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This work investigates entrepreneurial intentions among academic scientists. Drawing from the literature on entrepreneurial behavior, it contributes to delineate the differences in motivations that are correlated with entrepreneurial intention to those that are considered to be linked to entrepreneurial behaviors. By disentangling the concept of motivations in its ultimately basic constructs of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations, we investigate how these two different types of motivations are related to the formation of entrepreneurial intention at the level of academic scientists. Through a survey conducted at the University of Ferrara--one of the leading universities in Italy in terms of technology transfer and scientific production--findings reveal that while academic entrepreneurial intention seems to be mostly driven by intrinsic motivations, the effect of extrinsic motivations, which are regarded as a main antecedent of entrepreneurial behavior among scientists, are largely mediated by academic positions, work environment and different combinations of these two factors. This work therefore highlights the importance of social norms in the investigation of entrepreneurial intention in academia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the Mousterian settlement in the Ciota Ciara Cave as the oldest evidence of homo neanderthalensis in Piedmont, Italy. It cites the various studies conducted in the cave by such researchers as the Gruppo Archeologico Speloelogico di Borgosesia, the University of Ferrara, and the Soprintendenza Archeologica del Piemonte. Also cited are the direct percussion by hard hammer as the method used in excavation, as well as the usewear analysis of quart's artifacts.

The aim of this paper is to report our clinical experience of Sweet's syndrome, a severe dermatological disease which may be extremely important to recognize for the early diagnosis of a neoplastic disorder. Eleven patients affected by Sweet's syndrome, treated at the Department of Dermatology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, during 1998 to 2004, were evaluated. A retrospective analysis was performed. Data on age, sex distribution, clinical data, histopathological and immunohistochemical findings and therapy were collected. We observed one patient with idiopathic form, 5 patients affected by the para-inflammatory variant and 5 para-neoplastic cases (with haemoproliferative diseases). The cases with the para-inflammatory form were affected by minor infectious manifestations. Prolonged follow-up is necessary to verify that a case of idiopathic variant is not really a paraneoplastic form. Based on immunohistochemical analysis, we cannot exclude that true histiocytes, immunoreactive for CD68/PGM, infiltrate the dermis in Sweet's syndrome lesions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a comment to the study conducted by researchers headed by Cecilia Pancaldi of the Department of Morphology and Embryology at the University of Ferrara in Ferrara, Italy. It states that the study focuses on the existence of Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCPyV) in buffy coats of immunocompetent individuals. The author notes that the study provided valuable data that could open new opportunities in the analysis of MCPyV-associated hematologic neoplasias.

The article discusses the study conducted by researcher Augusto Foà and colleagues of University of Ferrara, Italy on the migratory behavior of blackcaps. Topics discussed include detection of cryptochrome proteins in the eyes of blackcaps that sense magnetic fields of earth, use of blue lights as compass by blackcaps during migration and cryptochrome production in the eyes of blackcap birds.

Announces the First Congress of Italian Revolutionary Biologists that will be held at the Department of Biology of the University of Ferrara in Italy from August 24 to 26, 2005. Highlight of the congress.