-1 (r = 0.88) (T = 24.45 …
Increasing tree survival to facilitate the conversion of conventional systems to agroforestry systems using plant growing aids and plant-plant facili…
2022
Several global commitments have established a compromise to greatly increase the presence of trees in agricultural lands, fostering therefore the adoption of agroforestry systems and the destination of some areas for reforestation. Such tasks are challenging, particularly under the current climate change scenarios, and several studies have demonstrated a high risk of seedling mortality under harsh and extremely variable environmental conditions, calling for solutions that must increase the success and reduce the costs of growing a tree. In this study, inside the project LIFE Desert Adapt, we tested the effects of different types of growing aids such as shelters, mulching and innovative meth…
Properties of blended mortars produced with recycled by-products from different waste streams
2023
The construction industry encounters significant challenges in effectively managing solid waste produced during the extraction and production of building materials. In different countries, slurry waste generated from granite and marble processing industries, such as glass industry waste, constitutes a considerable portion of the total solid waste. Its undesirable disposal is causing unprecedented environmental damage. Using these non-biodegradable wastes to produce building materials would reduce the environmental burden and contribute to sustainable construction. This study, in detail, investigates the feasibility of utilizing Granite Powder (GP), Ground Granite Powder (GGP), and Ground Gl…
Il Breve ristretto delli cinque ordini dell'architettura...di Agatino Daidone (1714): struttura, fonti, modelli, obiettivi
2009
Palermo si cura. Pratiche culturali di mutuo soccorso come risposta alle fragilità della città (post)pandemica
2023
In un quadro di riferimento in cui la crisi è globalizzata ma diseguale e in mancanza di un sistema di welfare capace di rispondere alle urgenze dei contesti e dei gruppi sociali più marginalizzati, una risposta ai nuovi bisogni sociali ed individuali è stata offerta da reti solidali e da pratiche di mobilitazione dal basso che svolgono un ruolo di agency territoriale, spesso indipendentemente o in assenza di Istituzioni. Nel contesto palermitano un impegno agito da una pluralità di soggetti culturali già attivi sul territorio, riuniti in un’assemblea pubblica (Palermo si cura), durante il periodo del primo lockdown hanno dato vita ad azioni di mutuo soccorso per rispondere all’emergenza ec…
Un approccio multidisciplinare per lo studio del tesoro degli argenti di Morgantina
2015
Lo studio si inserisce nell’ambito della tutela e della valorizzazione del patrimonio artistico culturale, mettendo a servizio di metodiche tradizionali già consolidate lo sviluppo di nuove Tecniche per l’Informazione e la Comunicazione (TIC) dei Beni Culturali. In questa sede si descrivono alcune delle fasi di indagini di un progetto scientifico di ricerca pluridisciplinare che ha come finalità la tutela, la conservazione e il monitoraggio nel tempo di un prezioso nucleo di reperti in argento del cosiddetto “Tesoro di Eupolemo”. La collezione appartenente al Museo archeologico di Aidone, rappresenta un’inestimabile testimonianza del ricco patrimonio della nostra cultura isolana, di età ell…
A New Preclinical Decision Support System Based on PET Radiomics: A Preliminary Study on the Evaluation of an Innovative 64Cu-Labeled Chelator in Mou…
2022
The 64Cu-labeled chelator was analyzed in vivo by positron emission tomography (PET) imaging to evaluate its biodistribution in a murine model at different acquisition times. For this purpose, nine 6-week-old female Balb/C nude strain mice underwent micro-PET imaging at three different time points after 64Cu-labeled chelator injection. Specifically, the mice were divided into group 1 (acquisition 1 h after [64Cu] chelator administration, n = 3 mice), group 2 (acquisition 4 h after [64Cu]chelator administration, n = 3 mice), and group 3 (acquisition 24 h after [64Cu] chelator administration, n = 3 mice). Successively, all PET studies were segmented by means of registration with a standard te…
Iterative Multiple Bounding-Box Refinements for Visual Tracking.
2022
Single-object visual tracking aims at locating a target in each video frame by predicting the bounding box of the object. Recent approaches have adopted iterative procedures to gradually refine the bounding box and locate the target in the image. In such approaches, the deep model takes as input the image patch corresponding to the currently estimated target bounding box, and provides as output the probability associated with each of the possible bounding box refinements, generally defined as a discrete set of linear transformations of the bounding box center and size. At each iteration, only one transformation is applied, and supervised training of the model may introduce an inherent ambig…
Giustizia o umanità? Come e perché le società sviluppate devono rispondere al problema migratorio
2021
The contribution aims to answer the questions indicated in the title in the context of the debate on the theories of justice. It is argued that the theoretical core of the pro- blem concerns the opposition between justice and humanity. According to the theories of domestic justice, it is possible to speak of justice in domestic contexts, while beyond the borders the relevant principle is the less demanding principle of humanity. But the opposition appears controversial both from the point of view of the political community (where there seems to be a need for elements dating back to the sense of humanity), and from the point of view of the international dimension (where the principle of huma…
Figlia della Notte e compagna di Aidos: Nemesis, dike e il senso del limite in Esiodo
2016
Un articolo di Karl Kerényi, pubblicato con il titolo di Aidos und Themis, offre lo spunto per una riflessione sul contributo di Nemesis a quella forma di giustizia che i Greci designavano con il termine dike. Dopo un rapido confronto con le espressioni della nemesis in Omero in cui il termine appare piuttosto come la manifestazione della disapprovazione sociale, l’analisi si concentra su due passi chiave, l’uno tratto dalle Opere e i Giorni e l’altro Teogonia di Esiodo, in cui Nemesis appare chiaramente dotata di corpo e prerogative divine. I due passi sono letti alla luce della riflessione esiodea sulla giustizia, della particolare vicenda biografica del poeta, come delle sue convinzioni …