OBJECTIVES To assess geographic and socioeconomic gradients in sodium and potassium intake in Italy. SETTING Cross-sectional survey in Italy. PARTICIPANTS 3857 men and women, aged 39-79 years, randomly sampled in 20 regions (as part of a National cardiovascular survey of 8714 men and women). PRIMARY OUTCOME MEASURES Participants' dietary sodium and potassium intakes were measured by 24 h ...

In this study we conduct a numerical analysis of an intense and destructive storm that occurred over Calabria, southern Italy, on 10–12 December 2003. More than 250 mm of precipitation was recorded over a large area in southern Calabria and one station reported about 660 mm in two days (more than half of the yearly climatological value). Precipitation fell mainly during 11 and 12 December. The ...

Temporal properties of 152 575 rainfall events, recorded at time steps of 5 min, having different durations and occurring between 1989 and 2008 at 155 localities of Calabria (Italy), have been analysed in this paper. Samples from 45 533 storms have been selected to classify rainfall events as “significant” with regard to their contribution to soil erosion, flooding and/or other geo-hydrological...

In Italy, malaria was an endemic disease that was eradicated by the mid-20th century. This paper evaluates the prophylactic and therapeutic remedies used by folk medicine to cure malaria in Calabria (southern Italy).The data has been collected by analysing works of physicians, ethnographers, folklorists and specialists of the study of Calabrian history between the end of the 19th century and th...

A screening survey of the presence of aflatoxin M(1) (AFM(1)) was carried out on 265 samples of cheese made from cow, buffalo, goat, sheep, sheep-goat milk collected in the Apulia region (Southern Italy). Selected samples included unripened, medium and long-term ripened cheeses. AFM(1) was found in 16.6% of the analyzed samples. The highest positive incidence was for medium and long-term ripene...

The historical record attests to the devastation malaria exacted on ancient civilizations, particularly the Roman Empire [1]. However, evidence for the presence of malaria during the Imperial period in Italy (1st-5th century CE) is based on indirect sources, such as historical, epigraphic, or skeletal evidence. Although these sources are crucial for revealing the context of this disease, they c...

In this paper two new species of Leptophyes from southern Italy are described, L. calabra n. sp. and L. sicula n. sp.. Both species are similar to the common L. punctatissima and the recently described L. lisae from Greece, but can be identified by a combination of morphological and biacoustical characters. Descriptions of both species are provided and an illustrated key to the European species...

Abstract This research note analyzes the role of culture on individuals’ tax compliance by focusing regional differences within a single country: Italy. Southern Italy has long been focus interest, not only for its high rates evasion, but host other social and political ills, all usually attributed to culture. Our laboratory experiment, conducted in provinces northern southern regions, reveals ...

Department of Chemistry, NIS Centre and Turin, Via P. Giuria 7, Turin, 10125 Italy. E Haldor Topsøe A/S, Haldor Topsøes Allé 1, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 71 Cedex 9, 38043 France IRC “Smart Materials”, Southern Federal 344090 Russia Department of Chemistry, CrisDi Centre an Turin, Via P. Giuria 7, Turin, 10125 Italy † Electronic supplementary information ( synthesis details, expe...

We compute S-velocity profiles of the crust across the Messina strait (Italy), the tear zone at the southern end of the Ionian subduction zone. Separating Sicily from Calabria, the Messina Strait hosted some of the strongest earthquakes to ever occur in Italy. Here, the motion of the Ionian slab with respect to Sicily creates a complex tectonic setting characterized by lithospheric tearing. We ...