Interactions between tree species determine the dynamics of forest communities. Spatial and temporal changes in resource availability, variation composition spatial distribution trees may alter competitive interactions and, therefore, affect growth productivity. In this study, we analyzed intra inter-specific European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) southern Italy (Moli...

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...

Neonatal screening of congenital hypothyroidism (CH), carried out on all newborns 3rd -5th day of life, has a very important priority because the incidence of this disease is the highest of all congenital diseases involving brain damage which can be preventable with early specific treatment. In recent years, the values of TSH that were considered pathological were modified and the TSH cut-off, ...

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...

*B.C.P. Jansen Instituut, Plantage Muidergracht 12, 1018 TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Istituto di Chimica Biologica, Universita di Padova, Via F. Marzolo 3, 35100 Padova, +Istituto ed Orto Botanico, Universita di Bologna, Via Irnerio 42, 40126 Bologna, ?Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita della Calabria, 87036 Cosenza, **C.N.R. Unit for Physiology of Mitochondria, Universita di Padova, Via ...

Valentina Sini1, Francesca De Iuliis2, Lorena Rossi3, Gianluigi Lunardi4, Antonello Menghi5, Irene Pecorella6, Rosina Lanza5, Susanna Scarpa2 1Sapienza University of Rome, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Via di Grottarossa, Rome 2Department of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University, Viale Regina Elena, Rome 3Department of Oncology, San Giovanni Calibita Hospital, Rome 4Department of Onc...

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Laboratory of Behavioural Neuroscience, CEINGE Biotecnologie Avanzate, Naples, Italy; 2 Centro Europeo per la Ricerca sul Cervello (CERC)/Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy; Department of Pharmacobiology, University of Calabria and Experimental Neuropharmacology Center “Mondino-Tor Vergata,” Fondazione C. Mondino-IRCCS, Rome, Italy; 4 Department of Neurobiology, Stazione Zoologica “A. Dohrn”, ...