Journal articles: 'Livorno (Italy)'

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Lafarga, Tomás, Carlo Pieroni, Giuliana D’Imporzano, Lorenzo Maggioni, Fabrizio Adani, and Gabriel Acién. "Consumer Attitudes towards Microalgae Production and Microalgae-Based Agricultural Products: The Cases of Almería (Spain) and Livorno (Italy)." ChemEngineering 5, no. 2 (May 28, 2021): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/chemengineering5020027.

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The production of microalgal biomass and products derived thereof for a wide variety of applications is a hot research topic, with the number of facilities being built and products and biologically active molecules launched into the market increasing every year. The aim of the current study was to identify the attitudes of citizens in Almería (Spain) and Livorno (Italy) towards the construction of a microalgae production plant and a biorefinery in their cities and also their opinions about the microalgae-based products that could be produced. Overall, in Almería (Spain), a NIMBY (not in my back yard) attitude towards the construction of a microalgal production facility and especially towards a microalgal biorefinery was observed, despite the strong microalgal industry in the region and the higher knowledge of citizens about microalgae. In both locations, but especially in Livorno (Italy), microalgae-based biostimulants, biofertilisers, and aquafeeds were well accepted. Proximity was the main factor affecting the acceptance of a microalgae producing facility. Consumer knowledge about microalgal biotechnology and the health and environmental benefits of this valuable raw material are scarce, and opinions are based on drivers other than knowledge. After gaining more knowledge about microalgal biorefineries, most of the responses in Almería (47%) and Livorno (61%) were more positive.

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Buishand, TA, and T. Brandsma. "Dependence of precipitation on temperature at Florence and Livorno (Italy)." Climate Research 12 (1999): 53–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/cr012053.

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Capecchi, Valerio, Andrea Antonini, Riccardo Benedetti, Luca Fibbi, Samantha Melani, Luca Rovai, Antonio Ricchi, and Diego Cerrai. "Assimilating X- and S-Band Radar Data for a Heavy Precipitation Event in Italy." Water 13, no. 13 (June 22, 2021): 1727. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w13131727.

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During the night between 9 and 10 September 2017, multiple flash floods associated with a heavy-precipitation event affected the town of Livorno, located in Tuscany, Italy. Accumulated precipitation exceeding 200 mm in two hours was recorded. This rainfall intensity is associated with a return period of higher than 200 years. As a consequence, all the largest streams of the Livorno municipality flooded several areas of the town. We used the limited-area weather research and forecasting (WRF) model, in a convection-permitting setup, to reconstruct the extreme event leading to the flash floods. We evaluated possible forecasting improvements emerging from the assimilation of local ground stations and X- and S-band radar data into the WRF, using the configuration operational at the meteorological center of Tuscany region (LaMMA) at the time of the event. Simulations were verified against weather station observations, through an innovative method aimed at disentangling the positioning and intensity errors of precipitation forecasts. A more accurate description of the low-level flows and a better assessment of the atmospheric water vapor field showed how the assimilation of radar data can improve quantitative precipitation forecasts.

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Cartoni Mancinelli, Alice, Alessandro Franzoni, Alessandro Dal Bosco, Achille Schiavone, Federica Mannelli, Margherita Marzoni, and Cesare Castellini. "Distribution and consistency of Ancona and Livorno poultry breed in Central Italy." Italian Journal of Animal Science 19, no. 1 (November 13, 2020): 1297–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1828051x.2020.1842814.

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Goracci, Enzo, and Giampaolo Goracci. "Ragweed (Ambrosia) pollen presence in Livorno, Central Italy: Aerobiological and sensitization data." Aerobiologia 12, no. 1 (December 1996): 139–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02248139.

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Goracci, Enzo, and Giampaolo Goracci. "Ragweed (Ambrosia) pollen presence in Livorno, Central Italy: Aerobiological and sensitization data." Aerobiologia 12, no. 2 (July 1996): 139–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02446607.

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Lezzerini, Marco, Jacopo Civita, Andrea Aquino, and Stefano Pagnotta. "Marbles from Castagneto Carducci Area (Tuscany, Italy)." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 906, no. 1 (November 1, 2021): 012122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/906/1/012122.

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Abstract In this work, marbles from Castagneto Carducci (Livorno province, Tuscany), which originated by contact metamorphism of the Calcare Massiccio Fm., an Early Jurassic limestone belonging to the Tuscan Sequence, were studied for determining their chemical, mineralogical and petrographic characteristics, and the main physical and mechanical properties. Forty marble samples were sampled and analysed; they are from two inactive quarries on the NW and NE slopes of the Mt. Romitorino, and from natural outcrops in the vicinity of the quarries. The analysed rocks are marbles with high calcite content (> 98% by weight). Optical microscopy observations showed Castagneto Carducci marbles generally have a heteroblastic/granoblastic texture with crystal boundaries from curved-right to lobate. The maximum grain size of the calcite crystals ranges from 0.2 mm to 0.6 mm. The determination of the main physical and mechanical properties of the analysed marbles showed that these rocks are characterised by low porosity and, in general, good physical and mechanical properties.

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Pasquinelli, Paolo. "Lichen Transplantation on Polyporales Fungi. An Attempt to Verify the Compatibility after Translocation from a Hill Forest to Anthropized City Parks at Livorno (Tuscany, Italy)." Archives of Agriculture Research and Technology (AART) 4, no. 1 (January 19, 2023): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.54026/aart/1044.

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The transplantation of genus Cladonia terricolous lichens on Polyporales parasitic xylophagous fungi was attempted. Three species of Cladonia (C. pyxidata, C. rangiformis, C. foliacea) have been moved (translocated) from Livorno hill woods (Tuscany, Italy) to some public Livorno parks which suffer by an excessive anthropization. After a short period (a week) of adaptation to the new environment we transplanted thirteen specimens of Cladonia lichens on four different species of Polyporales fungi (Fomitopis betulina, Phellinus torulosus, Stereum hirsutum and Ganoderma applanatum) identified on the trees of the parks. The transplants obtained good engraftment and every periodic qualitative control showed a persistent photosynthetic activity even eight months after the start. Only one transplant (on Ganoderma applanatum) failed due by the toxicity of a secretion after incision. These observations lead us to consider those experiments as a demonstration of the compatibility of the implied tissues on transplantation and also allow us to introduce the difference of the term transplantation (the insert of an organism to another) from the often-confused translocation (relocation of an organism in different habitat). Future checks will indicate how and for how long this artificial association complex might persist.

