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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Xiao-Yu Guo, Jun Li, Yan-Hui Jia, Guo-Li Yuan, Ji-Lin Zheng, Zhi-Jie Liu
Summary: Ecological characteristics are crucial for the environment and human lives on Earth. Understanding the weathering process of soil and its parent materials/rocks is important for comprehending the geological origin of ecological problems. This study explores ecological issues using geochemical methods and establishes eco-geology models to explain the intricate relationship between vegetation cover and soil formation.
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Environmental Sciences
Vincenzo Tripodi, Anna Gervasi, Mario La Rocca, Federica Luca, Francesco Muto
Summary: This study compared seismic data and geological data to reveal the seismotectonic features and seismic activity of southern Calabria, providing an assessment of the seismic hazard in the region.
JOURNAL OF MOUNTAIN SCIENCE
(2022)
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Food Science & Technology
Amalia Piscopo, Rocco Mafrica, Alessandra De Bruno, Rosa Romeo, Simone Santacaterina, Marco Poiana
Summary: The valorization of minor accessions of olive is potentially a good way to improve the qualitative production of a specific territory. Good quality in terms of free acidity, peroxides, spectrophotometric indexes, and fatty acid composition was observed in olive oils produced at both drupe harvesting times, except for those of Tonda di Filogaso which exceeded the legal limit for extra virgin olive oil in the second harvesting time.
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Construction & Building Technology
Michela Ricca, Antonio Donato, Martina Cirone, Silvestro Antonio Ruffolo, Antonio Costanzo, Fabrizia Buongiorno, Giuseppe Mantella, Mauro Francesco La Russa, Luciana Randazzo
Summary: A multi-analytical approach was employed for the first time to study the stone materials and wall paintings in the Gerace Cathedral of southern Italy. Different techniques were used to characterize the materials and identify potential degradation phenomena. The results provided important information for future conservation interventions.
CASE STUDIES IN CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS
(2023)
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Biodiversity Conservation
Giovanni Spampinato, Valentina Lucia Astrid Laface, Giandomenico Posillipo, Ana Cano Ortiz, Ricardo Quinto Canas, Carmelo Maria Musarella
Summary: An updated checklist of the alien vascular flora in Calabria is presented. Through field, bibliographic, and herbarium research, 382 alien taxa were recorded, the majority of which are casual species. Alien taxa are mainly distributed in artificial and agricultural habitats, and originated primarily from the Americas, Asia, and Africa.
BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS
(2022)
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Environmental Sciences
Ilaria Fuoco, Carmine Apollaro, Alessandra Criscuoli, Rosanna De Rosa, Svetlozar Velizarov, Alberto Figoli
Summary: This study conducted a geochemical characterization of two groundwaters in the Calabria region of southern Italy and tested the effectiveness of two thin-film composite NF membranes for water defluoridation. One membrane showed promising results in removing F- from water to meet drinking water standards, while the other membrane did not meet the drinking water criteria. The permeates produced were not suitable for long-term consumption, but did not require additional re-mineralization processes for agricultural irrigation or other purposes.
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Genetics & Heredity
Francesco Fontani, Elisabetta Cilli, Fabiola Arena, Stefania Sarno, Alessandra Modi, Sara De Fanti, Adam Jon Andrews, Adriana Latorre, Paolo Abondio, Felice Larocca, Martina Lari, David Caramelli, Emanuela Gualdi-Russo, Donata Luiselli
Summary: The Italian peninsula has a long history of migration processes, shaping its genomic variability. This study fills a knowledge gap in Southern Italy's ancient DNA research, revealing mitochondrial genomes from the Middle Bronze Age and shedding light on genetic affinities with Sicilian populations and maternal lineages from Central Europe and Iberia.
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Environmental Sciences
Giuseppe Prete, Elenio Avolio, Vincenzo Capparelli, Fabio Lepreti, Vincenzo Carbone
Summary: We applied extreme value theory (EVT) to study daily precipitation and temperature extremes in the Calabria region, southern Italy, using long-term observational data from 1990 to 2020. The efficiency of EVT was assessed and two different methods were used: the peak-over-threshold approach for precipitation and the block-maxima approach for temperature. The methodologies proved suitable for describing daily extremes both quantitatively and in terms of the most affected areas. However, analysis using reanalysis fields showed limitations in accurately reconstructing extreme values but showed consistency in identifying the most affected areas. The results indicated an increasing trend in daily extreme rainfall and temperature, with specific areas in Calabria projected to experience up to 500 mm/day rainfall and maximum daily temperatures of 40 degrees C in the next 100 years. These findings provide valuable insight into the exacerbation of future extreme weather events associated with climate change effects.
