3 Francesca Caccuri, Cinzia Giagulli, Joachim Reichelt, Debora Martorelli, 4 Stefania Marsico, Antonella Bugatti, Ines Barone, Marco Rusnati, 5 Carlos A. Guzman, Riccardo Dolcetti, Arnaldo Caruso# 6 7 8 Address: Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, University of Brescia Medical 9 School, 25123 Brescia, Italy, Animal Models and Retroviral Vaccine Section, National Cancer 10 Instit...

A project named ”Virtual Museum Net of Magna Graecia” is presented, whose objective is to provide an unitary image of the archaeological heritage of Calabria (a Southern Italian region), through Computer Technology, Multimedia Designing and Virtual Reconstructions. The project aims to encourage the technological transfer of the most advanced researches in the exploitation and conservation secto...

1Divisione di Ematologia dell’Università di Torino, Azienda Ospedaliera (AO) S. Giovanni Battista, Turin, Italy; 2Ematologia, Azienda Ospedaliera San Giovanni Battista, Turin, Italy; 3Divisione di Ematologia, Ospedale Centrale, Bolzano, Italy; 4Divisione di Ematologia, Ospedali Riuniti, Reggio Calabria, Italy; 5Divisione di Ematologia e Trapianto di Midollo Osseo, Azienda Ospedaliera Cervello, ...

1 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Physical Biosciences Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2 Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls, School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 3 Agricultural and Plant Biochemistry and Proteomics Research Group, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universit...

The aim of this study was to investigate the synanthropy of Diptera: Calliphoridae, insects of forensic importance, in Calabria (southern Italy). The study lasted 2 years, from February 2010 to January 2012, and was carried out in three areas of Cosenza province representing "urban", "rural", and "wild" environments. Bottle traps baited with pork were used to catch Calliphoridae. Six species we...

The aim of this contribute is to examine an application of Object Oriented Image Analysis on very high resolution data, on Ikonos images multispectral and panchromatic – of Bagnara Calabra, in the province of Reggio Calabria. Our objectives are to show as an automatic analysis as we implemented in a unitary package for segmentation and classification Neuro Fuzzy – with a minimal manual particip...

Daniela Pacilé,1,2,* Philipp Leicht,3 Marco Papagno,1,2 Polina M. Sheverdyaeva,2 Paolo Moras,2 Carlo Carbone,2 Konstantin Krausert,3 Lukas Zielke,3 Mikhail Fonin,3 Yuriy S. Dedkov,4,† Florian Mittendorfer,5 Jörg Doppler,5 Andreas Garhofer,5 and Josef Redinger5 1Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy 2Istituto di Struttura della Materia, Consigli...

Background Neoplastic skin alterations are frequently seen in elderly Caucasian people, above all if they have worked for long periods under high UV exposure. Our region, Calabria, a peninsula in the south of Italy with a long coastline , is quite homogeneous for population and lifestyle. Its inhabitants are Caucasian, most dark skinned but some fair skinned. Elderly people generally refer to a...

The SINERGIE (South Italian Network for Rational Guidelines and International Epidemiology) project is intended to set up a collaborative network comprising virologists, clinicians and public health officials dealing with patients affected by HCV disease in the Calabria Region. A prospective observational data-base of HCV infection will be developed and used for studies on HCV natural history, ...

Several lines of evidence suggest that corticosteroid-binding globulin (CBG), long known as a cortisol-transport glycoprotein, may have broader roles in targeted-tissue hormone delivery and the neurobehavioural responses to stress. These include studies of individual kindreds with rare severe CBG gene (SERPINA6) mutations, a study of chronic fatigue patients, a community study of individuals wi...