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García Fernández, José. "El superestrato románico: la huella del español, del francés y del occitano en el siciliano contemporáneo." Estudios Románicos 28 (December 20, 2019): 233–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/er/373971.
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Sicilia siempre ha sido un enclave disputado por múltiples pueblos que terminarían por modelar la cultura de sus habitantes. En consecuencia, el siciliano se embebió lingüísticamente de las hablas de los sucesivos pobladores de la isla, de entre los que caben destacar, entre otros, los españoles y los franceses. Atentos a esta realidad, este artículo propone un acercamiento a los influjos del castellano, francés y occitano, tres variedades romances que, en forma de superestrato semántico, han influido en la configuración lingüística del siciliano. Sirviéndonos de las voces dialectales empleadas por la palermitana Giuseppina Torregrossa en su primera novela, L’Assaggiatrice, hemos podido corroborar cómo, al igual que hicieran antaño otros especialistas, tanto el dominio iberorrománico como el galorrománico siguen siendo determinantes en la conformación de la lengua siciliana, una variante lingüística aún empleada con frecuencia en la literatura isleña pese al creciente interés social por el italiano estándar desde la unificación del país. Sicily has always been a territory under dispute by multiple peoples that eventually managed to mold the culture of the inhabitants of the island. As a result, the Sicilian language absorbed the language of the ensuing settlers, particularly Spanish and French. In view of this, this article addresses the analysis of the Spanish, French and Occitan traces, three Romance variants that, through the semantic superstratum, have had an impact on the linguistic configuration of the Sicilian language. With the focus on the dialectal lexicon used by the Palermitan writer, Giuseppina Torregrossa, in her debut novel, L’Assaggiatrice, this study confirms what previous specialized authorities on the field observed in past times: that the Ibero-Romance and Gallo-Romance influence have been, and still are, key to the shaping of the Sicilian language, a linguistic variant that is most frequently used in insular literature regardless of the growing social interest in standard Italian after the unification.
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Cazzolla Gatti, R., G. Messina, M. Ruggieri, V. Dalla Nora, and B. M. Lombardo. "Habitat and ecological diversity influences the species-area relationship and the biogeography of the Sicilian archipelago’s isopods." European Zoological Journal 85, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): 209–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2018.1466930.
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Schimmenti, Emanuele, Enrico Viola, Cassandra Funsten, and Valeria Borsellino. "The Contribution of Geographical Certification Programs to Farm Income and Rural Economies: The Case of Pecorino Siciliano PDO." Sustainability 13, no. 4 (February 12, 2021): 1977. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13041977.
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This study attempts to measure the capacity of the EU geographical certification scheme to positively influence the price of certified products and the incomes of their producers. A comparison of the economic results of two cheese-producing dairy farm enterprises with different business strategies and locations within the Sicilian hinterlands is performed in order to determine the transformation value of each dairy’s sheep milk into pecorino cheese (with and without the Protected Designation of Origin, or PDO, certification) and the related joint products (ricotta). The economic convenience of the total transformation of sheep milk into Pecorino Siciliano PDO and ricotta is also appraised. The results suggest that producing and commercializing Pecorino Siciliano PDO is a promising strategy for differentiating and promoting dairy farm products and improving the financial performance of producers, with foreseeable positive repercussions in the socioeconomically less favored rural areas where they are located.
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DILLON, JOHN NOËL. "THE DELEGATION OF THE XVIRI TO ENNA CA. 133 BC AND THE MURDER OF TIBERIUS GRACCHUS." Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 56, no. 2 (December 1, 2013): 89–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2013.00060.x.
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Abstract In the Verrine orations, Cicero mentions an unusual delegation of public Roman priests, members of the xviri sacris faciundis, to the Sicilian city of Enna shortly after the death of Tiberius Gracchus. Most historians have traditionally followed Cicero's lead in associating these two events, assuming that the religious mission was orchestrated by the Roman Senate in order to influence the Roman plebs in the aftermath of Gracchus' spectacular murder. An alternative interpretation makes the Sicilians the intended audience. A closer look at the evidence for the delegation, however, and consideration of Roman conceptions of religious territory make both connections unlikely. I argue instead that the delegation of priests was motivated above all by territorial religious concerns raised by recent catastrophes in the Roman province.
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Schimmenti, Emanuele, Elli Vassiliadis, and Antonino Galati. "Il ruolo delle Tecnologie Informatiche e di Comunicazione e della logistica distributiva sulla competitivitŕ del comparto ortofrutticolo siciliano." ECONOMIA AGRO-ALIMENTARE, no. 2 (November 2012): 11–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/ecag2012-002002.
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In recent years, the market globalization process has deeply altered the international competitive scene, leading, inevitably, to a revision of companies' strategies and organization structures. It is now widely accepted that Information and Communication Technology (ict) and supply chain logistics management, have an important role in increasing the competitive potential of each company and in the development of entire economic sectors. The importance of these factors for the business strategies of firms, has generated increasing research attention towards the study of their economic and social impact, concerning both the spread of modern information and communication technologies and logistics. This paper mainly proposes, through a direct survey conducted on a group of firms (production and commercial companies), working in the Sicilian fruit and vegetable sector - a strategic sector in the economic and social field for most of the region - to provide empirical evidence regarding the degree of diffusion of ict and its use, as well as on business relationships with the regional distribution logistics system, as they are two of the determinants that can influence companies' competitive potential. Through Multiple Correspondence Analysis (mca) it was possible to filter down the information from the available data and to identify two factors that describe and summarize how the surveyed firms behave. In particular, the analysis highlighted the close connection between the diffusion and use of ict and logistics distribution organization and the firms' physical and economic size. Specifically, the large-size companies, in this case represented by producer organizations and associations, have a medium-high degree of computerization and an efficient logistics organization, which allows them to interface with competitors both in the national and international market. Agricultural cooperatives and individual companies, on the other hand, though having well-developed infrastructure hardware and software, limit their use to basic functions, but above all have greater needs in terms of logistics structures, which are scantly distributed in the region, and this negatively influences the efficiency of fruit and vegetable produce distribution. In this context, the competitive potential of the fruit and vegetable sector, as regards the issues under investigation, is connected, on the one hand, to companies' recognition of the potential offered by ict and efficient logistics and, on the other, to government intervention aimed at overcoming the region's infrastructure limits which are at the heart of inefficiencies in the distribution system.
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El Hajj, Maya. "The Influence of the Arabic Language in the Sicilian Dialect and in Camilleri’s Vigatese." International Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies 10, no. 1 (February 16, 2022): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijclts.v.10n.1p.6.
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This paper highlights the richness associated with having several dialects within the same Italian language system, and specifically discusses the Sicilian dialect that was highly affected by Arabic. The article will also go back historically to introduce “Siqilliya,” examining the Arabic Sicilian lexicology to demonstrate syntactic constructions typically relevant to the Arabic language, and thus exposing the Sicilian Arabism. My main target is to show, through different examples, the interaction between the Sicilian and Arabic languages at the cultural, syntactic, lexicological and grammatical levels. I will also trace some terms used by Andrea Camilleri through his “Commissario Montalbano,” which have become a “modo di dire” or way of speaking that has become an integral part of the Italian language.
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Gasparo Morticelli, Maurizio, Vera Valenti, Raimondo Catalano, Attilio Sulli, Mauro Agate, Giuseppe Avellone, Cinzia Albanese, Luca Basilone, and Calogero Gugliotta. "Deep controls on foreland basin system evolution along the Sicilian fold and thrust belt." Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 186, no. 4-5 (July 1, 2015): 273–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.2113/gssgfbull.186.4-5.273.
