‘Marginal’ urban settlements can be assumed as specific locations within a metropolitan area that are unable to attract (incoming) commuter flows. The official statistical system of Italy (headed by the National Statistical Institute, Istat) introduced summary index ‘urban marginality’ following original definition proposed national, ad hoc Parliamentary Committee and assessing together social ...

We describe a method that exploits contiguity preserving transposase sequencing (CPT-seq) to facilitate the scaffolding of de novo genome assemblies. CPT-seq is an entirely in vitro means of generating libraries comprised of 9216 indexed pools, each of which contains thousands of sparsely sequenced long fragments ranging from 5 kilobases to > 1 megabase. These pools are "subhaploid," in that th...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic capability of imaging modalities used for preoperative mesenteric-left portal bypass ("Rex shunt") planning. Twenty patients with extrahepatic portal vein thrombosis underwent 57 preoperative planning abdominal imaging studies. Two readers retrospectively reviewed these studies for an ability to confidently determine left portal vein (PV)...

For 1990–2019, this study presents two-step GMM estimates of EU members’ demands for defense spending based on alternative spatial-weight matrices. In particular, spatial connectivity is tied to membership status, contiguity, contiguity and power projection, inverse distance, arms trade. At a Nash equilibrium, our demand equations are derived explicitly from spatially game-theoretical model all...

Climate change represents one of the most serious threats to well-being humanity. In recent decades, there has been a significant increase in amount research dedicated analysing economic impacts climate change. Nevertheless, spatial aspect not addressed. This is first empirically assess both direct and indirect (spillover) effects change, as measured by temperature variations, on growth. The em...

Two experiments investigated Michotte's launch event, in which successive motion of two objects appears to evoke an immediate perception that the first motion caused the second, as in a collision. Launching was embedded in event sequences where a third event (a colour change of the second object) was established as a competing predictor of the second motion, in an attempt to see whether subject...