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Effects of PET packaging on the quality of an orange juice made from concentrate
2004
An orange juice made from concentrate was conditioned in three different PET (PolyEthylene Terephtalate) and glass packagings. Influence of storage conditions (length of storage, light, oxygen) on vitamin C content, browning index, and colour were measured. Results show that permeability to oxygen of PET packagings is the major factor detrimentally affecting the above parameters.
Soil carbon, multiple benefits
2014
Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-11T17:24:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2015-01-01 In March 2013, 40 leading experts from across the world gathered at a workshop, hosted by the European Commission, Directorate General Joint Research Centre, Italy, to discuss the multiple benefits of soil carbon as part of a Rapid Assessment Process (RAP) project commissioned by Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE). This collaboration led to the publication of the SCOPE Series Volume 71 Soil Carbon: Science, Management and Policy for Multiple Benefits; which brings together the essential scientific evidence and policy opportunities regarding the global importa…
A LABORATORY AT THE "CONVENTO DEI CAPPUCCINI" OF PALERMO
2009
Hybridization selects for prime‐numbered life cycles in Magicicada: An individual‐based simulation model of a structured periodical cicada population
2020
Abstract We investigate competition between separate periodical cicada populations each possessing different life‐cycle lengths. We build an individual‐based model to simulate the cicada life cycle and allow random migrations to occur between patches inhabited by the different populations. We show that if hybridization between different cycle lengths produces offspring that have an intermediate life‐cycle length, then predation acts disproportionately to select against the hybrid offspring. This happens because they emerge in low densities without the safety‐in‐numbers provided by either parent population. Thus, prime‐numbered life cycles that can better avoid hybridization are favored. How…
The Global Soil Mycobiome consortium dataset for boosting fungal diversity research
2021
This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-021-00493-7. Fungi are highly important biotic components of terrestrial ecosystems, but we still have a very limited understanding about their diversity and distribution. This data article releases a global soil fungal dataset of the Global Soil Mycobiome consortium (GSMc) to boost further research in fungal diversity, biogeography and macroecology. The dataset comprises 722,682 fu…
The Contribution of Microchemical Analyses and Diagnostic Imaging to the Conservation and Identification of the Degraded Surfaces of Hellenistic-Roma…
2020
The Archaeological Museum of Palermo (Sicily) has recently presented the results of the restoration of three wall paintings from the House of the Masks of Solunto archaeological site. These significant paintings, dating back to the first century BCE, are the most significant examples of Pompeian style discovered in Sicily to date. The cycle of frescoes unearthed is the best preserved and most complete example of wall painting dating to the Republican Roman period in Sicily. This house was a luxurious private residence built on two floors and centred around a peristyle. This fresco cycle embellished the walls of a banquet room (oecus) discovered during an archaeological excavation carried ou…
Multitechnique diagnostic analysis and 3D surveying prior to the restoration of St. Michael defeating Evil painting by Mattia Preti
2021
In this study, a multimethodological analysis involving optical and physical/chemical diagnostic techniques and 3D photogrammetric survey was successfully applied, for the first time, on the large oil on canvas St. Michael defeating Evil painting by Mattia Preti, located inside the Church of the Immaculate Conception of Sarria (Floriana) in Malta. Pigmenting agents, binder media, and raw materials were first characterized, both at elemental and molecular scales, through X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF), optical stereo microscopy (SM), scanning electron microscopy coupled with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDX), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), and gas chroma…
Il palazzo di Phestos a Creta: Scavo e restauro
2014
Nel 1900, la Missione Archeologica Italiana di Creta, guidata da Federico Halbherr, con la collaborazione di alcuni archeologi e studenti di archeologia, fra i quali Luigi Pernier, scoprì i resti del palazzo minoico di Festòs, posto a pochi chilometri da Eraklion, capoluogo dell’isola di Creta. Contemporaneamente alla messa in luce dei resti furono eseguiti i primi interventi di restauro e sistemazione, tra questi la pulitura degli interstizi fra i conci lapidei e la stesura di malta cementizia colorata, in modo da intonarla rispetto ai resti, la sistemazione delle parti superiori dei resti murari e la costruzione dei solai in calcestruzzo di cemento armato, un tempo realizzati con struttur…
Il palazzo del Gran Maestro di Rodi (Grecia): fra restauro, ricostruzione e valorizzazione
2018
All’epoca dell’occupazione italiana, dal 1912, dell’isola di Rodi in Grecia, il palazzo del Gran Maestro nella città di Rodi versava, in generale, in stato di rudere. L’edificio, un tempo luogo forte della città, era stato costruito nell’Antichità, rimaneggiato in epoca bizantina, e rifondato, agli inizi del sec. XIV, dai Cavalieri di San Giovanni o di Rodi, che lo completarono, quale residenza del loro Gran Maestro, già alla fine dello stesso secolo. Il saggio intende indagare questa straordinaria architettura fortificata, ma soprattutto desidera conoscere i vari restauri succedutisi nel corso degli anni, dal 1912 al 1940, quando Rodi e le Isole italiane dell’Egeo diventarono possedimento …
Le superfici murarie a vista: restauri a Palermo e a Rodi (fine se. XIX- prima metà sec. XX)
2018
Il saggio indaga la particolare tecnica di restauro delle superfici murarie lasciate a vista dell’architettura medievale considerando alcuni casi nella città di Palermo e di Rodi in Grecia (fine del sec. XIX - prima metà del sec. XX). In particolare, dopo avere eliminato gli strati di intonaco, anche quelli coevi alla costruzione, l’architettura medievale era sottoposta ad interventi di rifacimento delle superfici sia interne che esterne, mediante la tecnica dell’”impiallicciatura”, cioè ricostruendo i filari dei conci delle murature con materiale simile per natura, dimensioni e colore, o estraendo il concio degradato, resecando la parte ammalorata e ricollocandolo nella muratura. Questa op…