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Two apparently distinct scenarios have an effect on the architecture, engineering and construction industry: the energy and the digital transitions. Technology evolves at a never before seen pace, transforming the ways we visualise and understand the world, and providing new tools for designing and building architecture. This paper explores the impact renewable energy and digital technologies are having on the construction industry and the new possibilities they offer.

Background: Different diets result in significantly different phenotypes through metabolic and genomic reprogramming. Epigenetic marks, identified in humans and mouse models through caloric restriction, a high-fat diet or the intake of specific bioactives, suggest that genomic reprogramming drives this metabolic reprogramming and mediates the effect of nutrition on health. Histone modifications encode the epigenetic signal, which adapts genome functions to environmental conditions, including diets, by tuning the structure and properties of chromatin. To date, the effect of different diets on the genome-wide distribution of critical histone marks has not been determined. Methods: Using chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing, we investigated the distribution of the trimethylation of lysine 4 of histone H3 in the liver of mice fed for one year with five different diets, including: chow containing yellow corn powder as an extra source of plant bioactives or specifically enriched with cyanidin-3-O-Glucoside, high-fat-enriched obesogenic diets, and caloric-restricted pro-longevity diets. Conclusions: Comparison of the resulting histone mark profiles revealed that functional food containing cyanidin determines a broad effect.

Alla fine del 2019 l���Universit�� Roma Tre ha insediato un gruppo di lavoro sullo sviluppo sostenibile e nell���Anno accademico 2020/21 �� stato lanciato un corso multidisciplinare sull���Agenda 2030 delle Nazioni Unite, aperto a tutti gli studenti dell���Ateneo. A una serie di lezioni comuni tenute da relatori di alto profilo si sono affiancati percorsi di approfondimento gestiti da docenti-guida nei singoli dipartimenti, in un disegno orientato a sottolineare la forza ideale e la valenza politica dell���Agenda 2030, ma anche a promuovere una lettura critica del suo impianto, esplorando le sinergie ma anche i trade off tra i suoi obiettivi, i cosiddetti Sustainable Development Goals. L���iniziativa, decisamente pioneristica nel suo taglio multidisciplinare rispetto all���offerta formativa di Ateneo, �� stata un successo, con circa 500 studenti che hanno scelto di inserire l���insegnamento ne proprio piano di studi. Le tre lezioni che qui pubblichiamo sono particolarmente significative sia perch�� riguardano temi centrali nell���impianto dell���Agenda 2030 ��� la lotta alla fame, le citt�� sostenibili, l���economia circolare ��� sia perch�� tenute magistralmente da tre relatrici che rappresentano altrettante eccellenze nei loro campi professionali: Marcela Villarreal, vicedirettore della FAO, Catia Bastioli, ricercatrice e amministratore delegato di Novamont, e la nostra Chiara Tonelli, docente di Tecnologia dell���Architettura ed esperta di edilizia sostenibile.

Several elements of social and demographic hazards, such as adverse economic conditions, resource shortage, climate change, and growing immigration flows are affecting the stability of cities. Conventional urban planning lacks adequate emergency responses and struggles to find fast, low-cost solutions to cope with the absence of urban structures and houses. Indeed, the housing sector is one of the action areas considered by what is known as a City Resilience Framework to be essential in improving urban resilience. The latter is a study on existing resilience requirements that began as a Ph.D. thesis and actually focuses on the parallels between the informal and the resilient city. It analyzed 19 case studies and borrowed examples of resilience from them in order to draft a framework of technical indications for essential, new, and temporary housing construction. The resulting “Technical Data Sheets for the Design” offer technological, typological, functional, and procedural information to be applied in preventive planning in order to promote resiliency.