DISSEMINATION: STEPS TOWARDS AN EFFECTIVE ACTION OF SEISMIC RISK REDUCTION FOR NON-STRUCTURAL DAMAGE

"Move, protect, secure" were the three key points that the KnowRISK project posed at the core of its communication and dissemination strategy. This three key points enable each person, professional or not, to reduce non-structural damage caused by earthquakes. Dissemination is usually the last but never least step of a communication plan, and indeed it played a crucial role in KnowRISK for conveying the three key-point message to the widest audience. Standard dissemination activities, such as open-door events, and internet allowed us to achieve a wide spreading of ideas and best practices, reaching more than 4000 non-professionals and almost 50000 page views of the KnowRISK website (in three years), respectively. As communication was recipient-targeted, the dissemination task of the project was similarly addressed to professionals, layman, and schools. In particular, schools were chosen in order to profit from the chain-reaction action that is capable to spread a message from students to the surrounding environment

Earthquakes in central Italy in 2016: comparison between Norcia and Amatrice

Trabalho apresentado em 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering (16ECEE), 18-21 june 2018, Thessaloniki, GreeceIn this paper lessons are extracted from the comparison between the very different consequences that a set of earthquakes had on the neighbouring towns of Amatrice and Norcia during the 2016 central Italy earthquake sequence. The paper initially describes the prevention programs implemented in Amatrice and Norcia starting from the reconstruction after the 1860 Norcia earthquake. The earthquake intensities in Amatrice and Norcia during the 2016 Central Italy events were considering accelerometric recordings of the Italian Strong Motion Network. In the same municipalities, the damage has been assessed through site visits and analysis of the results of the post-earthquake safety assessment performed after the events. It was found that the differences in damage were essentially due to the strengthening of most houses in Norcia done during the previous decades. This is also likely to lead to a much faster recover of the economy and livelihood in Norcia, as Amatrice needs to be entirely rebuilt.N/

SCIENZAPERTA: EARTH SCIENCE FOR EVERYONE... FINALLY IN MILAN!

ScienzAperta is an outreach science venue that the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia started in 2011 as the spring of science: the doors of the headquarters of science were finally opened to public. A number of events, conferences, seminars, guided tours through the Institute and its laboratories are every year offered to general public. The venue is held in most of the cities where the Institute is located, priority to high seismic and/or volcanic risk regions. On May 2014 we held ScienzAperta for the first time in Milano and open up the doors to schools specifically dealing mostly with seismic hazard in a region where general public not necessarily think it might We offered students conferences, seminars and educational activities to highlight the fun of science and jet raise awareness on proper behaviours in case of earthquake shaking. We asked students and teachers, from elementary to high schools, to fill in a questionnaire that we use to evaluate the appreciation the venue had. One hundred years after Giuseppe Mercalli’s death we could not forget to celebrate his science the city where he was born.UnpublishedMilano3T. Pericolosità sismica e contributo alla definizione del rischiorestricte

Using non-structural mitigation measures to maintain business continuity : A multi-stakeholder engagement strategy

Funding Information: Acknowledgments. This work was carried out in the framework of the KnowRISK project (Know your city, Reduce seISmic risK through non-structural elements), co-financed by the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (Grant agreement ECHO/SUB/2015/718655/PREV28), with partial support from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) and Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC) from Portugal; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (Italy) and the Earthquake Engineering Research Centre (EERC) from University of Iceland. The KnowRISK project gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the following public and private entities for their outstanding contribution of time and expertise, namely CP Comboios de Portugal, CTT Correios de Portugal, EDP - Energias de Portugal, EPAL - Grupo Águas de Portugal, IKEA Portugal, Infraestruturas de Portugal, Jerónimo Martins, Metropolitano de Lisboa, NOS communications and entertainment group, PT-Altice, Siemens, SONAE MC and the collaboration of the Laboratorio di Storia e Comunicazione della Scienza (DOS) of the Ferrara University. The earthquake field missions which took place during the course of KnowRISK, were also helpful and essential to the authors for the study of the causes of non-structural damage. Funding Information: This work was carried out in the framework of the KnowRISK project (Know your city, Reduce seISmic risK through non-structural elements), co-financed by the European Commission?s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (Grant agreement ECHO/SUB/2015/718655/PREV28), with partial support from Instituto Superior T?cnico (IST) and Laborat?rio Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC) from Portugal; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (Italy) and the Earthquake Engineering Research Centre (EERC) from University of Iceland. The KnowRISK project gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the following public and private entities for their outstanding contribution of time and expertise, namely CP Comboios de Portugal, CTT Correios de Portugal, EDP-Energias de Portugal, EPAL-Grupo ?guas de Portugal, IKEA Portugal, Infraestruturas de Portugal, Jer?nimo Martins, Metropolitano de Lisboa, NOS communications and entertainment group, PT-Altice, Siemens, SONAE MC and the collaboration of the Laboratorio di Storia e Comunicazione della Scienza (DOS) of the Ferrara University. The earthquake field missions which took place during the course of KnowRISK, were also helpful and essential to the authors for the study of the causes of non-structural damage. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 the Author(s). All rights reserved.Encouraging property owners and individuals to adopt mitigation measures to improve the resilience of their buildings and equipments to seismic hazard has been a major challenge in many earthquake-prone countries. Few business leaders are aware of the fragility of their supply chains or other critical systems due to earthquake hazard. Bridging the gap between research production and research use is another crucial challenge for the earthquake risk research process. The KnowRISK project outcome is aimed at encouraging the proactive engagement of multi-stakeholders (community at large, schools, business community and local govern-ment groups) undertaking non-structural mitigation measures that will minimize earthquake losses to individuals and communities. Engaging stakeholders, taking into account their needs and inputs to maintain critical and urgent business activities, can contribute to the research findings and ensure that our data collection is thorough and complete. Engagement with stakeholders, during the whole process can lead to improved outcomes and for the development of viable solutions, for business and society, because of stakeholder’s role and influence within the organizations.Peer reviewe

