Rapid Identification of Beached Marine Plastics Pellets Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy: A Promising Tool for the Quantification of Coastal Pollution by Roberta Giugliano, Bruno Cocciaro, Francesco Poggialini, Stefano Legnaioli, Vincenzo Palleschi, Marina Locritani, Silvia Merlino

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Black soldier fly larvae used for environmental enrichment purposes: Can they affect the growth, slaughter performance, and blood chemistry of medium-growing chickens? by Valentina Bongiorno, Marta Gariglio, Valeria Zambotto, Eleonora Erika Cappone, Ilaria Biasato, Manuela Renna, Claudio Forte, Carl Coudron, Stefania Bergagna, Francesco Gai, Achille Schiavone

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Rainfall-Induced Shallow Landslide Detachment, Transit and Runout Susceptibility Mapping by Integrating Machine Learning Techniques and GIS-Based Approaches by Mariano Di Napoli, Diego Di Martire, Giuseppe Bausilio, Domenico Calcaterra, Pierluigi Confuorto, Marco Firpo, Giacomo Pepe, Andrea Cevasco

“…The mountainous landscape of the <i>Cinque Terre</i> (eastern <i>Liguria</i>, Italy) is increasingly popular for both Italian and foreign tourists, most of which visit this outstanding terraced coastal landscape to enjoy a beach holiday and to practice hiking. …”
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Feline Leishmaniosis in Northwestern Italy: Current Status and Zoonotic Implications by Ehab Kotb Elmahallawy, Stefania Zanet, Marco Poggi, Khalaf F. Alsharif, Ahmad Agil, Anna Trisciuoglio, Ezio Ferroglio

“…The present study raises awareness about the impact of leishmaniasis in cats from an endemic region in of Northwestern Italy (Liguria). A total number of 250 serum and 282 blood samples were collected from cats, then assessed for <i>Leishmania infantum</i> (<i>L. infantum</i>) serologically using western blot (WB) and molecularly using polymerase chain reaction (PCR). …”
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Robotic systems for upper-limb rehabilitation in multiple sclerosis: a SWOT analysis and the synergies with virtual and augmented environments by Giulia A. Albanese, Anna Bucchieri, Anna Bucchieri, Jessica Podda, Andrea Tacchino, Stefano Buccelli, Elena De Momi, Matteo Laffranchi, Kailynn Mannella, Michael W. R. Holmes, Jacopo Zenzeri, Lorenzo De Michieli, Giampaolo Brichetto, Giampaolo Brichetto, Giacinto Barresi

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Mental Health among Italian Children and Adolescents during and after the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: A Professionals’ Focus Group Study by Maria Luisa Scattoni, Martina Micai, Angela Caruso, Letizia Gila, Francesca Fulceri, Giulia Galati, Maria Antonella Costantino, Massimo Molteni, Paolo Petralia, Marcello Lanari, Cristiana Corinaldesi, Carla Garlatti

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Thermotolerant and Thermophilic Mycobiota in Different Steps of Compost Maturation by Simone Di Piazza, Jos Houbraken, Martin Meijer, Grazia Cecchi, Bart Kraak, Ester Rosa, Mirca Zotti

“…Fungi were isolated at four temperatures (25, 37, 45, and 50 °C) from compost samples collected at five different steps during a 21-day compost-maturation period in an active composting plant in Liguria (northwestern Italy). The samples were subsequently plated on three different media. …”
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Book Review, Per non scoprirlo mangiando… ,Maria Caramelli by Manuel Graziani