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Abstract Neogene-Quaternary wedge-top-basins arose during the Sicilian fold and thrust belt (FTB) build-up. The infilling sedimentary successions are: i) middle-upper Miocene silicoclastics succession, accommodated on top of the accreted Sicilide and Numidian flysch nappes; ii) upper Miocene-lower Pliocene deepening-upwards sediments unconformably overlying the inner Meso-Cenozoic deep-water, Imerese and Sicanian thrust units; iii) Upper Pliocene-Quaternary coastal-open shelf deposits unconformably covering (in the outer sector of the FTB) a tectonic stack (Gela thrust system). These successions are characterized by a basal unconformity on the deformed substrate believed to be the depositional interface common both to the coeval wedge-top and foredeep basins. The tectono-sedimentary evolution of the syn-tectonic basins was controlled by the progressive deepening of the structural levels, which were active during the growing of the FTB. The palinspastic restoration of a crustal geological transect in central Sicily points to: i) the occurrence of two subsequent, basal main thrusts (MT1 and MT2) active during the Neogene-middle Pleistocene tectonic evolution, as well as ii) a decrease in slip- and shortening-rate, estimated for the later MT2 as compared to earlier MT1 basal main thrust. The foreland-basin system evolution recorded during these two steps suggests: – the regional lithofacies distribution, during late Tortonian-early Pliocene, accounted for a wide depozone including the Iblean plateau and its offshore;– a crucial change was recorded by the late Pliocene-Pleistocene wedge-top depozone, when the deeper basal main thrust (MT2) involved and thickened (in the inner sector of the FTB) the crystalline basement (thin- to thick-skinned thrust tectonics); this change influenced the depozones, progressively narrowing up to the present-day setting. As regards this general evolutionary framework, thin-skinned and thick-skinned thrust tectonics can be recognized in the Sicilian FTB evolution. The late Tortonian-early Pliocene, thin-skinned thrust tectonics include two main tectonic events, a “shallow-seated” Event 1 and a “deep-seated” Event 2, with the Pliocene-Pleistocene thick-skinned thrust tectonics representing a third tectonic event (Event 3).
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De Angelis, Franco De Angelis, and Benjamin Garstad. "Euhemerus in Context." Classical Antiquity 25, no. 2 (October 1, 2006): 211–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ca.2006.25.2.211.
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Abstract Euhemerus, the famous theorist on the nature of the gods who lived around 300 BC, has usually been discussed as a disembodied intellectual figure, with scholars focusing on his literary and philosophical sources and influence. Although he is called ““Euhemerus of Messene,”” there is uncertainty as to where he was born, lived, and worked, in particular whether he came from Sicilian or Peloponnesian Messene. Until now, the conquests of Alexander the Great and the establishment of the Successor Kingdoms have been considered the only context for Euhemerus. This paper will draw upon literary, historical, and archaeological evidence to argue that Euhemerus belongs in a Sicilian context. The long history of the worship of rulers in Sicily from the oikistai to the tyrants of Syracuse, the wealth of Sicily, the proximity of the Lipari Islands, the multiethnic milieu of Sicily with its vigorous interaction and syncretism, all contributed to Euhemerus' experiences and thought. We suggest that centuries of Sicilian cultural and political experience, not merely the ““phenomenon”” of Alexander the Great and the dawn of the Hellenistic Age, provided the impetus to the ideas of Euhemerus, and that Euhemerus brought this Sicilian contribution to bear on the new problems of the wider world.
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Allegro, Rosalinda, Antonino Calagna, Daniela Lo Monaco, Valentina Ciprì, Carmelo Bongiorno, Gaetano Cammilleri, Luisa Battaglia, et al. "The assessment of the attitude of Sicilian consumers towards wild and farmed seafood products – a sample survey." British Food Journal 123, no. 7 (March 5, 2021): 2506–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bfj-09-2020-0853.
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PurposeThe purpose of the paper was to know and evaluate consumption, preferences and the knowledge of labelling legislation about wild and farmed seafood products.Design/methodology/approachA sample survey on Sicilian families was conducted through a direct interviews between October 2015 and October 2016 to study the attitudes of Sicilian consumers towards wild and farmed fish and seafood products. A stratified two-stage sampling design was chosen with variable probability of inclusion of the units of first stage and 1,700 subjects were interviewed.FindingsThe results obtained showed that the 69.4% of respondent ate fresh fish at least once a week and the 86% of respondents consumed aquaculture products at least once a month. Also, the 77.3% of respondents did not know the current legislation on the labelling. Multiple correspondence analysis allowed to identified three profiles of Sicilian families and binary logit model was used to examine the factors that influenced different frequency of fresh fish consumption in general and farmed seafood products in particular.Research limitations/implicationsExtending the research throughout the Italian territory would have allowed further comparisons at the national level.Practical implicationsThe research provides useful information on Sicilian consumers that could be used by policymakers and by marketing communications company.Social implicationsThis research, on a restricted group of European consumers (Sicilian), characterised by living in an island, reinforce the knowledge regarding seafood consumers.Originality/valueThis study used a probabilistic sampling design and a face-to-face questionnaire which produce results more robust in compare to surveys used more frequently such as non-probabilistic sampling design.
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Pisciotta, A., P. Catania, S. Orlando, and M. Vallone. "Influence of row orientation on the canopy temperature of Sicilian vineyards." Acta Horticulturae, no. 1314 (June 2021): 367–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.17660/actahortic.2021.1314.46.
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Condurso, Concetta, Fabrizio Cincotta, Gianluca Tripodi, Maria Merlino, and Antonella Verzera. "Influence of drying technologies on the aroma of Sicilian red garlic." LWT 104 (May 2019): 180–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lwt.2019.01.026.
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Caimi, Gregorio, Eugenia Hopps, Maria Montana, Giuseppe Andolina, Caterina Urso, Baldassare Canino, and Rosalia Lo Presti. "Analysis of the Blood Viscosity Behavior in the Sicilian Study on Juvenile Myocardial Infarction." Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis 24, no. 8 (May 23, 2018): 1276–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1076029618775511.
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Considering the role of hemorheology in coronary circulation, we studied blood viscosity in patients with juvenile myocardial infarction. We examined whole blood viscosity at high shear rate using the cone-on-plate viscosimeter Wells-Brookfield ½ LVT and at low shear rate employing a viscometer Contraves LS30 in 120 patients (aged <46 years) with myocardial infarction, at the initial stage and subsequently 3 and 12 months after. At the initial stage, patients had an increased whole blood viscosity in comparison to normal controls. This hemorheological profile was not influenced by the cardiovascular risk factors, nor by the extent of coronary lesions, even if some differences were evident between patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and non-STEMI (NSTEMI). The blood viscosity pattern at the initial stage did not influence recurring ischemic events or the onset of heart failure during an 18 months’ follow-up. The neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio did not affect the blood viscosity pattern. We reevaluated 83 patients 3 months after and 70 patients 12 months after the acute coronary syndrome, and we found that the hemorheological parameters were still altered in comparison to normal controls at both times. We observed an impairment of the hemorheological pattern in young patients with myocardial infarction, partially influenced by the infarction type (STEMI and NSTEMI) and persisting in the long term.
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Grassi Filho, Hélio, Antonio Roque Dechen, Elano Marçal Torquato, and Carlos Henrique dos Santos. "Fenologics characteristics of the ‘Siciliano’ lemon tree on two rootstocks influenced by liming and boron addition." Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology 47, no. 5 (September 2004): 677–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1516-89132004000500002.
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The current study was developed with disturbed samples of an Oxisol, in which ‘Siciliano’ lemon trees seedlings (C. limon) were grafted on sour orange tree (C. aurantium) and rangpur lime tree (C. limonia). The experiment consisted of three basis saturation levels (50, 70 and 90 percent) and three boron doses (0.5; 1.5 and 4.5 mg dm-3) in the planting with 3x3x2 factorial experimental design with four replications. Mineral composition of the "Siciliano" lemon leaves as well as root system development in sour orange tree were higher than the rangpur lime tree. There was no effect in the interaction basis saturarion level and the boron doses for any of the evaluated parameters.
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Minniti, Caterina, Concetta Perrotta, Di Raimondo Francesco, Alessandra Quota, and James G. Taylor. "Patients with Sickle Cell Disease in Sicily Have Lower Rates of End Organ Damage, Allo-Immunization and Opioid Prescription Compared to a US Cohort." Blood 128, no. 22 (December 2, 2016): 3664. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood.v128.22.3664.3664.
