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Chapter Professionalisation of Adult Education in Slovenia from a Multi-level Perspective
(2023)
The adult education (AE) research community emphasise the importance of well-qualified personnel working in the field of AE. However, the field is facing with challenges achieving this aim. This chapter research ...
Chapter Alla cieca e il testimone di secondo grado
(2021)
The essay focuses on the modalities adopted by Magris in his novel, Alla cieca, to merge literature and civil engagement through a fine narrative construction. By populating his writing with precise documentary research ...
Chapter Internationalisation in Higher Education: A Virtual Adult Education Academy in Times of COVID-19
(2023)
COVID-19 calls for new ways of approaching internationalisation in adult learning and education. Based on experiences gathered during the 2021 virtual Adult Education Academy, this paper identifies challenges in international ...
Chapter 手塚治虫とグルメマンガをつなぐもの―「あしたのジョー」の減量 / The one which connects a gourmet cartoon with Osamu Tezuka: Cutting of Joe of tomorrow
(2021)
I talk on change in the nature of the character in the cartoon through description of a food and the genre called a gourmet cartoon again. Specifically, the process until the character will be the existence which ‘mediates ...
Chapter La buona fama di un falsario: eruditi, critici e luoghi nel Piemonte del Settecento
(2021)
Giuseppe Francesco Meyranesio (1729-1793) is well known for the ancient and medieval texts he produced and disseminated, the falsity of which has been widely proved. This essay aims to reread his story from another point ...
Chapter Towards new marine-coastal Natura 2000 sites in the central Adriatic Sea.
(2020)
LIFE17 NAT/IT/000565 CALLIOPE aims to improve the coast-sea regional natural connectivity by improving the Natura 2000 Network. The main objectives are: improving the biodiversity knowledge of marine environments, testing ...
Chapter Profiling visitors of a national park in Italy through unsupervised classification of mixed data
(2021)
Cluster analysis has for long been an effective tool for analysing data. Thus, several disciplines, such as marketing, psychology and computer sciences, just to mention a few, did take advantage from its contribution over ...
Fiume, paesaggio, difesa del suolo
(2007)
On 10 and 11 May 2006 the international conference on the theme “River, landscape and land conservation. Overcoming emergencies and grasping opportunities” was held in the main lecture hall of Florence University. The ...
Chapter Intorno a Geografia Democratica. Fra Marx e Foucault, l’Italia e l’‘Ammerica’
(2021)
Two main and sequential topics are emphasized. The first one is Quaini’s attention for the historically and socially determinated building of the Man/Nature relation, which mainly characterizes his first works written ...
Astronomia e Fisica a Firenze
(2017)
The exhibition Astronomia e Fisica a Firenze (“Astronomy and Physics in Florence”) illustrates the evolution of the two disciplines from the eighteenth century until the early decades of the twentieth century. The place ...
Chapter I fattori soggettivi nel «moderno capitalismo». La complicata ricezione italiana e le questioni insolute nel pensiero di W. Sombart
(2020)
W. Sombart has always represented "a significant intellectual puzzle", but, beyond the contradictory (often overemphasised) aspects of his thought, he continues to be an interesting object of study, because of the innovative ...
Chapter Vescovi e monasteri in Tuscia nel secolo XI (1018-1120 circa)
(2021)
The paper deals with foundation and further fortunes of the Florentine abbey of San Miniato, founded by bishop Ildebrando (1018), and discusses the grounds of the strong hostility that Vallombrosan monks demonstrated toward ...
Melancholic Identities, Toska and Reflective Nostalgia
(2015)
This book examines the feeling that we often refer to as ‘nostalgia’ from the perspective of writers and artists located on the (imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet) periphery of Russian culture who regard the center of the ...
Chapter Nicholas Trevet : le théologien anglais qui parlait à l’oreille des Italiens
(2020)
The commentaries composed by the English theologian Nicholas Trevet at the beginning of the fourteenth century not only bear witness to his connections with Santa Maria Novella. They also testify to the importance of his ...
Chapter Galileo’s Mathematical Errors
(2023)
Galileo’s abilities as a mathematician were far below that of many of his contemporaries. He made numerous technical mistakes — including several high-profile, mathematically erroneous applications of his own law of fall ...
Pragmatics and Prosody
(2012)
Most of the papers collected in this book resulted from presentations and discussions undertaken during the V Lablita Workshop that took place at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, on August 23-25, 2011. The ...
Chapter Mapping and factoring the 2007 ATECO categories in regard to specialised human capital
(2021)
The paper describes an exercise of classification of a subset of five-digit categories of the 2007 ATECO classification system of economic activities. The analysis is grounded on the hypothesis that economic sectors can ...
Chapter Filosofia e dibattito. Le Meditazioni Cartesiane come esempio di deliberazione filosofica
(2021)
This essay relates the content of an educational experience that applies the methodology of debate to the closer examination of an argumentative philosophical text, in the form of a deliberation with oneself. The text in ...
Ingegneri & Ingegneria a Firenze
(2021)
This volume takes up part of the content of the one published on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the foundation of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Florence and constitutes, after 10 years, only for ...
Chapter Neomodernist trends in Russian and Ukrainian poetry of the second half of the 20th century: theoretical problems and the European context
(2019)
This article considers the presence of modernist elements in poetry from the second half of the 20th century, focusing in particular on Russian and Ukrainian examples. We argue for the necessity of properly recognizing and ...
