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Chapter The role of Scientific divers in the ADRIREEF project: ARPA Puglia activities
(2022)
The ADRIREEF project was targeted to valorization of the natural and artificial reefs in the Adriatic Sea according to the principles of the Blue Growth. ARPA Puglia identified the coralligenous reef in the Torre Guaceto ...
Lettere dalla Spagna
(2004)
The book offers a summary of over 1,400 letters on Hispanic matters written by Hispanic senders to Oreste Macrí over the course of fifty years (1950-1998). The salient events of Macrí's intellectual life (editorial ...
Chapter Central occupations: stills from a city in movement
(2022)
This visual essay dwells on the particular struggle for the historical city center of São Paulo enacted by contemporary urban occupation movements. The series of photographs, taken during multiple periods of ethnographic ...
Progetti di territorio
(2005)
The research is aimed at investigating the changes in the methods of "construction" of representations of the territory due to the communicative evolution of disciplinary statutes and to the increasingly stringent and ...
Coarse-grained molecular dynamics and continuum models for the transport of protein molecules
(2014)
The present work makes use of coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations and continuum models to investigate the behavior of biomolecules in experiments such as mechanical pulling and driven transport across nanopores. ...
Chapter Rappresentazione, costruzione e visualizzazione di risorse terminologiche diacroniche nell’era del web semantico
(2021)
This article introduces the model DIATERM, devoted to representing the diachronic evolution of concepts and terms in a given domain, according to Semantic Web standards and Linked Data technologies. The approach adopted ...
Chapter Una montagna di debiti. L'Italia e la gestione del debito pubblico tra le due guerre
(2020)
The surge in public debt during the recent pandemic crisis has made high debt a prominent policy issue. Italy is an interesting case study since it has experienced high levels of debt for a significant part of its history. ...
Il tempio nel tempio
(2015)
The wooden monument in the Panthéon in Paris unfolds its originality in conforming itself as a real small-scale rustic temple. Its formal features recall, on the one hand, the archetypal origin of western architecture, ...
Chapter Il Musil di Claudio Magris
(2021)
This paper discusses the importance and frequency of Magris’ explorations of Musil and his major work as a novelist, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften. It investigates the reasons why Musil’s novel is so important, and not only ...
Chapter Sostenibilità e riproduzione del capitale territoriale: il problema della scala di analisi
(2020)
Starting from a critique of the concept of "natural capital" which helps in defining the concepts of territorial and rural capital, the utility is affirmed of measuring the sustainability of individual and collective actions ...
Chapter La reprise du dialogue avec la slavistique occidentale après la mort de Stalin. L’exemple de Julian Grigorevič Oksman (1894/95-1970)
(2017)
Prominent historian of Russian literature, one of the best pushkinists of his time, Ju. Oksman was sent to a camp in Kolyma in 1936. Upon his release in 1947, he found a position at Saratov University, then he moved to the ...
Chapter La relazione tra il costrutto di mattering e il benessere nelle sue concettualizzazioni (edonico, eudaimonico e olistico). A systematic review
(2022)
Perception of mattering, defined as individual’s feeling of being important for others (Rosenberg and McCullogh 1981), is a construct which in the recent years has received an increasing amount of attention as a factor ...
Giudicare l'arte
(2016)
This volume examines how the definition of art is not to be considered the prerogative of philosophical and aesthetic disciplines, but should rather assume decisive importance for the legal protection of the art object. ...
Chapter Rereading Italian Travellers to Africa: Precursors, Identities and Interracial Relations in Narratives of Italian Colonialism
(2022)
This essay considers a number of travellers’ writings about Africa which are reread to construct and deconstruct Italian colonial identity. It focuses on Cesare Cesari’s Viaggi africani di Pellegrino Matteucci (1932), which ...
Chapter New ‘Excavations’ in the Pergamon-Museum and in the Gipsformerei of Berlin and New Elements for the Study of the Decorative Programme of Kammer B in Yazılıkaya
(2023)
Based on the work conducted during winter 2017 both on casts of the Hittite reliefs exhibited at the Pergamon-Museum and the original matrices of the Humann casts (1892) kept at the Gipsformerei in Berlin/Charlottenburg, ...
L’ermetismo e Firenze
(2016)
This is the second of the two volumes dedicated to Hermeticism and Florence published by Firenze University Press (the first one entitled Critici, traduttori, maestri, modelli can be purchased separately). Between 1930 and ...
Chapter “Paesaggi della Memoria. Laboratorio didattico tra passato della Resistenza e presente”. Per un uso delle fonti nella pratica didattica
(2022)
The paper aims at describing some topics linked to the use of sources in didactical practises, almost of all in didactics of history. It underlines their relevance for didactic practises, as technology makes possible to ...
Epistolarum iuvenilium libri octo
(2013)
The three-volume correspondence by Pier Candido Decembrio represents a precious source for the history of northern Humanism and, more generally, for the understanding of the fifteenth-century civilisation. The first ...
Fifth international Symposium on the lacertids of the Mediterranean Basin
(2004)
The volume collects the contributions to the Fifth International Symposium on the Lacertids of the Mediterranean Basinheld on the island of Lipari between 7 and 11 May 2004. The study of the Mediterranean lacertid lizards ...
