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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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Numerical simulation and decomposition of kinetic energy in the Central Mediterranean: insight on mesoscale circulation and energy conversion [PDF]
, 2011 The spatial and temporal variability of eddy and mean kinetic energy of the Central Mediterranean region has been investigated, from January 2008 to December 2010, by mean of a numerical simulation mainly to quantify the mesoscale dynamics and their ...
A. Olita +4 more
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First Isolation of Yersinia enterocolitica From a Sea Turtle: A Case Report in Caretta caretta
Veterinary Medicine and Science, Volume 12, Issue 3, May 2026.1. First isolation of Yersinia enterocolitica, a zoonotic bacterium, in a loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta), identifying it as the likely cause of severe colitis, hepatitis, and fatal sepsis. 2. The findings highlight that sea turtles and the marine environment can act as reservoirs for Y. enterocolitica: this poses a “One Health” threat. 3.
Giorgia Schirò +8 more
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SHOOTING DOWN THE PRICE: EVIDENCE FROM MAFIA HOMICIDES AND HOUSING MARKET VOLATILITY [PDF]
, 2019 In this work, we assess the role of a specific type of organized crime in influencing choices on where living within the city territory, and consequently, volatility in house prices.
Battisti Michele +3 more
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Colonial engagements in the global Mediterranean Iron Age [PDF]
, 2009 The application of globalization theory to colonial contexts in recent years has emphasized articulations of the colonized and the colonizers. For the Mediterranean Iron Age, focus has been upon expressions of local (colonized) identities, and of ...
Hodos, T
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MicrobiologyOpen, Volume 15, Issue 2, April 2026.Seagrass Posidonia oceanica seeds host diverse bacterial and fungal endophytes with plant‐growth–promoting traits, including nitrogen fixation and hormone production. These microbes may be vertically transmitted and support seedling establishment, offering insights for marine plant conservation and biotechnological applications.
Dalila Crucitti +7 more
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Two Passions in Plato’s Symposium: Diotima’s To Kalon as a Reorientation of Imperialistic Erōs [PDF]
, 2019 In this essay, I propose a reading of two contrasting passions, two kinds of erōs, in the "Symposium." On the one hand, there is the imperialistic desire for conquering and possessing that Alcibiades represents; and on the other hand, there is the ...
Duque, Mateo
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An integrated geodetic and InSAR technique for the monitoring and detection of active faulting in southwestern Sicily [PDF]
, 2020 We present the results of the analysis of GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) and InSAR (Interferometric synthetic-aperture radar) data collected in the frame of a project financed by the “Struttura Terremoti” of INGV (Istituto Nazionale di ...
Barreca Giovanni +7 more
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Evidence of positive tectonic inversion in the north-central sector of the Sicily Channel (Central Mediterranean) [PDF]
, 2016 In order to unravel the tectonic evolution of the north-central sector of the Sicily Channel (Central Mediterranean), a seismo-stratigraphic analysis of single- and multi-channel seismic reflection profiles has been carried out. This allowed to identify,
Cavallaro, D. +4 more
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Mount Etna as a Leaking Pipe of Magmas From the Low Velocity Zone
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Volume 131, Issue 4, April 2026.Abstract Mount Etna, one of the most active volcanoes on Earth, exhibits unusual characteristics in terms of its geological setting, effusion rate, and volatile content. Mount Etna is closely related to the subduction of the Ionian plate below Eurasia, but, chemically, Mount Etna lavas are akin to intraplate magmatism.
Sebastien Pilet +6 more
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