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Chapter Evaluation of Immersive VR Experiences for Safety Training of Construction Workers: A Semi-Qualitative Approach Proposal
(2023)
The diffusion of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and advanced visualization technologies in the increasingly digitalised construction sector is fostering the development and implementation of disruptive approaches for ...
Chapter Corrections à quelques documents de Vienne
(2019)
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Chapter Progettare e realizzare percorsi didattici di Storia della scuola per la primaria con la Public History
(2022)
The essay illustrates some basic themes underlying the teaching of history of education in primary school. Some examples of workshops for elementary school students are then illustrated, recently carried out in the School ...
Chapter Lake Garda lemon houses: a mediterranean landscape in an internal lake
(2020)
Lemon houses (limonaie) are ancient terraced citrus gardens that shape the landscape along the NW shore of Lake Garda (Northern Italy). We propose an interpretation of limonaie as a deeply anthropogenic, labour intensive, ...
Chapter Saramago e i valori di Sassoli: del mitico e dell’etico in Caino
(2023)
Cain resumes the biblical story of the genesiacs brothers to recount it in a heterodox way. Based on the canonical biblical texts, the ethical perspective of David Maria Sassoli and in ideological discourses, José Saramago ...
Chapter Emergency remote teaching: an explorative tool
(2021)
The worldwide rapid spread and severity of the infectious disease caused by Coronavirus forced the WHO to declare a global state of pandemic emergency during March 2020, by leading the governments around the world to adopt ...
Chapter Regeneration of historic centers in Mediterranean cities: the case study of the Venice district in Livorno
(2022)
The article talks about an experience of design research, aimed at the regeneration of a portion of the waterfront of the city of Livorno, which is now fragmented and in a state of decay and strongly characterized by the ...
Chapter Il ‘canto dell’acqua’: Leonardo nel progetto dei nuovi Navigli milanesi
(2023)
After a long process, the reopening of Milanese canals has become one of the fundamental actions of the Town Plan approved in 2019. A strategic project that plans to reactivate the covered section of the Naviglio Martesana ...
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 Transnational urban encounters: existential wanderings in Xue Yiwei’s collection Shenzheners
(2023)
The fictional works of the Chinese writer Xue Yiwei, who migrated to Canada in 2002, can be regarded as a byproduct of cross-border mobility and cultural displacement. This paper examines the relationship between the ...
Chapter «E la nodosa podagra, con gravissima noia di chi l’ha, tiene tutto il corpo quasi imobile e contratto». Note sul lessico medico-anatomico nel Boccaccio volgare
(2022)
After providing a brief description of medicine in the Middle Ages, the work collects and examines the terms attested in three vernacular works by Boccaccio (Decameron, Corbaccio and Esposizioni sopra la Comedia) that can ...
Chapter Solar and Chthonic Deities in Ancient Anatolia: The Evolution of the Chthonic Solar Deity in Hittite Religion
(2023)
The “Sun-goddess of the earth” and the less clearly defined category of “chthonic solar deities” of Hittite religion have been the objects of various studies in recent years. This paper aims to examine the significance of ...
Chapter Le radici storiche dell’economia della conoscenza
(2023)
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Chapter Valori e tecniche in tema di disciplina dei poteri datoriali
(2022)
The article deals with the controversial topic of the limits in which the immanent "values" in the legal system and especially in the Italian Constitution can affect the operations of interpretation of the norms of positive ...
Rewriting and Rereading the XIX and XX-Century Canons
(2022)
The book takes its lead from academic Annamaria Pagliaro’s experience straddling Australia and Italy over a thirty-year period. As both former colleagues and collaborators of Pagliaro, we editors intend to open a kaleidoscope ...
Chapter Didattica immersiva nell’Ingegneria Agraria. Un caso d’uso nel Laboratorio di Agricoltura Digitale e di Alta Tecnologia
(2022)
The chapter describes experiences of 360° videos use by the Agrismart Lab Group of the University of Florence. The Agrismart Lab Group focuses on the technological transfer of information obtained during the research phase ...
Chapter Michael Marullus Tarchaniota’s De laudibus Rhacusae and His Early Years
(2020)
This paper deals with Michael Marullus Tarchaniota’s early childhood years marked by exile from the recently fallen Despotate of Morea, a short and unconfirmed stay in Dubrovnik and, finally, by his arrival in Naples. A ...
Chapter Rivivere la storia tra scuola e territorio. Due esperienze di re-enactment e living history in Toscana
(2022)
The essay describes how Living History, an activity of concrete evocation of past events in the present, linked to the daily actions of the historical period described, is intertwined with the approach of "material ...
Chapter Chinese returnee students and cultural production: the case of ex-students of Opera in Italy
(2023)
The aim of this chapter is to point out the connection between mobility and cultural activities of Chinese returnee opera students. Many Chinese students in Italy attend cultural and artistic university courses. They may ...
Chapter “Experience that Generates Experience”: The Influence of the Comedy in three South African Writings
(2021)
This article aims to explore the intertextual relationships between Dante’s Divine Comedy and three pieces of creative writing: Chariklia Martalas’ “A Mad Flight into Inferno Once Again”, Thalén Rogers’ “The Loadstone” and ...
Chapter Il filo da riannodare: Massimo Quaini, una letteratura per la geografia e una geografia per la letteratura
(2021)
With regard to the relationship between literary works and geographical studies, Massimo Quaini’s interest consolidated into a heuristic imprint whose originality has not yet been adequately enlightened. Through the analysis ...