Chapter A Rhetorical Model of Debating
(2021)
A rhetorical model of the debate centered on the image of a labyrinth is more suitable than the metaphor of debate-as-game in describing the benefits of arguing in front of an audience. The labyrinth best expresses that ...
Chapter I primi due secoli della storia di San Miniato
(2021)
The essay sketches the activity of Abbot Ubertus from San Miniato, who rebuilt the church and worked to promote the monastic complex as a spiritual pole, a cultural centre, and a shelter for poor and pilgrims, condolidating ...
Chapter Transforming Building Industry Knowledge Management: A Study on the Role of Large Language Models in Fire Safety Planning
(2023)
This paper discusses the potential use of AI in general, and large language models (LLMs) in particular, to support knowledge management (KM) in the building industry. The application of conventional methods and tools for ...
Chapter Welfare and demography in the time of Malthus. Regional and local variations in poor relief and population developments in Flanders, c. 1750-1810
(2020)
Flanders represents a particularly interesting region for research that aims to investigate the development of socio-economic inequalities at the local and regional level. The relationship between and effects of structural ...
L’economia della conoscenza: innovazione, produttività e crescita economica nei secoli XIII-XVIII / The knowledge economy: innovation, productivity and economic growth, 13th to 18th century
(2023)
The studies presented here analyze the relationship between the knowledge economy and innovations, productivity, and economic growth in the premodern period (13th-18th centuries) by considering the following questions: how ...
Chapter Il ‘diritto dei valori’. La tirannia dei valori economici e il lavoro nella Costituzione e nelle fonti europee
(2022)
After analysing the different meanings of the term «value» and the passage from juridical positivism to «the right of values» (described in its essential characteristics), the essay points out the constitutional principles ...
Chapter Renewable power sources in coastal areas. A viability assessment in the scope of needs and regulations
(2020)
The work deals with renewable energy project, in the context of the deregulated energy market. Special attention is focused on renewables and on the situation in Italy from the standards point of view. The set up of a wind ...
New quantum simulations with ultracold Ytterbium gases
(2019)
In recent years, the unprecedented experimental control of the laws of quantum mechanics has led to the so-called quantum technology revolution, a terminology adopted to refer to the applications in which quantum properties ...
Chapter «Buona strada, Papà!»
(2023)
In David Sassoli, intelligence and cognitive awareness are placed at the service of primordial ethical values: in the passionate defence of knowledge, freedom and commitment to the common good. His deep and strong love for ...
Chapter Salerno: il porto e le metamorfosi del waterfront
(2020)
The port of Salerno, one of the largest on the Tyrrhenian coast, was implanted in the Middle Ages west of the city. Deteriorated over time due to neglect and serious problems of cover-up afflicting the area, it was replanted ...
Chapter Massimo Quaini: geografia storica, fonti, conoscenze territoriali e loro uso politico e socio-culturale
(2021)
Quaini's commitment is aimed – with the development of the Gambian concept – towards the construction of a critical and operational historical geography (usable for the aware and sustainable management, institutional ...
Chapter The Fight for Social Justice – Lalage Bown: A Lifetime’s Mission
(2023)
This chapter examines the life and legacy of the remarkable and inspiring Emeritus Professor Lalage Bown, OBE, who died in 2021, aged 94. The author locates Lalage’s commitment to adult education to a post-war Second World ...
Chapter Massimo Quaini, territorialista
(2021)
The essay illustrates Quaini’s inputs to the construction and the theoretical/operational development of the territorialist school and, later on, of the Territorialist Society, of which he was one of the major founders and ...
Chapter Politica e politiche dell’Italia in Africa, 2008-2018
(2021)
The contribution looks at the Italian policies towards Africa in order to attest if and how migration issues influenced the political agenda and the decision-making process both of the government and the parliament, ...
Chapter La “ricezione” di Dante nella letteratura bielorussa
(2022)
For Belarusian literature, the perception of Dante’s work assumes a concrete form only at the beginning of the 20th century and is linked, above all, to the names of Janka Kupala and Maksim Bahdanovič. The literary group ...
Chapter Processo formativo e transizione al lavoro: percorsi nell’Alta Formazione
(2022)
Restructuring personal and vocational training by means of the harbinger of a not merely economistic idea of employability represents a fundamental and ineradicable task of educational research and pedagogical reflection. ...
Designing Autonomy at home. The ADA Project
(2019)
Designing Autonomy at Home. The ADA Project. An Interdisciplinary Strategy for Adaptation of the Homes of Disabled Persons. Housing adaptations are one of the main tools for improving quality of life for people with severe ...
Go Southwest, Old Man
(2009)
Go Southwest, Old Man, a sort of personal remake of 'Go West, Young Man', the founding episteme of the American nineteenth century, conciliates these two souls (well, not to be pretentious, let's simply say two sides) that ...
Chapter Dante e la Slovacchia: traduzione, ricezione e studi danteschi dopo il 1989
(2022)
The aim of the paper is to outline the main developments in research, translation and reception of Dante’s work in Slovakia after 1989. The period in question is particularly significant for the overall evaluation of the ...
Ebrei nella Terraferma veneta del Quattrocento
(2005)
This book is a collection of the proceedings of the study seminar held in Verona on 14 November 2003. This was the occasion for the presentation of the results of archive research performed by young researchers on the ...