Slope movements in Daunia (Apulia): collecting historical events for the definition of rainfall thresholds

L’Appennino Dauno (provincia di Foggia, Puglia) rappresenta la zona di transizione tra il Tavoliere delle Puglie e l’Appennino Meridionale, e costituisce il settore regionale maggiormente interessato da fenomeni di instabilità dei versanti. A partire dai primi risultati di un progetto di ricerca del CNR-IRPI, finalizzato alla definizione di soglie pluviometriche per l’innesco dei fenomeni franosi a scala nazionale, di recente è stata avviata una collaborazione con il Servizio di Protezione Civile della Regione Puglia, per giungere alla individuazione di una soglia pluviometrica di significato regionale. Il presente studio, oltre a descrivere l’area oggetto delle ricerche ed i suoi principali caratteri di franosità, illustra le attività sinora svolte e quelle in essere per la raccolta di dati storici su eventi di frana in Daunia, a partire dai quali saranno eseguite le successive analisi pluviometriche per la individuazione delle soglie pluviometriche da frana

Local mobility and personal communication services: market aspects and network solutions

p. 719-730Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR). Biblioteca Centrale / CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle RichercheSIGLEITItal

Competition Law and Intellectual Property: A European Perspective

This book focuses on competition law, regulation of IPRs and their convergent roles for a Single Market in an essential field for EU growth and development. The term ‘intellectual property’ is used with reference to a large category of rights and a variety of legal regimes. The Authors’ contributions focus only on those characteristics of IPRs that are useful to explain their interaction with competition law in the relevant markets. The rapidly evolving technical environment and the related ‘Community acquis’ make a systemic and coherent interpretation of the two topics very complex, especially considering the de-centralization process of competition (modernization) and the lack of a single, effective European jurisdiction for IPRs, mainly due to the long tradition of the territoriality principle in copyright and patents. Part I aims at providing a comprehensive overview of the strategic relationship between IPRs and competition. Part II is devoted to the standard-setting process, which is the key for the access to effective interoperability of high-tech systems. Part III addresses some sector-specific issues (e.g., the pharmaceutical sector). Part IV regards general competition issue, also relevant for IPRs, as actions for damages in the private-enforcement context. Finally, Parts V and VI contain insights into issues related to IPRs or competition law from a comparative-law perspective and that of several national legal systems

Sensitivity of sand lance to shifting prey and hydrography indicates forthcoming change to the northeast US shelf forage fish complex

© The Author(s), 2021. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Suca, J. J., Wiley, D. N., Silva, T. L., Robuck, A. R., Richardson, D. E., Glancy, S. G., Clancey, E., Giandonato, T., Solow, A. R., Thompson, M. A., Hong, P., Baumann, H., Kaufman, L., & Llopiz, J. K. Sensitivity of sand lance to shifting prey and hydrography indicates forthcoming change to the northeast US shelf forage fish complex. Ices Journal of Marine Science, 78(3), (2021): 1023–1037, https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsaa251.Northern sand lance (Ammodytes dubius) and Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) represent the dominant lipid-rich forage fish species throughout the Northeast US shelf and are critical prey for numerous top predators. However, unlike Atlantic herring, there is little research on sand lance or information about drivers of their abundance. We use intra-annual measurements of sand lance diet, growth, and condition to explain annual variability in sand lance abundance on the Northeast US Shelf. Our observations indicate that northern sand lance feed, grow, and accumulate lipids in the late winter through summer, predominantly consuming the copepod Calanus finmarchicus. Sand lance then cease feeding, utilize lipids, and begin gonad development in the fall. We show that the abundance of C. finmarchicus influences sand lance parental condition and recruitment. Atlantic herring can mute this effect through intra-guild predation. Hydrography further impacts sand lance abundance as increases in warm slope water decrease overwinter survival of reproductive adults. The predicted changes to these drivers indicate that sand lance will no longer be able to fill the role of lipid-rich forage during times of low Atlantic herring abundance—changing the Northeast US shelf forage fish complex by the end of the century.Research was funded by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (IA agreement M17PG0019; DNW, LK, HB, and JKL), including a subaward via the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation (18-11-B-203). Additional support came from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Woods Hole Sea Grant Program (NA18OAR4170104, Project No. R/O-57; JKL, HB, and DNW) and a National Science Foundation Long-term Ecological Research grant for the Northeast US Shelf Ecosystem (OCE 1655686; JKL). JJS was funded by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship programme. ARR was funded by an NOAA Nancy Foster Scholarship