scholarly journals Some comments on Passer italiae-like of south Italy, Sicily and Malta

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Massa ◽  
John Borg ◽  
Marcello Tagliavia
Keyword(s):  
Southern Italy ◽  
Taxonomic Position ◽  
South Italy ◽  
Northern Regions

The authors summarize the results obtained over a period of about 150 years by various authors on the taxonomic position of Sparrows present in southern Italy, Sicily and Malta, identified on several occasions as Passer italiae, P. hispaniolensis or as hybrids of the two species. Based on the latest research and the analysis of the genome of the sparrows of Corsica, Crete, southern Italy, Sicily and Malta, it appears that it has finally been possible to establish that these populations possess a different degree of hybridization between P. italiae and P. hispaniolensis, with less genes of P. hispaniolensis in northern regions and more in southern ones. Therefore, the authors propose to name these populations Passer italiae x hispaniolensis.

scholarly journals Fatty liver and mortality: a cohort population study in South Italy

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. e027379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Gabriella Caruso ◽  
Nicola Veronese ◽  
Maria Notarnicola ◽  
Anna Maria Cisternino ◽  
Rosa Reddavide ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Liver ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Liver Steatosis ◽  
Baseline Survey ◽  
Alcoholic Fatty Liver ◽  
South Italy ◽  
Risk Of Death ◽  
Risk Of Mortality ◽  
Potential Association ◽  
Increased Risk

ObjectiveAlcoholic fatty liver (AFLD) and non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFLD) are two common conditions. However, if they can increase the risk of death is poorly explored. We therefore aimed to investigate the potential association between the presence and severity of liver steatosis and mortality in a large sample of older people.DesignProspective.SettingCommunity.ParticipantsWomen and men randomly sampled from the electoral rolls of the population of Castellana Grotte, a town in Southern Italy (Apulia region) between 2005 and 2006. Among 1942 initially contacted, 1708 (=87.9%) participated to the baseline survey (Multicentrica Colelitiasi III (MICOL III)). This specific study included 1445 older participants (mean age=65.2 years, females=44.2%).ExposureNAFLD or AFLD.Primary and secondary outcomesMortality (all-cause and specific-cause).ResultsAfter a median of 12 years, 312 participants (=21.6%) died. After adjusting for nine potential confounders, the presence of steatosis was not associated with any increased risk of death in both NAFLD and AFLD. The severity of liver steatosis was not associated with any increased risk of mortality in NAFLD, while in AFLD, the presence of moderate steatosis significantly increased the risk of overall (HR=2.16; 95% CI 1.19 to 3.91) and cancer-specific (HR=3.54; 95% CI 1.16 to 10.87) death.ConclusionsLiver steatosis is not associated with any increased risk of death in NAFLD, while moderate steatosis could be a risk factor for mortality (particularly due to cancer) in people affected by AFLD.

scholarly journals A relict population of Cymbalophora rivularis on the Pollino Massif, southern Italy (Lepidoptera: Erebidae)

2018 ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
Silvia Greco ◽  
Francesco Luigi Leonetti ◽  
Stefano Scalercio
Keyword(s):  
Plant Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
First Record ◽  
South Italy ◽  
Refuge Area ◽  
Relict Populations ◽  
Relict Population ◽  
A Site ◽  
First Time

The first record for South Italy of Cymbalophora rivularis (Ménétriès, 1832) is reported, until now recorded in Italy only for Central Apennine. Three specimens were collected during August-September 2017, in an Acer spp. forest located on Monte Sparviere, a Site of Community Importance within the Pollino National Park. Furthermore, this species was successfully barcoded for the first time. This finding reinforces the biogeographic importance of Pollino Massif as refuge area for relict populations of several animal and plant species.

Sicily and South Italy: the Background to Thucydides Books 6 and 7

1986 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Rutter
Keyword(s):  
Southern Italy ◽  
Proper Names ◽  
The Political ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
South Italy ◽  
Greek History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Of Greece

The story of the Greek settlements in Sicily and southern Italy is not commonly regarded as one of the 'central themes' of Greek history. For long periods, the paucity of documentary evidence means that there is little story to tell anyway, and when a history of events is possible, it is often because those events are closely linked with the more fully documented history of Greece itself. Such an occasion occurred in 415, when the Athenians decided to send a fleet to western waters, and subsequently to undertake the siege of Syracuse. These events, so vividly narrated by Thucydides in the polished narrative of Books 6 and 7, are often studied today, but many modern readers start with a disadvantage shared, as Thucydides would have us believe, with the majority of Athenians of his own day - ignorance of Sicily and its inhabitants. Thucydides responded by giving his readers an account of the various peoples who inhabited Sicily, to impress upon them the number and power of the cities and settlements on the island (6.2-6). This article offers a short introduction to the political situation the Athenians encountered in South Italy and Sicily. It is written with a minimum of documentation, apart from references to the text of Thucydides. (The spelling of proper names follows that used in the Penguin translation, from which quotations are also taken; some suggestions for further reading are given at the end.)

