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The lost cranes of the island of Lampedusa (Italy)
Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia - Research in Ornithology, 2016 The abundance of migratory birds on Lampedusa (Sicilian Channel, Italy) has been documented since the fifteenth century, but during the nineteenth century, this small island was particularly noted for the regular presence of cranes.
Marco Masseti
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Mortars From Punic and Hellenistic–Roman Solunto: Materials, Formulations, and Technology
Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study presents an archaeometric investigation of 18 hydraulic rendering and bedding mortars from Punic and Hellenistic–Roman Solunto (NW Sicily). The research aimed to characterize raw materials, reconstruct manufacturing sequences, and evaluate technological proficiency through mineralogical and petrochemical analyses.
G. Montana +4 more
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Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Modeling species distributions in dynamic pelagic environments remains challenging, particularly for wide‐ranging and highly mobile species when there is limited guidance on model performance. This limitation constrains the effective use of species distribution models (SDMs) in marine conservation, where robust and transferable predictions are
E. Pasanisi +32 more
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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 +2 more
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The Spatial Impact of Judicial Administration on Firms' Performance
LABOUR, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the indirect effects of judicial adminstration (JA) on neighbouring firms operating in southern Italian regions characterised by endemic organised crime. When a mafia‐affiliated firm is placed under JA, the sector‐specific relational networks it sustained are abruptly severed. Using difference‐in‐differences estimators,
Vincenzo Sessa
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Zoologica Scripta, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Islands harbour unique biodiversity, and depending on their geological origin, they have fundamentally different colonisation histories: continental islands may contain relict faunas shaped by vicariance and sporadic gene flow, whereas oceanic islands must have been colonised across open seas, often through long‐distance dispersal events ...
Jonathan P. Miller +3 more
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Early Intervention in Psychiatry, Volume 20, Issue 7, July 2026.ABSTRACT Background Eating disorders (ED) and psychosis/psychotic‐spectrum disorders (PSD) have overlapping symptoms and may co‐occur in a variety of presentations. Due to its debilitating and life‐threatening risk, it is important for clinicians to be aware of how catatonia may present within these co‐occurrences.
Rosiel Elwyn
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On the road of dung: hypothetical dispersal routes of dung beetles in the circum–Sicilian volcanic islands [PDF]
Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 2016 We analysed dung beetle communities on ten volcanic islands located around Sicily (Italy) to identify the most probable dispersal routes in the colonization of these islands.
Tonelli, M. +3 more
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Chemistry &Biodiversity, Volume 23, Issue 6, June 2026.A rich in bioactive phenolics extract from Rosa rubiginosa L. exhibits strong antioxidant, photoprotective, anti‐inflammatory, and antimicrobial activities. Synergistic interactions among bioactives enhance efficacy, particularly against PAF‐mediated pathways.
Sophia Letsiou +8 more
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Paolo Lanfranchi di Pistoia, "Valenz senher, rei dels Aragones" (BdT 317.1) [PDF]
Lecturae Tropatorum, 2017 This article presents a new edition, complete with commentary, of the Provençal cobla by Paolo Lanfranchi da Pistoia. The poem is only attested in the esparsas section contained in songbook P (ff. 55-66); it is a «Sirv.[entes] in Form eines Sonetts» (BdT,
Giuseppe Noto
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