Kumaun Himalaya is geologically very active and sensitive for tectonics slope instability that reasons a disasters occurrence as common problem either natural or man-made. This region highly prone to landslides, earthquakes, cloudbursts, glacial bursts, flash floods many more man-made activities causing disasters. Disasters are undesirable sudden events which cause physical, human, economic env...

Valerio Cozzani, Ernesto Salzano, Michela Campedel, Martina Sabatini and Gigliola Spadoni Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, Mineraria e delle Tecnologie Ambientali, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Istituto di Ricerche sulla Combusti...

For 3 decades, the measurement of carotid intima-media hickness (CIMT) has been applied in cardiovascular reearch (1). Yet, there are still various questions regarding the IMT measurement (2,3). Two are addressed in the report y Baldassarre et al. (4) in this issue of the Journal: “What is the ‘best’ CIMT measure for increased cardiovascular risk?” and “Does a CIMT measurement help improve the ...

Determining the significance of hybridization events raises essential issues both in conservation and in evolutionary biology. Here, we report a genetic investigation of sympatric polecat and endangered European mink populations. Although the two species were morphologically very similar, the European mink and the polecat were easily discriminated from allozymes and microsatellites and showed a...