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Abstract Background: In developed countries, childhood mortality in sickle cell disease (SCD) is less than 5%, where the SCD morbidity and mortality burden has shifted to adults. As age increases, so do end organ complications like chronic pain. Environmental factors like health economics and genetic factors may influence such outcomes. Recent data from UK, showed higher than expected survival (ASH 2015) in the setting of a national health care system. The Hospital of Gela, Sicily has a well characterized Caucasian SCD population, which also has consistent access to health care via a nationalized system. We hypothesized that traditional disease severity markers including end organ damage, the rate of red blood cell (RBC) alloimmunization and opioid use would be lower in Sicily, compared to a modern US population of African ancestry with inconsistent access to healthcare. Methods: 90 SCD patients in Sicily were followed for over 9 years (2006-2014) to identify clinical complications, alloimmunization rates and survival. Demographics and sickle and alpha globin genotypes were documented. In the US, 632 SCD patients (excluding those with SC) had the same parameters collected as part of the Bethesda Sickle Cell Cohort Study. Laboratory and clinical complications were compared between populations according to phenotype groups (SS/SB0 or SB+ thalassemia). Clinical manifestations included hospitalizations for pain per year, RBC alloimmunization, hydroxyurea prescription rate. Statistical analysis utilized univariate comparisons (t and Chi square tests). Results: In Sicily, 51 patients had SS/SB0 and 28 SB+. All were of self-described Caucasian ancestry. No SC patients were identified in Sicily, therefore all comparisons were limited to SS/SB0 and SB+ thalassemia. Sicilian SS/SB0 patients were older than the US (p<0.0001), had lower AST (p=0.04) and creatinine (p=0.005), and higher HbF (p<0.0001). SB+ patients had similar characteristics (Table 1). Sixteen Sicilian patients (18%) died at a mean age of 53 years (range 31-77). As suggested by these survival data, SCD complications were less frequent for both SS/SB0 and SB+ groups in Sicily compared to the US (Table 2). More Sicilians were prescribed hydroxyurea, especially among those with SB+, although this was not a significant difference. The pain crisis hospitalizations per year was also higher in the US (p=0.008). Consistent with less frequent hospitalizations, only 4 of the Sicilian patients (3 SS/SB0, 1 SB+) were taking long acting opioids, compared to more frequent opioid use in the US. Finally, RBC alloimmunization, another surrogate measure for disease severity, was twice as common in SS/SB0 patients from the US (30%) as in Sicily (14%, p=0.01). Conclusions: These data suggest that end organ complications, like chronic pain and alloimmunization, in self-described Caucasians with uniform access to health care in Sicily, are less common than in a US cohort of adults. These differences could be attributable to access to specialized care, genetic differences in the proportion of African ancestry or environmental factors like more frequent use of preventative therapies like hydroxyurea. RBC alloimmunization in Sicily is significantly lower than reported in the US , but is still higher than observed in thalassemics in Italy. Perhaps this could be explained a matched genetic background between blood donors and recipients in Sicily, as has been suggested as a strategy to reduce RBC alloimmunization in the US. Further studies comparing unique SCD populations from different geographic regions may be helpful to elucidate genetic or environmental risk factors for end organ complications and disease severity. Table 1. Table 1. Table 2. Table 2. Disclosures No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.
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Calabrò, Rocco Salvatore, Alfredo Manuli, Maria Cristina De Cola, and Placido Bramanti. "Innovation technology in neurorehabilitation: introducing a hub and spoke model to avoid patient “migration” in Sicily." Journal of Health Organization and Management 34, no. 2 (January 17, 2020): 207–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jhom-07-2019-0200.
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PurposeIn the Italian National Health Service, hospital planning has been influenced by two aspects: patients' freedom to choose their healthcare provider and the equal distribution of centers spread throughout country. Unfortunately, while every Italian region should be able to meet the health needs of its own inhabitants, consistent migration among regions exists, especially from the southern areas of the country, including Sicily. As it has been demonstrated that a hub-and-spoke model (HSM) can provide medical care to even the most rural areas, the aim of this study is to propose a new Sicilian model to avoid patients' migration.Design, Methodology, ApproachThe IRCCS Centro Neurolesi “Bonino-Pulejo” of Messina, together with the Ministry of Health and the Sicilian government, has incorporated an HSM into a Sicilian healthcare program that provides neurological rehabilitation by means of innovative technologies such as robotics.FindingsThe authors expected, thanks to this novel HSM, that patients may benefit from advanced robotic neurorehabilitation even in rural areas, and therefore be properly treated in their own cities, avoiding unnecessary and expensive migrations to other regions and/or countries. Indeed, since the introduction of this model, there has been a reduction in patient migration, especially in the province of Messina, with a reduction of costs for admission outside the region of about 260.000 euros.Originality/valueThe use of innovative technology in the context of the promising HSM will help clinicians increase the intensity of therapies and improve working cost/efficacy, with better functional outcomes in patients.
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Cosenza, Alida, Salvatore Rizzo, Antonio Sansone Santamaria, and Gaspare Viviani. "Radionuclides in wastewater treatment plants: monitoring of Sicilian plants." Water Science and Technology 71, no. 2 (December 11, 2014): 252–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2014.501.
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Three Sicilian wastewater treatment plants were monitored to assess the occurrence and the behaviour of radionuclides. Two sampling campaigns (screening and long-term) were carried out during which liquid and solid samples have been analysed. It was found that 131I mostly occurred in the samples analysed during the screening campaign (43% of the analysed samples contained 131I). High 131I specific activity was found in the mixed liquor, recycled sludge and dehydrated sludge samples. This finding was mainly due to the tendency of 131I to be associated with solid particles. During the long-term sampling campaign an influence of the sludge retention time (SRT) on the 131I behaviour was found. Increasing the SRT and consequently decreasing the fraction of active organic biomass inside the system, the specific activity of 131I decreases.
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Schembari, Andrea. "Maestri del dissenso: Leonardo Sciascia e la lezione degli scrittori polacchi." Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, no. 39 (December 15, 2020): 39–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/pspsl.2020.39.3.
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The article focuses on the intertextual presence of Polish writers in Leonardo Sciascia’s work. Highlighted in this context is the possible influence on the Sicilian writer of the peculiar expression of “dissent” by writers such as Sienkiewicz, Brandys and Lec. The article closes with a brief comparison between the protagonists of Il cavaliere e la morte by Sciascia and Odpocznij po biegu (Rest after run) by Terlecki, both restless investigators disobedient to the authorities.
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Alfeo, Vincenzo, Aldo Todaro, Giuseppina Migliore, Valeria Borsellino, and Emanuele Schimmenti. "Microbreweries, brewpubs and beerfirms in the Sicilian craft beer industry." International Journal of Wine Business Research 32, no. 1 (August 24, 2019): 122–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijwbr-01-2019-0005.
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Purpose This paper aims to illustrate the organisational and managing models characterising the craft beer producers in Sicily (Southern Italy) and the main issues of the provision of raw materials. Design/methodology/approach A direct survey involving the overall population of 41 craft breweries operating in Sicily in 2016 was carried out. Then 29 questionnaires were collected for exploratory analysis. A hierarchical cluster analysis was also performed out to group companies by similar structural, productive and economic features. Findings The findings of the survey showed a Sicilian craft beer industry characterised by a substantial dependence on the import of malts hops and yeasts and the limited use of local raw materials among brewers. Furthermore, the characteristics of the processing plants and the sales channels appear to influence the diversification of the products and the turnover levels of the Sicilian craft beer producers. Originality/value This is the first study describing the craft brewing industry in Sicily. The findings contribute to enrich the knowledge on the organisational models applied in the craft beer industry. In particular, the findings could contribute to shed light on some critical issues about the provision of raw materials, suggesting possible paths for the successful development of the craft beer industry in the region.
