Cynara cardunculus L. (2n=34) is a traditional vegetable crop of the Mediterranean basin including two cultivated varieties: Cynara cardunculus L. var. scolymus L (globe artichoke), grown for its fleshy capitula, and C. ...

High-energy ball milling is a material-processing method promoting near-room temperature transformations of powder mixtures. Obtained products possess peculiar properties, otherwise difficult or impossible to obtain by ...

A pile noise measurement campaign has been conducted by the CEA in the VENUS-F reactor (SCK-CEN, Mol Belgium) in April 2011 in the reference critical configuration of the GUINEVERE experimental program. The experimental ...

The variety of plants and systems to be installed and the needs to assure and optimize high performance and reduction of failure require accurate standards and certified skills defined by a third party. Multi-stakeholders, ...

Laboratory experiments have been carried out with and without groundwater flow in a two-dimensional laboratory-scale tank to assess the influence of layered media and hydraulic gradient on DNAPL infiltration and redistribution ...

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) the effect of Lactobacillus reuteri (LR) on the rate of respiratory exacerbations and of the infections of both upper respiratory and ...

The physical picture of a fluid particle pair as a couple of material points rotating around their centre of mass is proposed to model turbulent relative dispersion in the inertial range. This scheme is used to constrain ...

In the last 4 years Messina Municipality has been hit by rainfall events that triggered a great number of debris flows. Due to 2009 event ENEA started landslide hazard researches in the south of the Municipality. Messina ...

Through the recording of historical and recent events data, three different landslides inventory of the Messina town territory have been created. The first collects information about localization and date of historical ...