Ricerc@Sapienza

This study aims to assess whether simple, widely available demographic indexes, like mortality measures, may serve as sentinel indicators of the economic development and the social wellbeing in Italy. We analyze and compare the geographical patterns of all-cause mortality indexes and those of the mortality rates for leading causes of death, with the spatial pattern found for a more complex index, the vulnerability index, recently introduced by the Italian National Institute for Statistics, at provincial level in the contemporary Italy.

Natural materials, such as soils, are influenced by many factors acting during their formative and evolutionary process: atmospheric agents, erosion and transport phenomena, sedimentation conditions that give soil properties a non-reducible randomness by using sophisticated survey techniques and technologies. This character is reflected not only in spatial variability of properties which differs from point to point, but also in multivariate correlation as a function of reciprocal distance.