This article reports the results of an experiment on production of his/her in English as a second language (L2) by proficient native speakers of Italian, Spanish, and Dutch. In Dutch and English, 3rd person singular possessive pronouns agree in gender with their antecedents, in Italian and Spanish possessives in general agree with the noun they accompany (possessum). However, while in Italian t...

UNLABELLED Theme: Cross-cultural nursing. INTRODUCTION Preterm infants have to acquire neurological skills to begin breast or bottle feeding. The literature review suggested the need of a tool to assess the readiness of preterm infants for the transition from tube to oral feeding. Currently, there is not such a tool in the Italian context. AIM To perform the cross-cultural validation of POF...

Field experiments were conducted in Virginia in 2000 and 2001 to investigate responses of wheat and diclofop-methyl-sensitive and –resistant Italian ryegrass to POST applications of several experimental and registered herbicides. The experimental herbicide combination AE F130060 03 was as effective as diclofop-methyl and more effective than chlorsulfuron plus metsulfuron, chlorsulfuron plus met...

Recent power quality studies have been focused on the source-identification of voltage disturbances at distribution network busses. This paper describes a method aimed at correlating indirect-lightning events with power systems relay operations, associated with voltage dips. The proposed method, based on the coordinated use of the Italian lightning location system CESI-SIRF, the Italian monitor...

English. We present a detailed description of our submission to the PoSTWITA shared-task for PoS tagging of Italian social media text. We train a model based on FlexTag using only the provided training data and external resources like word clusters and a PoS dictionary which are build from publicly available Italian corpora. We find that this minimal adaptation strategy, which already worked we...

Previous research has shown that Italian speakers have difficulties in learning the correct lexical stress of German morphologically complex words. To test if this difficulty is of perceptual origin, we employed the method by Dupoux et. al 2001 [7], consisting in a short-term memory sequence repetition task. We tested the participants with a stress contrast, a phoneme contrast, which constitute...

In this paper, we will see if it is possible for bare plurals to appear in the topic positions in German and Italian. Moreover, we will compare bare plurals with definite plurals in the topic position in different constructions creating and sustaining the left periphery (together with possibly different types of movements): Topicalization (including Italian " Left Dislocation " , ILD hereafter)...

This paper is to illustrate the experience and future plans for decommissioning Italian NPPs, and the new organization, set to manage the whole decommissioning problem. Italian NPPs were shut down in the 1980s, and “deferred decommissioning (SAFSTOR)” was the selected decommissioning strategy, due to the lack of a repository for the disposal of radioactive waste. In 1999 the liberalization of t...

The annual conference and scientific meeting of the Italian Society of Sports and Exercise Medicine took place in Brescia, Italy from 18th to 19th November, 2016. This is the fourth meeting of this new Society, born ten years ago. This year for the first time, at this meeting, was present the Italian Society of the Internal Medicine and different Italian patients associations. The theme of the ...