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Bivalves and evolutionary resilience: Old skills and new strategies to recover from the P/T and T/J extinction events

2011

Diversity dynamics among bivalves during the Triassic and Early Jurassic provides the opportunity to analyse the recovery patterns after two mass extinctions: Permian/Triassic and Triassic/Jurassic (T/J). The results presented here are based on a newly compiled worldwide genus-level database and are contrasted to the main morphological characters of the different taxonomical (orders and their constituent families and genera) and ecological groups. Many of such morphological characters are innovations appearing during the time span considered. Diversity and evolutionary rates were assessed and compared between these groups. During the Early Triassic there was a slow recovery, dominated by ep…

I CIRCUITI BREVI SOLIDALI DI PRODUZIONE AGRICOLA E CONSUMO ALIMENTARE COME MODELLI PER UN FUTURO SOSTENIBILE

2011

AnMBR, reclaimed water and fertigation: Two case studies in Italy and Spain to assess economic and technological feasibility and CO2 emissions within…

2020

[EN] The use of anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) technology on urban wastewater can help to alleviate droughts, by reusing the water and nutrients embedded in the effluent in agriculture (fertigation) in line with Circular Economy principles. The combination of AnMBR and fertigation reduces CO2 emissions due to the organic matter valorization and the partial avoidance of mineral fertilizer requirements. However, both AnMBR and fertigation still face technological and regulatory barriers that need to be overcome. These bottlenecks were tackled within the first Innovation Deal approved by the European Commission in 2016, and gave rise to several case studies on water reuse systems. The r…

PALERMO SICILIAN GARDEN

2019

Palermo, città-giardino fin dalle sue origini, ha fatto del verde una delle sue espressioni più manifeste. La città conserva come in un scrigno le testimonianze più significative della storia del verde che occupa un ruolo determinante dal punto di vista ambientale, storico e paesaggistico. Agli splendidi parchi della Conca d'Oro che un tempo abbracciavano la città, fanno eco i meravigliosi giardini privati nascosti all’interno di palazzi nobiliari, chiese e monasteri e i parchi e le ville pubbliche, alcuni dei quali trasformati oggi in spazi di verde attrezzato e orti urbani. Il contributo espone gli esiti di uno studio condotto presso il Dipartimento di Architettura dell'Università di Pale…

Steam catalytic cracking of naphtha over ZSM-5 zeolite for production of propene and ethene: Micro and macroscopic implications of the presence of st…

2012

One option to produce more ethene and propene can be to crack naphtha type fractions in dedicated smaller FCC units. We present here the results obtained for high temperature steam catalytic cracking (SCC) of a representative naphtha product (n-heptane) with ZSM-5. It has been found that under those conditions the presence of steam produces an irreversible dealumination of the zeolite as well as a reversible deactivation due to the interaction of water with active sites with a negative effect on protolytic cracking. A kinetic decay model that takes into account the two phenomena has been developed. The apparent activation energy is lower in the presence of steam. It appears that whilst the …

Fotodegradazione di esteri ftalici su pitture murali tramite irradiazioni uv

2014

Gli esteri ftalici (esteri dell’acido ftalico), rappresentano una particolare classe di inquinanti organici ubiquitari, resistenzi alla bio-degradazione, capaci da fungere da distruttori endocrini e dannosi a causa del loro effetto mutageno e cancerogeno. Molti composti di questa classe di sostanze per decenni, e probabilmente ancora oggi, sono stati utilizzati come ammorbidenti nelle pitture murali superficiali utilizzate nelle comuni abitazioni domestiche. Considerando quindi che oggigiorno, le attività di demolizione e ristrutturazione rapprsentano una cospiqua fetta di mercato delle attività edilizie, e che spesso i lavoratori impiegati in queste attività sono sogetti in maniera continu…

Genere e ambiente

2008

From risk assessment to in-context trajectory evaluation - GMOs and their social implications

2011

Purpose: Over the past twenty years, GMOs have raised enormous expectations, passionate political controversies, and an on-going debate on how should these technologies be assessed. Current risk-assessment procedures generally assess GMOs in terms of their potential risk of negatively affecting human health and the environment. Yet, is this risk-benefit approach appropriate to a deliver a robust assessment of GMOs? In this paper, we question the validity of current risk-assessment from both a social and an ecological perspective, and we elaborate an alternative approach, namely in-context trajectory evaluation Methods: This paper combines frame analysis, context analysis and eco-social anal…

Topografie gaddiane. "Il Giornale di guerra e di prigionia"

2018

Il saggio muove dal concetto dell’«insufficienza etnico-storico-economica dell’ambiente italiano» espresso alle prime battute del "Racconto italiano di ignoto del Novecento" per mostrare come la ricognizione dei luoghi per Gadda e i rilevamenti paesaggistici si rivelino una determinante chiave gnoseologica che Giornale di guerra e di prigionia fa affiorare anche una interessante trama intertestuale che va da Virgilio a Dante

Determination of Selected Phthalates by Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry in Personal Perfumes

2015

A simple and fast method is proposed to analyze commercial personal perfumes. Our method includes measurement of phthalates, known to be major sources of endocrine disruptor chemicals (EDC), which originate from the less volatile fraction of perfumes. The quantification of phthalates were carried out directly with no sample preparation required on 30 samples of commercial products using gas chromatography and mass spectrometry (GC-MS) as a detector. The total concentrations of 15 investigated compounds ranged from 17 to 9650 mg/L with an average of 2643 mg/L. The highest total concentration was found in cologne. Diethyl phthalate (DEP), diisobutyl phthalate (DiBP), di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalat…