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Infrastructura Naturans. Architetture di trasformazione della circonvallazione di Palermo
2022
The article discusses the theoretical system that supports design themes and processes of recycling large urban road infrastructures, referring to an international research that frames them among the sustainable regeneration processes of the contemporary city, and further evoking the project for the transformation of Palermo's ring road that has been elaborated within this research. Witnesses of past urban seasons, these infrastructures are marked by a peculiar morphology that deserves to be maintained, while they must emancipate themselves from asphalt and adapt to new urban mobilities. By hybridizing vegetation and buildings as never before, the longest roadways in our urban contexts may …
Holmium(III) Single-Ion Magnet for Cryomagnetic Refrigeration Based on an MRI Contrast Agent Derivative
2021
The coexistence of field-induced blockage of the magnetization and significant magnetocaloric effects in the low-temperature region occurs in a mononuclear holmium(III) diethylenetriamine-N,N,N′,N″,N″-pentaacetate complex, whose gadolinium(III) analogue is a commercial MRI contrast agent. Both properties make it a suitable candidate for cryogenic magnetic refrigeration, thus enlarging the variety of applications of this simple class of multifunctional molecular nanomagnets.
“La mafia è dappertutto” (Falso!)
2016
La ricostruzione mira a suggerire un uso controllato e attento della parola «mafia» che preluda a una visione scientifica del fenomeno criminale, troppo spesso oggetto di banalizzazioni e di mistificazioni. In prospettiva diacronica vengono analizzati alcuni dei più importanti risultati giudiziari in tema di mafia che dimostrano l'arretramento e la metamorfosi delle manifestazioni violente tipiche del passato e incoraggiano le prospettive di risposta del sistema penale nell'immediato futuro.
La situazione socio-economica della Sicilia nel XX secolo ed i suoi riflessi sulla criminalità organizzata e il contrabbando,
2010
Il rapporo tra contrabando e mafie e la formazione delle reti criminali transnazionali
Strategie di contrasto dell'inquinamento criminale dell'economia:il ndo dei rapporti tra mafie e imprese
2014
Dopo un rapido esame delle recenti indagini empiriche di tipo sociocriminologico, che hanno messo in luce le complesse interazioni tra underworld criminale e upperworld economico, vengono analizzati gli strumenti di contrasto vigenti sul piano della prevenzione, con ampi suggerimenti de iure condendo.
A top-down synthesis route to ultrasmall multifunctional Gd-based Silica nanoparticles for theranostic applications
2013
International audience; New, ultrasmall nanoparticles with sizes below 5 nm have been obtained. These small rigid platforms (SRP) are composed of a polysiloxane matrix with DOTAGA (1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane-1-glutaric anhydride-4,7,10-triacetic acid)-Gd3+ chelates on their surface. They have been synthesised by an original top-down process: 1) formation of a gadolinium oxide Gd2O3 core, 2) encapsulation in a polysiloxane shell grafted with DOTAGA ligands, 3) dissolution of the gadolinium oxide core due to chelation of Gd3+ by DOTAGA ligands and 4) polysiloxane fragmentation. These nanoparticles have been fully characterised using photon correlation spectroscopy (PCS), transmission elec…
Self-assembly and alterable relaxivity of an organic cation-encapsulated gadolinium-containing polyoxometalate
2012
A new amphiphilic molecule bearing poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) and quaternary ammonium group, was designed and synthesized to encapsulate paramagnetic Gd(III)-containing polyoxometalate (Gd-POM) through electrostatic interaction for obtaining a water-soluble organic-inorganic hybrid building block based on POM. The yielding organic cation-encapsulated Gd-POM (OCEP-Gd) complex exhibited water-solubility and amphiphility, leading to the spontaneous self-assembly into a regular vesicular structure with PEO chains towards water phase and POM units locating at the middle. The vesicular aggregate which has a regular monolayer structure, was further studied by means of dynamic light scattering, tra…
IMAGING IN RISONANZA MAGNETICA NELLE FISTOLE PERIANALI
2018
Rod-cone based color vision in seals under photopic conditions
2016
Marine mammals have lost the ability to express S-cone opsin, and possess only one type of M/L-cone in addition to numerous rods. As they are cone monochromats they should be color blind. However, early behavioral experiments with fur seals and sea lions indicated discrimination ability between many shades of grey and blue or green. On the other hand, most recent training experiments with harbor seals under "mesopic" conditions demonstrated rod based color blindness (Scholtyssek et al., 2015). In our experiments we trained two harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) and two South African fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus) with surface colors under photopic conditions. The seals had to detect a triang…
Inferring heterozygosity from ancient and low coverage genomes
2016
Abstract While genetic diversity can be quantified accurately from high coverage sequencing data, it is often desirable to obtain such estimates from data with low coverage, either to save costs or because of low DNA quality, as is observed for ancient samples. Here, we introduce a method to accurately infer heterozygosity probabilistically from sequences with average coverage <1× of a single individual. The method relaxes the infinite sites assumption of previous methods, does not require a reference sequence, except for the initial alignment of the sequencing data, and takes into account both variable sequencing errors and potential postmortem damage. It is thus also applicable to …