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Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Martina Tallarico, Caterina Palleria, Livia Ruffolo, Rocco Spagnuolo, Maria Diana Naturale, Adele Emanuela De Francesco, Caterina De Sarro, Rossella Romeo, Rita Citraro, Patrizia Doldo, Ludovico Abenavoli, Luca Gallelli, Francesco Luzza, Antonio Leo, Giovambattista De Sarro
Summary: This study aimed to evaluate the occurrence of adverse events and therapeutic failures in patients treated with biological agents for inflammatory bowel diseases and found that the rate of adverse events was low in the observed patients.
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Environmental Sciences
Ernesto Infusino, Ilaria Guagliardi, Simona Gaglioti, Tommaso Caloiero
Summary: Knowledge of spring waters' chemical composition is crucial for their use and conservation. This study evaluated the hydrochemical facies and nitrate vulnerability of 59 springs in the Sila Massif in southern Italy. The results showed that nitrate pollution had an average value of 4.39 mg NO3-/L and a maximum value of 24 mg NO3-/L in the study area. Statistical analysis revealed a correlation between the increase in electrical conductivity and alkalinity values, particularly in bicarbonate Ca-Mg waters, indicating higher nitrate concentrations in springs. The vulnerability to nitrate pollution was found to be dependent on the geological setting of springs and anthropogenic activities such as fertilization practices.
Article
Engineering, Marine
Salvatore Distefano, Niccolo Baldassini, Viviana Barbagallo, Laura Borzi, Natale Maria D'Andrea, Salvatore Urso, Agata Di Stefano
Summary: This study focuses on the geomorphological and stratigraphic differences between the western and south-eastern sectors of Lampedusa island. The findings are used to create 3D flooding maps and a mathematical-statistical model for coastal flooding prediction.
JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
(2022)
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Francesco Caridi, Marcella Di Bella, Giuseppe Sabatino, Giovanna Belmusto, Maria Rita Fede, Davide Romano, Francesco Italiano, Antonio Francesco Mottese
Summary: This study conducted a comprehensive radiological assessment of river sediment samples from Calabria, southern Italy, identifying and quantifying natural radioisotopes to establish a baseline background on a radiation map. The results showed elevated levels of natural radionuclides in the area and calculated radiological hazard indices to determine the potential risk. The spatial distribution of natural radionuclides was delineated on a radiological map using Surfer 10 software, and multivariate statistical analysis was performed to identify relationships between radiological indices and radionuclide concentrations.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2021)
Article
Geography
Valeria Lupiano, Salvatore Procopio, Gabriele Buttafuoco, Valeria Rago, Giulio Iovine
Summary: According to Council Directive 2013/59/EURATOM, it is required for EU Member States to establish national reference levels for indoor radon concentrations in workplaces and create a National Radon Plan. However, in the Calabria region of Southern Italy, there is a lack of regional-scale indoor measurement maps. To address this, a study analyzed 1434 average annual measurements taken between 2010 and 2021 and used a geostatistical approach to map the expected concentrations at ground floor and provide recommendations for optimizing dosimeter locations and building techniques.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Nadia Marascio, Angela Costantino, Stefania Taffon, Alessandra Lo Presti, Michele Equestre, Roberto Bruni, Giulio Pisani, Giorgio Settimo Barreca, Angela Quirino, Enrico Maria Trecarichi, Chiara Costa, Maria Mazzitelli, Francesca Serapide, Giovanni Matera, Carlo Torti, Maria Carla Liberto, Anna Rita Ciccaglione
Summary: The study investigated transmission clusters and resistance-associated substitutions (RASs) among HCV1b positive subjects in the Calabria Region, finding that the spread of HCV1b is maintained by sporadic infections in geographically limited areas and by dental treatment or surgical intervention in metropolitan areas. Detected RASs in NS5B and NS5A were found with frequencies of 36.6% and 22.7% respectively, highlighting the importance of improved screening policies and the prevalence of natural RASs for the eradication of infection.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
K. Hardman, R. E. Holdsworth, G. Palladino, G. Prosser, Z. Killingback, K. J. W. McCaffrey
Summary: Basement-hosted fissure-fill networks in sub-unconformity settings are important for reservoirs and migration pathways. The well-exposed fissures in southern Italy provide insights into their nature, origin and evolution. The fissure network hosts marine sediments, collapse breccias and limited mineralization. These highly connected fissure networks were formed due to rifting and extend to depths of at least 150 m below the erosion surface.
JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
(2023)
Letter
Orthopedics
Christian Morgenstern, Nora Renz, Sabrina Cabric, Elena Maiolo, Carsten Perka, Andrej Trampuz
BMC MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS
(2021)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Salvatore Critelli, Manuel Martin-Martin, Walter Capobianco, Francesco Perri
Summary: The sedimentary cover of the Cenozoic Malaguide Complex shows a complex evolution from continental to deep-marine environments, influenced by multiple source areas. Structural and geochemical characteristics reveal the tectonic evolution and sedimentary environments of the complex.
MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Cell Biology
Elena Candelotti, Roberto De Luca, Roberto Megna, Mariangela Maiolo, Paolo De Vito, Fabio Gionfra, Zulema Antonia Percario, Monica Borgatti, Roberto Gambari, Paul J. Davis, Hung-Yun Lin, Fabio Polticelli, Tiziana Persichini, Marco Colasanti, Elisabetta Affabris, Jens Z. Pedersen, Sandra Incerpi
Summary: The interaction between thyroid hormones and the immune system involves non-genomic actions mediated by the plasma membrane receptor alpha v beta 3 integrin. Thyroid hormones inhibit IGF-1-stimulated glucose uptake and cell proliferation, and also impact cell migration and proliferation induced by IGF-1 and MCP-1 through integrin alpha v beta 3. This demonstrates a crosstalk between genomic and non-genomic effects in regulating cell physiology.
FRONTIERS IN CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Geology
Salvatore Milli, Salvatore Critelli, Emanuele Amicone, Gloria Campilongo, Francesco Muto, Vincenzo Tripodi, Daniel Tentori, Francesco Perri
Summary: The Agnone Flysch turbidite succession in the Lagonegro-Molise foredeep basin represents a clastic wedge deposited in the early Messinian that is poorly understood in terms of depositional facies, processes, and sediment composition. Through a sedimentology and sedimentary petrology study, new insights have been gained regarding the basin architecture and provenance of the Agnone Flysch during the late Miocene. The turbidite succession is suggested to consist of depositional lobes deposited in a morphologically variable basin sector, indicating a complex unroofing history and material derivation from mountain ranges in the Tyrrhenian sector and Calabrian arc terranes.
ITALIAN JOURNAL OF GEOSCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Mario Maiolo, Daniela Pantusa
Summary: The vulnerability of drinking water supply systems is influenced by factors such as failures, security loss, man-made threats, and changes in supply-water quality. Monitoring and transparency on water availability and quality are increasingly important. An analysis of water quality monitoring data was conducted using multivariate techniques to identify influential parameters and clusters.
Article
Mathematics, Applied
Fabio Caldarola, Mario Maiolo
Summary: This paper discusses the mathematical models of hydraulic networks, investigates the invariance problem of local and global indices, and provides mathematical solutions for these problems.
APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION
(2021)
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Massimo Maiolo, Lorenzo Gatti, Diego Frei, Tiziano Leidi, Manuel Gil, Maria Anisimova
Summary: ProPIP is a multiple sequence alignment tool based on the Poisson Indel Process model, which allows avoiding over-alignment and inferring gaps in a phylogenetically consistent way. The tool also enables inferences about insertion and deletion rates, optimizing indel rate settings for meaningful phylogenetic gap patterns.