Chapter Seagrass detritus as marine macroinvertebrates attractor
(2022)
Seagrass detritus is used as food, physical habitat and shelter. Using natural and artificial detritus, we tested if: 1) the colonisation was related to substrate availability rather than food 2) the assemblages were similar ...
Chapter Determination of natural radioactivity levels of sludges collected from wastewater treatment plants of Antalya/Türkiye
(2022)
226Ra (10.8), 232Th (13.4) and 40K (135.7) and 137Cs (3.2) concentration levels (Bq kg-1) of the wastewater treatment plant sludges in Antalya were assessed and were found to be consistent with the literature. The absorbed ...
Chapter Ships, shipping, technological change and global economic growth, 1400-1800
(2023)
The major breakthrough in ship design around 1400 creating the full-rigged ship constituted a general purpose technology. It had far-reaching effects on shipping, trade volume, orientation of trade routes, location of ...
Chapter Ships, shipping, technological change and global economic growth, 1400-1800
(2023)
The major breakthrough in ship design around 1400 creating the full-rigged ship constituted a general purpose technology. It had far-reaching effects on shipping, trade volume, orientation of trade routes, location of ...
Chapter Fostering Critical Reflection in The Frame of Transformative Learning in Adult Education: Italian and Nigerian Comparative Case Studies
(2020)
Critical reflection (CR) is an important process for making decisions on complex issues that influence individuals and societal life. The ability to inform our perceptions and thoughts through the results of critical ...
Chapter The modal meaning za pripomnjane of the Bulgarian imperfect tense and its counterparts in other Slavic languages
(2023)
Amongst Slavic languages, only Bulgarian (and Macedonian) has retained the imperfect, a synthetic past tense inherited from Protoslavic. Apart from its temporal meanings, the Bulgarian imperfect occurs in a variety of modal ...
Chapter Determination of natural radioactivity levels of sludges collected from wastewater treatment plants of Antalya/Türkiye
(2022)
226Ra (10.8), 232Th (13.4) and 40K (135.7) and 137Cs (3.2) concentration levels (Bq kg-1) of the wastewater treatment plant sludges in Antalya were assessed and were found to be consistent with the literature. The absorbed ...
Piccole zone di simmetria
(2011)
If it intends to enhance awareness and to stimulate intellectual and cultural maturity, literature cannot ignore – and when it survives over time does not ignore – the great conquests of philosophical thought and the ...
73° Congresso dell'Unione Zoologica Italiana
(2013)
This volume collects the contributions to the 73rd Congress of the Italian Zoological Union, held in Florence in September 2012, and organised together with the “Leo Pardi” Department of Evolutionary Biology. The Congress, ...
Chapter Fostering Critical Reflection in The Frame of Transformative Learning in Adult Education: Italian and Nigerian Comparative Case Studies
(2020)
Critical reflection (CR) is an important process for making decisions on complex issues that influence individuals and societal life. The ability to inform our perceptions and thoughts through the results of critical ...
Chapter On the dynamism of aspectual pair formation in Czech
(2017)
This paper aims to analyze the relationship between. perfectivisation and secondary imperfectivisation in Czech. Recent data show for loan verbs a strong tendency, after a short phase of biaspectualism, towards the creation ...
Chapter Market assessment and risk prediction: resources and know-how of a seventeenth-century bookseller of Venice coping with competition
(2023)
this article explores the likelihood that early modern printers had de-veloped rudimentary practices aimed at assessing their market of refer-ence to pursue strategic commercial planning. It surreys the inner evi-dence of ...
Percorsi recenti degli studi medievali
(2008)
This book brings together the proceedings of the study days organised to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Florence University PhD course in Mediaeval History. It offers, first and foremost to the broad public of young ...
Chapter The Writing of County Histories in Early Modern England
(2023)
The writing of county history in England experienced its first boom from the 1570s to the 1650s, during which time a series of outstanding county histories were written, including William Lambarde’s Perambulation of Kent, ...
Chapter I viaggi europei di Ljubomir Nenadović
(2019)
This article examines travel letters that Ljubomir Nenadović (1826-1895) wrote from Switzerland (1847), Italy (1850-1851) and Germany (1870). Marking three different phases in the literary biography of their author, these ...
Il Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università di Firenze – Le collezioni botaniche
(2009)
The Natural History Museum of the University of Florence, founded in 1775 by Grand-Duke Pietro Leopold, is the oldest scientific museum in Europe. With this second volume on the Botanical Collection, Florence University ...
Chapter Ritirata sostenibile! I tanti modi con cui possiamo adattarci al cambiamento
(2020)
This Chapter examines the paths along which we humans could create an economy within planetary boundaries. To prevent the contraction of human activities from translating into a traumatic collapse, we should accept that ...
Chapter Caterina Colombini, o della cugina sedotta. Una ‘ricostruzione’ della figura di Caterina attraverso i testi
(2020)
In this essay the author demonstrates that it is possible to “reconstruct” the figure of Caterina Colombini (1340?-1387) – Giovanni Colombini’s cousin – through a group of texts: the hagiography of Caterina, the letters ...
Diario social di un Rettore 3
(2018)
«Chemistry and fantasy, art and science, photography and music, education and play, technology and communicative desire, civic passion and didactic commitment did not formerly (or not only) create a nicely original and ...