Journal articles: 'Calabria (Italy) In literature'

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Cafiero, Carlo, Monica Palladino, Claudio Marcianò, and Giuseppa Romeo. "Traditional agri-food products as a leverage to motivate tourists." Journal of Place Management and Development 13, no. 2 (November 11, 2019): 195–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jpmd-05-2019-0032.

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Purpose This paper aims to provide evidence on the extent to which traditional agri-food products (TFPs) constitute a leverage to promote tourism in the province of Reggio Calabria, Italy, and discuss ways in which community-led local development governance institutions might enhance it. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on a review of existing information on Calabrian TFPs to classify them by area of production and identify those that are specific or relatively small areas, in addition to a qualitative analysis of the content of the texts of a sample of websites promoting tourism in the region. Findings Though food is one of the leverages used to promote tourism in Calabria, TFPs are not yet sufficiently exploited to attract tourists to the province of Reggio Calabria, in spite of their potential as a vital expression of local culture and traditions. Research limitations/implications The selection of the websites used in the study may not be exhaustive of the full spectrum of Web-based promotion of tourism in Calabria. Practical implications The results provide useful insights to public and private institutions responsible for rural development and tourism promotion in Calabria. The database on the TFPs of the province of Reggio Calabria permits an easy reading of the geographical distribution of the different categories of products, useful as a resource for further studies and as a local development policy support tool. Social implications Promoting a form of culturally sensitive, food-based tourism in the interior areas of Calabria may constitute an important factor to revert the trend towards impoverishment, migration of young people and depopulation of the interior areas of Calabria. This is a particularly sensitive issue in Italy today, in view of the difficulties that other strategies pursued in the area are facing. Originality/value Existing literature on typical food products in Italy focuses on those labelled by denomination of origin and geographic protection. This is one of the first papers focusing on TFPs labelled as Prodotti agroalimentari tradizionali in the Italian legislation. By exploring the role of local food and traditions in promoting tourism, this paper expands the scope of existing studies of rural tourism and on rural development in Calabria, and beyond.

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Spampinato, Giovanni, Rita Crisarà, Piergiorgio Cameriere, Ana Cano-Ortiz, and Carmelo Maria Musarella. "Analysis of the Forest Landscape and Its Transformations through Phytotoponyms: A Case Study in Calabria (Southern Italy)." Land 11, no. 4 (April 2, 2022): 518. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11040518.

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Place names, or toponyms, provide a useful geographical reference system; they can help analyse past landscapes, recover history and understand changes. Among place names, plant place names (phytotoponyms) can be used to analyse the current and past distribution of plants and plant communities and to highlight changes in land use due to human impacts and climate change. We assessed the feasibility of using place names related to species and forest ecosystems to evaluate changes that have affected the forest landscape. As a case study, we considered Calabria, a region in southern Italy rich in toponymic studies. We used the official topographic maps of Calabria, at scales of 1:25,000 and 1: 10,000, and literature data on Calabrian toponymy. To interpret toponyms related to plants and avoid errors, we performed a joint linguistic and naturalistic analysis. A total of 1609 phytotoponyms were identified relating to 45 forest species (28 trees and 17 shrubs) and 399 place names generically related to woods and forests. The most frequent plants associated with place names were Castanea sativa (8.3% of all plant place names), Quercus pubescens s.l. (7.2%), Salix sp. pl. (6.9%) and Quercus frainetto (5.6%). All the phytotoponyms were georeferenced and mapped in a GIS. Phytotoponym distribution maps were compared with current Calabrian forest vegetation, using digital orthophotos, land use maps and literature data. A close correspondence between phytotoponyms and forest vegetation for the mountain belt was identified. In contrast, in the basal belt, we found poor correspondence between phytotoponyms and current forest vegetation, especially for wet forests, that can be accounted for by the severe changes in the landscape due to the agricultural and urban transformations that have occurred. The spread of phytotoponyms concerning species linked to forest degradation, such as Spartium junceum, emphasises the ancient anthropic impacts on forests. Our study shows that phytotoponyms are an important tool for analysing changes in vegetation over time. They make it possible to reconstruct changes in the landscape and the intended use of the territory and provide useful information on the restoration of forest ecosystems.

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Terranova, O. G., and P. Iaquinta. "Temporal properties of rainfall events in Calabria (southern Italy)." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 11, no. 3 (March 9, 2011): 751–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-11-751-2011.

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Abstract. Temporal properties of 152 575 rainfall events, recorded at time steps of 5 min, having different durations and occurring between 1989 and 2008 at 155 localities of Calabria (Italy), have been analysed in this paper. Samples from 45 533 storms have been selected to classify rainfall events as "significant" with regard to their contribution to soil erosion, flooding and/or other geo-hydrological processes. The samples are representative of a wide variety of situations in terms of duration, total rainfall, intensity, etc. The use of standardized rainfall profiles (SRP) is proposed to describe the within-storm temporal pattern. The main attraction of this method lies in the fact that it is based on actual data of regional precipitation. Its weak point is that large samples of data are required to obtain regional profiles. The research necessities for improving the use of Huff curves for storm disaggregation and its the potential use are summarized in this paper on the basis of the specific literature. A new criterion – based on the comparison of the areas A1, A2, A3 and A4 that underlie the four 25% of durations of a given SRP, and the corresponding four values of the "uniform" SRP (USRP), is suggested here with the aim of improving the use of the information content of SRP. Some interesting results concerning the sample frequency and the characterization of parameters for hydrological applications are commented on. The study conducted so far has produced important, albeit preliminary, results for different contexts of Calabria concerning the use of SRP among the methods for constructing design storm hyetographs.

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Sicoli, Giovanni, Nicodemo G. Passalacqua, Antonio B. De Giuseppe, Anna Maria Palermo, and Giuseppe Pellegrino. "A new species of Psathyrella (Psathyrellaceae, Agaricales) from Italy." MycoKeys 52 (May 16, 2019): 89–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.52.31415.

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Sporophores of a newPsathyrellaspecies have been reported for the first time as growing at the base ofCladiummariscusculms in the Botanical Garden of the University of Calabria, Rende, Cosenza, southern Italy. The fungus was initially identified asP.thujina(=P.almerensis) by means of both ecology and macro- and microscopic characteristics of the basidiomes, then referred toP.cladii-mariscisp. nov. after extraction, amplification, purification and analysis of the rDNA ITS region. We came to this conclusion after comparing our specimen with the descriptions of the taxa available in the literature for the genusPsathyrella.

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Di Pietro, Romeo, Antonio Luca Conte, Piera Di Marzio, Lorenzo Gianguzzi, Giovanni Spampinato, Orazio Caldarella, and Paola Fortini. "A multivariate morphometric analysis of diagnostic traits in southern Italy and Sicily pubescent oaks." Folia Geobotanica 55, no. 3 (September 2020): 163–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12224-020-09378-0.