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Lo Schiavo, Fulvia, Ellen Macnamara, and Lucia Vagnetti. "Late Cypriot Imports to Italy and their Influence on Local Bronzework." Papers of the British School at Rome 53 (November 1985): 1–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068246200011491.
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LE TARDE IMPORTAZIONI CIPRIOTI IN ITALIA E IL LORO INFLUSSO SULL'OPERA LOCALE IN BRONZOQuesto studio esamina le diverse categorie di materiali archeologici rinvenuti in territorio italiano, databili con certezza o presumibilmente nei limiti dell'età del bronzo, che siano da considerare importati da Cipro o imitati da modelli ciprioti. Sono esaminati separatamente ceramiche, pugnali con codolo a uncino, lingotti ox-hide, doppie asce, strumenti da fonditore, specchi, recipienti metallici con i loro attacchi, tripodi e figurine di bronzo.Tali materiali sono ben attestati in Sicilia, abbondantissimi in Sardegna e solo sporadicamente rappresentati in Italia peninsulare. I più antichi esempi (ceramiche) possono risalire al XIV–XIII secolo a.C.; inizialmente sembrano collegati con i traffici egei verso l'Occidente, ma dal XII secolo in poi sembra di poter ipotizzare una certa indipendenza del flusso cipriota verso la Sicilia meridionale e, soprattutto, verso la Sardegna, dover fiorisce un'industria metallurgica assai prospera che, in qualche caso, imita in modo molto stretto la produzione cipriota, sia nella sfera degli oggetti d'uso che in quella dei materiali di pregio.Alla sfera utilitaria appartiene il repertorio degli strumenti da fonditore—martelli, pinze, e palette da carbone—che si presenta tipologicamente pressochè identico a Cipro e in Sardegna, mentre non è conosciuto nelle stesse forme in area egea. Alla sfera dei materiali di pregio appartengono i tripodi, una categoria molto specializzata, tipicamente cipriota, che viene sporadicamente importata in Occidente e poi imitata in Sardegna.Non si può quindi escludere che, sullo scorcio dell II millennio, forse in collegamento con la ricerca di nuove fonti di materie prime, artigiani metallurghi ciprioti fossero presenti e operanti in Sardegna.
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Lanza, Tiziana. "Using geosciences and mythology to locate Prospero's island." Geoscience Communication 4, no. 1 (March 17, 2021): 111–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gc-4-111-2021.
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Abstract. The Tempest, the last work entirely attributed to William Shakespeare, has been subject to many studies and interpretations, ranging from adventure and Shakespeare's biography to colonialism and the cultural revolution, and is studied in this paper in the context of naturally occurring hazards. The play tells the story of a magician, Prospero, and his daughter who are shipwrecked on an unknown island where they encounter strange creatures and beings. But is it a fantastic island or was the author inspired by real places? Literary scholars proposed several hypotheses through the years, based on historical sources. Here, we analyse the play in the light of geosciences and mythology supporting the hypothesis that the playwright was inspired by the Mediterranean. Our goal is not to identify the island but rather to examine the various geographical and philosophical–political factors that may have influenced Shakespeare's literary creation. Nevertheless, some verses in the play suggest volcanism, placing the island in the Sicilian sea. This underlines once again how deep the playwright's knowledge of Italy was. It also suggests that this part of the Mediterranean was known, at the time of Shakespeare, as the theatre of phenomena originated in the volcanism of the area. One implication is that he could have used historical sources, still unknown and precious, to reconstruct geological events that occurred off the Sicilian coast.
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Emanuele, Vincenzo. "Tra dinamiche territoriali e voto personale: le elezioni comunali 2012 a Palermo." Quaderni dell Osservatorio elettorale QOE - IJES 69, no. 1 (June 30, 2013): 5–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/qoe-9511.
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The 2012 municipal election in Palermo produced an unexpected outcome. In the Sicilian city - for a long time a conservative stronghold- the center-right candidate, Massimo Costa did not succeed to reach the second ballot and the election was won by the former Major Leoluca Orlando, supported by a radical left coalition. Orlando prevailed with a sensational 72% of the vote share against the winner of the center-left primary elections, Fabrizio Ferrandelli.
What happened in the 2012 Palermo municipal election? Did the Sicilian capital move suddenly toward the left? Which factors fostered this sharp and unpredictable electoral change that altered the long-time-established political landscape of the City?
To answer these questions, this article analyzes the results of the 2012 municipal election in Palermo through an electoral geography approach and the use of a quantitative methodology with ecological data. In particular, the article makes use of both the territorial study of turnout and elections results and the voting ecological estimates generated with the traditional Goodman model.
The empirical analysis shows that this election was strongly influenced by factors linked to the local context more than by authentically political ones. In other words, Palermo did not move toward the left. Moreover, the internal electoral segmentation of the City between central and peripheral neighborhoods persisted as the main determinant of the vote choice.
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Muscarella, Calogero, Luca Luiselli, Massimiliano Di Vittorio, Ignazio Sparacio, and Daniele Dendi. "Factors Associated with the Occurrence, Potential Distribution and Conservation of Anoxia orientalis (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) at Different Spatial Scales." Diversity 14, no. 5 (May 17, 2022): 397. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d14050397.
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Anoxia (Protanoxia) orientalis is a beetle of the family Melolonthidae for which Italy represents the western limit of its distribution. The ecology of this species is little known from the quantitative point of view. The ecological correlates of A. orientalis presence in the whole European range and, more specifically, at its western border in Sicily, are analyzed in this paper to develop a potential distribution map for Sicily and to define the habitat selection of this species. There was a clear non-random habitat selection by A. orientalis at both the European and the Sicilian scales and a clear difference in the factors affecting the presence of this species in the larger spatial scale compared to Sicily. At the European scale, the bioclimatic factors were more important than landscape factors, whereas the same was not true at the Sicilian scale. In Sicily, the populations were statistically influenced by a combination of predictors that make their potential optimal distribution very narrow and mostly limited to a few coastal areas, suggesting a region-specific ecological diversification. Since A. orientalis is in strong decline in Italy due to the degradation of coastal environments, it is necessary to minimize the degradation of the dune and back dune environments in Sicily to achieve better management for the populations of this beetle species.
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Campo, Salvatore, Maria A. Sardo, Alessandra Bitto, Antonio Bonaiuto, Giuseppe Trimarchi, Michele Bonaiuto, Maria Castaldo, Carlo Saitta, Simona Cristadoro, and Antonino Saitta. "Platelet-Activating Factor Acetylhydrolase Is Not Associated with Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Hypercholesterolemic Sicilian Individuals." Clinical Chemistry 50, no. 11 (November 1, 2004): 2077–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1373/clinchem.2004.036863.
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Abstract Background: Atherosclerosis is a complex, chronic disease that usually arises from the converging action of several pathogenic processes, including hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity, and the accumulation of oxidized LDL. Platelet-activating factor acetylhydrolase (PAF-AH) is a LDL- and HDL-bound enzyme that hydrolyzes and inactivates PAF and prevents LDL-cholesterol oxidation, thus delaying the onset of atherosclerotic disease. Methods: We evaluated the relationship between variants of the PAF-AH gene polymorphisms Arg92His, Ile198Thr, and Ala379Val and the presence of carotid atherosclerosis in 190 hypercholesterolemic Sicilian individuals. Carotid artery intima-media wall thickness (IMT) was measured as an indicator of early atherosclerotic disease. The participants were classified according to having normal (≤1 mm) or abnormal (≥1 mm) IMT and were also investigated for physical characteristics and biochemical indices, including PAF-AH activity. Results: PAF-AH activity and LDL concentrations were significantly correlated in hypercholesterolemic patients, but plasma PAF-AH activity and HDL were not significantly correlated in either IMT group. No significant differences were detected among the PAF-AH gene polymorphisms in both groups after correction for age, sex, body mass index, plasma glucose and lipid concentrations, PAF-AH activity, blood pressure, and smoking habits. The analysis of PAF-AH genotype distribution showed no significant differences in percentage of 92, 198, and 379 genotypes in both IMT groups. Conclusion: Our data provided no evidence that PAF-AH polymorphisms influence PAF-AH activity and atherosclerosis in hypercholesterolemic Sicilian patients.
