Waters and Welfare: Rivers, Infrastructure, and the Territorial Imagination in Grand Ducal Tuscany, 1549–1609 by Murphy, Caroline Elizabeth

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Storytelling on the margins : a theoretical framework for imagining a fashion innovation center in Tuscany by Mills, Alexa (Alexa Timeaus)

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Ancestry, blood, and heredity. Attitudes towards biological descent in late medieval Tuscany, c.1250-1400 by Andrés Porras

“…This thesis examines intellectual and social attitudes to biological descent in late medieval Tuscany. In recent decades, historians have paid increasing attention to the body as a locus of experience, individuality, and identity. …”

Viva l'Italia, viva la Repubblica: popular political engagement and participation in Tuscany during the Italian Risorgimento, c. 1830-1861 by Kehoe, B

“…<p>This thesis explores popular politics and political participation in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany during the Italian Risorgimento. There are two broad strands to this research. …”

The Etruscan timeline: a recent Anatolian connection. by Brisighelli, F, Capelli, C, Alvarez-Iglesias, V, Onofri, V, Paoli, G, Tofanelli, S, Carracedo, A, Pascali, V, Salas, A

“…The origin of the Etruscans (the present day Tuscany, Italy), one of the most enigmatic non-Indo-European civilizations, is under intense controversy. …”

Reconstruction of dispersal pattern of hypervirulent meningococcal strains of serogroup C:cc11 by phylogenomic time tree by Lo Presti, A, Neri, A, Fazio, C, Vacca, P, Ambrosio, L, Grazian, C, Liseo, B, Rezza, G, Maiden, M, Stefanelli, P

“…Two main clades of the hypervirulent genotype were identified in Italy. The Tuscany outbreak isolates were included in different clusters in a specific subclade which originated in the United Kingdom around 2011 and was introduced in Tuscany in 2013 to 2014. …”

The countryside of Florence and Lucca during the High Middle Ages (11th - 13th centuries). A study on land management and its change by Tabarrini, L

“…Chapter 1 is divided into two main sections: the first one discusses the history of historiography, and stresses that the forms of land management in Tuscany during the central Middle Ages have been relatively less studied in comparison to the early and late Middle Ages; the second one outlines the political history of Lucca and Florence between the 11th and the 13th centuries. …”

Medici patronage and exotic collectibles in the seventeenth century: the Cospi Collection by Gigante, F

“…Knives and daggers such as “two most refined knives with damascened blades and heliotrope handles, one larger and one smaller, both in sheathes, a gift of the most excellent Prince Cardinal Leopoldo of Tuscany were among these gifts. Medici patronage of the Cospi Museum not only extended to artefacts but also encompassed the natural collecting.…”

Living Standards in the Past: New Perspectives on Well-Being in Asia and Europe

“…Papers examine standards of living in eighteenth-century China; farm labor productivity in Jiangnan, 1620-1850; wages, inequality, and pre-industrial growth in Japan, 1727-1894; agriculture, labor, and the standard of living in eighteenth-century India; long term patterns in real wages in Europe and Asia; the rise of real inequality in early modern Europe; the standard of living before the industrial revolution in the Western part of the Netherlands; economic growth, human capital formation, and consumption in Western Europe before 1800; average heights in Northern Europe over a millennium; physical and economic well-being of the Russian population in the eighteenth century; maternal mortality as an indicator of the standard of living in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Slavonia; the standard of living in Denmark in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; short-term demographic changes in relation to economic fluctuations in Tuscany, 1823-54; new evidence on the standard of living in Sweden during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; individuals and communities facing economic stress; living standards in Liaoning, 1749-1909; and demographic responses to short-term economic stress in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century rural Japan. …”

Italian isolates today: geographic and linguistic factors shaping human biodiversity. by Destro Bisol, G, Anagnostou, P, Batini, C, Battaggia, C, Bertoncini, S, Boattini, A, Caciagli, L, Caló, M, Capelli, C, Capocasa, M, Castrí, L, Ciani, G, Coia, V, Corrias, L, Crivellaro, F, Ghiani, M, Luiselli, D, Mela, C, Melis, A, Montano, V, Paoli, G, Sanna, E, Rufo, F, Sazzini, M, Taglioli, L

“…An interdisciplinary sampling approach will make it possible to collect several linguistic isolates and their geographic neighbours from Trentino, Veneto, Friuli, Tuscany, Sardinia and Calabria. This will be coupled with a shared genotyping strategy based on mitochondrial and Y-chromosomal polymorphisms. …”

The correspondence(s) of Count and Countess Lorenzi: what was the extent of an early modern ambassadress’ autonomy? by Sciuto, R

“…The personal archives of Count Luigi Lorenzi, French resident minister to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany from 1735 to 1765, are in this sense exceptional, as they contain not only hundreds of letters addressed to Luigi’s wife, Countess Minerva Ughi, but also drafts of many of her letters. …”

Land-atmosphere interactions in an high resolution atmospheric simulation coupled with a surface data assimilation scheme by Entekhabi, Dara, Campo, L., Castelli, F., Caparrini, F.

“…In this study sequences of satellite-derived observations (from SEVIRI sensors aboard the Meteosat Second Generation) of Land Surface Temperature have been used as input in a data assimilation scheme in order to retrieve parameters that describe energy balance at the ground surface in the Tuscany region, in central Italy, during summer 2005. …”
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Patterns of circulating fat-soluble vitamins and carotenoids and risk of frailty in four European cohorts of older adults by Pilleron, S, Weber, D, Pérès, K, Colpo, M, Gomez-Cabrero, D, Stuetz, W, Dartigues, J-F, Ferrucci, L, Bandinelli, S, Garcia-Garcia, FJ, Grune, T, Féart, C

“…</p><br /> <p><strong>Methods:</strong><br /> Participants from the Three-City (Bordeaux, France), AMI (Gironde, France), TSHA (Toledo, Spain) and InCHIANTI (Tuscany, Italy) cohorts with available data on serum α-carotene, β-carotene, lycopene, cryptoxanthin, lutein + zeaxanthin, retinol, α-tocopherol, γ-tocopherol and 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25(OH)D) were included. …”

IGF1 as a Potential Treatment for Rett Syndrome: Safety Assessment in Six Rett Patients by Pini, Giorgio, Scusa, Maria Flora, Congiu, Laura, Benincasa, Alberto, Morescalchi, Paolina, Bottiglioni, Ilaria, Di Marco, Pietro, Borelli, Paolo, Bonuccelli, Ubaldo, Della-Chiesa, Andrea, Prina-Mello, Adriele, Tropea, Daniela

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Slower calcium handling balances faster cross-bridge cycling in human MYBPC3 HCM by Pioner, JM, Vitale, G, Steczina, S, Langione, M, Margara, F, Santini, L, Giardini, F, Lazzeri, E, Piroddi, N, Scellini, B, Palandri, C, Schuldt, M, Spinelli, V, Girolami, F, Mazzarotto, F, van der Velden, J, Cerbai, E, Tesi, C, Olivotto, I, Bueno-Orovio, A, Sacconi, L, Coppini, R, Ferrantini, C, Regnier, M, Poggesi, C

“…</p> <p><strong>Results:&nbsp;</strong>Haplotype analysis revealed&nbsp;<em>MYBPC3</em>:c772G&gt;A as a founder mutation in Tuscany. In ventricular myocardium, the mutation leads to reduced cMyBP-C (cardiac myosin binding protein-C) expression, supporting haploinsufficiency as the main primary disease mechanism. …”