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... and stroke
complications, which are also risk factors for death; in the most severe cases, around 20 % of hospitalised patients may ... of covid19 patients
as this inhibitor could be used for prevention and treatment during the acute phase of the disease as an ... violi - circulation research. 2023;0
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... in, especially during earthquakes or major river floods, forming sort of mud rivers that flow over the seabed, eroding it. another ... may be particularly relevant to
the use of the seabed for telecommunications connections.
submarine geological movements can ... 20 different places. an increasing number of cables, pipelines and other infrastructures (e.g. those related to renewable energies from ... seabed, which is why knowledge of geo-archaeology is crucial for the development of sea-based economies.
the atlas, to which sapienza ...
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... institute of health will collaborate in the study and look for possible viral variants in potential infection after vaccination. at ... also include a pre-vaccination analysis, will begin shortly. for sapienza and policlinico umberto i, this study represents
a virtuous ...
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... and citizens: games, experiments, conferences, workshops for children, virtual tours and live interviews with researchers, activities for schools and much more. the full programme is published on the "downloads" ...
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... and how much the hand of modern homo sapiens is responsible for the extinction of our closest relatives, such as neanderthals or homo ... have been particularly sensitive to climate change, except for extinct species, and only just before they disappeared forever. the study stimulates a reflection: the exploitation of our planet by ...
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... gender inequality is most pronounced. here, males account for the highest number of confirmed cases of sars-cov-2 infection,
... valeria raparelli, louise pilote and colleen m. norris; for the going-fwd consortium -
cmaj
september 08, 2020 192 (36) ... doi: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.200971
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valeria raparelli department of experimental medicine ...
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... this radiation was emitted when the universe was formed and is knowns as the
cosmic microwave background radiation
. ... the standard cosmological model
, it also raises the need for further studies and missions to decipher the identified anomalies.
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paolo de bernardis department of physics, sapienza university
...
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... probe's trajectory,
allowing it to gain sufficient speed for the final capture by mercury's gravity, scheduled for the end of 2025.
however, at the same time, the encounters also ... the primary mission, when bepicolombo will orbit the planet for two years. bepicolombo is a collaboration between esa (european space ... to answer fundamental questions to understand the planet's formation and evolution
: what is its internal structure, from the core to ... nazionale di astrofisica (italian national institute for astrophysics) and the universita d'annunzio are involved in the project
... measurements of the planet's gravity
, the search for violations of einstein's theory of general relativity and the demonstration ... theory of gravity at a level of precision never achieved before.
the first fundamental physics experiments began in march 2021 and ... antennas (34 m in diameter) located in argentina and california, and an on-board instrument, the kat (ka-band transponder)
, built by ...
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... represented by the event horizon or to assume a stable form comparable to the most suggestive objects predicted by einstein's general ... who, through
complex numerical simulations
, explored for the first time, within the framework of a modified theory of general ... (numerical relativity)
in providing new explanations for the fate of black holes while suggesting the possibility of
new dark matter candidates
formed at the end of their evaporation in the early moments of the universe. ... regions of spacetime of increasing curvature. it is therefore inevitable that, during hawking's evaporation, gravitational effects ... to complex numerical simulations, the researchers were, therefore, able to obtain for the first time some possible end states for the evaporation process of black holes. among the results discussed in the ...
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... on 16 invasive alien species, supplemented with up-to-date information extracted from global databases
. in 2014, the european union ... 19 countries and have been present in european territory for 90 years
. the wide distribution of these mammals can be attributed to ... have been introduced into europe at least once as 'pets' or for recreational purposes
. these animals are often released illegally in ... willing to keep them. the introduction could also have been for ornamental purposes, although this activity is falling into disuse thanks ... cross-breeding between different animal species). in the uk, for example, the sika deer (
cervus nippon
) is threatening the genetic ... "the eurasian red squirrel
(sciurus vulgaris
), for example, has become extinct in more than half of its range in italy and has been replaced by the eastern grey squirrel (
sciurus carolinensis
), while the american mink has colonised the area occupied by the ... review
https://doi.org/10.1111/mam.12277
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carlo rondinini department of biology and biotechnology "charles ...