“…Un incremento di malattie alimentari che, per paradosso, è frutto dell'evoluzione di un mondo senza più frontiere nel quale gli scambi di animali, mangimi e materie prime di origine animale sono oramai incontrollabili.Nonostante i consumatori europei pongano i rischi chimici (come gli additivi) in cima alle preoccupazioni per la propria sicurezza alimentare, secondo la FAO e l'OMS i pericoli maggiori sono invece di natura microbiologica, riguardano cioè virus e batteri in grado di provocare intossicazioni e infezioni con conseguenze anche drammatiche: microrganismi spesso difficili da identificare e in continua espansione, favoriti dalla globalizzazione, dalla trasformazione delle nostre abitudini, dalla complessità dei processi di produzione e distribuzione dei cibi.L'agile libro della dott.ssa Maria Caramelli, Direttore generale dell'IZS di Piemonte Liguria e Valle d'Aosta ed esperta di sicurezza alimentare (una delle più autorevoli studiose italiane di BSE), indaga il vasto mondo delle malattie alimentari partendo dai casi che hanno scatenato allarmi sanitari e crisi economiche di vaste proporzioni scuotendo mass media e opinione pubblica: mucca pazza (BSE), influenza aviaria, diossina nei maiali, mozzarella blu "color puffo", ricotta rosa, fino all'epidemia tedesca del batterio killer nei germogli che tra maggio e luglio del 2011 ha contagiato circa 4.000 persone e provocato 46 decessi. …”
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Barriers to exercise and the role of general practitioner: A cross-sectional survey among people with multiple sclerosis by Luca Correale, Luca Martinis, Eleonora Tavazzi, Ludovico Pedullà, Giulia Mallucci, Giampaolo Brichetto, Giampaolo Brichetto, Marco Bove, Michela Ponzio, Paola Borrelli, Maria Cristina Monti, Roberto Bergamaschi, Cristina Montomoli

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Mitochondrial DNA of Sardinian and North-West Italian Populations Revealed a New Piece in the Mosaic of Phylogeography and Phylogeny of <i>Salariopsis fluviatilis</i> (Blenniidae) by Ilenia Azzena, Fabio Scarpa, Chiara Locci, Piero Cossu, Alessio Niffoi, Flavio Orrù, Stefano Bovero, Giuseppe Sotgiu, Daria Sanna, Marco Casu

“…In this study, 103 individuals were collected from different Italian regions (Sardinia, Liguria, Piedmont, Lombardy) and analyzed using the mtDNA Control Region and the ribosomal 16s gene. …”
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Reproducibility and Feasibility of Classification and National Guidelines for Histological Diagnosis of Canine Mammary Gland Tumours: A Multi-Institutional Ring Study by Serenella Papparella, Maria Ines Crescio, Valeria Baldassarre, Barbara Brunetti, Giovanni P. Burrai, Cristiano Cocumelli, Valeria Grieco, Selina Iussich, Lorella Maniscalco, Francesca Mariotti, Francesca Millanta, Orlando Paciello, Roberta Rasotto, Mariarita Romanucci, Alessandra Sfacteria, Valentina Zappulli

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CAPS: A New Method for the Identification of Different Surface Displacements in Landslide and Subsidence Environments through Correlation Analysis on Persistent Scatterers Time-Ser... by Evandro Balbi, Gabriele Ferretti, Andrea Ferrando, Francesco Faccini, Laura Crispini, Paola Cianfarra, Davide Scafidi, Simone Barani, Silvano Tosi, Martino Terrone

“…As test sites, we considered four different known geological scenarios: two representing landslide environments (Santo Stefano d’Aveto and Arzeno, both in Liguria, NW Italy) and two subsidence environments (Rome and Venice, urban and surrounding areas). …”
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Uncovering Predictors of Lipid Goal Attainment in Type 2 Diabetes Outpatients Using Logic Learning Machine: Insights from the AMD Annals and AMD Artificial Intelligence Study Group by Davide Masi, Rita Zilich, Riccardo Candido, Annalisa Giancaterini, Giacomo Guaita, Marco Muselli, Paola Ponzani, Pierluigi Santin, Damiano Verda, Nicoletta Musacchio

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Comparative Analysis of Five Multiplex RT-PCR Assays in the Screening of SARS-CoV-2 Variants by Vanessa De Pace, Bianca Bruzzone, Andrea Orsi, Valentina Ricucci, Alexander Domnich, Giulia Guarona, Nadia Randazzo, Federica Stefanelli, Enrico Battolla, Pier Andrea Dusi, Flavia Lillo, Giancarlo Icardi

