Typical Products and Marketing Strategies for Sicilian Olive Oils

The research analyses the Sicilian Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) olive oils chain in the contest of Sicilian rural development and as an instrument aimed to add value to agricultural production. Olive oil is a characteristic product of Southern Italian and Mediterranean agriculture and one of the main agro-food production of some Southern Italian Regions; it plays a leading role in Sicilian agricultural production and it can be considered the mort representative typical products of Sicilian rural environment, rural culture and eno-gastronomic tradition. Origin labelled oils are a small but important part of extra virgin olive oil chain process. Even if the present production areas of Sicilian PDO olive oils cover a large part of the region and almost the whole region constitutes a wide quality oil production area, the sold amounts of these products result still lower than the potential. To propose a strategy aimed to improve Sicilian typical oil market, we analysed demand and supply, opportunities and threats. Improving proposals are classified according to supply chain subjects and marketing mix steps.Marketing,

Fuentes de información, confianza y comunicación del sector de la salud pública sobre la pandemia de Covid-19: Un estudio en la percepción de los ciudadanos italianos

Introduction: In the context of infodemic disorder Covid-19 pandemic is a health emergency which also became a communication one. Objectives: The research purpose was to understand how Italians have informed themselves about the pandemic, which sources they have mainly used, and their assessments of public health sector communication at a national and local level. Methodology: The quantitative research consists of a survey conducted through telephone interviews (CATI+CAMI techniques) with a structured questionnaire to a sample of Italians in June and July 2021. Results: On average, watching TV, talking with friends, relatives, or acquaintances, and consulting the Internet are the leading ways of gaining information on the pandemic. Official online sources of information are the most used, followed by institutional websites which played a leading role during the pandemic: regions, the Ministry of Health, and the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. 34% of respondents claim to consult official social media pages or messaging apps of national or local authorities. Conclusions: In the pandemic communication, Italians recognize the crucial role of national and local authorities and online information media systems, but diverse challenges are open for the future of public health sector communication.Introducción: En el contexto del desorden infodémico la pandemia de Covid-19 es una emergencia sanitaria que también se convirtió en una emergencia de comunicación. Objetivos: El propósito de la investigación era conocer cómo se han informado los italianos sobre la pandemia, qué fuentes han utilizado y sus valoraciones sobre la comunicación del sector sanitario público a nivel nacional y local. Metodología: La investigación cuantitativa consiste en una encuesta realizada mediante entrevistas telefónicas (técnicas CATI+CAMI) con un cuestionario estructurado a una muestra de italianos en junio y julio de 2021. Resultados: En promedio, ver la televisión, hablar con amigos, familiares o conocidos y consultar Internet son las principales formas de información. Las fuentes oficiales online son las más utilizadas, seguidas de los sitios institucionales que desempeñaron un papel destacado durante la pandemia: las regiones, el Ministerio de Sanidad y la Presidencia del Consejo. El 34% de los encuestados afirma consultar las páginas oficiales de redes sociales o las aplicaciones de mensajería de las instituciones. Conclusiones: En la comunicación pandémica, los italianos reconocen el papel crucial de las instituciones y de la información online, pero se abren diversos retos para el futuro de la comunicación del sector de la salud pública

Integrating EEG and MEG signals to improve motor imagery classification in brain-computer interfaces

We propose a fusion approach that combines features from simultaneously recorded electroencephalographic (EEG) and magnetoencephalographic (MEG) signals to improve classification performances in motor imagery-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). We applied our approach to a group of 15 healthy subjects and found a significant classification performance enhancement as compared to standard single-modality approaches in the alpha and beta bands. Taken together, our findings demonstrate the advantage of considering multimodal approaches as complementary tools for improving the impact of non-invasive BCIs

Antiproliferative effects of Ceratonia siliqua L. on mouse hepatocellular carcinoma cell line

