NAPLES,UNIVERSITY

M G RICERCHE SPA BERSTORFF H.,MASCHINENFABRIKGMBH SISTEMA COMPOSITI SPA NAPLES,UNIVERSITY ... 

Alessandro Pezzella received his Ph.D. in 1997 under the direction of Prof. G. Prota at Naples University Federico II. Since 1999 he holds a permament position as researcher in the Department of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of Naples University. He has carried out research mainly in the field of 5,6-dihydroxyindole polymerization and oxidative behavior of phenolic compounds. 

Carotenuto G Del Nobile A M Nicolais L Italy,National Research Council Naples,University... 

The Second Naples University, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale e Meccanica, 19 Via Roma,... 

Lucio Annunziato Division of Pharmacology, Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy... 

Acknowledgements The authors are grateful to Prof. V. Petraccone, Prof. B. Pi-rozzi, Dr. C. De Rosa, Dr. V. Venditto (University of Naples) for their advice and support. Financial support by the Ministero dell Universita e della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (Italy) is acknowledged. 

A. Apicella, L. Nicolais and C. de Cataldis Polymer Engineering Laboratory, University of Naples Piazzale Tecchio, 80125 Naples Italy... 

Department of Clinical Immunology and Allergy and Center for Basic and Clinical Immunology Research (CISI), University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy... 

In collaboration with our colleagues in the Division of Cardiology at the University of Naples Federico II, we investigated the effects of mast cell-derived preformed... 

Department of Psychiatry, University of Naples, Naples, Italy... 

Antonio Violante is Professor of Agricultural Chemistry at the University of Naples, Italy. He received his Ph. D. in Chemistry at the University of Naples in 1969. He was awarded postdoctoral fellowships from the University of Wisconsin, USA (1967-1977) and the University of Saskatchewan, Canada (1981-1982) and was invited Visiting Professor in the Department of Soil Science, University of Saskatchewan, Canada in 1985, 1992 and 2003. 

Dr Violante was Head of the Dipartimento di Scienze Chimico-Agrarie and is Coordinator of the Doctoral School in Agrobiology and Agrochemistry of the University of Naples Federico II. He has served on many committees of the Italian Society of Soil Science (President of the Session Soil Chemistry), and Italian Society of Agricultural Chemistry. He is vice-president and liaisons officer of Gruppo Italiano AIPEA. He was the scientific chairman and chief organizer of International and National Congresses. 

We thank A. Zambelli, P. Longo, C. Pellecchia, G. Milano, G. Monaco, and C. Costabile of the University of Salerno, M. Toto and G. Minieri of the University of Naples, and L. Resconi, G. Morini, and G. Moscardi of Giulio Natta Research Center of Basell for useful discussions. This work has been supported by the Ministero della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica of Italy within PRIN 2002 fundings, by Basell, and by the National Research Council of Italy. 

Shoolini University of Biotechnology Management Sciences, Solan, India Italian Institute of Technology (IIT CRIB), Naples, Italy... 

Department of Materials and Production Engineering University of Naples Federico II, and Institute of Composite Materials Technology-CNR, Piazzale Tecchio... 

DiT Dipartirnento per e Tecnologie, University of Naples Parthenope , Isola C4 — Centro Direzionale, 80143 Naples, Italy... 

The author thanks Dr. Benedetto De Vivo of the University of Naples for the invitation to present this paper at the Workshop on Environmental Geochemistry Site Characterization, Waste Disposal, Data Analysis, Case Histories. Curtis Palmer (USGS) is thanked for his constructive review. She also thanks Harvey Belkin of the U.S. Geological Survey for his review, advice, and technical support. 

At the Bagnoli brownfield site, Tarzia et al. (2002) (as part of his PhD program with University of Naples Federico II) carried out a study aimed to discriminate anthropogenic pollution sources from natural pollution sources. For this study, heavy metals and Pb isotope data from soils, waste materials, scum, and slag samples from the brownfield site were used. 

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