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Federico, Stefano, Rosa Claudia Torcasio, Elenio Avolio, Olivier Caumont, Mario Montopoli, Luca Baldini, Gianfranco Vulpiani, and Stefano Dietrich. "The impact of lightning and radar reflectivity factor data assimilation on the very short-term rainfall forecasts of RAMS@ISAC: application to two case studies in Italy." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 19, no. 8 (August 23, 2019): 1839–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-1839-2019.

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Abstract. In this paper, we study the impact of lightning and radar reflectivity factor data assimilation on the precipitation VSF (very short-term forecast, 3 h in this study) for two severe weather events that occurred in Italy. The first case refers to a moderate and localized rainfall over central Italy that occurred on 16 September 2017. The second case occurred on 9 and 10 September 2017 and was very intense and caused damages in several geographical areas, especially in Livorno (Tuscany) where nine people died. The first case study was missed by several operational forecasts, including that performed by the model used in this paper, while the Livorno case was partially predicted by operational models. We use the RAMS@ISAC model (Regional Atmospheric Modelling System at Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the Italian National Research Council), whose 3D-Var extension to the assimilation of radar reflectivity factor is shown in this paper for the first time. Results for the two cases show that the assimilation of lightning and radar reflectivity factor, especially when used together, have a significant and positive impact on the precipitation forecast. For specific time intervals, the data assimilation is of practical importance for civil protection purposes because it changes a missed forecast of intense precipitation (≥40 mm in 3 h) to a correct one. While there is an improvement of the rainfall VSF thanks to the lightning and radar reflectivity factor data assimilation, its usefulness is partially reduced by the increase in false alarms, especially when both datasets are assimilated.

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Nardi, Samanta, Federico Puccini Leoni, Viola Monticelli, Valentina Virginia Ebani, Fabrizio Bertelloni, Margherita Marzoni, Francesca Mancianti, Simonetta Citi, and Giovanni Barsotti. "Tear Production, Intraocular Pressure, Ultrasound Biometric Features and Conjunctival Flora Identification in Clinically Normal Eyes of Two Italian Breeds of Chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus)." Animals 11, no. 10 (October 17, 2021): 2987. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11102987.

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Given the abundance of chickens in Italy, it is important for veterinarians to know the normal state of chickens’ eyes in order to identify any ophthalmic pathological changes. The aim of this study was to determine the normal values of select ocular parameters and to evaluate conjunctival microflora in two Italian chicken breeds. Sixty-six healthy chickens underwent a complete ophthalmic examination, which included a phenol red thread test (PRTT) for the evaluation of tear production and the assessment of intraocular pressure by rebound tonometry. B-mode ultrasound biometric measurements and conjunctival microflora identification were also performed in twenty-seven chickens. Mean PRTT was 23.77 ± 2.99 mm/15 s in the Livorno breed and 19.95 ± 2.81 mm/15 s in the Siciliana breed. Mean intraocular pressure was 14.3 ± 1.17 mmHg in the Livorno breed and 14.06 ± 1.15 mmHg in the Siciliana breed. Reference ranges for morphometric parameters were reported in the two breeds. Twenty-three chickens (85.18%) were bacteriologically positive. Chlamydia spp. antigen was detected in 14.81% of chickens. No positive cultures were obtained for fungi. Normal reference range values for selected ophthalmic parameters were obtained in clinically healthy chickens, which could facilitate accurate diagnosis and better management of ophthalmic diseases in these animals.

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Verdiani, G., and V. Fantini. "The “Terme Del Corallo” in Livorno, Italy, a Contribution to Try Going beyond the Abandon." International Journal of Heritage in the Digital Era 1, no. 1_suppl (January 2012): 15–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1260/2047-4970.1.0.15.

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Giresini, Linda, and Mauro Sassu. "Tests Results and Simple Structural Analysis of the Main Lighthouse in the Harbor of Livorno (Italy)." Advanced Materials Research 834-836 (October 2013): 1299–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.834-836.1299.

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The present work assesses the structural analysis of the main lighthouse of Livornos harbor. It is made by a r.c. framework, built in the 50s as reconstruction of medieval tower similar to it. The wind and seismic actions (with and without collaboration of the masonry infill and façade) are investigated, showing the fundamental contribution of the masonry layers for a satisfactory structural response.

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Beltrame, Carlo, and Fabrizio Antonelli. "Archaeological and archaeometric investigation of the Roman marble cargos of Porto Cervo (Arzachena, Sassari, Italy) and Secche della Meloria (Livorno, Italy)." Archaeometry 64, no. 3 (December 30, 2021): 578–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12736.

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De Angeli, Antonio, Alessandro Garassino, and Giovanni Pasini. "New report of the coral-associated decapods from the early Messinian (Late Miocene) of Acquabona, Rosignano Marittimo (Toscana, Italy)." Natural History Sciences 152, no. 2 (September 1, 2011): 107. http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/nhs.2011.107.

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We report a coral-associated decapods from the early Messinian (Late Miocene) of Acquabona, Rosignano Marittimo, Livorno (Toscana, Italy). This study allowed to identify these species, as follows: Galathea cfr. G. squamifera Leach, 1814 (Galatheidae Samouelle, 1819), Pisi-dia kokayi (Müller, 1974) (Porcellanidae Haworth, 1825), Pilumnus cfr. P. mediterraneus (Lőrenthey, 1897) (Pilumnidae Samouelle, 1819), Actaea calzadai Müller, 1984, Xantho moldavicus (Yanakevich, 1977), Haydnella cfr. H. steiningeri Müller, 1984, and Liomera bagaglioi n. sp. (Xanthidae MacLeay, 1838). The studied fauna has some affinities with the Miocene faunas of Mediterranean area, especially with the fauna from the Neogene of Catalonia (Spain). It is the first report of coral-associated decapods from the Miocene of Italy.

