Coastal Erosion and Flooding Threaten Low-Lying Coastal Tracts at Lipari (Aeolian Islands, Italy) by Claudia Romagnoli, Alessandro Bosman, Daniele Casalbore, Marco Anzidei, Fawzi Doumaz, Fabiana Bonaventura, Matteo Meli, Carmelo Verdirame

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Improving Air Quality in the Po Valley, Italy: Some Results by the LIFE-IP-PREPAIR Project by Katia Raffaelli, Marco Deserti, Michele Stortini, Roberta Amorati, Matteo Vasconi, Giulia Giovannini

“…The Po Valley (Northern Italy) represents an important exceedance zone of the air-quality limit values for PM (particulate matter), NO₂ (nitrogen dioxide) and O₃ (ozone). …”
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The Necessity for Alternative Legal Pathways: The Best Practice of Humanitarian Corridors Opened by Private Sponsors in Italy by Carola Ricci

“…The scope of this Article is to understand to what extent a recent and fruitful private initiative sponsoring a safe alternative legal pathway spread from Italy, called “humanitarian corridors,” may in the future become a general and uniform alternative model for all the European Union States. …”
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A Short History of International Business in Italy: What We Know and How We Know It by Veronica Binda

“…Finally, the conclusions indicate the possible main directions for future research in this field.…”
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Distribution and taxonomy of two closely related Nychiodes species in southern Italy (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Ennominae) by Ilaria Latella, Stefano Scalercio, Axel Hausmann

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A Transient Stochastic Rainfall Generator for Climate Changes Analysis at Hydrological Scales in Central Italy by Davide Luciano De Luca, Andrea Petroselli, Luciano Galasso

“…Applications regarded the rainfall time series of the Viterbo rain gauge in Central Italy.…”
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Development of Non heart-beating donor programs for kidney transplantation in Italy: A perspective view by Alessandra De Iacob, Filomena Misuriello, Franco Citterio

“…In this review we analyze the current scenario of DCD renal transplantation in Europe and in Italy. In Italy DCD donation has not yet been significantly developed because of the obstacle of the 20 min no touch period after cardiac arrest, before cannulating and perfusing organs to be recovered. …”
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Environmental factors shaping copepod distributions in cave waters of the Lessinian unsaturated karst (NE-Italy) by Ilaria Vaccarelli, Ilaria Vaccarelli, Francesco Cerasoli, Stefano Mammola, Stefano Mammola, Stefano Mammola, Barbara Fiasca, Mattia Di Cicco, Tiziana Di Lorenzo, Tiziana Di Lorenzo, Fabio Stoch, Diana Maria Paola Galassi

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Waste-heat utilization potential in a hydrogen-based energy system - An exploratory focus on Italy by Francesco Mezzera, Fabrizio Fattori, Alice Dénarié, Mario Motta

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The ‘land of fires’: epidemiological research and public health policy during the waste crisis in Campania, Italy by Piero Alberti

“…The region of Campania, South Italy rose to prominence in the mid-2000s due to the illegal disposal of waste by the Camorra during the local waste management crisis. …”
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On-Demand Isn’t Built in a Day: Promotional Rhetoric and the Challenges of Net ix’s Arrival in Italy by Luca Barra

“…On the one hand, Net ix has reaped the results of its effort to establish a long-term promotional discourse in Italy. On the other, however, Net ix’s late appearance was also couched in the context of a complex media scenario and an already established national on-demand market. …”
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Covid-19 Confinement and Changes of Adolescent’s Dietary Trends in Italy, Spain, Chile, Colombia and Brazil by María Belén Ruiz-Roso, Patricia de Carvalho Padilha, Diana C. Mantilla-Escalante, Natalia Ulloa, Paola Brun, Diofanor Acevedo-Correa, Wilza Arantes Ferreira Peres, Miquel Martorell, Mariana Tschoepke Aires, Letícia de Oliveira Cardoso, Fernanda Carrasco-Marín, Katherine Paternina-Sierra, Jhon E. Rodriguez-Meza, Piedad M. Montero, Giulia Bernabè, Anthony Pauletto, Xhoajda Taci, Francesco Visioli, Alberto Dávalos

“…Understanding the adolescents’ nutrition behavior during COVID-19 lockdown will help public health authorities reshape future policies on their nutritional recommendations, in preparation for future pandemics.…”
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First record of the non-native Osbornellus auronitens (Provancher, 1889) (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Deltocephalinae) in Italy by Enrico Ruzzier, Federico Lessio, Francesca Cinquatti, Francesco Poggi, Alberto Alma, Andrea Galli, Luciano Bani, Francesco Sanna

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Fertility plans in the early times of the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of occupational and financial uncertainty in Italy by Francesca Luppi, Bruno Arpino, Alessandro Rosina

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Fertility plans in the early times of the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of occupational and financial uncertainty in Italy. by Francesca Luppi, Bruno Arpino, Alessandro Rosina

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Robotic monitoring of dunes: a dataset from the EU habitats 2110 and 2120 in Sardinia (Italy) by Franco Angelini, Mathew J. Pollayil, Giovanni Rivieccio, Maria Carmela Caria, Simonetta Bagella, Manolo Garabini

“…The availability of this dataset has the potential to inform future research and conservation efforts in the EU habitats 2110 and 2120, and it highlights the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in the field of habitat monitoring. …”
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New hydrogeological results on the Groundwater Dependent Ecosystem of the Pilato Lake (Sibillini Mts, Central Italy) by Lucio Martarelli, Rossella Maria Gafà, Francesco La Vigna, Gennaro Maria Monti, Angelantonio Silvi

“… Located at an altitude of about 1950 m a.s.l. in a glacial cirque of Mount Vettore (Monti Sibillini National Park - Central Italy), Pilato Lake is one of the few glacial lakes existing in the Apennines. …”
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Hospitalization rates for intussusception in children aged 0–59 months from 2009 to 2014 in Italy by Vincenzo Restivo, Claudio Costantino, Fabio Tramuto, Francesco Vitale

“…This study demonstrates that Italian hospitalizations for intussusception are increasing by time and the role played by different risk factors, including acute gastroenteritis, have to be investigated in the future. These data could be useful to monitor intussusception hospitalization in the perspective of anti-rotavirus vaccination introduction in Italy.…”
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Adherence to Mediterranean Diet and Food Neophobia Occurrence in Children: A Study Carried out in Italy by Annalisa Di Nucci, Simone Pilloni, Umberto Scognamiglio, Laura Rossi

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Geochemical-Microscopical Characterization of the Deterioration of Stone Surfaces in the Cloister of Santa Maria in Vado (Ferrara, Italy) by Elena Marrocchino, Chiara Telloli, Marilena Leis, Carmela Vaccaro

“…Santa Maria in Vado is a monument in the rich artistic heritage of the city of Ferrara (north of Italy). In this paper we want to investigate the state of conservation of tombstones, cloister and the entrance to the basilica, in order to keep them in the best possible state for the future generations. …”
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