My long-term goal within the EuroSTRATAFORM program has been to increase our ability to predict sediment transport in fine-grained regions of the continental shelf through field work and application and further development of models at the Adriatic and Gulf of Lions EuroSTRATAFORM sites. Testing and extending our conceptual and numerical sediment transport models at these sites is an important ...

Surnames of grandparents were collected from children in the primary schools of the Albanian-Italian, Croat-Italian and Greek-Italian villages of southern Italy and Sicily. The coefficients of relationships by isonymy show almost no relationship with ethnicity. Ethnolinguistic minorities of southern Italy and Sicily are geographically subdivided into two main clusters: the first cluster compris...

Museum skins of the Black-eared Wheatear Oenante hispanica from the eastern Adriatic coast were examined in order to identify subspecies. All 91 examined skins belong to O. h. melanoleuca. Wing lengths (88-96 mm in adult males, 87-93.5 mm in 2nd year males and 84-92 mm in females) are among the longest for this species. The proportion of the black-throated morph was 56.5% in males and 40.9% in ...

With the recent experimental advance in our precise knowledge of the neutrino oscillation parameters, the correct form of the 3 × 3 neutrino mass matrix is now approximately known. I discuss how this may be obtained from symmetry principles, using as examples the finite groups A 4 and Z 3 , in two complete theories of leptons (and quarks). ——— Preprint version of talk at the 9th Adriatic Meetin...

Biogeochemical processes in sediments of the Manfredonia Gulf (Southern Adriatic Sea): early diagenesis of carbon and nutrient and benthic exchange F. Spagnoli, G. Bartholini, M. Marini, and P. Giordano National Research Council-Marine Science Institute-Departement of Lesina (FG), Italy National Research Council-Marine Science Institute-Department of Ancona, Italy National Research Council-Mari...

This study was conducted to compare the social adjustment of the mothers with transsexual children with that of mothers with normal kids in order to find out the negative impacts of having a trans child on social adjustment of mothers. This research had a causal-comparative design. The statistical population of the study comprised mothers with trans children referred to Tehran Psychiatric Insti...

introduction: pleomorphic adenomas are tumors mostly originating from salivary glands. these lesions in the larynx are very rare. case report: we report a rare case of pleomorphic adenoma that originated from the mucosal lining, just above the glottic area at the level of the laryngeal ventricle in a 55-year-old female patient. the tumor could not be palpated easily but was observed in the ct s...

background: q fever is an important widespread reemerging zoonosis. the presence of coxiella burnetii in 100 tick-infested dogs was assessed in this study. methods: the blood samples from 100 referred dogs were acquired and evaluated by nested-pcr. results: c. burnetii was detected in 11 out of 100 (11%) blood samples. most of the positive dogs were kept outdoor and fed on raw diet. based on ou...

aim: regular physical activity has several physical, psychological and social benefits. however, it is a global health problem, especially among icu nurses. therefore, in order to improve nurses’ physical activity, it is required to determine the effective correlated factors. the aim of this study was to delineate predictive factors on the physical activity of icu nurses based on a trans-theore...