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McBride, Earle F., and M. Dane Picard. "Origin of honeycombs and related weathering forms in Oligocene Macigno Sandstone, Tuscan coast near Livorno, Italy." Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 29, no. 6 (June 2004): 713–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/esp.1065.

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ROMA-MARZIO, FRANCESCO, GIANNI BEDINI, JONAS V. MÜLLER, and Lorenzo Peruzzi. "A critical checklist of the woody flora of Tuscany (Italy)." Phytotaxa 287, no. 1 (December 8, 2016): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.287.1.1.

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A comprehensive checklist of the Tuscan woody flora providing sub-regional details is presented. This checklist comprises 412 taxa, of which 264 are native and 148 are non-native. Nine taxa new for the region were found, and eleven taxa were excluded from the regional flora. The native taxa belong to 109 genera and 53 families. Rosaceae is the family richest in taxa, with Rosa being the genus with the highest number of species. On the provincial level, the province of Grosseto is the province with the highest number of native taxa, followed by the provinces of Lucca and Florence. The lowest number of taxa was documented in the provinces of Pistoia and Prato. With regard to the non-native woody flora, the highest number of non-native taxa can be found in the province of Livorno, whereas the lowest number occurs in the provinces of Arezzo and Siena. At regional level, 9% of non-native taxa are invasive, 45% naturalized and 46% casual. Asia and North America are the most common native ranges of those taxa. After an extensive herbarium study, the taxonomy and distribution of Acer opalus, Cornus sanguinea, Juniperus deltoides, Oreoherzogia alpina, Pyrus communis, Quercus crenata, Salix elaeagnos, and Sorbus aria are discussed in more detail.

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Lazarević Di Giacomo, Persida. "Considerations On Dositej Obradović's Stay And Travels In Italy." Slavica Lodziensia 1 (November 14, 2017): 51–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/2544-1795.01.05.

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This paper presents new data related to Dositej Obradović’s stay in Italy and the travels he undertook while he was there. In the period between 1769 and 1780 Obradović visited Trieste, Venice, Padua, Ferrara, Bologna, Florence, Pistoia, Lucca, Pisa, Livorno and Messina and later described these travels in his autobiography The Life and Adventures (1783). Although he is rather sketchy in his descriptions, we nonetheless discover that he became acquainted with a number of interesting fi gures of the day and was witness to contemporary events and phenomena: he tells us, for example, about the provveditore with whom he sailed to Venice and about the Rules of Health promulgated by the Venetian Republic in connection with the plague which was then raging. He also testifi es to the diet of the Venetian navy and the order issued by Catholic authorities prohibiting Orthodox priests from other countries from performing services in Dalmatia. The canale navile, in Bologna was also the object of Obradović’s attention. This artifi cial hydraulic system was a navigable channel making it possible to sail from Venice to Bologna(!) in the past. His descriptions of the heavily travelled road between Bologna and Florence and of the earthquake in Messina which took place after his departure for Chios are also interesting historical accounts of the period.

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Čović, Ivan, Anamarija Šimunac, Jelena Veža, Merica Slišković, and Gorana Jelić-Mrčelić. "Methods of Pollution Removal After Tanker “Erika” Accident." Transactions on Maritime Science 2, no. 1 (April 20, 2013): 41–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.7225/toms.v02.n01.006.

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Marine accident of the Maltese tanker Erika is the biggest environmental disaster ever to hit France. 12th of December 1999, on the way from Dunkerque (France) to Livorno (Italy), Erika broke in two and sank near the French coast, spilling around 20.000 tons of heavy fuel oil into the sea. About 11.000 tons of dangerous cargo, trapped inside the sunken wreck, presented a danger to the environment. Severe weather conditions prevented any offshore clean-up operations. Oil trapped inside the wreckage was pumped out, while the on-shore clean-up operations lasted for another two years. This accident had a direct impact on the economy of affected regions and resulted in numerous lawsuits against the ship owners, charterers and classification societies. This paper aims to provide an overview of oil spill pollution clean-up methods and technologies after the accident of tanker Erika.

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Scerbo, R., L. Possenti, L. Lampugnani, T. Ristori, R. Barale, and C. Barghigiani. "Lichen (Xanthoria parietina)̄ biomonitoring of trace element contamination and air quality assessment in Livorno Province (Tuscany, Italy)." Science of The Total Environment 241, no. 1-3 (October 1999): 91–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0048-9697(99)00333-2.

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Burlando, Massimiliano, Djordje Romanić, Giovanni Solari, Horia Hangan, and Shi Zhang. "Field Data Analysis and Weather Scenario of a Downburst Event in Livorno, Italy, on 1 October 2012." Monthly Weather Review 145, no. 9 (September 2017): 3507–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/mwr-d-17-0018.1.

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The Mediterranean is a “hot spot” for the genesis of different types of severe weather events, including potentially damaging wind phenomena like downbursts, whose occurrence and evolution in this geographical region have not been documented in the literature. This paper is part of an interdisciplinary collaboration between atmospheric scientists and wind engineers with the objective of conducting a comprehensive analysis of the field measurements and weather scenarios related to nonsynoptic wind systems in this area. The downburst that struck the Livorno coast of Italy at about 1310 local time 1 October 2012 is investigated as a relevant test case for such severe wind events. The wind velocity records detected by ultrasonic anemometers, part of a monitoring network created for the European “Wind and Ports” and “Wind, Ports and Sea” projects, are analyzed and decomposed in order to inspect the main statistical features of this transient event. The analysis of the meteorological precursors to this event is carried out making use of model analyses, standard in situ measurements, remote sensing techniques, proxy data, and direct observations. The results obtained bring new insights into a downburst’s onset and detection in the Mediterranean, its evolution at the local scale, and possible connections to specific synoptic-scale weather conditions like secondary cyclogenesis in the lee of the Alps.

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Chiabrando, F., A. Lingua, P. Maschio, and L. Teppati Losè. "THE INFLUENCE OF FLIGHT PLANNING AND CAMERA ORIENTATION IN UAVs PHOTOGRAMMETRY. A TEST IN THE AREA OF ROCCA SAN SILVESTRO (LI), TUSCANY." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-2/W3 (February 23, 2017): 163–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-2-w3-163-2017.

