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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), for example, has become extinct in more than half of its range in italy and has been replaced by the eastern grey squirrel (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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Data notizia: Mon, 27/09/2021 - 15:30
... wave produced by the brain whenever we are confronted with information that goes against our beliefs. in the week following the vote, all ... were contacted again and asked which party they had voted for. the researchers' expectation, later confirmed by the results, was that the ... wave manifested itself strongly to political disagreement, for example, in response to populist content in participants sympathetic to ... participants subsequently cast a populist vote or a vote for a mainstream party,
with a predictive ability superior to classical vote ... income). in essence, the brain was activated differently for populist and non-populist content, but only when this content was related ... measuring brain activity, not least the ability to collect information from a large number of people at a reduced cost in less time. ... demonstrate
how the use of neuroscientific methods allows for more accurate and detailed predictions
.
in the wake of ... https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96193-y
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viviana betti department of psychology viviana.betti@uniroma1.it ...
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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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Data notizia: Wed, 21/05/2025 - 11:00
... located in the lagash region of south-eastern mesopotamia. efforts have focused on the
smaller hill at the site of tell zurghul, ancient ... iraqi marshes today. if this were the case, the ground level for the earliest period would be more than five metres below the current level. ... located. continuing the investigations will be crucial for completing the analysis of the deep borehole, documenting underlying ... allowing us to understand
the nature and reasons for siltation and the relative elevation of the ground level.
these studies ... further information davide nadali department of ancient world studies ...
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Data notizia: Tue, 08/04/2025 - 11:00
... plant as early as the 18th century bc, several centuries before the hypotheses accepted until now. the researchers examined lake
... tree, cultivated in sicily since at least a thousand years before the arrival of the first greek settlers,
was widely grown during the ... age, the roman period, and the modern era
and was used for a variety of purposes: from oil production, to timber production, to fodder for animals. in addition, the data showed that
the olive tree owes its wide ... communities over other plant species, creating an archaic form of olive grove landscape in the mediterranean.
'the study contributes ... practices have profoundly shaped the mediterranean landscape for millennia.
references
jordan palli, sabina fiolna, monica bini, ...
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laura sadori department of environmental biology ...
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Data notizia: Mon, 03/03/2025 - 15:00
... the crust
of these planets
is subject to a number of deformations.
but compared to the earth's mantle, the martian mantle is much ... ice cap
, documenting post-glacial isostasy processes for the first time on the planet. the
polar cap of mars,
with a thickness of about 3 km and a relatively young age,
deforms the martian crust in a similar way to what is observed on earth,
where ... response to glacial loading, on mars the opportunities for observation are much more limited. to date, only
one seismometer has ... models were added, which together provided fundamental information on the deformation of the martian crust, and thus on the characteristics of the internal ... approach, it was possible to measure
the rate of deformation of the martian crust,
which is extremely slow, '' says antonio ... indicate that the north pole of mars is currently deforming at a maximum rate of 0.13 millimetres per year, a value that reflects ...
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Data notizia: Thu, 28/11/2024 - 13:00
... sites of the period under study had already allowed us to formulate hypotheses about their function. these experiments suggested that
... and flour were baked on these trays, placed in domed ovens for about 2 hours at an initial temperature of 420degc.
the grooves on the ... around 3 kg, indicated that they were probably intended for shared consumption by a group of people.
today, the italian-spanish ... temperatures compatible with those experimentally verified for baking dough in domed ovens. the analysis of the alterations of use present ... https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-78019-9
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sergio taranto ltfapa lab., department of ancient world studies ...
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Data notizia: Wed, 02/10/2024 - 12:15
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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andrea ravignani department of human neuroscience ...
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Data notizia: Sat, 10/08/2024 - 15:00
... 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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knowledge share
is a digital matchmaking platform for the valorization of the italian research whose aim is to connect research ... companies and investors. to date,
it is the largest platform at national level dedicated to the enhancement of public research.
the ... of making available, in a clear and comprehensible way, information on projects that represent the excellence of the scientific know-how ... transfer process and to provide a consolidated tool for channelling and simplifying interactions between the world of research, business and investors.
access to the platform is free and open to all large companies, smes, investment funds, italian ... and is subject to registration.
by registering to the platform, users will be able to interact with the project team, access content related to published projects, and send contact requests for technologies and realities of their interest from which possible ...
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Data notizia: Tue, 26/09/2023 - 10:00
... 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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Data notizia: Tue, 20/09/2022 - 13:00
... 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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Data notizia: Thu, 08/09/2022 - 17:00
... 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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Data notizia: Fri, 22/07/2022 - 12:45
... understand why some individuals develop a much more severe form of covid-19 disease than others.
identifying the mechanisms underlying ... biological/antiviral activity,
would appear to be at the forefront in the development of the most severe forms of covid-19.
that is demonstrated by
two new studies, carried out ...
these are predominantly
male patients hospitalised for severe forms of covid-19,
admitted to intensive care and with an inauspicious ... researchers found that
hiv-1 patients who develop severe forms of covid-19 also have high concentrations of neutralising antibodies
... antibodies on a large number of patients hospitalised for covid-19. in all of them,
a detailed assessment of the antibody ... to type i interferon in hiv-1 patients hospitalized for covid-19
- mirko scordio, federica frasca, letizia santinelli, leonardo ...
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Data notizia: Tue, 10/11/2020 - 13:00
... 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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Data notizia: Tue, 17/09/2019 - 14:00
... 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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Data notizia: Tue, 23/07/2019 - 12:00
... 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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Data notizia: Wed, 28/11/2018 - 13:00
... 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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... tidal response, which gives
direct indications of the deformability of the moon's internal structure".
io is a unique satellite in ... it the most geologically active object in the solar system. for decades, it was thought that jupiter's enormous gravitational pull was ... a rather modest gravitational response of the moon to tidal forces.
"the moon's response to the tidal forces exerted by jupiter was quite low
", says luciano iess, professor at ... response precludes a shallow magma ocean'. participating for sapienza university of rome were daniele durante and luciano iess, in ... https://doi.org/10.1038/ s41586-024-08442-5
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daniele durante department of mechanical and aerospace engineering ...
Pagina
... 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 ...
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Data notizia: Wed, 20/03/2024 - 17:00
... journal nature, revealed a constant in the dynamics of online interaction between users on different platforms, including a comparison with platforms of the past. the analysis suggests
the persistent nature of "toxic" ... a human component that remains constant in spite of platform variations, changing social norms and the passage of decades. "
the ... activities in this field as well: an important recognition for the team coordinated by walter quattrociocchi and for the entire university". the research, focused on the dynamics of online conversations and conducted by sapienza, identified recurring behavioural ... , i.e. when divergent viewpoints lead to an escalation of online disagreement. surprisingly, toxic interactions do not act as a deterrent ... interaction between harmful content and participation in online debates,
suggesting the resilience of users to negativity in digital ...