Publications by authors named "G Mininni"

The characterization of organic contaminants in sewage sludge is a fundamental step to address the relevant most appropriate management practice. In this perspective, C10-C40 hydrocarbon content was considered in Italy a crucial parameter to be considered, in spite of its irrelevance in the literature. The very complex mixture of organic substances of both biogenic and anthropogenic origin the sludge is made up of makes sewage sludge a matrix of uniqueness nature, and the analytic determination of hydrocarbon content through conventional procedures may be subjected to overestimation.

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  • The European Green Deal aims to promote sustainable practices, with new technologies and renewable resources being critical for advancing a bio-based economy, including converting food waste into valuable products like carboxylic acids through fermentation.
  • This study focuses on producing caproate from organic-rich food waste extract using an in situ electron donor, achieving significant yields of volatile fatty acids and a maximum caproate concentration of 8 g/L under optimal conditions.
  • However, increasing the organic loading rate (OLR) to 20 gCOD Ld inhibited the chain elongation process due to high caproate concentrations, but the system recovered its functionality after a brief pause in feeding, indicating a resilient microbiome's ability
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The context of deep uncertainty, fear, and "social distancing" characterizing the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a need for cultural anchorages and charismatic leaders who may conjointly and effectively support human beings, strengthen their identity, and empower social commitment. In this perspective, the charismatic leadership of Pope Francis, which is widely shared not only within the religious world, may play a crucial role in facing emergency with existential reasons and psychological resources. The general aim of this work is to shed light on the communicative features of the charismatic leadership of Pope Francis during the pandemic emergency; in order to better understand his effectiveness, we analyzed both the core issues and his multimodal body signals in the global TV event of the Universal Prayer with the Blessing.

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The aim of this research is to analyse the phenomenon of workplace bullying in two countries: Italy and France and trying to understand the differences among them. The words used to refer to it are respectively "mobbing" in Italy and "harcèlement moral" in France. The research analyse the phenomenon's characteristics through the opinion of an expert sample, belonging to different areas linked to their cultural background.

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Psychiatry is the science that aims to propose plausible theories in the description and explanation of "body-mind" pathologies. Since also the modern institution of science produces a type of discourse aimed at reducing human insecuritas through a progressive falsification of conjectures on how things are actually, it seems very important to monitor the discursive construction of un-certainty about an extremely elusive object such as the abnormality of psychic functioning. In the light of this, the present paper aims to identify what changes are traceable in the argumentative structure of un-certainty in the psychiatric scientific communication by the British Journal of Psychiatry in its life span as well as how the construction of socially "credible" authorship profiles evolves.

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