BMC BIOINFORMATICS
(2021)
Article
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Giorgia Teresa Maniscalco, Cristina Scavone, Ornella Moreggia, Daniele Di Giulio Cesare, Maria Luisa Aiezza, Gaspare Guglielmi, Giuseppe Longo, Massimo Maiolo, Eliana Raiola, Giuseppe Russo, Annalisa Capuano
Summary: In this observational study of MS patients, flu vaccines were found to be well tolerated with mainly short-term adverse events. Long-term adverse events were detected in a small number of vaccinated patients, but no significant differences in infections or MS relapse were observed between vaccinated and unvaccinated groups.
EXPERT OPINION ON DRUG SAFETY
(2022)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Giovanni Vespasiano, Luigi Marini, Francesco Muto, Luis F. Auque, Mara Cipriani, Rosanna De Rosa, Salvatore Critelli, Maria J. Gimeno, Monica Blasco, Elissavet Dotsika, Carmine Apollaro
Summary: Geochemical, geological, and hydrological data indicate the presence of a deep primary geothermal aquifer and two secondary aquifers in the Cotronei-Caccuri thermal area. Despite the close spatial proximity of the three thermal sites, the thermal waters have different compositions. Bruciarello and Repole waters show temperatures similar to the estimated temperature of the primary granitic aquifer.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Francesco Perri, Salvatore Milli, Gloria Campilongo, Daniel Tentori, Salvatore Critelli
Summary: The study of mudstones from the late Tortonian to early Messinian Agnone Flysch turbidite successions in the southern Apennines reveals a complex sedimentation history with a multi-source area, likely due to structural changes and depositional basin physiography. Analysis of geochemical and mineralogical signatures show variations in composition, indicating a change in relative abundance of detritus characterized by different compositions through time and space. The obtained data suggest a moderate palaeoweathering in source areas and a provenance from western, north-western, and south-western sectors of the basin.
MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Michele De Biase, Francesco Chidichimo, Mario Maiolo, Aaron Micallef
Summary: A quantitative study using a three-dimensional model was conducted to analyze the effects of climate change in 2100 on groundwater volume and saltwater intrusion in the Maltese Islands. The results showed that the increase in water demand and the decrease in groundwater recharge were the main factors affecting groundwater resources, while sea-level rise had a marginal impact.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Teresa Lo Feudo, Riccardo Alvise Mel, Salvatore Sinopoli, Mario Maiolo
Summary: Nearshore marine systems play a crucial role in providing economic and ecological services to human communities. This study examines the climatology of the Marine Experimental Station of Capo Tirone, Italy through a 70-year wave climate analysis. The findings indicate the need for extensive monitoring and protection of marine protected areas to support the sustainable development of coastal regions.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Mahdi Jafarzadeh, Maryam Shoghani-Motlagh, Fardin Mousivand, Sara Criniti, Salvatore Critelli
Summary: This study investigates the petrography and geochemistry of the lower Oligocene volcanic-related sandstones in the Abbasabad-Kahak area of NE Iran to understand their provenance, tectonic setting, and paleo-weathering of source areas. The grey sandstones host copper mineralization and exhibit various textures and structures. They are medium to coarse-grained and compositionally rich in volcanic lithic fragments. Geochemical analyses suggest a derivation from mafic-to-intermediate volcanic sources with a low level of chemical weathering in the source areas, indicating arid to semi-arid climatic conditions. These sandstones were deposited in a remnant backarc basin, resulting from the post-Eocene extensional stage of a dismantling magmatic arc.
MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Geology
Salvatore Critelli, Manuel Martin-Martin
Summary: A wide region along the western and central Circum-Mediterranean margins has experienced extensive tectonism from the Mesozoic to the Cenozoic. This region has a significant sedimentary record related to the fragmentation of the Pangean supercontinent and the subsequent formation of the CM orogeny. The composition and stratigraphic relations of sediments reflect the progressive destruction of the Neotethyan Ocean and plate convergence between major plates, as well as the deposition from various source rocks during the evolving geo-puzzle terranes of the CM orogeny.
INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Management
Valentina Sommovigo, Ilaria Setti, Maria Elisa Maiolo, Piergiorgio Argentero
Summary: The construction industry is a dangerous work environment, but research shows that increasing job resources can buffer the impact of job demands on employee psycho-physical health. High job control and supervisor support are associated with reduced psycho-physical malaise.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
(2021)
