The Corsica–Sardinia lithospheric block is traditionally viewed as a region of notoriously low seismicity. Earthquake catalogs report only three moderate earthquakes in the range of magnitudes 5.0–5.1. The scarcity of documented seismicity in the region does not allow for the reliable assessment of the seismic hazard. In this paper, we make an attempt to evaluate the seismic potential of the Corsica–Sardinia

Recently, the use of microalgal bioproducts in aquaculture research has gotten consideration. The current study aims to screen the biochemical components of three microalgae: Nannochloropsis salina, Chlorella salina and Tetraselmis chuii for using in the feeding of Cyclops abyssorum divergens copepods that are suitable prey for the mouth gape of the cultured fish larvae. The effect of different initial

A carrion-related arthropod database is important for each locality especially temperate ecosystems. The present study aims to document baseline data about the decomposition process of indoor rat carrions and the diversity and succession pattern of the forensically important arthropods fauna that colonize these carrions. Twelve Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into four experimental rat models, killed

A correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12210-021-01006-z

Increased levels of global atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and further consequences of climate change derived more research efforts to emphasize the actual role of the ecosystems of higher significance in this task. Mangrove ecosystem received a great interest in the demonstration of its potential to sequester atmospheric CO2. Sampling process from the sediment of mangrove ecosystem extended some

The correlation analysis of bivariate time series is a common problem in many fields. Based on the analysis of the changing range and the changing direction between any two time points on the bivariate time series, this paper proposes a new tendency correlation coefficient that is applicable for both stationary and non-stationary time series. It ranges from − 1 to 1, and the necessary and sufficient

A gradual change in daylight length during the year affects the breeding season of Egyptian geese. So the application of optimal photoperiod is essential to improve the reproductive capacity of the animal. This study was conducted to assess the changes in behaviour, circulating levels of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), luteinizing hormone (LH), prolactin, and reproductive traits during the season

Groundwater contamination by fluoride is a typical problem associated with most of the regions in India. Mining of minerals can accelerate the dissolution of fluoride resulting in the further contamination of groundwater resources. The present study was undertaken to determine the concentration of fluoride in groundwater around the Bakhrija sandstone mine located in Haryana state, India. It was observed

Lichens can produce secondary metabolites with important biological activities such as antioxidants, antibacterial, etc. Physodic acid (PA) is an important lichen secondary metabolite. The anticancer activity of PA has been shown in many tumor types other than lung cancer. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of PA on A549 lung adenocarcinoma cells. In this study, A549 lung cancer cell

Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci are among the major causes of mastitis in sheep. The main goal of this research was to determine the in vitro antibacterial activity of several essential oils (EOs, n 30), then five of them were chosen and tested alone and in blends against staphylococci isolates. Five bacteria were isolated from episodes of ovine mastitis (two S. aureus and

Nano scale motility, that is the hallmark of life, emerges when coordinated movements take over from molecular chaos. In biological world, at nanometric size, significant witnesses are present, starting from cellular traffic flows till the organized behaviors of complex molecular machines. Although their origins and evolution are still the objects of investigations, the understanding of physico-chemical

The MVT Pb–Ba mineralizations of the Mibladen ore deposit are hosted by Jurassic carbonates as well as Infracenomanian conglomerates and sandstones. The mineral paragenesis is mainly composed of galena and barite with lesser chalcopyrite and pyrite, accompanied by supergene oxidation minerals. This ore deposit is the result of a major epigenetic mineral stage with economic orebodies occuring as replacement

This paper presents the results of genetic variability analyses using genealogical data on the main genetic bloodline of the Australian Cattle Dog in Italy, a line that has had a significant impact on the development of the breed. All the genealogical data on the progeny and ancestors of one of the first stallions introduced in Italy were considered, i.e. Cattlefarm's Comeback Jack born on 1/2/1997

African ostriches are good at running in the desert, and their toenails can effectively improve the tractivetraction performance in the running process. To improve the tractivetraction trafficability of wheels on the lunar surface loose soil, a wheel with bionic wheel lugs was designed based on the bionic prototype of ostrich toenail and bionic engineering technology. Then, the rolling of the bionic

