Anthropogenic climate change is increasingly threatening biodiversity on a global scale.Rich spots of biodiversity, regions with exceptionally high Bondage and Fetish endemism and/or number of species, are a top priority for nature conservation.Terrestrial studies have hypothesized that rich spots occur in places where long-term climate change was
Behavior of composite beams with headed stud shear connectors subjected to monotonous and displacement controlled non-reversible repeated loadings has been evaluated through studying influences of the cross-sectional proportioning, the degree of partial interaction, and the level of ductile deformability in the post-yielding stage, in addition to t
Abstract In foot pad right the present work the authors report the result of their food ethnobotanical researches, which have been carried out in Sicily during the last thirty years.Data concerning 188 wild species used in the traditional Sicilian cuisine are reported.The authors underline those species that are partially or completely unknown for
The obligatory use of cooking by the Mousterian occupants of the north temperate zone relaxed the forces of selection maintaining archaic tooth size and led to the reductions that shaped modern human face form from the Middle East to the Atlantic coast.The delay in the spread of cooking techniques accounts for the later onset of dental reduction to