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AbstractSpecies identification within the species complex of Q. pubescens is a well-known taxonomic challenge among European botanists. Some of the specific pubescent oak binomials currently accepted in various European floras and checklists were originally described in Sicily and southern Calabria. As a consequence, several species belonging to the pubescent oaks group (Q. pubescens, Q. amplifolia, Q. congesta, Q. dalechampii, Q. leptobalana and Q. virgiliana) are reported in the taxonomic and phytosociological literature. To verify whether it was possible to associate a diverse set of morphological characters with each of these different taxa, thirteen natural populations of pubescent oak from Sicily and southern Calabria were sampled. A total of 391 trees, 3,887 leaves and 1,047 fruits were collected. Overall, 28 morphological characters of oak leaves and fruits were statistically analysed using univariate and multivariate procedures. The results showed that neither the groups of morphological diversity identified by cluster analysis, nor those obtained by our expert identification through the use of analytical keys, matched with the current taxonomical frameworks as proposed by the most recent floras and checklists. Nearly all of the morphological characters considered displayed a more or less continuous trend of variation, both within and among populations. In the light of these findings it seems unlikely that more than one biological species of pubescent oak occurs in Sicily and southern Calabria.

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Pezzi, Marco, Stjepan Krčmar, Federica Mendicino, Francesco Carlomagno, Domenico Bonelli, Chiara Scapoli, Milvia Chicca, Marilena Leis, and Teresa Bonacci. "Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae) as Agent of Myiasis in a Goose in Italy and a Review of Myiasis by This Species in Birds." Insects 13, no. 6 (June 13, 2022): 542. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects13060542.

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Myiasis is a type of parasitosis by larvae of Diptera that may affect vertebrates, including wild and domestic birds. Traumatic myiasis was discovered in a domestic goose, Anser anser domesticus L. (Anseriformes: Anatidae), in June 2020 in a rural area of the region Calabria (Southern Italy). The myiasis was caused by Lucilia sericata (Meigen) (Diptera: Calliphoridae). In Italy, this was the first case of myiasis by L. sericata ever described in a bird. It was also the first case of myiasis detected in a goose in Italy. The description of the case is integrated by a discussion on nonhematophagous dipteran larvae causing myiasis in birds and by an updated and detailed review of literature cases of myiasis by L. sericata in birds reported worldwide, useful for monitoring and management of dipteran species of medical and veterinary interest.

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Festa, Vincenzo, Marianna Cicala, and Fabrizio Tursi. "The Curinga–Girifalco Line in the framework of the tectonic evolution of the remnant Alpine chain in Calabria (southern Italy)." International Journal of Earth Sciences 109, no. 7 (September 12, 2020): 2583–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00531-020-01918-5.

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Abstract In the peri-Mediterranean metamorphic belts, the tectonic evolution of the Calabria–Peloritani terrane during the dominant compressive tectonics of the Eocene represents one of the most problematic points in palinspastic restorations. A matter of particular debate is its shortening, which could have occurred during the Alpine or the Apennine subduction. In this regard, a crucial joint is provided by the kinematics of one of the most relevant shear zones such as the Curinga–Girifalco Line, cropping out in central Calabria. This shear zone juxtaposed a nearly complete Hercynian crustal section (i.e. the Sila and Serre Unit) onto the remnants of the Castagna Unit. The data in the available literature on ductile kinematics from the south-eastern branch of the Curinga–Girifalco Line indicate a downward movement of the hanging wall. In the present paper we show new, ductile kinematic data and petrographic evidence from outcrops in the north-western and south-eastern branches of the Curinga–Girifalco Line. Our results highlight the coherent kinematics of the Eocene shortening during the Alpine subduction system, followed by (late Eocene?)Oligocene to early Miocene, dominantly ductile extensional reworking, relating to the Apennines subduction system.

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Tropea, Mauro, Giuseppe Fedele, Raffaella De Luca, Domenico Miriello, and Floriano De Rango. "Automatic Stones Classification through a CNN-Based Approach." Sensors 22, no. 16 (August 21, 2022): 6292. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22166292.

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This paper presents an automatic recognition system for classifying stones belonging to different Calabrian quarries (Southern Italy). The tool for stone recognition has been developed in the SILPI project (acronym of “Sistema per l’Identificazione di Lapidei Per Immagini”), financed by POR Calabria FESR-FSE 2014-2020. Our study is based on the Convolutional Neural Network (CNNs) that is used in literature for many different tasks such as speech recognition, neural language processing, bioinformatics, image classification and much more. In particular, we propose a two-stage hybrid approach based on the use of a model of Deep Learning (DL), in our case the CNN, in the first stage and a model of Machine Learning (ML) in the second one. In this work, we discuss a possible solution to stones classification which uses a CNN for the feature extraction phase and the Softmax or Multinomial Logistic Regression (MLR), Support Vector Machine (SVM), k-Nearest Neighbors (kNN), Random Forest (RF) and Gaussian Naive Bayes (GNB) ML techniques in order to perform the classification phase basing our study on the approach called Transfer Learning (TL). We show the image acquisition process in order to collect adequate information for creating an opportune database of the stone typologies present in the Calabrian quarries, also performing the identification of quarries in the considered region. Finally, we show a comparison of different DL and ML combinations in our Two-Stage Hybrid Model solution.

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Guagliardi, Ilaria, Tommaso Caloiero, Ernesto Infusino, Giovanni Callegari, and Nicola Ricca. "Environmental Estimation of Radiation Equivalent Dose Rates in Soils and Waters of Northern Calabria (Italy)." Geofluids 2021 (April 27, 2021): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/6617283.

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In this study, the equivalent dose rate of natural radionuclides ( H T ) in 99 spring water and surface soil samples was determined using an alpha, beta, and gamma high sensitivity detector up within a Geiger-Muller tube and with an external probe NaI (Tl). The samples were collected in the Crati basin (southern Italy), and during sample collection, water quality parameters were detected in situ and at the University of Calabria laboratories. A Pearson correlation coefficient analysis was applied to identify and clarify the relationships between water physical-chemical properties and soil and water radioactivity. Results show that the mean H T for spring waters is 97.07 μSv/h. Furthermore, the mean H T for surface soils is 97.92 μSv/h, thus evidencing higher mean H T values than worldwide ones reported in a previous literature. Low correlation coefficients were detected between water H T and conductivity and pH. On the contrary, a reasonable correlation was found between H T in spring water and in soil. This relationship is associated with some rocks of the Sila Massif and of Coastal Chain, i.e., plutonic and metamorphic crystalline rocks. Finally, the estimation of the health risk was calculated: results did not evidence serious dangers for people living in the studied environment. The results from this survey for the H T evaluation provide an extensive assessment of the background exposure levels in the investigated area.

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Novembre, Daniela, Carla Pace, and Domingo Gimeno. "Synthesis and characterization of wollastonite-2Mby using a diatomite precursor." Mineralogical Magazine 82, no. 1 (February 2018): 95–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1180/minmag.2017.081.025.