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The purpose of this paper is to discuss how much the phases of flight planning and the setting of the camera orientation can affect a UAVs photogrammetric survey. The test site chosen for these evaluations was the Rocca of San Silvestro, a medieval monumental castle near Livorno, Tuscany (Italy). During the fieldwork, different sets of data have been acquired using different parameters for the camera orientation and for the set up of flight plans. Acquisition with both nadiral and oblique orientation of the camera have been performed, as well as flights with different direction of the flight lines (related with the shape of the object of the survey). The different datasets were then processed in several blocks using Pix4D software and the results of the processing were analysed and compared. Our aim was to evaluate how much the parameters described above can affect the generation of the final products of the survey, in particular the product chosen for this evaluation was the point cloud.

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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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Iannelli, Renato, Veronica Bianchi, Cristina Macci, Eleonora Peruzzi, Carolina Chiellini, Giulio Petroni, and Grazia Masciandaro. "Assessment of pollution impact on biological activity and structure of seabed bacterial communities in the Port of Livorno (Italy)." Science of The Total Environment 426 (June 2012): 56–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.03.033.

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Scaglione, Daniele, Danilo Giulietti, and Marco Morelli. "Evaluation of the impact of atmospheric ozone and aerosols on the horizontal global/diffuse UV Index at Livorno (Italy)." Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 146 (August 2016): 194–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2016.06.005.

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Bevilacqua, M. G., G. Caroti, A. Piemonte, and D. Ulivieri. "RECONSTRUCTION OF LOST ARCHITECTURAL VOLUMES BY INTEGRATION OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY FROM ARCHIVE IMAGERY WITH 3-D MODELS OF THE STATUS QUO." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-2/W9 (January 31, 2019): 119–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-2-w9-119-2019.

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Abstract. Cultural heritage includes several cases of missing architectural element or entire buildings, due to destruction, replacement or radical changes caused over time by other structures. The investigation of these lost elements aimed at their virtual reconstruction, for both scientific and cultural-leisure applications, is therefore a topic of great interest. To this purpose, methodologies for surveying and photogrammetric processing provide a very powerful tool, extracting descriptive and geometric information, both 2-and 3-D, using diverse archive images. This paper presents the issues related to the use of archive images in photogrammetry, pointing out the need for an integrated approach to operations of virtual reconstruction of lost volumes. This approach provides a multidisciplinary effort, in order to evaluate all iconographic sources, of which images processed by geomatics techniques are a component. The paper also presents the early results of a reconstruction project of the Palazzo di Cosimo de’ Medici, in the Fortezza Vecchia site (Livorno, Italy), heavily damaged by World War II bombings and subsequently razed.

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Soldani, Maurizio, and Osvaldo Faggioni. "A System to Improve Port Navigation Safety and Its Use in Italian Harbours." Applied Sciences 11, no. 21 (November 1, 2021): 10265. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app112110265.

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This article describes research aimed at developing a system able to support local authorities and port communities in optimizing port navigation, avoiding or managing critical situations induced by sea-level variations in harbours and minimizing environmental damages and economic losses. In the Mediterranean basin, sea-level changes are mostly due to astronomical tides, related to the gravitational attraction between Earth, Moon and Sun. Nevertheless, sea-level variations are also influenced by meteorological tides, which are geodetic adjustments of sea surface due to atmospheric pressure variations above a water basin. So, starting from monitoring or forecasting environmental parameters in harbours, the system updates port bathymetric maps based on sea-level variations (acquired in the past, measured in real-time, or expected in the future) and detects hazardous areas for a certain ship moving inside a port at a given moment, by means of the implementation of “virtual traffic lights”. The system was tested on some real situations, including the analysis of maritime accidents (stranding of ships), providing satisfactory results by correctly signalling potentially dangerous areas variable over time. The architecture of the system and results achieved using it in the ports of Livorno and Bari, in Italy, are herewith described.

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THESSALOU-LEGAKI, M., O. AYDOGAN, P. BEKAS, G. BILGE, Y. O. BOYACI, E. BRUNELLI, V. CIRCOSTA, et al. "New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (December 2012)." Mediterranean Marine Science 13, no. 2 (December 30, 2012): 312. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/mms.313.

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This paper presents records extending or confirming the distribution of Mediterranean species. Three alien algae are included, namely Codium taylorii reported for the first time from the Aegean and Turkey (Izmir Gulf), Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea (Karpathos and Chalki Isl., Aegean Sea) and Ganonema farinosum (Karpathos Isl., Aegean Sea). As far as animals are concerned, Litarachna divergens (Acari: Hydrachnidia) was recorded (Side, Eastern Mediterranean) and represents a new amendment at genus level for Turkish fauna. Other invertebrates include alien species such as the crabs Dyspanopeus sayi (Lago Fusaro, SW Italy), Percnon gibbesi (Larnaca, Cyprus; Karpathos and Chalki Isl., Aegean Sea) and Callinectes sapidus (Voda estuary, NW Greece), the nudibranch Aplysia dactylomela (Boka Kotorska Bay, Montenegro), the gastropod Conomurex persicus (Karpathos and ChalkiIsl., Aegean Sea) and the bryozoan Electra tenella (Livorno harbour and Messina Straits area). The alien fish Siganus luridus, Siganus rivulatus, Fistularia commersonii, Sphyraena chrysotaenia and Sargocentron rubrum are also reported from the islands of Karpathos and Chalki, and Pteragogus pelycus from Heraklion Bay, Crete. In addition, new localities for four rare Mediterranean inhabitants are given: the cephalopod Thysanoteuthis rhombus (NW Sardinia) and the fish: Lampris guttatus (Calabria, S Italy), Petromyzon marinus (Gokova Bay) and Remora australis (Saronikos Gulf), while the opisthobranch gastropod Cerberilla bernadettae is reported for the first time from the E Mediterranean (Cyprus). Finally, three species of the Aegean ascidiofauna are recorded for the first time: Lissoclinum perforatum, Ciona roulei and Ecteinascidia turbinata. Furthermore, it was established that Phallusia nigra has extended its distributional range to the north of the Aegean Sea.

