In their first 150 days of lactation, nine Ragusana jennets were investigated at the 'Istituto Sperimentale Zootecnico per la Sicilia' (ISZS) in Palermo, to study the effects of different milking typologies on milk production. The jennets were kept in a paddock and were fed hay ad libitum and concentrate (3.5 kg jennet/day). From post-foaling day 21, every 3 weeks individual milk amounts were r...

Virtual Reality (VR) is a robust tool for sponsoring Cultural Heritage sites. It enables immersive experiences in which the user can enjoy cultural assets virtually, behaving as he/she would do real world. The covid-19 pandemic has shed light on importance of using VR heritage, showing advantages users that visit site safely through specific devices. In this work, we present processes lead to c...

This research deals with small-scale festivals based on local cultural traditions in a European setting. These have at present been poorly studied literature, although they may play an important role tourist attractiveness and development. The context of the study is Maiorchino Festival, community-based festival which takes place annually Novara di Sicilia, small rural-mountain town Sicily (Ita...

Vengono presentati i risultati di uno studio condotto su una prateria di barriera (récif barrière) a Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile, presente nella baia di Brucoli, frazione del comune di Augusta (SR) (Sicilia, Italia). Tale prateria risale fino in superficie formando il récif barrière caratterizzando così un particolare ambiente di retro prateria con un basso regime idrodinamico e con caratter...

Background and aims Recently, empirical research has linked obsessive passion to the etiology of exercise addiction, and the conceptual reason behind the fact that the latter is more prevalent in athletes than leisure exercisers has been challenged. The aim of this study was to determine the link between exercise addiction and harmonious passion, obsessive passion, and dedication to sports, in ...

BACKGROUND Critical to the effective diagnosis and management of disease is information on its prevalence in a particular geographic area such as Italy. Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AAT Deficiency) is one of the most common serious hereditary diseases in the world, but its prevalence varies markedly from one country to another. AAT Deficiency affects at least 120.5 million carriers and defic...

Il saggio discute diversi aspetti relativi alla trasposizione cinematografica di sei novelle Luigi Pirandello nel film Kaos dei fratelli Taviani. La rilevanza dell’argomento emerge dalle posizioni nei confronti del mezzo cinematografico, da costui considerato particolarmente adatto a conferire una forma propria filosofia artistica. L’arte, racchiusa in permanente e immutabile, è l’unico modo et...