909 research outputs found
The Implicit Cooperation Between The Strasbourg Court And Constitutional Courts: A Silent Unity?
L\u2019ordine logico di esame della violazione dell\u2019art. 117, c. 1, Cost. nella giurisprudenza costituzionale sulla CEDU
Un conflitto costituzionale silente: Corte di Giustizia e deferenza verso il legislatore europeo nella pi\uf9 recente giurisprudenza sulla cittadinanza e sul riconoscimento di prestazioni sociali
Diretta applicabilit\ue0 e sindacato accentrato di costituzionalit\ue0 relativo alla violazione della Carta europea dei diritti fondamentali
Il seguito della legge regionale 24 del 2006: l\u2019esercizio della potest\ue0 regolamentare da parte delle Province
The prefrontal cortex of the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus Montagu, 1821): a tractography study and comparison with the human
Cetaceans are well known for their remarkable cognitive abilities including self-recognition, sound imitation and decision making. In other mammals, the prefrontal cortex (PFC) takes a key role in such cognitive feats. In cetaceans, however, a PFC could up to now not be discerned based on its usual topography. Classical in vivo methods like tract tracing are legally not possible to perform in Cetacea, leaving diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) as the most viable alternative. This is the first investigation focussed on the identification of the cetacean PFC homologue. In our study, we applied the constrained spherical deconvolution (CSD) algorithm on 3 T DWI scans of three formalin-fixed brains of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and compared the obtained results to human brains, using the same methodology. We first identified fibres related to the medio-dorsal thalamic nuclei (MD) and then seeded the obtained putative PFC in the dolphin as well as the known PFC in humans. Our results outlined the dolphin PFC in areas not previously studied, in the cranio-lateral, ectolateral and opercular gyri, and furthermore demonstrated a similar connectivity pattern between the human and dolphin PFC. The antero-lateral rotation of the PFC, like in other areas, might be the result of the telescoping process which occurred in these animals during evolution
Planning and designing an integrated management of coastal hypoxia in the Emila Romagna region water (Northern Adriatic Sea)
Abstract The design of an integrated monitoring network useful for the early-warning, the management and mitigation of both the environmental and socio-economic costs of hypoxia/anoxia events in the Northern Adriatic coastal zone, south of the mouth of the Po river, is described in the contribute. It has been developed within the EMMA research project (Environmental Management through Monitoring and Modelling of Anoxia; LIFE04ENV/IT/0479) (2004-2007). Over the past few decades, hypoxia events have recurrently affected the coastal zone of Emilia Romagna Region (Italy). Data collected by the C.Z. lying in the Province of Rimini, because of its economic importance, are presented. The area is subjected to intense anthropogenic pressure due to its high population (416 000 equivalent inhabitants) with tourist seasonal peaks of up to 973 110 equivalent inhabitants (in summer time), to industrial and agricultural activity, to maritime traffic and nutrient river discharges (about 600 tons y-1 of nitrogen and 300 tons y-1 of phosphorus, in 2002). Hypoxia and anoxia have a negative effect on the quality of bathing waters as well as on fishing and mussel farming, which are important activities for the economy of the area. The planning of the monitoring network has been carried out by analyzing the scientific knowledge on hypoxia in the local area; its integration with other existing monitoring activities, available facilities and data resources was considered in order to optimize cost effectiveness of the network
Search for strange quark matter and Q-balls with the SLIM experiment
We report on the search for Strange Quark Matter (SQM) and charged Q-balls
with the SLIM experiment at the Chacaltaya High Altitude Laboratory (5230 m
a.s.l.) from 2001 to 2005. The SLIM experiment was a 427 m array of
Nuclear Track Detectors (NTDs) arranged in modules of cm
area. SLIM NTDs were exposed to the cosmic radiation for 4.22 years after which
they were brought back to the Bologna Laboratory where they were etched and
analyzed. We estimate the properties and energy losses in matter of nuclearites
(large SQM nuggets), strangelets (small charged SQM nuggets) and Q-balls; and
discuss their detection with the SLIM experiment. The flux upper limits in the
CR of such downgoing particles are at the level of /cm/s/sr
(90% CL).Comment: 4 pages, 7 eps figures. Talk given at the 24th International
Conference on Nuclear Tracks in Solids, Bologna, Italy, 1-5 September 200
Search for Intermediate Mass Magnetic Monopoles and Nuclearites with the SLIM experiment
SLIM is a large area experiment (440 m2) installed at the Chacaltaya cosmic
ray laboratory since 2001, and about 100 m2 at Koksil, Himalaya, since 2003. It
is devoted to the search for intermediate mass magnetic monopoles (107-1013
GeV/c2) and nuclearites in the cosmic radiation using stacks of CR39 and
Makrofol nuclear track detectors. In four years of operation it will reach a
sensitivity to a flux of about 10-15 cm-2 s-1 sr-1. We present the results of
the calibration of CR39 and Makrofol and the analysis of a first sample of the
exposed detector.Comment: Presented at the 22nd ICNTS, Barcelona 200
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