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Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications
(2023)
The International Workshop on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications (MAVEBA) came into being in 1999 from the particularly felt need of sharing know-how, objectives and results between areas ...
Maria Sklodowska Curie
(2013)
In 1911, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Marie Curie, eight years after she had received the Nobel Prize for Physics. An extraordinary scientific adventure ended, and the deification of an iconic character and ...
Chapter Development of an Automated Workflow in the Field of Fire Prevention Using Building Information Modeling
(2023)
The research focuses on an approach for the development of an automated workflow in the field of fire prevention for the validation of BIM models regarding “Subjected Activities” (according to Italian law - Presidential ...
Chapter The Role of Prefixation in Old Church Slavonic
(2017)
In this paper, I analyse the role of prefixation in the Old Church Slavonic (OCS) verbal aspect system. For my analysis, I first need to establish how the aspect of OCS verbs can be determined. To that end, I use a combination ...
Chapter Towards a Framework for Railway Network Assets Management Based on BIM/GIS Integration
(2023)
Complex infrastructures such as railway networks face increasing challenges related to resource allocation, external events, constraints, and demands. Therefore, it is crucial to optimize the Asset Management (AM) phase ...
Chapter Analysis and survey of Lake Garda lemon houses: a tool to understand and manage a Mediterranean landscape in Lombardy
(2022)
Lake Garda microclimate allowed the settlement and flourishing of a peculiar cultivation, that of the limonaie (lemon houses), which during its splendour exported citrus all over Central and Northern Europe. We highlight ...
Chapter Going Beyond Energy Consumption: Digital Twins for Achieving Socio-Ecological Sustainability in the Built Environment
(2023)
Digital twins have attracted much of the attention from the researchers and policy makers as a potent industry-agnostic concept to support ambitious decarbonization goals. Consequently, much of the latest research has ...
Chapter La signoria dell’ospedale di Sant’Andrea di Vercelli su Larizzate
(2021)
The paper examines the case of the acquisition and management of the farm of Larizzate, near Vercelli, by the hospital of Sant'Andrea of Vercelli, in a period going from the twenties of the thirteenth century to the early ...
Chapter Modelling the spatio-temporal dynamic of traffic flows with gravity models and mobile phone data
(2021)
The analysis of origin-destination traffic flows may be useful in many contexts of application (e.g., urban planning, tourism economics) and have been commonly studied through the gravity model, which states that flows are ...
Chapter As-Built Detection of Structures by the Segmentation of Three-Dimensional Models and Point Cloud Data
(2023)
At construction sites, as-built management is generally conducted by taking pictures or surveying with total stations and comparing the images or survey data with design drawings or Building Information Modeling (BIM) ...
Viaggio e politica
(2010)
After the books on "La politica e gli spazi politici", "Metafore dello spazio", "Gli spazi immaginati", "Spazi e politica nella modernità tecnologica", this notebook continues the series devoted to illustrating the results ...
Traduzione di Deideia / Dell’idea e Amagao meu amor / Macao amore mio
(2023)
The volume here presented aims to commemorate the Portuguese poet António Correia a year after his death with the translation, for the first time in Italian language, of two collections of sonnets: Deideia and Amagao meu ...
La frammentazione del paesaggio periurbano
(2003)
This book presents the results of a study on the fragmentation of the suburban territory in the Florentine plain, developed in the framework of the Florence University PhD course in Landscape Design. Thus the landscape on ...
Chapter Os reptos e raptos da Europa
(2023)
The project of European unity has oscillated between dream and disillusion. Its future will depend on its ability to know how to think and interpret Europe’s Historical lessons, particularly since the end of the ...
Chapter Robotic Assembly and Reuse of Modular Elements in the Supply Chain of a Learning Factory for Construction and in the Context of Circular Economy
(2023)
Although robotic solutions have been making significant contributions to fabrication environments, implementations in the construction are rare. It seems a disconnect between the industries exists where in construction the ...
Intorno a Boccaccio / Boccaccio e dintorni 2020
(2021)
Intorno a Boccaccio/Boccaccio e dintorni 2020 collects the Proceedings of the Seminar that took place in Certaldo Alta on 10-11 September 2020, in one of the short intervals that the pandemic has left open to face-to-face ...
Chapter Water, heritage, city: urbanized deltas on the line between nature and culture
(2022)
Deltas are extremely rich in natural resources and cultural heritage, but also vulnerable. Along coasts and waterfronts, rivers, irrigation/drainage canals, which shape the land-water transition, a plurality of values, ...
Chapter Verso le neuroscienze del processo progettuale
(2021)
Introduces some key notions of cognitive (neuro)science including mirror neurons and perceptual and motor schemas. Much important processing may be subconscious. Af-fordances link multi-modal perception and action. Three ...
Chapter Assessment of the chemical quality of sediments in the maritime port of Reunion. Concentrations in trace metals and natural geochemical backgrounds.
(2022)
The analyzes carried out in the marine sediments sampled in the port and coastal areas of Reunion show, for certain metallic trace elements, significant variations in their contents and regular overruns of the regulatory ...
Chapter Topological Relationship Modelling for Industrial Facility Digitisation Using Graph Neural Networks
(2023)
There is rising demand for automated digital twin construction based on point cloud scans, especially in the domain of industrial facilities. Yet, current automation approaches focus almost exclusively on geometric modelling. ...
