The thematic area "welfare systems" is object of study at the head office in Rome, as well as the territorial section of Salerno. This research activity is based on the assumption that the demographic transformations of society are closely linked with social policies: the pure demographic information is not sufficient in reading the central problems linked to ageing, which is at the same time a demographic and physiological condition, but also a social construction. This thematic area isanalysed ...

In its research activity IREA produces an amount of data related to geographic areas that are observed through time: from snow cover to the extension of glaciers on Alps, from pollution in pre-Alpine lakes to burned areas in Italian natural parks. Such geographic information is often the result of research projects performed in collaboration with organisations responsible for land management (public administrations, government departments, local environmental agencies, etc.), for which it ...

Altrettante importante è stata l'attività di diffusione della conoscenza scientifica attraverso la realizzazione di un corso "Mosaico: archeometria, tecnologia e conservazione", indirizzato a personale specializzato che opera nel campo dei beni culturali.

Dietro il sostenuto e prolungato incremento della sopravvivenza della popolazione italiana stanno una serie di fattori, alcuni dei quali affondano le radici nel passato delle generazioni, ma vi assumono sempre più peso gli investimenti in ricerca, cura ed assistenza nei confronti di malattie letali proprie delle età centrali ed avanzate, malattie che fino a tempi recenti impedivano di raggiungere in massa l'età anziana e di vivere a lungo in essa. Si è innescato un processo circolare, ...

La necessità di aumentare le pari opportunità nella scienza è considerato un fattore chiave per lo sviluppo economico e scientifico. E' sufficiente ricordare che al summit di Barcellona del 2002, il Consiglio Europeo ha deciso di aumentare la spesa per ricerca e sviluppo in Europa e di incrementare il numero di ricercatori di più del 50%. Una grossa opportunità per raggiungere questi obiettivi risiede nell'utilizzazione del potenziale umano esistente, ma inutilizzato; il genere femminile, ...

In the last years, the Institute research activities' on topic of spatial mobility focuses on analysis and comparison of immigrants integration processes in host societies. In particular, the investigation on those processes aims to link different approaches and paradigms in common theoretical framework. This approach wants to stress and valuing ties, relationships, similarities and dissimilarities between the different types of migration. The elaboration of this comprehensive approach aims to ...

Le risorse umane per la R&S sono unanimemente considerate elemento essenziale per la diffusione e la promozione dell'innovazione. Insieme agli investimenti ed alle infrastrutture tecnologiche, poter contare su un pool di persone ad alta qualificazione, formate per la ricerca costitiusce uno dei fattori chiave della competitività sia nel quadro nazionale che internazionale. I policy makers ed I ricercatori sociali pongono grande attenzione allo studio del contributo all'innovazione dei fattori ...

There is no other inorganic material that brings together such much intriguing features like porous silicon (PSi) for people working in the optical sensing field. Porous silicon was unexpectedly discovered in the late fifties when chemists attempted to electropolish silicon wafers with an electrolyte containing hydrofluoric acid to get better electrical contacts in the first integrated electronic circuit fabrications.1 The acid dissolution left a sponge-like nanocrystalline silicon structure on ...

Nel settore ceramico l'impiego di sospensioni riveste una notevole importanza sia per ottimizzare i prodotti che per massimizzare la resa dei processi. Sta crescendo l'attenzione verso l'applicazione dei principi di reologia e scienza dei colloidi , oltre che negli studi di base, anche nell'ottimizzazione delle formulazioni industriali, tanto che sempre più frequentemente viene richiesta collaborazione da parte di aziende. ISTEC ha una consolidata esperienza nello sviluppo di sospensioni ...

Realizzazione del libro dal titolo "Sulle orme dei primi ceramisti" che costituisce uno dei risultati del progetto SEE-PAST "South Eastern European pottery: Archaeology and Scientific Techniques" (2006-2007). Lo scopo del libro è di promuove la diffusione della conoscenza del periodo neolitico attraverso lo studio della ceramica. Questo libro è rivolto a ragazzi delle scuole elementari e medie, protagonisti di un racconto immaginario, ma estremamente realistico, che come un diario, illustra il ...

A silica-based composition and the related slip casting process, have been optimized for the production of complex shapes components. These components are used in the production process of metallic materials with superior properties. Thanks to the optimized ceramic materials a higher process temperature is possible, and this leads to higher performances of the obtained metallic components. This research have been conducted in the frame of a contract with a private enterprise.

Edited by: Institute of Neurobiology and Molecular Medicine - INMM and Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology - IBPM The design and realization of artificial regulatory genes represents an important and promising tool for the development of new therapeutic strategies for the cure of genetic diseases and cancer. In particular, the use of "synthetic regulator genes" may allow the up-regulation, down-regulation or suppression of "target genes" involved in different pathologies. We realized ...

Conventional suspended biomass reactors (e.g. activated sludge systems), widely used for treating municipal and/or industrial wastewater, have the disadvantage of large area requirement and high surplus biomass production. This explains the great effort being made worldwide to find a replacement for conventional technologies, with innovative ones aimed at lower footprint, better operational flexibility and lower sludge production. In such a contest, the Water Research Institute (IRSA) of the ...

The growing diffusion of the Information and Communication Technology among any everyday assets and services is nowadays referred to as the "Pervasive ICT". The term "pervasive" well represents the trend that very soon hundreds of billions of microprocessors will be embedded within objects that do not even appear as ICT products and will govern in practice every aspect of our lives. This true revolution is progressively changing every business and the very way companies exist and compete. In any ...

The negative effects of climate change are mostly observed in developing Countries, with particular emphasis on Asia. As in other parts of the world, this area is under a double threat: the first one, at a larger scale, is related to global warming as a result of increasing greenhouse gas emissions to which the Asian continent contributes significantly, while the second one is connected to climate change at the regional scale, influenced by the high aerosol - black carbon in the first place - ...