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Castillo, Annelisse, Marta Gariglio, Alessandro Franzoni, Dominga Soglia, Stefano Sartore, Arianna Buccioni, Federica Mannelli, et al. "Overview of Native Chicken Breeds in Italy: Conservation Status and Rearing Systems in Use." Animals 11, no. 2 (February 12, 2021): 490. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11020490.

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The most reared species of farm animal around the world is the chicken. However, the intensification of livestock systems has led to a gradual increase in the concentration of a limited number of breeds, resulting in substantial erosion to the genetic pool. The initial step of an ‘animal conservation program’ entails establishing the actual conservation statuses of the breeds concerned in a defined area; in this case, in Italy. To this end, a survey of breeds was performed by means of a census questionnaire divided into two parts. The first part collected information on breeds, breeders, housing facilities, and management aspects, the results of which are presented here. The second part of the questionnaire regarded chicken products and their markets, and these data will be reported in a second paper. The breed status of six chicken breeds was shown to be exceptionally worrying, with total numbers ranging from just 18 to 186 birds. Population sizes exceeding 1000 birds was identified for just four breeds, the maximum being 3400. Some improvements in status were noted in relation to breeds which had been the subject of conservation efforts in the past. The two most common breeds reported are the Bionda Piemontese, a double-purpose breed, and the Livorno egg-laying hen. Collo Nudo Italiano, Millefiori Piemontese, Pollo Trentino, and Tirolese chicken breeds and the Castano Precoce turkey breed were not listed by breeders at all. The most reported turkey breeds are the Bronzato Comune and the Ermellinato di Rovigo. The population sizes of native Italian poultry breeds were shown to be generally poor. Italian poultry farmers and the population at large are largely ignorant about indigenous poultry breeds. Thus, promoting the virtues of Italian breeds would help their conservation by encouraging breeders to rear these birds and consumers to buy their products. The identification of strategies to facilitate access to pure breed birds is essential, and will require the collaboration of university research centers, public entities, and breeders. The results presented in this paper constitute the initial part of a more complex conservation program.

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Fredianelli, Luca, Marco Nastasi, Marco Bernardini, Francesco Fidecaro, and Gaetano Licitra. "Pass-by Characterization of Noise Emitted by Different Categories of Seagoing Ships in Ports." Sustainability 12, no. 5 (February 26, 2020): 1740. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12051740.

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In the light of sustainability, satisfactory living conditions is an important factor for people’s positive feedback in their own living environment. Acoustic comfort and noise exposure should then be carefully monitored in all human settlements. Furthermore, it is already well-known that high or prolonged noise levels may lead to unwanted health effects. Unfortunately, while in the last decades scientists and public authorities have investigated the noise produced by roads, trains, and airports, not enough efforts have been spent in studying what happens around the coastal and port areas. Following the attention brought to the subject by recent European projects on noise in port areas, the present paper characterizes the sound power level and 1/3 octave band sound power spectrum of seagoing ships while moving at low speeds. Five different categories have been distinguished: Roll-on/roll-off (RORO), container ship, oil tanker, chemical tanker, and ferry. The analysis is based on a continuous noise measurement lasting more than three months, performed in the industrial canal of the port of Livorno (Italy). The resulting noise emissions are new and useful data that could be inserted in acoustic propagation models to properly assess the noise in the areas affected by port activities. Thus, the present work can act as a supporting tool in planning ship traffic in ports towards better sustainability.

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Cabioc'h, Fanch, and Georges Peigne. "Offshore Operations Following the Erika Oil Spill." International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings 2001, no. 1 (March 1, 2001): 657–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.7901/2169-3358-2001-1-657.

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ABSTRACT On December 12, 1999, the Maltese tanker Erika, loaded with 30,000 tons of heavy fuel oil and sailing from Dunkirk (France) to Livorno (Italy), broke up into two parts in bad weather and sank 40 miles off the Brittany coast in the northern part of the Biscay Bay. The very first assessment of the situation revealed that between 5,000 and 7,000 tons of Fuel Oil No. 6 had been released into the sea. French Customs remote-sensing aircraft revealed many black and thick slicks drifting southwards at a speed of 1.2 knots. On December 15, a French oil recovery vessel (ORV) called Ailette arrived on-site equipped with a Transrec 250 skimmer in very rough seas and was followed a few days later by four other ORVs: Alcyon (French) and three other ships belonging to the European fleet, British Shield (United Kingdom), Neuwerk (Germany), and Area (Netherlands). Finally, after 2 weeks at sea, but only a few days during which conditions permitted the recovery operation to proceed, more than 1,100 tons were retrieved by the five ORVs. This paper describes the cleanup operation at sea, and analyses problems and difficulties encountered because of bad weather, the way the slick evolved, the way subsequent floating slicks behaved and the difficulty in detecting them, and the limitations of the equipment available in the event of this major oil spill.

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LIPEJ, L., I. ACEVEDO, E. H. K. AKEL, A. ANASTASOPOULOU, A. ANGELIDIS, E. AZZURRO, L. CASTRIOTA, et al. "“New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records” (March 2017)." Mediterranean Marine Science 18, no. 1 (March 27, 2017): 179. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/mms.2068.

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This Collective Article presents information on 22 species belonging to 5 Phyla, arranged geographically from from west to east. The new records were found in 8 countries as follows: Spain: first record of the two scarcely known nemerteans Baseodiscus delineatus and Notospermus geniculatus in Formentera; Malta: second record of the alien fish Lagocephalus sceleratus; Italy: the alien polychaete Syllis pectinans and the isopod Paranthura japonica, as well as the cryptogenic opisthobranch Anteaeolidiella lurana, were found in the fouling assemblages along the docks of the port of Livorno. New decapod records are reported from Sicily (the alien Callinectes sapidus and the native Pachygrapsus maurus) and Apulia (Percnon gibbosus and Procambarus clarkii); the lesser amberjack Seriola fasciata extended its geographical range to the Egadi Isands and Siganus luridus was documented for the first time along the Ionian coasts of Apulia and Calabria. Slovenia: the first record of the alien bivalve Brachidontes pharaonis is reported, together with a survey of up to date Adriatic records. Greece: the first record of the gastropod Rhinoclavis kochi is reported from Gavdos island. In addition, two records of endangered and rare cartilaginous fish were reported, namely, the shark Hexanchus griseus and the ray Leucoraja fullonica, as well as additional records of Siganus luridus for Lesvos and Malleus regula and Fulvia fragilis from Astypalaia. Turkey: the black wing flyingfish Hirundichthys rondeletii is reported for the very first time from the Black Sea. Egypt: the Indo-Pacific crab Halimede ochtodes is reported as established in Port Said. In addition, biometric parameters and meristic counts are reported for Anthias anthias in Damietta. Cyprus: the alien opisthobranch gastropod Bursatella leachii is reported for first time.

