Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Global origins of tuna and billfish fisheries reveal the transition from coastal access to oceanic exploitation

Ocean ecosystems have played a crucial role in people’s lives around the world for millennia. However, questions persist about when, why, and how people first began removing biomass from offshore habitats and established fisheries in distant, oceanic environments. We explore the...

The instrument-subject alternation in the dialect of Reggio Emilia

Abstract This paper is dedicated to a cross-linguistic comparison of the Instrument-Subject Alternation in Italian and the dialect of Reggio Emilia. This phenomenon lies at the interface between semantics and syntax. It is syntactic in nature but ruled by two main semantic constr...

Polymeric Materials for Ophthalmic Lenses: A Systematic Review on Structure, Properties, Manufacturing and Sustainability

Polymeric materials have largely replaced mineral glass in ophthalmic lenses owing to their low density, impact resistance, optical performance, and manufacturing versatility. Despite their widespread use, the available literature remains fragmented, with individual studies prima...

Hydropeaking Catalyzes Redox Reactions in Impacted Aquifers: A First Field Evidence

Abstract Hydropeaking indicates the sudden and frequent fluctuation of river stage caused by the operation of hydropower plants. This river alteration affects numerous physical, chemical, biological, and ecohydrological processes in surface water bodies. The impact of hydropeakin...

Mechanistic Insights Into Noble Metal Nanoparticle Antimicrobial Activity through Correlative SEM–SEI‐XPS Analysis

This article presents a correlative analytical strategy for studying nanoparticle-microbe interactions. Understanding the intracellular transformations of metallic nanoparticles (MNPs) provides critical insights into their antimicrobial mechanisms and informs the design of safe,...

Evidence-based evolution of child marriage prevention—a decade of sexual and reproductive health programming in Pakistan

Child marriage in Pakistan is sustained by deeply entrenched patriarchal norms and socioeconomic structures that limit girls’ agency and access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). This paper analyses a decade of programme learning from the Awareness to Action pro...

Challenges and strategies for dredged sediment decision management in Venice lagoon (Italy)

This study presents the results of extensive sediment characterization campaigns conducted in 2024-2025 on more than 400 sediment cores collected across the Venice Lagoon, yielding approximately 1400 samples analyzed for chemical contamination and ecotoxicity. Investigated sedime...

Immigrant Political Integration in Times of Permanent Crisis: A Multi-Level Governance Perspective from Italy

This article investigates immigrant political integration in Italy through the lens of Multi-Level Governance (MLG), examining whether a framework so far applied mainly to socio-economic integration and refugee reception also illuminates the political dimension, and how its core...

Early Transition Metal Carbene Complexes as Photocatalysts: Unveiling Dual-Emission and Photo-reactivity

Abstract Photoactive transition metal complexes are playing a pivotal role in synthetic chemistry and application technologies, such as photocatalysis and light-emitting diodes, yet they often depend on precious metals. Early-transition-metal photosensitizers offer a promising, y...

Beyond engagement: how clubs translate institutional values into well-being – evidence from Italian rugby

Purpose This paper contributes to Management Decision's “The Practice of Making Decisions” section by examining how sports organisations should balance engagement growth and institutional values. Using Italian rugby clubs as a case, it asks what leaders should prioritise when res...

The reactivation of the Niscemi landslide (southern Italy) after the Cyclone Harry

Abstract On January 25, 2026, a large compound slide affected the southern and western slopes of the Niscemi mesa (SE Sicily), causing severe damage to settlements and the evacuation of approximately 1500 people. The event occurred approximately one week after Cyclone Harry, whic...

Bony labyrinth taxonomic identification and long-term evolution of livestock in the Southwest and Central Asia

Abstract Southwest and Central Asia were pivotal regions for the domestication and dispersal of domestic herbivores. Here we investigate long-term variation in bony labyrinth morphology of domestic bovids (sheep, goats and cattle) across the last 10 000 years. We focused on the o...

Reproducibility of Colloidal Lignin Particle Preparation: An Interlaboratory Evaluation

Abstract The reproducibility of the preparation of colloidal lignin particles (CLPs) was evaluated through a coordinated interlaboratory study involving seven independent research groups from around the world. The objective was to assess the robustness of the anti-solvent precipi...

Mesopotamia Beyond Tells: Documenting Agro-Pastoral Landscapes in the Zagros Piedmont (Kurdistan Region of Iraq)

Agro-pastoral landscapes have long shaped Upper Mesopotamia, yet their dispersed, low-visibility, and often feature-dense archaeological traces remain poorly documented, especially in upland and piedmont zones beyond tell-centred research traditions. This article presents the met...

PHOBIC: Perfect Hashing with Optimized Bucket Sizes and Interleaved Coding

A minimal perfect hash function (or MPHF) maps a set of \(n\) keys to \([n]:=\{1,\ldots,n\}\) without collisions. Such functions find widespread application e.g. in bioinformatics and databases. In this paper we revisit PTHash – a construction technique particularly designed for...

Towards an Intellectual History of Caesarism: Introduction

What could be timelier than a forum on Caesarism? 1 Had this collection of articles been published only a few years earlier, I would have introduced the topic quite differently. Recently, Caesarism has become the keyword of US (and therefore, to a certain extent, global) politics...

Highly Efficient Exciton Modulation in MoSe2/PdSe2 Heterostructures

Abstract We report a pronounced ∼6-fold enhancement of room-temperature A-exciton emission in a type-I MoSe2/PdSe2 van der Waals heterostructure, yielding a photoluminescence quantum yield of 6%, as compared to ∼1% for as-exfoliated monolayer MoSe2. This unusual enhancement is ac...

The forgotten core of the father of strategic management: revisiting the Ansoff–Mintzberg debate and the strategic success hypothesis

Purpose This study aims to revisit the Ansoff and Mintzberg exchange as a contingency-based debate about the conditions under which planning and emergent strategy are valid. It argues that the debate’s lasting significance lies in the question of strategic correctness and reposit...

Asymmetric Effects of Non‐Tariff Measures: Evidence From Argentina's Automotive Value Chain

ABSTRACT This paper examines the effects of Argentina's non‐automatic import licenses (NAILs), introduced in late 2011 to reduce the automotive trade deficit by increasing local content. Using rich product‐ and firm‐level data, we assess whether these measures curtailed imports o...

Autumn edible mushrooms’ euphoria in Dzūkija, SE Lithuania: lessons to learn for an ethnobiology of situated and resilient forest practices

Dzūkija is the most heavily forested region of Lithuania, and foragers and ethnographers alike describe it as the country’s epicentre of mushroom enthusiasm. We interviewed 34 foragers there in October 2025 (20 women, 14 men; mean age 56 years) to ask why gathering fungi in this...