المؤلفون: Fois, M., Cuena, A., Bacchetta, G., Bagella, S., Barone, G., Camilleri, Leanne, Debono, Katya, Domina, G., Lanfranco, Sandro, Panitsa, M., Pasta, S., Troia, A., Lazzaro, L., Fraga-Arguimbau, P., Lansdown, R., Bazos, I., Minissale, P., Nikolić, T., Christodoulou, C., Kadis, C., Jilani, I. B. H., Daoud-Bouattour, A., Muller, S., Stinca, A., Fournaraki, C., Capó, M., Gazaix, A., Aksoy, N., Diadema, K., COST ConservePlants final conference

مصطلحات موضوعية: Endemic plants -- Islands of the Mediterranean, Endemic plants -- Mediterranean Region, Island plants -- Mediterranean Region, Plant ecology -- Mediterranean Region, Plant species diversity -- Mediterranean Region

الوصف: In the Mediterranean Basin, the conservation of plants faces critical challenges due to the historic and ongoing impacts of human land use, placing biodiversity under pressure. This issue is particularly pronounced on islands, where the intrinsic fragmentation of freshwater environments is exacerbated by the limited land area. Consequently, island wetlands, which are generally smaller than their continental counterparts, are more fragile and often overlooked in conservation efforts. [excerpt] ; peer-reviewed

العلاقة: Fois, M., Cuena, A., Bacchetta, G., Bagella., Barone, G., Camilleri, L.,.Diadema, K. (2024). Wetland plants in Mediterranean islands : a collaborative initiative to collect information for their conservation. In Ž. Fišer, S. Lanfranco, N. Lončarević, A. Simmons, & C. Sánchez Romero (Eds.), COST ConservePlants Final Conference: Book of Abstracts (pp. 26-27). European Cooperation in Science & Technology (COST).; https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/119022Test

الإتاحة: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/119022Test

المؤلفون: Camilleri, Leanne, Debono, Katya, Ghose Roy, Reeya, Lanfranco, Sandro, COST ConservePlants final conference

مصطلحات موضوعية: Endemic plants -- Islands of the Mediterranean, Endemic plants -- Mediterranean Region, Island plants -- Mediterranean Region, Plant ecology -- Mediterranean Region, Plant species diversity -- Mediterranean Region

الوصف: Effective conservation of island floras requires a ‘benchmark’ of expected relative species richness to compare results against. The framework for this process is provided by the theory of island biogeography that predicts island area and proximity to a mainland as being fundamental drivers of species diversity. [excerpt] ; peer-reviewed

العلاقة: Camilleri, L., Debono, K., Ghose Roy, R., & Lanfranco, S. (2024). Diversity in Isolation: Dissecting the Drivers of Endemic Plant Richness on Mediterranean Islands and Archipelagos. In Ž. Fišer, S. Lanfranco, N. Lončarević, A. Simmons, & C. Sánchez Romero (Eds.), COST ConservePlants Final Conference: Book of Abstracts (p. 20). European Cooperation in Science & Technology (COST).; https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/119020Test

الإتاحة: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/119020Test

المساهمون: Commonwealth Parliamentary Association

المصدر: Thabo Mbeki Presidential Library (TMPL)

مصطلحات موضوعية: Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association -- Officials and employees, Representative government and representation -- Commonwealth countries, Thabo Mbeki, Officers, President, Vice-president, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Treasurer, Regional representatives, Africa, Asia, Australia, British Islands and the Mediterranean, Canada, Caribbean, the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific, South-East Asia, Canadian region, Executive committee, Past president, First vice-president, Second vice-president, Regional representative, Executive secretary-treasurer, Branch delegations, Anguilla, Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales

الوصف: Photocopy of sixty-four word-processed pages of the officers and members of the Executive Committee handbook of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association ; 1 online resource (64 pages)

وصف الملف: 400 ppi TIFF archival master, pdf for online display; PDF created with software Adobe Acrobat Pro; 1.9 MB

العلاقة: Part of the Thabo Mbeki Presidential Collection; TMPL_COM_WEALTH_2_1_1_r; http://digilibrary.unisa.ac.za/cdm/ref/collection/p21049coll33/id/1Test