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ABSTRACTSolid phase reaction synthesis of wollastonite-2Mby a natural rock precursor as the source of amorphous silica and CaCO3is reported. Chemical treatments were carried out on a diatomitic rock from Crotone (Calabria, Italy) in order to measure its reactive silica and CaCO3contents. Four series of synthesis were performed at 1000°C at ambient pressure by mixing, at different stoichiometry, the diatomitic rock with a natural limestone as a source of additive CaCO3, and sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) as triggering agent.Wollastonite-2Mwas characterized by chemo-physical, crystallographical and morphological-microtextural analyses. All these characterizations, together with infrared and nuclear magnetic resonance (29Si) responses provide values comparable to literature data. Estimation of the amorphous phase in the synthesis powders was performed through quantitative phase analysis using the combined Rietveld and reference intensity ratio methods, resulting in a final product of 96.3% wollastonite-2M.

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Popescu, Speranta-Maria, William Cavazza, Jean-Pierre Suc, Mihaela Carmen Melinte-Dobrinescu, Nadia Barhoun, and Christian Gorini. "Pre-Zanclean end of the Messinian Salinity Crisis: new evidence from central Mediterranean reference sections." Journal of the Geological Society 178, no. 3 (January 20, 2021): jgs2020–183. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-183.

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The concept of a geologically instantaneous earliest Zanclean reflooding of the Mediterranean Basin after the Messinian drawdown has dominated geological thinking and is ingrained in the scientific literature. The base of the Trubi Formation in southern Italy, formally defined as the Zanclean Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) at 5.33 Ma, has traditionally been considered as marking the marine reflooding of the Mediterranean. However, several studies provide evidence that marine reflooding occurred prior to the Zanclean GSSP, the most reliable of which comes from southern Calabria. Here, we show that the sedimentary coastal prism cropping out extensively immediately below the base of the Trubi Formation in this region and correlatable with the Arenazzolo Unit in Sicily contains a fully marine micropalaeontological association of calcareous nannofossils and dinoflagellate cysts, thus pointing to both a high sea-level and marine conditions before deposition of the Trubi Formation (i.e. in the latest Messinian).

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Ciurleo, Mariantonietta, Settimio Ferlisi, Vito Foresta, Maria Clorinda Mandaglio, and Nicola Moraci. "Landslide Susceptibility Analysis by Applying TRIGRS to a Reliable Geotechnical Slope Model." Geosciences 12, no. 1 (December 31, 2021): 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geosciences12010018.

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This paper presents the results of a research aimed at analysing the susceptibility to shallow landslides of a study area in the Calabria region (Southern Italy). These shallow landslides, which in some cases evolve as debris flows, periodically affect the study area, causing damage to structures and infrastructure. The involved soils come from the weathering of gneissic rocks and cover about 60% of the study area. To fulfil the goal of the research, the Transient Rainfall Infiltration and Grid-based Slope-Stability (TRIGRS) model was first used, assuming input data (including physical and mechanical parameters of soils) provided by the scientific literature. Then, the preliminary results obtained were used to properly locate in situ investigations that included sampling. Geotechnical laboratory tests allowed characterising the investigated soils, and related parameters were used as new input data of the TRIGRS model. The generated shallow landslide susceptibility scenario showed a good predictive capability based on the adoption of a cutoff-independent performance technique.

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Jacobs, Bart, and Hans Peter Kunert. "Whatever happened to the Occitan go-past?" Revue Romane / Langue et littérature. International Journal of Romance Languages and Literatures 49, no. 2 (December 31, 2014): 177–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rro.49.2.01jac.

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This article explores the history and present state of the Occitan go-past. Also known as the perfet perifràstic, this is a characteristic and well-studied feature of the Catalan grammar (vaig cantar go.1sg.pres.ind-sing ‘I sang’), but its existence in Occitan has been ignored to the extent that Catalan is often erroneously thought to be the only Romance language with a go-past. In this article, we first explore the rise and distribution of the go-past in Old Occitan (ca. 13th to 16th centuries) and then focus on the presence of the construction in the contemporary Occitan dialects of Gascony and Guardia Piemontese (a village in Calabria, Italy). We discuss the semantic and morphological particularities of the construction in some detail for both dialects using data from a variety of (little-known) sources, including, for Guardia Piemontese, our own field data. Finally, we provide arguments for the hypothesis that the go-past developed first in Occitania and subsequently diffused into Catalan-speaking areas.

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Croce, Antonello Ignazio, Giuseppe Musolino, Corrado Rindone, and Antonino Vitetta. "Route and Path Choices of Freight Vehicles: A Case Study with Floating Car Data." Sustainability 12, no. 20 (October 16, 2020): 8557. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12208557.

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According to the literature, the path choice decision process of a user of a (road) transport network, named path choice problem (PCP), is composed of two levels/models: the definition of perceived alternative paths (choice set) and the choice of one path in the path choice set. The path choice probability can be estimated with two models: a choice model of the path choice set and a choice model of a path (Mansky paradigm). In this research, the paper’s contribution concerns two elements: extension of the PCP paradigm (two-level models) consolidated in the literature to the route choice decision process (vehicle routing problem (VRP)) and identification of common elements in the PCP and VRP concerning the criteria in the two decision levels and the procedure for route and path selection and choice. The experiment concerns the comparison of observed routes with simulated and optimized routes of commercial vehicles to analyse the level of similarity and coverage. The observed routes are extracted from floating car data (FCD) from commercial vehicles travelling inside a study area inside the Calabria Region (Southern Italy). The comparison is executed in terms of similarity of the sequences of nodes visited between observed routes and simulated/optimized routes.

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Festa, Vincenzo, Annamaria Fornelli, Francesca Micheletti, Richard Spiess, and Fabrizio Tursi. "Ductile Shearing and Focussed Rejuvenation: Records of High-P (eo-)Alpine Metamorphism in the Variscan Lower Crust (Serre Massif, Calabria—Southern Italy)." Geosciences 12, no. 5 (May 17, 2022): 212. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geosciences12050212.

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In the present study, we unveil the real significance of mylonitic reworking of the polymetamorphic crystalline basement in the Serre Massif of Calabria (Southern Italy). We use a multidisciplinary approach to comprehend the structural, microstructural and petrologic changes that occurred along a, so far, not much considered shear zone affecting the Variscan lower crustal rocks. It was never before studied in detail, although some late Cretaceous ages were reported for these mylonites, suggesting that this shear zone is of prime importance. Our observations reveal now that the formation of the new structural fabric within the shear zone was accompanied by changes in mineral assemblages, in a dominant compressive tectonic regime. During this tectono-metamorphic event, high-P mylonitic mineral assemblages were stabilized, consisting of chloritoid, kyanite, staurolite, garnet and paragonite, whereas plagioclase became unstable. Average peak P–T conditions of 1.26–1.1 GPa and 572–626 °C were obtained using THERMOCALC software. These data question (i) that the Serre Massif represents an undisturbed continuous section of the Variscan crust, as generally suggested in the literature, and (ii) highlight the role of (eo-)Alpine high-P tectonics in the Serre Massif, recorded within mylonite zones, where the Variscan basement was completely rejuvenated.

