Bigger Fish to Fry: Evidence (or Lack of) for Fish Consumption in Ancient Syracuse (Sicily)
July 13, 2023
Davide Tanasi*, Enrico Greco Open Archaeology, 2023, 9(1), 20220300. July 2023 DOI: 10.1515/opar-2022-0300 Abstract: Fish and fish products are considered important sources of nutrition due to their high protein, fat, and fat-soluble vitamin content. These food items have been extensively discussed and celebrated in various genres of Greek literature. However, there is a discrepancy between the […]
Diet and mobility in Late Antique Sicily: Isotopic data from the catacombs of Santa Lucia, Siracusa (Italy).
June 18, 2023
Davide Tanasi, Robert H Tykot, Andrea Vianello, Jonathan D Bethard, Ilenia Gradante, Stephan Hassam, Paolino Trapani, Gioacchina Tiziana Ricciardi, Enrico Greco* Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2023, 50, 104096. July 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104096 Abstract: The catacombs of Santa Lucia were built during the 3rd century CE in Siracusa, Sicily, Italy, as a burial site for members […]
More Children Means More Tumours? We Can Do More to Protect the Health of Our Kids—A Call for a New Epidemiology That Can Change the World
June 1, 2023
Prisco Piscitelli*, Alessandro Miani, Enrico Greco, Alessandro Distante, Francesco Schittulli, Adele Civino Epidemiologia, 2023, 4(2), 173-175. June 2023 DOI: 10.3390/epidemiologia4020018 Abstract: In encyclopaedic dictionaries published until 1955, the word “tumour” was defined as an “occupational disease suffered by the workers of chemical industries”, thus referring to a very specific cause. This clear reference to a chemical-related […]
Operative Protocol for Testing the Efficacy of Nasal Filters in Preventing Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2
October 23, 2022
Sabrina Semeraro*, Anastasia Serena Gaetano, Luisa Zupin, Carlo Poloni, Elvio Merlach, Enrico Greco*, Sabina Licen, Francesco Fontana, Silvana Leo*, Alessandro Miani, Francesco Broccolo, Pierluigi Barbieri* International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2022, 19(21), 13790; October 2022 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph192113790 Abstract: Standardized methods for testing Viral Filtration Efficiency (VFE) of tissues and devices are lacking and […]
Quantum Neural Networks and Topological Quantum Field Theories
June 7, 2022
Antonino Marcianò, Deen Chen, Filippo Fabrocini*, Chris Fields, Enrico Greco*, Niels Gresnigt, Krid Jinklub, Matteo Lulli, Kostas Terzidis, Emanuele Zappalà Neural Networks, Volume 153, September 2022, Pages 164-178 DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2022.05.028 Abstract: Our work intends to show that: (1) Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) can be mapped onto spin-networks, with the consequence that the level of analysis of their operation […]
SARS-CoV-2 RNA Recovery from Air Sampled on Quartz Fiber Filters: A Matter of Sample Preservation?
February 17, 2022
Sabina Licen*, Luisa Zupin, Lorenzo Martello, Valentina Torboli, Sabrina Semeraro, Anna Lilian Gardossi, Enrico Greco, Francesco Fontana, Sergio Crovella, Maurizio Ruscio, Jolanda Palmisani, Alessia Di Gilio, Prisco Piscitelli, Alberto Pallavicini, and Pierluigi Barbieri Atmosphere 2022, 13(2), 340; February 2022 DOI: 10.3390/atmos13020340 Abstract: The airborne route of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 was confirmed by the World Health Organization in […]
Chemical characterization of organic residues on Late Roman amphorae from shipwrecks off the coast of Marsala (Trapani, Italy)
November 13, 2021
Davide Tanasi, Enrico Greco*, Filippo Pisciotta, Stephan Hassam Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports volume 40, part B, December 2021, 103241 DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103241 Abstract: Organic residues were extracted from thirty-three different types of Roman and Late Antique amphorae retrieved from underwater contexts in the custody of the Archaeological Museum “Baglio Anselmi” of Marsala in Sicily. The samples were analysed using […]
Generalized Holographic Principle, Gauge Invariance and the Emergence of Gravity à la Wilczek
June 7, 2021
Andrea Addazi, Pisin Chen, Filippo Fabrocini, Chris Fields, Enrico Greco, Matteo Lulli, Antonino Marcianò, Roman Pasechnik Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Science, (2021) 8:563450, June 2021 DOI: 10.3389/fspas.2021.563450 Abstract: We show that a generalized version of the holographic principle can be derived from the Hamiltonian description of information flow within a quantum system that maintains a separable state. We then show that […]
Paleoproteomic profiling of organic residues on prehistoric pottery from Malta
February 13, 2021
Davide Tanasi, Annamaria Cucina, Vincenzo Cunsolo*, Rosaria Saletti, Antonella Di Francesco, Enrico Greco, Salvatore Foti Amino Acids volume 53, pages 295–312(2021) DOI: 10.1007/s00726-021-02946-4 Abstract: Mass spectrometry-based approaches have been successfully applied for identifying ancient proteins in bones and other tissues. On the contrary, there are relatively few examples of the successful recovery and identification of archeological protein residues from ceramic artifacts; […]
Deep Neural Networks as the Semi-classical Limit of Quantum Neural Networks
June 30, 2020
Antonino Marciano, Filippo Fabrocini*, Enrico Greco*, Kostas Terzidis Preprint on arXive, June 2020 https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00142 Abstract: Our work intends to show that: (1) Quantum Neural Networks (QNN) can be mapped onto spin-networks, with the consequence that the level of analysis of their operation can be carried out on the side of Topological Quantum Field Theories (TQFT); (2) Deep Neural […]