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Piccolo, Francesco Lo, and Vincenzo Todaro. "From Planning to Management of Cultural Heritage Sites: Controversies and Conflicts Between Unesco WHL Management Plans and Local Spatial Planning in South-Eastern Sicily." European Spatial Research and Policy 21, no. 2 (January 27, 2015): 47–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/esrp-2015-0004.
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The paper investigates the relationship between the preservation of cultural heritage and planning in UNESCO World Heritage List (WHL) sites, with special reference to the relation between Management Plans and other (local and regional) planning instruments and policies able to influence the promotion of sustainable and responsible development. This will be explored through a case study related to South-Eastern Sicilian UNESCO sites (in particular Syracuse). The analysis of this case study will point out the challenge of integrating different management and planning regimes - which mainly refer to a performative model - in a (still) very conformative planning system. The paper will show how supranational protection tools and models often lose their efficacy in relation to local planning systems.
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Avellone, Giuseppe, Andrea Salvo, Rosaria Costa, Emanuele Saija, David Bongiorno, Vita Di Stefano, Giorgio Calabrese, and Giacomo Dugo. "Investigation on the influence of spray-drying technology on the quality of Sicilian Nero d’Avola wines." Food Chemistry 240 (February 2018): 222–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2017.07.116.
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Giuffrida, Salvatore, Sara Lanza, Domenico A. Restivo, Riccardo Saponara, Sebastiana C. Valvo, Francesco Le Pira, Angela Trovato Salinaro, Francesca Spinella, Alessandra Nicoletti, and Daniele F. Condorelli. "Clinical and molecular analysis of 11 Sicilian SCA2 families: influence of gender on age at onset." European Journal of Neurology 6, no. 3 (May 1999): 301–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1468-1331.1999.630301.x.
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Arcidiacono, Myriam, Caterina Catalano, Antonio Motisi, Maurizio Sajeva, Francesco Carimi, and Angela Carra. "Influence of Culture Conditions on In Vitro Asymbiotic Germination of Anacamptis longicornu and Ophrys panormitana (Orchidaceae)." Plants 10, no. 11 (November 22, 2021): 2543. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants10112543.
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This study is the first approach to in vitro asymbiotic germination of two species of Sicilian threatened terrestrial orchids, Anacamptis longicornu and Ophrys panormitana. Seeds were collected in the wild and cultured in two different media—Orchimax medium (OM) and Murashige and Skoog (MS)—and exposed to different photoperiods and temperatures to evaluate the best conditions for the specific stages of development. The germination of A. longicornu was very high on OM (95.5%) and lower on MS medium (21.4%), whereas O. panormitana germinated only on OM medium, with significantly lower percentages (12.0%), compared with A. longicornu. This difference is caused by variation in quality and quantity of nutrients used, primarily by nitrogen source. The results show that temperature and photoperiod widely affect seed germination and development. Although further investigations on asymbiotic and symbiotic germination are needed for the improvement of conservation of Mediterranean terrestrial orchids, our results contribute to the conservation of this group of plants.
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Morgan, Janett. "A Greek tragedy? Why ‘Dillwyn’s Etruscan Ware’ failed*." Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 63, no. 1 (June 1, 2020): 54–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bics/qbaa007.
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Abstract Between 1847 and 1850, the Cambrian Pottery in Swansea made ‘Dillwyn’s Etruscan Ware’, a range of vases copying the designs of red-figure vases found in south Italian and Sicilian tombs. The vases were made for sale to ‘humble homesteads’, but they did not attract buyers and were discontinued. This article explores the economic and commercial milieu in which the Swansea ‘Etruscan’ ware vases were designed and made. It examines relationships between manufacturers’ design choices and their perceptions of the social, cultural, and political aspirations of intended buyers. It establishes the identity of the Cambrian Pottery’s intended customers and shows how practical issues, such as space, display, and utility, could influence buyers’ choices as well as design. Finally, it explores the influence of social, cultural, and religious ideals on domestic decoration in working-class households, and it offers an explanation of why ‘Dillwyn’s Etruscan Ware’ failed.
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Silva, Vanessa Martins, and Luiz Antonio Viotto. "Drying of sicilian lemon residue: influence of process variables on the evaluation of the dietary fiber produced." Ciência e Tecnologia de Alimentos 30, no. 2 (June 2010): 421–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0101-20612010000200020.
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Salvatore, Maria, Selene Giambra, Daniele Naviglio, Marina DellaGreca, Francesco Salvatore, Santella Burruano, and Anna Andolfi. "Fatty Acids Produced by Neofusicoccum vitifusiforme and N. parvum, Fungi Associated with Grapevine Botryosphaeria Dieback." Agriculture 8, no. 12 (December 1, 2018): 189. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agriculture8120189.
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There is evidence that secondary metabolites are involved in the fungal pathogenicity and virulence of Neofusicoccum spp. Fatty acids may also influence the plant–pathogen interaction but, so far, no information is available on their production by species of Neofusicoccum associated with Botryosphaeria dieback, which is a well-known syndrome of several plants with a complex etiology. In the present paper, the production of fatty acids in liquid medium, by strains of N. vitifusiforme and N. parvum associated with declining Sicilian vine plants, was evaluated. Data, acquired via gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC/MS), show the presence of linoleic acid as the most abundant fatty acid produced by both examined strains. In addition, the pathogenicity of N. vitifusiforme was tested on 2-year-old grapevine plants of cv. Inzolia.
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Cornara, Laura, Federica Sgrò, Francesco Raimondo, Mariarosaria Ingegneri, Luca Mastracci, Valeria D’Angelo, Maria Germanò, Domenico Trombetta, and Antonella Smeriglio. "Pedoclimatic Conditions Influence the Morphological, Phytochemical and Biological Features of Mentha pulegium L." Plants 12, no. 1 (December 21, 2022): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants12010024.
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In this study, Mentha pulegium leaves and flowers harvested in three different Sicilian areas were investigated from a micromorphological, phytochemical and biological point of view. Light and scanning electron microscopy showed the presence of spherocrystalline masses of diosmin both in the leaf epidermal cells and in thin flower petals. Two different chemotypes were identified (I, kaempferide/rosmarinic acid; II, jaceidin isomer A). Phytochemical screening identified plant from collection site II as the richest in total phenolics (16.74 g GAE/100 g DE) and that from collection site I as the richest in flavonoids (46.56 g RE/100 g DE). Seventy-seven metabolites were identified both in flower and leaf extracts. Plant from site II showed the best antioxidant (0.90–83.72 µg/mL) and anti-inflammatory (27.44–196.31 µg/mL) activity expressed as half-maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) evaluated by DPPH, TEAC, FRAP, ORAC, BSA denaturation and protease inhibition assays. These data were also corroborated by in vitro cell-based assays on lymphocytes and erythrocytes. Moreover, plant of site II showed the best antiangiogenic properties (IC50 33.43–33.60 µg/mL) in vivo on a chick chorioallantoic membrane. In conclusion, pedoclimatic conditions influence the chemotype and the biological activity of M. pulegium, with chemotype I showing the most promising biological properties.
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Ottonello, Dario, Stefania D’Angelo, Fabrizio Oneto, Stefano Malavasi, and Marco Alberto Luca Zuffi. "Feeding ecology of the Sicilian pond turtle Emys trinacris (Testudines, Emydidae) influenced by seasons and invasive aliens species." Ecological Research 32, no. 1 (November 23, 2016): 71–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11284-016-1416-1.
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Brincat, Joseph M. "Maltese: blending Semitic, Romance and Germanic lexemes." Lexicographica 33, no. 2017 (August 28, 2018): 207–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lex-2017-0011.
