The paper shows the case study of Prefecture of Milan, one of the users of KIWI project. This allows to present the improvement interventions in order to highlight the main user requirements for KIWI platform. It lets public employees access anywhere and anytime to relevant knowledge, transformed from implicit to explicit, through mobile devices. KIWI platform is an innovative, user-relevant, w...

Kiwifruit belongs to the genus Actinidia (Actinidiaceae) and is derived from a deciduous woody, fruiting vine. It is composed of different species and cultivars that exhibit a variety of characteristics and sensory attributes. Kiwi plants have been grown for centuries in China, where they are known as mihoutau. Kiwi plant seeds were brought to New Zealand in the early 20th century, where it was...

Three families of probe-foraging birds, Scolopacidae (sandpipers and snipes), Apterygidae (kiwi), and Threskiornithidae (ibises, including spoonbills) have independently evolved long, narrow bills containing clusters of vibration-sensitive mechanoreceptors (Herbst corpuscles) within pits in the bill-tip. These 'bill-tip organs' allow birds to detect buried or submerged prey via substrate-borne ...

This work reports the results of a study carried out to verify applicability CEN EN 13751 method, based on photo-stimulated luminescence (PSL) technique, for identification irradiated fruit. A total 15 types fresh and dried fruit not (0.5 1 kGy) were tested. Preliminary tests performed samples kiwis, lemons, mangoes, oranges, papayas, pineapples tangerines, dates, prunes raisins. Successively, ...

Until now, kiwi (Apteryx, Apterygidae) have had no pre-Quaternary fossil record to inform on the timing of their arrival in New Zealand or on their inter-ratite relationships. Here we describe two fossils in a new genus of apterygid from Early Miocene sediments at St Bathans, Central Otago, minimally dated to 19–16 Ma. The new fossils indicate a markedly smaller and possibly volant bird, suppor...