Chapter Tra nord e sud. Le signorie rurali in valle dell’Adige, nella piana Rotaliana e in valle di Cembra
(2023)
With reference to the 14th and 15th centuries, the essay analyses the specific characteristics of the rural lordships of the Adige valley, on the border between the territory subject to the bishop-prince of Trento and the ...
Chapter Верительная грамота Петра Первого в Светлейшую Республику в контексте российско-венецианских дипломатических отношений
(2018)
In 1710-1711, at the time of preparation for the Prut campaign, Peter I sent three envoys to Venice, namely Urbich, Boris and Karetta. In 1716-1720, Becklemishev was appointed permanent Russuan economic representative in ...
Chapter System, Hypothesis, and Experiments: Pierre-Sylvain Régis
(2023)
Pierre-Sylvain Régis’s Cartesianism is quite singular in seventeenth-century French philosophy. Though, can we speak of a form of experimental science in Régis’s work? After exploring his notions of ‘system’ and ‘hypothesis’, ...
Chapter Quando l’amore colpisce l’udito: La malia della voce di Carlo Gozzi fra Agustín Moreto e Thomas Corneille
(2020)
In the preface to the edition of La malia della voce, Carlo Gozzi declares that the only source of his text is Lo que puede la aprehensión by Agustín Moreto, refusing any filiation with La charme de la voix by Thomas ...
La rappresentazione del paesaggio toscano nel Trecento
(2012)
The book aims to identify the prevalent characteristics of the Tuscan landscape in the fourteenth century through the artistic and literary expressions of two of the main protagonists of the century, Giotto and Boccaccio. ...
Diario social di un Rettore 2
(2017)
Don Carlos Galvèz's dream could very well be a dream of Maestro Manzi. Luigi Dei's book is dedicated to a public school that believes in children, gives value to teachers and wants to wake up every morning to rediscover ...
Chapter Słowacki e l’idea di evoluzione: per una rivisitazione di Genezis z Ducha
(2019)
This article analyzes Juliusz Słowacki’s Genezis z Ducha in terms of Romantic idealism and early attempts at biological thought. We examine Słowacki’s ideas on life and the universe within the context of Western science’s ...
Chapter Bambini in tempo di guerra. Raccontare il passaggio della guerra e la Resistenza attraverso video-interviste di testimonianza: luoghi, memorie, racconti
(2022)
The paper aims at dealing mainly with infantry and it is carried on with methodological reflections, oral history research and audio-visive narrations. It sums up some issues about how to use oral and audio-visive sources ...
Chapter Quality Culture and Innovation in Higher Education
(2023)
The Quality Assurance history and, in general, the building of quality concept have accompanied the humanity history. With the advent of the production systems of the second and third Industrialisations Movement, this meant ...
L'acqua nel paesaggio urbano
(2005)
Exploited for requirements of defence, navigation, transport, irrigation, and the powering of mills, water has progressively diminished in importance to the extent that the relations between the city, the territory and the ...
Public Administration, Competitiveness and Sustainable Development
(2003)
The debate over the question of the sustainability of development has been for some time underway in relation to the environment and to public health. More recently attention has turned to other aspects of sustainability ...
A 150 anni dall’unificazione amministrativa italiana. Vol. VII
(2016)
In 1865, there was the enactment of the laws of administrative unification for the Kingdom of Italy. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary, the Department of Legal Sciences of the University of Florence organized a study ...
Chapter Development of a sustainable accessibility model for the Marine Protected Area Gaiola Underwater Park, in Naples, Italy
(2022)
The Marine Protected Area Gaiola Underwater Park was instituted in 2002 for the preservation of natural and archaeological aspects. Due to the urban context, the anthropic pressure has always been high and it has always ...
Chapter Textos y diálogos en diálogo: Barlaán y Josafat, de Lope
(2021)
In this article I will study the hagiographic play Barlaán y Josafat, by Lope de Vega, from two different perspectives. On the one hand, I will analyze the dialogue between the two texts, as the comedia has a version ...
Educational Jobs: Youth and Employability in the Social Economy
(2015)
In Europe the social economy employs almost 15 million workers. During the crisis years, unlike other sectors, it has often generated an increase in jobs. The aim of this comparative study is to investigate how to allow ...
Chapter Нелепые отцы в художественном мире Ф.М. Достоевского
(2023)
Funny Fathers. Types of the ridiculous old man in Dostoevsky’s novels. The first chapters from Dostoevsky’s novel Netochka Nezvanova deal with the fate and the peculiar story of life of the heroine’s stepfather. He is ...
Chapter University Asset Digitalization Guidelines: The Pilot Case of Politecnico di Milano Real Estate
(2023)
This study describes a multi-year project aimed at digitizing the real estate assets of an Italian university, specifically the Politecnico di Milano. The objective is to enhance and streamline university asset management ...
Chapter Innovation and sustainability: the Italian scenario
(2021)
Society and policy makers demand innovation systems oriented towards several goals of sustainable development. Therefore, recent literature has dedicated a growing interest to both innovation and sustainability in the ...
Chapter “Куда бы тебя ни занесло…”. Connettivi concessivi o fraseologismi sintattici?
(2018)
This paper analyses the concessive connectives – like, for example, “Куда бы тебя ни занесло/где бы она ни была…” – introducing universal concessive conditional clauses from the point of view of Construction Grammar. The ...
Modelling of spectroscopic and structural properties using molecular dynamics
(2014)
The work described here was carried out at the European Lab. for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) to achieve a better understanding of molecular vibrations employing computer simulations. H-bonds are the main intermolecular ...