Origin and development of agent nouns in -ino by Franz Rainer

“…Agent nouns in -ino like postino (denominal) and spazzino (deverbal) are a specialty of Italo-Romance, concentrated in the dialects of Central and Northern Italy, and hence also present in the standard language, as well as in the neighboring Rhaeto-Romance territories influenced by Italian. …”
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Ressources communes by Giangiacomo Bravo, Beatrice Marelli

“…This paper shortly discusses the "theory of the commons", as developed in the last 20 years by Elinor Ostrom and her colleagues, and illustrates it by mean of case studies regarding a number of irrigation systems in Northern Italy (Lombardy and Vallée d’Aoste). We show that that different social mechanisms, like the shared values e the social network existing inside the community of users, play a significant role in influencing the outcomes of the institutional schemes for the commons management.…”
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Irrigation systems as common-pool resources by Giangiacomo Bravo, Beatrice Marelli

“…This paper shortly discusses the "theory of the commons", as developed in the last 20 years by Elinor Ostrom and her colleagues, and illustrates it by mean of case studies regarding a number of irrigation systems in Northern Italy (Lombardy and Aosta Valley). We show that that different social mechanisms, like the shared values e the social network existing inside the community of users, play a significant role in influencing the outcomes of the institutional schemes for the commons management.…”
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La géoarchéologie fluviale by Gilles Arnaud-Fassetta

“…The pertinence of this combinatorial approach is deduced from the work of the author led both in rural and urban areas of the deltaic plains of the Rhône (South of France) and Isonzo (northern Italy) rivers.…”
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Le culte de Maxime de Riez : premiers jalons (I) by Thierry Pécout

“…Maxime has been the object of various appropriations, especially in Flanders, in the Viennois, and in northern Italy, the sources of which are examined here. …”
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Le culte de Maxime de Riez : renouveaux (II) by Thierry Pécout

“…Maxime has been the object of various appropriations, especially in Flanders, in the Viennois, and in northern Italy, the sources of which are examined here. …”
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Francouzské „luiginy“ a jejich severoitalské napodobeniny v peněžním oběhu Osmanské říše v 60. letech 17. století by Petr Vorel

“… The recognition of French small coins (5-sou), a significantly higher payment power, as legal tender in the territory of the Ottoman Empire was the reason for the imitation of those mintages in many private mints in the territory of Northern Italy in 1658–1669. Those tiny low-quality coins (called “luigino”), produced on a large scale using minting machines, were not intended for European money circulation, but only for the export to the Ottoman Empire. …”
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Young people and mountain by Andrea Macchiavelli, Andrea Pozzi

“…This paper presents the results of an extensive research project carried out in Northern Italy that investigated the relationship between people and mountain focusing especially on younger generations, and highlights the conditions and the expectations towards mountain hiking in the Alps both in summer and winter. …”
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Enterobiasis in Ectopic Locations Mimicking Tumor-Like Lesions by Silvio Pampiglione, Francesco Rivasi

“…The authors report two ectoptic cases of enterobiasis observed in Northern Italy, one located in a fallopian tube of a 57-year-old woman and the other in a perianal subcutaneous tissue of a 59-year-old man, mimicking tumor-like lesions. …”
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La comunità debole: cohousing tra utopia sociale e mercato capitalistico by Dario Altobelli

“…The cohousing observed in recent years a significant spread in the world by binding to the ideas of ecological matrix, and there are some pilot projects in northern Italy. The paper intends to present the phenomenon in its general aspects, focusing in particular on what can be called the "philosophy" that animates these communities of residence, which appear, for many reasons, "weak". …”
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Urban Regeneration: a Multidisciplinary Approach by Giulia Pettoello, Luigi Stendardo

“…Abandoned urban areas around Padua, the case study of the project, are a particularly important example in consideration of the fact that northern Italy contains the highest increase in land consumption in the country (8.4% in 2013; ISPRA 2015) and, in particular, the city is first in the region for the percentage of land used (49% in 2013; ARPA Veneto 2015). …”
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Dehumanization and burden of care among caregivers of terminally ill patients by Ines Testoni, Giulia Sicari, Lucia Ronconi, Gianmarco Biancalani, Chiara Franco, Paolo Cottone, Robert Crupi

