ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECTIONS IN THE NORTHERN MARCHE REGION (ITALY):

Tetrodotoxins (TTXs), potent neurotoxins, have become an increasing concern in Europe in recent decades, especially because of their presence in mollusks. The European Food Safety Authority published a Scientific Opinion setting a recommended threshold for TTX in mollusks of 44 µg equivalent kg−1 and calling all member states to contribute to an effort to gather data in order to produce a more exhaustive risk assessment. The objective of this work was to assess TTX levels in wild and farmed mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) harvested in 2018–2019 along the coastal area of the Marche region in the Central Adriatic Sea (Italy). The presence of Vibrio spp. carrying the non-ribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) and polyketide synthase (PKS) genes, which are suspected to be involved in TTX biosynthesis, was also investigated. Out of 158 mussel samples analyzed by hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (HILIC-MS/MS), 11 (7%) contained the toxins at detectable levels (8–26 µg kg−1) and 3 (2%) contained levels above the EFSA safety threshold (61–76 µg kg−1). Contaminated mussels were all harvested from natural beds in spring or summer. Of the 2019 samples, 70% of them contained V. alginolyticus strains with the NRPS and/or PKS genes. None of the strains containing NRPS and/or PKS genes showed detectable levels of TTXs. TTXs in mussels are not yet a threat in the Marche region nor in Europe, but further investigations are surely needed.

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42. Social farming: institutional context and local innovations in the Marche region

Green metamorphoses: agriculture, food, ecology ◽

10.3920/978-90-8686-898-8_42 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

E. Viganò ◽

A. Genova ◽

M. Angioni

Keyword(s):

Institutional Context ◽

Marche Region ◽

Social Farming

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Development and Application of Innovative Anti-Seismic Systems for the Protection of Cultural Heritage: New Achievements of ENEA

Seismic Engineering, Volume 2 ◽

10.1115/pvp2002-1437 ◽

2002 ◽

Author(s):

M. Indirli ◽

M. Forni ◽

A. Martelli ◽

B. Spadoni ◽

A. Dusi ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Seismic Isolation ◽

New Technology ◽

Three Dimensional ◽

Ambient Vibration ◽

Civil Structures ◽

Industrial Plants ◽

Marche Region ◽

Passive Devices ◽

New Development

As described in detail at previous ASME-PVP Conferences and also reminded by separate papers presented this year, large efforts have been devoted by the Italian Agency for New Technology, Energy and the Environment (ENEA), with the cooperation of several further members of the Italian Working Group on Seismic Isolation (GLIS), to the development, validation and application of innovative anti-seismic (IAS) techniques since 1988. To date, considered have been base and floor seismic isolation (SI), energy dissipation through various types of passive devices, hydraulic coupling by means of innovative shock transmitters, systems formed by shape memory alloy devices and more recently, semi-active control of vibrations. New activities at ENEA, which are in progress in the framework of both international and national collaborations, concern the development of new IAS techniques of the aforesaid kinds to be applied to: • civil structures and industrial plants; • cultural heritage structures (CUHESs) to be restored or reconstructed, or masterpieces to be seismically protected. Progress of the work performed for civil and industrial structures has been separately presented at this Conference, while this paper deals with the new development, validation and application activities concerning the IAS techniques applicable to the seismic protection of CUHESs, to which particular attention has been devoted by ENEA for several years. The ongoing activities for CUHESs are being performed in the framework of: • PROSEESM, a national project which foresees pilot applications of the IAS techniques to the restoration of CUHESs damaged by the 1997–98 Marche and Umbria earthquakes; • a feasibilily study for the reconstruction in the original site, with SI and the original masonry materials, of Mevale di Visso, a village in the Marche Region destroyed by the aforesaid event; • a study for the design and application of an innovative three-dimensional SI system for seismic and ambient vibration protection of a roman ship excavated at Ercolano, near Naples.

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The performance of the damage survey and safety evaluation form in Marche Region

Seismic Damage to Masonry Buildings ◽

10.1201/9780203740040-10 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 113-119

Author(s):

A. Cherubini ◽

G. Cifani ◽

L. Corazza ◽

A. Martinelli ◽

G. Di Pasquale ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Safety Evaluation ◽

Damage Survey ◽

Evaluation Form ◽

Marche Region

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Analysis of the industrial solid wastes from the boat building sector in Marche region (Italy): parametrical and chemical-physical characterisation

Waste Management and the Environment VI ◽

10.2495/wm120201 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

M. Carchesio ◽

F. Tatàno ◽

G. Tosi ◽

C. H. Trivellone ◽

E. Businaro ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Solid Wastes ◽

Building Sector ◽

Marche Region ◽

Boat Building

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DISTRIBUTION AND GENETIC ANALYSIS OF WILD-LIVING EURASIAN BEAVERS IN CENTRAL ITALY

Redia ◽

10.19263/redia-104.21.24 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 104 ◽

pp. 209-215

Author(s):

EMILIANO MORI ◽

ANDREA VIVIANO ◽

LEONARDO BRUSTENGA ◽

FRANCESCO OLIVETTI ◽

LUCA PEPPUCCI ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Social Perception ◽

Hair Sample ◽

Central Italy ◽

Protected Species ◽

Conservation Action ◽

Eurasian Beaver ◽

Marche Region ◽

Free Ranging ◽

Management And Conservation ◽

Potential Origin

The presence of the Eurasian beaver Castor fiber L. has been recently confirmed with two separated populations in Tuscany (Central Italy) and probably represents the result of an unofficial release. In late spring and summer 2021, seven reliable records of Eurasian beaver have been collected in Umbria and other neighbouring regions, implying that the distribution of this large rodent is even wider than previously reported. In this short work, we updated the distribution of this protected species in Central Italy, by collecting and mapping all the confirmed occurrences. Beavers were proved to be present throughout the Tiber (Tevere) river basin in both provinces of Umbria, and another individual has been road-killed in the Marche region, near the border with Tuscany. Other single signs of presence occurred in Emilia Romagna and Latium. The only hair sample we were able to collect confirmed it as the Eurasian beaver species. No reliable evidence is available on the number of free-ranging beavers in Central Italy, and systematic monitoring is needed. Before any management and conservation action, further data are required concerning distribution range, potential origin, social perception, and the effects on the ecosystems.

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