Sicily and Magna Graecia (South Italy)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Hornblower
Keyword(s):  
Southern Italy ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Recent Event ◽  
South Italy ◽  
Magna Graecia ◽  
Western Sicily

The Alexandra is full of allusions to and whole sections about south Italy and to a lesser extent Sicily. This makes it likely that the poet came from southern Italy. Eastern Sicily hardly features, despite the ancient glories of its Greek cities. But western Sicily was important in Lykophron’s time for kinship reasons to do with the supposed Trojan origins of Elymian cities like Egesta and Eryx, whose support Rome needed in the mid-third-century BC: Troy was the mythical mother-city of Rome. In Italy, many places prominent in the poem (especially Croton and its neighbours) also featured in the ancient histories of the war against Hannibal, a recent event in 190 BC, and of Roman colonization policies of the 190s.

scholarly journals Hydraulic stream network conditioning by a tectonically induced, giant, deep-seated landslide along the front of the Apennine chain (south Italy)

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 1269-1283 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Galeandro ◽  
A. Doglioni ◽  
A. Guerricchio ◽  
V. Simeone
Keyword(s):  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Case History ◽  
Landslide Susceptibility ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Stream Network ◽  
Tectonic Stresses ◽  
South Italy ◽  
Flood Susceptibility ◽  
The Right ◽  
Apennine Chain

Abstract. The tectonic stresses that produced the uplift of Apennine chain ridge in southern Italy generated advanced buried thrusts of allochthonous deposits that induced deformations of foredeep deposits. This thrust may cause giant, deep-seated landslides at the front of the chain. Starting from a specific case history in low Biferno Valley, this work presents how giant, deep-seated landslides along the front of the chain may be generated by the thrust of allochthonous nappe of the chain. In addition, the influence that these huge phenomena may have on landslide and flood susceptibility and on natural hazards of the involved area is analysed. The work presents an interpretation of local morphology and stream network paths of low Biferno Valley as a consequence of a giant, deep-seated landslide affecting the right side of the valley. The proposed interpretation is supported by numerical geomorphological analyses of the area at stake. It is shown how both the morphologies of the catchments of the river Biferno and its tributary Cigno and stream paths are strongly conditioned by this large, deep-seated landslide. This landslide deviates the stream paths affecting both the flooding susceptibility of low Biferno Valley and landslide susceptibility on the left side of Biferno Valley.

scholarly journals Territories in the Middle of the Ford. Mapping and Knowledge for Nature-Based Approach in the South Italy

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6351
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Guida ◽  
Giovanni Bello ◽  
Valentina Vittiglio
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Small Cities ◽  
South Italy ◽  
Cognitive Framework ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Town

The paper investigates a particular phenomenon of the industrialization of Southern Italy, starting from the second post-war period, and, in particular, the unsolved relationship between some large industrial areas and the territories of the medium and small cities on which such productive “plates” have been installed. The town planning policies and instruments with which the industrialization of Southern Italy was planned, on the contrary, foresaw a strong integration between urban fabric and industrial agglomerations. Through the case study of the province of Caserta, the research illustrated by the paper investigates, first of all, the policies that supported this process of industrialization and what the territorial effects of this phenomenon were. Next, the paper illustrates the method of knowledge and mapping of the territory of the case study of the industrial development area of Caserta. The data will be collected in a GIS platform that will return the following condition that is nowadays not available: analytical maps of the brownfield areas and the identification of the areas still intact, agricultural or green areas, urban areas and infrastructures, which trace a cognitive framework addressed to the project in which it will possible to experiment some possible eco-innovative and nature-based solutions.

scholarly journals VLF-LF radio signals collected at Bari (South Italy): a preliminary analysis on signal anomalies associated with earthquakes

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 685-689 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. F. Biagi ◽  
R. Piccolo ◽  
L. Castellana ◽  
T. Maggipinto ◽  
A. Ermini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Sampling Frequency ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
South Italy ◽  
Radio Signals ◽  
Simultaneous Decrease ◽  
The Mean