“…One hundred informal caregivers (relatives and friends) of patients hospitalized in four hospice facilities in northern Italy were involved. Of these, 77% were primary caregivers (those who mostly helped the patient). …”
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Parcours migratoires féminins à Parme (Italie du nord) selon différentes sources d’information : Étude de cas by Vincenza Pellegrino, Enzo Lucchetti, Gilles Boëtsch

“…The migration paths linking the city of Parma (northern Italy) with the various countries of origin have been analysed on the basis of information taken from the Population Register of the Town Council of Parma (1989-2000), as well as information obtained in the course of a survey (1999-2002) conducted by the Migrants Health Center of the Local Health Authorities. …”
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« Cette femme éminente a touché l’âme universelle ». Une théorie médicale du talent de l’actrice-chanteuse dans La Pasta nell’Otello de Luigi Morando De Rizzoni (Vérone, Crescini,... by Céline Frigau Manning

“…Luigi Morando De Rizzoni’s fictional dialogue La Pasta nell’Otello was published in Verona following Giuditta Pasta’s tour of northern Italy during the winter of 1829-1830. Five characters spend their evening debating the singer’s talent, its causes and effects. …”
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Olive Fertility as Affected by Cross-Pollination and Boron by A. Spinardi, D. Bassi

“…Self-compatibility of local olive (Olea europaea L.) accessions and of the cultivars “Frantoio” and “Leccino” was investigated in Garda Lake area, northern Italy. Intercompatibility was determined for “Casaliva,” “Frantoio,” and “Leccino,” as well as the effects of foliar Boron applications (0, 262, 525, or 1050 mg·L−1) applied about one week before anthesis on fruit set, shotberry set, and on in vitro pollen germination. …”
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Bird Richness and Abundance in Urban Areas: Simulation-Based Conservation Strategies for an Italian Town by Alessandro Ferrarini, Luca Bagni, Marco Gustin

“…In this study, we (a) inventoried the breeding bird community of a town located in Northern Italy using quadrat sampling, (b) quantified bird richness and abundance, (c) measured sample completeness, (d) tested whether the bird community assembly was driven by environmental filtering (i.e., local properties of every single quadrat), e) explained bird richness and abundance in light of the land cover types present in each quadrat, (f) disentangled the marginal effects of every land cover type, and (g) simulated the effects on birds of different planning decisions. …”
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An auto-tuning process-based 3D model to forecast irrigation demand in kiwifruit by Marco Bittelli, Matteo Francia, Joseph Giovanelli, Matteo Golfarelli, Fausto Tomei

“…A large set of tests has been conducted on Kiwifruit in an experimental farm in Northern Italy. Besides accuracy, tests proved the robustness of the system even in the presence of a limited set of examples for parameter auto-tuning. …”
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Converting Organic Municipal Solid Waste Into Volatile Fatty Acids and Biogas: Experimental Pilot and Batch Studies With Statistical Analysis by Hojjat Borhany

“…Hence, this study involves an anaerobic digester in Treviso in northern Italy. ObjectiveThis research compares a novel line, consisting of pretreatment, acidogenic fermentation, and anaerobic digestion, with single-step anaerobic digestion regarding financial profit and surplus energy. …”
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High Resolution of Water Availability for Emilia-Romagna Region over 1961–2015 by F. Cervi, M. M. Nistor

“…In this study, monthly time series of precipitations and temperatures from 1024 controlled and homogeneous meteorological stations located in the Emilia-Romagna region (northern Italy) are processed in order to assess potential climate changes that occurred during the period 1961–2015. …”
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The Nonmydriatic Fundus Camera in Diabetic Retinopathy Screening: A Cost-Effective Study with Evaluation for Future Large-Scale Application by Giuseppe Scarpa, Francesca Urban, Stela Vujosevic, Michele Tessarin, Giovanni Gallo, Annalisa Visentin, Emanuela Foglia, Lucrezia Ferrario, Edoardo Midena

“…Diabetic patients living in the town of Ponzano, Veneto Region (Northern Italy), were invited to be enrolled in the screening programme. …”
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