Regione Siciliana

I casi studio per testare utilità e validità dell'Atlante Aria Salute: definizione del quadro concettuale.

OBJECTIVES: to describe the process of selecting and applying a shared conceptual model for the analysis of case studies designed to test the usefulness and validity of the Air and Health Atlas in supporting decision-making, in its current version and in its potential future deve...

Decoupling of emigration timing and skill acquisition in a saturated population of golden eagles

Abstract Many animals must gain independence from parental care by acquiring skills necessary for survival. Thus, the rate of skill acquisition can predict when parental care ends and animals emigrate. However, young animals sometimes acquire adult-like skills long before they em...

Operation Melilli, forensic humanitarian medico legal activities on the largest known Mediterranean disaster: the shipwreck of April 18th, 2015

On April 18th, 2015, a boat carrying about 1,000 migrants sank in the Strait of Sicily, prompting one of the most complex recovery missions ever conducted in the Mediterranean. Operation Melilli was the first time a European Government authorized the recovery of a sunken migrant...