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AbstractMalta’s position at the centre of the Mediterranean attracted various conquerors and settlers, but in its present form Maltese has its origins in the Arabic dialect introduced by the Muslim conquest around the year 1000. Lexical Latinisation started early under Norman rule and kept increasing steadily up to the twentieth century thanks to contact with Chancery and spoken Sicilian up to the sixteenth century, and then with Italian which was introduced by the Knights of Malta. This article traces the historical developments and their influence on the Maltese language, providing statistics concerning the composition of the lexicon and the various methods by which it can be analysed. A look at the present situation explains how Maltese and English bilingualism in the schools and in society is affecting the spoken variety which is often marked by code-switching.
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Brincat, Joseph M. "Maltese: blending Semitic, Romance and Germanic lexemes." Lexicographica 33, no. 1 (September 1, 2018): 207–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lexi-2017-0011.
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AbstractMalta’s position at the centre of the Mediterranean attracted various conquerors and settlers, but in its present form Maltese has its origins in the Arabic dialect introduced by the Muslim conquest around the year 1000. Lexical Latinisation started early under Norman rule and kept increasing steadily up to the twentieth century thanks to contact with Chancery and spoken Sicilian up to the sixteenth century, and then with Italian which was introduced by the Knights of Malta. This article traces the historical developments and their influence on the Maltese language, providing statistics concerning the composition of the lexicon and the various methods by which it can be analysed. A look at the present situation explains how Maltese and English bilingualism in the schools and in society is affecting the spoken variety which is often marked by code-switching.
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Kahn, Victoria. "Revisiting Agathocles." Review of Politics 75, no. 4 (2013): 557–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034670513000582.
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AbstractThis article traces Machiavelli's indebtedness to Sallust in his discussion of Agathocles the Sicilian in chapter 9 of The Prince. In distinguishing between virtù and glory, Machiavelli was influenced by Sallust's discussion of Catiline and Caesar, and of true and false glory, in the Bellum Catilinae. Writing to Caesar at the height of his power, Sallust needed to negotiate a delicate political situation that was in some ways analogous to Machiavelli's own difficult position vis-à-vis the Medici. Just as, in addressing Caesar, Sallust points up the difference between Caesar as he was and as he might have been, so in the example of Agathocles Machiavelli presents the Medici with a choice between mere virtù and the glory achieved by the really excellent men. It was the prospect of this glory that Machiavelli held out to the Medici in the concluding chapter of The Prince.
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Mills, Edward L., Daniel V. Widzowski, and Suzanne R. Jones. "Food Conditioning and Prey Selection by Young Yellow Perch (Perca flavescens)." Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 44, no. 3 (March 1, 1987): 549–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f87-067.
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We tested how diet conditioning influences prey species selection by age-0 yellow perch (Perca flavescens) in laboratory experiments. We conditioned yellow perch to diets of different ratios of Daphnia pulex and Diaptomus sicilis and then offered them an experimental 1:1 test mixture of each prey. The influence of conditioning on prey selection was found not to be random, and prey were consumed neither in proportion to the 1:1 test mix nor to the ratio of prey in the conditioning diet. Young yellow perch switched to novel prey and did not specialize on the most frequently encountered prey in conditioning diets. However, when yellow perch were conditioned and tested on the 1:1 Diaptomus to Daphnia mix, these fish selected Diaptomus until they reached 35–40 mm total length when they switched to the larger bodied Daphnia. We hypothesize that young yellow perch may switch to novel prey because nutritional advantages associated with diet breadth may outweigh the advantage of feeding on familiar prey.
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Amato, Marco C., Aldo Galluzzo, Simona Merlino, Antonina Mattina, Pierina Richiusa, Angela Criscimanna, and Carla Giordano. "Lower insulin sensitivity differentiates hirsute from non-hirsute Sicilian women with polycystic ovary syndrome." European Journal of Endocrinology 155, no. 6 (December 2006): 859–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1530/eje.1.02290.
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Objective: It is well known that hyperandrogenism and insulin-resistance with or without compensatory hyperinsulinism are closely associated, but the Rotterdam Consensus has concluded that principally obese women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) should be evaluated for the metabolic syndrome. Our aim was to study insulin sensitivity in PCOS women with hirsutism regardless of obesity. Methods: Clinical characteristics, sex hormones and fasting- and after OGTT-glycemia and insulinemia, homeostatic model of insulin resistance (HOMA IR), and Matsuda index of insulin sensitivity were analyzed in 130 women with PCOS. Hirsutism has been evaluated through the Ferriman–Gallwey (FG) map scoring system. Results: PCOS women with hirsutism (57.7% of participants) showed significant higher values of total testosterone levels (P = 0.016), free testosterone (P = 0.027), DHEA sulfate (P = 0.017), and Δ4androstenedione (P = 0.018). They had similar body mass index (BMI) (P = 0.073) and were significantly less insulin sensitive (P = 0.002) than those without hirsutism (42.3% of participants). In women with PCOS and hirsutism, there was a significant correlation between FG score and insulin-sensitivity indexes (HOMA IR, ρ = 0.33, P = 0.005; Matsuda index, ρ = −0.34, P = 0.003) but not with the androgen levels. Moreover, women with hirsutism showed a significantly greater insulin (P = 0.019), C-peptide (P = 0.002), and glucose (P = 0.024) areas under the curve (auc2h). Conclusions: Our study suggests that the increased responsiveness of the pilo-sebaceous unit to androgens seems to be influenced by insulin sensitivity and that insulin resistance should be assessed in all hirsute women with PCOS regardless of their BMI, as insulin resistance was found in hirsute women irrespective of whether they were overweight or obese.
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Cardullo, Nunzio, Vera Muccilli, Vita Di Stefano, Sonia Bonacci, Lucia Sollima, and Maria Grazia Melilli. "Spaghetti Enriched with Inulin: Effect of Polymerization Degree on Quality Traits and α-Amylase Inhibition." Molecules 27, no. 8 (April 12, 2022): 2482. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules27082482.
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Inulin is considered a dietary fiber and represents a noteworthy ingredient for food biofortification due to its health effects and its neutral taste. The aim of the work was the evaluation of the quality of pasta produced using whole-meal flours of two ancient Sicilian landraces (Senatore Cappelli-CAP and Timilia—TIM) fortified with two types of inulin (long-chain topinambur inulin IT and low-chain chicory inulin IC), at two different levels of substitution (2 and 4%) to evaluate its possible effect on α-amylase inhibition. The color indices L* and a* were mainly influenced by cultivars, while IT improved the sensory attributes, mainly the elasticity sensation, and influenced less the other sensory attributes: adhesiveness, color, odor, taste, and Over Quality Score for both landraces. The cooking quality was linked mainly to the landrace used, due to the very different gluten matrix of CAP and TIM. IC and IT showed promising α-Amy inhibitory activity with comparable IC50 values of 0.45 ± 0.04 and 0.50 ± 0.06 mg/mL. The enrichment of spaghetti with inulin with an inhibitory effect on α-amylase determined the hypoglycemic properties of pasta, thus lowering the corresponding IC50 value.
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Davě, Maria, and Isidora Barbaccia. "Misure di agglomerazione spaziale nei Sistemi Locali del Lavoro siciliani." RIVISTA DI ECONOMIA E STATISTICA DEL TERRITORIO, no. 1 (April 2009): 104–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/rest2009-001005.
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- This paper examines the links among productive specialization, variety of the economic environment and knowledge spillovers on the basis of the territorial analyses present in the current literature. With the aim of identifying localization benefits in a particular area, some aspects of business settling are compared with trends in the development of economic activities and, particularly, with agglomeration process of the firms. Methods and Results The empirical analysis will be carried out pointing to the dynamics of employment consequent to the effects of the externalities above mentioned. Employment data are taken from the Manufacturing and Service Censuses of the years 1981, 1991 and 2001 and refer to the 77 Sicilian Local Labour Systems. Precisely, data pertain to the following sections of the classification ATECO 2002: Mining and quarrying (C), Manufacturing (D) and Total private services (G, H, I, J, K). We consider some suitable economic indicators to depict the characteristics of concentration: _ localization ratios for studying the evolutionary trends in specialization for different types of economic activity; _ diversity measures, based on a Hirschman-Herfindahl index, suggesting the presence of Jacobs-type dynamic externalities or, on the contrary, the operativeness of MAR dynamic effects; _ competition indices to gather information about the competition levels of the markets depending on their structure; _ agglomeration indices, to measure the geographic concentration of the economic activity connected to high and/or increasing industrial concentration levels in the adjacent LLS. Conclusions The agglomeration process results from inter-sector links, easing the diffusion of innovations thanks to the variety of urban contexts. Agglomeration forces appear to be outweighed, especially since 2001, by the influence of co-agglomeration factors due to the presence, in the same local reality, of small-sized enterprises belonging to different sectors. Owing to the increasing interdependence among sectors, these effects caused a redistribution of employment among the different groups of economic activities. The indexes showed how, during the inter-census gaps, a despecialization trend took over, bringing local production structures constantly closer to the average regional values.