الإتاحة: http://digilibrary.unisa.ac.za/cdm/ref/collection/p21049coll33/id/1Test

المؤلفون: Foscolou, Alexandra, Tyrovolas, Stefanos, Soulis, George, Mariolis, Anargiros, Piscopo, Suzanne, Valacchi, Giuseppe, Anastasiou, Foteini, Lionis, Christos, Zeimbekis, Akis, Tur, Josep-Antoni, Bountziouka, Vassiliki, Tyrovola, Dimitra, Gotsis, Efthimios, Metallinos, George, Matalas, Antonia-Leda, Polychronopoulos, Evangelos, Sidossis, Labros, Panagiotakos, Demosthenes B.

مصطلحات موضوعية: Older people -- Health aspects -- Mediterranean Region, Lifestyles -- Health aspects -- Mediterranean Region, Financial crises -- Health aspects -- Mediterranean Region, Mediterranean Region -- Economic conditions, Islands of the Mediterranean

الوصف: Objectives: By the end of the 2000s, the economic situation in many European countries started to deteriorate, generating financial uncertainty, social insecurity and worse health status. The aim of the present study was to investigate how the recent financial crisis has affected the lifestyle health determinants and behaviours of older adults living in the Mediterranean islands. ; Methods: From 2005 to 2015, a population-based, multi-stage convenience sampling method was used to voluntarily enrol 2749 older adults (50% men) from 20 Mediterranean islands and the rural area of the Mani peninsula. Lifestyle status was evaluated as the cumulative score of four components (range, 0 to 6), that is, smoking habits, diet quality (MedDietScore), depression status (Geriatric Depression Scale) and physical activity. ; Results: Older Mediterranean people enrolled in the study from 2009 onwards showed social isolation and increased smoking, were more prone to depressive symptoms, and adopted less healthy dietary habits, as compared to their counterparts participating earlier in the study (p<0.05), irrespective of age, gender, several clinical characteristics, or socioeconomic status of the participants (an almost 50% adjusted increase in the lifestyle score from before 2009 to after 2009, p<0.001). ; Conclusions: A shift towards less healthy behaviours was noticeable after the economic crisis had commenced. Public health interventions should focus on older adults, particularly of lower socioeconomic levels, in order to effectively reduce the burden of cardiometabolic disease at the population level. ; peer-reviewed

العلاقة: Foscolou, A., Tyrovolas, S., Soulis, G., Mariolis, A., Piscopo, S., Valacchi, G.,.Panagiotakos, D. B. (2017). The impact of the financial crisis on lifestyle health determinants among older adults living in the mediterranean region: The multinational MEDIS study (2005-2015). Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 50(1), 1-9.; https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/89471Test

الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.3961/jpmph.16.101Test
https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/89471Test

المؤلفون: Buttigieg, Emanuel, Mintoff, Adriana

مصطلحات موضوعية: Knights of Malta -- Mediterranean Region -- History, Order of St John -- Mediterranean Region -- History, Military religious orders -- Mediterranean Region -- History, Hospitalers -- Mediterranean Region -- History, Islands of the Mediterranean -- History, Mediterranean Region -- History, Military