Abstract. At the beginning of 2002 an OmniPAL receiver was put into operation at the Department of Physics of Bari University (Southern Italy). The electric field strength of five VLF-LF signals transmitted from United Kingdom (f=16kHz), France (f=20.9kHz), Germany (f=23.4kHz), Iceland (f=37.5kHz) and Italy (f=54kHz) has been monitoring with a 5s sampling frequency. In a first step we reduced the amount of the data taking one datum each 10min (mean of the ±5min raw data) and then we smoothed these data by a running adjacent averaging over 7 days. Analysing the trends we obtained, we revealed at first in the signal from the Italian transmitter two clear intensity decreases in April 2002 and in August-September 2002. At these times we observed earthquakes with M=4.3 and M=5.6 respectively near the transmitter-receiver path and a precursory effect in the previous decreases appeared. Then, we noted that all of the five radio trends in the time interval March 2002-February 2003 are more disturbed than in other periods; in particular an evident simultaneous decrease appears in January-February 2003. We propose that these disturbances are related to general excitation of the margin between the African and European plates. In a second step we examined the terminator time (evening) changes for the Italian transmitter in July-September 2002, and we found significant deviations from the mean value at the end of August, which is supportive for some precursory ionospheric signature of earthquakes.

Gardening, foraging and herding: Neolithic land use and social territories in Southern Italy

Antiquity ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 77 (296) ◽  
pp. 241-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Robb ◽  
Doortje Van Hove
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
South Italy ◽  
Arable Farming ◽  
Wild Resources

The authors explore the use of land in Neolithic south Italy, showing how the new territories combined arable farming with hunting and foraging wild resources from the hinterland.

scholarly journals Attitude towards Bike Use in Rende, a Small Town in South Italy

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 2703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Demetrio Festa ◽  
Carmen Forciniti
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Ancillary Services ◽  
Sustainable Transport ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
Market Segments ◽  
Trip Purpose ◽  
South Italy ◽  
Bike Sharing

The bike can contribute to the development of sustainable mobility. This requires interventions to promote bike use, such as increasing the cyclist safety, construction of bikeways, and provision of ancillary services and bike sharing activities. In the literature many studies focus on bike use and agree with the application of such interventions. However, these studies are often related to specific urban areas that are very different; the transferability of results and models has not been adequately analyzed. This work investigates the attitudes towards cycling in Rende, a small town in Southern Italy. The aim is to determine in what conditions the users would be willing to use bicycles in relation to the trip purpose, the presence or absence of cycle paths, and the availability of bike sharing services. Different factors, such as age, gender, and occupation, are taken into account. The results show that the bike use could be incentivized by enlarging the existent bike network, adopting bike sharing systems, and promoting specific policies oriented to sustainable transport modes. Furthermore, two aspects emerged from the analysis: the importance of studying the propensity to use bikes by different groups of users and the importance of focusing interventions on market segments with greater willingness to bike.

Vowel Reduction in Coratino (South Italy): Phonological and Phonetic Perspectives

Phonetica ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-324
Author(s):  
Jonathan Bucci ◽  
Pascal Perrier ◽  
Silvain Gerber ◽  
Jean-Luc Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Southern Italy ◽  
Vowel Reduction ◽  
Phonological Processes ◽  
South Italy ◽  
Place Of Articulation ◽  
Reduction Processes ◽  
Vowel Formant ◽  
Phonetic Reduction ◽  
High Vowels

Vowel reduction may involve phonetic reduction processes, with nonreached targets, and/or phonological processes in which a vowel target is changed for another target, possibly schwa. Coratino, a dialect of southern Italy, displays complex vowel reduction processes assumed to be phonological. We analyzed a corpus representative of vowel reduction in Coratino, based on a set of a hundred pairs of words contrasting a stressed and an unstressed version of a given vowel in a given consonant environment, produced by 10 speakers. We report vowelformants together with consonant-to-vowel formant trajectories and durations, and show that these data are rather in agreement with a change in vowel target from /i e ɛ·ɔ u/ to schwa when the vowel is a non-word-initial unstressed utterance, unless the vowel shares a place-of-articulation feature with the preceding or following consonant. Interestingly, it also appears that there are 2 targets for phonological reduction, differing in F1 values. A “higher schwa” - which could be considered as /ɨ/ - corresponds to reduction for high vowels /i u/ while a “lower schwa” - which could be considered as /ə/ - corresponds to reduction for midhigh

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