Extracts from pods and leaves of carob (Ceratonia siliqua L.) were tested for their ability to inhibit cell proliferation of mouse hepatocellular carcinoma cell line (T1). The two extracts showed a marked alteration of T1 cell proliferation in a dose-related fashion reaching the maximal effect at 1 mg/ml. Moreover, we demonstrated that leaf and pod extracts were able to induce apoptosis in T1 cell lines after 24-h treatment mediating a direct activation of the caspase 3 pathway. HPLC analysis revealed the presence of gallic acid, epigallocatechin-3-gallate and (-) epi catechin - 3 -gallate in pod and leaf extracts, compounds well known to exert antiproliferative effects. Their concentration reached 6.28 mg/g in carob leaves and 1.36 mg/g in carob pods extract. The discovery that carob pod and leaf extracts contained antiproliferative agents could be of practical importance in the development of functional foods and/or chemopreventive drugs

Criteria for the Registration of \u3cem\u3eMedicago polymorpha\u3c/em\u3e L. and \u3cem\u3eLolium rigidum\u3c/em\u3e Gaud. Varieties in a Voluntary Register in Italy

Extensive and semi-extensive livestock systems in Southern Europe rely largely on permanent pastures, the productivity of which could be improved by sowing adapted species. Native forage species are a valuable tool for Mediterranean livestock production, owing to their specific adaptation to the harsh environment (featuring prolonged and severe spring-summer drought) and their generally good tolerance to grazing. Annual, self-reseeding species are able to cope with the prevailing drought stress by terminating the vegetative phase and setting seed before the onset of the stressful period, and enhance the durability of the sward by their self-reseeding capacity and subsequent seedling regeneration. Subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum L.) and medics (annual Medicago spp.) among the legumes, and annual ryegrass (Lolium rigidum Gaud.) among the grasses, are the most exploited self-reseeding species for pasture establishment

Exploring continuum structures in reactions with three-body nuclei

The Transfer to the Continuum method has been applied to describe the 11Li(p, pn) and 14Be(p, pn) reactions in inverse kinematics, using structure overlaps computed within a full three-body model for the projectile. Calculations agree with the available experimental data on the unbound 10Li and 13Be nuclei.Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades FIS2017-88410-P, FPA2016-77689-C2-1-REuropean Union's Horizon 2020 65400

The Italian Catalogue of Herbage Varieties

With 3.4 million hectares, permanent grassland covers 25.8% of Italian U.A.A. (Usable Agricultural Area). Most of this is located in hilly and mountainous areas and is important for the stability of the soil even if their productivity is low. Alfalfa and annual forages cover 1.8 million hectares (C.R.P.A. 2010). Italy’s large longitudinal extension (between latitudes 35° and 47° N), delivers a great variety of climates (Fig. 1). The northern regions bordering the rest of Europe differ greatly from the southern regions surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea

Investigation of the ground-state spin inversion in the neutron-rich 47,49Cl isotopes

A first γ -ray study of 47,49Cl spectroscopy was performed at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory with 50Ar projectiles at 217 MeV/nucleon, impinging on the liquid hydrogen target of the MINOS device. Prompt deexcitation γ rays were measured with the NaI(Tl) array DALI2+. Through the one-proton knockout reaction 50Ar(p, 2p), a spin assignment could be determined for the low-lying states of 49Cl from the momentum distribution obtained with the SAMURAI spectrometer. A spin-parity Jπ = 3/2+ is deduced for the ground state of 49Cl, similar to the recently studied N = 32 isotope 51K. The evolution of the energy difference E(1/2+ 1 ) − E(3/2+ 1 ) is compared to state-of-the-art theoretical predictions.Ministerio de Ciencia de España, Innovación y Universidades y fondos FEDER. FIS2017-88410-PFondo Nacional de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación de Hungría. Proyecto No. K128947.The Office of Nuclear Physics, U.S. Department of Energy. De-sc0018223The United Kingdom Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). ST/L005816/1Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). SAPIN-2016-00033, SAPIN-2018- 00027 y RGPAS-2018-522453