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Guardone, L., L. Tinacci, F. Costanzo, D. Azzarelli, P. D'Amico, G. Tasselli, A. Magni, A. Guidi, D. Nucera, and A. Armani. "DNA barcoding as a tool for detecting mislabeling of fishery products imported from third countries: An official survey conducted at the Border Inspection Post of Livorno-Pisa (Italy)." Food Control 80 (October 2017): 204–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2017.03.056.

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Bush, Olga. "Color and Geometry in the Alhambra." Manazir Journal 3 (March 7, 2022): 13–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.36950/manazir.2021.3.2.

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The dissemination of Owen Jones’ studies of the Alhambra and his color theory has been increasingly well understood as a cornerstone of the later Alhambresque style. And yet, curiously, Jones offers at once an accurate appreciation of the Alhambra and a basis for a striking divergence from Nasrid design in Alhambresque interiors. This article examines that discrepancy. It begins with a review of the aesthetics of the Alhambra in view of the eleventh-century optics of Ibn al Haytham, supported by conservation work that has confirmed Jones’ vibrant colors. The aesthetic key to the Alhambra is not color alone, however, but a principle of visual harmony integrating color and geometry. The Nasrid builders applied color in conjunction with principles of proportionate geometric relationships and measurable visual properties—height, distance, size, depth—in the architectural and decorative design. They also manipulated color through their consideration of the materiality of the polychromed surfaces, whose reflective and refractive potentials allowed for differing optical effects. By balancing attention between color, as transmitted through the innovative technique of chromolithography, and the drawings of plans and elevations, this article strengthens the understanding of Jones’ grasp of the visual harmony of the Alhambra. Second, it demonstrates the ways in which Jones’ plates of various ornament were often privileged over, or simply divorced from, his architectural drawings in Alhambresque interiors: e.g., the Salón árabe (1847-1851) in the Royal Palace of Aranjuez (Spain), the Salotto Turco in the Villa Mimbelli (1865-1870) in Livorno (Italy), and the Moorish Bath (1850-1854) at Schloss Albrechtsberg in Dresden (Germany). In conclusion, this article proposes that, in contrast to the Alhambra, a loss of visual harmony is a significant characteristic of the Alhambresque, or, otherwise stated, that the Alhambresque interiors feature a disproportionate emphasis on color, consistent with the ideological burden of Orientalism.

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Aksan, Nusret, Dominique Bestion, Francesco D'Auria, Yassin Hassan, and Fabio Moretti. "This special issue of Nuclear Engineering and Design collects selected papers from the “specialists workshop on advanced instrumentation and measurement techniques for nuclear reactor thermal-hydraulics” (SWINTH), held in Livorno, Italy, on June 2016." Nuclear Engineering and Design 336 (September 2018): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nucengdes.2018.03.001.

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Pratelli, Antonio, Patrizia Cinelli, Maurizia Seggiani, Giovanna Strangis, and Massimiliano Petri. "Agricultural Plastic Waste Management." WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT 18 (December 31, 2022): 1312–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.37394/232015.2022.18.124.

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This article aims at describing both the studies and results implemented in the framework of the H2020-EU research project “RECOVER: New bio-recycling routes for food packaging and agricultural plastic waste” which deals with the sustainability of innovative biodegradation processes for plastic waste and production, in any environmental, social, economic and safety matters. In such a framework, the POLOG University Centre (Livorno, Italy), reconstructed and analyzed the actual farm plastic waste supply chain, as described in the following sections. The first section is introductive and it has been intended as a primer to the most common different types of plastic materials. The second section has deserved to be a state of the art on the most relevant issues raised in plastic waste management. The third section deals with suitable approaches to address the environmental side effects of rapidly growing plastics production, use, and disposal. Some of these approaches were listed, such as physical treatment of the polymeric components, plastic reduction use and employment as much as mechanical and/or chemical recycling and energy recovery. The fourth section shows how some of the above main issues, which raise coping with plastic reduction and recycling, are suited to be coped with from a logistics perspective. Such logistics belong to the basic needs due to tackling any plastic waste supply chain, i.e. collection and transport to intermediate stock and final delivery to recycling plants and/or brownfields, applying the set of methodologies and techniques drawn from the well-known field of pick-up-and-delivery models. These last tasks become crucial when the main effort has addressed the enforcement of any feasible changes from the use of items made in old high environmental intrusive to their replacement with new agricultural and biodegradable plastics. The paper goes to end presenting shortly of a few suitable solutions that could be proposed and applied to the entire plastic waste supply chain. Finally, some concrete aspects of each phase of the supply chain were discussed and it was highlighted how much each of these can be best used in addressing the problem known throughout the world as the problem of the emergency of old plastic waste.

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Palmer, Russell. "Gran Bretagna e Italia tra Mediterranea e Atlantico: Livorno: ‘un portoinglese’/Italy and Britain between Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds: Leghorn: ‘an English Port’. Edited by Hugo Blake. Archeologia Medievale 19, 2015. ISBN 978-88-7814-648-8, 2017 (pbk)." Post-Medieval Archaeology 52, no. 3 (September 2, 2018): 430–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00794236.2018.1515421.

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Corke-Webster, James. "Roman History." Greece and Rome 65, no. 2 (September 17, 2018): 259–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017383518000207.