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D’Alessandro, E., L. Liotta, M. Pagliaro, and V. Chiofalo. "Influence of the feeding system on in vitam and post mortem performances of Nero Siciliano pigs." Italian Journal of Animal Science 6, sup1 (January 2007): 683. http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/ijas.2007.1s.683.
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Monica, Pellerone, Stesy Giuseppa Razza, Sandra Miccichè, and Alessandra Lo Piccolo. "Relational Competence, School Adjustment and Emotional Skills: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Group of Junior High School Students of the Sicilian Hinterland." Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal 9, no. 7 (August 2, 2022): 618–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.14738/assrj.97.12727.
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Literature has demonstrated the influence of emotional adjustment toward manifestation of problem behaviors in adolescence above all during the Covid-19 pandemic. The research goal is to investigate the relational competence, the school adjustment and emotional skills in a group of junior high school students of the Sicilian hinterland. The research involved 213 students, among which 82 boys (38.1%) and 131 girls (61.9%), aged between 11 and 14 (M=12.98; S.D.=1.05), of which 6.7% have repeated the school year once. Participants completed following instruments: the Test of Interpersonal Relationships (TRI) developed by Bracken (1993) in order to value the perception of adolescents concerning the quality of their relationships in social, familial and school contexts; the Multidimensional Test of Self-Esteem (TMA) created by Bracken (2003), structured in six scales, which coincide with the dimensions considered constitutive of self-esteem, namely: Interpersonal Relationships, Emotional Competence, Control over the Environment, School Success, Family Life and Body Image Perception. Data show that a good emotional competence of adolescents has a positive influence on learning and scholastic success, but above all on their relational ability towards peer-group.
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Badia, Lola. "«Segons lo Dant història recompta» (March XLV, 90). Sobre la presència de Dante a la literatura catalana antiga." Mot so razo 21 (January 31, 2023): 31. http://dx.doi.org/10.33115/udg_bib/msr.v21i0.22876.
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<p>Dante i Llull, que van ser contemporanis durant cinquanta anys, si alguna cosa tenen en comú, és la condició d’inteŀlectuals laics, conscients de les respectives missions. Els versos 460-462 del<em> Llibre de Fortuna i Prudència</em> de Bernat Metge (1381) són el primer símptoma de la recepció creativa de Dante. L’estada d’Andreu Febrer a l’efímera cort siciliana de Martí el Jove i la circulació de la <em>Silloge boccaccesca</em> apunten a les vies d’entrada de la influència dantesca en la lírica del xv. Les tesis doctorals de Francesc Gómez i de Raquel Parera confirmen el pes de l’aparat exegètic en la recepció de la Commedia, com es posa de manifest tant a la traducció íntegra en vers que en va fer Andreu Febrer com al <em>Tractat de les penes particulars d’infern</em> de fra Joan Pasqual, i la teoria de la ficció de l’Anònim del <em>Curial e Güelfa</em> té aquesta mateixa font. L’ús literari de Dante en Ausiàs March que va plantejar un treball pioner de Costanzo Di Girolamo continua demanant nova atenció. Les pistes que podrien connectar Dante amb Muntaner i amb altres escriptors com Turmeda són tan estimulants com especulatives.</p><p><br />The strongest parallel between Dante and Llull is having been two medieval vernacular writers well aware of their respective missions. Lines 460-462 of <em>Llibre de Fortuna i Prudència</em> by Bernat Metge (1381) are the first symptom of Dante’s creative reception. Andreu Febrer’s connection to the ephemeral Sicilian court of Martí el Jove and the circulation of the <em>Silloge boccaccesca</em> indicate the incoming of Dante’s influence in the poetry of the fifteenth century. The PhD thesis by Francesc Gómez and Raquel Parera corroborate that the exegetic apparatus had an outstanding role in the reception of the <em>Commedia</em>, which can be verified both in its unabridged versified translation by Andreu Febrer and in the <em>Tractat de les penes particulars d’infern</em> by fra Joan Pasqual; the theory of fiction advocated by the anonymous <em>Curial e Güelfa</em> author derives from this same source. A pioneering paper by Costanzo Di Girolamo revealed the literary presence of Dante in Ausiàs March’s poetry, which is a subject requiring new attention. Some clues connecting Dante to Muntaner and to other writers like Turmeda, even if stimulating, are lacking evidence.</p>
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Licciardello, Feliciana, Salvatore Barbagallo, and Francesc Gallart. "Hydrological and erosional response of a small catchment in Sicily." Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics 67, no. 3 (September 1, 2019): 201–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/johh-2019-0003.
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Abstract Increasing our understanding of the main processes acting in small Mediterranean catchments is essential to planning effective soil and water conservation practices in semi-arid areas. A monitoring program of a Sicilian catchment started in 1996 and ended in 2006. The factors driving the hydrological response for 170 events with runoff generation and 46 with sediment production were specified. The catchment response varied greatly over the year. Rainfall intensity was a poor driver of runoff generation, whereas both the simulations made with the Thornthwaite-Mather water balance model and hydrograph recession analyses, pointed to the chief importance of wet antecedent conditions and soil saturation processes in runoff generation. The influence of rainfall spatial variability was also examined. SSC-Q relationships, classified by following their shapes for all sediment production events, suggested that the principal role of small poorly vegetated hillslope patches was as sediment sources and confirmed the complexity of the hydrological response in this small Mediterranean catchment.
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Cannarella, Rossella, Rosita A. Condorelli, Carmelo Gusmano, Nunziata Barone, Nunziatina Burrello, Antonio Aversa, Aldo E. Calogero, and Sandro La Vignera. "Temporal Trend of Conventional Sperm Parameters in a Sicilian Population in the Decade 2011–2020." Journal of Clinical Medicine 10, no. 5 (March 2, 2021): 993. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10050993.
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Objective: To evaluate the changes of conventional sperm parameters in men who referred to an andrology reference center in Catania (Eastern Sicily, Italy) in the decade 2011–2020. Methods: For this purpose, we selected–retrospectively and randomly–the reports of 1409 semen analyses performed according to the 2010 WHO criteria. Data on sperm concentration, total sperm count, progressive sperm motility, and percentage of normal forms were analyzed using linear regression of the raw and logarithmic-transformed data. The sperm parameters were subsequently pooled in two five-year periods (2011–2015 and 2016–2020) and compared with each other. Finally, the influence of the city of residence was assessed on five-year pooled data. Main results: A slight but non-significant decline of total sperm count (−2.26 million/year; p = 0.065) and the percentage of spermatozoa with normal morphology (−0.08%/year; p = 0.057) was observed. In contrast, a significant increase of progressive sperm motility (+0.28%/year; p = 0.008) over time was found. The total sperm count of the quinquennium 2016–2020 was significantly lower. and an upward trend of progressive sperm motility was found. compared to the years 2011–2015. No changes in sperm concentration and morphology occurred in the years 2011–2015 vs. 2016–2020. Sperm conventional parameters did not differ when the five-year pooled data were analyzed according to the town of residence. Conclusions: Divergent trends of total sperm count and progressive sperm motility over time were found in patients from Eastern Sicily. This may point out the need of assessing whether a time-dependent change of biofunctional sperm parameters occurs to really understand the trend of sperm quality over time.