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... apennines national park, the italian institute for environmental protection and research (ispra), and the centre nationale de ... isolation from the wolf. over time,
the dog has developed forms and behaviour that are more appropriate to man's needs and profoundly ... of these packs, hybrids have breeding status and are therefore able to pass on genetic variants of canine origin to subsequent ... the results of the study highlight
an alarming scenario for the conservation of the species and the protection of its genetic identity. ... us to apply appropriate sampling strategies, together with formal methods of demographic estimation and particularly efficient techniques ... hybridisation and its spread within the wolf population. unfortunately, in all likelihood, this situation is not limited to the area in ... wolves' genetic integrity.
besides, it is necessary to inform and raise public awareness of the risk of genomic extinction. "this is a ... when, in the early 1970s, italy advocated legal protection for the species," ciucci concludes. "paradoxically, 50 years later, it is the ...
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the human aptitude for music is a fascinating and complex phenomenon
that has stimulated scientific interest for decades. in an attempt to analyse the neurobiological basis of musical ... function of specific brain areas, such as the auditory areas for sound analysis. however, this approach, aimed at correlating variations in ... is significantly associated with both working memory performance and musical competence.
this suggests that the neural mechanisms ... https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52479-z
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... the effect of temperature and depth at which magmas have formed through time.
to directly compare the
f
o2 characteristics of melts formed at different times and depths, researchers from the institute of ...
. using this "potential oxygen fugacity" parameter allows for direct comparison of the redox states of mantle sources from different ... of the mantle's redox state since the hadean is crucial for understanding important scientific questions such as deep carbon cycling, ... evolution of the mantle, providing a new perspective for understanding the co-evolution history of earth's multi-sphere system," ... of the oxygenation of earth through time, its possible formation from chemically different accreting building blocks and, ultimately, ...
. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-50778-z
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vincenzo stagno department of earth sciences ...
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... as the dominant maritime power in the mediterranean, even before the rise of rome. the increased ease of long-distance travel thanks to ... travel and established new networks of interaction for trade, colonisation and conflict. a new international study, coordinated by ... rome in collaboration with the universities of vienna, stanford and chicago, has analysed the genome of thirty individuals belonging to ... indication of the peopling pattern of these two areas". information on iron age north african communities, on the other hand, is very ... of the sahara. the iron age may also have been a key period for genetic flow across the sahara, and this seems to be a very topical ... with sapienza (internationalisation) funds, ministry of foreign affairs and international cooperation (maeci) dgdp uff. vi, ministry of ... and research (miur) via ismeo - international association for mediterranean and oriental studies.
references:
a genetic history ... (2023)
doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02143-4
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michaela lucci department of environmental biology ...
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... risks with certainty, primarily on model organisms, is, therefore, one of
the central tasks of radiation epidemiology and biology
. a ... of the exposed fruit fly made it possible to understand for the first time that
this type of response, termed 'radio adaptive ... of padua and supported by grants from the fermi institute for multidisciplinary studies, iss-infn and the pasteur institute, was ... loquacious gene represents an efficient cellular strategy for preserving chromosome integrity following genotoxic stress.
"since the ... https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03885-w
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giovanni cenci department of biology and biotechnology "charles ...
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... of archaeological method and theory,
provides
evidence for the use of baby carriers dating back some 10,000 years.
given the need for populations to move frequently to take care of their subsistence, even ... and the scarcity of infant burials.
the burial of a forty to fifty-day-old baby girl, nicknamed neve, found at the archaeological ... presence of ornaments consisting of over seventy small perforated shells and four large perforated bivalve pendants.
the studies revealed that the beads were sewn onto ... assumption that they had belonged to other community members for a long time before being given to the newborn. evidence of this type of decoration has also ... the complexity of the ornaments suggests the technical effort required to produce them and, together with the practice of reusing the ...
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... states from the look
, both of which are essential skills for orientation in the social world. "it is unlikely that this association is ... mechanism increases the potential relevance of memory for faces as an endophenotype in autism
." several previous studies had ... out. this, together with the relationship between memory for faces and understanding other people's mental states, is another example of ... https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-020-00371-0
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ilaria minio-paluello department of psychology ...
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... psychological
studies have long shown how difficult it is for people to comply with the rules
, especially when they are imposed from ... of the individuals to disengage morally
, or to ignore for their own convenience the ethical dimension of behaviour and to break the rules imposed without showing any discomfort, shame or remorse, and even finding full justification for their actions." according to the results of this study, people who declared ... the perception that others around us are also working to conform to the imposed rules was another
crucial element in fostering ... (2020)
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02102
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guido alessandri department of psychology ...