Bub1 regulates chromosome segregation in a kinetochore-independent manner

The kinetochore-bound protein kinase Bub1 performs two crucial functions during mitosis: it is essential for spindle checkpoint signaling and for correct chromosome alignment. Interestingly, Bub1 mutations are found in cancer tissues and cancer cell lines. Using an isogenic RNA interference complementation system in transformed HeLa cells and untransformed RPE1 cells, we investigate the effect of structural Bub1 mutants on chromosome segregation. We demonstrate that Bub1 regulates mitosis through the same mechanisms in both cell lines, suggesting a common regulatory network. Surprisingly, Bub1 can regulate chromosome segregation in a kinetochore-independent manner, albeit at lower efficiency. Its kinase activity is crucial for chromosome alignment but plays only a minor role in spindle checkpoint signaling. We also identify a novel conserved motif within Bub1 (amino acids 458–476) that is essential for spindle checkpoint signaling but does not regulate chromosome alignment, and we show that several cancer-related Bub1 mutants impair chromosome segregation, suggesting a possible link to tumorigenesis

Bub1 overexpression induces aneuploidy and tumor formation through Aurora B kinase hyperactivation

Hyperactivated Aurora B kinase is a primary mediator of Bub1 overexpression-induced aneuploidy and tumorigenesis in mice

Brochure del progetto "Conosciamo la Terra"

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e VulcanologiaPublished5.9. Formazione e informazioneope

The 2016 Amatrice seismic sequence in the Media

Media's power in setting the public’s agenda for discussion can affect perception and debate upon disasters. In the frame of a dialogical approach to science communication, we challenge here the paradigm for which issues that experts considered valuable are not in the Media's agenda. We studied the way Media addressed the Amatrice 2016 sequence and discuss story-telling. Specific indicators were analyzed to assess to what extent the scientific coverage, risk reduction and damage issues are covered. First results show that Media do think valuable to provide public with an in-depth scientific coverage and refers to authoritative sources. As time goes by and aftershocks Magnitude decreases a more reflexive thinking is triggered; news stories include more risk reduction indicators than damage. Although memory of past earthquakes is always part of the story one month after the main shock risk reduction disappear from the media agenda. We also explored the level of public engagement in risk reduction and found out that Media still seem not believe that citizens should be active part of the debate upon their own safety

The Tree of Natural Hazard Education

Natural hazards are often thought as being, beside a difficult issue, a major problem forcing the community to deal with the economic and social development. For this reason they require specific actions tailored environment. It is fundamental to build a ground to rely on when dealing with the governance of a territory and when the economic factors intersect scientific knowledge and available technical solutions. Science could usefully focus on simple, clear and yet accurate information. The social projection of natural disaters is not just the faith of careless attitude towards hazard as it might get strongly influenced by emotions event close in time. On the other end people might misperceive risks ineffectively choose recovery over prevention, when the latter is proved to be far less costly. There is a general mindset of people towards a culture of prevention and the relationship established between the concepts of hazard and disaster, as if one would automatically always turn into the other nature curse towards which humans have no power. There is much of emotions involving hazards response so that to be effective education should not only convey information in strictu sense (to explain natural phenomena and their causes), but drives the through interpersonal skills and explicitly use the language of emotions (and in particular the positive ones, eg. reassurance, confidence, serenity, optimism, etc... ). The Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia is a scientific institution monitoring of geophysical phenomena through networks of technologically advanced equipment which approach outreach and dissemination of scientific culture through publications for schools and web pages, exhibitions, special venues and open-­days. We envisage a virtual tree of natural hazard education where science actively interacts with general public to implant awareness on the urge of science knowledge in modern society when it comes to help independent opinions or participate to crucial decisions. Here we display on a tree several ways of doing outreach and education towards natural hazards. Activities encompass volcanic, seismic, hydrogeological hazard and risk education to explore and understand natural processes lying behind the hazard. The general concept of risk is also exploited, where teachers will have to think on what could be the actions to be taken to avoid risks, weather there are risks we are willing to take, what we think we cannot avoid and, above all, how do we behave facing a risky definitely remark the link between inhabitants and their land emphasizing on the sense of responsibility towards land preservation.PublishedMilano6A. Monitoraggio ambientale, sicurezza e territoriorestricte