The olive is a long-lived evergreen tree, capable of regenerating itself from any part of the plant (pollard tree). This characteristic has allowed the olive trees to survive across the centuries until they become real natural monuments. The aim of this work has been to study the monumental “Olivo della Strega” (“Witch’s Olive tree”) olive tree, located in the olive orchard of Santissima Annunziata

Charles Babbage is best known as a pioneer of computer science, but his contributions to the study of the Earth are not as well known. A curious and tireless traveler, on one of his trips to Italy, he dwelt on the remains of the Temple of Serapis, located about one-hundred feet from the coast of the small bay near Pozzuoli, south-west of Naples. On his return to England, also using his Difference Engine

The Chameleon plant (Houttuynia cordata Thunb.—Saururaceae) was introduced across all continents from Asia for ornamental and medicinal purposes at least two centuries ago. H. cordata is deemed a strong invader thanks to its great ability for rapid vegetative propagation by means of rhizomes and stolons (and their fragments) coupled with a high resistance to herbicides. Moreover, it has been suggested

The Italian Law of 22 November 2016 has legalized the cultivation of hemp, which drives the development of sustainable agriculture by generating new products with high added value in the new context of circular economy. Hemp cultivation is known for its low environmental impact, as hemp grows fast, suppresses weeds and does not need pesticides. It has no specialized parasites, favors pollination and

During the last decades, an ongoing spread of broad-leaved evergreen laurophyllous species has been reported for forests of Southern Europe. Several factors were suggested as the main drivers of the phenomenon, namely global warming, land-use change, evolutionary history, and increase in atmospheric CO2. Among laurophylls, Laurus nobilis L. is considered one of the most prominent from the morphological

Livestock has a significant contribution to methane emission as a portion of their ingested energy, which is wasted in the form of methane (2–15%), and ammonia (75–95%). Microbial fermentation in ruminants results in the loss of energy in methanogenesis and protein via ammonia nitrogen excretion, causing a decline in feed efficiency and acting as environmental pollutants. Antibiotics were used to reduce

Many lichen secondary metabolites contributed to the field of pharmacology as an active ingredient of different drugs for years. In the present study, we aimed to test the anticancer activity of olivetoric acid (OA), which we isolated from Pseudevernia furfuracea (L.) Zopf in human hepatocellular carcinoma cells (HepG2). In addition, we used non-tumoral human liver cells (THLE2) to test the level of

The recruitment pattern of Satureja thymbra (Lamiaceae), in a single and isolated population in Sardinia, was experimentally investigated by human-mediated sowing in the field: 12 plants in two habitats (inside and outside of “phrygana” habitat) were randomly selected as the source of seeds and a total of 2160 seeds were buried in two microhabitats, under the canopy and in open areas (3 replicas × 30

The quasiperiodic ornamental patterns of western Islam in Spanish Andalusia and in Morocco were produced by a modification of the multigrid method instead of tile composition, which was used for central discs of some Moroccan panels. The infrequent decagonal patterns are based on quasiperiodic sequences of unit and tau bars in the Alhambra and Fez. The much larger body of octagonal quasiperiodic patterns

With this Editorial article, we introduce the Topical collection on “Cannabis and cannabinoids: history, practice and socio-economical inferences of a controversial plant”, consisting of six review articles published in the Rendiconti Lincei, Scienze Fisiche e Naturali between the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021.

The goal of this work is to further increase the use, by all the stakeholders, of well-established and official cataloguing methods for the preservation, valorisation and study of naturalistic heritage. The work describes the standards of the Central Institute for Cataloguing and Documentation (ICCD) for cataloguing the Italian mineralogical, petrological and planetological heritage to the community

Microscopy is a basic and integral tool of health care and clinical medicine. It is not routinely available in health centers of rural and remote areas. Many individuals live in such resource-constrained locations with limited access to health care where fungal infections such as Candida albicans could be life-threatening. A smart mobile phone-based microscope like Foldscope has been used in this study

The goals and targets included in the 2030 Agenda compiled by the United Nations want to stimulate action in areas of critical importance for humanity and the Earth. These goals and targets regard everyone on Earth from both the health and economic and social perspectives. Reaching these goals means to deal with Complex Systems. Therefore, Complexity Science is undoubtedly valuable. However, it needs

