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Chapter Massimo Quaini e la geografia di avanguardia: dal Marxismo e geografia all’Anarchismo e geografia
(2021)
Trying to understand the world to transform it, Massimo Quaini has introduced new methodological research approaches, giving shape to a geography focused on the real problems of his time. His most translated book, Marxism ...
Chapter Geomorphological approaches to study Posidonia banquettes and their effects on the coastal front of Schinias - Marathon National Park
(2022)
UAV technology is used to map the beach morphological characteristics aiming to the impact of the presence of Posidonia οceanica beach-cast seagrass litter in the area of Schinias national Park, Marathon, Greece. Additionally, ...
Chapter Storytelling and Other Skills: Building Employability in Higher Education
(2020)
The storytelling device introduces the search for our roots, as persons and human beings. To write an autobiography is to seek our roots not only through retrospection, interpretation, and creation but through an act of ...
Chapter Lo Studio, le accademie, la città (secc. XVI-XIX)
(2024)
The essay reconstructs broadly The history of cultural life in Florence in the 16th-19th centuries and underlines why the system of government and power in the modern Florence had no need for a university that gave academic ...
Chapter «Professors of the Street»: Cognitive Justice in Times of ‘Crisis’
(2023)
Arundati Roy (2020) states that historically pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This chapter, set in the COVID-19 pandemic, centres the importance of cognitive justice which ...
Chapter Fishing and territory. Status and perspectives of Sardinia artisanal fisheries. The case of traditional fishery in Asinara Island MPA
(2022)
This study outlines small-scale fishing Sardinia through specificities related to the state of the fishing fleet at the major and minor port systems of the island, the main techniques, and tools (fixed longlines, bottom ...
Chapter «Ultimamente con non poco travaglio alla Cocincina si videro»: viaggiatori gesuiti in Asia orientale nel secolo XVII
(2021)
This article examines one section, Regno della Cocincina of the unpublished manuscript Ragguaglio della missione del Giappone (17th century) preserved in the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu (ARSI). I analyze the ...
Comunicazioni
(2022)
Volume 14 of the Comunicazioni dell’Istituto Papirologico «G. Vitelli» is divided into three sections: 1. Editions and rieditions of texts; 2. Critical notes; 3. Chronique de lexicographie papyrologique de la vie matérielle. ...
Chapter Il signore va alla Camera. I relevi dell’archivio della Regia Camera della Sommaria
(2021)
The essay offers an analysis of the largest concentration of records concerning the feudal lord- ship in the Kingdom of Naples from the 15th to the 17th century, the serie Relevi, kept at the Ar- chivio di Stato of Naples. ...
ViCES - Video Conferencing Educational Services Main Project Outcomes
(2012)
This e-book has been developed as result of the Video Conference Educational Service (ViCES) project under the TEMPUS action of the European Commission (144650-TEMPUS-2008-IT-JPGR. It is intended to serve as a set of ...
Chapter The Mountain Village of Razëm
(2020)
Part II of the book focusses on Razëm, a hamlet of the mountain village of Vrith, in the Municipality of Malësi e Madhe. Razëm lies within the Regional Natural Park of Shkrel and is considered the “gateway” to the Western ...
Chapter Dante, Remigio de’ Girolami, il sistema angioino: teologia e politica
(2020)
This article draws a comparison between Dante’s vision and the cultural, political, and propagandistic conception promoted by the Angevins, from the divergences in the interpretation of Aquinas’ doctrine of Justice to the ...
Chapter «A’ quai Lucan seguitava». Su Boccaccio lettore della Pharsalia
(2020)
Lucan was one of the most widely read and studied classical authors during the Middle Ages, a reference point for teaching, historiography and literature. The essay attempts to outline Giovanni Boccaccio’s profile as a ...
Folding and aggregation studies in the acylphosphatase-like family
(2009)
Folding and misfolding of proteins are considered two sides of the same coin. The delicate equilibrium existing between these two processes is crucial for any living organism and its alterations can lead to the onset of ...
Chapter Penser la phase perdue du modernisme russe
(2017)
This paper proposes a revision of Russian modernism’s politically-motivated chronology and geography through the integration of two academic subfields – modernist and exilic studies. Such an integrative approach allows us ...
I bandi liturgici nell’Egitto romano
(2017)
The calls for the appointment of the liturgical officers, that is, those who were obliged by the state to carry out public service duties, constitute a category of documents produced within the Roman administration of Egypt ...
Chapter Didascalia comica
(2020)
The first part of this paper consists of a theatre play written specifically for the international congress El teatro Español en Europa and performed on that occasion by the Segugi theatre company. The play stages the ...
Chapter Maritime Networks and Premodern Conflict Management on Multiple Levels. The Example of Danzig and the Giese Family
(2019)
This article argues that a novel way to analyse maritime networks in premodern northern Europe is to trace the activities of people involved in conflict management. These people were traders, magistrates, judges, urban ...
Chapter Integrating ESG Factors into Construction Projects: A Blockchain-Based Data Management Approach
(2023)
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing has become increasingly significant in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. However, the AEC industry faces challenges such as non-uniform ...