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Identity studies live. This latest batch of publications explores what made not just the Romans but the Italians, Christians, and Etruscans who they were. We begin with both age and beauty, the fruits of a special exhibition at the Badischen Landesmuseum Karlsruhe in the first half of 2018 into the most famous of Roman predecessors, the Etruscans. Most of the exhibits on display come from Italian museums, but the interpretative essays that break up the catalogue – which are also richly illustrated – are by both Italian and German scholars. These are split between five overarching sections covering introductory affairs, the ages of the princes and of the city-states, the Etruscans’ relationship with Rome, and modern reception. The first contains essays treating Etruscan origins, history, identity, and settlement area. The second begins with the early Iron Age Villanova site, before turning to early Etruscan aristocratic culture, including banqueting, burials, language, writing, and seafaring. The third and longest section considers the heyday of Etruscan civilization and covers engineering and infrastructure, crafts and production, munitions, women's roles, daily life, dance, sport, funerary culture, wall painting, religious culture, and art. The fourth section treats both the confrontation between Etruscan and Roman culture and the persistence of the former after ‘conquest’ by the latter. The fifth section contains one essay on the modern inheritance of the Etruscan ‘myth’ and one on the history of scholarship on the Etruscans. Three aspects to this volume deserve particular praise. First, it includes not only a huge range of material artefacts but also individual essays on Etruscan production in gold, ceramic, ivory, terracotta, and bronze. Second, there is a recurring interest in the interconnections between the Etruscans and other cultures, not just Romans but Greeks, Iberians, Celts, Carthaginians, and other Italian peoples. Third, it includes the history of the reception of Etruscan culture. Amid the just-shy-of-200 objects included (almost every one with description and high-quality colour image), the reader can find everything from a mid-seventh-century pitcher made from an Egyptian ostrich egg painted with birds, flowers, and dancers (147), through the well-known third- or second-century bcTabula Cortonensis – a lengthy and only partially deciphered Etruscan inscription that documents either a legal transaction or a funerary ceremony (311) – to the 2017 kit of the Etruschi Livorno American Football team (364). Since we have no extant Etruscan literature, a volume such as this is all the more valuable in trying to get a sense of these people and their culture, and the exceptionally high production value provides quality exposure to material otherwise scattered throughout Italy.

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Cowan, Alexander. "Chiara La Rocca . Tra moglie e marito: Matrimoni e separazioni a Livorno nel Settecento . (Annali dell'Istituto storico italo‐germanico in Trento; Monografie, number 51.) Bologna : Il Mulino . 2009 . Pp. 445. €30.00. Roberto Bizzocchi . Cicisbei: Morale privata e identità nazionale in Italia . (Storia e Società.) Rome : Editori Laterza . 2008 . Pp. 361. €20.00." American Historical Review 115, no. 5 (December 2010): 1550–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/ahr.115.5.1550.

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"Solvay launches bio-circular silica in Europe, with expansion plans in North America." Additives for Polymers 2023, no. 2 (February 1, 2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/s0306-3747(23)70033-x.

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On January 17, 2023, Solvay announced it was investing at its Livorno site in Italy to launch the company's first unit of circular highly dispersible silica (HDS), made with bio-based sodium silicate derived from rice husk ash. This new silicate process is claimed to provide a circular solution as it gives a second life to rice husk in a local value chain. Coupled with renewable energy integration at the plant, it should allow Solvay to achieve a 50% reduction in CO2 per ton of silica. This will reportedly make the Livorno site Europe's best in class silica production site in terms of CO2 footprint. Production is expected to start by the end of 2024.

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Fornacelli, C., A. Briano, L. Chiarantini, G. Bianchi, M. Benvenuti, M. Giamello, J. S. Kang, I. M. Villa, F. M. Talarico, and R. Hodges. "Archaeometric Provenance Constraints for Early Medieval Sparse Glazed Pottery from Donoratico (Livorno, Italy)." Archaeometry, December 17, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12633.

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Prencipe, Luigi Pio, and Mario Marinelli. "A novel mathematical formulation for solving the dynamic and discrete berth allocation problem by using the Bee Colony Optimisation algorithm." Applied Intelligence, December 1, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10489-020-02062-y.

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AbstractBerth allocation is one of the crucial points for efficient management of ports. This problem is complex due to all possible combinations for assigning ships to available compatible berths. This paper focuses on solving the Berth Allocation Problem (BAP) by optimising port operations using an innovative model. The problem analysed in this work deals with the Discrete and Dynamic Berth Allocation Problem (DDBAP). We propose a novel mathematical formulation expressed as a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) for solving the DDBAP. Furthermore, we adapted a metaheuristic solution approach based on the Bee Colony Optimisation (BCO) for solving large-sized combinatorial BAPs. In order to assess the solution performance and efficiency of the proposed model, we introduce a new set of instances based on real data of the Livorno port (Italy), and a comparison between the BCO algorithm and CPLEX in solving the DDBAP is performed. Additionally, the application of the proposed model to a real berth scheduling (Livorno port data) and a comparison with the Ant Colony Optimisation (ACO) metaheuristic are carried out. Results highlight the feasibility of the proposed model and the effectiveness of BCO when compared to both CPLEX and ACO, achieving computation times that ensure a real-time application of the method.

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Briata, Ilaria. "A Preliminary Study of the History of Sephardic Theatre in Italy." Zutot, December 21, 2020, 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18750214-12171088.

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Abstract This article presents the results of a preliminary inquiry into the theatrical activity of Sephardic Jews in Italy from 1492 to the 18th century. Through archival investigation conducted on catalogues of manuscripts and published books from Italian libraries, as well as on documents produced by Sephardic communities, the study focuses on three case studies: the communities in Venice, Naples, and Tuscany. Concerning the Venetian community, literary witnesses to the dramatic activity in the Ghetto are collected and analyzed, including Ester by Salomon Usque and Leon Modena. Concerning the Neapolitan community, the reasons for the absence of Sephardic cultural traces are clarified. The only extant Judeo-Spanish plays produced in Italy come from Pisa and Livorno, testifying to the prolific activity of Iberian Jews in Tuscany. Finally, a list of Hebrew dramatic works written by Italian authors of Sephardic origin is provided in order to reflect on the very categories of ‘Sephardic’ and ‘Italian.’

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Chellini, E., and A. Martini. "Malignant mesotheliomas in residents in the National Priority Contaminated Sites in Tuscany." European Journal of Public Health 30, Supplement_5 (September 1, 2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaa165.554.

