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Prolegomeni allo studio dei parlanti ereditari di sardo

open access: yesQuaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali
When a minority language holds a subordinate position and is neglected or abandoned in family communication, some speakers acquire it imperfectly, resulting in limited proficiency; these individuals are known as heritage speakers.
Rosangela Lai
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Infections and Multiple Sclerosis: From the World to Sardinia, From Sardinia to the World

open access: yesFrontiers in Immunology, 2021
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system. Sardinia, an Italian island, is one of the areas with the highest global prevalence of MS.
Jessica Frau   +4 more
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Claiming the Isle? Islandness and Territorial Demands

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between insularity and territorial demands, focusing on whether island territories are more likely to support regionalist and secessionist parties. To address this question, we compare electoral support for such parties across island and mainland territories using a large‐N dataset.
Pau Torres, Marc Sanjaume‐Calvet
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Non sappiamo come scriverlo, perciò non lo parliamo: mille e una scusa per un suicidio linguistico

open access: yesRhesis, 2012
In this paper, I discuss the situation of Sardinian against the background of the massive on-going language extinction, which has long being recognized as a major problem for the world cultural heritage.
Michele Loporcaro
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Differential Interpretation of Mountain Temperatures by Endospermic Seeds of Three Endemic Species Impacts the Timing of In Situ Germination

open access: yesPlants, 2020
Predicting seed germination in the field is a critical part of anticipating the impact of climate change on the timing of wild species regeneration. We combined thermal time and soil heat sum models of seed germination for three endemic Mediterranean ...
Marco Porceddu   +3 more
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A Fully Bayesian Approach to Adult Skeletal Age Estimation: Multivariate Latent Trait Modeling With Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sampling

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 190, Issue 2, June 2026.
Ordered probit regression is used as a latent trait model, with age at death estimated from a Gompertz distribution. Combined with Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling, this approach eliminates the need for reference priors for transition ages or population parameters.
Nils Müller‐Scheeßel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Il sardo e le varietà sardo-còrse

open access: yesLinguistik Online
Sardinia is well-known for being a multilingual territory: not only Algherian Catalan and Tabarchin (a Ligurian variety) are spoken there, but also a multitude of Sardinian varieties.
Erica Autelli, Marco Caria
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Teaching policies and minority languages in Sardinia. A discussion of the political interventions in the educational system

open access: yesAnnali Online dell'Università di Ferrara. Sezione Lettere
Since last century, Sardinian and the other non-national languages of Italy have been suffering a significant decline in the number of speakers and the contexts of usage, in favour to Italian.
Piero Cossu
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Exercise Intervention for REM Sleep Behavior Disorder in Parkinson's Disease: Mechanisms and Implications for Neurorehabilitation

open access: yesCNS Neuroscience &Therapeutics, Volume 32, Issue 6, June 2026.
This review systematically explores exercise as a multi‐target intervention for RBD, highlighting its mechanisms of action and regulatory effects on key pathophysiological processes. ABSTRACT Backgrounds REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a prodromal non‐motor symptom of Parkinson's disease (PD) and other α‐synucleinopathies, affecting approximately ...
Xinhui Qiu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sardinian dietary analysis for longevity: a review of the literature

open access: yesJournal of Ethnic Foods, 2022
Sardinia is one of the five Longevity Blue Zones (LBZs) in the world. Compared to other LBZs, the percentage of male centenarians in Sardinia is much higher.
Chaoyue Wang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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