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De Luca, Davide Luciano, and Andrea Petroselli. "STORAGE (STOchastic RAinfall GEnerator): A User-Friendly Software for Generating Long and High-Resolution Rainfall Time Series." Hydrology 8, no. 2 (May 3, 2021): 76. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/hydrology8020076.

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The MS Excel file with VBA (Visual Basic for Application) macros named STORAGE (STOchastic RAinfall GEnerator) is introduced herein. STORAGE is a temporal stochastic simulator aiming at generating long and high-resolution rainfall time series, and it is based on the implementation of a Neymann–Scott Rectangular Pulse (NSRP) model. STORAGE is characterized by two innovative aspects. First, its calibration (i.e., the parametric estimation, on the basis of available sample data, in order to better reproduce some rainfall features of interest) is carried out by using data series (annual maxima rainfall, annual and monthly cumulative rainfall, annual number of wet days) which are usually longer than observed high-resolution series (that are mainly adopted in literature for the calibration of other stochastic simulators but are usually very short or absent for many rain gauges). Second, the seasonality is modelled using series of goniometric functions. This approach makes STORAGE strongly parsimonious with respect to the use of monthly or seasonal sets for parameters. Applications for the rain gauge network in the Calabria region (southern Italy) are presented and discussed herein. The results show a good reproduction of the rainfall features which are mainly considered for usual hydrological purposes.

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Dattilo, Delia. "Folk Songs: Spaces and Reasons. Ruga, Love, Marriage, Departures." Tautosakos darbai 59 (June 2, 2020): 64–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.51554/td.2020.28367.

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This essay sheds light on habits, behaviours, and social practices by focusing on Southern Italian youth and their songs; more specifically, it deals with Calabria in the years between 1850 and the 1900s. Such samples – relics to us – allow us to infer how men and women of that generation communicated within the archaic and highly hierarchical society in which they lived. Sometimes through singing the youth of Southern Italy found a way to bypass prohibitions and to say what could not be normally said in everyday life. Since it is clearly impossible to hear the performers’ original voices, this essay relies on examples of poetry and songs as they were perceived, interpreted and published by philologists, folklorists and anthropologists during the second half of the 1800s. Literature draws on folk song collectors such as Achille Canale, Raffaele De Leonardis, and Francesco De Simone Brouwer. The songs and poems considered deal with the topics of love and disdain (sdegno), while a smaller group deals with the themes of lontananza and spartenza. A combined analysis of folk songs and local literature (Vincenzo Padula, Luigi Accattatis, Cesare Lombroso, Caterina Pigorini Beri et al.) allows us to better understand a context that was based on phenomena such as wooing strategies, kidnappings, ostentation of violence and other social events featured in folk songs, poetry and sayings.

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Bellizzi, Maria Grazia, Luigi dell’Olio, Laura Eboli, Carmen Forciniti, and Gabriella Mazzulla. "Passengers’ Expectations on Airlines’ Services: Design of a Stated Preference Survey and Preliminary Outcomes." Sustainability 12, no. 11 (June 9, 2020): 4707. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12114707.

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As the competition between airlines grows, their customer-centered strategies are becoming increasingly popular. In this context, the marketing strategies are the result of investigations carried out directly on users, usually through the Customer Satisfaction Surveys. Investigating on airline passengers’ preferences represents a useful action to pursue the most convenient strategy for increasing their satisfaction and improving the provided service. With this aim, we propose the design of a Stated Preference survey and the preliminary outcomes obtained from the analysis and modelling of the collected data. A deep study of the literature review drove us to consider the land services separately from the air ones. Even if the travel experience of an airline passenger starts at the airport, only the services provided by the airlines are the object of this study. The Stated Preference survey was designed with the aim to capture the passengers’ desires on airlines’ services by proposing hypothetical scenarios to them. The survey was addressed to the whole population of the University of Calabria (Italy). A sample of 1907 survey responses was obtained. For analyzing the collected data, discrete choice models have been calibrated to obtain the weights assigned by users to each service quality aspect included in the experiment.

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Scanu, Sergio, Daniele Piazzolla, Simone Bonamano, Marina Penna, Viviana Piermattei, Alice Madonia, Francesco Manfredi Frattarelli, et al. "Economic Evaluation of Posidonia oceanica Ecosystem Services along the Italian Coast." Sustainability 14, no. 1 (January 3, 2022): 489. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14010489.

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This study reports the quantification and analysis of the ecosystem services (ESs) value of Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile (1813) meadows in Italy (Liguria, Tuscany, Latium, Campania, Calabria, Apulia, Sardinia, and Sicily regions). The ES evaluation method of P. oceanica meadows applied in this study was obtained from a previous study in which the site-specific approach for the definition of the benefits and services was applied. The distribution of P. oceanica and the ESs economic value have been managed through an open-source geographic information system (QGIS), focusing on five essential ESs: carbon sequestration, bioremediation, oxygen production, erosion protection, and food production. The average value of the ESs obtained on the Italian national scale is €21,660.5 ha−1 yr−1, which is comparable with the values reported in the international literature concerning P. oceanica ESs. The results of this study confirm that the economic evaluation of ESs is an essential tool for the management of the coastal marine environment, especially considering the modularity of the applied approach. The value of the total benefits, considering the entire extension of the national P. oceanica meadows, represents significant value with respect to the Italian gross domestic product, and the individual budgets of the considered Italian regions.

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De Francesco, Anna Maria, Antonio La Marca, Carmelo Colelli, and Donatella Barca. "Chemical Characterization of the Roman Glass Finds from Muricelle Archaeological Site (Luzzi, Cosenza)." Minerals 12, no. 4 (April 13, 2022): 475. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/min12040475.

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This study reports the results obtained on seventeen glass finds collected from the archaeological site of Muricelle near Cosenza in Calabria (Italy), dated between the first and third century AD. Chemical characterization was undertaken by using an electron probe micro analyser (EPMA). The glasses showed a soda–lime–silica composition indicating the use of the natron as a flux. The comparison between the collected data and those on coeval finds available from the literature allowed us to subdivide the Muricelle glass into three compositional groups: (1) Mn_a, classified as Roman-Mn glasses; (2) Mn_b, which can be compared to the Mn-unintentionally coloured Roman glasses; and (3) Sb + Mn, obtained by the recycling of the Sb and Mn Roman-type glasses. These groups were different not only with respect to the contents and the types of decolourants but also for soda, lime, and aluminium contents, highlighting the use of different raw materials in the primary glass production and also indicating the procedures used in secondary glass production. The compositional characteristics suggested the Levant region as the primary glass source for the Mn_a and Mn_b groups. On the other hand, the Sb + Mn group was obtained through recycling, involving the melting and mixing of two types of primary glass (Sb-decolourised and Mn-decolourised) of Egyptian and Levantine origins, respectively.

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Lee, Hye-Min. "Transformation and Reconstruction of Historical Narratives: Analysis of Narrations About Otto II’s Battle in Calabria." Korean Society For German History 50 (August 31, 2022): 111–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.17995/kjgs.2022.8.50.111.