The "Multimedia/Multilingual Information Retrieval" group of the Networked Multimedia Information Systems (NMIS) laboratory of ISTI-CNR, has developed a domain-specific multimedia/multilingual search engine targeted for the Cultural Heritage (CH) sector. The search engine, known as Multi Match, is the result of the activities of a European research project with the same name, coordinated by ISTI-CNR (see http://www.multimatch.org/). Cultural heritage content is everywhere on the web, in ...

The atmospheric pollution forecast is a challenging target, which is not far to be reached by the scientific tools developed in the last years. The research objective is to better understand the processes that affect the air quality and their impact on meteorology and climate; the practical objective is to produce tools for the governance and support to decisions. The growing public interest solicited new European economic resources towards such end. In particular EU finances the Integrated ...

A database on climate change over the last two centuries has been realized thanks to the European project ALP-IMP (Multi-centennial climate variability in the Alps based on Instrumental data, Model simulations and Proxy data), where the group of Historical Climatology of the Institute of Atmospheric and Climatic Sciences (ISAC) of the National Research Council, Bologna, headed by Teresa Nanni, participated for Italy. Research was carried out in collaboration with Maurizio Maugeri of the ...

The sheep (Ovis aries, 2n=54) is one of the most economically important livestock species, especially in the Mediterranean Countries. Although linkage and radiation hybrid maps are available, cytogenetic maps found in Web sites are still very poor and built, among other things, on old standard karyotypes. The recent construction of standard karyotypes in domestic bovids, including that of the sheep, based on both high resolution banded models, use of molecular markers and homologous chromosome ...

Animals, especially those fed with natural pasture, represent real environmental sentinels. Indeed, being them fed with local plants and soil (taken together with grass) in place of breeding, give an idea of the degree of contamination of food and of the food chain. Indeed, many mutagenic substances present in the environment pass through animal products, to humans, laying the foundations for the onset of abnormal clinical picture (reproductive, hormonal and immune disorders). Check these ...

Supercapacitors are electrochemical devices which can be efficiently used together with primary electric current generators in mobile applications. They are characterized in supplying high electric power for short times (seconds), while the electrical generators (batteries and fuel cells) are suitable in delivering electric current for longer times at constant load. Thus supercapacitors, may be advantageously used, together with batteries and fuel cells, in the electric vehicles, in the ...

Institute CNR/TAE has developed a hydrogen generator (from light hydrocarbons like methane, LPG) for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell, named HYGEN II, in order to overcome the main limits of the hydrocarbons steam reforming technology, for residential use. The proposed solution is based on autothermal reforming reactions. HYGen II can reach a nominal hydrogen production of 5 Nm3h-1 (from methane, propane, LPG, butane) with a maximum hydrogen production of 8.5 Nm3h-1. The net size (mm) of the fuel ...

Il progetto MEDcGAME si inquadra nel più ampio progetto Mediterranean Myths and Sea (MEDMYSEA) nato nell'ambito dell'azione comunitaria INTERREG. MEDMYSEA è un progetto finanziato dall’Unione Europea (UE) attraverso i Fondi di Sviluppo Regionali (ERDF) nell’ambito dell’iniziativa comunitaria Archimed per stimolare la cooperazione interregionale Italia-Grecia nel periodo 2000-06. MMS nasce per promuovere lo sviluppo sostenibile del turismo mediante la ...

Although digital literacy is considered one of the key competences that all individuals need for fully participating in the information society, a large part of the European population still seems to lack the basic e-skills which underpin that competence. The 2005 Eurostat survey on a sample of 200.000 European people aged 17 to 74, shows that 37% has no computer skills at all and 15% has a low level of competence. These values vary remarkably according to the country of origin, level of ...

Il complesso monumentale del Bedestan è situato nella parte turca del nucleo storico della città di Nicosia, pochi metri a sud della moschea Selimiye, anticamente cattedrale latina di S. Sofia. Deve il suo nome alla funzione di mercato di tessuti e di oggetti preziosi alla quale è stato destinato durante il periodo ottomano (1570-1878) a seguito della trasformazione di una preesistente chiesa cristiana. Il piano di studio e investigazione sullo stato dell'edificio e la progettazione del ...

Ivalsa has coordinated the collection and characterization of autochthonous olive genetic resources of Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Syria and Tunisia and has collaborated to the establishment of two international fields (Marrakech and Cordoba) that gathers the olive biodiversity belonging to 16 Mediterranean Countries.

An innovative technique for the olive oil sector has been introduced (nephelometry) which allows with simple optical measurements of the spectrum to certify the area of origin of a oil (PDO).

Laboratory tests were carried out to determine the natural durability of Dunarobba fossil forest wood of Avigliano Umbro to decay fungi and insect colonization (2003) and to develop a methodology, based on 3D scanned digital models, for measurement and monitoring wood deformations, caused by weather changes, in the trees of the fossil forest (2007).

ITD has been engaged in research projects on computer games for a long time now; in particular, it takes into consideration the use of mind games, puzzles, brainteasers etc. to support the development of logical reasoning and problem solving skills. In this context ITD has designed a set of longitudinal experimentations in primary schools for the use of computer games both as a means to understand and highlight reasoning difficulties of individual pupils and as tools to support the ...

In the summer of 2007 the minister of Education highlighted that mathematical teaching is an emergency in the Italian mainstream education system and “it risks to prevent Italian students to compete with their peers in Europe”. Moreover, the PISA international test has revealed that Italian students lack in mathematics skills: among all OECD countries that participated in PISA, Italy comes in the bottom places. It is known that to teach and learn mathematics deep changes and new ...