“…We retrospectively examined a multi-variant panel (<i>n</i> = 72) of SARS-CoV-2-positive nasopharyngeal swabs categorized as variants of concern (Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta), variants under monitoring (Iota and Kappa) and wild-type strains circulating in Liguria (Italy) from January to August 2021. First, NGS libraries of study samples were prepared and mapped to the reference genome. …”
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Besnoitia besnoiti among cattle in insular and northwestern Italy: endemic infection or isolated outbreaks? by Alessia L Gazzonis, Gema Alvarez Garcia, Sergio A Zanzani, Giovanni Garippa, Luca Rossi, Marco Maggiora, Valter Dini, Anna Invernizzi, Mario Luini, Vito M Tranquillo, Luis Ortega Mora, Maria Teresa Manfredi

“…Methods Three thousand one hundred and forty bovine blood samples from both dairy and beef farms (n = 126) were collected in northwestern regions (Lombardy, Piedmont and Liguria) and in the island of Sardinia. Samples were analyzed by a standardized in-house ELISA and those resulted positive were re-tested by Western Blot (WB) for confirmation. …”
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Scent of Jasmine Attracts Alien Invaders and Records on Citizen Science Platforms: Multiple Introductions of the Invasive Lacebug <i>Corythauma ayyari</i> (Drake, 1933) (Heteropter... by Giuseppe Mazza, Luca Nerva, Agostino Strangi, Emiliano Mori, Walter Chitarra, Attilio Carapezza, Maurizio Mei, Leonardo Marianelli, Pio F. Roversi, Alessandro Campanaro, Fabio Cianferoni

“…Here, we updated the known distribution of this species, including five new Italian regions (Liguria, Tuscany, Latium, Apulia, and Calabria); Salamis Island in Greece, and the Occitanie region in France. …”
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Chromatographic Detection of 8-Hydroxy-2′-Deoxyguanosine in Leukocytes of Asbestos Exposed Workers for Assessing Past and Recent Carcinogen Exposures by Filippo Cellai, Stefano Bonassi, Alfonso Cristaudo, Alessandra Bonotti, Monica Neri, Marcello Ceppi, Marco Bruzzone, Mirta Milić, Armelle Munnia, Marco Peluso

“…Therefore; we have conducted an epidemiological study to evaluate the relationship between 8-hydroxy-2′-deoxyguanosine (8-oxodG), one of the most reliable biomarkers of oxidative stress and oxidative DNA damage; and asbestos exposure in the peripheral blood of residents in Tuscany and Liguria regions; Italy; stratified by occupational exposure to this carcinogen. …”
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Damage caused by &lt;em&gt;Skrjabingylus nasicola&lt;/em&gt; (Leuckart, 1842), Metastrongylidae, to weasels (&lt;em&gt;Mustela nivalis&lt;/em&gt; L.) in North-Western Italy by Claudio Prigioni, Anna Boria

“…&lt;strong&gt;Abstract&lt;/strong&gt; The percentage of infestation (incidence) and the degree of damage caused by &lt;em&gt;Skrjabingylus nasicola&lt;/em&gt; were analysed in 15 fresh skulls of weasels (&lt;em&gt;Mustela nivalis&lt;/em&gt;) collected in Pavia province (Northern Italy) during 1986-89 and in 79 preserved skulls from the Civic Museum of Natural History of Genoa (Liguria region). The incidence was 66.6% for the first sample of weasels and 54.4% for the second one; the mean degree of damage, assessed according King's methods, was 3.7 and 2.6 respectively. …”
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Antibiotic resistance, plasmids, and virulence-associated markers in human strains of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli isolated in Italy by Aurora Garcia-Fernandez, Anna Janowicz, Francesca Marotta, Maira Napoleoni, Sergio Arena, Sara Primavilla, Monica Pitti, Romina Romantini, Fiorella Tomei, Giuliano Garofolo, Laura Villa

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Identification, Purification and Molecular Characterization of Chondrosin, a New Protein with Anti-tumoral Activity from the Marine Sponge <i>Chondrosia Reniformis</i> Nardo 1847 by Sonia Scarfì, Marina Pozzolini, Caterina Oliveri, Serena Mirata, Annalisa Salis, Gianluca Damonte, Daniela Fenoglio, Tiziana Altosole, Micha Ilan, Marco Bertolino, Marco Giovine

“…In this paper, we have described the identification of a new cytotoxic protein (chondrosin) with selective activity against specific tumor cell lines, from <i>C. reniformis</i>, collected from the Liguria Sea. Chondrosin was extracted and purified using a salting out approach and molecular weight size exclusion chromatography. …”
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