Ricerc@Sapienza

Mediterranean forests are fragile ecosystems vulnerable to recent global warming and reduction of precipitation, and a long-term negative effect is expected on vegetation with increasing drought and in areas burnt by fires. We investigated the spatial distribution of genetic variation of Arbutus unedo in the western Iberia Peninsula, using plastid markers with conservation and provenance regions design purposes.

The historical buildings can become an instrument for the growth of a territory in connection with the historic and artistic value, the ability to characterize environments and urban, rural and natural landscapes and on the basis of historical and documentary interest. This is confirmed in the numerous legislative measures that deal with urban planning at the international level. Most of the time, however, the interventions on the historical–architectural building heritage do not respond to logic capable of simultaneously ensuring the conservation and valorization.

This article offers an unconventional interpretation of Carl Schmitt’s conception of the political. It first identifies two alternative readings – an
‘exceptionalist’ and a ‘concretist’ one – to make the claim that in the late 1920s he laid the foundations for a theory of politics that overcame the
flaws of his theory of exception. It then explains why the concretist reading provides an insightful key to Schmitt’s take on the relationship

Restriction enzymes have been identified in the early 1950s of the past century and have quickly become key players in the
molecular biology of DNA. Forty years ago, the scientists whose pioneering work had explored the activity and sequence
specificity of these enzymes, contributing to the definition of their enormous potential as tools for DNA characterization,
mapping and manipulation, were awarded the Nobel Prize. In this short review, we celebrate the history of these enzymes in

The book is the result of an international cooperation between Universities; more precisely, this work was premiered in four lectures held in May 2016 at the Ph.D. in Architecture and Construction (Draco) in Sapienza University. The lectures were organized in the context of a General Agreement signed between the School of Architecture of Tianjin University in China and the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. The author of this book is in charge for the agreement for the Chinese Institution, while the author of the brief preface is in charge for the Italian one.

A study of the impact of colonial law on Adivasi communities of Chotanagpur (India).

How, where, and when do subjects and citizens come into being to make demands and reassert themselves in the formation of modern India? This is the key question for the essays in this book. In unique ways, the authors enquire into the formation of subjects and citizens within the frame of law and negotiation for rights, from the perspective of practice. The question is simple in the abstract. Rights are prescribed by law.

Book Review of volume by Luigi Turri, dealing with the history of the Orontes River in the Late Bronze age