Temporary dense seismic network during the 2016 Central Italy seismic emergency for microzonation studies

In August 2016, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck Central Italy, starting a devastating seismic sequence, aggravated by other two events of magnitude 5.9 and 6.5, respectively. After the first mainshock, four Italian institutions installed a dense temporary network of 50 seismic stations in an area of 260 km2. The network was registered in the International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks with the code 3A and quoted with a Digital Object Identifier ( https://doi.org/10.13127/SD/ku7Xm12Yy9 ). Raw data were converted into the standard binary miniSEED format, and organized in a structured archive. Then, data quality and completeness were checked, and all the relevant information was used for creating the metadata volumes. Finally, the 99 Gb of continuous seismic data and metadata were uploaded into the INGV node of the European Integrated Data Archive repository. Their use was regulated by a Memorandum of Understanding between the institutions. After an embargo period, the data are now available for many different seismological studies.Publishedid 1825T. Sismologia, geofisica e geologia per l'ingegneria sismicaJCR Journa

I Know My Neighbour: Individual Recognition in Octopus vulgaris

Background: Little is known about individual recognition (IR) in octopuses, although they have been abundantly studied for their sophisticated behaviour and learning capacities. Indeed, the ability of octopuses to recognise conspecifics is suggested by a number of clues emerging from both laboratory studies (where they appear to form and maintain dominance hierarchies) and field observations (octopuses of neighbouring dens display little agonism between each other). To fill this gap in knowledge, we investigated the behaviour of 24 size-matched pairs of Octopus vulgaris in laboratory conditions. Methodology/Principal Findings: The experimental design was composed of 3 phases: Phase 1 (acclimatization): 12 ‘‘sightallowed’’ (and 12 ‘‘isolated’’) pairs were maintained for 3 days in contiguous tanks separated by a transparent (and opaque) partition to allow (and block) the vision of the conspecific; Phase 2 (cohabitation): members of each pair (both sight-allowed and isolated) were transferred into an experimental tank and were allowed to interact for 15 min every day for 3 consecutive days; Phase 3 (test): each pair (both sight-allowed and isolated) was subject to a switch of an octopus to form pairs composed of either familiar (‘‘sham switches’’) or unfamiliar conspecifics (‘‘real switches’’). Longer latencies (i.e. the time elapsed from the first interaction) and fewer physical contacts in the familiar pairs as opposed to the unfamiliar pairs were used as proxies for recognition. Conclusions: Octopuses appear able to recognise conspecifics and to remember the individual previously met for at leas

Desarrollo del liderazgo y aprendizaje organizacional

Organizational Learning and Leadership The article presents a study on the development of the leadership starting from the boarding of the organizational learning, focusing the learning of adults and the managerial development. In this context, one of the challenges to face refers to the identification and the explicitación of the tacit knowledge, starting from the recognition of the paper of the learning processes and of leadership to face it. By means of a preliminary investigation carried out in an organization of great span, of the sector of capital goods, the formation of the leadership, based on convergent concepts on organizational learning is discussedEl artículo presenta un estudio sobre el desarrollo del liderazgo a partir del abordaje del aprendizaje organizacional, enfocando el aprendizaje de adultos y el desarrollo del liderazgo. En este contexto, uno de los desafíos a enfrentar se refiere a la identificación y a la explicitación del conocimiento tácito, a partir del reconocimiento del papel de los procesos de aprendizaje y de liderazgo para enfrentarlo. Por medio de un estudio de caso llevado a cabo en una organización de gran envergadura, del sector de bienes de capital, se discute la formación del liderazgo, basada en conceptos convergentes sobre aprendizaje organizacional