This paper examines a particular kind of phonetic variation observed in the realization of articles and clitics in a dialect of Southern Italy. The examined bound morphs consist of single unstressed vowels, which appear to be phonologically underspecified with regard to height. The spectral characteristics of 157 tokens show that these vocalic segments form a continuum ranging from high to mid ...

President: Hiroaki Kitano (Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc, The Systems Biology Institute, Japan) Craig Knoblock (Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA) Toby Walsh (NICTA and University of NSW, Australia) Sebastian Thrun (Stanford University, USA) Francesca Rossi (University of Padova, Italy) Ramon López de Mántaras (Artificial Intelligence Research Inst...

A Bacillus anthracis strain was isolated from a burial-site in Pollino National Park where a bovine died of anthrax and was buried in 2004. We report the first genome sequence of B. anthracis isolated in the Basilicata region (southern Italy), which is the highest risk area of anthrax infection in Italy.

1 Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Milano/Merate, Italy 2 Max-Planck-Institut für extraterr. Physik, Garching, Germany 3 Liverpool John Moores Univ., Liverpool, U.K. 4 CEA Saclay, Service d’Astrophysique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France 5 Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C., U.S.A. 6 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy 7 Physics Department, University of Durham, U.K....

Ochratoxin A (OTA) in wine is linked to contamination by several Aspergillus species. In 2003-2007, grape samples collected in Italy were surveyed for the presence of OTA and OTA-producing fungi. A. niger aggregate was the prevalent species. A. carbonarius, which is considered the main source of OTA in grapes, was mostly found in Southern Italy. The year and the environment had an important inf...

BACKGROUND Typhoid fever remains endemic in the Apulia region of southern Italy. Here we investigate why this occurs despite increasing levels of environmental public health measures. METHOD We collected morbidity data for typhoid fever in the Puglia region of Italy in the years 2000 to 2006 from the national mandatory surveillance system for infectious disease. RESULTS In the last six year...

The presence of anti-HCV antibodies has been examined in a group of 256 consecutive thalassemic patients who received blood transfusions in several countries around the world. Overall 60% were found to be anti-HCV positive. A higher incidence of anti-HCV antibodies was noted in Italian patients with respect to patients living in Eastern countries, and in southern Italy with respect to northern ...

The environmental waste problem in southern Italy is now reaching epic proportions and the problem has been linked to increasing rates of cancer. At the end of June, 2004, protestors blocked the rail links between northern and southern Italy, complaining about the re-opening of a previously condemned rubbish dump. The dump was brought back into service after household waste built up in the stre...

Dipartimento di Demografia Università La Sapienza, Via Nomentana 41, 00161 Rome, Italy. [email protected] 2 Istituto di Studi su Popolazione e Territorio, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Largo A. Gemelli 1, 20123 – Milan, Italy. [email protected] 3 Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark: Sdr. Boulevard 23A DK-5000 Odense C, Denmark. [email protected]...

Previous reports on large population groups have suggested that the prevalence of multiple sclerosis (MS) in Sicily and southern Italy is low, of the order of 4-8 per 100 000. In contrast, immigrants from Italy resident in Greater London, many of whom are from southern Italy and Sicily, had a hospitalised MS prevalence similar to that found among people born in the United Kingdom (1960-72). The...