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Detecting a Small Hive Beetle's eDNA in Honeybee Colonies
ABSTRACT Early detection is important to limit the spread of invasive species. Molecular diagnosis using eDNA can be useful in this regard, but the sensitivity is often unknown. This holds true for small hive beetles (SHB), which are parasites of honeybee (HB) colonies and continue to spread globally.
Bram Cornelissen +11 more
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When archaeology meets communities : impacting interactions in Sicily over two eras (Messina, 1861-1918) [PDF]
When Archaeology Meets Communities examines the history of nineteenth-century Sicilian archaeology through the archival documentation for the excavations – official and casual – at Tindari, Lipari and nearby minor sites in the Messina province from Italy’
Crisa, Antonino
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Organized Crime, Corruption, and Economic Growth
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 Sicilian revolution of 1848 as seen from Malta [PDF]
Following the Sicilian revolution of 1848, many Italian intellectuals and political figures found refuge in Malta where they made use of the Freedom of the Press to divulge their message of unification to the mainland.
Facineroso, Alessia
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of acoustic stimulus on the behavioural and biochemical responses of two species of crayfish, Cherax destructor and Cherax quadricarinatus. Our results showed that exposure to noise significantly affects in both species motility parameters, agonistic interactions and acoustic signals emitted. In terms of
Clarissa De Vita +6 more
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Two Passions in Plato’s Symposium: Diotima’s To Kalon as a Reorientation of Imperialistic Erōs [PDF]
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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Human ecological transitions in ancient Sicily analyzed by bone stress markers
A.D. Messina +3 more
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Detecting trends of extreme rainfall series in Sicily [PDF]
Brunella Bonaccorso +2 more
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Multiculturalism, Majority Rights and the Established Culture
ABSTRACT Recent critiques of multiculturalism contend that it is the ethnic or cultural majority in Western democracies that is now most vulnerable to cultural and identity dissolution, thus entitling it to majority rights on much the same grounds that multiculturalists defend minority rights. These critiques follow and perpetuate the binary opposition
Geoffrey Brahm Levey
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Boosting post-harvest quality of 'Coscia' pears: Antioxidant-enriched coating and MAP storage
This study investigated the effects of combining an edible coating (EC) formulation with modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) on the postharvest quality of Coscia pears (Pyrus communis L.).
Ilenia Tinebra +8 more
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