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In Sigebert of Gembloux’s Chronica, the record of the year 982 is not a mere compilation of an episcopal biography written by Alpert of Metz, to whom the author refers as his source. In this short chapter, Sigebert not only recounts “the flight and escape of the emperor (die Flucht und Rettung des Kaisers)” during Otto II’s battle in Calabria, but he also implies a political interpretation, as Alpert did before him, by highlighting the anti-Byzantine episode in which Theophano frivolously insults the Ottonian troops. However, the same historical event of 982 has different implications when specific historical contexts and intentions of two authors’ writings are taken into account: Alpert intended to advocate for the bishop Dietrich of Metz who supported Henry II against the young emperor Otto III and his mother Theophano. On the other hand, Sigebert’s writing can be read under the perspective of the Two Emperors’ Problem (Zweikaiserproblem). Even though the context of the Crusade can also be discerned in this passage, Sigebert presents the principal agents of conflicts as the Ottonians and the Byzantines, assigning the Saracens to a supporting role. Other slight variations are also found in Sigebert’s narration when compared to the text written by Alpert such as in the case of the reason of Otto II’s campaign in Southern Italy, the existence of the Slav “merchant”, and the second flight of Otto II from the Byzantine ship. Sigebert’s writing is not so much a faithful summary of Alpert’s text as it is a meticulous reconstruction of a historical narrative within the framework of his Universal history which seeks to uncover the historical meaning and role of the Medieval German Empire.

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Carrà, Bruno Gianmarco, Giuseppe Bombino, Pietro Denisi, Pedro Antonio Plaza-Àlvarez, Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja, and Demetrio Antonio Zema. "Water Infiltration after Prescribed Fire and Soil Mulching with Fern in Mediterranean Forests." Hydrology 8, no. 3 (June 25, 2021): 95. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/hydrology8030095.

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Prescribed fire is commonly used to reduce the wildfire risk in Mediterranean forests, but the soil’s hydrological response after fire is contrasting in literature experiences. The mulch treatment can limit the increases in runoff and erosion in the short term after a fire. The use of fern is preferable to straw, due its large availability in forests. However, no experiences of post-fire treatment with fern mulch have been found in the literature and therefore the mulching effectiveness has not been evaluated. This study has measured water infiltration rate (IR) and water repellency (SWR) using a rainfall simulator in three Mediterranean forest stands (pine, oak and chestnut) of Calabria (Southern Italy) after a prescribed fire and mulching treatment with fern in comparison to unburned soil. Prescribed fire reduced water infiltration in all forests in the short term compared to the unburned conditions, and increased SWR in pine and oak forests. These reductions in IR in the time window of disturbance after fire increased the runoff generation capacity in all soils, but had a lower effect on peak flows. However, soil mulching with fern limited the runoff rates and peak flows compared to the burned soils, but this treatment was less effective in pine forest. One year after fire, IR increased in burned soils (treated or not) over time, and SWR disappeared. The effects of mulching have disappeared after some months from fire. The study confirms the usefulness of mulching in broadleaves forest in the short term, in order to control the hydrological effects of prescribed fire in Mediterranean forests. Both post-fire management techniques should be instead adopted with caution in conifer forests.

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Dichicco, Maria, Michele Paternoster, Giovanna Rizzo, and Rosa Sinisi. "Mineralogical Asbestos Assessment in the Southern Apennines (Italy): A Review." Fibers 7, no. 3 (March 19, 2019): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fib7030024.

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This paper deals with petrography and mineralogy of serpentinitic rocks occurring in the Southern Apennines (Italy) with the aim to review the already available literature data and furnish new details on asbestos minerals present in the studied area. Two sites of Southern Italy were taken into account: the Pollino Massif, at the Calabrian-Lucanian border, and the surroundings of the Gimigliano and Mt. Reventino areas where serpentinites of Frido Unit are mainly exposed. Textural and mineralogical features of the studied rocks point to a similar composition for both sites including asbestos minerals such as chrysotile and tremolite-actinolite series mineral phases. Only in the Pollino Massif serpentinites edenite crystals have been detected as well; they are documented here for the first time. This amphibole forms as fibrous and/or prismatic crystals in aggregates associated with serpentine, pyroxene, and calcite. Metamorphism and/or metasomatic alteration of serpentinites are the most probable processes promoting the edenite formation in the Southern Apennine ophiolitic rocks.

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Bennetts, Stephen. "‘Undesirable Italians’: prolegomena for a history of the Calabrian ’Ndrangheta in Australia." Modern Italy 21, no. 1 (February 2016): 83–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mit.2015.5.

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Although Italian mafia scholars have recently been turning their attention to the Calabrian mafia (known as the ’Ndrangheta) diaspora in Australia, their efforts have been limited by conducting research remotely from Italy without the benefit of local knowledge. Australian journalists and crime writers have long played an important role in documenting ’Ndrangheta activities, but have in turn been limited by a lack of expertise in Italian language and culture, and knowledge of the Italian scholarly literature. As previously in the US, Australian scholarly discussion of the phenomenon has been inhibited, especially since the 1970s, by a ‘liberal progressive’ ‘negationist’ discourse, which has led to a virtual silence within the local scholarly literature. This paper seeks to break this silence by bringing the Italian scholarly and Australian journalistic and archival sources into dialogue, and summarising the clear evidence for the presence in Australia since the early 1920s of criminal actors associated with a well-organised criminal secret society structured along lines familiar from the literature on the ’Ndrangheta.

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D’Ippolito, Antonino, Francesco Calomino, Nadia Penna, Subhasish Dey, and Roberto Gaudio. "Simulation of Accelerated Subcritical Flow Profiles in an Open Channel with Emergent Rigid Vegetation." Applied Sciences 12, no. 14 (July 9, 2022): 6960. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app12146960.

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Even though both fluid mechanics and numerical studies have considerably progressed in the past decades, experimental knowledge remains an important tool for studying the resistance to flow in fluid media where a complex environment dominates the flow pattern. After a comprehensive review of the recent literature on the drag coefficient in open channels with emergent rigid vegetation, this paper presents the results related to 29 experimental accelerated subcritical flow profiles (i.e., M2 type) that were observed in flume experiments with emergent stems in a square arrangement at the University of Calabria (Italy). First of all, we used some of the literature formulas for the drag coefficient, concluding that they were unsatisfactory, probably because of their derivation for uniform or quasi-uniform flow conditions. Then, we tested a recently proposed approach, but when we plotted the drag coefficient versus the stem Reynolds number, the calculated drag coefficients showed an inconclusive behavior to interpret. Thus, we proposed a new approach that considers the calibration of the Manning coefficient for the simulation of the free surface profile, and then the evaluation of the drag coefficients based on the fundamental fluid mechanics equations. With the help of classical dimensional analysis, a regression equation was found to estimate the drag coefficients by means of non-dimensional parameters, which include vegetation density, stem Reynolds number and flow Reynolds number computed using the flow depth as characteristic length. This equation was used to simulate all the 26 observed profiles and, also, 4 experimental literature profiles, and the results were good. The regression equation could be used to estimate the drag coefficient for the M2 profiles in channels with squared stem arrangements, within the range of vegetation densities, flow Reynolds numbers and stem Reynolds numbers of the present study. However, in the case of the three profiles observed by the authors for staggered arrangement, the regression equation gives significantly underestimated flow depths.

