Gabriele Canali

Catholic University of the Sacred Heart | UNICATT · Dipartimento di Economia Agro-alimentare

The relevance of soil threats at affecting yield and grape composition is currently largely neglected as compared to the attention devoted to canopy factors. In this paper, we provide a new soil assessment procedure that, with the help of a web based new decision tool (DT), allows to (i) rate potential soil threats through a computer engine that pr...

While in Europe IPM standard has just been published, in Italy restoration culture still represents the main conservation practice also due to the higher visibility for both the property itself and the conservation institution, as well as for public and private sponsors. This research was conducted in northern Italy institutions “hosting” different...

The customers health and environmental protection, as concerns food industry, is currently the subject of legislative and consumer interest. In this context, the present contribution develops a method of analysis in order to assess costs and benefits of different methods of stored products pest control, currently used in Italy. The aim is to provid...

Similarly to other EU countries, Italy began subsidizing electric energy production from renewable sources such as biogas. This proved to be an inefficient way of using available resources. In the Po Valley—the most productive agricultural area in Italy—the share of corn area used for biogas production increased from 0.4% in 2007 to more than 10% i...

Integrated Production (ip) has evolved over time, from Integrated Pest Management (ipm) to a more comprehensive approach, introducing new features favouring sustainability. Since ip, unlike organic production, is not based upon eu regulations, large retail chains as well as regional authorities have introduced different ip standards, generating an...

The introduction of livestock species in Europe has been followed by various genetic events, which created a complex spatial pattern of genetic differentiation. Spatial principal component (sPCA) analysis and spatial metric multidimensional scaling (sMDS) incorporate geography in multivariate analysis. This method was applied to three microsatellit...

Trade relations between developed and developing countries are one of the hot topics of the ongoing World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations. The conclusion of the Cotonou Agreement between EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific countries, the introduction of the EU’s Everything But Arms initiative for the least developed countries and the U...

The new Common Market Organization (CMO) for the fruit and vegetable sector approved in 2007, continues to include sustainability and competitiveness of the sector among its most important goals. The key role of the new (as well as the old) CMO is still played by Producers Organizations (POs): among other things, they should help farmers to organiz...

This chapter focuses on available economic tools and techniques for the evaluation in monetary terms of the above costs and benefits, since in many cases they are not directly available from market information. That includes social evaluation of costs, risks and benefits of rice cultivation, considered both from a theoretical and, to some extent, a...

The study was conducted on six Polish sheep breeds (Polish merino, Zelaznenska sheep, Pomeranian, Kamieniecka sheep, Polish mountain sheep and Polish heath sheep). Individual blood samples were collected and DNA was extracted. The frequencies of alleles (ARR, ARH, ARQ, AHQ, VRQ) and its genotypes of PRNP gene were determined according to the RFLP-P...

In June 2003, the EU approved a very important reform of the CAP that will strongly affect the entire European agriculture. This paper analyses the major issues related to the effects of the evolution of the Common Agricultural Policy on the sheep and goat sectors, and especially the possible direct and indirect effects of the last reform in terms...

Summary The ECONOGENE project is among the first to yield complementary data on population and evolutionary genetics, on animal husbandry practices, from GIS and including socio- economics over a large geographic scale. Integrating this information poses special challenges in livestock conservation because such data have rarely been combined previo...

After a short presentation of EU and Italian antitrust legislation, this paper examines two recent cases of intervention by the Italian Antitrust Authority (IAA) in the agricultural sector, both dealing with high quality food products requiring a long aging process: two similar kinds of cheese in the first case, `Parmigiano-Reggiano' and `Grana Pad...

The aim of this paper is to examine, among other aspects, a fairly unexplored dimension which should be considered when vertical coordination is realized, particularly in the case of production of high quality foods requiring a fairly long aging process: the one of global production programming across the different stages of the chain, over a prope...

The paper deals with the theme of innovation applied to a specific case, the one of food products produced only inside a delimited region and protected by both national and EU legislation, concerning different form of appellations of origin as, for example, designation of origin or typicity for cheese, designation of origin for wines and, in genera...

It is not clear whether the ST-segment elevation in the infarct zone during an exercise stress test is caused by expansion of the necrotic area or by ischemia. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of restoring blood flow of the infarct-related coronary artery by successful coronary angioplasty in patients with silent exercise-induc...

Myocardial ischemia with normal coronary arteries can be due to anatomic or functional reasons. The more severe congenital coronary anomalies in the adulthood are the origin of the left main of the left coronary artery from the right aortic sinus, with a course between the aorta and the pulmonary trunk, and the origin of the left main from the pulm...

Endothelial function after coronary angioplasty (PTCA) has been evaluated by quantitative coronary angiography in 18 patients with no evidence of significant restenosis at routine angiographic followup. Increasing doses of acetylcholine (Ach) were infused in the dilated coronary artery, followed by a 250μg bolus of nitroglycerin. Total PTCA segment...

Myocardial infarction and normal coronary arteries is not a rare event in the ischemic heart disease. Even if the patients with acute myocardial infarction and angiographically normal coronary arteries represent a small percentage (reported incidence varies from 1% to 12%) of all patients with acute ischemic attacks, they might be useful to highlig...

To study the time-course of myocardial perfusion after coronary angioplasty, electrocardiogram (ECG)-gated coronary angiography was performed before, immediately after, and 24 hours after successful dilatation of 22 isolated left anterior descending coronary arteries. Minimal cross-sectional areas before, immediately after, and 24 hours after percu...

Thirty-three 30° RAO left-ventricular angiograms with postinfarction aneurysms were analyzed to determine whether some quantitative variables could describe their morphological characteristics. Seventeen aneurysms were classified as functional (localized without a clear neck), and 16 as true (with a saccular shape). Left-ventricular volumes and glo...