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Martínez López, Rocío. "Pedro Manuel Colón de Portugal, duque de Veragua. Un Consejero de Estado de Carlos II en un territorio en disputa = Pedro Manuel Colón de Portugal, Duke of Veragua. A State Councillor of Charles II os Spain in a Disputed Territory." Espacio Tiempo y Forma. Serie IV, Historia Moderna, no. 31 (December 14, 2018): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/etfiv.31.2018.21140.
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Pedro Manuel Colón de Portugal, duque de Veragua, fue uno de los consejeros de Estado designados por Carlos II en noviembre de 1699. En el momento de su nombramiento, desempeñaba el cargo de virrey de Sicilia, por lo que su influencia en las consultas al Consejo de Estado en las que se debatió la cuestión sucesoria fue limitada. En el presente artículo, se pretende estudiar la figura de don Pedro Manuel Colón de Portugal centrándonos en tres aspectos principales: las razones que llevaron a su nombramiento como Consejero de Estado en una coyuntura especialmente difícil para la Monarquía de España, la influencia que tuvo en la problemática sucesoria y, a través de su desempeño como virrey de Sicilia, cómo el gobierno de Madrid afrontó la incertidumbre de la sucesión de Carlos II en distintos territorios de Italia y su respuesta ante la amenaza que suponían los tratados de reparto.Pedro Manuel Colón de Portugal, duke of Veragua, was one of the State Councilors appointed by king Charles II of Spain in November, 1699. When he was designated as such, he was already viceroy of Sicily, which is why his influence in those inquiries to the Counsel of State related to the debate of the problem of Charles II’s succession was very limited. In this article, we aim to study the figure of don Pedro Manuel Colón de Portugal, focusing on three key points: the reasons why he was appointed to the State Council in a moment especially difficult for the Spanish Monarchy, the influence he had in the problem of Charles II’s succession and, in his capacity as viceroy of Sicily, how the different territories of Italy faced the problem of the king’s succession and their answer to the threat the Partition Treaties posed for their future.
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Caniglia, Elena, Vera Teresa Foti, and Giuseppe Timpanaro. "Analisi del comportamento del consumatore di acqua minerale in Sicilia." ECONOMIA AGRO-ALIMENTARE, no. 2 (November 2012): 153–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/ecag2012-002008.
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The high consumption of mineral water is part of that intense evolutionary process which has in the last few years seen increased demand for agri-food products, under the influence of social, demographic and economic phenomena. In particular, these developments are reflected in the user who expresses a need for consumption which is increasingly differentiated and varied over time and who bases his/her choices on diverse consumption criteria. All this assumes great significance also in the mineral water market, which is characterized by the presence of a large number of brands leading inevitably to "complexity of choice" for the consumer and, consequently, adjustment difficulties for the firms operating in this sector. This study arises from the need to improve knowledge about a sector of great interest to the national economic system and, in particular, on the demand for "mineral water". It was decided to carry out empirical research with the primary aim of outlining consumers' behaviour when choosing and buying the product and motivations for mineral water consumption. The first part of the work aims to carry out an analysis of national and international demand for mineral water drawing on various statistical sources, followed by some remarks on the applications and analysis tools used for better interpretation of the data. The second part focuses on description of the methodology and analysis tools used to characterize the mineral water consumers. The research was carried out with the aid of a questionnaire administered to a reasonably large sample of consumers (550) interviewed at various large-scale retail sales points. In the third part, the information obtained is subjected to multivariate analysis with the "principal components" method (Pearson, 1901 and Hotelling 1933) which is able to reduce the vast amount of evaluations collected into a small number of variables useful for succinctly describing the consumer's habits concerning choice of mineral water. Finally, although this research is only a first contribution towards an analysis of consumer behaviour regarding mineral water, whose results will be enriched by yet further analysis, it may be an interesting starting point in guiding adaptation processes for the whole sector as well as being useful to firms in their introduction of appropriate strategies for product differentiation and promotion.
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Chinnici, Gaetano, Biagio Pecorino, and Alessandro Scuderi. "La percezione della qualitŕ dei prodotti tipici da parte del consumatore in Sicilia." ECONOMIA AGRO-ALIMENTARE, no. 1 (May 2012): 143–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/ecag2012-001007.
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The common agricultural policy over the years has expanded the tools of promotion and protection of farm produce quality. At the national level but also from Europe we are witnessing a change in consumer behavior: they become more and more relevant information needs, safety and food security, increasing demand for quality products and the willingness to pay for those products that meet consumer expectations. The paper focuses on the perceived quality of local products in order to identify those variables that influence purchasing decisions and dietary habits and consumer group. The survey was conducted using a principal components analysis to summarize the information that characterizes the choices of consumption, followed by cluster analysis which allowed us to confirm the presence of different segments of consumers of local products.
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Rashed, Marwan. "De Cordoue à Byzance." Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 6, no. 2 (September 1996): 215–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0957423900002204.
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The editing of three anonymous Greek texts preserved in the Parisinus Suppl. gr. 643 allows us to clarify certain ideas on the transmission of knowledge in the Mediterranean during the second half of the 13th century. These texts – an introduction to the Physics of Aristotle, one to De generatione et corruptione and a page of Medical Problems – are in fact translations from Latin probably made at Salerno at the end of the Norman period or at the beginning of the Angevin dynasty. They allow us to establish the influence of the Parisian Faculty of Arts on the Sicilian intellectual milieu of the period and to illustrate how, whilst remaining true to its medical vocation, the University of Salerno evolved nonetheless towards a model of general education in the Arts. Finally these texts reveal the considerable influence – both philological and doctrinal – of Arabic learning on the Aristotelian teaching of their author. This very fact, combined with the presence of the Parisinus in Byzantium, in an environment of advanced philological learning, a few decades after its composition, leads us to question our understanding of the Palaeologan Renaissance as well as its independence with regard to the Arabo-latin scholarly tradition of the 13th century.
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Confer, John L., and Gary J. Lake. "Influence of Prey Type on Growth of Young Yellow Perch (Perca flavescens)." Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 44, no. 11 (November 1, 1987): 2028–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f87-251.
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Growth of age 0 + yellow perch (Perca flavescens) fed different zooplankton diets was examined in the laboratory during June and July 1983. Fish were fed an equal mass of diet types that varied with respect to prey species, mean length of the same prey species, and species mixture. Fish consumed all prey within 4 h of feeding. In four trials the ranking of diet type by fish growth was always Diaptomus sicilis > Oneida Lake tow sample > Daphnia spp. Differences in fish growth frequently varied by 50–300%. These differences suggest that nutritional processes, such as digestion or assimilation, will influence the optimal prey selection for, at least, small zooplanktivorous fish.
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Azzarelli, Andrea. "Policing the Sicilian Mafia: Repression and Control of the Mafia Phenomenon in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy." European History Quarterly 53, no. 1 (January 2023): 45–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02656914221143882.
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The article analyzes the repression of the Mafia phenomenon in Sicily between 1896 and 1901. The close attention paid to the Mafia by the authorities during this period produced a strong evidence base which this article examines through the lens of policing practices. These practices remain neglected as to date the historiography has focused on tracing legal developments rather than examining the application of laws by the forces of law and order. Accordingly, the article puts forward a series of historiographically important questions: what was the attitude of police forces in controlling dangerous individuals? How much do the practices adopted by police forces tell us about the possibilities for state intervention and the limits of its influence? What was the relationship between the perception of a criminal threat, police operations and the construction of judicial truth? The article reveals a very clear image of the Italian state in the liberal era. In fact, state officials and high-ranking institutional figures seemed interested in strengthening the social and political order by establishing control networks which could operate in any circumstances. They aimed to make it impossible not to interact with state officials. In this sense, rather than seeking a complete monopoly of violence, they aimed to oblige local power holders, social groups and semi-public figures to bargain with state officials. The effect was that social groups with means of violence at their disposal did not necessarily become a threat to the maintenance of order and nor did they necessarily forestall the possibility of state mediation and hegemony.