Peer relationships and twice exceptionality: a sociometric analysis in Dutch special education classrooms

High latitude observation of the Forbush decrease during the May 2024 solar storms with muon and neutron detectors on Svalbard

During the series of intense solar flares and coronal mass ejections, that occurred in May 2024, a remarkable Forbush decrease in the cosmic ray flux was observed on the Earth. While this event was observed by particle detectors around the world, the archipelago of Svalbard was heavily exposed to it due to the weak geomagnetic shielding in the polar region. In this study, an analysis of the Forbush decrease event was carried out with a unique combination of muon and neutron detectors on Svalb...

Accessibilità dell’arte pittorica e disabilità visiva. Approcci e protocolli descrittivi a confronto

Negli ultimi anni, l’accessibilità all’arte pittorica per le persone con disabilità visiva ha stimolato la creazione di protocolli descrittivi volti a tradurre il linguaggio visivo in narrazioni verbali ricche e percettivamente efficaci. A livello nazionale e internazionale, sono emerse linee guida che, pur condividendo principi comuni, differiscono per obiettivi, metodi e coinvolgimento sensoriale. Questo contributo propone un’analisi comparativa di tre modelli: le Guidelines for Verbal Desc...

Resonance for Life: Metabolism and Social Interactions in Bacterial Communities

The description of the organization of microorganisms in terms of emergent “social” interactions has long been a fascinating and challenging subject, in both biology and sociology. In these organisms, the role of the individual is far less dominant than that of the community, which operates as a sort of superorganism. The coordination is achieved through a communication mechanism known as quorum sensing. Quorum sensing coordinates and regulates various biological aspects of a microbial commun...