Running title: Nitrite and Frank-Starling response 1 2 NITRITE IS A POSITIVE MODULATOR OF THE FRANK3 STARLING RESPONSE IN THE VERTEBRATE HEART 4 5 Tommaso Angelone, Alfonsina Gattuso, Sandra Imbrogno, Rosa Mazza 6 and Bruno Tota * 7 Dept. of Cell Biology, University of Calabria, Italy 8 9 *All authors equally contributed to this work 10 11 12 *Corresponding author: 13 Bruno Tota, MD 14 Departme...

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Effect of pumice and sand on the sustainability of granular iron beds for the aqueous removal of Cu, Ni, and Zn Stefania Bilardi, Paolo S. Calabrò, Sabine Caré, Nicola Moraci, Chicgoua Noubactep Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, MECMAT, Mechanics and Materials Department, Faculty of Engineering, Via Graziella, loc. Feo di Vito, 89...

HOPUS (Housing Praxis for Urban Sustainability) is a research project conducted by the department DASTEC Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, with various community and local partners. The project aimed to implement and promote the use of design codes for building sustainable development in European cities and create a local support group for testing the codes. The objective to start th...

This paper aims to bring some novelty about the concentration of some heavy metals and selenium in biological citrus essential oils (CEO) produced in Sicily and Calabria in different crop years. Derivative stripping chronopotentiometry has been used as an accurate, sensitive, and rapid technique for the determination of Cd, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb, Zn, and Se in hydrochloric acid extracts of CEO; in the...

The biomass for energy purposes, coming from forestry and timber industry for energy, can provide various environmental and socio-economic benefits. Among all renewable energy sources, forest biomass represents both an important alternative source to fossil fuels and an opportunity for the socio-economic development of various marginal mountain areas in Calabria. This survey aims at estimating ...

Abstract The ‘ndrangheta is a mafia group from Calabria, Southern Italy. Considerable efforts have been made to understand the structures and organisation of this mafia, not only in province Reggio Calabria where it originated, but also other Calabrian provinces even outside region. Building on judicial data recent maxi-trial (Rinascita-Scott) against clans Vibo Valentia, we build theoretical a...

In this work, we will investigate hybridization, borrowing, and grammatical reorganization phenomena in the Arbëresh dialects of San Marzano (Apulia) Vena di Maida (central Calabria). The data from S. Benedetto Ullano (northern Calabria) be useful to provide a comparative frame. is name Albanian varieties spoken villages/cities generally formed late fifteenth century by communities fleeing Alba...