FIERY SEARCHER, CATERPILLAR HUNTER CALOSOMA SCRUTATOR (FABRICIUS 1775) (INSECTA: COLEOPTERA: CARABIDAE)


Prevotella: A Key Player in Ruminal Metabolism

Ruminants are foregut fermenters that have the remarkable ability of converting plant polymers that are indigestible to humans into assimilable comestibles like meat and milk, which are cornerstones of human nutrition.Ruminants establish a st?vsugerposer aeg symbiotic relationship with their microbiome, and the latter is the workhorse of carbohydra

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Viability and resilience of languages in competition.

We study the viability and resilience of languages, using a simple dynamical model of two languages in competition.Assuming that public action can modify the prestige of a language in order to avoid language extinction, we analyze two cases: (i) the prestige can only take two values, (ii) it can take any value but its change at each time step is bo

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Thirty years of ground deformation monitoring at Stromboli volcano

Abstract Since 1992, INGV has collected tilt, GNSS esab miniarc rogue (Global Navigation Satellite System) and strainmeter data, for the monitoring of effusive and explosive activity of Stromboli volcano.In this timespan, ground deformations related to eruptive activity, paroxystic explosions, cycles of inflation/deflation and many other phenomena

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