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Continuous and Large‐Scale: ELEANOR, the Soft Architected Arm Inspired by the Elephant Trunk

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A large‐scale, architected continuum robot inspired by the macroscopic properties of the African elephant trunk achieves adaptive elephant‐like movements and whole‐body grasping. The results demonstrate that designing from the natural system’s macroscopic properties, rather than prescribing behaviors, provides a powerful strategy for developing ...
Giovanna A. Naselli, Anderson B. Nardin, Seonggun Joe, Ryan Drinkwater, Enrico Donato, Diego Bianchi, Egidio Falotico, Michel C. Milinkovitch, Lucia Beccai   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Subaltern ecologies in southern Italy

Ambiente & Sociedade
Italy is a country marked by serious inequalities between its northern and southern regions in terms of welfare, economic production and level of public services. Southern Italy has also suffered serious cases of environmental devastation.
Roberto Sciarelli
doaj   +2 more sources

Application of field surveys and multitemporal in-SAR interferometry analysis in the recognition of deep-seated gravitational slope deformation of an urban area of Southern Italy

Geomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk, 2019
The analysis of 4 year In-SAR Interferometry images and a detailed geomorphological survey have been carried out to detect a large Deep-Seated Gravitational Slopes (DSGSD) affecting the urban area of the Episcopia village, in Southern Italy.
Mario Bentivenga, Salvatore I. Giano, Beniamino Murgante, Gabriele Nolè, Giuseppe Palladino, Giacomo Prosser, Lucia Saganeiti, Biagio Tucci   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores within‐country variations in food price dynamics and food poverty estimates by employing local market price data and national consumer price index (CPI) data. Our results show that national CPI data may be useful for approximating national trends but they fail to detect and identify spatial variations in local trends, which
Stephan Dietrich, Valerio Giuffrida, Bruno Martorano, Georg Schmerzeck, Marco Tiberti   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Surface ruptures following the 26 December 2018, Mw 4.9, Mt. Etna earthquake, Sicily (Italy): EMERGEO Working Group (Etna 2018)

Journal of Maps, 2019
We present a 1:10,000 scale map of the coseismic surface ruptures following the 26 December 2018 Mw 4.9 earthquake that struck the eastern flank of Mt. Etna volcano (southern Italy).
Riccardo Civico, Stefano Pucci, Rosa Nappi, Raffaele Azzaro, Fabio Villani, Daniela Pantosti, Francesca R. Cinti, Luca Pizzimenti, Stefano Branca, Carlo Alberto Brunori, Marco Caciagli, Massimo Cantarero, Luigi Cucci, Salvatore D’Amico, Emanuela De Beni, Paolo Marco De Martini, Maria Teresa Mariucci, Paola Montone, Rosella Nave, Tullio Ricci, Vincenzo Sapia, Alessandra Smedile, Gabriele Tarabusi, Roberto Vallone, Alessandra Venuti   +24 more
doaj   +1 more source

Premium subsidy designs and crowding out of insurance demand

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Crop insurance is an important instrument to protect farmers against extreme weather events. Many countries provide subsidies for crop insurance products to make insurance more affordable for farmers. The Federal Crop Insurance Program in the United States and major European crop insurance programs such as in Spain, Italy, and France focus on ...
Tim Philippi
wiley   +1 more source

PLIOCENE AND PLEISTOCENE DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS IN THE PESCULUSE AREA (SALENTO, ITALY)

Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2020
An integrated sedlmentologic and palaeoecologic approach is used to define the evolving Pliocene, Early and Middle Pleistocene depositional environments in the Pesculuse area.
ASSUNTA D'ALESSANDRO, FRANCESCO MASSARI
doaj  

[The M Book. Southern Methodist University. 1961-62]

, 1961
The M Books are a collection of handbooks given to students at Southern Methodist University at the beginning of each year to help them acclimate to campus ...
Young Men's Christian Association (Southern Methodist University); Young Women's Christian Association (Southern Methodist University)
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Negotiating contested spaces and places: Narratives of social suffering and resistance in racialized Cape Town communities

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese, Chiara Fiscone, Ashraf Kagee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Obesity and Skin Carotenoid Score in Children from Center–Southern Italian Regions

Antioxidants
Childhood obesity represents a public concern worldwide. Evidence indicates that fruits and vegetables (FV) consumed as part of the daily diet reduce the global burden of obesity.
Giuseppina Augimeri, Giovanna Caparello, Fabrizio Ceraudo, Francesca Meringolo, Ludovica Mazzitelli, Maria Vittoria Iovino, Giuseppe Morino, Daniela Bonofiglio   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source