Tell Barri/Kahat: la campagna del 2000
(2003)
In the plains of north-eastern Syria, not far from the course of the Tigris, is the site of Tell Barri, identified with the city of Kahat, a centre famous in the course of the second millennium for the presence of the ...
Il premio Laboratorio Matematico “Riccardo Ricci” 2014-2016
(2019)
Si può comprendere la matematica con forbici, colla, spago e mattoncini da costruzione? This volume, which features almost every work from the 2014 and 2016 editions of the Riccardo Ricci Mathematical Laboratory Award, ...
Chapter Multi-Aspectual Knowledge Elicitation for Procurement Optimization in a Warehouse Company
(2023)
Efficient optimization of business processes required a profound understanding of expertise provided by domain specialists. However, extracting such insights can indeed be a laborious and time-consuming endeavour. This ...
Chapter Umanità e cecità: nascondigli identitari tra José Saramago e José Ortega y Gasset
(2023)
The text discusses the unfolding of identities, especially in European society, in dialogue with the analysis of Saramago’s blindness and the idea of mass-man in Ortega y Gasset. The objective is to rethink the transits ...
Chapter L’Accademia della Crusca e il linguaggio di genere
(2023)
The article takes stock of the interventions of the Accademia della Crusca on the theme of gender language, retracing the history of the various problems that have emerged over time, and explains the reasons why schwa and ...
Chapter I «gomitoli del tempo». La poetica dello spazio nell’opera di Claudio Magris
(2021)
Both in his novels, such as Illazioni su una sciabola (1984), Un altro mare (1991) and Alla cieca (2005), and in his travel writing, such as Danubio (1986), Microcosmi (1997) and L’infinito viaggiare (2005), Claudio Magris ...
Paesaggio: didattica, ricerche e progetti (1997-2007)
(2007)
A collection of essays such as this is intended primarily as evidence of a disciplinary process, a path that is moreover similar to that pursued in other Italian universities, while also being unique in its evolution and ...
Chapter L’Università di Firenze al crocevia delle arti: cinema, musica, teatro, danza
(2024)
The contribution illustrates the relations maintained by the University of Florence with the world of spectacle by the professors of the History of Cinema, Music, Theater and Dance courses. Particularly highlighted are the ...
Chapter Comparar a Europa. O conceito de literatura europeia como fator de integração política
(2023)
Starting with the last European discourse of David Sassoli, our intention is to reflect on Europe, specifically, on the concept of European literature as a factor of political integration.
Intorno a Boccaccio/Boccaccio e dintorni 2021
(2022)
Intorno a Boccaccio/Boccaccio e dintorni 2021 collects the Proceedings of the Seminar that took place in Certaldo Alta on 9-10 September 2021. The Seminar, now in its eighth edition, is configured not only as one of the ...
Chapter Poetic Mapping of the Polish Crown at the Turn of the 16th and 17th Centuries and Its Relation to Cartographic Imitation in Renaissance Poetry
(2020)
The paper is devoted to the problem of imitation of maps in the late Renaissance Polish poetry (between 1580 and 1630). The author first discusses the special interest in cartography that existed among the Polish elite and ...
Chapter Per un progetto della pedagogia italiana
(2022)
Pedagogy is still searching for its own identity and epistemological status. Especially in Italy, where the task of pedagogy, despite the efforts of many and numerous pedagogical colleagues, still has a marginal role, ...
Chapter Challenges and Opportunities for Lifelong Learning in Universities Resulting from Ukrainian Migration
(2023)
The current political conflict in Ukraine has led to a surge in forcibly displaced migrants across Europe. This chapter sets out to look at the meaning of the term ‘forced migrant’ and the challenges faced in integrating ...
Chapter Solar Deities in the Kuwattalla Ritual Tradition: Epithets and Functions
(2023)
Through the contextual analysis of the occurrences of solar deities in the Kuwattalla ritual texts, we will try to sketch a portrait of these deities, focusing on their functions in the ritual process. Special attention ...
Dialogare: compendio di logica
(2017)
“Logic”, as understood in this volume, is the set of knowledge at the basis of man’s reasoning faculties: understanding, analysing, arguing. The text presents a review of topics which are useful to strengthen the skills ...
Chapter La morte del re, le ragioni del diritto e l’etica dei mercanti in una causa fiorentina del Quattrocento
(2021)
The essay analyzes a judicial case of the Mercanzia court in the early Quattrocento Florence, which involved the execution of an insurance deed by the merchant and poet Cino Rinuccini concerning the date of the death of ...
Chapter Il degrado della biosfera
(2020)
The position of man in the biosphere and the interaction of its activities with the different sectors of the earth's ecosphere are bringing the Earth system into a drastically different state from that in which the development ...
Chapter Per uno studio sulla ricezione di Boccaccio volgare: il Filostrato come modello compositivo del libro d’amore tra i secoli XV e XVI
(2022)
Between the 15th and 16th century, the main archetype of court poetry and its “codice lirico”, represented by Petrarca in the Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta, could be flanked by the model of the lyrical Boccaccio, whose vulgar ...
Shaking Heritage
(2021)
Any moment the earth can shake, but we do not know when or where. If it happens, our Heritage might be in danger. Shaking Heritage addresses the topic of the seismic vulnerability of museum collections. It develops a way ...
Chapter The forgotten nautical astronomical instruments
(2022)
Astrology and meteorology have always had great importance for agriculture and navigation. They are described some measuring and forecasting instruments which, in the past, had a moderate success to navigate the Mediterranean, ...