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Abstract Background Asbestos is a well-known carcinogen. A law banning asbestos is active in Italy since 1992. A surveillance system on malignant mesothelioma is ongoing in Tuscany since 1988. The aim is to describe mesothelioma incidence in the specific regional areas defined as National Priority Contaminated Sites in order to have suggestions on specific environmental remediation activities focused on asbestos. Methods Malignant mesotheliomas diagnosed in residents during 1988-2019 in the above cited areas are extracted from the specific regional registry. Standardized incidence rates are calculated by area and gender using 2013 European as standard population. Standardized incidence ratios are also calculated by area in the whole period, using the regional rates as reference. The distribution of cases by exposure and areas are analyzed. Results In the examined areas 510 cases are registered (423 in men and 87 in women). Male incidence rates are 10.0 (IC90% 8.4-11.6), 5.8 (IC90%3.2-8.3), 5.5 (IC90% 4.1-6.9) and 1.7 (IC90% 0.0-3.9) respectively in Livorno, Piombino, Massa and Orbetello. Female incidence rates are far below than those observed for men. The highest standardized incidence ratio is observed in Livorno (3.1, IC90% 2.6-3.6). The vast majority of cases (no.393) are related to occupational asbestos exposure, mainly occurred in the same residence area. Asbestos familial and environmental exposure was attributed respectively to 22 and 4 cases. Conclusions The availability of a long series of incidence data on malignant mesotheliomas allowed to evaluate the asbestos impact among residents in Tuscan contaminated areas. The results obtained show the great importance of past occupational asbestos exposure. Key messages Malignant mesothelioma is a sentinel event of past asbestos exposure. The mesothelioma burden in the contaminated area is helpful to prioritise specific environmental remediation activities.

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Di Martino, Beniamino, Antonio Esposito, and Luigi Colucci Cante. "Multi agents simulation of justice trials to support control management and reduction of civil trials duration." Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, September 18, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12652-021-03490-5.

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AbstractThanks to the digitalization of Civil Legal Processes that has been carried out in Italy since 2005, a consistent flow of data has been generated regarding all phases of Civil Trials. The Italian Ministry of Justice has recognized the opportunity to better assess the quality of Courts’ management, seeking ways to implement Decision Support Systems to aid the work of Court Presidents. In collaboration with the Court of Livorno, which has provided data and case studies, KPIs and indicators have been developed, and have been later used within an Agent-based simulation framework to assess the behaviour of Chancellors and Judges in response to Court Presidents’ decisions, and in particular to verify the effects of such decision on Processes’ duration. This paper presents the Agent-based simulation approaches adopted to predict the effects of Presidents’ decisions, by taking in consideration the behaviour of Chancellors and Judges, derived from the examination of past Trials, whose aspects have been recorded by the Court’s digital system.

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Villarreal, Hermógenes Perdiguero. "Inventarios de bienes del siglo XVII en la comunidad hebrea de Livorno (italia): Nivelación entre español y portugués (Goods Inventories from the 17th Century in the Hebraic Community of Livorno (Italy): Levelling between Spanish and Portuguese)." SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3420071.

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Soldani, Maurizio. "The contribution of Geomatics to increase safety and security in ports." Applied Geomatics, June 22, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12518-021-00374-3.

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AbstractIn this paper, the advantages achievable from the use of two prototype systems that are being developed to increase safety and security in ports are shown. Both systems start by monitoring environmental parameters in harbors, and then process data acquired. The first system has been conceived to be helpful to port communities (port authorities, pilots) to optimize harbor waterside management (ship’s navigation and cargo, dock performances, boat moorings, refloating of stranded ships, water quality control). By monitoring and processing sea level and atmospheric pressure in port areas, it can help port communities, e.g., to choose the best time when a ship with a certain draft can enter or leave a harbor, or to plan the best route inside the basin for that vessel (port safety). The second system, instead, has been designed for port protection purposes: by monitoring and processing the Earth’s magnetic field below the sea surface in harbors (where the natural field is disturbed by a high artificial component), it is able to detect the possible presence of intruders (e.g., divers) swimming underwater in prohibited areas (port security). Here, the results of monitoring and processing activities of the two systems performed in Livorno and La Spezia harbors are shown (Italy). The processing procedures and the graphical interfaces of the systems are based on applications under development by the research team the author belongs to, by using C# and C++ languages; Matlab environment has been employed for simulations.

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Borsi, Iacopo, Giorgio Mazzanti, Alessio Barbagli, and Rudy Rossetto. "The riverbank filtration plant in S. Alessio (Lucca): monitoring and modeling activity within EU the FP7 MARSOL project." Acque Sotterranee - Italian Journal of Groundwater, September 30, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.7343/as-085-14-0112.

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The riverbank filtration (RBF) scheme along the Serchio River, Lucca (Tuscany – Italy) allows abstraction of an overall amount of about 1 m3/s groundwater providing drinking water for about 300000 people of the coastal Tuscany (town of Lucca, Pisa and Livorno). Water is derived by means of an RBF scheme by a set of ten vertical wells inducing riverbank filtration into a high yield (10-2 m2/s transmissivity) sand and gravel aquifer including a downstream weir to raise river head and increasing water storage in the aquifer along the river reach. Within the framework of the MARSOL FPVII-ENV-2013 project, the Sant’Alessio well field will be used to demonstrate the sustainability, by a technical, social and market point of view, and the benefits of RBF managing versus the unmanaged option. The Serchio experimental site will involve merging existing and proved technologies, including continuous monitoring of several parameters and analytes and the development of dedicated software tools, to produce a Decision Support System (DSS) based on remote data acquisition and transmission and GIS physically-based fully distributed numerical modeling to continuously monitor and manage the well field, reducing also, prone to error, human operated activities. A set of sensors will be installed to monitor by a quantitative and qualitative point of view hydrologic variables in the river water, in the aquifer, the unsaturated zone and the wells. Data will be continuously acquired and remotely transmitted to a server where they will first be checked for consistency and then sent to a database for processing in a dedicated modelling environment included in the DSS and equipped with an alert system to inform water managers about the scheme performance and reaching limits of infiltration rates or water quality indices. The DSS along with the installed sensors, data transmission and storage tools will constitute a prototype whose potential market exploitation will be tested.

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