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Croce, Antonello Ignazio, Giuseppe Musolino, Corrado Rindone, and Antonino Vitetta. "Traffic and Energy Consumption Modelling of Electric Vehicles: Parameter Updating from Floating and Probe Vehicle Data." Energies 15, no. 1 (December 23, 2021): 82. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en15010082.

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This paper focuses on the estimation of energy consumption of Electric Vehicles (EVs) by means of models derived from traffic flow theory and vehicle locomotion laws. In particular, it proposes a bi-level procedure with the aim to calibrate (or update) the whole parameters of traffic flow models and energy consumption laws by means of Floating Car Data (FCD) and probe vehicle data. The reported models may be part of a procedure for designing and planning transport and energy systems. This aim is to verify if, and in what amount, the existing parameters of the resistances/energy consumptions model calibrated in the literature for Internal Combustion Engines Vehicles (ICEVs) change for EVs, considering the above circular dependency between supply, demand, and supply–demand interaction. The final results concern updated parameters to be used for eco-driving and eco-routing applications for design and a planning transport system adopting a multidisciplinary approach. The focus of this manuscript is on the transport area. Experimental data concern vehicular data extracted from traffic (floating car data and probe vehicle data) and energy consumption data measured for equipped EVs performing trips inside a sub-regional area, located in the Città Metropolitana of Reggio Calabria (Italy). The results of the calibration process are encouraging, as they allow for updating parameters related to energy consumption and energy recovered in terms of EVs obtained from data observed in real conditions. The latter term is relevant in EVs, particularly on urban routes where drivers experience unstable traffic conditions.

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Scudero, Salvatore, Giorgio De Guidi, Riccardo Caputo, and Vincenzo Perdicaro. "A semi-quantitative method to combine tectonic stress indicators: example from the Southern Calabrian Arc (Italy)." Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece 56, no. 1 (December 27, 2020): 280. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/bgsg.23485.

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Databases of tectonic stress indicators are commonly based on different types of observations at different spatial and temporal scales. Each single indicator can be variously representative of the real stress field and the relative importance of all the indicators should be accounted for before any following elaboration. We propose a semi-quantitative procedure which assigns weights to each indicator on the basis of its quality and its representative volume. In this way the indicators can be reliably combined to produce, for example, stress field maps or stress trajectories. The proposed weighting criterion has been applied to a dataset of 440 crustal stress indicators specifically compiled, gathering focal mechanisms and geological data from the literature, and original data from structural features derived from devoted fieldwork, for the southern part of the Calabrian Arc (Italy). This area represents an interesting case study because of its complex geodynamic and structural arrangement. Data were ranked and the orientation of the minimum horizontal stress (Sh) has been interpolated and smoothed on a regular grid. We drew maps of the principal stress axes and inferred the stress regimes over the investigated area. Results are in agreement with independent information from the literature and display the non-uniform orientation of the tectonic stresses and the occurrence of perturbations both at regional and local scale.

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Scudero, Salvatore, Giorgio De Guidi, Riccardo Caputo, and Vincenzo Perdicaro. "A semi-quantitative method to combine tectonic stress indicators: example from the Southern Calabrian Arc (Italy)." Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece 56, no. 1 (December 27, 2020): 280. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/bgsg.23485.

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Databases of tectonic stress indicators are commonly based on different types of observations at different spatial and temporal scales. Each single indicator can be variously representative of the real stress field and the relative importance of all the indicators should be accounted for before any following elaboration. We propose a semi-quantitative procedure which assigns weights to each indicator on the basis of its quality and its representative volume. In this way the indicators can be reliably combined to produce, for example, stress field maps or stress trajectories. The proposed weighting criterion has been applied to a dataset of 440 crustal stress indicators specifically compiled, gathering focal mechanisms and geological data from the literature, and original data from structural features derived from devoted fieldwork, for the southern part of the Calabrian Arc (Italy). This area represents an interesting case study because of its complex geodynamic and structural arrangement. Data were ranked and the orientation of the minimum horizontal stress (Sh) has been interpolated and smoothed on a regular grid. We drew maps of the principal stress axes and inferred the stress regimes over the investigated area. Results are in agreement with independent information from the literature and display the non-uniform orientation of the tectonic stresses and the occurrence of perturbations both at regional and local scale.

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Petrucci, O., and M. Polemio. "Flood risk mitigation and anthropogenic modifications of a coastal plain in southern Italy: combined effects over the past 150 years." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 7, no. 3 (June 4, 2007): 361–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-7-361-2007.

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Abstract. A study of the effects of human modification of a coastal plain mainly involving land reclamation and flood protection is proposed. The approach involves historical, geomorphological and hydrological data as a whole, taking into account the equilibrium of rivers, plains and coastal areas. The test area, a telling example of profound economic and social transformation of a coastal plain, is the Piana di Sibari (Calabria, southern Italy), subject to major human modifications over the last 150 years. The study area, at most 300 m a.s.l., is 450 km2 wide and comprises 24 hydrographic basins. The approach is based on the creation and analysis of four databases: 1) a historical series of geo-coded flood damage (DAMAGES database), concerning damaging floods which occurred over the past few centuries in the study area; 2) a geocoded series of protection works for land reclamation, protection from floods and improvement of soil stability in steep areas (WORKS database), gathered from the archives of the agencies that carried out the works, organized in a GIS-format; 3) a historical series of maximum flood discharges and extreme rainy events (HYMAX database) aimed at defining the trends of occurrence and the intensity of flooding; 4) a coastal line position and migration over time (COASTAL database), created using mainly literature data based on discontinuous data such as historical maps and images. The work describes the complex succession of floods, protection and reclamation works, human transformation of the plain and major land use changes over the last two centuries in the test area. The new characteristics of the plain and its modifications, including major engineering works, land-use transformation and urbanisation, are illustrated. The damaging floods of the last 200 years, the modifications of runoff and flooding due to works built over the basins, hydrological data and the records concerning coastal modifications were used to create specific databases and a GIS in which these data can be analyzed by typology, location and extension. The proposed approach highlights the high degree of correlation between drainage basin management, mainly in terms of increasing protection from natural hazards, and anthropogenic development in a broad coastal plain.

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Tounta, Eleni. "Conflicting Sanctities and the Construction of Collective Memories in Byzantine and Norman Italo-Greek Southern Calabria: Elias the Younger and Elias Speleotes." Analecta Bollandiana 135, no. 1 (June 2017): 101–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/j.abol.4.2017006.

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Ledgeway, Adam. "Residues and Extensions of Perfective Auxiliary be: Modal Conditioning." Languages 7, no. 3 (June 29, 2022): 160. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages7030160.