الوصف: On 19 April 1715, Frà Marcello Sacchetti, ambassador of the Order of Malta to the Holy See (1682–1720), prepared to organise his material possessions.1 The opening paragraph of his will and inventory read as follows: In the name of God, and of the Glorious perpetual Virgin Mary Amen[.] Since the lot of Man is assailed by infinite perils, and knowing full well that as a wretched sinner I am mortal, born to die, unknowing of the day of reckoning save that I will have to pay my dues, I am resolved with the help of his Divine Majesty to prepare myself for that uncertain hour, and leave my affairs in order[,] lest lawsuits and disagreements between my Holy Religion and my nephew the Lord Marquis Matteo Sacchetti follow my demise. Thus having been professed for many years into the said Holy Religion I desire to conform with the provisions of the statutes of the same and make my dispropriamento. 2 The preparation of such a document, commencing with a prayer, constituted a pious act intended to formalise the individual Hospitaller’s desire to submit to God’s will, including the responsibility of putting in order one’s worldly affairs and avoiding litigation among Christians. Worldly affairs are invariably material affairs; during his life-time a Hospitaller accumulated possessions which would need to be disposed of upon his demise. The Order had well-established procedures for dealing with this, but this did not mean that such procedures were always observed, nor even that outcomes were seamless when procedures were followed. The Treasury of the Order, individual Hospitallers, and their relatives could be pugnacious and punctilious in compiling and contesting these inventories of treasured possessions. Furthermore, the Hospitaller vow of poverty lent a certain particularity to the way property was understood within the context of this military-religious institution whose upper echelons hailed from distinct noble families. Piety, pugnacity, property and poverty were constituent elements that shaped the life – and death – ...

العلاقة: Buttigieg, E., & Mintoff, A. (2020). Treasured possessions : aspects of Hospitaller material culture, c.1680-c.1720. In N. Morton (Ed.), The Military Orders : Volume VII : Piety, pugnacity and property (pp. 118-128). Routledge.; https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/87372Test

الإتاحة: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/87372Test

المؤلفون: Gambin, Timmy

مصطلحات موضوعية: Islands of the Mediterranean -- History, Harbors -- Rome -- History

الوصف: The main aim of this paper is to provide an overview that will help better understand how small islands in the central Mediterranean were perceived by mariners sailing in their vicinity, especially those sailing to and from Portus. It is also my intention to explore the role or roles played by some of the small central Mediterranean islands in Roman maritime traffic. In order to do so, I have divided this brief work into four analytical categories that will shed light on both their maritime functionality and the influence of maritime traffic on certain practices of islanders. ; peer-reviewed

العلاقة: Gambin, T. (2012). Central Mediterranean islands and satellite ports for ancient Rome. In S. Keay, (Ed.), Rome, Portus and the Mediterranean, (pp. 147-151). London: The British School at Rome.; https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/25826Test

الإتاحة: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/25826Test

المؤلفون: Baldacchino, Godfrey

مصطلحات موضوعية: Port cities -- Mediterranean Region, Islands -- Economic conditions -- Mediterranean Region, City-states -- Mediterranean Region, Urban development -- Small Islands

الوصف: Capital-cum-port cities on islands tend to be disproportionately large and cosmopolitan; their multiple effects on their peri-urban interface are quite dramatic when there is hardly any hinterland to speak of. In these cases, urban growth is often manifest by the ‘city as island’ breaching its fortified encasement, spilling over and embracing a physical as well as cultural scape that does not necessarily share its rubric of ideas and epistemologies. The breaching of city walls on small islands (by locals, and not by invaders) is thus a symbolic as well as material manifestation of a creeping and pervasive urban project of modernisation which nevertheless leaves puddles of anti-urban angst and bravado. This paper engages with this ‘articulation by compression’ dynamic, and fleshes it out in relation to three Mediterranean capital-cum-port island cities: Palma (Spain), Valletta (Malta) and Corfu /Kérkyra (Greece). ; peer-reviewed

العلاقة: Baldacchino, G. (2014). Capital and port cities on small islands sallying forth beyond their walls: a Mediterranean exercise. Journal of Mediterranean Studies, 23(2), 137-151; https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/16517Test

الإتاحة: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/16517Test

المؤلفون: Buttigieg, Emanuel

مصطلحات موضوعية: Knights of Malta -- Mediterranean Region -- History, Order of St John -- Mediterranean Region -- History, Military religious orders -- Mediterranean Region -- History, Hospitalers -- Mediterranean Region -- History, Islands of the Mediterranean -- History, Mediterranean Region -- History, Military

الوصف: During the years of the First Crusade (1095-1099) to Jerusalem the Maltese Islands were in an ambivalent position. Decades prior to this, Norman Chnst1an warriors were already conquering the fractious eclectic states of southern Italy. In 1060-61, the brothers Robert Guiscard (c.1015-1085) and Roger (c.1031-1101) conquered Messina in Sicily, which was to act as the springboard of the thirty-year Norman conquest of Muslim Sicily. In 1091, Roger attacked Malta, whose population at this point was largely Muslim. ; peer-reviewed