The contribution aims to focus the attention on the consequences on the use of images and in particular on the cartographic ones deriving from the Protestant Reformation. Analysing the debate around images which originated during the sixteenth century from Luther’s revolution, the article tries to answer how much the Reformation contributed to change the main aspects of mapmaking in a more realistic

The full understanding of the real therapeutic potential of cannabis preparations and of the dangers that their recreational use pose can only stem from the assessment of the chemical composition of such preparations and the knowledge of the pharmacology of their main components, the cannabinoids. Much in the same way cannabis is not just one plant, cannabinoids were not made all equal, and profound

On the sand environment, the wheel surface as the key component of the interaction between vehicle and sand plays a crucial role in improving the vehicle’s trafficability. African ostrich runs in the desert all year round, and its excellent plantar friction characteristic is obvious. In this paper, a bionic wheel surface monomer was designed based on the structural characteristics of the papillae of

Within the special issue “Classical and quantum plasmas: matter under extreme conditions” a series of papers are included that were presented at the international workshop “Plasma Physics and Astrophysics up to 2020 and beyond”. This meeting was held on October 7th–8th 2019 at the Physics Department of the Università della Calabria in Rende (Italy) and was organised by the Physics Department “Astrophysics

Centipedes (Chilopoda) are widespread and abundant predators in several kind of habitats, from forests to caves. Very few quantitative data are currently available for alpine habitats, specifically those located at high-altitudes. In this paper, we analysed data on centipedes collected by pitfall traps on different high-altitude landforms of the Central-Eastern Italian Alps, specifically on rock glaciers

Cerastoderma glaucum, a marine bivalve inhabiting Lake Timsah, is surrounded by different pathogenic organisms. The present study evaluates the antimicrobial activities, cytotoxicity and characterization of C. glaucum extracts. Chloroform, methanol and acidic tissue extracts were prepared from C. glaucum collected during winter and summer seasons. Winter acidic extract exhibits potent antimicrobial

The phenomenon produced by the Hopf bifurcations is of notable importance. In fact, a Hopf bifurcation—guaranteeing the existence of an unsteady periodic solution of the linearized problem at stake—is also an optimum limit cycle candidate of the nonlinear associated problem and, if non linearly globally attractive, is an absorbing set and an effective limit cycle. The present paper deals with the onset

Studies on cannabinoids that predate the identification of ∆9-THC as the intoxicating constituents of recreational cannabis by Raphael Mechoulam in 1964 are reviewed, critically analyzing the controversies and faux pas that have characterized the early research in this area. Significant contributions to the elucidation of the signature molecular scaffold of cannabinoids were provided by some of the

This paper presents a scoping review of recent literature regarding the phylogenetics of Cannabis, descending the taxonomic ranks of family, genus, species, subspecies, and varieties. The family Cannabaceæ now consists of ten genera. Cannabis is a monotypic genus consisting of one species, Cannabis sativa L. The monotypic model is supported by DNA “barcode” studies. Two subspecies are recognized, and

Unexpected finding of Egyptian blue emerged in Raphael’s fresco Triumph of Galatea at Villa Farnesina, in Rome. This pigment is the oldest man-made blue, dating back to Egyptians who manufactured it first and whose occurrence was thought to be lost with Romans. Thanks to advanced imaging techniques it has been possible to non-invasively map its distribution throughout the frescoed surface and to obtain

The Erbario Estense, preserved in the Archivio Segreto Estense (Modena State Archives, Italy), is one of the very few sixteenth century herbaria still existing today. Among its exsiccata are a dozen species coming from the Americas, one of which is tobacco. The author of the specimen calls the plant Tabacho, ouer Herba Regina; Camus and Penzig, in the late nineteenth century, identify it as Nicotiana

This work describes the fully analytical method for the calculation of the molecular integrals over Slater-type orbitals with non-integer principal quantum numbers. These integrals are expressed through relativistic molecular auxiliary functions derived in our previous paper (Bağcı and Hoggan in Phys Rev E 91(2):023303, 2015). The procedure for computation of the molecular auxiliary functions is detailed

The definition of a common global vertical coordinate system is nowadays one of the key points in Geodesy. With the advent of GNSS, a coherent global height has been made available to users. The ellipsoidal height can be obtained with respect to a given geocentric ellipsoid in a fast and precise way using GNSS techniques. On the other hand, the traditional orthometric height is not coherent at global