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This article provides both a diachronic and synchronic account of the generalization of perfective auxiliary be in specific irrealis modal contexts across numerous Romance varieties spoken in Italy and more widely within the Romània, which has essentially gone unnoticed in the descriptive and theoretical literature. In some cases (southern Calabrian, Latin American Spanish, Portuguese), the distribution of be is to be interpreted as a residue of an original unaccusative syntax which was exceptionally preserved under higher V-movement in irrealis contexts, whereas in others (person-driven dialects of central and southern Italy, southern peninsular Spanish, Romanian) this original unaccusative signal has been reanalysed as a specialized marker of irrealis (lexicalizing a high Mood head) and extended to all verb classes. In the case of Alguerès, by contrast, the generalization of irrealis be is argued to be the result of language contact with surrounding Sardinian dialects where a specific pattern of dedicated irrealis marking of Mood° has been replicated. Finally, the reverse pattern with generalization of irrealis have, the reanalysis of an aspectual distinction between resultative and experiential perfects found in early Romance varieties (Neapolitan, Sicilian, Spanish, Catalan), is shown to involve a similar pattern of dedicated irrealis marking in Mood°.

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Medaglia, Salvatore, Francesco Megna, and Luca De Rosa. "Early Observations on the Steamer Bengala (Formerly Named Mecca and Livorno) Sunk off Capo Rizzuto (Crotone, Italy) in 1889." Heritage 3, no. 3 (August 13, 2020): 891–914. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/heritage3030049.

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In the waters of the Calabrian Ionian Sea, off Isola di Capo Rizzuto (Crotone, Italy) and at a depth of 26–29 m, lies the wreck of Bengala, an iron screw-steamer foundered in 1889. She was built and launched in 1871 in Sunderland (Great Britain) in the yards of Iliff, Mounsey, and Co. (Sunderland), with the name of Mecca and her British owner was Mr. Ralph Milbanke Hudson Junior. In 1872 she was sold to the Lloyd Italiano company and was rechristened as Livorno. In 1876 her ownership changed once more and she became part of the fleet of the Genoese shipping company Rubattino and Co. with the name Bengala. The steamer was sold for the last time at the launch of the Navigazione Generale Italiana in 1881, one of the largest shipping companies in Europe. Until now, no scientific study has been dedicated to this topic and the few references in the literature are often incorrect. For this reason, in the pages that follow, a broad historical account of the events concerning the steamer is offered for the first time, linking them to the complex events of the Italian merchant navy of that period. This is followed by the analysis of underwater archaeological evidence, with a view to carrying out more detailed investigations in the near future.

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Ammerman, Albert J. "Plow-Zone Experiments in Calabria, Italy." Journal of Field Archaeology 12, no. 1 (1985): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/529373.

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Young, David. "Pentecostals in Italy – Sicily and Calabria." Journal of the European Pentecostal Theological Association 34, no. 1 (April 2014): 55–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/jep.2014.34.1.007.

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Sanfilippo, Annika. "Pliocene Radiolaria from Bianco, Calabria, Italy." Micropaleontology 34, no. 2 (1988): 159. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1485659.

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Ammerman, Albert J. "Plow-Zone Experiments in Calabria, Italy." Journal of Field Archaeology 12, no. 1 (January 1985): 33–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/009346985791169544.

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Pirazzoli, P. A., G. Mastronuzzi, J. F. Saliège, and P. Sansò. "Late Holocene emergence in Calabria, Italy." Marine Geology 141, no. 1-4 (September 1997): 61–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0025-3227(97)00057-1.

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Pellicone, Gaetano, Tommaso Caloiero, Vittoria Coletta, and Antonella Veltri. "Phytoclimatic map of Calabria (Southern Italy)." Journal of Maps 10, no. 1 (November 12, 2013): 109–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2013.860884.

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Vennari, C., S. L. Gariano, L. Antronico, M. T. Brunetti, G. Iovine, S. Peruccacci, O. Terranova, and F. Guzzetti. "Rainfall thresholds for shallow landslide occurrence in Calabria, southern Italy." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 14, no. 2 (February 20, 2014): 317–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-14-317-2014.

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Abstract. In many areas, rainfall is the primary trigger of landslides. Determining the rainfall conditions responsible for landslide occurrence is important, and may contribute to saving lives and properties. In a long-term national project for the definition of rainfall thresholds for possible landslide occurrence in Italy, we compiled a catalogue of 186 rainfall events that resulted in 251 shallow landslides in Calabria, southern Italy, from January 1996 to September 2011. Landslides were located geographically using Google Earth®, and were given a mapping and a temporal accuracy. We used the landslide information, and sub-hourly rainfall measurements obtained from two complementary networks of rain gauges, to determine cumulated event vs. rainfall duration (ED) thresholds for Calabria. For this purpose, we adopted an existing method used to prepare rainfall thresholds and to estimate their associated uncertainties in central Italy. The regional thresholds for Calabria were found to be nearly identical to previous ED thresholds for Calabria obtained using a reduced set of landslide information, and slightly higher than the ED thresholds obtained for central Italy. We segmented the regional catalogue of rainfall events with landslides in Calabria into lithology, soil regions, rainfall zones, and seasonal periods. The number of events in each subdivision was insufficient to determine reliable thresholds, but allowed for preliminary conclusions about the role of the environmental factors in the rainfall conditions responsible for shallow landslides in Calabria. We further segmented the regional catalogue based on administrative subdivisions used for hydro-meteorological monitoring and operational flood forecasting, and we determined separate ED thresholds for the Tyrrhenian and the Ionian coasts of Calabria. We expect the ED rainfall thresholds for Calabria to be used in regional and national landslide warning systems. The thresholds can also be used for landslide hazard and risk assessments, and for erosion and landscape evolution studies, in the study area and in similar physiographic regions in the Mediterranean area.

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Vennari, C., S. L. Gariano, L. Antronico, M. T. Brunetti, G. Iovine, S. Peruccacci, O. Terranova, and F. Guzzetti. "Rainfall thresholds for shallow landslides occurrence in Calabria, southern Italy." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions 1, no. 5 (September 27, 2013): 5141–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhessd-1-5141-2013.

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Abstract. In many areas, rainfall is the primary trigger of landslides. Determining the rainfall conditions responsible for landslide occurrence is important, and may contribute to save lives and properties. In a long-term national project for the definition of rainfall thresholds for possible landslide occurrence in Italy, and for the implementation of a national landslide warning system, we compiled a catalogue of 186 rainfall events that have resulted in 251 shallow landslides in Calabria, southern Italy, from January 1996 to September 2011. Landslides were located geographically using Google Earth®, and were given a mapping and a temporal accuracy. We used the landslide information, and sub-hourly rainfall measurements obtained from two complementary networks of rain gauges, to determine cumulated event vs. rainfall duration (ED) thresholds for Calabria. For the purpose, we adopted an existing method used to prepare rainfall thresholds and to estimate their associated uncertainties in central Italy. The regional thresholds for Calabria were found nearly identical to previous ED thresholds for Calabria obtained using a reduced set of landslide information, and slightly higher than the ED thresholds obtained for central Italy. We segmented the regional catalogue of rainfall events with landslides on lithology, soil regions, rainfall zones, and seasonal periods. The number of events in each subdivision was insufficient to determine reliable thresholds, but allowed for preliminary conclusions on the role of the environmental factors on the rainfall conditions responsible for shallow landslides in Calabria. We further segmented the regional catalogue based on administrative subdivisions used for hydro-meteorological monitoring and operational flood forecasting, and we determined separate ED thresholds for the Tyrrhenian and the Ionian coasts of Calabria. We expect the ED rainfall thresholds for Calabria to be used in regional and national landslide warning systems. The thresholds can also be used for landslide hazard and risk assessments, and for erosion and landscape evolution studies, in the study area and in similar physiographic regions in the Mediterranean area.

