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Organized Crime, Corruption, and Economic Growth

Journal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 535-560, March 2025.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we study the relationship between organized crime, corruption, and economic growth on a data set from Italian regions for the period 1996–2013. Our working hypothesis is that organized crime can embezzle part of the public expenditure aimed at productive uses by threatening and bribing public officers. To assess the consequences
Tamara Fioroni, Andrea Mario Lavezzi, Giovanni Trovato   +2 more
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The Discovery of Abandoned Villages in Abruzzo. Exploring the Potential of Drawing as a Research Method

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This research underscores the vast importance of architectural drawing in the examination of cultural and material heritage in hamlets grappling with a slow abandonment.
Giovanni Caffio
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Is It a Southern Thing? Linguistic Stereotyping in Earwitnesses’ Descriptions of Italian Accents

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how linguistic stereotypes affect hearer perceptions of different speakers’ accents focusing on two Italian regional varieties: one from the South and one from the North. Three studies explored the effects of selective attention, confirmation bias, and cultural context.
Clara Loiacono, Luuk Lagerwerf
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A Cross‐Sectional Study on Parakeets Feeding and Housing Practices in Italy

Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Italy has one of the largest companion bird populations in Europe. This study aimed to investigate feeding and housing practices among Italian parakeet owners. An online questionnaire was distributed, yielding 433 voluntary responses. Participants were classified as hobbyists (HBY; ≤ 13 birds owned) or breeders (BRD; > 13 birds owned) to ...
Erdem Danyer, Daniele Lauria, Davide Stefanutti, Diego Cattarossi, Rebecca Ricci   +4 more
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Listeria monocytogenes biofilm production on food packaging materials submitted to physical treatment

Italian Journal of Food Safety, 2017
Listeria monocytogenes (L.m.) is an agent of serious foodborne illness. It is a major concern for the food industry, since microorganism, growing in biofilms is protected against cleaning and disinfection and is difficult to eradicate.
Patrizia Centorame, Anna Rita D'Angelo, Federica Di Simone, Romolo Salini, Alessandra Cornacchia, Raffaele Marrone, Aniello Anastasio, Francesco Pomilio   +7 more
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The Heterogeneous Regional Employment Effects of Environmental Policies

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effects of Environmental Policies—measured by the OECD Environmental Policy Stringency Index (EPS)—on employment in 349 regions across 26 countries from 1990 to 2020. We find that more stringent EPS have short‐term negative effects on regional employment, which disappear in the medium term.
Luca Bettarelli, Davide Furceri, Fabio Mazzola, Pietro Pizzuto, Khatereh Yarveisi   +4 more
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Definition of regions of provenance and seed zones for forest basic and moltiplication materials of Abruzzo region

Forest@, 2013
The study presents an application of the Directive 1999/105/CE in Abruzzo. Using climatic data for GIS and statistics analysis have been defined nine seed zones grouped in three region of provenances.
Marchi M, Chiavetta U, Castaldi C, Contu F, Di Silvestro D, Ducci F   +5 more
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Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli detection in samples from Abruzzo and Molise regions, Italy [PDF]

, 2021
A Ciarrocchi, Luigi Iannetti, Alessandra Cornacchia, Violeta Di Marzio, Marina Torresi, Gabriella Centorotola, Salvatore Antoci, Francesco Pomilio, Cristina Marfoglia   +8 more
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What Candidates Benefit From Corruption? Opportunities for Corruption and the Prevalence of Candidates With Business Ties

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Which candidates benefit from corruption and favoritism in public procurement? While existing studies show that politically connected firms profit from corruption risks in public procurement, we know less about whether these risks also increase the prevalence of political candidates with ties to business.
Saverio Di Giorno, Monika Bauhr, Francesco Busato   +2 more
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Poorly differentiated neuroendocrine rectal carcinoma with uncommon immune-histochemical features and clinical presentation with a subcutaneous metastasis, treated with first line intensive triplet chemotherapy plus bevacizumab FIr-B/FOx regimen: an experience of multidisciplinary management in clinical practice

BMC Cancer, 2019
Background Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are heterogeneous, widely distributed tumors arising from neuroendocrine cells. Gastrointestinal (GI)-NETs are the most common and NETs of the rectum represent 15, 2% of gastrointestinal malignancies.
Gemma Bruera, Antonio Giuliani, Lucia Romano, Alessandro Chiominto, Alessandra Di Sibio, Stefania Mastropietro, Pierluigi Cosenza, Enrico Ricevuto, Mario Schietroma, Francesco Carlei, on behalf of Oncology Network ASL1 Abruzzo   +10 more
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