العلاقة: Buttigieg, E. (2020). The ‘Island of the Knights’ at the fault line to the Islamic World – a view from Malta. In F. Hinz & J. Meyer-Hamme (Eds.), Controversial histories - current views on the crusades. Engaging the crusades (pp. 33-35). London: Routledge.; https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/87469Test

الإتاحة: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/87469Test

الوصف: In Between the Seas, Deborah Paci takes a comparative view of islandness in island identities through case studies of islands in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas. These case studies primarily include, in the Baltic case, the Åland Islands, Gotland, Saaremaa, Hiiumaa and Ruhnu; and in the Mediterranean case, Sicily, Malta, Sardinia and Corsica. Examining multiple sites of these islands'identities such as history, environmental concerns and governance systems, this book provides a historical perspective into the relations between islands and the larger geopolitical regions around them, as well as historicizing'insularist'rhetoric deployed by pro-independence groups within them. Paci examines the changing role and increasing political importance of islands in the European Union against the history of island insularity and offers a significant contribution to the wider field of island studies.

المؤلفون: Deborah Paci

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Group identity--Islands of the Baltic, Group identity--Islands of the Mediterranean

تصنيفات: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European

المؤلفون: Buttigieg, Emanuel

مصطلحات موضوعية: Knights of Malta -- Mediterranean Region -- History, Order of St John -- Mediterranean Region -- History, Military religious orders -- Mediterranean Region -- History, Hospitalers -- Mediterranean Region -- History, Islands of the Mediterranean -- History, Mediterranean Region -- History, Military, Malta -- History -- Knights of Malta, Knights of Malta -- History, Order of St John -- History, Grand Harbour (Valletta, Malta) -- History

الوقت: 1530-1798, Harbors -- Malta -- History -- 16th century, Harbors -- Malta -- History -- 17th century

الوصف: The year 2012 marked the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Among the various events organised was a grand pageant on the river Thames; despite the rain, the royal family, the participants and the crowds ranged along the banks of the river enjoyed the sights, colours, sounds and motions of the event. To these would need to be added the sense of touch and smell which no doubt the direct participants experienced. The splendid work of craftsmanship encapsulated in the royal barge, the Gloriana, was at the heart of the show. It was this spectacle which inspired this study of the Grand Harbour of Malta (or Porto Generale ) 2 as a space which was used by the Hospitallers for similar events. For instance, on 9 June 1624, Grand Master Antoine de Paule ceremoniously took possession of Birgu (Vittoriosa) in a ritual known as a possesso . Previous grand masters had staged entries into Malta’s old city, Mdina; de Paule, apart from entering Mdina opted to invent and add a new tradition, a ceremonial entry of the grand master into the maritime town of Vittoriosa. He crossed over from Valletta to Vittoriosa ( Figure 18.1 ) accompanied by many boats; upon landing he mounted a horse and proceeded to enter through the gate of the city. All the while, the thunder of artillery could be heard in the air and happy, animated people ‘men, women and young women’ ran into the streets, windows and terraces to greet him. A spectacular triumphal arch was erected in Vittoriosa’s main square for the grand master to pass under; poems in praise of de Paule were read out and music was played on a variety of instruments. He then proceeded down to the quay where he was greeted by soldiers fi ring their muskets and all galleys and vessels in the harbour fi red their artillery which was an ‘amazing and joyful thing’ to behold. He then embarked on his gondola ( gundula ) to return to Valletta amid the joyful expressions of the population. De Paule felt so happy on that day that his skin was fl ushed and given that his hair and beard ...

العلاقة: Buttigieg, E. (2017). The Hospitallers and the Grand Harbour of Malta : culture and conflict. In J. Schenk & M. Carr (Eds.), The Military Orders : Volume 6.1: culture and conflict in the Mediterranean world (pp. 177-186). London: Routledge.; https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/87370Test

الإتاحة: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/87370Test