Università Iuav di Venezia

The Casa del Fauno in Pompeii: Archaeometric investigation of ancient mortars as an attempt to clarify the architectural phases

The compositional study of the ancient mortars, carried out through macroscopic observations, X-ray diffraction (XRD), and transmitted polarized light optical microscopy (OM), combined with multivariate statistical analysis (PCA), has provided important new insights into the proc...

Clinical, Microbiological and Genomic Characterization of OXA-48-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST395 Circulating in a Secondary-Care Hospital in North-Eastern Italy, 2024–2025

Background/Objectives: This study aimed to characterize the epidemiology, resistance, virulence determinants, and genomic relatedness of OXA-48-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a secondary-care hospital in north-eastern Italy, and to assess the in vitro activity of cefepime-bas...

Health as a Decision Problem in BioCognitive Architectural Design: A Critical Review and Physiological–Regulatory Perspective

BioCognitive Architectural Design (BCAD) positions architecture as an active modulator of human biological and cognitive processes, yet the operational status of health within architectural decision-making remains unclear. Although evidence linking built-environment conditions to...

Institutional change in the civic-institutional relation: outlining enabling conditions

The relationship between civic action and public institutions has long been central to planning debates. Many works have focused on the different relations between civic action and institutions, and on the possibility for both to change through this interaction. With this field o...

Wintering Waterbirds Along Sandy Littorals of the Northern Adriatic Sea (Italy): Long-Term Changes in Abundance, Diversity, and Functional Composition

Sandy littorals are highly dynamic coastal ecosystems but remain poorly studied as wintering habitats for waterbirds in Mediterranean regions. We analysed mid-winter International Waterbird Census data collected along the 100 km sandy littoral of the province of Venice, northern...