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... to the earth's inner dynamics has been taken into account for decades but, despite a large amount of indirect evidence, their influence ... not only liquid tides but also
solid tides constantly deform the earth's crust
, swinging the land both horizontally and vertically ... new light on the importance of solid tides (that is the deformation of land and the earth's crust which takes place during the zenith ...
proving the link between plate tectonics and astronomical forces
such as tides, especially in terms of their horizontal component. ... moreover, the high-frequency oscillations might be mistaken for climatic and seasonal factors caused by atmospheric pressure oscillation ... coordinates covering periods of at least 20 years, essential for carrying out this kind of analysis. these data were key to the work carried ... component of the solid earth's tides. intra-plate baselines were then counterchecked to understand whether these oscillations ... or not. the same negligibility found on intra-plate baselines confirmed that these
astronomical forces play a crucial role in the ...
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... origin and meaning of facial beauty have fascinated scholars for centuries: from the canons of the ancient greeks to machine learning. ... method that employs
statistical inference techniques
for the quantitative analysis of the phenomena of perceived beauty. the results ... approach," explains vittorio loreto, "is based on image deformation algorithms and genetic algorithms that allow the experimental subject ... method also precisely determines the facial characteristics (linear combinations of interfacial distances) that results significantly ... significant, but from the overall distribution of linear combinations. the distances tend to vary together, coherently, from face ... "proposes an efficient
experimental analysis model
for research into facial perception (which includes the study of the inference ... facial perception is object of research in various disciplines, including developmental psychology, evolutionary biology, sociology, ... https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-44655-9
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vittorio loreto dept. of physics, sapienza university of rome ...
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... border between albania and northern macedonia, is well-known for its exceptional biodiversity. it hosts over 300 endemic animal and plant ... change (ipcc) and improve its future projections. coring performed in sediment at the bottom of lake ohrid - carried out thanks to one of ... national research agencies, including the national institute for geophysics and volcanology (ingv) and national research council (cnr) in ... coordinated by prof. giovanni zanchetta (university of pisa) for italy, includes
laura sadori
from the
sapienza department of ... https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1529-0
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laura sadori department of environmental biology, sapienza ...
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... object
in collaboration with the superintendency for archaeology, fine arts and landscape in the rome metropolitan area, the ... what drew archaeologists' attention were
the short linear incisions
, or notches, cut perpendicularly in a row along three of ... kind of sharp cutting stone tool, as if they had been used for counting and calculating, or to store some kind of information over a period of time." the fact that the number of notches is ... away from were it was found, hence it must have been carried for quite a long time and distance before it was discarded, lost or left on top of steep and isolated monte alto. ... https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101925
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flavio altamura department of classics, sapienza university of ...
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... so versatile that they are used as much in basic research as for a large number of practical applications. a new study conducted by ... microgel (based on the classical theory of elasticity formulated at the end of the 800) lead to conclusions incompatible with ... evidence. the international collaboration has therefore developed a new
"multi-elastic" model
that, unlike the previous one, ... zaccarelli, sapienza and cnr-isc, "are essential components for studying phenomena such as the formation of glass or crystals, but are used in many industrial processes, from ... lorenzo rovigatti, "establishes a new point of reference for
future studies aimed at the full understanding of the behavior of these ... 5039 (2018) doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-07332-5
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lorenzo rovigatti department of physics, sapienza university of ...
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... synchrotron, esrf. synchrotron microtomography has been used for the first time to
scan the skull
a fossil large felid.
x-ray based ... intensity and partial coherence provided huge amounts of information on the external and internal morphology of the specimen down to the ... high-resolution 3d images obtained at the esrf's id17 beamline revealed previously hidden anatomical features, including sutures between ... the rock, the observation of the anatomical details needed for taxonomic determination was impossible without damaging the fossil, hence ... argentario felid has to be considered as the starting point for a review of the entire old world sample of giant cheetah and the ...
volume 8, doi:10.1038/s41598-018-26698-6
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raffele sardella department of earth sciences t (+39) 06 49914159 ... the weight of a lion: the peculiarities of the ancient feline emerged from the analysis of the skull performed with a particle accelerator at the european synchrotron radiation ...
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... department:
history, anthropology, religion, arts and performing arts
project start date
:
september 1, 2024
... the gap project aims to study these effects by exploring for the first time the opinion of (non-)users regarding the materiality and ... city centre and their architecture resembles the 'iconic' forms of the sikh temples of punjab. the research will consider a ... management (prof. orlando woods). gap also provides for an 8-month secondment at the bruno kessler foundation (italy; prof. massimo ...