Chapter Tracciare la rotta per iscrivere i servizi ecosistemici nella pianificazione bioregionale
(2020)
Although still in a provisional form, as befits a field of study still undergoing consolidation, the text tries to summarize the results that emerged from the contributions collected in the volume and from their comparison; ...
Dal suono alla parola
(2004)
An up-to-date manual conceived to guide the reader through the most interesting and recent theories in the vast field of psycho-neuro-linguistics. After a review of the latest theories on the perception and production of ...
Chapter Postfazione. Il socialismo di Bruno Trentin come liberazione della persona
(2021)
Through the commentary on a particularly interesting period taken from the Introduction to La libertà viene prima, the author intends to focus on Bruno Trentin's idea of socialism. Giovanni Mari underlines how this idea ...
Chapter Are Caulerpa species able to settle and develop on rhodolith beds? The case study of Marine Protected Area “Capo Carbonara”
(2022)
The two green algae Caulerpa taxifolia (M.Vahl) C. Agardh and Caulerpa cylindracea Sonder, (Chlorophyta; Bryopsidales) are among the most invasive alien macroalgae in the Mediterranean Sea. The aim of this study was to ...
Chapter Introduzione
(2022)
Taxation is what the European Union lacks today. EU is an area of rights without duties or, rather, in which duties (including taxation) exist only vis-à-vis the individual member states to which they belong. European ...
Chapter Le gare d’amicizia e d’amore de Arcangelo Spagna: una posible refundición de Duelo de honor y amistad
(2020)
This work aims to examine the adaptations of the ‘comedia nueva’ by Arcangelo Spagna, a Roman clergyman who lived and worked between the end of the XVII century and the first decades of the following one. In particular, ...
Chapter Experience, sensorial skills and personality qualifying a wine consumer as an expert
(2021)
This paper analyses the characteristics of wine consumers that may qualify them as wine experts. The wine evaluation expertise of consumers, as measured by various degrees of self-perceived ability, is hypothesised to ...
The Custodians of the Gift
(2020)
Emerging from more than two decades of research in the field and in the archives, the essays collected here explore the multifaceted topic of the Fijian firewalking ceremony, the vilavilairevo. The collection examines the ...
Chapter Marine protected areas and the problem of paper parks
(2022)
Paper aim is to overview paper parks problem regarding Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). Ocean makes Earth habitable for humankind; careful management of ocean is a key feature of sustainable future. MPAs are a key instrument ...
Chapter Visibility Enhancement of Crane Operators Using BIM-Based Diminished Reality
(2023)
The limited visibility experienced by crane operators in construction sites poses significant challenges, leading to reduced performance and safety concerns. Obstructive elements, such as existing buildings, construction ...
Chapter Learning in Cities to Create Sustainable Societies
(2023)
Cities play a leading role in addressing many of the global challenges of the 21st century. They are an important part of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, which assigns them multiple tasks. Cities should be ...
Chapter Lalage Bown: The Enduring Legacy. A Personal Reflection
(2023)
This personal reflection of Lalage Bown focuses upon her professional contributions internationally to the field of progressive adult and continuing education, and her remarkable personality and charisma. Although the ...
Structural and functional aspects of membranes
(2013)
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a common form of dementia characterized by the formation of extracellular senile plaques composed of aggregated amyloid peptide (Aβ). The present studies provide evidence that: cell resistance ...
Chapter Treblinskij ad di V. Grossman nell’Europa dell’immediato dopoguerra (1945-1947)
(2019)
The literary essay Treblinskij ad (The Hell of Treblinka), written by Vasilij Grossman and first published in the journal Znamja in 1944, circulated widely at the end of World War II, with editions appearing in several ...
Structural and functional aspects of membranes
(2013)
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a common form of dementia characterized by the formation of extracellular senile plaques composed of aggregated amyloid peptide (Aβ). The present studies provide evidence that: cell resistance ...
Fear Appeal e Message Framing
(2013)
Our health is largely linked to our actions, habits and lifestyles. This implies greater personal and responsibility and, at an institutional level, the possibility and the obligation to act to prevent diseases and promote ...
Homo oeconomicus. Paradigma, critiche, revisioni
(2012)
Pantaleoni and Pareto re-established economic theory on the basis of homo oeconomicus which, despite criticisms, went on to become a strangely popular concept, not only among economists, but even in common parlance, where ...
Trasformazioni geometriche e figure dell'architettura
(2014)
The volume examines a controversial architectural treatise written at the end of the 17th century by the Spanish mathematician and polygrapher Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz. The work, entitled Architectura Civil Recta y ...
Chapter The impact of technological change on medieval fashion
(2022)
In the early fourteenth century, a new fashion system appeared in Europe, one which was based on constant change and the privileging of the new. This paper argues that the new system did not appear simply as a response to ...
Disegnare linee nel paesaggio
(2005)
The subject of this study is the design of major road infrastructures, usually motorways or dual carriageways, as borderline cases in the controversial dichotomy between landscape and infrastructure. It retraces around a ...