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Le Pera, Emilia, Salvatore Critelli, and Marino Sorriso-Valvo. "Weathering of gneiss in Calabria, Southern Italy." CATENA 42, no. 1 (January 2001): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0341-8162(00)00117-x.

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Antronico, Loredana, Roberto Greco, and Marino Sorriso-Valvo. "Recent alluvial fans in Calabria (southern Italy)." Journal of Maps 12, no. 3 (May 27, 2015): 503–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2015.1047905.

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Tripodi, Vincenzo, Anna Gervasi, Mario La Rocca, Federica Lucà, and Francesco Muto. "Seismotectonics of Southern Calabria Terrane (South Italy)." Journal of Mountain Science 19, no. 11 (November 2022): 3148–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11629-022-7354-1.

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AbstractSeismic data of earthquakes recorded during the last 40 years in southern Calabria have been compared with geological data in order to obtain a seismotectonic picture of the area. We sought for any possible correlation between the main regional tectonic structures, the distribution of earthquake hypocentres and the focal mechanism of earthquakes with magnitude (Ml)≥3. Studies of historical and recent seismicity and analysis of geological structures allowed to define the main shear strips on a regional scale. More than 2600 earthquakes with 1.5 ≤ Ml ≤ 4.5 have been considered. The focal mechanisms of earthquakes with Ml≥3 have been compared with the kinematics of known faults and used to give insight on the current active stress field. From the analysis carried out it was possible to expand the cognitive framework regarding the activity of the main tectonic structures present in the area. This study also served to identify areas of high seismicity which do not correspond to any evidence of tectonic structures on the surface, and areas where recognized tectonic structures have not shown any seismicity during the last decades. These cases could be the subject of future investigation in order to correctly assess the seismic hazard in Calabria. This task is important in the context of seismic hazard evaluation and mitigation.

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Laface, Valentina Lucia Astrid, Carmelo Maria Musarella, Ana Cano Ortiz, Ricardo Quinto Canas, Serafino Cannavò, and Giovanni Spampinato. "Three New Alien Taxa for Europe and a Chorological Update on the Alien Vascular Flora of Calabria (Southern Italy)." Plants 9, no. 9 (September 11, 2020): 1181. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants9091181.

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Knowledge on alien species is needed nowadays to protect natural habitats and prevent ecological damage. The presence of new alien plant species in Italy is increasing every day. Calabria, its southernmost region, is not yet well known with regard to this aspect. Thanks to fieldwork, sampling, and observing many exotic plants in Calabria, here, we report new data on 34 alien taxa. In particular, we found three new taxa for Europe (Cascabela thevetia, Ipomoea setosa subsp. pavonii, and Tecoma stans), three new for Italy (Brugmansia aurea, Narcissus ‘Cotinga’, and Narcissus ‘Erlicheer’), one new one for the Italian Peninsula (Luffa aegyptiaca), and 21 new taxa for Calabria (Allium cepa, Asparagus setaceus, Bassia scoparia, Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris, Bidens formosa, Casuarina equisetifolia, Cedrus atlantica, Chlorophytum comosum, Cucurbita maxima subsp. maxima, Dolichandra unguis-cati, Fagopyrum esculentum, Freesia alba, Juglans regia, Kalanchoë delagoënsis, Passiflora caerulea, Portulaca grandiflora, Prunus armeniaca, Prunus dulcis, Solanum tuberosum, Tradescantia sillamontana, and Washingtonia filifera). Furthermore, we provide the first geolocalized record of Araujia sericifera, the confirmation of Oxalis stricta, and propose a change of status for four taxa (Cenchrus setaceus, Salpichroa origanifolia, Sesbania punicea, and Nothoscordum gracile) for Calabria. The updated knowledge on the presence of new alien species in Calabria, in Italy and in Europe could allow for the prevention of other new entries and to eliminate this potential ecological threat to natural habitats.

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BIONDI, G., P. RASPE, and C. G. N. MASCIE-TAYLOR. "GENETIC STRUCTURE THROUGH SURNAMES IN CAMPOBASSO PROVINCE, ITALY." Journal of Biosocial Science 32, no. 4 (October 2000): 459–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021932000004594.

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The population of Campobasso Province shows a level of inbreeding that is distinct from most Italian rural populations, regardless of their geographic location (Fr=0·0040; Fn=0·0102; Ft=0·0142). The genetic structure of the Italian–Greek communities of Lecce and Reggio Calabria Provinces does not appear to be affected by ethnicity. The level of inbreeding in Italian–Greeks of Reggio Calabria Province is similar to other Italians of Campobasso Province (Fr=0·0041; Fn=0·0127; Ft=0·0168). The Italian–Greeks of Lecce Province show random mating, and their inbreeding is in fact very low (Fr=0·0038; Fn=0·0024; Ft=0·0062).

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Caloiero, Tommaso, Roberto Coscarelli, Ennio Ferrari, and Beniamino Sirangelo. "Analysis of Dry Spells in Southern Italy (Calabria)." Water 7, no. 12 (June 17, 2015): 3009–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w7063009.

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Conte, Enrico, Antonio Donato, Luigi Pugliese, and Antonello Troncone. "Kinematics of the Maierato Landslide (Calabria, Southern Italy)." Procedia Engineering 158 (2016): 194–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2016.08.428.

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Gattuso, Caterina, Philomène Gattuso, Valentina Caramazza, Chiara Gallo, Valentina Roviello, and Luigi Campanella. "The roman thermal complex from Curinga (Calabria - Italy)." Natural Product Research 33, no. 7 (January 9, 2017): 1070–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14786419.2016.1266345.

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Vecchio, Antonio, Liliana Minelli, Francesca D’Ajello Caracciolo, Iacopo Nicolosi, Carla Bottari, Roberto Carluccio, Rossella Celi, et al. "High-resolution aeromagnetic survey of Calabria (Southern Italy)." Journal of Maps 13, no. 2 (December 20, 2016): 116–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2016.1266523.

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Conte, Enrico, Antonio Donato, Luigi Pugliese, and Antonello Troncone. "Analysis of the Maierato landslide (Calabria, Southern Italy)." Landslides 15, no. 10 (May 10, 2018): 1935–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10346-018-0997-x.

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